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Hello VLC users!

I'm a happy VLC user, everything just works fine.

Tough I'm not completely satisfied, I'd like to use VLC as a streamer for an (internal) 'radiostation'. This system will require an advanced script to determine which track should follow (and should be streamed to the network).
I'll illustrate this:

* VLC asks programm (ex., php ~/radio.php) for the filename of a new track.
* VLC will just play this track
> Start over

or

* VLC asks an external playlist (ex., http://example.com/radio.php/dummy.m3u (will be handled by radio.php)) an webserver will return the name (and location) of the new file
* VLC will just play this track
> Start over

The last solution is working partly. It will start and with the -L option will loop. Problem: VLC caches the playlist file. So it will play the same track over and over. (I checked the m3u gave a different file second time).

Is there an possibility to disable the playlist cache or let a program determine the next track? $ vlc --longhelp --advanced --help-verbose was nice but wasn't helping...

Thanks in advance!

Ubuntu 7.10

4 years of later, from date of the publication of a post, me the matter too interests: how to force VLC to re-read playlist?

At the end of your playlist file, put the url of your playlist. At this way, VLC will load the playlist recursive.