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There is any way to use VLC to display image?
In specific we use vlc to display various kind of video file, but in case of error we produce a specific image with an error message.
Can vlc display this image and stay on it ?

Thanks in advance

Open fake://path/to/the/image

What i need it's a way to display with vlc an image from an URl, like http://../...png not in local...
Thanks in advance.
Michele

Nobody can help me??

fake:// --fake-file http://example.com/bla/bla.jpg