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hi there,

I'm controlling vlc with processing (processing.org) via RC interface and it works pretty flawlessly (with release candidate 1.0, for many reasons I have to use that one). however I need to get the status of the videos being played as I want to stop the program in processing after the playlist has been played.

Is the RC capable of sending status messages over telnet? Timestamps etc would be nice too..

Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Chris

ok, got a stepping stone by myself:

you can read the console output easily with processing via client.readString or something. the thing is to find something interesting in the console. i didn't find a solution to display video stats in realtime in the console or at least a "movie stops now" message..

You can ask every X seconds "is_playing"

thanks for the idea. the problem is that i need a really acurate "timecode". best would be a millisecond accurate output. it's really hard doing video stuff with processing with good performance but with vlc it was quite ok.

cheers,
chris

I think you're trying to stretch RC a bit too far. For precise control, you really need to use the native C APIs.

Remi hi,
Do you think i can get from RC the video resolution?
I must find a way to adjust my form to video resolution.
Thanks,
Tamir.

No ideas.