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Hello VLC Forum!

Please help me find a solution to the following problem:

I am running VLC in minimized view with fullscreen video setup and control it via telnet from another PC. When I initiate the necessary commands to start playing a video I see only the video in full screen as I set it up. This is really great, because that is what I would like to achieve. However if I initiate a pause command on the control machine I see the video freezing on the other machine, but there is no indication on the other side if there was a pause or the system just crashed.

What I would like to have is an onscreen feedback of the control status and also a time indication of the played file. So if I initiate a start commannd on the control PC it would be great to see a playback icon on the fullscreen video for some seconds, and a constant pause icon when it is paused. Furthermore I would like to see the actual playback time status of the file (i.e. in a 3 minutes video file 2:30/3:00, or just 2:30).

I appreciate every suggestion.

Thanks,
Gabor

To make it more simple my question is the following:

I would like to see a play icon when video is played back a stop icon if it is stopped, pause icon if paused etc., no matter if it is a simple playback or streaming, manually or telnet controlled. Is it possible to do this with VLC?

dont know if its possible, what u suggested. I had the same thoughts about telnet and made up my own panel where i can press a pause button and the video shows the pause icon to be clicked. Maybe its easier to do it yourself.

regards, secathom