script that plays movie until position x then pauses

[joacableman]

Hello,
for an art installation i use several networked instances of vlc to play movies. I need a way to tell the vlc to play until a specific position and then go to pause or stop. This has to be very precise. Is there an elegant way to do that via lua or rc?

many thanks,
Joa

[Etoh]

I've not done this before, but you could try the following three methods:

Method #1: Use the run-time property, either through a switch or playlist.

Method #2: Create a LUA script and use the vlc.var.get(input, "time") and vlc.playlist.pause() functions. If you want to use a callback or vlc.misc.mwait then you either need to use an older version of VLC (2.0.x) or do it via an interface script rather than an extension.

Method #3: Check out the Trimmer extension and see if it can do what you want.