Skins and Lua-script

csx333 · Postby **csx333** » 29 Jun 2023 13:07

I wrote a playlist script in lua and it works well in the standard interface but when I use a skin it doesn't.
Is there a way to use a custom skin and a lua playlist script simultaneously ?

Postby **unidan** » 29 Jun 2023 16:47

Hi, just to be sure, can you share the script (potentially with the inner function blanked so that I can see the structure)?

playlist lua script are independant of the interface, but lua extensions like service discovery are only loaded by the Qt interface currently.

csx333 · Postby **csx333** » 30 Jun 2023 19:30

Hi, here is the code...
nothing advanced - I'm just using VLC to search for songs and ambience sounds for my video editing.

Code: Select all

require 'common'

function descriptor()
    return {
        title = "SongSearchRandom";
        version = "1.0";
        author = "";
        url = '';
        shortdesc = "SongSearchRandom";
        description = "<div><b>Starts next Track at Random Time and copies Path to Clipboard</b></div";
        capabilities = {"input-listener" }
    }
end


function getName() -- copy path to clipboard
    local item = vlc.input.item()
    local uri = item:uri()
    uri = string.gsub(uri, '^file:///', '')
    uri = string.gsub(uri, '/', '\\')
    uri = string.gsub(uri, '%%20', ' ')
    strCmd = 'echo '..uri..' |clip'
    os.execute(strCmd)
end

function seeker()
    math.randomseed(os.time()) -- random initialize
    math.random(); math.random(); math.random() -- warming up
    x = math.random(20,80)
    y = tostring(x).."%"
    common.seek(y) -- seeks random % of track
end

function activate()
    seeker()
    getName()
end

function deactivate()
end

function meta_changed()
end

function input_changed()
    vlc.playlist.pause()
    seeker()
    getName()
end

I activate the script via the view menu - or in skinned mode via the context menu. But when VLC is skinned nothing happens.

The VideoLAN Forums

Skins and Lua-script

Skins and Lua-script

Re: Skins and Lua-script

Re: Skins and Lua-script

Who is online