Any way to know the complete play time via telnet (rc)?

[paicolman]

Hi,

I hope this is the right forum for this.

I'm using the VLC as a background music player, controlled remotely via the rc interface. Is there a way to get the "total playing time" (including previous played titles)? with the get_time command, I get the seconds into the actual track, but not the full thing.

Alternatively, is there a way to get the track number? This would be an option for me...

My goal is: I want to switch the playlists. This works via clear and add <new playlist> . After loading the playlist, it starts from 0, but it would be nicer if it would jump to the time where it was before, which is possible via seek X, or at least to the last track using goto X. But for both I have to know either which track I am in or the absolute playing time.

Thanks for any help...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I am afraid you cannot.