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Hi, I've recently been playing about with VLC streams using the linux console via SSH but I am unsure of how to then control the stream after I have started it as I can no longer input commands without using ctrl-c which would exit the session. At the moment to start a stream and have access to controls on the local machine I am using:
From the remote machine this will launch the VLC GUI and start the stream playlist on the local machine so that I can then physically go to the local machine and use the GUI to control the stream, however what I would like to do is be able to skip back and forth and have all control options on the remote machine via SSH. I have also tried using cvlc without the display command but its the same result. I also tried duplicating the SSH session but the duplicate session doesnt seem to be able to access the stream.

Once started the cursor just returns a new line and dosn't process input, you could type anything and nothing would happen, I am not sure what the proper term for that state is.

I have figured out how to take control of the stream via SSH after you have started it. Typing - or -- will give an error in libvlc saying it is not a valid command and then take you back to an inputtable state allowing you to then enter the VLC console commands to control the playback of the stream.

-edit- Just discovered using - or -- only works if you launch the VLC GUI on the local machine using:
If you use cvlc then it wont detect - or -- as an input and will remain stuck, the console will only accept ctrl-z/c to suspend or quit the process.

Hi,

Are you looking for the rc interface ? You can start it through ( where I is a caps i )

If you want to have both GUI and rc interfaces you can run

Hi,
Yea I had been reading the documentation on using rc as I believe that is what I was wanting to use, but I still hit the same problem where when I play anything on the local machine only or accross the network the process would stop accepting input (the return wouldn't produce a > to start a new input line), it was just last night I discovered entering a dash would get accepted as an input then throw an error stating that it is not a valid command which would then put me back into a controllable state that would accept input again

Are you opening vlc through the command line above or through usual shortcuts/launcher ?

Through the command line, I have the command saved to a script file so I can just run ./nameoffile so my steps are basically, power on server, access server via SSH then from the SSH terminal I use ./VLC_GUI_STREAM

The script file is