Logitech G15 VLC Control

[3rdstar]

Found a nice little applet for the g15 http://www.g15forums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4724 a little buggy but does the trick.

Functions:
- ID3 Display Titel + Artist of music tracks
- progress bar
- Volume bar (handled as in original VLC)
- Clock Display (found that quite neat)
- File name display on videos + Video-Codec & resolution
- Playlist display (file names), scrollable with the two right display keys, go back with the left display key
- Trayicon with title and progress display, left click = next track, left click = quit VLC Control
- Media Keys will also work!
- choosing a playlist entry to be played now works (in Playlist mode, the topmost entry is selected automatically, play it with the second display key (only works if you already play a song - VLC bug)

Installation:
To make it work correctly, you have to set this in VLC Options:
http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/guyj...105_183303.png (sorry for german language, I think you will find it anyway)
and: http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/smnm...106_174408.png
Note for the media keys: only the PlayPause key works all the time. The rest of the media keys only work if a song/film is already playing and not paused (VLC-Bug)

Problems:
- This is a BETA, bugs are frequent!
- Sometimes the left part of the progress bar has some useless pixel (get it away with left display key)
- On the playlist you can only see the artist or filenames

Operation mode:
VLC Control analyses http://localhost:8080/requests/playlist.xml and http://localhost:8080/requests/status.xml as well as http://localhost:8080/old/template.html, gets its Information from those sites, that's why the Web Control Interace is needed. To use the media keys, it opens up a TCP Connection to VLC, that's why the console interface is needed.

Changelog:
0.10: Initial release
0.11: DVD Support added
0.12: Unneeded pixels removed, playlist handling improved, VLCControl only appears when VLC is running, it stays silently in the background so lonh
0.21: VLC 0.9 compatibility (for older version ask me!), Mediakeys work fine, playlist selection-and-play now works
0.22: Bug fixed (List index out of bounds when nothing is playing)
0.23: Progress bar display improved, error handling added, Icon changed

download: http://www.g15-applets.de/download.php?id=2806

[MG-X]

Due to the dots in your link for the pictures i can't see them!

[snailmantis]

Thanks for your ideas!

[Boy2006]

hmm the project are lost?

[omodecarton]

I am interested! Any news?

[stgiga]

You could also try integration with LCD Smartie, which is open-source and *at present* controls Hitachi HD44780 displays (with plans for graphical displays, and I've put my hat in the ring for Unicode support), and can show media control information as well as unread notifications for e-mails and stuff. Also LCDStudio did this eons ago but it wasn't open-sourced. I think another cool thing would be captions on a display, which could be useful for accessibility.

Also I went to the effort of building HarfBuzz the way translate.ttf requires so real-time LLaMa captioning translation can work font-level, of course I put the Wasm tables into my font. Also that font has stuff like Japanese ARIB TV captioning characters in it too.

I've used VLC for around a decade.