Using "*.*" in 0.86 (error)

anexny · Postby **anexny** » 06 Jun 2007 05:01

I'm asking this questions in a new thread as the thread it was in seems to have died.

I'm trying to setup a sort of video jukebox, where the PC will randomly play all files in a folder at system startup. With 0.85, I could use, basically, "vlc.exe -Z --loop -f c:\vids\*.*" and it'd play the files just fine. But with 0.86, it no longer likes the *.* part, and instead gives me an error ("can't open *.*") before opening the files. I think it's trying to add "*.*" to the playlist, and when it tries to play the file "*.*", it can't find it. I don't want generate a playlist manually, because I don't want to have to edit it every time I add a file to the video folder.

What happened between 0.85 and 0.86 to cause VLC to no longer handle *.* correctly? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks!

Postby DJ » 06 Jun 2007 08:10

Use the open directory command instead. Personally I don't like this change either. Open Directory was for proving VCDs or DVDs

anexny · Postby **anexny** » 06 Jun 2007 08:31

Do you happen to know what the command line equivalent of this is? I can't find it looking through the help file. Thanks!

anexny · Postby **anexny** » 14 Jun 2007 17:01

So is this behavior (*.* not working) now a feature? Not a bug? Is there a way to submit "hey, why did you change that?!" requests to the dev team?

petehuu · Postby **petehuu** » 14 Jun 2007 21:22

Im using this to play directories:
"vlc.exe dir:dirname"

In your case it should be
"vlc.exe -Z --loop dir:c:\vids\"

anexny · Postby **anexny** » 15 Jun 2007 08:26

Aha! Yes yes yes -- that's it! Exactly what I was looking for. In my defense, I did a search through the help file and don't see that referenced anywhere.

Thanks for the help!

petehuu · Postby **petehuu** » 15 Jun 2007 21:43

Also i did find nothing about it at help file.
I just tested few possibilities ("d:", "directory:", "dir:) and last one was the right one. Documentary is not very good, i hope that VLC would show command line parameters for operations at GUI.

Postby DJ » 16 Jun 2007 08:50

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html
Advanced use of VLC

petehuu · Postby **petehuu** » 18 Jun 2007 21:23

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html
Advanced use of VLC

There is nothing about "Dir:" , neither here
http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_ ... -line_help

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