Console (RC/Telnet) Interface with Win32

[quu]

I am running VLC 1.1.3 under windows XP (32 bit)

I am trying to play with the RC interface, but can't seam to get it to work

When I run the command "vlc --intf rc" the prompt immediately returns and if I open the Task Manager, i can see an instance of VLC running... even through there is nothing visible.

if I create a batch file

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vlc --intf rc pause

then execution in the batch file goes to the point where VLC executes and then waits. I tried typing "help" into the command prompt window... even tried a "echo "help" | vlc --intf rc" as the start command... nothing. when I kill the vlc process via task manager, only then does the batch process move on to the pause.

if I try the "vlc --intf telnet" and then open a telnet to port 4212 "telnet localhost 4212" I get the prompt asking me for a password, I enter admin, the default, it it tells me wrong password, even printing the error and the prompt it twice. So I try "vlc --intf telnet --telnet-password=test" and use test as the password, same thing. Tells me wrong password, and prints the password prompt twice. (I tried it with and without quotes around test in the command line)

Is the RC interface something where I have to execute VLC inside of a process and then just send/listen to standard in/our/err? I was hoping i could test things with the normal command prompt before coding a shell.

[quu]

I also tried the rc interface with --no-rc-quiet and --rc-quiet, no change. Plus I tried setting the host and port of the rc interface, but the connection was refused (ie no listening port)

[VLC_help]

use oldrc instead of rc.