[Extension] Show Stream Title

[Dae]

A tiny extension that makes VLC show the title of the currently playing video stream, like so:



It might come in handy if you have a TV in a public place which switches between live streaming web cameras, and you want the public to know what’s on the screen right now. The extension also allows you to set custom titles even for those streams that you don’t own (e.g. from YouTube), via XSPF playlists.

Unfortunately, VLC on Windows keeps resetting its extraintf setting (extraintf=luaintf changes to extrainf=lua), without which the extension doesn't work. For this reason, I recommend to activate the extension using the command:

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C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --extraintf=luaintf --lua-intf=show-stream-title

On macOS everything works as intended.

For more information, see:
https://github.com/EugeneDae/VLC-Show-Stream-Title

Special thanks to mederi, a contributor to this community, whose code helped me get started.