Problem play video on RPi with vlc-bin

[amahling]

Hi,
I'm running Raspian stretch on a RPi 1 without X11/Wayland. I have installed vlc-bin and vlc-plugin-video-output from Rasbian repository. My goal is to play video files and streams direct to the hdmi-output like omxplayer does. Hope, this is possible...

When I try to play a local video (mp4) or audio (mp3) via

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cvlc -v 2 file:///absolute-path-to-file

cvlc just prints its version info

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VLC media player 3.0.3 Vetinari (revision 3.0.3-1-0-gc2bb759264)

and terminates instantly with exit code 1.

Maybe some more plugins have to be installed? I would prefer am minimal installation with only the stuff needed for this use case.

Any help appreciated.

Regards,
Andreas

[calanor]

I probed to play to fb output without success in my pi.
Finally, I installed minimal xserver without dm and play fine
I d'ont know how omxplayer or kodi plays directly to HDMI fb.

Please, post any news. I also interesed.