Postby scotty » 14 Dec 2020 23:06
What the heck, I'l join in as new member. As a UNIX user since 1978 (we had to schedule time to swap out the VMS on our UW new VAX 11/780), and sun/mac/apple developer, I've used vlc for awhile - but other graphics technologies for decades.
Anyway, I've been trying to use the remote control features, and using a sock like /Users/scott/vlc.sock
Then a couple scrips to pause, play, rewind 30, etc. They actually work, but the GUI hangs up after a couple calls, and even if it accepts a play, the GUI doesn't reflect this (it's hung until clicking on file to play again). (Rewind 30 was a little tricky as seek is all that's offered. There should be a rewind X.)
e.g., echo pause | nc -U /Users/scott/vlc.sock
My goal is to execute these commands while in 'vi' without prying my fingers from my keyboard (eg :!vpause)
So I should probably report this but thought I'd say hi first.
-scott
(I live out in country by Mt Rainier but near enough to Seattle).