how to detect whether the VLC has played out the programme

[alain_chen_663]

i want to write a little programme to detect whether the VLC has played out a programme in stream but donot change the programme of VLC, is someone can give me some advaises to start my grogramme.
thanks

[robc]

While there may be a number of options depending upon how you launch VLC to stream content, you are probably best advised to investigate the telnet interface of VLC where the status of streams can be displayed through the show command.

[alain_chen]

OK thanks
i will give a try