How to control VLC through terminal while playing media?

[Borislav]

Well I am big fond of Linux based operating system. Why because it seems to be secure than that of the windows based operating system. I have installed VLC on the computer of mine. well I wanted to know how can I control the VLC media player from the different console. Let me know how can I get the above mentioned requirement in the situation of mine. Any help to fix the matter would be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

[!const]

Looking at the situation I am suggesting that you should launch the VLC GUI on the computer of yours and then you should simply try to listen the specific port by using the following command.

vlc --rc-host=localhost:4212 &

And copy and paste the below mentioned command on the other terminal.

echo -e "/home/charles/Desktop/Fiat.wmv" | nc localhost 4212

[CodGuru]

In order to get the requirement of yours I am suggesting following command which you should run on the terminal to control the VLC.

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import socket

#change to your vlc socket (in vlc configuration: UNIX socket command input)
SOCK = "/tmp/vlc.sock"

try:
	command = sys.argv[1]
except:
	print "try: %s help\n" % sys.argv[0]
	sys.exit()

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
s.settimeout(0.5)
s.connect((SOCK))
s.send("%s\r" % command)
out = ""

while 1:
	try:
		line = s.recv(1024)
		out += line
	except socket.timeout:
		break
	if line == "":
		break
	
s.close()

print out

[Gunilla]

I think you are doing something wrong with the thing which you have mentioned over here. I let you know that you will be able to get the requirement of yours if you can connect the VLC which you have installed on the computer by using the telnet localhost 4212. I am not sure about the thing whether it is going to work or not. However I recommend that you should try the same and let me know whether it is working or not.

[void]

Let me know any of the above mentioned commands are working for you or not. If there is no change in the situation than I recommend that you should simply run the following command on the terminal.

vlc --intf rc

Well you should copy and paste the above mentioned command and simply press enter from the keyboard.

[Badrunath]

You should simply launch the VLC media player on the computer and simply play any of the video and then you should launch the terminal on the computer and then run the below mentioned command on the terminal.

sh-3.2$ /bin/echo -n  "pause" | nc -U /Users/vlc.sock