CLI control of VLC Media Player using the telnet interface.
A bash completion file is provided.
This offer an easy way to do collaborative playlist in CLI via ssh.
just put vrun in your path with execution right and . /path/to/vrun_bash_completion to your .bashrc
You can overload vlc telnet port or password by creating a file :
$ cat ~/.config/vrun/configrc # vlc telnet port tport=4212 #vlc telnet address taddress="127.0.0.1" # local vlc binding address tbind="127.0.0.1" # vlc telnet password password="admin"
For the bash completion to fully work, a vlc instance with the telnet interface activated need to be up
or the ~/.config/vrun/commandrc with a list of command need to be fill up.
Otherwise, you can only complete vrun start that will lauch an instance of vlc.
If you really want to feel up the ~/.config/vrun/commandrc file (personnaly, I don't),
launch a vlc instance and run :
echo "`vrun help \"\\*\" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/\. \. .*//;s/, /\n/g;/^+/d;s/| *//g;s/ .*//;s/\r//g'` start" > ~/.config/vrun/commandrc
it should do the tricks.
For feature list, just use tab completion or vrun help, and vrun help command for description.
* add XYZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . add XYZ to playlist * enqueue XYZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . queue XYZ to playlist * playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . .show items currently in playlist * search [string] . . search for items in playlist (or reset search) * sort key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sort the playlist * sd [sd] . . . . . . . . . . . . . show services discovery or toggle * play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . play stream * stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . stop stream * next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . next playlist item * prev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . previous playlist item * goto, gotoitem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .goto item at index * move . . . . . . . . .move items from index to index in the playlist * repeat [on|off] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toggle playlist repeat * loop [on|off] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toggle playlist loop * random [on|off] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toggle playlist random * delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .delete item at index * clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .clear the playlist * status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . current playlist status * title [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get title in current item * title_n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . next title in current item * title_p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . previous title in current item * chapter [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get chapter in current item * chapter_n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . next chapter in current item * chapter_p . . . . . . . . . . . . previous chapter in current item * seek X . . . . . . . . . . . seek in seconds, for instance `seek 12' * pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toggle pause * fastforward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set to maximum rate * rewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set to minimum rate * faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . faster playing of stream * slower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . slower playing of stream * normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . normal playing of stream * rate [playback rate] . . . . . . . . . . set playback rate to value * frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . play frame by frame * fullscreen, f, F [on|off] . . . . . . . . . . . . toggle fullscreen * info . . . . . . . . . . . . . .information about the current stream * stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . show statistical information * get_time . . . . . . . . . .seconds elapsed since stream's beginning * is_playing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 if a stream plays, 0 otherwise * get_title . . . . . . . . . . . . . the title of the current stream * get_length . . . . . . . . . . . . the length of the current stream * volume [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get audio volume * volup [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .raise audio volume X steps * voldown [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lower audio volume X steps * adev [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .set/get audio device * achan [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .set/get audio channels * atrack [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get audio track * vtrack [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get video track * vratio [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .set/get video aspect ratio * vcrop, crop [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get video crop * vzoom, zoom [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get video zoom * vdeinterlace [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . .set/get video deintelace * vdeinterlace_mode [X] . . . . . . . . set/get video deintelace mode * snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . take video snapshot * strack [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get subtitles track * help, ? [pattern] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a help message * shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .shutdown VLC
The delete and move functions for deleting items in the playlist and move items in the playlist come this the version 2.1 RinceWind of VLC