<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Environment: Ubuntu 11.10</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have configured VLC to run remote control (rc) interface.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the command line parameters that I am using in my batch file:</div><div><br></div><div> --file-logging --logfile=Logs/vlc.log --verbose 3 --extraintf=oldrc --rc-host=localhost:4000<br><br></div><div>When I run vlc using this batch file, I am able to use telnet to port 4000 and issue various remote control commands. This works as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>I also have a Java application that spawns VLC as a child process. It has exactly the same list of parameters.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, when VLC is spawned this way, although the UI comes up and I can interact with the UI, I am not able to telnet
into vlc.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been trying different things for the past few hours. At one point, I thought it did work but now I cannot reproduce my own steps:-(.</div><div><br></div><div>Although the log file is set up for maximum verbosity, it does not show anything with "oldrc."</div><div><br></div>I am wondering if anyone has any idea on what could be happening.<div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Peter<br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>