<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>Why are you asking me questions?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>I have been asking them questions trying to understand VLC.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>I understand very little about VLC, I need help also.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:03 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Edit B <<a ymailto="mailto:bouke@editb.nl" href="mailto:bouke@editb.nl" saprocessedanchor="true">bouke@editb.nl</a>> wrote:<br>> Still working in Director (using a lot of Xtras)<br>> Under Win, i can get Telnet to work (althought with a lot of hoops), but<br>> that does not work on Mac, and i fear it won't work on Win anymore anytime<br>> soon.<br>> Besides, from the docs, Telnet is limited compared to shelling / RC<br>> It's the only language i know, and i still like it very much (It's really<br>> fast for small / one-off projects)<br><br>I'm not familiar with Director (is it<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_" target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_</a>(programming_language) ?), but if<br>you pick up something like Python, you'll be able to establish a<br>socket connection easily. I made a simple program a little while ago<br>that, among other things, could pause and resume a video, using the<br>telnet interface. There may not be a command-line 'telnet' program on<br>your platform, but there's certainly BSD socket support, which is all<br>you really need.<br><br>ChrisA<br>______________________________________________________<br>vlc mailing list<br>To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc" target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>