[streaming] Telnet interface

[Remi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:58:07 +1100 (EST), "Warren Crossing"
<list at mofokom.biz> wrote:
> I have written a controller for the telnet interface
> and I have to say it was not easy as the formatting
> of the output for status commands was difficult to parse
> and had variable whitespace which changed depending on
> the media state type etc.

As far as I understand it, the telnet interface was meant
as a quick-to-implement USER CLI for VLM.

Controlling VLM programmatically is best achieved by adding
a new plugin, or using the LibVLC bindings, so you can
directly use the vlm_* APIs with a real programming language.

> I have seen the remote control rework pages on the wiki and this issue
> seems to have been glossed over.  Can anyone recommend a standard
parsable
> format short of xml?
>
> Using ASN.1 or even SNMP MIB type format would be a good idea.

I am not aware of any attempt at implementing some kind of standard
protocol for media control with VLC at the moment. There might well
be some, but not publicized.

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