[vlc-devel] VLC API

Mirsal Ennaime mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 12:39:28 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:31 AM, hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using C / C++ external application in both Linux and ARM
> platform. I prefer the external application talks to the VLC at run
> time via either socket messages, or API function call. I've just
> briefly looked at rc interface at modules/control/rc.c and I guess the
> rc interface is a proper interface I am looking after, but correct me
> if there are better interfaces for my platform and environment. Is
> there an example to use RC interface by C / C++?

D-bus may be a bit overkill then ^^
You should use the rc interface module along with an option like
--rc-host <host>:<port> and issue your commands through a regular TCP
socket.
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Mirsal Ennaime



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