[vlc] Playlist item switching problem with VOD streams

[Julian Allen]

I'm trying to use an m3u playlist containing the URLs of several VOD streams. Since the stream input has a "fixed" length, you'd think that VLC would start playing the second item once the first one had finished. However I have to manually select "Next playlist item" to get it to do this. 

I want to play the playlist via the command line (without manual intervention) so I'd like it to automatically move to the next playlist item. I've tried forcing the playlist item duration (30 seconds in my example below), but VLC appears to override this with the "true" duration of the stream but, nevertheless, doesn't switch to the next item when the first item has played for that duration.

Here's my playlist:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:30,AU TV Item-1
mms://media3.abc.net.au/winlibrary/news/200702/20070219-jovicic-pm_16_9_bband.wmv
#EXTINF:30,AU TV Item-2
mms://media3.abc.net.au/winlibrary/news/200702/20070219-water-criticism_16_9_bband.wmv

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