[vlc] Only one VLC instance

[Rafaël Carré]

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Dotan Cohen a écrit :
> I just introduced the stepmother to Linux, and she is rather enjoying
> Fedora. However, she cannot program herself to close any open instance
> of vlc before clicking on another file.

:/

> I'm no good at bash, and I
> need this working for her _today_, so I'm kindly asking if anyone has
> a wrapper script for vlc that checks if there is a running instance,
> and if so closes it before opening a new instance. Basically, she
> needs the appearance that the new file is 'replacing' the old file in
> the open program. Sorry for the bother, and thanks in advance.

This feature will be in the next release.

For now, I suppose you could use --extraintf rc --rc-unix /tmp/vlc_socket
and check for the existence of the socket, then adding the file through
the socket before exiting if it exists.

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Rafaël Carré
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