[vlc] Controlling every of VLCs feature through an external interface (HTTP?)

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Benedikt Franz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'd like to use VLC as a backend for Car-PC software, which means that 
> I'd like to use the more advanced features like equalizer, normalization 
> and possibly visulization of VLC.
> 
> Now I need a way to control these features without seeing the graphical 
> interface. I asked this question on the forums before ( 
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41132 ) and got hinted to 
> the HTTP interface, but I am not sure how to control the more advanced 
> features through the HTTP interface.
> 
> Does anybody have some suggestions?
Use a socket based interface:
  -I rc --rc-host localhost:2012

You'll need to add the RC commands needed to manipulate the 
functionality you want to use.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.