[vlc] Pause VLC

[Neil Bertram]

Brook Lin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to pause the VLC by every 5 seconds, then continue to play it.
> How to control it by command?
> 

You could accomplish this by using VLC's telnet rc interface and some
external script that handles the control.

To do this in unix (including MacOS) with a shell script,

Start VLC:

  vlc -I rc --rc-host localhost:5678 file.mpg

Then write a shell script along these lines:

#!/bin/sh

while (true); do
    echo pause | nc -q0 localhost 5678 # toggles pause
    sleep 5
done


On other systems you could also use the rc interface, but you'd need to
find another way to prod the commands at it periodically.


Neil