[vlc] Pause VLC

[Brook Lin]

Thanks Neil, your information is VERY helpful. Now I can control the VLC by
command. Such as, play it for 5 seconds then pause for 5 seconds, then play
again, etc. However, I want to change it like this, play it for 5 seconds
then pause for 1 seconds, continue to play again for 5 seconds then pause 1
second, etc. Could you or anyone give me some clue?

Thanks,
Brook 


Neil Bertram-3 wrote:
> 
> 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
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