[vlc] on screen display menu

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Luke Punzet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently read an article describing how the author had created an on
> screen display menu using remote "page up" and "page down" commands. I
> downloaded the exe and it wouldn't work on my pc but I would like to be able
> to create my own menu. I read the instructions on your site
> http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__osdmenu.htmlbut
> there is very little introduction or examples on how to assign
> commands

The commands are hotkeys commands as used by vlc and indeed it is  not 
documented.

Here is an example osdmenu config file:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=tree;f=share/osdmenu;h=cec0c33754da5710784e0e155be1ddcb3793e7b6;hb=HEAD

> - is there somewhere else that I should read first?

You still need to devise a backchannel to control vlc from the 
rc-interface (-I rc).

> Thank you in advance

Hope this helps a bit.

Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman