Script and fixture definition to control VLC Player (Linux)

[offtools]

Hello,

maybe you noticed the issue concerning videoplayback on linux.
I wrote a small and dirty script to control VLC (play, pause, stop, next, prev, playlist entry) with QLCPlus through OSC.

I first tried subprocess and communicate (via stdin/stdout) to control vlc through the rc interface, but there seems to be a bug in vlc or lua, thatswhy the script is using oldrc and unix sockets.
Its very far from perfect. I'm thinking about to use mplayer in future. The slave mode there looks a bit more promising, although mplayer has not the pause feature in the playlist, which is quite handy.

One Thing. The unix sockets interface of vlc crashed as I tried out seeking. Thatswhy just simple playback buttons.

Second thing. The internal playlist ID's of VLC dont match with the gui. To get the right numbers you can start:
vlc -I rc
and then type playlist.

This is done really quick. Feel free to change this, or make this better :)

Files:

VLC-OSC-Remote.qxf (dummy Fixture definition for the python script)
test-vlcosc.qxw (demo)
vlcosc.py (python script)
vlcosc.ui (gtk ui def for the python script)

offtools

[offtools]

Hi,

tried the same for mplayer now, works a bit better. It uses files in a folder as playlist.

offtools