VLC Playlist Control

Provides an easy way to (programmatically) control the playback of a VLC playlist.

Setup

Requisites

• VLC desktop version
• Node

Installation

Run these commands:

git clone https://github.com/JohanWinther/vlc-playlist-control.git
cd vlc-playlist-control
npm install

Enable the VLC http server. Remember to set a password and port number under the Lua settings.

Change the server host+port number and/or password in the index.js file.

Commands

The commands need to be run in the same directory as index.js or be referenced with paths.

Start video number N in opened playlist

node index.js video N

where N is the video number.

Run custom command

node index.js command

where command is a supported VLC http command. Further reference can be found here.