I'm running VLC (a media player) in Windows 7. Is there way to control (as in: play, pause, set volume) a running instance of VLC from Python?
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Yes, you can control it via telnet (with telnetlib). There are also libvlc bindings, but I'm not sure you can use that to control an existing VLC instance.
Mauricio Scheffer
2010-04-02 03:15:34
Thanks .. though I wonder if there is a COM interface for VLC. That way, I can control VLC without having to configure it (by passing `--intf` program argument, for instance).
Sridhar Ratnakumar
2010-04-02 05:05:58
You can use the python bindings to control your own instance, if that helps.
rogerdpack
2010-06-25 01:38:25