Exadra37 / docker-vlc

VLC media player running from a Docker container - This is a mirror from https://gitlab.com/exadra37-docker/media/vlc

VLC MEDIA PLAYER ON DOCKER

Dockerizing the awesome VLC Media Player.

How to Install

All we need is to download this package and add the bash script bin/vlc.sh to our path.

Lets assume that your path is in /usr/bin and that this package will be located in ~/.vlc.

Cloning the package...

git clone [e-mail]:exadra37-docker/media-player/vlc.git ~/.vlc

Creating the sym link...

sudo ln -s ~/.vlc/bin/vlc.sh /usr/bin/vlc

Building the Docker Image...

sudo docker build -t exadra37/vlc ~/.vlc/docker/build

How to use

No matter how we start vlc it will map always the current folder into inside the Docker Container at /home/vlc/media.

To open only the Graphical User Interface

vlc

To open from a url

I love Elixir programing language, thus here it goes a link to one of my favorite videos about why Developers should be using it...

vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4_Wlq8JeI

To open a file

vlc path/to/file.extension

To open a file with compressed folders

vlc path/to/file/with/compressed/folders.zip

To open a folder

vlc path/to/folder

VLC Shared Folders Between Host and Docker Container

In order to have our media available inside the docker container we need to map it from the host.

Also to persist data from VLC running inside a docker container we need to map some folders between the host and the container.

Mapped Folders

• Media - $PWD into /home/vlc/media.
• Configuration - ~/.docker-vlc/.config into /home/vlc/.config.
• Cache - ~/.docker-vlc/.cache into /home/vlc/.cache.
• Snapshots - ~/Pictures/VLC/Snapshots into /home/vlc/snapshots.