acereca / VLCControl

VLCControl

small Utility to control VLC-PLayer via its HTTP-Server

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Features

• Simple Player Controls

  (play, pause, next, previous)

• Title and Artist lookup

  (with simple substitution for files with no artist tag but "artist - title" in the filename)

• Volume control and display

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Install

Requirements

- Python 3+
- VLC-Player

Setup

1. in VLC do the following:

• Tools > Preferences:

  select Show Settings: All

• Interface > Main interfaces:

  enable Web

• Interface > Main interface > Lua:

  • LuaInterface: http

  • Lua-HTTP > Password: abcde

    (or something else, we need it later)

2. now open the config.json in the VLCControl folder and change

   "password": "abcde"

   to the password which we set in advance (if the password was different from abcde)

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Usage

1. Run vlcc.pyw