A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

Sures Kum..

A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

in Library and Tool Development • 2 years ago

Hi guys !

Have developed a new library RemoteVLC to control VLC media player from Processing environment.
Play around with it and send me your feedback to contactsures [at] gmail [dot] com

Sures Kumar

Replies(11)

cedrickie..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

great. like you mentioned, its often a problem playing HD Video Material, so this might be a good solution in some cases.

Sures Kum..

Re: Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Thanks Cedrickiefer.

sarahbear..

Re: Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Wow, this looks like it's going to be great!! First, thanks so much for putting together the library. It's exactly what I've been looking for.

Now for a question, I'm having an issue getting the sketch to interact with VLC. I'm running on OS X with VLC, from terminal I'm launching vlc:
$ vlc ~/MEandI_video/LA_sunrise.mov -I=rc --rc-host=127.0.0.1:1234

vlc launches, starts playing a video and show the following dialog in terminal:

[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.10 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ../configure '--enable-release' '--with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"

Then I'm using your example sketch, but modifying one line in setup():
vlc = new VlcConnection(this, "127.0.0.1", 1234);

when I run the sketch I get the following error:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
...
...
...

I'd appreciate any feedback to get this running. Thanks in advance!!
Sarah

sarahbear..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Finally got a chance to look at this again. And a series of uninstalling / reinstalling vlc to v1.1.7, clearing preference files cured my VLC woes. Then I needed to use the vlc "--extraintf oldrc" module to get the remote interface to work.

Again, thanks for making this library!!

Sures Kum..

Re: Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Hi Sarah,

Glad to know that the lib is useful.
and really sorry for not responding to your prev post. was busy with work...

I will be happy to see your work once its done. please do share it in this thread...

Sures Kumar

sarahbear..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Hi Sures,
I definitely will!

In the meantime, have you come across a method of pinging VLC to ask for a timestamp of where it is in a video file? I want to snap playback to different parts of a video file depending on some user input. Your vlc.gotosec(x) gets me half of the way there, just need to find out where in the file vlc is already playing.

Sarah

Sures Kum..

Re: Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

Hi Sarah,

I am little busy so couldn integrate the "listening from vlc" part into the lib now.
The following snippet will solve your problem.

//Declaring the variables
String temp = "";
int currentTimeInSec = 0;

//inside draw() or any function where you want to check the time
vlc.write("get_time" +"\r\n");
while (vlc.available() > 0)
{
     temp = client.readString();
     if (temp.length() < 5) {
          temp = trim(temp);
          currentTimeInSec = int(temp);
          println(currentTimeInSec);
      }
}

currentTimeInSec will give you the timestamp of the media playing in seconds.

Hope this helps. do let me know you if need anything else...

Sures Kumar

sarahbear..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

2 years ago

you rock! thanks!

alanhelton

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

1 year ago

This is wonderful!

I am currently using the open() command to control VLC. I am using it to convert video files to WAV so that I may analyze a video's audio track.

I would love to see this library incorporate output (sout) commands for converting or broadcasting videos over a network.

Sures Kum..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

1 year ago

Sure. will work on it asap.

Thanks for the tip.

johann_lo..

Re: A New Library to control VLC Media Player remotely from Processing environment.

11 months ago

Thank you, Sures!

Can you or anyone else help me to fix the following issue?
What I want:
Run VLC player on one laptop (laptop A). Controlling it with another laptop (laptop B) via wireless Ad-hoc network.
What I do:
Run a processing-sketch on laptop B. The VlcConnection is defined as:
vlc = new VlcConnection(this, "IP-address-of-laptop-A", 8080);
I start VLC player with the windows command shell:
vlc file.ext --intf rc --rc-host IP-address-of-laptop-B:8080
I'm using VLC-player version 2.0.4. I also saved laptop B's IP-address (as IP-address/16) in the .host file which is located in the VLC subfolder (VLC/lua/http)
Issue:
VLC starts running but doesn't ssem to receive the commands of laptop B. Although when I try it on one laptop only (with localhost:1234) the whole connection works.

I'm rather a freshman in processing as well as to network-stuff, so there are couple of things, which aren't really clear to me. For example "this" in:
vlc = new VlcConnection(this, "IP-address-of-laptop-A", 8080);

Can anyone help?

By the way, both laptopt run with Windows XP. Firewalls and Virscan deactivated.

Thank you!

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