Control VLC via N4M script

Mar 12 2021 | 8:33 pm

Another fun little node tool for y'all, this time the almighty VLC media player is the object of our obsession. We leverage the apps built-in web server, and of course an npm library (vlc-client ) wrapped up in a simple n4m script and testing patch.

https://github.com/robtherich/n4m-vlc

Lots of functionality already exposed in script and patch, but of course more could easily be added, so check out the vlc-client documentation to see if there's anything missing you need, and feel free to issue a pull-request if you make something useful.

happy patching!

Mar 14 2021 | 5:10 pm
generalh
Hello Rob, Thank you for that bridge. (I hear James Brown asking for a bridge to the funky drummer)
As i'm curious guy, i ran several vlc instance on OSX using the script available at vlc.org and i was wordering if there could be a solution to talk to these different instances of vlc. For now i only achieved to talk to the first one opened. But again this is really cool!
Merci Hubert
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Mar 15 2021 | 8:09 am
pdelges
Using different IP ports for the VLC instances could be a solution. You can launch vlc with the --http-port option. On Max' side, you can create different VLC.Client with the right ports.
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Mar 15 2021 | 6:20 pm

yup that would be my suggestion as well. you could modify the node-script "connect" handler to take a port argument, something like this:

connect: (portarg) => {
	vlc = new VLC.Client({
		ip: "localhost",		
		port: portarg,
		password: "vlc"
	});