vlc-irc-rc

Control your VLC with your IRC.

Building

I’ve included build-vlc.sh, which will download vlc and perform in-tree compilation including ircrc. If it doesn’t work it at least serves as documentation for the build process. You can also perform out-of-tree compilation.

1. Download the latest VLC sources and install its build dependenices
2. Extract vlc and run ./configure
3. Copy src/ircrc.c to modules/control/ in the vlc source directory
4. Add the following lines to modules/control/Modules.am:

   libircrc_plugin_la_SOURCES = ircrc.c
   control_LTLIBRARIES += libircrc_plugin.la
       

   To the end.

5. Run “./bootstrap && ./configure && make” in the vlc directory

Usage

vlc -I ircrc --server your.irc.server --channel "#yourchannel" --nick some_nickname yourfile.avi

Commands

A few playlist commands are currently supported

• !play
• !pause
• !next
• !prev
• !enqueue <MRL>
• !clear
• !playlist
• !status

Hacking

If you modify ircrc.c after building, run “./build-vlc.sh –update” to just copy the file and invoke make without reconfiguring.