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@AstroLightz@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Arch: Control VLC through terminal commands?

I’m making a Python script to play music through VLC and I wanted to add a way to control audio playback of VLC, like pause/play, next/previous, etc. I know I can change shuffle mode before launching VLC with the –random and –no-random arguments. However, is there a way to change playback settings through the Linux terminal while VLC is running?

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@Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone on lemmy.blahaj.zone Open parent

VLC appears to support MPRIS, so commands like $ playerctl play-pause $ playerctl next $ playerctl previous Should be able to control it. See the Relevant arch wiki page for more info. VLC also appears to have a TUI interface. Check out the VLC wiki

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@AstroLightz@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Thank you so much! One more thing: would there be a way to check if the user has playerctl installed on their system? Or is there a Python package like it?

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@Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · Mar 07

That depends on your distro. On Debian/ubuntu(-based) distro’s, you can try apt list --installed playerctl, which will output nothing if the package isn’t yet installed, or the package name with version info if it is installed. To install it, run sudo apt install playerctl On arch(-based) distro’s, you can try pacman -Qi playerctl, which should return an error if there is no such package installed, or several lines of info if it is installed. To install it, run sudo pacman -S playerctl, ideally after running a full system upgrade with sudo pacman -Syu

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