VLC backend doesn't work on Win32

[trollusk]

The Win32 version of vlc (vlc.exe) does not recognise the command line argument --rc-fake-tty.
Additionally it does not like unix-style forward slashes in pathnames.

[dbrock]

So does it work if you remove that option and change the slashes to backslashes?

[trollusk]

If I modify the function 'bongo-start-vlc-player' to not use the
--rc-fake-tty option and to replace / with \ in the filename, then the
file plays and the "rew, pause, stop, ffwd" icons appear in the
modeline. However none of them do anything apart from the stop button.
Pressing space to pause the file in the buffer also does not do
anything.

So it sort of works but not satisfactorily.

On 9 June 2011 22:44, dbrock
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wrote:

So does it work if you remove that option and change the slashes to backslashes?

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[dbrock]

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I’ve had so many remote control problems with both VLC and mplayer on Windows that I’m not really optimistic about solving those remaining problems in any reliable way. If I recall correctly, I believe --rc-fake-tty was actually put in place to make it work on Windows.

Anyway, if you have a patch for the stuff you fixed that doesn’t break non-Windows, I’d be happy to merge it.

[trollusk]

I have actually switched to mplayer as that works well for me with
bongo on Windows. I don't think merging my changes would be a good
idea as with them all bongo does is launch the VLC GUI - there is no
way to control playback from within emacs.

Paul

PS if you are interested, what I've actually done is written an
extension to org mode (http://orgmode.org) which allows org files to
include hyperlinks to audio/video files, which start playing via bongo
when the link is activated. The links can also contain a time, in
which case playback will start at that position in the track.

The code is at:
http://orgmode.org/worg/code/elisp/org-player.el

On 22 June 2011 08:15, dbrock
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wrote:

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I’ve had so many remote control problems with both VLC and mplayer on Windows that I’m not really optimistic about solving those remaining problems in any reliable way. If I recall correctly, I believe --rc-fake-tty was actually put in place to make it work on Windows.

Anyway, if you have a patch for the stuff you fixed that doesn’t break non-Windows, I’d be happy to merge it.

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[dbrock]

Great to hear that mplayer works well on Windows now,
thanks for reporting that.

I love the Org mode integration! :D I don't use Org mode
myself, but I've realized that lots of people do.

Daniel Brockman, partner & developer
Go Interactive http://gointeractive.se
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