Re: [bongo-devel] Re: VLC problems on w32

[Daniel Brockman]

Dieter Deyke <address@hidden> writes:

> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dieter Deyke <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> I played a little with running VLC is a command window, and I have
>>> noticed that
>>>
>>> - it will output to stdout
>>>
>>> - it will read on stdin
>>
>> Maybe it reads from the terminal window.  I'm not exactly
>> sure what the difference is on Windows, but on Unix you
>> could read either from stdin or from `/dev/tty'.  If you ran
>> the application interactively in a terminal window, it would
>> behave the same no matter which of those you chose.  But as
>> soon as you redirected standard input or ran the program
>> without a controlling terminal (like Bongo does), you would
>> see that the former would work while the latter would fail.
>>
>>> - it will quit when I type quit
>>
>> That's reassuring.
>>
>>> but only if I first change directory to the VLC installation directory.
>>> If I run VLC from some other current directory I just get an error
>>> message.  Now I am not sure that all this is relevant here, but it is
>>> something we could try.
>>
>> Interesting.  What error message do you get if you run VLC
>> from some other directory?
>
> Installation dir:
>
> [00000288] rc interface: VLC media player - version 0.8.6a Janus - (c) 
> 1996-2007
>  the VideoLAN team
> [00000288] rc interface:
> Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go 
> to
> the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I wx"
>
> Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
>
> Some other directory:
>
> The command line options couldn't be loaded, check that they are valid.
>
> Press the RETURN key to continue...
>
> The command used to start VLC was the same in both cases:
>
> vlc -I rc --rc-fake-tty  "\Cassettes\C120-01\Barry Mcguire - Eve Of 
> Destruction.mp3"

That's... weird.  I'm almost tempted to suggest that you
reinstall VLC.  How and when did you install it?  Could it
have somehow broken since then?

> With respect to stdin vs /dev/tty: you might have guessed
> right here.  I wrote a little python program to test this:

Cool.

> import os
> import time
> os.chdir("/program files/videolan/vlc")
> f = os.popen('vlc -I rc --rc-fake-tty "\\Cassettes\\C120-01\\Barry Mcguire - 
> Eve Of Destruction.mp3"', "w")
> time.sleep(10)
> f.write("quit")
> print "vlc should now be stopped"
> time.sleep(10)
>
> This program did start VLC OK, but failed to make it stop
> after 10 seconds.

Maybe because you sent neither "\r\n" nor "\n" after "quit".

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>