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[sc0ttman]

You can use the --drawable-xid option in VLC to embed it into other windows...

You just need to give the window ID, which you get using 'xwininfo'.

Here is an example script 'vlc_embed'. It embeds playback of the given into a gtkdialog window:

[sc0ttman]

Here is how you add controls:

Essentially, use this option with vlc:

--extraintf rc --rc-host localhost:123

VLC will then listen on localhost:123 for commands...

Then you can send the VLC commands to localhost:123, like so:

echo pause | nc localhost 123

(where 'pause' is any valid VLC playback command)

Here is a simple script, save it as 'vlc_embed', make it exec, and run like so:

./vlc_embed "path/to/file"