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Arch: Control VLC through terminal commands? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can test if a command exists in several ways, but the most portable one should be using command -v which is POSIX.

if command -v playerctl &> /dev/null
  # do things
else
  # warn and exit (or prompt for installation)
end
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