VLC media player

[kalinkamaen]

Hello guys.

Love the plugin but i have an issue. When i start VLC, Eventghost are not automaticly
loging anything from VLC. But if i hit play from Eventghost. After this Eventghost will logg
everything i am pushing in VLC. But the same happens when I restart VLC.







Is there anything I can do to fix this? Do you need more info to see my problem.

PS: I am a noob, so please be gentle.

Regards Kali

[Medy]

Well in my case vlc just doenst show feedback events at all... running latest vlc player 64 bit ...

Giving commands works .... though ... anys idea ?
RC interface activated - (oldrc)
stream position display
no dos window...
localhost:1234


Edit : ok fixed it ... in EG there was a field ( only show specific events or smth ) had to uncheck it^^

[kgschlosser]

i have a similar issue as well. i know how to fix it but is going to take a little while.

[tiwas]

First time Event Ghost user, so this might be a user error - but please bear with me

I'm trying to load this plugin. In its original state everything is great (after setting up VLC to handle connections). I can use the scripts and all. However, if I try to use the plugin to start VLC I get an error that it cannot find the specified file. I've checked the registry and the information there is correct.

This is the error in the log:

Error in Action: "VLC media player: Start"
Traceback (most recent call last) (1722):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ActionBase.py", line 170, in CallWrapper
return self(*args)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\VLC\__init__.py", line 193, in __call__
1
error: (2, 'ShellExecute', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

VLC is located in "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe", which is also the value of the registry key used in GetVlcPath().

Any tips on this? It's not a showstopper. I just like it all to work I'm on Windows 10 professional.

[kgschlosser]

it is probably because the information hjas not been added for the 64 bit version of VLC. for a long long time vlc did not offer a 64 bit version. Give me a day or so to add that support to it.

[kgschlosser]

I would also like to make a really strong recommendation to yo. you should run EventGhost 0.5 even tho it is a release candidate. there are many issues with windows 10 and EG 0.4 that have been fixed in EG 0.5. there are a few quirks in EG 0.5 that have been resolved and will be in the next release candidate but they are easy to put into place if you have an issue.

[tiwas]

I would also like to make a really strong recommendation to yo. you should run EventGhost 0.5 even tho it is a release candidate. there are many issues with windows 10 and EG 0.4 that have been fixed in EG 0.5. there are a few quirks in EG 0.5 that have been resolved and will be in the next release candidate but they are easy to put into place if you have an issue.

Thanks! Looking forward to the fix. Will also try 0.5. You're right about it being 64 bit.

[kgschlosser]

Here you go. this should fix the issue with it.

[tiwas]

Here you go. this should fix the issue with it.

Thanks.

Got this error this time:

Error in Action: "VLC media player: Start"
Traceback (most recent call last) (0.5.0-rc6):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ActionBase.py", line 116, in CallWrapper
return self(*args)
File "C:\ProgramData\EventGhost\plugins\VLC\__init__.py", line 236, in __call__
1
error: (2, 'ShellExecute', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

[kgschlosser]

I am not sure why you are getting that. it is working perfect for me.

[kgschlosser]

ok I found the problem. as I to have the same problem. VLC's installer is boogered up. it doesn't properly place it's path in the correct containers. and it also does not remove the records on uninstall. I have worked around the problem version is attached.

[stoffix]

Does anyone have a copy of the latest plugin they could upload again?

[kgschlosser]

I reattached the file in the post above yours.

[stoffix]

Thank you very much!
Sadly it doesn't seem to connect to vlc.
could it be because i'm running the newest 64-bit version?
The oldrc interface is ticked in the settings, and I also tried to add the parameter in a shortcut to vlc.

[kgschlosser]

I have never messed about with it at all. I may have to tweak the discovery routine. I am going to take a look at it.