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OscarTalks wrote:Hello Sc0ttman,

The idea of a GTK GUI for VLC is a good one, so thanks for developing it.

I have tried it a few times including the latest version, but I find that I can not launch streams by entering a playlist metafile such as a .pls in the URL field.

It works with the Qt GUI and even from CLI eg for WABC in New York using vlc_nogui-1.1.5 in Racy:-

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cvlc http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/WABCAMAAC.pls

Not sure if I should be inputting the URL in a different way or if something can be done in your VLC-GTK to make it work by just entering the URL and clicking the button in the normal way.

I just copied and pasted the URL into my VLC-GTK (in the Streams tab), and it plays fine for me .. Well, the audio playlist GUI pops up with no entries in it (not ideal!) but I can listen to the radio station fine...

Maybe the problem is with incompatible settings set by VLC-GTK, that cause problems with vlc itself... Try enabling the 'debugger' (in the Advanced tab), then launch the station as normal - you'll get a popup window of the VLC command to be used - just copy & paste the vlc command into a terminal and gradually reduce the options until it works, or until you are left with only `cvlc "URL"` ... This might help you find the problem - if it is indeed related to options being set by VLC-GTK.

Hope that helps.

I talked a few weeks ago about using the vlc-gtk as a light and easy way to get a gui for vlc. earlier in this thread it was shown that the main vlc program was lacking some dependencies that presumably are associated with non-slackware versions of puppy. I never resolved that problem, but the slacko package manager does allow for the downloading of a 2.0.x version of VLC. The point I want to make here is that a separate qt library sfs file is available and can be loaded at boot. This obviates the need for incorporating qt into the packages associated with the vlc download - and cuts the vlc player down from 140 megs to 40 megs and thus does not clog up the save file. Many dependencies are still missing, but it seems to play fine enough.
This info is of interest only to neophytes, but maybe it is something helpful.

Steven

Updated to 2.8 - see main post for download

Summary: Improved & combined on screen controls during playback.

Changelog:
- improved OSC: combined the Audio Playlist and OSC GUIs, into one single OSC GUI all files/dirs/video/audio/streams/etc
- fixes in ordering items in playlist
- fixed resizing items in playlist GUI tree
- fixes in resize stream list in OSC for high resolutions
- fixed hide playlist GUI for radio streams
- updated resize_playback to allow for larger GUI below video
- added resize_playback to playlist GUI, if playing video
- added 'Stream Info' button next to Fave Streams list

See screenshot of video playback and OSC + playlist GUI below.

NOTE: I just re-uploaded a (more) fixed 2.8!

Changes:
- OSC won't quit on slow VLC reload (over samba, etc) after clicking item in playlist

...Around 9 people downloaded 2.8 at the time of posting this,
those people should re-download, if the OSC is exiting between playback of files..

(The only difference is an extra 'sleep 1' near the end of /usr/bin/vlc-gtk-osc, after 'get_vlc_pids' on line 441)

EDIT: For something a little different, a simpler VLC GUI, see here VLC embedded in gtkdialog

ouf 2014 is not old. I am controlled by some users about topics i wake up.
My goal would be to link pMusic to VLC instead of Pcd in vlc-gtk front end.

Changelog:

- updated for use with VLC 2.2.x
- fixes in recording streams
- fixes in recording fave streams to file (set the codecs etc in streams tab, click rec button next to faves list)
- fixes in popup GUI for audio and streams
- font/GUI alignment fixes

NOTES
- still prob fairly buggy though..
- many radio streams still work
- the TV streams all need updating.. don't use them
- recording fave streams might need to be killed in htop (or whatever)!!

Still requires xdotool for on screen GUI .. Use your repo or see first post.

VLC-GTK now has a git repo:

https://github.com/sc0ttj/vlc-gtk