How to incorporate VLC into Xlobby?

[ricky]

Hi All,
Im slowly setting up my new htpc w xlobby. I want to use vlc as my dvd player but i'm having some problems. I can get it to play within xlobby but im having problems getting to exit back to the "movies" xlobby page...anyone know what the "quit" command is for vlc?

Thanks,
Ricky

[R32]

Ctrl-X will close VLC. You can use Xlobby's OS send message to close the application too. Use Girder to capture the window name, class name, wpram and lpram then create an event in xlobby with this information and assign it to a button.

[hjackson]

"Use Girder to capture the window name, class name, wpram and lpram then create an event in xlobby with this information and assign it to a button."

Yea, I spent a couple of days trying to figure out the window name and send commands ith Girder and another program with no luck. I know some other people have tried and crashed and burned too. If someone can successfully capture them it would be great! Otherwise, you will need to teach the USBUIRT wireless keyboard keys so that the USBUIRT can send hotkey commands.

hjackson

[R32]

hjackson,

Let me first say that I use a PPC client to control everything so I still have access to my Xlobby buttons on the client, otherwise you wouldn't be able to click on anything while VLC was playing in fullscreen mode - in that case you would have to either use a keyboard or use girder to perform the key squence for you when an IR signal is received.

I was able to acomplish this by using the following parameters for the OS send message to close VLC and assigning it to a button on one of my PPC screens

Window Class: wxWindowClassNR
Window Name: VLC media player
wpram: 71535
lpram: 0
command: command

You can also acomplish the same thing by using OS kill process and pointing it to vlc.exe.

hope this helps