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Stephen Boston
Asked: 2020-02-18 07:00:56 +0800 CST

vlc : how to specify playlist on command line

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The playlist is a plain text file of filenames

I have tried :

 cvlc --playlist playlist
 cvlc -playlist playlist

And each of those with playlist=playlist.

I have renamed the playlist to playlist.m3u

I have tried :

 vlc --longhelp | grep playlist

And see nothing but options for a running playlist.

My web searches have lots on how to use the GUI for a playlist but not for the commandline.

This used to work but I haven't used VLC for a while.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The playlist is a plain text file of filenames

    It needs to be a .m3u list and it will look like this example:

    # This is a comment
/music/opeth/white cluster.mp3
/music/moonlapse vertigo.mp3
http://ccmixter.org/a/song.mp3
/video/mononoke.avi

    and you play them without any parameters like: 

    vlc playlist.m3u

    The only issue I can see here is that the files are not correct in your file.

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