Starting VLC Using Arguments by Default about traktforvlc HOT 5 CLOSED

Automator
Use Automator to create an application that in effect launches VLC with command line arguments.

Start Automator and select to create an Application. Double-click Run Shell Script in the Library/Utilities folder and replace the text content — cat — with the following:

~/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --extraintf=rc --rc-host=localhost:4222
If it doesn't work, remove ~ for sure.
And then Save anywhere you like.

ICON
To replace this application's icon, Get Info on your real VLC, click on the icon on the top left, press Cmd-C, Get Info on your VLC Automator app, click the icon, and press Cmd-V.

Give it a try. Hope it works.

I and using the same trick because my VLC is not storing the RC values at all.

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I can't really answer that question as I'm not using Mac, but if somebody can provide it, it could be useful! :)

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Start Automator and select to create an Application. Double-click Run Shell Script in the Library/Utilities folder and replace the text content — cat — with the following:

~/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --extraintf=rc --rc-host=localhost:4222
If it doesn't work, remove ~ for sure.
And then Save anywhere you like.

Not OP, but was googling and found this solution. Signed up just to let you know that It worked perfect for me, thanks!

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Another option is to manually edit the ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc file directly, changing line 1064 to rc-host=localhost:4222 and line 3459 to extraintf=rc.

It will be overwritten on quitting VLC, but only if you have navigated directly to the Lua setting.

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TraktForVLC 2.x makes that issue obsolete - #88

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