DBus

TODO for DBus integration

Decide service bahaviour

Could vlc be a on-demand startable service, would it be useful ?

We just have to create a /usr/share/dbus-1/org.videolan.vlc.service:

---

[D-BUS Service]

Name=org.videolan.vlc

Exec=/usr/bin/vlc -I dummy --control dbus ---

Missing features

playlist => hard.... could we use xspf ?

preferences ? that seems pretty useless

List of signals and methods already implemented

Signals

'Signal' (signature) : description

'ItemChange' (s) : Emitted when a new input element is played, the string contains the filename, or the input name if it has some metadata

Methods

'Method' (input signature) = (output signature) : description

'GetPlayStatus' () = (s) : return "play" "pause" "stopped" or "unknown"

'GetPlayingItem' () = (s) : return the filename of the current item being played, or it's name if it has some metadata. Same data provided by "ItemChange"

'ToglePause' () = (b) : toggle the play/pause status, and start playing if it was stopped, return true if playing, false if paused

'AddMRL' (sb) = () : add string to the playlist, and play it if bool is true

'Nothing' () = () : do nothing, just here for tests, and code example

'Quit' () = () : exits vlc

'Stop' () = () : stop playlist

'Prev' () = () : plays previous playlist item

'Next' () = () : plays next playlist item

'PositionGet' () = (q) : get an uint16 in the range [0;1000] representing the position of current input, or 0 if no input

'PositionSet' (q) = () : gives an uint16 in the range [0;1000] to set the position of current input

'VolumeGet' () = (q) : get an uint16 in the range [0;100] representing the current volume

'VolumeSet' (q) = () : gives an uint16 in the range [0;100] to set the current volume