Config: VLC

This file provides the configuration for the vlc instances (e.g. vlc ip). A default version of this file is created during the installation, this file is configured to connect to a local instance of vlc. If you want to add more instances you have to change this file.

You have to configure every VLC instance, to make it possible for vlccontroller to connect to VLC.

Location

The vlc.json can be found in following directory: {vlccontrollerDirectory}/conf/player.json

General structure

This file is formatted in json. There is an array of vlc objects, each object has an amount of keys & values. Each key is a String, values can also be Numbers (as shown in following example). Strings have to be written between two quotation marks. Just look at following example to understand this file format, for more information you can [look at Wikipedia].(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON).

[
	{
		"name": "instance1",
		"host": "127.0.0.1",
		"port": 4212,
		"password": "changeMe"
	},
	{
		"name": "instance2",
		"host": "42.42.42.42",
		"port": 4212,
		"password": "changeMe"
	}
]

Possible setting entries

• name: Internal name of the vlc instance (unique, no whitespaces allowed)
• host: IP Address or Host Name
• port: Port of the VLC Instance (default: 4212)
• password: Your configured password