How to open VLC wit JAVA and later play a file with it..?

Question

Hi,
I do it if I want to Play a file with VLC:
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
          try {
               rt.exec("C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc " + "C:\\songs\\llarala.mp3");
          } catch (IOException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
but I want to Open VLC and later work with this VLC opend, for example to Play a file with it. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks.. I' m new about that..

Answer 1

Keep working as you are is the simplest way. The VLC client (and server) has a pretty rich command-line interface, you can do pretty much anything through the command-line that you can with any other interface. Or there's the telnet interface, if all those processes are too much