TITLE: VLC from the command line on macOS
DATE: 2018-08-06
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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I download podcasts using [pypodd], then I want to play the files,
but I don’t want to leave the terminal. I found out that [VLC] has
a some command line options, including ad really nice ncurses
interface. I made an alias in my .bash_profile which starts VLC in
the right way and plays a nominated file:

  [pypodd]: https://github.com/johngodlee/pypodd
  [VLC]: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    alias vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I ncurses"

Then in bash I can type:

    vlc file.mp3

to open VLC and play the file.

There are lots of other arguments to use VLC in the command line,
most of which are documented [here].

  [here]: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Advanced_Use_of_VLC/

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