Control your VLC with your IRC, bro.
I've included build.sh, which does all of this, very poorly. There's no error tolerance or anything of that sort. Worst case, it should at least clearly demonstrate the build procedure.
I removed the Makefile because out-of-tree compilation was too finnicky and I couldn't come up with build instructions that worked consistently across distros.
(Note: `#define STOP_HACK' to enable code to seek 0:00 and pause on start. This is a hack, if you start vlc without a file in its playlist with this enabled, it will crash)
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Download the latest VLC sources (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html) and install its build dependenices
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Extract vlc and run ./configure
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Copy src/ircrc.c to modules/control/ in the vlc source directory
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Add the following lines to modules/control/Modules.am:
Add
SOURCES_ircrc = ircrc.c
libvlc_LTLIBRARIES += \
libircrc_plugin.la
To the end.
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Run ./bootstrap in the vlc directory
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Now run ./configure && make
vlc -I ircrc --server your.irc.server --channel "#yourchannel" --nick some_nickname yourfile.avi
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play
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pause