<div>Thanks Greg, i try it yesterday on Windows and couln't </div>
<div>make it work. </div>
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<div><strong>And really really thanks Neil</strong> for all the work you have been releasing to the public.</div>
<div><br>(specially around SICP stuff ) </div>
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<div>J.A. Garcia</div>
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<div>On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Greg Hendershott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greghendershott@gmail.com" target="_blank">greghendershott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="im">> (I'm also working on a home theatre thing, in which a Racket "web-server"<br>> servlet is using this library, and providing a UI through Web browsers of<br>> handheld devices on the home LAN.)<br>
<br></div>Cool idea.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> If anyone wants to try out this Racket front-end to the VLC media player at<br>> this point, I'd appreciate hearing whether/how it works on your particular<br>> platform and VLC version.<br>
><br>> <a href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-vlc/" target="_blank">http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-vlc/</a><br><br></div>I tried it and it works well on OS X 10.7.5 with VLC 2.0.3.<br><br>As I expected since I don't have VLC in my path, start-vlc needed me<br>
to supply #:command for it to find the executable.<br><br>I did notice that the custodian shutdown didn't seem to work as I<br>understood the docs to say. If I run the following short program from<br>Racket at the command line, after Racket exits the VLC process is<br>
still running and playing. I would need to add an explicit call to<br>vlc-shutdown.<br><br>#lang racket<br><br>(require (planet neil/vlc:1:0))<br><br>(define vlc-cmd "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC")<br>
(define vlc (start-vlc #:command vlc-cmd))<br><br>(define f "<a href="http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=21585" target="_blank">http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=21585</a>")<br>
(vlc-url? f)<br>
(vlc-add f)<br>(sleep 10)<br>;; no call to vlc-shutdown<br>
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