Atom VLC

A bottom panel to control VLC media player from Atom

Installation

Atom VLC is available at apm index, install from Atom interface or using apm command.

$ apm install atom-vlc

Or Settings ➔ Install ➔ Search for atom-vlc

Features

• Shows playing song info (title, artist, album)
• Shows playing song artwork
• Allows forward, backward, play/pause and stop
• Compact and full mode

Configuration

Atom VLC uses VLC's Lua HTTP interface to control VLC. So you need to configure VLC in order to accept connections from Atom and Atom VLC too.

VLC

VLC's Lua HTTP interface only works when it's set a password to access the interface. So go to Tools ➔ Preferences. Bellow Show settings area toggle All then go to Interface ➔ Main interfaces ➔ Lua, bellow Lua HTTP set a password.

After that go to View ➔ Add interface ➔ Web.

Atom VLC

Only Password setting is required, the others can work by default.

Setting	Type	Description
Password	string	The password at VLC Interface
Host	string	The IP address or hostname of the host running VLC
Compact mode	boolean	Show the panel compact

Developers

Run from git repository

You only have to clone the repository, install dependencies and link to a directory in the Atom's package directory.

$ git clone https:/github.com/renatoalencar/atom-vlc
$ cd atom-vlc
$ npm install
$ cd ..
$ ln -s atom-vlc ~/.atom/packages

Dependencies

• atom-space-pen-views
• font-awesome

License

MIT