VLC Midi Remote

VLC Midi remote is a small Windows utility to control VLC Media Player with MIDI commands. One use case is to play items in a VLC playlist using MIDI messages.

MIDI can be wired or wireless, using the awesome rtpMIDI project.

Download

Head over to https://github.com/ojacques/VLCMidiRemote/releases

MIDI library

I'm taking advantage of the awesome MIDI library originally from Leslie SANFORD and now maintained by Tebjan Halm at https://github.com/tebjan/Sanford.Multimedia.Midi

Getting started

• Download the VLCMidiRemote
• Extract the files in a directory of your choice
• Start VLC
  • Create and save (XSPF extension) a playlist with videos
  • Configure the VLC http interface, per https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/http_intf
• Open VLCMidiRemote.exe.config file and edit to your liking:
  • VLCPath: the path where VLC (vlc.exe) resides
  • VLCPlaylist: the path of your VLC playlist which contains the videos you want to trigger.
  • VLCAddress: The address, with the TCP port of the host which runs VLC (to access the VLC http interface)
  • VLCPassword: password for http remote control if you did set it up in VLC

The application reacts on NoteOn events. It maps C3 to the first video in the playlist. C#3 will trigger the second video in the playlist.