vlc hotkeys without gui

[Tim Chase]

On September  1, 2014, Brian Tew wrote:
> Anybody know how to set vlc hotkeys for the command line version.

If you using an ncurses TUI (text user interface) by starting VLC
with "-I ncurses" or "--extraintf ncurses", pressing "h" should get
you the keyboard help.  It's also listed here

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/ncurses/

Alternatively, you can start VLC with the "remote control" interface
by using "-I rc" and get help by typing "help".  Example output from
this can be found at

http://n0tablog.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/controlling-vlc-via-rc-remote-control-interface-using-a-unix-domain-socket-and-no-programming/

Both of these should be available from a command-line without using X.

-tim