Raspberry Pi VLC Paused File Data Location

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Hi all, not actually an info-beamer question ( although it’s related ) does anyone know where vlc stores the data for a video file that has been paused? ( on a raspberry pi )

I need to find a method of viewing/editing the ‘timestamp’ at which the video was paused, so I’d pause the playback of a video then overwrite this file with a new timestamp so that when playback is resumed it starts from a specific point in the video, ideally send a command over ssh to overwrite the file with a timestamp x amount of seconds before or after the original paused time.

I know this sounds a bit odd, but I want to run another system in tandem with info-beamer but it doesn’t have the ability to skip/seek to a specific point in the video file.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

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I’ve since been told that “VLC player just sticks to the current read (byte) offset in the input file, not the time”.

So it appears that it’s more complex than I thought :confused:

Looks like the only other option is trying to implement a skip/seek function that isn’t supported by the playback system I’m using.

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Sorry, but that sounds very wrong. Why would VLC even persist the playback position anywhere? Also good luck doing that on a read-only medium like a DVD or Blu-ray disk. I’m sure there’s an API to remote control VLC somehow. But:

This is all very off-topic and isn’t really related to info-beamer at all as it doesn’t use VLC in any way, so I’m closing this thread.