[mythtv-users] Launching VLC from the MythTV Frontend

[Timothy Coughlin]

Greetings!

I'm running into a problem while trying to launch VLC as a menu option.
Specifically, I added the following button:

<button>
       <text>VLC Stream</text>
       <action>EXEC /usr/bin/vlc http://172.16.64.255:8081 --fullscreen
--global-key-quit Esc</action>
</button>

When this didn't work, I wrote a shell script to try and launch it. Then I
thought that since the Myth Frontend was running under sudo, that I would
need to impersonate a regular user:

su -c "vlc http://172.16.64.255:8081 --fullscreen --global-key-quit Esc" -s
/bin/sh mythtv

I'm at a wee bit of a loss to figure this one out. Any thoughts?

Many thanks for any and all thoughts!
-Tim C.
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