For my program I need to control an already open instance of VLC (I just want to increase/decrease the volume and make it pause), but I do not know if that is even possible as it seems you have to create instances to control them. Just wondering if anyone knew a way to do this? The following doesn't work presumably because VLC is playing before the media_player instance is created.
media_player = vlc.MediaPlayer()
def upvol():
value = media_player.audio_get_volume()
value = value + 5
media_player.audio_set_volume(value)
def downvol():
value = media_player.audio_get_volume()
value = value - 5
media_player.audio_set_volume(value)
Additionally, is there a way to make attempt to open any arbitrary file type?
