how to play video on vlc in a loop via adb shell

Question

I'm trying to play a video on android via adb shell on vlc several times in a row. When playing the video once the following command was sufficient:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW  -d  file:////storage/emulated/0/Download/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4

But now I want to play the video several times/infinitely. Based on: How can I deliver parameters to a test function, that launched using adb shell am Instrumentation command , Start Android activity from command line with extra and https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help/ I tried:

adb shell am start -n org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity -e input-repeat 3 -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d file:////storage/emulated/0/Download/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4 

with various combinations including passing --input-repeat 3 and "input-repeat" 3 without success. E.g: the video would play but only once.

Also didn't help:

adb shell am start -n org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity -e PlaybackMode 1 -d  file:////storage/emulated/0/Download/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4

Does anyone know how it can be done?

Blinni

try to make android app with LibVLC, so you can have VLC based player. using putExtra on start you can read passed param. – Spoiler

Answer 1

Create playlist, place "bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4" twice or more inside and loop it by VLC

Quinonez

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Answer 2

Here's how I managed to play video in infinite loop:

adb shell am start -n org.videolan.vlc/org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity -d file:///sdcard/DCIM/Camera/file.MOV

My environment:

• VLC-Android-3.5.4-armeabi-v7a.apk
• Android 8.1
• Phone: Soyes Xs11

Damal