Instructions to code your own VLC Lua playlist script.

See lua/README.txt for generic documentation about Lua usage in VLC.

Examples: See liveleak.lua, dailymotion.lua, youtube.lua, soundcloud.lua, cue.lua ...

VLC Lua playlist modules should define two functions:

• probe(): returns true if we want to handle the playlist in this script
• parse(): read the incoming data and return playlist item(s) Playlist items use the same format as that expected in the playlist.add() function (see general lua/README.txt)

VLC defines a global vlc object with the following members:

• vlc.path: the URL string (without the leading http:// or file:// element)
• vlc.access: the access used ("http" for http://, "file" for file://, etc.)
• vlc.peek( ): return the first characters from the playlist file.
• vlc.read( ): read characters from the playlist file. THIS FUNCTION CANNOT BE USED IN probe().
• vlc.readline(): return a new line of playlist data on each call. THIS FUNCTION CANNOT BE USED IN probe().

Available VLC specific Lua modules: msg, strings, stream, variables and xml. See lua/README.txt.