Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each > time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio > volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. > > I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but > to do it I need to know in advance X number, which is Sink Input number > used by VLC on every run. The problem is that VLC changes Sink Input on > each consequitive run.
VLC has a remote control feature -- several, actually. Control can be handled by a command line, Lua, telnet, or http, among others. https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/rc/ The command you are probably looking for is volume [X] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . set/get audio volume -dsr-
