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Problem with reading metadata from VLC over D-Bus with nodejs and dbus-native.
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'use strict'; | |
// Before starting this script run VLC: | |
// vlc --control dbus http://212.96.160.160:7978/listen.pls | |
var Dbus = require('dbus-native'); | |
var bus = Dbus.sessionBus(); | |
// Works | |
bus.invoke({ | |
destination: 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc', | |
// destination: 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc-' + <pid>, // VLC sometimes opens only a connection with its PID in its name. | |
path: '/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2', | |
'interface': 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties', | |
member: 'Get', | |
signature: 'ss', | |
body: [ | |
'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player', | |
'PlaybackStatus' | |
] | |
}, function(err, data) { | |
if (err) console.log('ERROR PlaybackStatus: ', err); | |
else console.log('RESPONSE PlaybackStatus: ', JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)); | |
}); | |
// Doesn't work | |
bus.invoke({ | |
destination: 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc', | |
// destination: 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc-' + <pid>, // VLC sometimes opens only a connection with its PID in its name. | |
path: '/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2', | |
'interface': 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties', | |
member: 'Get', | |
signature: 'ss', | |
body: [ | |
'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player', | |
'Metadata' | |
] | |
}, function(err, data) { | |
if (err) console.log('ERROR Metadata: ', err); | |
else console.log('RESPONSE: Metadata', JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)); | |
}); |
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