How to prevent console from being displayed when using VLC's dummy interface

Question

I\'m trying to launch VLC in \"dummy\" mode from a Node.js server script, however using child_process.spawn(\'vlc\',[\'-I dummy\']) produces a new console windo

Answer 1

I found a solution for the specific problem:

VLC has a command line option to surpress this window --*-quiet where * is the interface.

e.g. For the dummy interface, use

child_process.spawn('vlc',['-I dummy','--dummy-quiet'])

For the rc interface, use

child_process.spawn('vlc',['-I rc','--rc-quiet'])