Running VLC with PHP exec function.

Hi all,

I am trying to launch VLC from the command line via PHP if that makes sense.

In command line I can do this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" C:\test.avi --fullscreen

And this will launch VLC in full screen mode with the text.avi video ready for my viewing!

Now When I do this with PHP it fails - miserably.

I've attached my current code and as you can see I have tried a few things but it's getting frustrating now! I even tried putting this into a .bat file and executing that. When I had "mkdir c:\test\moo" in the bat file - this worked and created the file okay. but when having: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" C:\test.avi --fullscreen in the bat file it failed. PHP seems to try as the page just waiting.

If I launch the bat file normally it all works fine - so it's almost like php cant launch it if it's a visual app or something..

Any help would be great!!

Thanks

Billy

$vlcdir = "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\\vlc.exe\"";
$moviedir = "C:\test.avi";

//$command = $vlcdir." ".$moviedir." --fullscreen";
//$command = "C:\\test\\test.bat";
//$command = "\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe\" C:\test.avi";
$command = "\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe\"";
var_dump($command);

//exec($command);
shell_exec($command);

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