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page	VLC	Instructions on how to integrate VLC media player into Home Assistant.	2016-11-02 12:02	true	false	true	true	videolan.png	Media Player	false	0.35	Local Polling

The vlc platform allows you to control VLC media player.

To add a VLC media player to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: vlc

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): The name to use in the frontend.
• arguments (Optional): Additional arguments to be passed to VLC.

Only "music" media type is supported for now.

This service will control a background VLC instance, therefore you cannot use this to control a VLC instance launched on your desktop, unlike the Kodi media player for example.

{% linkable_title Full configuration %}

A full configuration for VLC could llok like the one below:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: vlc
    name: speaker_1
    arguments: '--alsa-audio-device=hw:1,0'