
Once you find the working set of commands for your VLC CLI calls which produces your intended output, you'll probably want to use the dummy interface when calling VLC in your program/batch processing. A full list of available interfaces are at the VLC Interfaces wiki page. Now that you can call the binary right from the CLI, you probably will want to pick an interface so that you don't have the usual GUI popping up. If you don't want to use this whole path every time, you can make a symlink and edit your Bash PATH to point to this. Open Terminal and enter the exact file path to this, and you'll find the VLC binary executes: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC. In this case, the VLC binary is located in the Contents/MacOS folder as file VLC. Now you can browse what's actually inside. Open Finder, go to the Applications folder, right-click on the VLC app and then click Show Package Contents. GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17)Ĭopyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.įirst, you need to locate the actual binary executable in the VLC Mac application package. Tested on: macOS HighSierra (OSX 10.13.6) $ bash -version lsregister -dump | grep -o "/.*$" | uniq lsregister -dump | grep -o "/.*\Google Chrome.app" | head -1 $ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Support/ $ # /Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Support/ Little complicated but won't launch the app.

Volumes/External_HDD/Applications/GIMP/GIMP_v2.8/GIMP.app/ $ osascript -e 'POSIX path of (path to application "GIMP")' $ osascript -e 'POSIX path of (path to application "VLC")' Helpful, in case of that the VLC is placed in another directory rather than /Applications, such as /Users//Applications ( ~/Applications) or other directories. Downloading and installing VLC media player skins is simple and takes a few minutes, and you can always keep experimenting with different skins to suit your needs.Here're 2 ways to find out the actual path of the app that launches with open command. For users who would rather prefer an interesting theme to compliment the highly useful software, the native theme comes across as unimpressive.


For people focussing only on functionality, this is more than enough. On installing it, you get the basic and native VLC media player. Its versatility ensures that it plays almost any kind or type of media file you want it to play. The VLC media player is one of the most popular software for playing any kind of media files on your computer. Adding New VLC Skins to the VLC Media Player Native and Customized Skins
