For reporting, I often need to fill in my notes with a recording I made of an interview.\u00a0 This means I need global hotkeys so I can start\/stop the player while I’m in my word processor or note-taking program (tomboy or zotero).<\/p>\n
VLC has native support for global hotkeys, but for whatever reason, I couldn’t get them to work to map <ctrl>+<alt>+<space> to play\/pause with Ubuntu 9.10.<\/p>\n
My workaround is based on VLC global hotkeys in Ubuntu with\u00a0Compiz<\/a>. But, I use VLC’s remote control interface<\/a> to control the player instead of the HTTP interface<\/a> as suggested in the howto.<\/p>\n Then, if I run VLC with both the normal and remote control\u00a0 control interfaces, setting up the remote control interface on port 7777 on my local machine, my global hotkey will work:<\/p>\n You might want to create an alias for running vlc with these options by editing ~\/.bash_aliases or ~\/.bashrc:<\/p>\n I’m not quite sure how all the remote control commands work.\u00a0 For instance, I thought the rewind<\/em> command would play backwards at the maximum rate, but instead it jumps playback back a few seconds.\u00a0 I thought the fastforward<\/em> command would do the opposite of rewind<\/em>, but instead it slows down playback incrementally.\u00a0 So, for now, I just have play\/pause and jump backwards hotkeys, but that’s enough to make transcribing interview recordings much, much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For reporting, I often need to fill in my notes with a recording I made of an interview.\u00a0 This means I need global hotkeys so I can start\/stop the player while I’m in my word processor or note-taking program (tomboy or zotero). VLC has native support for global hotkeys, but for whatever reason, I couldn’t… Continue reading Global hotkeys for VLC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,145],"tags":[20508,20507,285,20506,20505],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-technology","tag-global","tag-hotkey","tag-recipes","tag-transcribe","tag-vlc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-wC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
$ sudo apt-get install netcat<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
$ ccsm <\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
$ vlc --extraintf rc --rc-host localhost:7777<\/pre>\n
...\r\nalias vlctranscribe='vlc --extraintf rc --rc-host localhost:7777'\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\n