VLC has both a telnet and a network socket interface.  Those could be controlled with Pd using the network objects.  I think there was an example posted on this list a while back.  But if you have any success, please let us know.  Its something that I would find very useful.

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html

.hc

On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Carlo Benzi wrote:

Dear members of the pd-mailing list,
Iīd like to ask you, if itīs possible to connect under windows a VLC-Player (out) with pd in order to transform some audio streams token from internet.
Thanks for you kind attention!
Best regards
Carlo
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