hard to run in cron

[njason]

It took me a long time to find a work-around for getting cvlc to work through cron. Is it possible to make this workaround not necessary? If not, I can contribute documentation on getting cvlc to run in cron.

[jc-kynesim]

My understanding of the issue is that you have an unprivileged user id and a lack of environment variables when run from cron. I don't think this is something that is inherently vlcs fault/problem and indeed it may not be fixable by VLC as the missing info is stuff it doesn't have ready access to. On the other hand you aren't the first person to have issues with trying to run VLC from a system task. If you have handy instructions then great - where would you have expected to find them? I'd recommend see if you can add stuff to https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Documentation.