VLC Media Player MCP Server

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VLC Media Player runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 58 installs a week from npm. Last commit 16 Oct 2026.

Control VLC Media Player from any MCP client: play, pause, seek, volume, playlist.

Installs per day peak 166 · avg 5

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · vlc-mcp-server

Stars

0 open issues

16 Oct 2026

Last commit

4 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check VLC Media Player every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add vlc-mcp -- npx -y vlc-mcp-server

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vlc-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vlc-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.vlc-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "vlc-mcp-server"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vlc-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vlc-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "vlc-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vlc-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: VLC_BASE_URL (Base URL of VLC's HTTP interface), VLC_HTTP_PASSWORD (Password configured for VLC's HTTP interface), VLC_HTTP_TIMEOUT_MS (HTTP request timeout in milliseconds).

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VLC Media Player — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for VLC Media Player?

VLC Media Player runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package vlc-mcp-server was installed 58 times last week.

How do I connect VLC Media Player?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls vlc-mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use VLC Media Player?

The npm package vlc-mcp-server was installed 58 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is VLC Media Player open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.