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The vlc platform allows you to control VLC media player.

To add a VLC media player to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: vlc

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): The name to use in the frontend.