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You can control VLC with Irreco remote controller and Irreco telnet-backend. Irreco is available at http://irreco.garage.maemo.org/ or from maemo-extras chinook repository.

After installing Irreco,
configure telnet device controller with details of your computer which runs VLC (host and port).

Start VLC in MacOSX from terminal in /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/
for example with command: " VLC --extraintf rc --rchost :4443 " where 4443 is the port you want VLC to listen connections. Remember to open/forward that port if you are going to use it outside firewall/NAT.

Then create buttons in Irreco for commands you want to send to VLC, play,stop,pause etc. Instructions for using Irreco can be found from the Irreco website.

VLC telnet interface must be launched from commandline becouse adding that from GUI wont allow connections without password which Irreco telnet backend cant manage.