# Plugin Request: Invoke VLC (media player) with start and end time timecode

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-request-invoke-vlc-media-player-with-start-and-end-time-timecode/48572>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [6 February 2026 23:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-request-invoke-vlc-media-player-with-start-and-end-time-timecode/48572 "2026-02-06T23:40:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![luzpaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/luzpaz/32/27934_2.png) [@luzpaz](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/luzpaz)\
**Post date:** [6 February 2026 23:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-request-invoke-vlc-media-player-with-start-and-end-time-timecode/48572/1 "2026-02-06T23:40:37Z")

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Context: [Using links that are timecoded/deeplinked in order to trigger audio player from Joplin](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/using-links-that-are-timecoded-deeplinked-in-order-to-trigger-audio-player-from-joplin/48522)

Which led to this PR getting merged: [Desktop,Mobile: Resolves #9745: Markdown: Allow specifying the start/end of audio, videos, and PDFs by personalizedrefrigerator · Pull Request #14257 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/14257)

But ultimately it didn’t scratch the itch that I needed which was to be able to invoke VLC on my system with a timecoded start time and optional stop time. That way I wouldn’t have to pull the media file into joplin to play it but instead trigger my media player to to so.

tl;dr

I’m wondering if there’s a plugin dev that would be open to creating a plugin that can invoke:

`vlc /path/to/video.mp4 --start-time=X --end-time=Y`