Store names of files opening up in vlc

I want to store the names of the audio/video files that I open up in vlc in a log file. I intend on making automated playlists using the log file.

How should I do it??. Should I be making an extension for vlc which will do the same ?

Solution

So many options. The simplest might be to use --file-logging and --verbose options in vlc, and then post-process the log file.

Other options may include:

write a wrapper program which logs the file you want and then calls vlc to play it,
patch the vlc source to write the log when playback begins, and rebuild vlc,
on Linux, write a program in C or Python that monitors a group of files using inotify, with the event type IN_OPEN, IN_ACCESS, and IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE, record the events to a log file,
on Linux, write an LD_PRELOAD, intercept open, recognise the file type, write name to the log.