I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian and run VLC from a command prompt with the following parameters
vlc --intf rc --rc-host localhost:65513 --fullscreen
I have successfully gotten VLC to play a video by issuing remote commands through a Socket and have issued a repeat/loop command.
The looping doesn't have to be seamless but it momentarily cuts back to the command prompt before it replays the video and looks unprofessional.
Is there any solution to this? I cannot find anything that works. I can live with the screen staying black for a moment but can't have work presentations playing continously on a screen that shows Linux in the background every 30 seconds.
The same happened to me some month ago, it looks that the only one solution is to wait for the release of vlc 4.0 for raspbian too, and no plans about it.