Remote control VLC from Windows PowerShell

VLC-Remote.ps1

 # Remote commands for VLC
 #Run from ISE
$socket = new-object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient("localhost", 5000)
if($socket -eq $null) {
		write-host "Failed to connect to VLC"
		Exit
	    }
$stream = $socket.GetStream() 
$writer = new-object System.IO.StreamWriter($stream)

$buffer = new-object System.Byte[] 1024
$encoding = new-object System.Text.AsciiEncoding

function WriteCommand($strCommand){

		## send command to VLC
        write-host $strCommand
		$writer.WriteLine($strCommand) 
        $writer.Flush()
        Start-Sleep -m 500
        while($stream.DataAvailable) {
			$read = $stream.Read($buffer, 0, 1024)
			write-host -n ($encoding.GetString($buffer, 0, $read))
		}
}

do {$strResponse = Read-Host "Shorcuts = p - play, s - stop, 1-10 clip, T - time, j - Jump 10 sec, Q when you want to quit application?"

    switch ($strResponse)
    {
            "s" {WriteCommand('stop')}
            "p" {WriteCommand('play')}
            "+" {WriteCommand('faster')}
            "-" {WriteCommand('slower')}
            "n" {WriteCommand('normal')}
            "j" {WriteCommand('seek 10')}
            "seek" {WriteCommand('seek 500')}
            "t" {WriteCommand('get_time')}
            "fon" {WriteCommand('f on')}
            "foff" {WriteCommand('f off')}
            "pause" {WriteCommand('pause')}
            "rewind" {WriteCommand('rewind')}
            "fast" {WriteCommand('fastforward')}
   default {WriteCommand($_)}
        }
    }

until ($strResponse -eq "q") 

　
#clean up
	$writer.Close()
	$stream.Close() 

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this does not work on vlc 3.0.18. It does not produce any errors. The commands do not work.