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Launch VLC in Java and connect to it via rc interface

I've already seen this thread, but I'm still having an issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1731299/starting-vlc-player-in-java It appears the Java bindings for VLC are no longer under active development and do not support everything possible on the command line anyway. Given the following code, I can't launch VLC from a Java appl...

How can I open VLC via browser with PHP (Mac OS X)

I'm trying to open VLC via browser and make it instantly play the given video file on Mac OS X. This runs on my local server and is only meant to run locally - therefore I already run apache (MAMP) with my username and with group "staff" (defined in httpd.conf). YES - I do know that VLC has http interface - however that is not what I n...

Control VLC from Python in Windows

I'm running VLC (a media player) in Windows 7. Is there way to control (as in: play, pause, set volume) a running instance of VLC from Python? ...

flv from vlc to ffmpeg live video error when no sound temporarily

Hi When we get live stream from vlc to ffmpeg , wherever there is sometimes 5-6 second no sound part of video , then ffmpeg is dead with this log flv @ 0x8b426d0]illegal ac vlc code at 4x6 [flv @ 0x8b426d0]Error at MB: 142 [flv @ 0x8b426d0]concealing 257 DC, 257 AC, 257 MV errors [mpegts @ 0x8b44e50]dts < pcr, TS is invalid Is t...

vlc python bindings - how to receive keyboard input?

I'm trying to use VLC's python bindings to create my own little video player. The demo implementation is quite simple and nice, but it requires all the keyboard commands to be typed into the console from which the script was run. Is there any way I can handle keyboard input also when the video player itself has focus? Specifically, I ca...

How do I write a Keystone correction filter for VLC?

Hi How can I set up keystone correction in VLC? If this is not a supported feature, has anyone had any experience writing an add-on filter for VLC? If so, links/examples would be very appreciated! Thank you ...

HTTP stream without extension in MPMoviePlayerController

Hi, I'm currently letting VLC stream a WMV file while it converts the file live to H264 with MP3 audio. This means you get an URL with just an IP and a port (http://127.0.0.1:1234/). When I try to let MPMoviePlayerController stream this, it says it can't open that extension... What should I do? I heard that you have to create a M3U8 fi...

raw h.264 packet capture and playing in VLC

Hi, I am capturing packets off the network from a video conference HDX. The video is sent in RTP and is encoded in H264. I am trying to capture these packets and generate a video file. I wrote raw H264 data from the packets to disk and i am trying to play it in VLC. VLC just shows a green box. Am i being too naive in my approach with...

How to stream your images/files with VLC?

So I know there are lot of wrapers of libVLC.dll . But I just do not know what one is ready to do what I need... What I need is simple... in my C# programm I create some bitmap (once or twice per second)... I now want to stream bitmaps live as video (in some format VLC can to offer me) to some http:localhost:port/ using VLC... How t...

RTSP streaming and save into mp4 file using VLC

Hello All let say i am having one RTSP url (rtsp://192.168.0.17/mpeg4). the live camera is setup on the machine which relay live video. i am streaming it using vlc player and i am saving it in mp4 file on some location (i.e. c:\temp.mp4). Now i am opening another vlc player instance and open this file (c:\temp.mp4). but as it is in us...

VLC Functionality: How to stream an .iso?

I gave a DVD ISO image and would like to use VLC's http function to create URL a user could access, after which the DVD would start up in full screen. I can make this happen by accepting the defaults vlc.exe -I http navigating to localhost:8080 and then browsing and opening the file. How would I modify this activity so that navigatin...

VLC player event catch

In my C# application i need to trigger some events when a VLC player (preferably) starts playback (a play button is pressed in VLC for example).Tried Windows Media Player classic with Microsoft Spy++ and observed messages that are sent when playback starts\repeats but i don't know how i could "catch" those messages in my C# code.So my q...

Trapping messages in .NET

How can i trap a Windows system message (like WM_SETTEXT) that was sent by some window (VLC player window in my case)? I've tried to inherit NativeWindow class and override WndProc like this: class VLCFilter : NativeWindow { System.IntPtr iHandle; const int WM_SETTEXT = 0x000C; public VLCFilter() { Process p = P...

playing incoming video stream

Hi! all, I am writing an application which is a kinda video streamer.The client is receiving a video stream using udp socket.Now as I am receiving the stream I want to play it simultaneous.It is different from playing local video file lying in your hard disk in which case it can be as simple as running the file using system("vlc filename...

libvlc_media_player_get_time returning zero

Hi! hey people I was writing a simple application to run a video stream using libvlc.But it seem that libvlc_media_player_get_time() function is not working properly.It is returning zero every time it is being called no matter how much video has been played.So can you please find out the possible remedies for it. Also is there any signal...

When someone says " device, fifo or filename to write yuv frames too" what does fifo mean here?

I am reading docs for VLC Command line programming. there I saw YUV video output --yuv-file=<string> device, fifo or filename device, fifo or filename to write yuv frames too. What does device and fifo mean? how to specify them? ...

VLC helper protocol on Mac OS X

Hey everybody, I am trying to add a vlc:// helper protocol on Mac OS X. To register the protocol, I have unsuccessfully been playing around with the MoreInternet PrefPane. What I want to have in my browser is a vlc://someressource.com/audio.mp3, which should launch VLC and add http://someressource.com/audio.mp3 to the playlist (this wo...

Disable Windows service at application launch

Because of VLC conflict I have to turn off Windows Advanced Text Services at my application launch. Is there any special API for that? Will it work for user with default rights? ...

Streaming H.264 video via RTP from Live555 to VLC

Dear experts, I'll be enormously grateful if you can help me with an H264 streaming problem that I've been trying to solve for weeks. I need to stream H264 video from Live555 (on a Linux machine) to VLC Media Player (on a Windows machine). With RTSP it works very well, but I need to use RTP without RTSP, and with RTP I see no video. VL...

Corrupted audio payload

I am trying to stream a MP3 over the LAN using VLC Player(1.0.5.0), RTP multicast. On observation with wireshark in the receiving side,it interprets all the below fields: padding, extension, contributing source identifier count as 0, which means there are no additional byte after the first 12 bytes of fixed RTP header. But I could see ...