Adobe Air and VLC player

[yamauda]

Hi,
I have a project to use Adobe Air to build a media center Interface, and use VLC for the player (music, video, pictures).
In Adobe Air 2, i can use Standard Out and Standard In (with NativeProcess class) to speak to VLC.
But, if i want to use it as player, how i can tell him to send to my app informations or events about the video, music or picture status? (about loading, loaded, current, total time, current time...).
Or there is an other solution?, or can i do this only with vlc?

I don't know if i'm in the good forum place, so i'm not, tell me where i have to go...

Thanks

[Ilasir]

What are you using to write the application? AIR supports javascript, so you ought to be able to use the plugin function calls to check those things. Never used vlc with flash builder or CS4.

[yamauda]

Thanks for your response !
Yes, Air can use javascript, but the only plugins that he can used are pdf and flash, nothing else.
So, for this project, the only way is to have 2 apps, one in Air, and the other VLC, and try to communicate and listen events.
How i can do to communicate between those apps ?

[peter_h]

Does it have to be Adobe Air?
Adobe Director supports many plugins (Xtras), plays many media natively (e.g.DVD and HD video, Quicktime, Flash), and supports the use of ActiveX controls (Windows only). And it's crossplatform Mac + Win (not Linux).
For VLC control in Director, check out http://www.directorforum.com/showthread.php?t=5814