Rotation in multiple libvlc:s

[fred.hild]

Hello
I am building a small program upon the libvlc which has more than one instance of libvlc (want to display more than one video at a time).
When Im trying to rotate one of the videos (with the __config_PutPsz(vlc.SubObject, name, value) ) both of them are affected and are rotated.
Why is this? Is it this way that vlc is built?

I have found out that if I wait a moment between i sets the values only the specified video is affected.
The problem is I dont know what to wait for. It seems to me that vlc sets its variables and then sends
them away to another thread to do the actuall changes. This is a problem to because then I newer know
if the changes is made yet or not.

Gratefull for any help
/ Fredrik

[dionoea]

What VLC version are you using?
Are you changing the config var before or after the video was started?

(Note that this would be easy to fix if you were using 0.9.0 ... but that's not stable yet so I doubt that you're using it)

[fred.hild]

Im using 0.8.6c.
Im changing the config var before I start the video.
Otherwise i wont get it to work at all.

Is 0.9.0 generally unstable but only unstable in some areas?

[dionoea]

If you're changing the configuration it's expected that it'll impact other libvlcs launched afterwards.

0.9.0 would help if you're using the rotate module, it wouldn't really change much if you're using the transform module.
And it's pretty stable, if you don't use the new Qt interface

[fred.hild]

Thanks for the answer.

Am I right in that the rotate module only works in 0.9.0?
And its command is --rotate-angle?

I think I will take a look at 0.9.0s libvlc.

How long is it before 0.9.0m becomes stable?