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...except it turns out I can't do that dodgy hack either, as libvlc's handling of mute calls is weird to say the least: 1. It appears to ignore volume commands issued before playing, or just after starting playing. I can make it work by sleep(1)'ing after it enters the Playing state, *then* muting. ...

Note btw that media_player_set_media does not do this -- running with -vvv reveals that the access Open method is not invoked until I hit play. I could of course try to very quickly pause the media, or do something grim like mute and hide the player, play, wait for it to transition through Buffering...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to instruct libvlc to open a media and fill its buffers without playing yet. Ideally this should mean I can later call media_player_play() and get a near-instantaneous response, even if the access would usually take a little time to respond. Obviously this also constrains t...

Hi chouquette, I found the same problem as the OP using VLC 2.0.0, viewing an m3u8 file created by VLC's own livehttp sout module. VLC would queue up hundreds of spurious playlist items with names that consisted of random Unicode junk, and naturally fail to play them. The nightly build you linked fi...

I don't think that's true -- here's an excerpt from a log of cvlc some_file --aout=alsa [0x9979cf0] main audio output debug: looking for audio output module: 4 candidates [0x9979cf0] alsa audio output warning: audio device: hw:0,0 is already in use [0x9979cf0] alsa audio output debug: failed to find...

Hi, When scripting VLC, and for some reason it fails to pick up the desired output module (couldn't find the X server, exclusive-mode audio device in use, etc) it tends to fall back to 'dummy' modules and play the file into nowhere regardless. I'd prefer that it fails and exits in that situation, bu...