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This problem has reappeared for me. I'm doing something non-standard which might explain it. My app dynamically opens libvlc.dylib from whatever release of VLC is installed on the Mac. The 3.x releases seemingly do not respect "--vout=caopengllayer". Everything is fine with 2.2.8.

Hi again. I spent some time on this, but I haven't gotten very far. I've read through the source code a bit and the best I can determine is that I should copy macos.m and start modifying it to render to a given context. Is there a simpler way? Could you suggest a starting point for me?

Thanks.

Yes.. that's exactly what I want! Thanks for the reply. I have been using the vlc-git nightly for the libvlc.dylib. Is that the 1.2 code base? As for the opengl vout, how do I make use of that with libvlc? Right now I'm using libvlc_video_set_callbacks, and libvlc_video_set_format_callbacks which is...

I'm currently using libvlc and have taken the simple way out of requesting video frames in RGBA. From there it's easy work to create textures and I'm off to the races, except for that fact the the VLC engine is sucking down gobs of CPU trying to uncompress video. On the other hand, the VLC applicati...