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Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good tutorial of how to use the VLC API in a program that I am writing to play a video file and stop it.

I used the system command to run VLC until now but that does not allow me some more refined actions.

Thanks

I run VLC through the program code by using: system("vlc ... &"); This allows me to run VLC and then continue running the code while the stream is being sent. How can I stop the stream after some time has passed? In telnet i used vlc -I rc and used quit to stop it but that would be pro...

I am trying to create a program that will start a VLC stream using a file and then when the user selects it should stop the VLC stream and start a new stream using a different file. To stop VLC I am currently using killall vlc which I think its a bad way to do it. Could you tell me if there is a com...

Could you please tell me how to get an older version of ffmpeg? I can only get the one on the vlc website which gives me an error trying to install it "cannot find XopenDisplay" something or the current trunk.

Thanks

I am having the same problem. I downloaded the ffmpeg trunk and configured and made using --enable-pp and --enable-gpl. Everything goes smoothly. When I try to configure vlc 0.8.5 it tells me that libavcodec was not configured with postprocessing support. Could anyone help me with this. I need to ge...

Is there at least a way to start a vlc stream from a certain time? Will the start offset option allow me to do that? If so, then maybe I can set a timestamp right before starting the stream and then another when I want to close the stream and use the difference to start the next stream at that posit...

Dear all, I am a new user of VLC and I wanted to develop an application that will allow me to stop a stream and then staring the stream again from the point that it stopped. I wanted to know if there is a way of knowing the frame or time that the stream stopped and then using that information to sta...

You should also install the libxext-dev package.

apt-get install libxext-dev

This should make it work.


Pericles

I finally found a very good website with instructions to compile VLC in Ubuntu Breezy but it also works in Ubuntu Dapper. Anyone that wants to compile vlc in ubuntu can find the information here. http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/09/01/compiling-vlc/ Hope it helps people in the way it helped me. Pericles

I downloaded all the packages from the videolan website. Now can I unpack everything in a directory and tell vlc to get the dependencies from there? If so, how can I spacify the locations of all the dependencies when I run the configure script? I saw that I can do that with ffmpeg by specifying the ...

Dear all, this is one of my first posts here but I guess there will be many of them as time goes by. I need to work with VLC and mess with the source code and I had some problems compiling the source code. I got the subversion code and then run the bootstrap command. That developed the necessary fil...