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Not all DVDs are progressive. Even when they are, the sources they are transferred from may be improved by the filter. Give it a try and see for yourself.

I hate to be the one to suggest ways of breaking GPL, but it is common knowledge that using "shims" is a way of adding proprietary code to GPL code without breaking the law. Basically you need to write an open-source layer on top of the GPL code first. Then your proprietary code can call t...

A vob file is a vob file. When you transcode (Save/Stream) from vob to mpeg you get to set the encapsulation, TS or PS or whatever. I was just asking which you'd picked. If you want to do a really good clean job of combining multiple vob files into a single mpeg PS file use VideoRedo. I know it's $5...

The simple answer is "not much". The longer answer is that the playlist is getting a major overhaul with 0.9.0 so anything you learn now won't be much use later.

I don't have the code in front of me, but I think any setVariable in the activex control goes to VLC_OBJECT_INPUT. Also I think you want to call SetVlcObjectInt not SetVlcObjectString since the variable is an integer. Remember C# is type-safe unlike Javascript.

This is the result of low bandwidth encoding of the video. There's nothing you can do at your end. The source needs to use more bits for each second of video, or a better compression codec.

You might try

var x = vlc.getVariable("key-chapter-next");
vlc.setVariable("key-pressed", x);

Sorry I don't know the exact syntax in javascript you need.

Do you have a subtitle file? The most common has the extension .srt. Rename it the same as the movie file (myvideo.mpg and myvideo.srt for example) and put them in the same directory before you open the video file. Sub-titles should appear, or at least be available from the menu to turn on.

Do you have AxInterop.AXVLC.dll and Interop.AXVLC.dll in your output directory? Try deleting them and forcing VS 2005 to re-create them for you from the latest 0.8.6 ActiveX dll. And of course why not just install and try the pre-built binaries so you can tell if the problem is with your own build? ...

I end up turning the deinterlace Blend filter on with almost every video in order to compensate for the somewhat rough output of Vlc. It might be an issue somewhere in Vlc, but more likely ffmpeg hasn't kept up with the times in terms of automatic jitter/noise reduction like non-open-source products...

I've been using Vlc to remux DVDs. If the DVD is in drive D:, I choose Open Disc, put D: in the Device name field, Title = 1 (or whatever title you want from the DVD, open it normally and use Navigation to find the title number), check Stream/Save in Advanced options, open Settings, check File and p...

osmanosman be sure you call Initialize() on the NativeLibVlc object before making any other calls to it.

Also note I updated the post with newer code Dec. 18th. A couple bug fixes and added the DisplayMessage method.

Make sure they're mpeg PS (program stream) encapsulated, rather than mpeg TS (transport stream) encapsulate, if you want to see the Length in Vlc.

As DJ says, if the whole DVD is on your hard drive opening it with an mrl like "dvdsimple:"C:\Documents and Settings\tim\My Documents\DVD DDREAM"@1 is more straightforward.

I thought adding vlc:quit to the playlist shut down Vlc? Just put it at the end of whatever arguments you pass to Vlc.

Are you playing an Mpeg Transport Stream file (.ts or .tp) file? I'm afraid Vlc doesn't calculate the length for media types like this even when they're in file form.

I'd like to add this code but it's too difficult to develop for Vlc on Windows. It was easy enough to add even using C# and .Net interop.

osmanosman, your project needs to be a Windows Application, not an empty project. You need a host Form for this User Control to live on. The simplest arrangement is to open the main form in designer mode, use the Toolbox and drag a VlcUserControl onto the main form, then set its Dock property to Fill.

Ah, so it's not a time value that's set by VLC installation, it's a Windows value that's being used/abused. Could have happened at the same time for me this time.

This is now in the Wiki at http://wiki.videolan.org/.Net_Interface_to_VLC

Updated Dec. 31 with cropping and configuration variable support. This is now in the Wiki at http://wiki.videolan.org/.Net_Interface_to_VLC so I am removing the old code from the forum.

No, it's not a joke. It probably has to do with a setting or registry keys, but somewhere in x264 decoding there's a counter going negative and messing up playback if you try to seek within a file soon after re-installing. I can actually follow it along: I'll be skipping in 1 minute jumps until sudd...

I just upgraded to 0.8.6. I'm finding that I'm unable to seek in mp4 (h.264+mp4a) files beyond the amount of time since I installed. Meaning, 15 minutes after I installed 0.8.6 I could seek within any mp4 file from 0 to 15 minutes but beyond that the video freezes and audio turns off. Now it's been ...

Because VLC is more a streaming-oriented player, it doesn't look for and use lengths on transport streams even when they come from a file (instead of the network). Mpeg Transport Stream files are the most likely issue you're seeing.

I check the State property of the input object of the activex control. 4 means playing, 6 paused, 0 nothing. You have to give VLC some time to connect and start playing, so you can't check immediately. For local files it'll be playing within 1 second, but from a network you'll need a bigger time-out.