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When looping, I find if I set the video position to zero (instead of stopping and restarting the video) then the black "gap" doesn't show.

^^^ FWIW another update to the above, I replaced the following DLL files (dated 2022) with the latest versions (June 2024) however that weird random crashing still persists. axvlc libvlccore libvlc npvlc I suppose I could learn C and play with the VLC code, might be easier though to just write a com...

A quick and dirty (but far from foolproof) method would be to look at the first few bytes of the file - if it contains the string "ID3" you could be reasonably sure it's an MP3, or if it has the string "RIFF" you could be reasonably sure it's a wave audio file.

This works for me in Delphi, it's from the code at a link in the pinned post "Delphi Wrapper for LibVLC v1.1" Procedure EqualizerOn; var eqf : TSetEqualizerPresetForm; prl p: TStringList; begin with mainform do begin prl := PasLibVlcPlayer1.EqualizerGetPresetList(); eqf := TSetEqualizerPre...

...bumping on the off-chance that someone might know the answer to this one.

^^^ An update to the above post...

I've just noticed that the crash occurs much more frequently if my system is getting low on free RAM and Windows starts thrashing the hard disk with pagefile swap-outs. So I guess it's an unhandled memory allocation exception within one or more of the libvlc DLL's?

Code works great for me, except for somewhat rare and totally random crashing of app with no exceptions/errors generated, and even skips the main form's finalization code and embedded madexcept code. Adding code to append all actions to a logfile shows the crash occurs with either a set media, play ...

Hi, I'm using Delphi to embed video into my own program, using the comprehensive libVLC via the excellent (but no longer supported) PasLibVlc code. Can I use libVLC to play video from capture devices, e.g. from a HDMI to USB capture device? That is, can I make a call to libVLC that will return the s...

I thought this was a bug with VLC, until I discovered I was sometimes leaning over the keyboard and accidentally pushing the space key with my stomach, which would pause the stream (coming from a CCTV DVR) and causing my hard disk to fill up with temporary files. Oops!

I know there is the "Effects & filters -> Video effects -> Geometry -> Interactive zoom" path to achieve this (which is a great feature), but simply using the mouse to select a region, then right-clicking and selecting an option of "Zoom to this region" would be nice :)

1- The resultant AVI files on my system (from a 1080x720 CCTV DVR) are about 1GB per minute (!) of video; is this normal?

2- Both FFMPEG and AVIdemux are unable to recognize/load these output files, although they playback perfectly with VLC.

BTW the VLC version I'm using is 3.0.17.4 Vetinari

Thanks again to the developers of VLC. I've always thought that many program's waste the unused space on their title bar. I see that VLC has pretty much always used the title bar for the name of the file being played, appended by "- VLC Media Player" May I suggest making use of the unused ...

Firstly, kudos to the developers of VLC for this excellent program. Wish I could help but I only know Delphi, and I'm too old to learn anything new :) Steps to reproduce the issue (using v3.0.16): - configure VLC to show playlist - open a media file with VLC - stop it playing (e.g. press "S&quo...