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Has this been added recently? My old methods to retrieve current media no longer work with latest versions. NTQuerySystemInformation only works if you are on 32-bit windows Retrieving the tittle from statusbar no longer works through conventional methods since you changed the interface apis from wx ...

That could work, I could make a unique window class to send the message to, but this has 2 problems: - it would require people enabling the new module - the message would only be sent when a new video has been launched. my app can be run after that so it wouldn't catch the message. VLC already suppo...

Yes I can already retrieve the filename through various methods, but knowing also the path would help with some features of my program. I thought of retrieving the device and file handles associated with the process through NTQuerySystemInformation, but when requested from a 32-bit process (my app) ...

It would be nice if you could add a message (unless there's one already? couldn't find any info about it) to return the full path+filename of the file that's currently playing.

Thanks

How do you mean? "MSN Now-Playing"? Won't that only send the info to windows with class "MsnMsgrUIManager"?

Oh ok, thanks. I'm the developer of an application that interacts with various media players, and retrieves the info of the current file being played. This was very hard with VLC and the easiest ways I found were either checking all the device handles open (not 100% reliable and doesn't work in Vist...

Really? I checked in the last version and couldn't find the option in the settings. I'll check again.

Thanks

Please add an option (or defaulted) to show the current filename being played in the window caption bar/taskbar button. Most other players do this, dunno why VLC still doesn't.

Can also retrieve the commandline but that only works for the first file.

How could I accurately retrieve the current media being played in VLC? The DLL seems to provide this info only for an app using it to play on its own, but not for an external application trying to find the current media being played in the VLC player itself. So far I've come up with 3 ways to do thi...

Is there a recent list of commands? I Can't find them even in the source code. All those listed above don't seem to work anymore

Can I use it to find out the normal player's item or is it only valid to use my own player instance?

I need to find if the player is running and retrieve the current filename being played, but I see this DLL is mostly oriented to create your own instance of the player

Hi,

Is there any way to get the current filename that vlc is playing? I've been checking libvlc for quite a bit and couldn't find anything helpful. Isn't there a specific function to retrieve the current media info?

Thanks