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Using the libvlc_media_player methods, is there a way to set the repeat count for a video? e.g. if I want to repeat the video twice: libvlc_media_player_play(2) or forever: libvlc_media_player_play(-1) This may change depending on the video being played so it's not something I can pass in to libvlc_...

It works fine on the latest build I download from the nightlies, but not when I compile and run it myself. It's version 7.0.2600.5512.

When I'm getting ready to play something, I stop any previous media player object I have lying around, call libvlc_event_detach(), and then release it.

I then create a new media player object and then essentially call libvlc_event_attach() and then call play().

I'm attempting to cross-compile the absolute latest source (as of 20 min. ago) using Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron). I can get things to compile fine. When I run the linux compile, it works just fine. But under Windows it crashes every time in a call from libvlccore.dll to msvcrt.dll. I don't have much m...

Try creating an app that has at least 12 videos playing simultaneously. If you stop and then play, it'll lock up after about 4-5 videos.

I've run across the same thing:

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That sounds very much like my problem. I tried to call it on a separate thread as well but it still locks up. I'm running it in Java. This is a major show stopper for us. I've gone as far as rewriting the entire Java binding as a result. To get around it, I suppose you could comment out where it acq...

Try doing the following:

• Subscribe to receive the end reached media player event.
• Try calling libvlc_media_player_stop() from the callback.

It freezes on you.

I would think that it should do nothing and just return if it's already stopped.

I'm still waiting to hear back. If it's just a line of code or two, it's usually pretty quick. But this was much more than a line or two and it takes much longer for review and release...

Nevermind that. It still hangs...anyone have a clue what's going on? I think it's attempting to get a lock on something that's never released it.

Can someone confirm that you have to start playing from a different thread than the one used to stop/pause/etc.? I noticed it doesn't hang when I call play from another thread.

So I allllmost have a working implementation... But libvlc_media_player_stop() hangs sometimes. I double-checked and where it's hanging is in the JNA call to it (Function.invokeVoid()). Is there any special threading issue with JNA calls that we should be aware of? Or anything with the libvlc_media_...

Awesome! Thanks so much! This is a good starting point.

I'm doing mine with the latest stable windows/linux releases.

Is there a way to take a snapshot using libvlc that doesn't require saving it to disk first? IOW, can I retrieve an in-memory snapshot?

I'm attempting to get approval from my employer to release my code for a more reliable JVLC implementation. I'm hopeful they'll allow it.

If I can, I'll try to get permission to release my code. But I haven't done any work with the MediaListPlayer object. But I did create a custom JVLC, MediaPlayer, and MediaDescriptor class.

I think I got my freeze problem solved. We shall see.

Sorry - you're right, it was the MediaPlayer object. I'm having yet another problem with hosting multiple jvlc panels in a single dialog. They seem to lock up on me. They start playing, get to the end of the video (it's just a 3 second clip), and then it freezes. Sometimes it gets through just fine....

I'm not sure what the exact cause was, but since I've done lots of JNI layers in the past, I figured something wasn't being cleaned up right causing an invalid reference or something of the sort. So in my rewrite I essentially used the JVLC source as a reference and then rewrote it all. I also have ...

I managed to get it working - but you're not gonna like the solution! I basically rewrote the entire JVLC MediaDescriptor and MediaPlayer classes. It's rather ugly, quite complicated, and involved. But no more crashes! :D (At least not so far). If I can get approval to release my changes, I would be...

Just a note -- I'm not trying to sound ungrateful b/c I really do appreciate all of your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that have gone into vlc. I just want to know one way or another if there's going to be active development on JVLC. Because that will determine if we do an in-house version and ...

This is from another post of mine: Actually, it would be immensely helpful if you guys (JVLC team or VLC team) could provide the plugins and vlc-control, etc., libraries for both win32 and linux distributions. Right now I get on the nightlies section of the site, download the intrepid build, and use...

I've been able to compile everything from scratch in the past, but it's been a beast to get it right. I prefer to just download the binaries and use them. Actually, it would be immensely helpful if you guys (JVLC team or VLC team) could provide the plugins and vlc-control, etc., libraries for both w...

My experience so far has been that the JVLC developers don't monitor these forums all that much or if they do, they don't post responses very often. On their trac site, they're 2 years late on reaching their milestone ( http://trac.videolan.org/jvlc/roadmap ). Hence this post: http://forum.videolan....