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Im having problems playing videos with non-ANSI (thai) filenames using 0.9.6 and Kairos's Interop wrapper. When feeding a thai file into a new VlcMedia I can see the proper name passed in, but checking the VlcMedia properties on the next line of debugging shows ???? instead of the thai characters. T...

Where is the best place to position a try catch to handle vlcs .Net exceptions. At the moment I am only picking them up in my program.cs "static void main" try{} catch{} - but once an error hits this level it logs and restarts the app. I understand that there is not much I can do for unhan...

Does your RAM increase or your CPU .?

It varies from time to time but I rarely see either over about 30-40%

Sometimes the video just freezes and sound continues, sometimes libvlc hits an exception and crashes.
Im hoping to catch those exceptions and restart straight away.

What is the best way for handling VLC exceptions in this wrapper? Does the statechanged.error get called before an unhandled exception error is sent out? Not the easiest debugging when I have to wait an hour or 2 for a VLC crash and have a single chance to examine it. My software runs VLC 24/7 and s...

Ive now upgraded to 0.9.8 and DennisL's issue seems to be sorted. Looks like it was a 0.9.4 specific problem. (Im running vista, dont know if thats related at all) Also now in my simple test player I seem able to initialize vlc without the path to libvlc folder - noticed that the line I was going to...

just run a test on this in 0.9.8

Video config still does nothing (no log messages)
Audio config works.

I only have 1 version of VLC installed at a time and run vista.

I got it working by pointing the wrapper to the vlc folder vlc = new VideoLanClient("C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC"); but this brought me into DennisL's problem of not displaying video on a second opening. starting a video in VLC reset this. I solved the problem (I think) by adding the ...

I downloaded the 0.9.x interop wrapper today (sourceforge revision 3328) and from first look it seems ideal to fix some problems I have been having in my 0.8.6 application. However, it wont run! I have tried both the vlcMediaSample and my own quick player attempt and both get stuck on line 41 (Initi...

Good to see that multi word search is fixed, should help save a lot of time and duplicate threads. Unfortunately today the wiki seems to be down, ive been having to use googles cache for reference. Dont know if this is a global issue but I certainly cant access it from Thailand. Rest of the sites se...

Still having issues with setting the audio to a specific instance of VLanUserControl - really running out of ideas now. Although I can now get audio devices selected (for all instances) through my code Im unable to implement it for the logo video filter VLC1.SetConfigVariable("sub-filter",...

just tested it in 0.8.6i and I have the same problem. Lucky i have never needed direct show... One observation that "could" have something to do with it is that we are both running vista, but too me looks more like the functions arent assigned to the buttons. Since 0.8.6 development has st...

finally got my application to choose the output module but only halfway there. VLC1.SetConfigVariable("directx-audio-device", audiodevice); Using this line selects the output device but it does so for all vlc instances. I have 2 VLC players in different instances of the same class and I ne...

Is there a specific time or place that the options should be called? Because calling them in the options string[] of addtoplaylist() does nothing. Ive tried all 3 start characters (:,-,--) with no success. I had 0.9.2 installed for testing purposes while my program is still running on 0.8.6 so I dow...

anyone know?

I have been trying to get command line controls forking in the VLanControl .Net wrapper for a long time now. If there is documentation on it its hard to find, every post just seems to link to "VLC command line interface" without any clear guidelines on how to implement it in c#. The search...

The only method that I can think of with VLC is to stream from one player and then start reading and saving the stream with another player at the correct starting point. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, I am always amazed at the features VLC has that I havent yet found. An alternative solution is Qui...

Which VLC version and c# wrapper are you using? With VLanControl wrapper for 0.8.6 you can simply use AddToPlayList() and each playlist item will start automatically when the last one finishes. I seem to remember that this feature was missing from at least 1 of the 0.9.0 wrappers (Marx or Interop im...

I am having some problems implementing a logo overlay in my code. I can see the logo fine when I set logo overlay in VLC preferences but not getting anything through code. string[] options = new string[] { "vlc", "--no-loop", "--drop-late-frames", "--sub-filter=log...

I have an application built around libvlc and I need to read the filename of the playlist item that is currently playing.

Are there any handles to achieve this or would I need to modify VLC directly?

Forgot to mention that I'm running Vista Home Premium and at the moment my application is based on VLC 0.8.6 If VLC 0.9.x would help solve this issue I could upgrade but at the moment the 0.9 wrappers are missing several features that I rely on. My available output modules(0.9 installed) are DirectX...

I am currently looking to implement a system that will run 2 VLC players with different source simultaneously on the same computer. The video will be easy to separate by just placing the players on different screens but I am struggling to figure out an approach for the audio. I only need mono audio ...

I am writing a program which needs to rotate text onscreen in time with certain programs. At the moment I am using a timer comparing the duration and time remaining to try and keep track with the current playing program. Unfortunately with some short (1 second) videos and videos with matching durati...

I had exactly the same problem for ages, although I was using Shuttle in the .net wrapper rather than MoveToPosition. It turned out that I was calling the Shuttle(position) before the file had started playing. A simple while loop solved the problem. while (videoPlayer.IsPlaying == false) { System.Th...

I use vlc with the c# wrapper in a custom video broadcaster. Geforce 7300LE on windows xp sp2 using TV output (PAL) I recently had to switch the output module from open gl to directx3d to solve a problem with video playing in a jumping/jerky motion. This has now brought around a new, though less ser...

I use the current stable release. I was using 0.8.6d but have now upgraded to 0.8.6.i For anyone that is experiencing similar problems i eventually identified the problem to be with opengl and some problems with my Nvidea 7300 drivers on XP. As mentioned in the previous post opengl worked perfectly ...