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I have my own java-based vlc player and play from 1 upto 16 (RTSP)streams in independent canvases. If for some reason the target server is down, I see error messages in stdout from libvlc: [0x3b337fc] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with rtsp://xx.xx.com:8801/ch03 [0x3b327dc] access_realrtsp ...

I play upto 16 streams in my app.
I use a single libvlc instance and each stream has it's own canvas, mediaPlayer, mediaDescriptor, etc instances.
Finally all canvases are added to a JPanel and I customize the size and layout as per my requirement.

Did you figure out a fix?

Thanks.

Thanks, Jean. I had actually tried that, but the vlc tries playing an empty stream, which fails again. Apparently the --reset-config was not behaving as intended when passed as an option to create the libvlc instance. So I used --reset-config in a prior call which checks the libvlc version: vlc.exe ...

I too am working on XP; I didn't need to add anything special to my Windows environment variables.
Just using the VLC option --plugin-path=.......
AND
NativeLibrary.addSearchPath("libvlc", vlcLocnPath); sufficed.

I had previously run VLC and saved a playlist.
Later, I tried running my JVLC-based app. Now instead of using the URL string that I provide, it seems to pick up & try playing the default sout string from vlcrc.
How can I force vlc to play the provided url? (I'm using VLC 1.0.3)

In my Jvlc based player, I have successfully implemented my own mouse-click event handlers (blocked VLC's custom handlers) However, when I switch to fullscreen mode using the libvlc_toggle_fullscreen() or libvlc_set_fullscreen() , my events don't get triggered. In this state, the VLC's double-click ...

The --no-mouse-events would be a useful option to port to Windows; quite a few users (including myself) need it. For the time being, the hack most people use for their libvlc ports, is to somehow disable the canvas that displays vlc's o/p. As a result, all events going to the canvas get passed on to...

I use the addSearchPath() before creating the libvlc instance.
Also, for your vlc ARGS, try "--plugin-path=C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC" instead of "--plugin-path=C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\plugins"

It's failing while loading the libvlc dll itself, changing plugin-path value might not help.

Before the call to try adding:

1. You can use libvlc's libvlc_toggle_fullscreen() method
2. This has nothing to do with vlc/libvlc

My app is quite customized and since it's been a learning process for me, it's not modularized well enough for general use.
Once I get through my project deadline though, I'll try to get it into a shareable format.

How are you creating the mediacontrol instance (_mi)?
Are you using mediacontrol_new_from_instance()?

Also, apparently the position param is currently ignored.

I haven't tried using mediacontrol_snapshot(), but I implemented the snapshot feature in my app using libvlc_video_take_snapshot() which works perfectly.
Why don't you try using this method instead?

JVLC is not maintained. See viewtopic.php?f=32&t=56939
You need to build your own.

If the exception message reads "No input", it's expecting something.
You should have calls to: before using your methods.

Well, since a Java application works fine, I don't see roadblocks in the applet version.

You should be able to use the timeline to scroll through?
The forward, rewind buttons are on either side of the timeline.

Ok, so after hunting around, I added the "--no-autoscale" option. Now, libvlc_video_get_scale() gives me the correct value - 1.0 [or if I use --scale=2.0 it returns 2.0] - I then use libvlc_video_set_scale() passing a new float value, libvlc_video_get_scale() then returns 0.0 thereafter - ...

Did you get the any of the Video Effects (e.g video scaling) to work?

Not very sure, but you could give this a try:
C:\Programmer\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc udp://@232.49.36.29:6666 :demux=dump :demuxdump-file="C:\Documents and Settings\oll\Dokumenter\testX.ps" :run-time=60

Thank you, Rémi. Yes, the video is already active & playing. My app is Java based - I do the usual creating instances followed by: libvlc_media_player_set_media() libvlc_media_release() libvlc_media_player_set_drawable() libvlc_media_player_play() I then call libvlc_video_set_scale() on a button...

I'm using 1.0.1 and trying to implement the zoom/magnify feature. I used libvlc_video_set_scale() However, I see no effect and libvlc_video_get_scale() returns 0.0 Is there some sequence of calls or something special I need to add? The '-vvv' only spits out [0x3ee8e2c] main input debug: control type...

Are you using the "-vvv" option while running vlc? This makes it highly verbose.

Uh! Doesn't seem like VLC does any memory space checks. Tested with a pen drive, it just continues saving till the disk gets full and then silently stops when there's no more space to write. If I try saving to an already full disk, it creates a zero-size file but doesn't actually write to it and doe...