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--no-osd command line argument.
Philippe.

Metadata information only becomes available when the stream or file is opened. Opening the stream or file happens when you start playing, and takes some time. Same is true for libvlc_video_get_width etc... The best thing is to wait for the first video frame to be produced before querying. That raise...

I appreciate this kind of subtle humor very much!
But it doesn't answer my question of course.
Best,

Philippe.

It seems that libvlc_video_get_width and libvlc_video_get_height return unscaled video resolution, solving the most important part of my problem ... BUT ... only after the first frame of the video has been produced. Before, these functions behave erroneously. I understand these functions are depreci...

Oh. You can use the same trick as explained above to create a libvlccore.lib file for programming with internal vlc functions in libvlccore.dll .
Best,

Philippe.

Dear all, What is the preferred way of retrieving codec information in libvlc, such as (unscaled) video resolution, or frame rate? I would like to know the unscaled video resolution in order to create a vmem video output with the native resolution of the video, avoiding image scaling. I notice the q...

Hi Charlest, Sure, you do require the plugin dlls, but there is no need to convert them to lib files. Use the --plugin-path command line argument to tell libvlc where to find these dlls, when creating a libvlc instance with libvlc_new(). This is shown in the libvlc programming examples on the videol...

Problem solved: I was using the wrong library. There are essentially two ways of linking applications with libvlc.dll under windows. The first is to use explicit linking: LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress, ... (same strategy used to program with OpenGL extensions e.g.) - works, but cumbersome. The second ...

Dear all I would like to develop an application on top of libvlc. The development platform (dictated by other needs) is MS Windows XP , Visual Studio 8, using the intel c compiler 10.0 (supposed to be compatible with GCC 3.2), MultiThreaded (MT) run time library. After some searching, I located and ...