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Ok, it seems to still be a youtube problem... attempting to parse a youtube url, breaks flv placback until the plugins-****.dat file is deleted. Starting the libvlc instance with --no-plugin-cache doesn't change that issue.

Still, open to youtube releated suggestions

I'm starting to doubt the helpfulness of my posts here, but ok. Somehow even though vlc player still plays fine, my apps that use libvlc crash loading flv videos, but only on this computer. It still works using my apps on other computers. So I somehow damaged the functionality only on this computer....

OK, it seems that the problem is with FLV videos in general. All FLV videos crash my player. Any idea on this?

it seems attempting to open any "unfinished" file paths, like a partially downloaded video file ends up in a crash... this could be the problem, but I don't really understand why? Is there some kind of media option that you can set to play partial files? or some type of caching?

I found a script online that resolves a watchpage url into a string that when placed in a browser will prompt to download the video, in libvlc, this string still crashes the video. but in VLC player, this string plays the video.

Any Ideas?

I am also wondering if you ever solved this. I am trying to do the same. if anyone has any insight, please post back.

I have written a screensaver in C# that uses libvlc to play videos as screensavers. I was hoping to extend this functionality to play youtube videos from a user's "favorites" playlist on youtube.com. I have all the codes set up to get an array of watchpage urls from youtube. now, when I pa...

I'm not sure about the necessary settings, possibly some cacheing needed, but I would like to add that encoding to h.264 is a slow process. I'm not sure its fast enough for live streaming like that. Maybe try a different codec? Or use a very small low bitrate video.

As far as trans-coding goes, if you use vlc player's open stream dialog box you can build a transcode options line using the wizard. This seems to work. well enough.

I am working on a project that only requires the playback of mp4(h264), dvd, and flv videos. I would like to only include the necessary plugins for these formats. Is it possible to just remove plugin dlls from the plugins directory to achieve this? Is there some set required dlls in the plugins fold...

I have tried it with both, for everything. It really seems that they both work in all situations, But I haven't really check the source code to find the real difference. The only obvious difference is location doesn't show the file name, where as path does.

I changed just one line of code in my application for using new_location to using libvlc_media_new_path. And yes, now the the filename is displayed on the video. new_location is for setting a MRL, while new_path is reserved for setting a file path. This is an interesting find, I will work on utilizi...

using libvlc 1.1.2 regardless of arguments to libvlc_new It never show's the filename. I am unclear why. This is how I am creating my media player. create an instance with libvlc_new empty args, or occasionally with a pluginpath. Create a media object with libvlc_media_new_location(libvlcinstance, m...

Using libvlc directly (by default at least) doesn't display the filename on the video like it does in VLC player. I don't understand why you say this. the take snapshot feature, does by default show the filename of the image and shows the image as an icon on the video. But when you open media using ...

that's the one, I couldn't quite find it in the source, I ended up finding the bynumber function somewhere and making my own. I am using this in C#. But I will update my code to use the correct enum titles.

Thank you.

I can't seem to find the current definition of the enum

libvlc_video_marquee_int_option_t

if anyone can help me out, i would appreciate it.

I can't seem to get it to work either, i believe the question is : "which function is responsible for displaying the filename over the video?" I believe its "libvlc_video_set_marquee_string" although the libvlc documentation link is broken for information about its options. So I ...

I am using C# and .net 3.5 to write a wrapper around libvlc 1.1.2 for a media center type application I am working on for personal use. I would like use media options like transcoding files and ripping dvds to mp4. Or just any media options. but I can't seem to figure out how to set the options. I a...