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Hi,

First of all, please excuse how general my question is, but I don't want to be attached to any GUI framework due to possible incompatibilities with VLC. So, first I ask and then I decide. Overall, my question is quite simple, but as I have not seen any answered thread with the same issue I start this one.

I want to develop a GUI-based C/C++ IPTV client application for the Linux platform, so I need to embed the VLC video window into my application GUI. I would like to know how it must be done and if it strongly depends in the GUI framework used (GTK+, Qt, wxWidgets...).

If any more details are needed, please, tell me. Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

VLC doesn't depend on ANY GUI. VLC UI are modules that can be activated or not. 99.99% of population activate them, but they are not forced at all.

What I meant to say is if the VLC API provides with any specific objects and/or methods in order to get a media player window embedded in any GUI, and if this objects/methods depended on the GUI framework used.Obviously, such methods may exist as VLC media player can be launched using wxWidgets and Qt, but I would like to get the main guidelines to get this on my own application.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Well, no, VLC doesn't provide that, but provide a way to draw the video on a surface you specify.

And... could you please tell me where can I find such way?

Thanks.

My last project (that im still working on) deals with this issue. But its still young..

Take a look here

But don't be impatient. There no full solutions here, yet.
You could (at least) find your c++ guidelines there..
Also code testing and contribution back to the community is important.

basos

And... could you please tell me where can I find such way?

The documentation is in the libvlc header files (include/vlc/*.h)