Recently I read about JVLC and was intrested in giving it a go. Unfortunately there's few documentation out there, and to be honest it's still confusing me. Most of the posts here deal with compiling the library on one's own, what I DON'T NEED as long as there is a way to get it to run! However after going through a couple of layers of error messages, I've still not managed to get it to run under Windows.
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A few problems I'm encountering:
- Is the library designed to provide a platform independend jar file, that will automatically load the correct native libraries? (The fact that there are a couple of platform specific releases suggests otherwise
)- I assume there is NO native code to be compiled into my project (as I want multi-platform support of course). But I still don't which libraries are needed at runtime. (Let's keep it Win:) My application goes past the loading process with libvlc.dll and libvlccore.dll, but I've also seen jvlc.dll being mentioned, which I assume is a combined package of these (?)
- There seem to be several class changes and quite extensive restructurings. (e.g. the class JVLCPanel seems to be stripped from later versions. The code used in older examples looks quite divergent from newer ones)
- Does Cygwin, MinGW or anything else have to be installed/set up correctly ?
- The subversion at http://trac.videolan.org/jvlc/ doesn't seem to be up to date, which is a little misleading. Am I right to assume http://jvlc.ihack.it/releases/ as the most recent place for precompiled packages ? (So 10-Mar-2007 is the latest Win release)
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Generally - What I'd really like to know:
Is JVLC still in development, or not much more than an orphaned project ?
What is the latest state of the library, and (hopefully) where can I get recent example code ?
Finally (even if I'm asking for much), I'd like a brief outline on how to *use* (rather than compile) the JVLC library.
Thanks in advance!
