ActiveX playlistClear/addTarget inconsistency

[maharg]

Hello,

I'm putting together an application in Delphi using VLC via the ActiveX control. The code (paraphrased) looks something like this:

A procedure to play an arbitrary MRL:

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procedure TForm1.play(mrl: String); var Parameter: array of String; begin // set parameters setLength(Parameter, 2); Parameter[0] := 'vout-filter=deinterlace'; Parameter[1] := 'deinterlace-mode=bob'; // stop and clear playlist Form1.VLCPlugin1.stop; Form1.VLCPlugin1.playlistClear; // add the new mrl Form1.VLCPlugin1.addTarget( mrl, Parameter, VLCPlayListInsertAndGo, 0); // play Form1.VLCPlugin1.play; end;

An event procedure called when button 1 is clicked, causes a file to be played:

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procedure TForm1.button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin // play a transport stream from a file play('d:\video\somevideo.ts'); end;

An event procedure called when button 2 is clicked, causes a multicast udp stream to be played:

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procedure TForm1.button2Click(Sender: TObject); begin // play a udp multicast play('udp://@227.1.0.5:1234); end;

If I click on button 1 the file somevideo.ts plays as expected.

If I click button 2 before the playback of somevideo.ts completes, then VLC switches to playing the udp multicast as expected.

If, however, I click button 2 AFTER the playback of somevideo.ts completes, then VLC plays somevideo.ts again, before playing the udp multicast. In this case it seems that the playlist is not being cleared once it has fully played out.

thanks,

Graham

[DaLord]

I've had the same problem... but using this

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const VLCPlayListInsertAndGo = $0009; ... VLCPlugin.PlaylistClear; VLCPlugin.AddTarget(URL, null, VLCPlayListInsertAndGo, 0);

it does what it is supposed to!

Cheers!

[maharg]

thanks DaLord, but that hasn't resolved the problem. If the playlist (in this case containing a single file mrl) plays through to completion, then the playlist is not cleared as it should be.

[Jaco]

Hey, Im having the same problems with playing a new item in the playlist. Ive tried stop and clearing playlist and after "addtarget(newitem)" the prev item is played...

I tried all the code on this topic. Im also using Delphi 7 and VLC 1.0.3

Any suggestions?