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Hello all,

I have written a piece of software which streams MP3 audio and uses the WindowsMediaPlayer. I am now having to make it stream AAC+ so I am using the VLC activex, I have been able to make it play the stream correctly, but I need to read it's state (IE, is it playing, buffering, stopped, etc...) which was relatively easy with WMP.

Can anyone help me with how to read these parameters? I have done quite a few searches but have not quite found how to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the VLC 1.0.5 version

Many thanks in advance!

Did you ever figure out how to get the playstate?

Wow, this is a blast from the past!

Hi there. No, I never did solve that, I ended up just using Windows Media Player without AAC support.

Sorry, I have no valuable feedback I'm afraid.

To get the play state, eighter you can use vlc.input.state or the playback events, see https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin