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Posted: **11 Jun 2013 14:13**

Hi,

I'm playing with VLC Web Plugin and ActiveX (release VLC 2.0.7) this morning on my Windows XP computer.

In IE browser :

. VLC ActiveX is known as 2.0.6 and date file 07/06/2013 in IE plugins list
but document.getElementById('player_vlc').VersionInfo; return undefined

. and all other JS command looks dead with syntax : document.getElementById('player_vlc').%VLC_ACTIVEX_COMMAND%
JS error message is : document.getElementById('player_vlc').playlist à la valeur Null ou n'est pas un objet

All of this VLC/JS command are working great with VLC 2.0.2 to 2.0.6 ActiveX plugin

What's wrong with this new VLC 2.0.7 release ?

Posted: **11 Jun 2013 14:30**

Same problem with IE10 in Windows 8 and Windows 7 ... error message is :
Impossible d'obtenir la propriété d'une référence null ou non définie

Here is a VLC ActiveX sample : http://www.revolunet.com/static/downloa ... anced.html

Posted: **11 Jun 2013 17:23**

I got a new clue ... VLC ActiveX works perfectly in IE10 on a Windows 7 x64 computer !!
But all my x86 Platform don't ?!

In IE10 Win7 x64 plugin list, VLC is tagged as 2.0.6 version too

I hope this will be solved with VLC 2.0.8

Posted: **11 Jun 2013 17:31**

THere seems to be a bug in the idl generation.

Posted: **11 Jun 2013 17:35**

I take it you installed the x64 version of VLC?

Did you try both? (edit: x86 and x64 versions)

x64 activex was always broken in previous releases, so for next release we could indeed have both working if I understand better what happened.

Thanks for the feedback

Posted: **11 Jun 2013 18:28**

Hello Funman

I installed vlc-2.0.7-win32.exe on Win XP/7/8 x86 and Win 7 x64.
. ActiveX won't work on Win XP/7/8 x86
. ActiveX work on Win 7 x64

I can't install VLC x64 on x86 platform

But I run VLC x86 on Windows x64

Posted: **14 Jun 2013 23:19**

I have found that x64 activex isn't really broken. It is only not registered.

This command in Command Prompt (as Administrator) fixes this manually:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"

Posted: **17 Jun 2013 21:42**

Hello Funman

I installed vlc-2.0.7-win32.exe on Win XP/7/8 x86 and Win 7 x64.
. ActiveX won't work on Win XP/7/8 x86
. ActiveX work on Win 7 x64

I can't install VLC x64 on x86 platform
But I run VLC x86 on Windows x64

I tried vlc 2.0.7-win32 on XP (Virtual Machine) => works fine in IE8 : I tried the official test.html

No idea why it didn't work for you.

I have found that x64 activex isn't really broken. It is only not registered.

This command in Command Prompt (as Administrator) fixes this manually:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"

I have tried this already, but I still can't use the plugin inside IE (still using the official test.html).

So far I am a bit lost on both issues..

Posted: **17 Jun 2013 23:33**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJs8qP ... e=youtu.be

2.0.7 on a freshly installed Windows 7 SP1 x86 VM -> works fine

Posted: **18 Jun 2013 00:15**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJs8qP ... e=youtu.be

2.0.7 on a freshly installed Windows 7 SP1 x86 VM -> works fine

Have you tried to play anything? This does not work, IE will report "'playlist' is null", "'video is null'", etc.

I have found that x64 activex isn't really broken. It is only not registered.

This command in Command Prompt (as Administrator) fixes this manually:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"
I have tried this already, but I still can't use the plugin inside IE (still using the official test.html).

I have tried it using the official test.html, and it works for me with Win7x64.
You really use the x64 version of IE in Win x64?

Posted: **18 Jun 2013 23:21**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJs8qP ... e=youtu.be

2.0.7 on a freshly installed Windows 7 SP1 x86 VM -> works fine
Have you tried to play anything? This does not work, IE will report "'playlist' is null", "'video is null'", etc.

You're right, it doesn't work.. And it's hard to debug as VLC 2.1 outputs debug that can be read with DbgView but not 2.0.

So I decided to test the 2.1 Nightly Build and it works.

Then I tried 2.0 Nightly Build and it works as well... so I recommand using 2.0 nightly build (I tested the last one labelled 2.0.7, next ones will be labeled 2.0.

I have found that x64 activex isn't really broken. It is only not registered.

This command in Command Prompt (as Administrator) fixes this manually:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"
I have tried this already, but I still can't use the plugin inside IE (still using the official test.html).
I have tried it using the official test.html, and it works for me with Win7x64.
You really use the x64 version of IE in Win x64?

I am semi-sure I tried the correct version, but I will do more tests with 2.1 so I can watch the debug log

Posted: **19 Jun 2013 07:18**

Hi

On my side, I use VLC 2.0.7 from win32 build installer on Windows XP/7/8 x86

Funman => on your VLC Web Plugin test page i can see VLC ActiveX player loaded but when I click on the Version button I get this error message in IE10 debug script console :
Unable to get the property "items" of a null reference or undefined

Da2424 => regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll" command don't fix the problem for me on Windows 7 x86 + VLC 2.0.7 win32

I hope VLC 2.1.x could be release soon

Posted: **19 Jun 2013 07:32**

new note : VLC 2.1.0 ActiveX (win32) works like a charm in IE8 (Windows XP)

Posted: **19 Jun 2013 14:34**

So I tested again activex on XP64 and it seems to work fine...

Next 2.1.0 Nightly builds should now register the axvlc.dll properly at install, no need to run regsvr32 manually.

When it's confirmed working I will backport the change to 2.0.

Thank you all for your help and I hope I can find/fix what was wrong with 2.0.7 binary

Posted: **20 Jun 2013 17:40**

Next 2.1.0 Nightly builds should now register the axvlc.dll properly at install, no need to run regsvr32 manually.

The Activex-Plugin in the newest x64-nightly-build (http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0620-0404/) is broken for me. When the installer starts regsvr32.exe to register axvlc.dll, regsvr32 crashes with the following message: "Microsoft(c) Register Server has stopped working". When I try to register the file manually, it crashes, too.

The x86-nightly-builds (2.0.x and 2.1) work for me.

Posted: **21 Jun 2013 16:55**

new note : VLC 2.1.0 ActiveX (win32) works like a charm in IE8 (Windows XP)

Also works in MS VS 2008, whereas 2.0.7 did not. However, I wanted to get VLC ActiveX working in VB6. I know this has been broken since 1.0.6, but I thought I'd try using a reference to it & load it at run time instead of design time:

Dim ax_vlc As New AXVLC.VLCPlugin2
ax_vlc.visible=True
ax_vlc.playlist.Add "file:///c:\test.mpg"
ax_vlc.playlist.play

No errors, but no video either.

Then I tried loading it as a control:

Dim ax_vlc As Object
Set ax_vlc = Controls.Add("Videolan.VLCPlugin.2", "ax_vlc")

ax_vlc.Left = 100
ax_vlc.Top = 100
ax_vlc.Height = 3200
ax_vlc.Width = 5000
ax_vlc.Visible = True

OK, so far so good - I see the control on the form. However, there are no "playlist" or other VLC-specific properties available. If I try

ax_vlc.playlist.add "file:///C:\test.mpg"

I get "Run-time error '438': Object doesn't support this property or method". I later discovered that to access these properties I had to use the "object" property:

ax_vlc.object.playlist.add "file:///C:\test.mpg"
ax_vlc.object.playlist.play

In reading through the VB6 documentation, I came across the "VBControlExtender" option, & found that declaring the VLC control as this type lets you see the "generic" properties in the VB6 editor (including the "object" property, though the VLC-specific properties don't show up):

Dim ax_vlc as VBControlExtender

So the 2.0.6 ActiveX control works in VB6. Haven't checked if the 2.1.0 works as well; will try that tonight if I have time. Also thanks to RSATom for pointing out the 3rd backslash in "file:///"; that one threw me for a while as I thought only 2 were needed (like "http://").

Posted: **21 Jun 2013 23:21**

Also thanks to RSATom for pointing out the 3rd backslash in "file:///"; that one threw me for a while as I thought only 2 were needed (like "http://").

Actually you need to separate the fields to understand how it works:

http:// http://www.example.com
file:// /c:/file.avi (it uses UNIX file hierarchy)

Posted: **23 Jun 2013 20:01**

Alright I found why x64 activex is broken, it's due to ongoing work in mingw-w64, I'll try to get a fix this week.

Posted: **26 Jun 2013 23:00**

x64 NBs should be back.

However the plugin loads but doesn't seem to play.
Using DbgView to view VLC log (on 2.1 only) doesn't help much.

Posted: **27 Jun 2013 16:22**

The activex-plugin in the Nightly-Builds vlc-2.1.0-pre1-20130627-0403-win64, vlc-2.1.0-pre1-20130627-0003-win32 and vlc-2.0.8-20130627-0202-win32 work fine for me with Win7 x64 and WinXP x86. The Javascript-objects also work.

Posted: **18 Nov 2013 16:08**

new note : VLC 2.1.0 ActiveX (win32) works like a charm in IE8 (Windows XP)

Also works in MS VS 2008, whereas 2.0.7 did not. However, I wanted to get VLC ActiveX working in VB6. I know this has been broken since 1.0.6, but I thought I'd try using a reference to it & load it at run time instead of design time:

NEW VB6 TESTED SUGGESTION, NOV 2013...

As of Nov 17 2013, the latest update seem to break your (as ref above) code as well (or at least what you suggested didn't work for me), but the following does work (& probably works in VB.Net as well)..

Code: Select all

Dim ax2 As New AXVLC.VLCPlugin2               'In Form header. To load this, goto proj references,
    '..and load [C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll] (or similar) using browse button. 
    'This will load itself as "VideoLAN VLC ActiveX plugin"

Sub whatever()

            Debug.Print "ax_vlc.object.playing", ax2.VersionInfo
            ax2.Visible = True      'nb:
             '..if a video is playing, a window is created/displayed. Warning! No playable video, no window!
            ax2.Toolbar = True
            
            ax2.playlist.Add "file:///" & "C:\SANY0422.MP4"      'my eg (Nb "file:///" is crucial)
            ax2.playlist.play   'starts
                
            
            Debug.Print "buffering while not .isPlaying", ax2.playlist.isPlaying
            For n1 = 1 To 20        '2s check to see if found and playing
                WaitSecs 0.1        'care (ensure no timers interrupt)
                If ax2.playlist.isPlaying Then
                    GoTo i___________ExitFor
                Else
                    Debug.Print "buffering while not .isPlaying"
                End If
            Next
            If ax2.video.Width = 0 Then Spot.Msg "FAILED TO LOAD VIDEO", , , vbRed: qPlaySound: GoTo ExitSub
i___________ExitFor: 'ok



            Debug.Print "ax_vlc PLAYING", ax2.video.Width, ax2.video.Height
            
            
            ax2.input.TIME = 0      'sets start position
            ax2.input.Rate = 1      'set playback speed (1 is normal)
            
            For n1 = 1 To 2000          'max vid secs /2
                WaitSecs 0.5            ' /2
                If ax2.playlist.isPlaying Then
                    Debug.Print "ax_vlc_isPlaying", ax2.input.TIME
                Else            '.isPlaying = False
                    Exit For
                End If
            Next
            
            Debug.Print "ax_vlc playing complete.", ax2.VersionInfo

End Sub

Sub WaitSecs(Secs!) 'sample wait proc (tested)
Dim tim#
Static zGloballyAccessibleTmr#
  zGloballyAccessibleTmr = Timer
  tim = zGloballyAccessibleTmr + Secs
  Debug.Assert Das((tim - zGloballyAccessibleTmr) > Secs + 1)
  zGloballyAccessibleTmr = Timer
    Do While tim > zGloballyAccessibleTmr
          zGloballyAccessibleTmr = Timer
          If (tim - zGloballyAccessibleTmr) > Secs + 1 Then If InDesign Then Debug.Assert 0 Else Exit Do
          DoEvents
    Loop
End Sub

Tips: This is surprisingly robust. For example. If you stop VB6 while playing, it will not crash. It is evident from this that you could implement quite a complete video player. I used it simply for frame grabbing. Hope this helps.

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