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Hi everybody!

This is probably pretty simple to do, but i haven't figured out how yet. What i want to do is to create a simple DVD-player in my Winforms project (C#). I have successfuly added VLC ActiveX plugin V1 & V2 to my toolbox, and add the ActiveX control to the form.

So now, what i want to do is to tell the ActiveX control to play a DVD in the F drive.
And then i also want to add the playback-controls. But that looked pretty simple to do, by using the play and pause functions.

I also want four drop down menus, one for Title, Chapter, Audio selection, Subtitle selection.

So it would be great if you guys could help me get started

/Anton Gildebrand
(Swedish so sorry for bad english)

Hi again!

I have succesfuly create da simple dvd-player using the VLC ActiveX V2.
What i want to do now is to add a function to get all the dvd-subtitles available.

I tried to set subtitle and it works just fine just bo doing this: axVLCPlugin21.video.subtitle = 1;
But i want to get all the languages available and list it in a combobox. How do i do that?

It's only the subtitle-thing i need help with now, so if you guys could help me it would be great.

It's only the subtitle-thing i need help with now, so if you guys could help me it would be great.

You need the track names of subtitles?

Exactly!

I read on this page :http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... tle_object
But there it says "supported in vlc version >= 1.1.0" about the subtitle features that i want. But there is no VLC 1.1!!??

Exactly!

I read on this page :http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... tle_object
But there it says "supported in vlc version >= 1.1.0" about the subtitle features that i want. But there is no VLC 1.1!!??

You will have to wait for the release or use nightly builds.

Ok! Then i'll do so!

Just curios, what is nightly builds?

Is it 1.1 that has very many bugs or is it just me doing wrong.

I am trying ut some new features in 1.1 but just gets "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." from visual studio when calling them.

Im trying: int s = axVLCPlugin21.subtitle.count;
Allways returns 0.

Im trying: axVLCPlugin21.video.marquee.text("Hello world!!");
And gets error HRESULT E_FAIL

Im trying: string subs = axVLCPlugin21.subtitle.description(s);
Which also returns HRESULT E_FAIL

It probably has many issues, since it is in development. File bugs.

I have two other questions.

1. I want to add "arrows" to my form that i use when navigating in a dvd, how could i do that?

2. In my final application i need to have the main ActiveX control on the secondary screen, and thats pretty easy to do, but i also want a "thumbnail" of the activex-control on the primary screen, that shows exactly what the ActiveX control shows. Would it be possible to do this in someway?

1. no idea
2. use clone?