playlist not working

[sferlix]

Hi,

here is my problem:
I want to play a sequence of contents.
The player stops at the end of the first file and does not plays the second...

Here is the code (c#):
String strFilename1 = @"D:\content\file1.avi";
String strFilename2 = @"D:\content\file2.wmv";
String strFilename3 = @"D:\content\file3.mp4";

var itemid1 = VLCPlayer.playlist.add(strFilename1, null, null);
var itemid2 = VLCPlayer.playlist.add(strFilename2, null, null);
var itemid3 = VLCPlayer.playlist.add(strFilename3, null, null);
VLCPlayer.AutoLoop = true;
VLCPlayer.playlist.play();

even changing the order of the files, it always plays only the first file. How can I make it to play the whole playlist ?

I also have tried to play a VLC playlist file (myplaylist.xspf) but it seems not working.
My versioninfo is "1.0.5 goldeneye".

any suggestion ?
thank you

[Ilasir]

I've been having trouble with that as well. Have you something like this?

...

int playitem = x; //where "x" is some number, probably starting at 0.

...

if (vlc.input.state == 5)
{
playitem = playitem + 1;
VLCPLAYER.playlist.playItem(playitem);
}

...




I'm not really very familiar with c#, but that seems like it would work.

[sferlix]

ok, I can try it.

but... how can I be notified about the state changes ? which event is raised when the player stops ?
I would use a delegate to handle the vlc.input.state.

please help

[Ilasir]

First, what exactly are you trying to do with vlc?

[sferlix]

I would like to play a playlits. Nothing more.
My problem is that VLC stop to play at the end of the 1st content. Please, see the code I've posted.
thank you

[Ilasir]

Yes. But a playlist in the web plugin or in vlc proper?

[sferlix]

Sorry, I was not clear.

I posted a C# code so, when I say "VLC", I mean the VLC ActiveX component hosted in my WPF project.
In my code, "VLCPlayer" is a reference to the AxVLCPlugin2.
So, I add some items to the playlist collection. Then I invoke the play() but only the 1st movie is shown.
Maybe there is something I've to set in order to have the "VLCPlayer" to play the whole playlist and not only the 1st item.
what is missing ?
thank you for your help.

[Ilasir]

If you're using the activex control(JS API), it should have the "vlc.input.state" variable and "vlc.playlist.next();" method.


You just make a function to continuously check the input.state. The important step for you is:

if (vlc.input.state == 6)
{
vlc.playlist.next();
}



This should move to the next item in the playlist.

[sferlix]

thank you.

if I have to continuosly chek the state, it means that the plugin has not an event who is raised to notify about the state changes...
In my case, the polling would be cpu consuming. So I'm now thinking to continuosly check the state only after a certain amount of time after the play(). In this case, I would need to get the item duration.
So, once I have added an item to the playlist, how could I retrieve the item duration ?

In terms of (pseudo) code, I would need something like this:

var itemid1 = VLCPlayer.playlist.add(strFilename1, null, null); // this works
var myDuration = VLCPlayer.playlist.item(strFilename1).getDuration(); //this is what I need

thank you Ilasir.

[Ilasir]

For what I have used the activex, I needed to continuously poll anyway.


This might be what you are looking for, although I have never used it myself: registerVLCEvent('MediaPlayerEndReached', handleEvents);