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Hello Guys,

I need help, I'm not able to specify any options in vlc.playlist.add(mrl,name,options) to work in VLC version 1.1.5. I can display video but any option i put in seems to be ignored. Im not able to save the file. What am I doing wrong? Is there anything I need to add or a workaround I need to perform?

Thanks for your help!


javascript:
function doGo(targetURL) {
var vlc1 = document.getElementById("vlc1");
var options = new Array(":sout=#duplicate{dst=display, dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=C:\VLC\video1onshore.asf}}");
vlc1.playlist.clear();
vlc1.playlist.add(targetURL, "", options);

//vlc1.playlist.add(targetURL);
vlc1.playlist.play();
};

HTML activex embed:
<td colspan="2">
<object classid="clsid:9be31822-fdad-461b-ad51-be1d1c159921"
codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... /axvlc.cab"
width="720" height="576" id="vlc1" events="true" viewastext>
<param name="mrl" value="" />
<param name="showdisplay" value="true" />
<param name="autoloop" value="false" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />
<param name="volume" value="50" />
<param name="starttime" value="0" />
</object>
</td>

Had anyone experienced this? Please help...

Hi

I have also tried to get around this for some time now. Found some other threads mentioning something about security measures making vlc ignoring options in playlist. I can make a http-stream in standalone VLC and view it in my VB-program, but I cannot do the reverse (create http-stream in VB and view in standalone VLC). There must be a way to get around this since the same thing can be done in VLC standalone! Did you manage to get passed this?

Thanks in advance!

/Martin J

Sure you can. But you can't do it with ActiveX.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that.

/Martin J

So what CAN you do with ActiveX vs. the application? Is there a table I can reference somwhere or is that asking for too much?

If it doesn't work on ActiveX only, somehow it is doable but the developer didn't want to enable it.

Developers have to make some limitations because if the following options were allowed on a web page:

> var options = new Array(":sout=#duplicate{dst=display, dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=C:\VLC\video1onshore.asf}}");

That would mean a web page can write to your hard drive... Of course that is forbidden.

Indeed.

VLC 2.0.0
options not working
especially, i am interesting in the "crop" option:

":crop=1500:500"