LibVLC, QT and Mac

[Brit]

I have libVLC setup in my QT project and I've finally gotten to a place where it doesn't crash, but I can't seem to play any videos. After I load a video and attempt to play it, the widget just appears blank and has no sound. When I call libvlc_media_player_get_length( m_pMediaPlayer ), I get a return value of 0, which makes me think VLC isn't loading the video at all. I've spent a ton of time searching google for a solution, but haven't found anything that works. I'm about ready to give up.

Rather than post my code, I'll just ask this question: does anyone have LibVLC working on Qt for Mac? Can I look at the code? I'd be happy to update the wiki so other people can get it working, too.

[some_birdie]

Is this only Mac problem? Does your code work on some other OS?

[Brit]

Is this only Mac problem? Does your code work on some other OS?

Yes, I have libVLC working on Windows. There are a few mac-specific calls that have to be done to get it up and running on the Mac. I tried using a bunch of variations of code that I found on the web, but haven't gotten it to work. I don't know if that code only worked with older versions of Qt or VLC, though.

[Brit]

I don't know what happened, but the file loads and plays sound now, but no video appears in the space where it's supposed to. Nobody has gotten this to work in Qt/Mac?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

How did you set the nsview?

[Brit]

Right now, this is the code I'm using. The [this] object is a class I created which is derived from QWidget.

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libvlc_media_player_set_nsobject( m_pMediaPlayer, (void*)this->winId());

I had tried using some other code I found, but it wouldn't compile in C++ (it looks like Objective C to me?):

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_videoWidget = new QMacCocoaViewContainer(0); _wrapperLayout->addWidget(_videoWidget); NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; VLCVideoView *videoView = [[VLCVideoView alloc] init]; _videoWidget->setCocoaView(videoView); //libvlc_media_player_set_nsobject(_media_player, videoView, &VLCException(this) ); libvlc_media_player_set_nsobject( m_pMediaPlayer, videoView ); //[videoView release]; //[pool release];

I tried commenting out the parts that looked like Objective C (everything in brackets), but the "VLCVideoView" class isn't defined.
I tried some other code I found on the internet, too, but couldn't get it to work, either.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You need some obj-C for that, yes.

[Brit]

You mean that I need objective C to get that particular piece of code to work, or do you mean it's impossible to get VLC to ever work on the Mac without Objective C?