libvlc and pause

[blackmonster]

Hi all. I'm developing an app for video editing and i need to pause the player just after play.

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libvlc_media_player_play(myPlayer); libvlc_media_player_set_pause(myPlayer,1);

this code doesn't work for some reason,
then i tried to do register a callback to pausableChanged and emit a signal from it (i'm using Qt).
in slot (handler goes from main thread) i call libvlc_media_player_set_pause(myPlayer,1) assuming that now i can pause the playback,
but again, nothing happens.
Then i try to register a callback to playbackStarted. Doing the same and finally pause works. But another problem is that player changes the position during calls, most likely because of buffering.
The question is what the pausableChanged callback is for if pause called from it doesn't work.
Regards, Victor

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The accuracy of pause depends on the input. For a media player, accurate pause does not make much sense, though there certainly is some room for improvements from a motivated developer.

For frame accuracy, you may be better off with a a lower-level library such as libavcodec.