opening a file to play in a custom player by double clicking

[samithawijedasa]

Hi,

I have a custom player developed using libvlc. I want to play a file within the player when the file is double clicked. For the specific file type I have selected the mimeopen option to be the player I developed. So when I double click the file it opens the corresponding player, but it does not start to play as I need to implement the functionality relevant to this scenario. My question is, are there libvlc functions to do this ? Which functions I should use ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Settings OS file type associations is outside the scope of LibVLC. It is more the job of an installer or packaging system.