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Posted: **07 Apr 2009 16:36**

Hello

We're developing a jvlc-based java player which should be able to get and display a http-stream from a vlc-streaming-server. Because we're using this player inside sun's 3d virtual world wonderland, we cannot install the player. So we presuppose that the vlc-player is already installed on the systems of the wonderland-user. On linux all seems to work fine, the plugin-folder is found by the jvlc-player and the stream is displayed. When we use windwos xp as the client, the jvlc player doesn't find the plugin folder of the vlc installation. On xp-clients it only works when we instantiate the jvlc object the following way:
String[] args = new String[]{"-vvv","--plugin-path=PATH_TO_PLUGIN_FOLDER"};

But the problem is whenever a client has VLC installed in a different folder, we have the same problem: JVLC doesn't find the plugin folder...

Any ideas how to get rid of this issue?

Thanks for your help.
Peter

Posted: **14 Apr 2009 08:43**

*up*

Any suggestions on this?

Thanks for your help.
Peter

Posted: **25 May 2009 09:13**

The Windows install create a registry key and you can interrogate this value.

The following code return the plug-in path on windows:

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public static String getVLCPluginPath(){
        String command = "reg query HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\VideoLAN\\VLC /v InstallDir";

        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

        try{
            Process process = runtime.exec(command);
            byte[] data = new byte[1024];
            int cnt = process.getInputStream().read(data);

            while(cnt > 0){
                result.append(new String(data, 0, cnt));
                cnt = process.getInputStream().read(data);
            }
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        String[] splitResult = result.toString().split("REG_SZ");

        return splitResult[splitResult.length-1].trim() + "\\plugins";
    }

I thing this can resolve your problem.

lagerbie

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