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Posted: **24 Oct 2010 15:48**

Hi guys,
I have a problem with libvlc (1.0.5) in Visual C++ (Visual Studio 2008), when I try to start it with a skins2 interface a pop-up appears to select the theme.
When I select the theme (both .vlt that .xml) I get an Access Violation.
I would like that theme is directly selected as parameter, but when I try to do it I've got the same problem.

I use this code:

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char *myarg0 = "-I";  char *myarg1 = "skins2=C:\\prova.vlt"; //prova.xml
char *myarg2 = "--plugin-path=C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\plugins";
char *myargs[3] = {myarg0, myarg1, myarg2};
char *filename = "dvd://D:";

libvlc_exception_init (&excp);
inst = libvlc_new (3, myargs, &excp);

what's the mistake ?

Posted: **25 Oct 2010 14:30**

The following line is wrong

char *myarg0 = "-I"; char *myarg1 = "skins2=C:\\prova.vlt"; //prova.xml

Somthing along these lines should work

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char *myarg0 = "-I";  char *myarg1 = "skins";
char *myarg3 = "--skins2-last"; char *myarg4 = "C:\\prova.vlt";

Posted: **26 Oct 2010 10:50**

The following line is wrong
Somthing along these lines should work
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char *myarg0 = "-I"; char *myarg1 = "skins"; char *myarg3 = "--skins2-last"; char *myarg4 = "C:\\prova.vlt";

Same problem, a pop-up appears to select the theme and I get an Access Violation.

Posted: **27 Oct 2010 11:43**

Actually, you might be the first person ever to try and mix skins2 and libvlc. But why not,

One thing to be aware of is that, if you were to use the skins2 playlist system, the related libvlc API (libvlc_playlist_play, ... ) is deprecated.

I just carried out a bunch of test on Linux with the latest vlc1.2 (still in dev). The results are the following :
- It does work better than I would have thought
- the parameters described earlier do cause a problem (to be investigated), but a workaround works fine (see code below)
- Though it was not expected, the skins2 interface did act as a vout window manager for a media_player, meaning that you can manage your own playlist and still be able to play it via the skins2 video subsystem.

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  /* libvlc settings */
   const char* const args[] = {
            "--verbose", "0",
            "--no-media-library",
            "--ignore-config",
            "--intf", "dummy",
            "--extraintf", "skins",
            "--skins2-last", "/tmp/test.vlt",
            };

   int nargs = sizeof(args) / sizeof(args[0]);

I couldn't test it on Windows right away. If you test this code on Windows, please report if it works or not ?

EDIT:
- tested successfully on Windows with a basic C program.
- Yet, a big limitation exists, since usual skins2 functions and variables are no-op for a media_player.

Posted: **16 Nov 2010 10:30**

Hi guys, sorry but I've been busy ..
Then I compiled version 1.2.0 from linux but I can not understand how to create .dll and to use them under Windows.

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