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Hello,

I am looking for a nice way to loop video, or a part of a video using LibVLC.

What I did until now, was call play again, as soon as the status was libvlc_ended. This pauses the video for a few ms, while vlc starts to play again.

Then there's also the options

• --input-repeat=
• --start-time=
• --stop-time=
• --run-time= (I don't really know what this does yet)

This works to a certain extent, because If I add start and stop-times, and I set input repeat to 5 for example, there is no problem, but for some reason the thing stops responding when I set input-repeat to 50 or more. Is there an option that means 'infinite'?

Another option would be for me to count the frames myself, and then do a seek when needed, but this is not so easy (also because the length reported by media_get_length for video files is often less than what player_get_position returns when reaching the end of the video file. I suppose this is a bug, but working around that is not easy, obviously).

Anyway, I am just searching for the best option to implement seamless looping. Any ideas are welcome.

When I tried this:

libvlc_media_add_option(vlcMedia, "input-repeat=-1");

The video looped. I let the 14-second test clip run for about 5 minutes.

I don't know if that's what you want.

Absolutely.

I thought I tried that, but appearantly I didn't.

Thanks a lot.