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First I want to say thanks for such a great application. I am interested in using the media player in one of my applications. One of the things I need to do is get the location (x,y) of where the user taps in a video. I am able to reassign the gestures and use the tap for my purpose but I get the location in the window/view not the location in the video display.

Thanks in advance.

We added supported for that in the latest libvlc / VLCKit version, so this is automatically performed by the underlying video output module, if you want to control OSD menus, etc.

Alternatively, just add a gesture recognizer to the video output wrapper view..

That is great. I thought I should give some more background for others who are new at this. I had found the page https://wiki.videolan.org/iOSCompile. I had two copies of the git clone. The one I did the compile for the device. This worked fine as long as I did not try in the xcode project to build for a 7.x device. The other clone I built with the -s option. That failed to build.

Today I found this page: https://wiki.videolan.org/VLCKit/ This is more what I was looking for, sample projects to build an app. The previous page is for a full featured app.

I am running the build script now. The first time failed, so I removed /usr/local/bin from my PATH as suggested on the page.

I do have one question. How do you pull in new features to an existing project? I am somewhat new to iOS development and I have never had to run a build script before I can work on an xproject.

Thanks,

Daniel Davies

Hey,

If you want to set up MobileVLCKit in your project, you can use Cocoapods, just add to your Podfile: To install Cocoapods Another way is to use precompiled library (http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... binary.zip).

We added supported for that in the latest libvlc / VLCKit version, so this is automatically performed by the underlying video output module, if you want to control OSD menus, etc.

Alternatively, just add a gesture recognizer to the video output wrapper view..

I was not able to compile the most recent download of MobileVLCKit but I have been looking through the sources. I could not find a video output wrapper view and need a hint as to where the support you added in the libvld

Hey,

If you want to set up MobileVLCKit in your project, you can use Cocoapods, just add to your Podfile:

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pod 'MobileVLCKit', '~>2.2.0'

To install Cocoapods

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sudo gem install cocoapods

Another way is to use precompiled library (http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... binary.zip).

Thanks for the info. I will look into the Cocapods. For now, I have created my own project and I add the MobleVLCKit library from the downloaded VLCKit project after performing the build. Unfortunately, I can't get the latest download to compile, so I am using an earlier download that did compile.

The mistake I was making was to use the downloaded project and modifying it with my own code. Dumb but that is what you do when you first start out. lol

We added supported for that in the latest libvlc / VLCKit version, so this is automatically performed by the underlying video output module, if you want to control OSD menus, etc.

Alternatively, just add a gesture recognizer to the video output wrapper view..

I was never able to find this.

My solution is to use the x & y from the touch, the video size and the current frame. By using this info, I can calculate the x and y within the video. It is not 100% accurate but then touch is not as accurate as a mouse click, so it is good enough. I have my proof-of-concept application submitted to the client.