Using libvlc with Qt4 - multi-video display

[johnlet]

Hi all,
I have been playing around with vlc for a year or so now...quite the package! I have recently moved up to 0.9.4, and I also have a need to write my own client that will use libvlc. I have done much reading, but I cannot seem to find the information in these topics to get me to a solution.

I want to write a qt4 app that will manage several frames, each will display a video stream. All these tiles will appear in a window, and some will come/go as the user desires.

I have looked through the qt4 gui module and it seems to be using the internal methods of vlc and not the libvlc interface; that's OK, but I'd want to use the libvlc. I just don't know what to pass in as a "drawable" entity. Also I don't know if I need to be manipulating the parent, or just doing a media_player_set_drawable. I think I will need multiple vlc instances, one for each video stream...or is is possible to have multiple players under the one instance?

Any pointers and guidance are very much appreciated!

Thanks.
JPL

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I would try media_player_set_drawable and QWidget::winId()

[johnlet]

Ahhh...that is looking promissing. Thanks for the pointer!

JPL

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Qwidget *w;

take w