I found the ActiveX control avaliable with VLC media player yesterday and started having a play with it.
I'm currently developing a program to play sound effects to a cue for a theatre. I need two players, that can be faded, panned and load tracks quickly, and above all are stable! I use Microsoft Visual Basic Express 2008, and I have very little knowledge of other languages than VB!
I realise that there is no GUI with the plugin, but I wonder if some of the following things are possible (and if they are, any advice on how I go about doing it would be appreciated!):
- Playing sound to different hardware outputs - on my current computer I have a soundcard with 4 stereo outputs, each recognised by windows as a different device. For example I want player 1 to play to device 1, player 2 play to device 2.
Effects and Equalization (I know this can be done in the normal VLC player)
Packiging the ActiveX control with my distribution - do I need to include anything else or credits?
Showing a VU (volume) meter - I have a control that functions as a nice meter, I just need some way of joining it to the output of the player
Thanks very much
Guy Joseph