Mini VLC preview in apps

[AndroidMatth]

Hello,

I would like to have a small preview with VLC of a playing stream in my apps. How can I do that ? However I want to continue to use my main apps.

I think it's not possible to embbed the vlc apps in other activity ?
So may be can I start a little VLC player (with size and position parameters) over my apps screen.

If some one have an idea to do that, that's great.

Thank's

[edwardw]

I don't think this is supported in any way right now, but you can use Intents to fulfill this or a similar use-case

[gregoiregentil]

Do what I have done: viewtopic.php?t=108078. Integrate the library andthe jni without any modification, do small modif in java code...

[edwardw]

Yes, and violate the GPL... great idea.

[AndroidMatth]

Thank's for your answer, I'll take a look to use Intent.

[AndroidMatth]

Hello,

I'll finally try to use direclty Libvlc.
I have take a look at the topic : viewtopic.php?t=108078

But I have a problem with the project.

- I compile successfuly vlc android.
- I create a new test project with the differents classes


and when I start the project I have the following exceptions :

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03-23 12:45:08.673: D/dalvikvm(1650): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.mypackage.testvlc/lib/libiomx-gingerbread.so 0x40514678 03-23 12:45:08.673: D/dalvikvm(1650): Added shared lib /data/data/com.mypackage.testvlc/lib/libiomx-gingerbread.so 0x40514678 03-23 12:45:08.673: D/dalvikvm(1650): No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/data/com.mypackage.testvlc/lib/libiomx-gingerbread.so 0x40514678, skipping init 03-23 12:45:08.683: D/dalvikvm(1650): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.mypackage.testvlc/lib/libvlcjni.so 0x40514678 03-23 12:45:08.703: D/dalvikvm(1650): Added shared lib /data/data/com.mypackage.testvlc/lib/libvlcjni.so 0x40514678 03-23 12:45:08.703: V/VLC/LibVLC(1650): Initializing LibVLC 03-23 12:45:08.703: D/AndroidRuntime(1650): Shutting down VM 03-23 12:45:08.703: W/dalvikvm(1650): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method of the activity 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:2144) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9153) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3647) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:2139) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): ... 11 more 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.VLCApplication.getAppResources(VLCApplication.java:93) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.Util.readAsset(Util.java:100) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.Util.hasCompatibleCPU(Util.java:279) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.LibVLC.init(LibVLC.java:195) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.LibVLC.getInstance(LibVLC.java:98) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): at org.videolan.vlc.VideoPlayerActivity.BTN_LoadVLC_click(VideoPlayerActivity.java:47) 03-23 12:45:08.723: E/AndroidRuntime(1650): ... 14 more

I start initialize libvlc on button click : BTN_LoadVLC_click()
The VLCApplication instance is not initialise anywhere ? When getAppResources() method is calling a NullPointerExcption is throw.

Maybe someone have an idea ?

Thank's

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Good point, that is a bug.

[edwardw]

VLCApplication.java does not have a line 93...

[AndroidMatth]

At line 89 in the original file ... When I call getAppResources().

[edwardw]

According to Android documentation: http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... eate%28%29

Called when the application is starting, before any activity, service, or receiver objects (excluding content providers) have been created.

Probably you are missing <application android:name="org.videolan.vlc.VLCApplication"> in your AndroidManifest.xml or something.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This is totally wrong anyway, because Libvlc.java should not call VLCApplication

[edwardw]

Well, the current purpose of VLC for Android is to be a player, not a VLC SDK. Maybe that will be implemented later on, when we have VLC fully functioning and completely fast and stable.

[AndroidMatth]

Thank's for your answer.

I call the VLCApplication constructor, pending a stable version, I can use Libvlc alone.

However, when I call readMedia() that apparent works but I have no video ...
I have a lot of warnings : yuv_rgb_neon filter can't get output picture
That's a problem with hardware decoding ? (when I use directly VLC apps, with the same stream that works fine)

I have also an error before the warning :

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E/VLC(1360): [0x2c3744]: main vout display Failed to set on top

May be that the cause ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, the current purpose of VLC for Android is to be a player, not a VLC SDK.

<ref needed>
It was clearly one of the purposes when the project was started.