Getting tracks info about a stream without actually playing it (silent+no screen output)

[fishstyc]

Hello,

a few years ago, I used LibVLC pre 2.0 to play streams (like rtsp, http, dvb-t, ...)

With that version, I managed to first get the info about the streams 'silently' (in the background) by adding this option to the media first:

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libvlc_media_add_option( preloadMedia, "sout=#description:dummy" );

and then when I got the information, I would load the stream again, but by then I'd know its size so I could properly prepare the textures that it was supposed to render to.

Since 2.0 however, this stopped working, and I would like to know if and how it could be done with the current version of the library.

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You can use VLC preparsing for that.