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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">In</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">VideoLAN</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Web and scripting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Forum</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, the following topic has been posted:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Problem with multiple instances of ActiveX in web pages</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Postby cjcantero on Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:01 pm</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><<</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="fr"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I'm developing a web application that lets to the user play multiple videos (RTP/UDP live streaming) simultaneously in the same page. One user can chose 1, 4, 9 or 16 videos a time, but i have some problems with it. Logically I have 16 ActiveX instances in my web page (that I hide or show according to the user selection).</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">When I close or refresh the application, the browser crash (IE and Firefox). Some times, when I invoke the playItem method, the browser crash too.</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I detect that the probability that it happens is greater when some video has been played. This situation makes the application very unstable.</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="fr"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="fr"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></I></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">And</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jean-Baptiste Kempf</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> replied:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Postby j-b on Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:23 am</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Known bug. Help us fixing it.</FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="fr"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jean-Baptiste Kempf</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="fr"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://www.jbkempf.com/">http://www.jbkempf.com/</A> - <A HREF="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan">http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan</A></FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><I><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">VLC media player developer and Sites administrator</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I wanted to know if</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">this problem</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the same one which occurs with a standalone application based upon libvlc too</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Indeed I am building a video player (with libvlc 0.8.6c on Win XP, multiple instances of player</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">simultaneously</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> playing, audio or video) and I have similar problems.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For example, changing the current playing item (using</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">libvlc_playlist_play</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">f</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">requently causes a crash or an abnormal and unpredictable behaviour (the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">subsequent libvlc functions calls does not work normally).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Is the "</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Known bug</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">" identified by JB Kempf being processed by libvlc developer team ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">What advice can you give me ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thank you in advance for any help,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Chris B.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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