[vlc-devel] Re: How to embed VLC in my C application

[Herman Schultz]

Can you please share how you run vlc using the vlc libraries? I can't see to
get that to work.

On 6/12/07, Tony Anecito <adanecito at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Actually I am trying to get multiple child windows running videos using
> the vlc libraries right now. I am using the latest builds and the jvlc
> bindings. I am trying to work through understanding how to get the right
> options setup like for streaming (I left and email for the vlc team today)
> but otherwise it appears to work fine but I need to get streaming working so
> I and my testers can get back to testing vlc.
>
> Regards,
> -Tony Anecito
> Founder,
> MyUniportal
> http://www.myuniportal.com
>
>
> *Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>* wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Le mardi 12 juin 2007, Herman Schultz a écrit :
> > I am trying to embed&invoke VLC in my c application.
> >
> > I invoke VLC like this:
> > // i_argc is an int
> > // ppsz_argv2 is char* ppsz_argv2[]
> >
> > int i_ret = VLC_Create();
> > i_ret = VLC_Init( 0, i_argc, ppsz_argv2 );
> > i_ret = VLC_AddIntf( 0, NULL, VLC_TRUE, VLC_TRUE );
> >
> > It works the first time when I do this.
> > But when I do that the same i_argc, ppsz_arg2[] the second time, I
> > get an segmentation inside VLC_Init().
> >
> > Can you please tell me why is there? Or if that is the right way to
> > embed/invoke VLC in my own application.
>
> There are two reasons why they crashes:
> The bad reason is that VLC 0.8.6 is not quite multi-instance-safe yet;
> we are trying to solve this in upcoming version 0.9.0 but we would need
> people to test this seriously.
>
> The good reason is that the "VLC" API (as used in src/vlc.c) uses main
> VLC object number "0". Given object numbers are shared across a
> process, there cannot be two VLC instance using object number 0. In
> other word, without some changes, the "VLC" API cannot be used to spawn
> more than one instance at a time.
>
> *However*, as Pierre pointed out, the newer LibVLC media control API
> should work fine.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
>
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