[vlc-devel] VLC API

[hce]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Mirsal Ennaime
<mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:18 AM, hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've looked at the mpris spec and I guess the XML type message format
>> can be used between the mpris and the VLC. But how the external
>> application can talk to the VLC API, via function call or via socket?
>> I could not find a VLC document for the details, where I can get those
>> details from VLC?
>
> Actually, the MPRIS is a D-Bus interface specification.
> D-Bus is a low latency IPC (inter-process-call) mechanism widely used
> on modern GNU/Linux and UNIX-like systems.
>
> You can get some documentation and info about it here:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
> There's a python example in the VLC source tree:
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=extras/misc/mpris.py;h=ff15e359c277c36452e61423060f905cd11590e2;hb=HEAD
>
> If you need more portable stuff or don't want to or can't use D-Bus,
> you can take a look to the RC / telnet interfaces that VLC has
> provided for ages.
>
> If you're using Java, you could build your own webservices API using
> the JVLC libvlc bindings.
>
> There are lots of options depending on your platform and environment.

I am using C / C++ external application in both Linux and ARM
platform. I prefer the external application talks to the VLC at run
time via either socket messages, or API function call. I've just
briefly looked at rc interface at modules/control/rc.c and I guess the
rc interface is a proper interface I am looking after, but correct me
if there are better interfaces for my platform and environment. Is
there an example to use RC interface by C / C++?

Thank you Mirsal.

Kind Regards.

Jim

> Regards
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> Mirsal Ennaime
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