[vlc] Accessing VLAN functions via API calls

[Thomas Haas]

Hello everybody,
 
i finally got my ivtv drivers to run and all works fine. I can stream 
the content of the card (Hauppauge PVR 150) over http, save the stream 
to a file and display it. I can do this with the GUI or the commands in 
the shell.
 
I am now about to write a program that can trigger this funcitons via 
code. My first idea was to just call the commands via the system or 
execvl methods. This works fine but i do not have the ability to check 
weather the command has executed successfully. I also would like to 
stop a command after a period of time. The second problem is that 
system creates a new proccess which is very ressource consuming. So a 
better method would be to start a thread or do direct API calls.
 
So my question is:
 
Is there an API (library to include into my program) or a communication 
over sockets where i can just call functions (or send commands over http
 sockets) to create, save or to display a stream?
 
Another solution would be to get the code for this from the cvs 
repositories and compile it into my application. But since the vlc 
project is very large this could be very complicated.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Thomas

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