Comments on: libvlc media player in C# (part 1)

By: George Helyar

George Helyar — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:24:20 +0000

@Bayaraa
Read the post again.

There is no 64 bit libvlc. If you want to use libvlc, you need to set your C# project to 32 bit (which will still allow it to be run on 64 bit windows). This also means that any other DLLs you link to in the same binary must also be 32 bit.

By: Bayaraa

Bayaraa — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:48:53 +0000

Hi Helyar, i need VLC media player in my c# application. But i can’t use it. My computer CPU type 64bit and my application must work in 64bit. How do i use VLC ? Can you give me some VLC examples for 64bit if it possible.

By: Aneesh

Aneesh — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:29:23 +0000

Hi George,

Thanks for your replay. I’m using C# winform to create this application. I’ve already set the ContextMenuStrip with the axvlc plugin. Axvlc plugin has the property ContextMenuStrip to set the ContextMenuStrip. Actually I’m using multiple axvlc plugin in a form.ContextMenuStrip is working fine when video stops. It is not working while the video is playing. Please help.

Thanks,
Aneesh

By: George Helyar

George Helyar — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:08:33 +0000

The context menu is part of the VLC client, not the libvlc library. Write your own.

By: Aneesh

Aneesh — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:17:39 +0000

I’ve created a media payer using libvlc.dll. While playing the video it is not displaying the context menu with this vlc control. I need to display the context menus when playing the video. If it is not playing it is displaying the context menus when right clicking the mouse. Please help me..

By: George Helyar

George Helyar — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:32:23 +0000

moon, you need both libvlc.dll and libvlccore.dll. You also need many of the dlls from VLC’s plugin directory, as these are what provide codec support, interlace support, etc. These all need to be from the same version of VLC too. This means that you need almost the entire VLC installation to get all the dlls, so just install or extract the latest version of VLC, take the two main dlls from there and change the plugin-path argument in your libvlc initialisation call to point to the plugin directory inside the VLC directory you just created when installing or extracting.

You may be able to distribute a subset of the DLLs in the plugin directory but distribution is not covered here.

By: Moon1337

Moon1337 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:36:10 +0000

I can’t find libvlc.dll anywhere, why isn’t this file on http://www.videolan.org ?
When I try your code I get a System.DllNotFoundException …

By: villecoder

villecoder — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:15:23 +0000

Really great information and an excellent introduction to how to use libvlc from .NET. Really, this is the first post I’ve seen that had some simple, easy to follow, non-complicated advice on how to use Interop to interface with the library. This will go a long way to help me with my project. Thank you!

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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:36:10 +0000

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By: jiga

jiga — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:13:25 +0000

Can this play youtube video directly from link??

The actual vlc player can do this, but i am not sure if libvlc supports it.