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Comment on libvlc media player in C# (part 2) by jinzhexiu999

jinzhexiu999 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:35:32 +0000

Hi Helyar. I need vlc player in c#. i m playing movie in my windows application.
I need playing speed 2x, 3x 4x
I want to know how to implement fast forward wih using vlc_media_player_set_rate, vlc_media_player_get_rate fuctnion

Comment on Windows 8 is the next Vista fail. by becky

becky — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:35:51 +0000

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Comment on libvlc media player in C# (part 2) by ravi

ravi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:09:10 +0000

how can i implement frame by frame using this vlc library?

Comment on How to compile ffmpeg from source by Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:48:44 +0000

Thank you very much for this well-written tutorial. I have been looking for something like this for a long time.

Comment on libvlc media player in C# (part 2) by Konzertheld

Konzertheld — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:22:54 +0000

Aaaah, it’s UTF-8. That’s mostly what I already tried except I didn’t tried the correct charset. Awesome. Thank you! I totally agree with you it is unnecessary to build a huge framework around libvlc. The one I used before was so complex I didn’t know where to start looking for an error that occured somewhen… now it’s easy and transparent.

Comment on libvlc media player in C# (part 2) by George Helyar

George Helyar — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:26:41 +0000

Hi Konzertheld, please take a look at this thread and see if it works:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=53714

The method converts the UTF-16 string to a UTF-8 byte array with System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and passes it as a byte array instead of a string to the libvlc function.

Another alternative may be to set the charset of the string to UTF8 when importing the function from the dll, but I have not tested this.

Comment on libvlc media player in C# (part 2) by Konzertheld

Konzertheld — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:22:30 +0000

Thanks, that helped a lot, understanding and using. The only trouble that remains is when I have German umlauts in my file path. It is a VLC issue, do you have any idea how to work around that? I tried URL encoding, did not help. I also tried passing an ISO-8859-1 byte array instead of a string to libvlc_media_new_location or (libvlc_media_new_file, what I’m usually using), also did not help. When I pass such a file, just nothing happens, it seems to be played and no error occurs but it is not played. When I rename the file so there are no more umlauts it works fine. Would be great if you could help me with that…

Comment on Video Encoding Script by Sean

Sean — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:30:10 +0000

What an excellent script! You have saved me a lot of time and effort in working out how to get this done and for that I thank you!

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Comment on Faster than light neutrinos by Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:14:15 +0000

I only know what Prof Brian Cox tells me