VideoLAN external player plugin (1 Viewer)

[lopez.tuparles]

I start a while a renew of vlc ExternalPlayer, based on Marx_libvlc_Wrapper. I need good player for VODfr plugin.
there are many improvement like :
- a little OSD
- a dynamical configuration (no need to copy dll Near plugin)
- conditional options by streams
- Encoding stream Url forcing stream to be played by vlc.
Source Code can be downloaded here:
http://mp-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mp-plugins/trunk/plugins/OVS/Vllc09.tar.gz?view=tar

There is many bugs (some are Knows) so you can improve it.

 

[kroko]

Hi cboury,

I'm impressed, it works really good. My first tests are successfull ! Great work. You already did many things I was looking for. (OSD, dynamical configuration). I will test a litte bit more with it to see how it works so far.

Again, thank you.

Regards and Merci
kroko

*update: The OSD is really cool. Only my remote is not working good. But this will be easy to change....

What is your plan on this ? Do you want to continue on it ?


** another update
I made this plugin ready for different languages, already done for en,de,fr. My french is a bit rusty ;-)

 

[lopez.tuparles]

What is your plan on this ?

I haven't really plan anything for the moment, i'm still working on an another plugin. Somethimes when i found a bug i correct it.

Do you want to continue on it ?

Why not but not necessary ? at least it will be difficult until January. I do this plugin because i need it. So there isn't any problem if someone want to correct, modify, translate or improve it.
The only thing to preserve is some strange code in Supportfile() and Play().

The next things i thank to do was to find a way to improve initialisation sequence (VLC 0.9 is a bit slow), improve OSD, add record feature with a new instance, support Jump in stream as in MP.

Ps: Sorry for the french and personal infos in Configuration Form.

 

[kroko]

Hi cboury,

I have finished the multi language support. I attachd the files for testing and also the source. I can put in the SVN if you like. Just let me know. I will do some diagnostic on the play() method. On my side vlc plays only on the second time. Very strange. If I have anything new I will write again.

Anyway your plugin is solving my problems so far.

Regards
kroko

I use vlc 0.9.6 with mp rc4 and rc3.
Video Driver is set to DirectX and on the videoRender settings I disabled the exclusive mode.

 

[crusoli]

Yeah, thanks to both of you for working on this again!

Unfortunately it doesn't quite work for me. I do get video in the preview window in the configuration tab. But in MediaPortal itself i only get sound and a black screen (no video). If i try to skip forward the OSD pop ups (showing a total time of like 800 minutes or so) and when the skipping occurs the video ends and i get set back to the MediaPortal menu. I'm using RC3 in case thats important. Any idea what could be causing this?

EDIT: Oh, you already updated it. Doesn't fix the problem though. I just noticed it actually does play the video but in fullscreen view it has a size of 1x1 pixel. Kinda small for watching TV. Also the length is way off (it tells me Bourne III runs 720 hours). Oh and a little thingie: At least in the english translation "extensions" and "test VLC" tabs are switched.

 

[lopez.tuparles]

Thanks a lot Kroko for the translation !!
You can commit on SVN, thanks for asking, anyway the plugin is GPL ^^

I have the same probleme with playing on second stage, it's because of timeout: Vlc is too long to initializing first Time. I'm looking for a way to initialize LibVlc Core & player while MP is initializing (maybe in a thread to avoid increasing MP initialisation time).

Many people talking about rtsp://, rtsp stream are always read by MP internal player, the only way to play them (i hope) is with this plugin to read a vrltcsp://something instead of rtsp://something. I have to try (in TODO list).......

 

[framug]

I have finished the multi language support.

Whaow, many thanks kroko, for your translation, this was in the todo list and, it has gain us many time !!
Please, just change on french xml :

<Language name="France....">

by

<Language name="French....">

Otherwise, this will not work.
When we will have time for that (do you have ? ), we will change config form, comments and MessageBox, etc... in english by default.
Again, thanks a lot !!!

 

[kroko]

Hi @all,

the code is now in the svn and I fixed also the xml ;-)

So for today over and out. Here is the zip for today.

This looks as a very good project. I think there are many user waiting for this.

Regards
kroko

stay tuned

 

[kroko]

Hi,

maybe I'm to optimistic doing the recording. Maybe it is the best using another instance...

Regards
kroko

keep going

 

[mattroby]

Any thoughts on the easiest way to use a remote control with VLC in MP? I have tried EventGhost and others - but haven't been able to figure it out just yet. I'd love to be able to use VLC as my player as I have been having a tough time getting some codecs properly set for mplayer in MP.

If you recommend something like EventGhost, do you know of a place to get a sample map or config file to give me a jump start?

Thanks!