[Mono-list] Recommended approach for embedding VLC in a Mono app?

[Christopher David Howie]

On 05/14/2010 08:20 AM, Steve Ricketts wrote:
> I need to use VLC in a Mono application.  I've been to the VLC forums and
> can't find how to actually do it in Mono.  There seem to be a number of
> competing approaches (videolan.interop, libvlcnet, c# wrapper) but most of
> these projects seem to be abandoned.  I would like to ask if anyone has used
> VLC in a Mono application and if so, how was it done... sample code would be
> even better!  ;-)
> 
> Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.

If the target platform is Linux then you should consider using GStreamer
instead.  It is pretty much the de-facto standard media library for
Linux these days and is incredibly powerful, beyond just playing media
(though it can do that as well).

Unfortunately, there are no usable managed bindings to it yet.  You can
write a C glue library to do what you need though.

-- 
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

PGP key:

pub   2048R/CF8338F5 2010-04-14
      Fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A  DF65 6FCE 505A CF83 38F5