Tag Archive for VLC

Dynamically Loading Unmanaged DLLs And Linking Using Reflection

February 12, 2015 C# / .NET, Interop No comments

 

My word, what a nerd-geek title ! But what does it mean ? Well, I wanted to load an unmanaged DLL in my C# project and link to its functions at runtime. Thing is, there are a 100+ functions to be linked to and life’s too short to type in the code to link each one in turn – to say nothing of error prone! So, lets see if reflection can come to the rescue.

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Hosting VLC Player in .NET Winforms – Part 4

January 25, 2014 Interop 3 comments

EVENTS

Previously, in parts 1, 2 and 3, we’ve shown how to get to the stage where you can basically play and pause a media file using VLC, displaying the video on a panel on your own form. However, we need to do more: Read more

Hosting VLC Player in .NET Winforms – Part 3

January 24, 2014 Interop No comments

Building A Player

Previously, in part 2, we covered the basic mechanics of accessing VLCs DLLs and creating the objects we need to make our own media player based on VLC.

If you’ve been reading thus far, you’ll have created three IntPtr handles :

  • A “session handle” to the DLL itself (hDllSession).
  • A media handle for the file we wish to play (lets call it hMedia)
  • A player handle in which to play the media (lets call it hPlayer)

I’m guessing you’ll want to play the media in its own window placed somewhere on a form. So Read more

Hosting VLC Player in .NET Winforms – Part 2

January 24, 2014 Interop No comments

The Building Blocks

Previously, in Part 1, we covered the basic mechanics of accessing the VLC DLLs. Next, we just need to step back and get an overview of what we are going to do with the DLL. Read more

Hosting VLC Player in .NET Winforms – Part 1

January 23, 2014 Interop No comments

Introduction

Well, if you don’t know what VLC player is, then I guess you must have been abducted by aliens for the past few years. In which case, welcome back! VLC is a cross platform media player with a somewhat quirky interface, but whereas say Windoze Media Player relies on codecs – a nightmare of codec incompatibilities exist there Read more