MBS VLC Media Player

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Anyone using the MBS VLC Media player in Windows? I can’t get any of the examples that come with MBS to work in Windows. The handle from VLCInstanceMBS keeps coming back 0 which (supposedly) means that it failed to initialize.

Any sage words of advice?

The reason why I’m looking into this is that there are various Windows installations that won’t play a simple mp4 video. This happens in a VM installation of Vista for me but we’ve also had various Windows 7, 8, and 10 reports too. It’s a handful of users out of thousands, but still, the client isn’t happy and I’m not sure how to help him. Any ideas?

2

maybe make a little vlc console project, so you see any error message while loading the plugins?
Could be some DLLs don’t load there?

3

I think it needs the 2.0 32bit libs.

4

Yes, a 32 bit app needs 32-bit libs and 64 bit app needs 64-bit libs.

On Windows, you may get newer 32bit versions than on Mac.

5

Using the console example showed me the error of my ways. Thanks for the input.

6

can you enlighten us? it could help us avoid the same issues.

7

Sure. In the VLC sample project, “Thumbnailer Console” there’s a method called DebugCopyLibs which copies 3 things into the same directory as the app: libvlc.dll, libvlccore.dll, and the plugins (for VLC) directory.

Since that’s not really cool to do at runtime in Windows Vista and above I just moved those into a Windows copy files build script to do to that at compile time.

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[quote=216645:@Bob Keeney]Sure. In the VLC sample project, “Thumbnailer Console” there’s a method called DebugCopyLibs which copies 3 things into the same directory as the app: libvlc.dll, libvlccore.dll, and the plugins (for VLC) directory.

Since that’s not really cool to do at runtime in Windows Vista and above I just moved those into a Windows copy files build script to do to that at compile time.[/quote]

Awesome. Thanks for that.