LibVLC

2012-05-04T10:07:23Z

Ntadej: /* Language bindings */

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You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.

LibVLC is already used by several applications, see [[LibVLC_Users|who uses LibVLC?]]

== Documentation ==

===General documentation===

Please refer to the [http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc.html Doxygen documentation],
which is the reference documentation.
''Make sure that the documentation matches your LibVLC version'' (if not, you can build it from the source code).

Some further topics are covered here:

* [[LibVLC_Memory_Management| LibVLC Memory Management]] explained: covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
* [[LibVLC_Media_List_Management| LibVLC Media List Management]] explained: covers the basics on settubg up a playlist.
* [[GenerateLibFromDll|Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows]]

===Third-party documentation===

* [[Plugins/Mozilla|Plugins in Mozilla]]

== Examples ==

=== Playback ===
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial|Current version (1.1.x)]]
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_0.9|Versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x]]
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_086c|Version 0.8.6]]
* [[LibVLC_Visual_C|Visual C++]] '' (uses "old" legacy API) ''

=== Rendering ===
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL|Use LibVLC in an SDL application]]
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_Thumbnailer|Generate thumbnails using LibVLC]] (out-of-date)
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_Qt|Use LibVLC in an Qt application]] (out-of-date)
* [[Stream_to_memory_(smem)_tutorial| Stream into a memory zone]]
* [[IceVLCPlayer|VCL component for Delphi]] (out-of-date)

=== Other ===
* [http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=tree;f=doc/libvlc;hb=HEAD Sample code from VLC source code in vlc/doc/libvlc]

== Language bindings ==
LibVLC is a C library. It has bindings to the following other languages and frameworks:
* [http://github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-libvlc GO binding]
* C++
* [[PythonBinding|Python]]
* Phonon (Qt4/KDE) in C++
* [[Using libvlc with Delphi]]
* [http://projects.tano.si Qt bindings - VLC-Qt]
* [[wxVLCBackend|wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend]] also in C++
* Objective C: see [[Mac OS X Framework]]
* [http://code.google.com/p/vlcj Java binding]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/paslibvlc/ Pascal/Delphi]
* .Net / CIL
* [[ActiveX]] with the built-in VLC browser plugin for MSIE

[[Category:LibVLC]]

LibVLC

2010-10-14T20:20:16Z

Ntadej: /* Language bindings */

{{Lowercase}}
You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.

LibVLC is already used by several applications, see [[LibVLC_Users|who uses LibVLC?]]

== Documentation ==
Please refer to the [http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc.html Doxygen documentation],
which is the reference documentation.
''Make sure that the documentation matches your LibVLC version'' (if not, you can build it from the source code).

Some further topics are covered here:

* [[LibVLC_Memory_Management| LibVLC Memory Management]] explained: covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
* [[LibVLC_Media_List_Management| LibVLC Media List Management]] explained: covers the basics on settubg up a playlist.
* [[GenerateLibFromDll|Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows]]

== Examples ==

=== Playback ===
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial|Current version (1.1.x)]]
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_0.9|Versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x]]
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_086c|Version 0.8.6]]
* [[LibVLC_Visual_C++|Visual C++]] '' (uses "old" legacy API) ''

=== Rendering ===
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL|Use LibVLC in an SDL application]]
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_Thumbnailer|Generate thumbnails using LibVLC]] (out-of-date)
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_Qt|Use LibVLC in an Qt application]] (out-of-date)

== Language bindings ==

LibVLC is a C library. It has bindings to the following other languages and frameworks:
* [http://github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-libvlc GO binding]
* C++
* [[PythonBinding|Python]]
* Phonon (Qt4/KDE) in C++
* [http://vlc-qt.sourceforge.net Qt binding]
* [[wxVLCBackend|wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend]] also in C++
* Objective C: see [[Mac OS X Framework]]
* [http://code.google.com/p/vlcj Java binding]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/paslibvlc/ Pascal/Delphi]
* .Net / CIL
* [[ActiveX]] with the built-in VLC browser plugin for MSIE

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