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2016-01-27T23:54:34Z

Stéphane: Summarizing tonight's chat on IRC #freenode, with personal additions.

This page refers to all the Work using the .Net platform interaction with VLC.

You can find HowTos and other informations.

== Approaches ==

* You can incorporate the VideoLAN ActiveX control like any other ActiveX Control (generating an Interop Assembly using `aximp.exe`, etc). In practice this is Windows-only.
* You can use a .NET wrapper for libVLC (see below). Compatible with more platforms.
* You can write your own wrapper. Writing a wrapper to LibVlc from .NET should not be that hard. Or adjust an existing wrapper to your liking.

== Related projects dealing with a .Net wrapper for libvlc: ==

Vlc.DotNet is the most advanced as of January 2016.

* [[.Net Interface to VLC]] (actually LibVLC)
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=58438 libvlcnet - .NET library based on libvlc]
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=52021 Videolan.Interop for libvlc 0.9.0]
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=47385 Marx C# wrapper for libvlc 0.9.0]
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=57555 Vlc.DotNet for WinForms & WPF], moved to [https://github.com/ZeBobo5/Vlc.DotNet Vlc.DotNet] and still maintained as of January 2016.
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=36249 VLC Element for WPF]

== License considerations ==

* Using ActiveX API allows any license for your caller code.<ref>[http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2007/09/19/Misconceptions-about-VLC-1-Building-an-application-on-VLC Misconceptions about VLC - 1 Building an application on VLC.]</ref>
* Since LibVLC is LGPL, using it directly allows proprietary code (but watch out respecting LGPL, which includes letting end user replace the LGPL library with their own variant).
* Some wrappers have a permissive licence (e.g. MIT) which also allows proprietary code.

==References==
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[[Category:Bindings]]

VideoLAN Wiki - User contributions [en]

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