User:Thannoy
General presentation
Hello ! My name is Anthony LOISEAU. I am a french student in IT at INSA Rennes.
I am working with Remiii and Sinseman44 (RatatouilleTeam) on VLC through my internship in actech-innovation (Angers, France).
Contact
email : myNickName @actech-innovation.com
IM : myNickName @jabber.org
IRC : myNickName
VLC project
My work will be mainly focussed on mozilla-plugin and activeX parts of VLC.
Mozilla plugin
The file projects/mozilla/control/npolibvlc.cpp describe the API which should be accessible by moz-plugin. The dedicated page for its API is here.
List of methods which should be accessible
Here is the list extracted from the file projects/mozilla/control/npolibvlc.cpp by a script(will be given soon, need doc, clean and a little debug maybe) :
(release 0.9 - [rev 25203, 2008-02-20_16h20])
- .playlist.items.count : INT32
- .playlist.items.clear([]) : VOID
- .playlist.items.remove(['number']) : VOID
- .playlist.itemCount : INT32
- .playlist.isPlaying : BOOLEAN
- .playlist.play([]) : VOID
- .playlist.prev([]) : VOID
- .playlist.clear([]) : VOID
- .playlist.stop([]) : VOID
- .playlist.next([]) : VOID
- .playlist.add(['STRING', 'STRING', 'OBJECT']) : INT32
- .playlist.removeItem(['number']) : VOID
- .playlist.togglePause([]) : VOID
- .playlist.playItem(['number']) : VOID
- .VersionInfo : STRINGN
- .log.verbosity : DOUBLE
- .log.messages.count : INT32
- .log.messages.clear([]) : None
- .log.messages.iterator([]) : OBJECT
- .video.fullscreen : BOOLEAN
- .video.subtitle : INT32
- .video.crop : STRINGZ
- .video.height : INT32
- .video.width : INT32
- .video.teletext : INT32
- .video.aspectRatio : STRINGZ
- .video.toggleTeletext([]) : VOID
- .video.toggleFullscreen([]) : VOID
- .input.rate : DOUBLE
- .input.state : INT32
- .input.hasVout : BOOLEAN
- .input.length : DOUBLE
- .input.fps : DOUBLE
- .input.time : DOUBLE
- .input.position : DOUBLE
- .audio.volume : INT32
- .audio.track : INT32
- .audio.channel : INT32
- .audio.mute : BOOLEAN
- .audio.toggleMute([]) : VOID
- .versionInfo([]) : STRINGN
VLC tips
Compile under debian Etch
tip deprecated : maintained tip is now in Common_Problems#Compiling_VLC chapter.
If you have a pthread error under Debian Etch, try this tip :
su sed -e 's/define\s*_POSIX_SPIN_LOCKS\s*/define _POSIX_SPIN_LOCKS -1 \/\/ wrong: /g' -i /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h exit
source : this post from Rémi Denis-Courmont.
\ keywords : pthread pthread_spinlock_t pthread_spin_init vlc_threads_funcs.h compile /
mozilla-sdk under debian Etch
If you have problems finding mozilla-sdk, try to install package libxul-dev and add to your ./configure the parameter --with-mozilla-sdk-path=/usr/lib/xulrunner/sdk
Resume :
su apt-get install libxul-dev exit
./configure '--with-mozilla-sdk-path=/usr/lib/xulrunner/sdk' ...with-your-other-params... # with other-params including "--enable-mozilla", otherwise I don't think mozilla-sdk is useful for you
\ keywords : mozilla-sdk mozilla-config.h libxul-dev configure /, not tested
undefined symbol: XpmReadFileToImage
Recently, I have had a problem running mozilla plug-in. It was because for libvlcplugin.so, ld never tries to find symbol XpmReadFileToImage into the right lib (libXpm.so). Here is a workaround which have worked for me :
1- su # ask for root console
2- vi /etc/ld.so.preload
3- if the file is empty then
add /usr/lib/libXpm.so
else
append /usr/lib/libXpm.so to its content. each libs must be separated by a space
endif
4- close vi (ESC : w q)
\ keywords : undefined symbol: XpmReadFileToImage /usr/lib/libXpm.so /
Tools
Firebug
Having a JS debugger is very useful to test mozilla-plugin. Firebug is a wonderful Firefox extension for that stuff.
Links
Contributions
For you to better understand what I am focused on.
Inner pages
Some large (and some unuseful) data/pages are in inner-pages to let main pages readable. Here a some of them.
(feel free to copy/move them if you think it is useful)
Usefull internal links
Usefull external links
- http://www.getfirebug.com/ : Very usefull JS, HTML debugger and tool-set.
- http://code.revolunet.com/VLCjs/EN : JS libraries to help using VLC HTML plugins
