libVLC
You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.
LibVLC is already used by several applications, see who uses LibVLC?
Contents
Documentation
General documentation
Please refer to the 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 explained: covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
- LibVLC Media List Management explained: covers the basics on settubg up a playlist.
- Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows (before libVLC 2.1.0)
Examples
Playback
- Current version (1.1.x and later)
- Gtk Player: doc/libvlc/gtk_player.c
- Qt Player: doc/libvlc/QtPlayer
- WxWidgets Player: doc/libvlc/wx_player.cpp
Rendering and streaming
- Use LibVLC in an SDL application
- Stream into a memory zone
- Generate thumbnails using LibVLC: doc/libvlc/vlc-thumb.c
- Quick DVD ripper: doc/libvlc/libvlc_DVD_ripper.c
Outdated samples
- Versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x
- Version 0.8.6
- Visual C++ (uses "old" legacy API)
- VCL component for Delphi (out-of-date)
Language & platforms bindings
LibVLC is a C library. It has bindings to the following other languages and frameworks:
- Objective-C for iOS and Mac OS
- C++
- Python
- Phonon (Qt4/KDE) in C++
- GO
- Using libvlc with Delphi
- Qt bindings - VLC-Qt
- wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend also in C++
- Java binding
- Pascal/Delphi
- .Net / CIL
- ActiveX with the built-in VLC browser plugin for MSIE