MediaControlAPI

Description

The MediaControl API is the extended API to control VLC from external applications (extension of LibVLC). Its core part (playback control) has been taken from the OMG Audio/Video Stream specification, and extended with additional functionalities.

The API is defined in "include/vlc/control.h" and implemented in "src/control".

The Doxygen documentation can be found at [1].

Current status

The API currently includes functions for the following things:

• Audio/Video
  • Snapshot control
  • OSD display
  • Volume setting
• Playback
  • Basic features (play/pause/stop)
  • Seeking
  • Basic playlist interaction
  • Stream information

Current uses

The MediaControl API is used by the following modules :

• the python binding
• the CORBA interface module

Todo

• General cleanup of the functions to adapt to VLC coding style
• Add VLM control
• Bind the new API to Java and .NET