Yes thank you Mark, of course I would start with the most basic of outputs......I suspect the major benefit of undertaking this is to learn the FFI functionality.
If you think this would be a struggle...... It may just be out of range for me personally. I keep on bumping up against this codec issue and I know my users will as well. I need to play live youtube streams. Ultimately thats my only goal here, and other video streams encoded live in h264 .. Maybe I should try my luck at a custom CEF build (???) and pay the license fees, which I don't mind doing all that much because its reasonable, esp the 100,000 freebies. This is such a pain, but I still need to find a viable solution! Thanks for taking the time to write to me. On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:54 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 5/29/19 11:38 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > > Tom Glod wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, I'm trying to wrap my mind around whether its possible to > > > integrate VLC into Livecode via the FFI in Livecode Builder. > > > > > > I'm not so much asking how..... but whether..... I don't want to bark > > > up the wrong tree because I don't yet fully understand how this > > > integration works and what its limitations are. > > > > > > This is to get around the codec limitations of the included Browser > > > CEF Builds. > > > > > > A Yes or a No is fine. Anything beyond that would be a bonus. > > > > VLC has a C-based API. FFI supports, among others, C-based APIs. > > > > I'd say that should be a "yes". > > > > Tom- > > Some years ago (pre-LCB by quite a bit) I built an LC external library > to wrap the VLC functions. So yes, it's possible, and would no doubt be > easier in LCB. That said, just having the functions available doesn't do > much for being able to use them effectively. There are a *lot* of > functions you could use - if you're going to go down that rabbit hole > I'd say start with the initialization routines, see if you can at least > get an instance of the player, and then work out from there. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
