VLC player in Lazarus on UBUNTU

[pascalbythree]

Does anybody know weither it is possible to set VLC player up in a Form on a UBUNTU linux desktop. In replacement of ActiveX. Andybody got source for components?

Greets,
Wouter van Wegen

woutervanwegen@mijnplinq.nl

[Thaddy]

Freepascal, FPC comes with ./packages/libvlc which is part of the standard distribution. Note the demo's.
I am not very interested in Lazarus components, but maybe there are some leveraging that.

libvlc doesnt use activex, it's the direct interface.

[pascalbythree]

On:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/

fpc-3.1.1.i386-linux.tar.gz

There is a pascal version above 2.6.4 that i need for compiling a component to view VLC player on a Lazarus Form.

Can somebody explain howto install it? Or a link to a tutorial?
The .tar.gz does not include a install.sh. Hwoto install over the latest vesion from www.freepascal.org
 
Greets, Wouter van Wegen

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unit reglazvlc;

{$IF FPC_FULLVERSION<20701}
{$ERROR needs at least FPC 2.7.1}
{$ENDIF}

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, vlc, lclvlc, lresources;

Procedure register;                     

[Frank]

@pascalbythree : If this is not too late, I have my own version of vlc.pas that pre-dates the official fpc/lazarus one, that worked with fpc-2.6.x Slackware linux for music, and recently video (only tested on windows). It's not pretty, but it has simple functions to play/pause/stop media ( as well rip & SHOUTcast). If your still interested, let me know.

[JD]

@pascalbythree : If this is not too late, I have my own version of vlc.pas that pre-dates the official fpc/lazarus one, that worked with fpc-2.6.x Slackware linux for music, and recently video (only tested on windows). It's not pretty, but it has simple functions to play/pause/stop media ( as well rip & SHOUTcast). If your still interested, let me know.

Does your version require that VLC Player be installed or can it just work will the two VLC Player dlls?

Thanks,

JD

[Frank]

@ JD   It works with the two dll's (libvlc & libvlccore) AND any plugins
             you put in the plugins folder.
           I have, in the past, simply zipped them from an install & then
             dumped them into my application's folder (plugins must be in sub-folder "plugins").
           I hope this answers your question.

  Frank

  Edit : I suppose you could individually compile them from source,
           if you wish (as I have done for Slackware64 14.1)...