vlc-rs

Rust bindings for libVLC media framework.

Status

Many missing functions and wrappers.

Use

Please add the following dependencies to your Cargo.toml.

[dependencies]
vlc-rs = "0.3"

Or:

[dependencies.vlc-rs]
git = "https://github.com/garkimasera/vlc-rs.git"

Example

Play for 10 seconds from a media file.

extern crate vlc;
use vlc::{Instance, Media, MediaPlayer};
use std::thread;

fn main() {
    // Create an instance
    let instance = Instance::new().unwrap();
    // Create a media from a file
    let md = Media::new_path(&instance, "path_to_a_media_file.ogg").unwrap();
    // Create a media player
    let mdp = MediaPlayer::new(&instance).unwrap();
    mdp.set_media(&md);

    // Start playing
    mdp.play().unwrap();

    // Wait for 10 seconds
    thread::sleep(::std::time::Duration::from_secs(10));
}

Other examples are in the examples directory.

Building

Windows

vlc-rs uses libvlc's SDK and it is a required dependency that must be available at runtime. For that, you must either build VLC from source or grab one of the pre-built packages from videolan.org.

Once you've downloaded your chosen package, you should extract it some place such that its path contains no spaces, and add that directory to your PATH so libvlc.dll is found at startup. For distribution of an executable program, you should probably copy over the necessary DLLs, as well as the plugins directory.

License

MIT (Examples are licensed under CC0)