vlc media player invoking

when iam invoking the vlc media player it just showing the logo of vlc nothing else is happening

[Thomas]

How is this question related to MATLAB? Are you invoking it through MATLAB?

[Kevin Claytor]

Are you trying to call it as a system command in the command window? ( http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/system.html) What options are you passing to it, and what do you expect to get back (<http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help>)?

[suresh duppad]

fig1=figure;
vlc=actxcontrol('VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2',[50 50 700 500],fig1);
disp(vlc.versionInfo());
vlc.BaseURL = 'file//e:/Yellelama.mp3';  %%%%write ur file location over here
vlc.playlist.add('e:/Yellelama.mp3');     %%%%write ur file location over here
vlc.playlist.items.get;
vlc.playlist.play();

iam invoking like this in matlab

[Mubin Bagwan]

function [] = vlc (filename)

%% plays a video file using Video Lan Client % Lee White % 7.13.2011

% path to vlc - system dependent vlc_path = 'C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe';

% sends the string as formatted as a dos command % The ampersand '&' forces the command to run in its own command window % The double quotations marks '"' accomodate any spaces ' ' that may be in % the file paths %filename='C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv';

dos(['"' vlc_path '" "' filename '" &']);

end

Answer 1

[Jeffrey Girard]

I assume you are invoking VLC through ActiveX. You need to send it a video file in the MRL format in order to have it play correctly. See the third line of code for an example of how to load a local file.

f = figure('Position',[0 0 800 600]);
a=actxcontrol('VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2',[0,0,800,600]);
a.playlist.add('file://localhost/C:/example.avi');
a.playlist.play();

[Tobias Piechowiak]

Hmmm... tried this with a *.mp4 file. The embedded VLC is busy but the screen stays black... no error message though. Is there a problem with .mp4 files? Or the codec? Any other thoughts?

Cheers