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Ben W
Ben W

Reputation: 53

How to achieve looping playback with Libvlcsharp

I have libvlcsharp working for both my windows and android project. Its very nice and easy to use! But I can't find any way to make the playback automatically loop

I've tried using the mediaplayer event handlers to restart playback and passing options into the media after creation, but nothing seems to work.

I tried:

loopSong = new Media(VLCMediaPlayer.LibVLC, xmlLoader.GetResourceStream(loopFileName));
loopSong.AddOption(":no-video");
loopSong.AddOption(":input-repeat");

and

static VLCMediaPlayer()
{
    Core.Initialize();
    LibVLC = new LibVLC();
    MediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(LibVLC);
    MediaPlayer.EndReached += MediaPlayer_EndReached;
}

private static void MediaPlayer_EndReached(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MediaPlayer.Stop();
    MediaPlayer.Play();
}

Playback simply ceases. The events are called but MediaPlayer.WillPlay is false and calling Play does nothing.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9898

Answers (2)

mfkl
mfkl

Reputation: 2159

This should achieve what you're looking for

new LibVLC("--input-repeat=2")

Playlist APIs will be easier to use in LibVLC 4.

Upvotes: 6

cube45
cube45

Reputation: 3979

This is a famously known bug (by us at least) that happens when you call libvlc from a libvlc callback. Since Libvlc calls events from the thread that plays the video, when you call Stop(), you're waiting synchronously for that thread to finish, causing the deadlock.

Here is the workaround I proposed for Vlc.DotNet : https://github.com/ZeBobo5/Vlc.DotNet/wiki/Vlc.DotNet-freezes-(don't-call-Vlc.DotNet-from-a-Vlc.DotNet-callback)

public void MediaEndReached(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
   ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(() => this.MediaPlayer.Stop());
}

This will probably be solved in a future version of LibVLCSharp, see https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp/issues/122

Upvotes: 8

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