[Gambas-user] Embedding VLC movie window immediately... without a 2 second pause

[Jaap Cramer]

I thought SHELL and EXEC are more or less the same, because both run external processes...

Jaap
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> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:11:31 -0400
> From: leemcpherson at ...626...
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Embedding VLC movie window immediately... without a 2	second pause
> 
> Oops... i don't know what I was talking about.  It was using the SHELL 
> that did that... here I am using EXEC anyways.  Is there another way to 
> run VLC within gambas that I don't know about?  I'm somewhat of a newbie 
> to this.  I've only used vb6 for basic stuff before and am not that 
> proficient with linux yet. 
> 
> Jaap Cramer wrote:
>> Hi
>> I think the delay comes from using the shell. When I use a simple shell line to readout that prg, it usualy take a little time. I dont know why
>> Jaap
>>
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>>   
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:49:19 -0400
>>> From: leemcpherson at ...626...
>>> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: [Gambas-user] Embedding VLC movie window immediately... without a 2	second pause
>>>
>>> I have the basic code to embed a VLC movie window into a gambas app, 
>>> however, there is an annoying 2 second pause before the window finally 
>>> becomes embedded.  The movie will actually start playing for a couple of 
>>> seconds in a separate window before it gets embedded.  I'm not sure if 
>>> it's a limitation of VLC or something else but I'm trying to figure out
>>> how to stop this.  Here is the basic code I'm using (borrowed from 
>>> another user) :
>>>
>>> PUBLIC SUB Presence_Embed(windowTitle AS String)
>>>   DIM key AS Integer
>>>   key = WindowClasses.getWindowID(windowTitle)
>>>   IF key> 0 THEN
>>>   Embedder1.Embed(key)
>>>   Embedder1.SetFocus
>>>   ENDIF
>>>   Embedder1.Visible = TRUE
>>> END
>>>
>>> PUBLIC SUB Form_Open()
>>>
>>>   DIM iWindowInfoArray AS Integer
>>>   $MplayerProc = EXEC ["/usr/bin/vlc", "-I", "rc"] FOR INPUT OUTPUT AS 
>>> "$mplayerproc"   'starts vlc command line in a process
>>>   PRINT #$mplayerproc, "add /home/lee/nip.avi"    'adds a sample movie 
>>> to the playlist and starts it
>>>   Presence_Embed("VLC (X11 output)")
>>>
>>> END
>>>
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