libvlc_media_new_path implies a file. To get media based upon URLs, use
libvlc_media_new_location. Additionally, if using a URL, it's best to
give it some playback caching/buffering, at least 100 milliseconds.
Closesjp9000/obs-studio#590
libVLC doesn't seem to provide full speaker configuration info, so when
downmixing audio from a file that had more than 2 channels, the audio
would sound wrong.
This change makes it so that libVLC does the downmixing to stereo rather
than libobs, just due to that lack of speaker configuration info.
Adds the ability to add video playlists via libvlc instead of via the
media source. This is mostly just being added as a secondary option to
the media source to reduce maintenance costs and save time. Currently
libff cannot pause/unpause/seek, and isn't programmed to handle
playlists yet.
If VLC is installed on the computer (with the same architecture) it will
allow video playback via libVLC. In the future, users should be able to
optionally download VLC libraries via the installer as well if they
don't want to necessarily install VLC to get the plugin working.
This plugin performs runtime linking instead of compile-time linking;
compiling VLC is not required, only its headers are required. To
compile, clone the VLC repository and set the VLCPath cmake variable to
point to the VLC repository directory.
jp9000
cg2121
John Cheng
Andreas Reischuck