OpenEuphoria

Re: Is a videolan wrapper possible in Eu?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Apr 14, 2007
• 484 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Just musing, I recently downloaded a few bits and pieces from videolan:
> <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/</a>
> and started to wonder if it was wrappable for Eu.
> General API info at <a
> href="http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/ExternalAPI">http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/ExternalAPI</a>
> Dependency walker had no problems with libvlc.dll (2.7MB)
> Apparently there are Java, Ruby, and .NET wrappers for it, possibly more.
> Cross platform, open source, all the stuff we like, bar w9x support.
> 
> Probably beyond me, in what little time I have left on this planet (ie only
> a decade or two), but maybe it could be a significant step forward for Eu?
> 
> Regards,
> Pete
> PS I must admit I really hope Matt Lewis will review it and comment, even if
> without any interest in actually doing anything )

I can't see why it couldn't be done.  It looks like a straight C interface,
so everything should be able to be reasonably done in all Euphoria.  And,
no, I can't say that I have much interest in actually doing anything with
this. :)


Matt