Re: Is a videolan wrapper possible in Eu?
- Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Apr 14, 2007
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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