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Playing FTP file with libvlc

Is there a correct way for playing media located on a FTP server using libvlc?

After creating the media & media player,

libvlc_media_player_play

returns 0,

libvlc_media_player_get_state

returns libvlc_Error, and 

libvlc_errmsg

returns "(null)"

The official feature page for VLC lists FTP as supported input & the FTP link is playable using a VLC media player instance.

Code is pretty basic, same as most examples found online:

libvlc_media_t *m = libvlc_media_new_location( inst, "ftp://127.0.0.1:3531/path_to_movie.avi");
if ( !m )
    return false;

libvlc_media_player_t* mp = libvlc_media_player_new_from_media(m);
if ( !mp )
    return false;

libvlc_media_release(m);

libvlc_media_player_play(mp);

After play was called, nothing happens. Thanks in advance for helping.

Solution

  • After enabling verbose debug output (as suggested by gollum), found that the problem was due to wrong creation of libvlc_media_t *m.

    Basically I have a URI checker to determine if link contains path to a local file or a remote file.

    libvlc_media_t *m = IsLocalFile(pszMediaPath) ? libvlc_media_new_path(inst, pszMediaPath) : libvlc_media_new_location(inst, pszMediaPath);

    IsLocalFile(pszMediaPath) was wrongly implemented (always returning true), resulting in calling of libvlc_media_new_path even for URIs, which caused libvlc_media_player_play to fail because the path to remote media was bogus.