I am an average C/C++ programmer. Recently I took a project to make a media player with a smart playlist that will work like Zune's SmartDj. I have decided to use libvlc for playing.
I have never coded an open source software before, so I know nothing about git and all. Can you please help me to write at least a C program to play a mp3 file?
Where should I get started? How do you extract a song's artist and other information from the mp3 file itself?
regards.
be sure that you have installed the following packages (else install it):
$ apt-get install libvlccore-dev libvlc-dev
test.c:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <vlc/vlc.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
libvlc_instance_t *inst;
libvlc_media_player_t *mp;
libvlc_media_t *m;
// load the vlc engine
inst = libvlc_new(0, NULL);
// create a new item
m = libvlc_media_new_path(inst, "path to MP3 file");
// create a media play playing environment
mp = libvlc_media_player_new_from_media(m);
// no need to keep the media now
libvlc_media_release(m);
// play the media_player
libvlc_media_player_play(mp);
sleep(10);
// stop playing
libvlc_media_player_stop(mp);
// free the media_player
libvlc_media_player_release(mp);
libvlc_release(inst);
return 0;
}
how to link and compile:
$ gcc $(pkg-config --cflags libvlc) -c test.c -o test.o
$ gcc test.o -o test $(pkg-config --libs libvlc)