VLC.Native

A utility script for building a VLC redistribution NuGet package.

Build

On the command line, type

build.bat [version=3.0.8]

where version defaults to 3.0.8 and refers to the VCL version you want to package. The script then downloads, unzips and packages the VLC distribution from the official VLC download site.

Prerequisites

You should have the following tools on the command line

• curl
• 7zip
• NuGet

Example Usage with C#

Installing the package using

Install-Package VLC.Native

adds the file VlcConfiguration.cs to your project.

NOTE: The VLC dependency package is quite big (~320MB, 166 MB each for x86/x64), so when using VLC.Native together with Continuous Testing Tools (e.g. NCrunch) you may consider disabling the large footprint of the native VLC dependencies by setting

<PropertyGroup>
  <!-- set to anything different than '', e.g. 1 -->
  <DisableVlcNative>$(NCrunch)</DisableVlcNative>
</PropertyGroup>

Here we used NCrunch-specific build properties but any value other than '' will cause VLC.Native to skip including the native dependencies as content to your build, c.f.

• NCrunch-Specific Overrides
• NCrunch Build Properties

Where to go from here

Have a look at

• nVLC, one of the few good managed wrappers for VLC
• hello.nVLC, a minimal WPF player application