Video playback?

[WojTec]

Hello! I just want to ask old question, how to play video in VCL? There is ancient TMediaPlayer visual component, it is working, but is unbelieveble slow on 4K+ and can't handle any stream properties, even frame dimensions. There is VisioForge and FFVCL, but both for $$$. Is there something nice for videaos?

[himitsu]

The TMediaPlayer can do more than you think.
If you have access to http://entwickler.de, you might be able to watch one of the contributions from EKON 28 (https://entwickler-konferenz.de/de/). Or you might have been there in person and watched it live.



not VCL ... VLC :zwinker:
LibVLC (VideoLAN Client)

Many media players, for example, offer an ActiveX component that can be integrated into your own program.
But you could also use the TWebBrowser to display the video there.

https://www.delphipraxis.net/150992-...hi-nutzen.html
https://wiki.videolan.org/Using_libvlc_with_Delphi/

[WojTec]

I don't have access to resources you wrote.


I can play videos with TMediaPlayer and add other functionality by own code, and it playing. But for 4K videos it working like network stream on poor connection and can't normally watch it (for FHD is ok). Is it some tip to force it working better?

Or maybe also advanced sample how to fully use it?

[Der schöne Günther]

For playing videos (and using additional features like subtitles), I took the lazy approach and just used

Delphi-Quellcode:

TEdgeBrowser

to play the movie file (.mp4 or .mov). Works like a charm.