linux-setup.md

Getting started on LibVLCSharp for Linux

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This procedure was tested on ubuntu 20.10. If you have another distribution, make sure that all requirements are available, and adapt the following commands

1. Install the .net core SDK
2. Install libvlc:

For ubuntu:

sudo apt install libvlc-dev.

libvlc.so and libvlccore.so will be located at /usr/lib. Should you want to load the libvlc libraries from another location than /usr/lib, you'd need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

You may need:

sudo apt install vlc

For gtk-sharp

Install gtk-sharp (or monodevelop which uses it)

For ubuntu:

sudo apt install gtk-sharp2

For other platforms

If you are using the X Window System, it has to be initialized for multithreading support and this requires you to natively import libx11.

If your application doesn't find libX11.so, you may need to install the libx11-dev package :

sudo apt install libx11-dev

Code example:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace myApp;

public static class ImportHelper
{
    public struct Native
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the X threading system
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>Linux X11 only</remarks>
        /// <returns>non-zero on success, zero on failure</returns>
        [DllImport("libX11", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
        public static extern int XInitThreads();

    }
}

Usage:

// initialize multithreading support
ImportHelper.Native.XInitThreads();


// player initialization
using var libvlc = new LibVLC(enableDebugLogs: true);
using var media = new Media(libvlc, new Uri(@"C:\tmp\big_buck_bunny.mp4"));
using var mediaplayer = new MediaPlayer(media);

mediaplayer.Play();

Console.ReadKey();