MediaPlayer: impossible to run under Windows or Mac OS X

Issue

- Under Windows or Mac OS X, the MediaPlayer extension is not able to run VLC binary to play media files;

• TXM JNI code seems to have trouble to get to the VLC binary and library files.

Diagnostic (general)
The issue seems related to the libraries file path used by JNI.

Diagnostic for MacOSX
From https://github.com/caprica/vlcj/issues/349
It seems like VLCJ calls a native library (MacOSX) called LibVLC and this library has a wrong path.
This could be solved by resetting the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH to the correct value which is
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins

Another way to workaround is to modify the VLC application folder, with a symlink, to conform to the wrong LibVLC path…

Suggestion
Find out what is or are the library paths vlcj.jar is using and try to set JNI libraries file path properly.

Workaround

* for Windows: copy VLC binary files (executable, libraries…) into TXM executable directory.

* for Mac OS X:

cd /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib
mkdir vlc
cd vlc
ln -s ../../plugins .

(from redmine: issue id 937, created on 2014/07/13 by Serge Heiden)

added Plugins status::rejected type::bug + 1 deleted label

changed milestone to %TXM 0.8.1

From this URL
https://github.com/caprica/vlcj/issues/349

It seems like VLCJ calls a native library (MacOSX) called LibVLC and this library has a wrong path.
This could be solved by resetting the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH to the correct value which is
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins

Another way to workaround is to modify the VLC application folder, with a symlink, to conform to the wrong LibVLC path…

(from redmine: written on 2017/06/16 by Matthieu Quignard)

Workaround (tested) :

cd /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib
mkdir vlc
cd vlc
ln -s ../../plugins .

(from redmine: written on 2017/06/16 by Matthieu Quignard)

Became obsolete, Media Player now uses JavaFX instead of VLC.

(from redmine: written on 2020/01/23 by Sebastien Jacquot)

closed

assigned to @mdecorde