VLC activex in Matlab

[Clement Val]

Hello,
Is anybody successfully using VLC activex to play videos within MATLAB ? Been trying since yesterday, unfortunately without success...
I'm not against (free) alternatives, but I need to be able to decode PGS subtitles, and to my knowledge, VLC is the only player with an activex which support it.
Thanks for any kind of help !

[Clement Val]

Ok, managed to make it work. The 'hard part' was correctly formatting the access to the file.

For those interested, here is a little sample code:

function PlayVideoFile(filepath)
handles.filepath = filepath;
% Create figure to receive activex
handles.hFigure = figure('position', [50 50 960 560], 'menubar', 'none', 'numbertitle','off','name', ['Video: ' filepath], 'tag', 'VideoPlay', 'resize', 'off');
% Create play/pause and seek to 0 button
handles.hTogglePlayButton = uicontrol(handles.hFigure, 'position', [0 540 80 21], 'string', 'play/pause', 'callback', @TogglePlayPause);
handles.hSeekToZeroButton = uicontrol(handles.hFigure, 'position', [81 540 80 21], 'string', 'begining', 'callback', @SeekToZero);
% Create activex control
handles.vlc = actxcontrol('VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2', [0 0 960 540], handles.hFigure);
% Format filepath so that VLC can use it (it's what was a problematic for me initialy)
filepath(filepath=='\')='/';
filepath = ['file://localhost/' filepath];
% Add file to playlist
handles.vlc.playlist.add(filepath);
% Play file
handles.vlc.playlist.play();
% Deinterlace
handles.vlc.video.deinterlace.enable('x');
% Go back to begining of file
handles.vlc.input.time = 0;
% Register an event to trigger when video is being played regularly
handles.vlc.registerevent({'MediaPlayerTimeChanged', @MediaPlayerTimeChanged});
% Save handles
guidata(handles.hFigure, handles);

function MediaPlayerTimeChanged(varargin)
% Displays running time in application title
hFigure = findobj('tag', 'VideoPlay');
handles = guidata(hFigure);
set(hFigure, 'name', [handles.filepath ' ; ' num2str(handles.vlc.input.Time/1000) ' sec.']);

function TogglePlayPause(varargin)
% Toggle Play/Pause
hFigure = findobj('tag', 'VideoPlay');
handles = guidata(hFigure);
handles.vlc.playlist.togglePause();

function SeekToZero(varargin)
% Seek to begining of file
hFigure = findobj('tag', 'VideoPlay');
handles = guidata(hFigure);
handles.vlc.input.Time = 0;

The correct documentation is here:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin


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