Play MP4 video in VisualNeo Windows

#1 · February 21, 2020, 10:36 pm

Can't find what types of videos the Media Player works with. Or.....How to play an MP4 video in VisualNeo?

thanks

Don

#2 · February 22, 2020, 12:40 am

There isn't exactly a direct way to do this with a media player object. I am pretty sure you can only use .avi and .mpeg with the Media Player object. However its easy to accomplish.

Add a WebBrowser Object and a Button to your project. You can leave the web browser objects url blank. In the button use the BrowserLoadFromStr action and use something like this

<video width="400" height="240" controls>
  <source src="C:\Users\mazzu\Videos\4K Video Downloader\test.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Should work. Of course when you compile your application and distribute it, you will have to package any used videos manually (unless you just upload them to YouTube and use that url instead of the file location in the example above, which is what I would do).

To use a YouTube video you would do the same as above but in the BrowserLoadFromStr code put the code youtube gives you (which you can get from the YouTube page of the video with Share / Embed)

The WebBrowser Object can accomplish a lot of your multimedia needs with some simple html like above.

Hope that helps

If you desire more control over the video in your project you can easily incorporate some script like this

<video id="myvid" width="400" height="240">
  <source src="C:\Users\mazzu\Videos\4K Video Downloader\test.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
<script>
var vid = document.getElementById("myvid");
vid.autoplay = true;
vid.load();
</script>

There is an excellent resource for this here

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_av_dom.asp

#3 · February 22, 2020, 8:24 pm

@donbwalker

The zmVLC plugin works well with mp4:

zmVLC 0.1b (Пётр Павлов)

Download from the link (Together with the necessary libraries): http://pc.cd/VDn7

#4 · February 23, 2020, 12:01 am

Thank you @vadim for english version of very good and useful plug.in:-)

Cheers!

#5 · November 22, 2021, 4:35 pm

@vadim Possible to post the zmVLC English version your previous link doesn't work

#6 · November 22, 2021, 4:42 pm

Disregard :)

#7 · November 22, 2021, 4:49 pm

Would be nice if one of the current plugin developers made a VLC and a WMP plugin for VNW. This would be a nice addition

#8 · November 22, 2021, 6:15 pm

I use PowerPoint to create some animations and save as a mp4 and be nice to play within an object.

#9 · November 22, 2021, 7:51 pm

I have a very functional VLC plugin in my project folder for Neobook. It would need a few touches, a few. If there was greater interest, I could launch.

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#10 · November 22, 2021, 7:55 pm

VLC and WMP are 2 things I am very much interested in and wanting. Surprised nobody has done a plugin for that as mp4's are very common place today.

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#11 · November 22, 2021, 8:11 pm

Quote from Krakerman on November 22, 2021, 7:55 pm

VLC and WMP are 2 things I am very much interested in and wanting. Surprised nobody has done a plugin for that as mp4's are very common place today.

VLC

WMP

#12 · November 22, 2021, 8:16 pm

Last version of the VLC plugin shown 2014. It is very old. Does he play videos straight from YouTube too?

#13 · November 22, 2021, 8:20 pm

NeoDX

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#14 · November 22, 2021, 8:24 pm

@albertomeyer

Does he play videos straight from YouTube too?

Used to play, now I don't know. Haven't used it in a while.

Last version of the VLC plugin shown 2014. It is very old.

I hope it still works in 30 years. :)

#15 · November 22, 2021, 8:33 pm

I totally forgot about NeoDX. Yes that plugin plays MP4's just tested it :)

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#16 · November 23, 2021, 12:13 am

NeoMediaPlayer Plugin

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#17 · November 23, 2021, 12:21 am

Quote from DaviddeArgentina on November 23, 2021, 12:13 am

NeoMediaPlayer Plugin

I forgot about yours. :)

Now with this database can be found any plugin.

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#18 · November 26, 2021, 12:32 am

I bet a good LightBox plugin with HTML ability could be put to good work with both, local and remote media. I hear rumors of one coming down the pike ;-)

#19 · January 10, 2022, 8:30 pm

VLC is okay but it is a rather large file and slow to open (it has playlists etc.,)

I discovered that the new open source mpv player will embed in a rectangle and it will play any media file without crashing..

mpv.io

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