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 vlcj ==== The vlcj project provides a Java framework to allow an instance of a native [VLC](http://www.videolan.org/vlc "VLC") media player to be embedded in a Java AWT Window or Swing JFrame. You get more than just simple bindings, you also get a higher level framework that hides a lot of the complexities of working with LibVLC. vlcj is primarily developed and therefore extensively tested on Linux - it does also work just fine on Windows and MacOSX, although there may be some limitations on OSX. At least JDK 1.6 is required, and it works without changes on JDK 1.7+. This is the open source vlcj project page, see also the 'official' [home page](http://capricasoftware.co.uk/projects/vlcj "Official vlcj home page at Caprica Software") where you can find more information as well as some new simple tutorials. Version 3.0.0+ of vlcj requires version 2.1.0+ of VLC, earlier versions of VLC are *not* supported and will *not* work. Version 3.0.0+ of vlcj requires version 3.5.2 of JNA. Some features of version 3.0.0+ of vlcj (such as the new audio equalizer API) require version 2.2.0+ of VLC. If you still need to use VLC 2.0.x then you must stay with vlcj 2.x.x instead of upgrading to the new vlcj 3.0.0 series. Maven Dependency ---------------- Add the following Maven dependency to your own project pom.xml: ``` <dependency> <groupId>uk.co.caprica</groupId> <artifactId>vlcj</artifactId> <version>3.12.0</version> </dependency> ``` News ---- _The 3.12.0 release of vlcj will likely by the last of the 3.x series. New development will switch to vlcj 4.x, which may make breaking API changes such as removing native functions no longer supported by LibVLC. As a minimum, LibVLC 3.x will be required for vlcj 4, LibVLC 2.x will not be supported. We may also bump the JDK dependency which is currently at JDK 6._ 08/01/2019 Made new release 3.12.0 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), only change was to add a potentially very useful new "media player ready" event to the media player event listener which is fired once when the media has *definitely* started playing - this can be useful to properly enable logo/marquee at the right time, select tracks and so on. Counter-intuitively, the "playing" event can *not* be used for this! 03/01/2019 Made new release 3.11.0 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), various small issues addressed, see [milestone issues](https://github.com/caprica/vlcj/milestone/27?closed=1) for more details. This release bumps 3rd party library dependencies to the latest versions, including JNA, so beware! 02/01/2019 Happy new year! This project is still very much alive - but why hasn't there been a new release for a while? Well, this project is stable and mature and we very rarely get any significant bug reports. LibVLC also does not add significant new features all that often and it too has a slow release cycle. The latest release version of vlcj works just fine with the latest VLC 3.x. So we don't just push out new releases for the sake of it. Nevertheless, development is still active and ongoing and we expect to push out new releases this year, fixing small issues, and looking at the latest LibVLC to see if there's anything new there worth adding. 03/02/2016 [Experimental branch](https://github.com/caprica/vlcj/tree/experimental) with direct rendering media player improvements, removing a full frame memory copy. This branch is *not* backwardly compatibly with vlcj 3.x. 30/12/2015 Made new release 3.10.1 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), fixes a problem finding VLC plugins on Windows after the upgrade to JNA 4.1.0. 20/12/2015 Made new release 3.10.0 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), uses JNA 4.1.0, support new meta data and event exposed by LibVLC 3.x (not yet released), minor Javadoc update, minor fix to the media list player. 12/08/2015 Made new release 3.9.0 (Mal edition) at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), fixes a YouTube issue, adds supports for new LibVLC 3.x audio volume/mute/cork events. 14/07/2015 Made new release 3.8.0 (New Horizons edition) at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), check the github issues milestone for details. New extended chapter and title information (LibVLC 3.0.0+). Minor bug fixes and improvements. 25/04/2015 Made new release 3.7.0 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), check the github issues milestone for details. Play media using Java IO (LibVLC 3.0.0+)! Minor fixes and improvements. 10/03/2015 Made new release 3.6.0 at [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|vlcj), check the github issues milestone for details. Minor fixes and improvements. 02/03/2015 vlcj-pro released, free time-limited trial packages are available from the official [vlcj-pro](http://t.co/Gv04rAta9c) product page. Version 3.0.0+ of vlcj requires version 2.1.0+ of vlc, earlier versions of vlc are *not* supported and will *not* work. Some features provided by vlcj depend on the runtime version of vlc. The most current release of vlcj often tracks the bleeding edge of VLC development, consequently some features provided by vlcj will require a very recent version of VLC and in some cases a pre-release version of VLC may be needed. Where the runtime version of VLC is not new enough, in most cases vlcj attempts to fail-safe. See also [vlcj-info](https://github.com/caprica/vlcj-info) for a small library that can extract information from local media files using the MediaInfo library. You can also follow @capricasoftware on Twitter for more vlcj news. Documentation ------------- Some new tutorials are available at the [official project page](http://capricasoftware.co.uk/#/projects/vlcj/tutorial). The vlcj project page is at [github](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj "vlcj at github"). Online Javadoc is available: * [3.12.0 (current)](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.12.0/index.html "3.12.0 Javadoc") * [3.11.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.11.0/index.html "3.11.0 Javadoc") * [3.10.1](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.10.1/index.html "3.10.1 Javadoc") * [3.10.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.10.0/index.html "3.10.0 Javadoc") * [3.9.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.9.0/index.html "3.9.0 Javadoc") * [3.8.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.8.0/index.html "3.8.0 Javadoc") * [3.7.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.7.0/index.html "3.7.0 Javadoc") * [3.6.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.6.0/index.html "3.6.0 Javadoc") * [3.5.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.5.0/index.html "3.5.0 Javadoc") * [3.4.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.4.0/index.html "3.4.0 Javadoc") * [3.3.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.3.0/index.html "3.3.0 Javadoc") * [3.2.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.2.0/index.html "3.2.0 Javadoc") * [3.1.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.1.0/index.html "3.1.0 Javadoc") * [3.0.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/3.0.0/index.html "3.0.0 Javadoc") * [2.4.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/2.4.0/index.html "2.4.0 Javadoc") * [2.3.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/2.3.0/index.html "2.3.0 Javadoc") * [2.2.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/2.2.0/index.html "2.2.0 Javadoc") * [2.1.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/2.1.0/index.html "2.1.0 Javadoc") * [2.0.0](http://caprica.github.com/vlcj/javadoc/2.0.0/index.html "2.0.0 Javadoc") Examples -------- There are many examples in the vlcj test sources showing how to use vlcj. For a more complete example of a feature-rich media player built with vlcj, see [vlcj-player](https://github.com/caprica/vlcj-player). Support ------- Development of vlcj is carried out by [Caprica Software](http://www.capricasoftware.co.uk). Free support for Open Source and no