[Solved] Creating a VLC Plugin/Extension with Lua, for Communicating between VLC and AutoIt

[Zohar]

Hi

When reading about "Lua" in Wikipedia, I found out that VLC supports scripting via Lua Plugins/Extensions.
I thought that it can be really useful for scripting in AutoIt,
since the Lua code can access many variables regarding the currently running movie, etc,
and can also perform operations like display text OSD, and more.

My question:
Does anyone know of a "Hello World" example of such a Lua plugin/extension, in VLC?

It will enable to get started with it..

Thank you

Edited April 5, 2021 by Zohar

[JLogan3o13]

How about the official ReadMe? https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/share/lua/README.txt

[Zohar]

Hi JLogan3o13

Thank you for the reference to that file.

I actually saw it several days ago, and kept a link for it, since it provides a reference for the available functions.
However it does not contain even the smallest example to "taste" the story, and to test that it works..

So that's what I am looking for..
A complete, yet minimalistic example, to run on my VLC..

Edited April 5, 2021 by Zohar

[ViciousXUSMC]

Seems like a fun project, who knows what we may integrate to VLC via Autoit

[Zohar]

I know..

 

If only we could get started..

[userblue]

It is an old thread, but it is better to keep some reference points if some are interested who come by.

There  3 important functions to define in vlc  extension:

descriptor(), activate(), deactivate()

Plus this to write to console:

vlc.msg.info("Salam")

Here some examples from official source code:

- https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/share/lua/

Also it is  good to make a  look on others add-on code many are in lua.

- https://addons.videolan.org/browse/cat/

Hello World:

function descriptor()
    return {
        title = "Simple",
        version = "0.1",
        author = "Blue",
        shortdesc = "XYZ Loader",
        description = "Loads XYZ and apply on the fly",
        capabilities = {}
    }
end


local prefix = "[XYZ] " 


function activate()
    vlc.msg.info(prefix .. "activated!")
    local elapsedDuration = vlc.var.get(vlc.object.input(), "time")
    local timeAsString = tostring(elapsedDuration/1000000)
    vlc.msg.info(prefix .. timeAsString)
end


function deactivate()
    vlc.msg.info(prefix ..  "deactivated!")
end

 

[Zohar]

Thank you very much userblue

Just saw tyour reply now..
I Will try it