YAMP2

Yet Another Media Player v2

Made with Avalonia and my new Unofficial LibVLCSharp.Avalonia library

Sample Video

Watch YAMP 2 in action

The official distribution of the Videolan LibVLCSharp library for Avalonia is, at present, incomplete and, to say the least, disappointing.

The list of shortcomings of that official distribution is certainly very long, but its, let's call them, basic problems are:

• Inability to use the VideoView (the MediaPlayer) within an Avalonia UserControl. So VideoView can only be inserted inside a Window object.

• Impossibility to create a layer on top of the VideoView, for example, to create a player control panel.

With a bit of luck, I managed to overcome both of these problems and I created this Unofficial distribution of the library, deeply modifying the useless official one, so that anyone can have more satisfaction in their own applications when using LibVLCSharp in Avalonia.

This unofficial distribution of the library has been tested with full success in Windows, Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi 3 (1GB RAM) with DietPi as operating system.

Using my Unofficial distribution, I created YAMP2 , a trivial media player (but with some goodies like, for example, the usage of YT-DLP to play videos from Youtube, Vimeo and others, without ads).

The code of YAMP2 was written in a few hours and... <u>badly</u>, for sure. But it was created just to show everyone how to use the library as quickly as possible in the real world.

Build YAMP2

Just clone the repo, open the YAMP2 solution in VS2019, build and run it. Enjoy.

Some reference links

c# - AvaloniaUI: Cannot embed VideoView control (LibVlcSharp) in a UserControl - Stack Overflow

Video Player · Issue #2571 · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · GitHub

Add support for NativeControlHost inside a UserControl · Issue #6237 · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · GitHub