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LibVLCSharp documentation

LibVLCSharp is a cross-platform audio and video API for .NET platforms based on VideoLAN's LibVLC Library. It provides a comprehensive multimedia API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop to render video and output audio. Mono, .NET Framework and .NET Core runtimes are supported.

• LibVLCSharp
  • Getting started
  • Installation steps.
    • LibVLC
    • LibVLCSharp
  • Migrating from Vlc.Dotnet
  • How do I do X?
  • Troubleshooting
  • MediaPlayerElement
  • General usage guidelines and best practices
  • LibVLC documentation
  • Tutorials
  • Community projects
  • Get Help
  • Contribute
  • Resources

Getting started

Follow our Getting Started guide.

Installation steps

LibVLC

Read and follow https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libvlc-nuget

LibVLCSharp

• LibVLCSharp
• LibVLCSharp.Forms
• LibVLCSharp.WPF
• LibVLCSharp.GTK
• LibVLCSharp.Forms.Platforms.WPF
• LibVLCSharp.Forms.Platforms.GTK
• LibVLCSharp.WinForms
• LibVLCSharp.Uno

For Android specific things, head over to Android.

How do I do X?

Check out our How Do I Do X page.

MediaPlayerElement

For Xamarin.Forms and Uno platforms, we provide a ready-to-use integrated video control.

Learn what it can do and our future plans for it here.

General usage guidelines and best practices

Best practices

LibVLC documentation

Head over to LibVLC documentation.

Tutorials

Our tutorials page contains references to videos, blogposts and samples.

Get Help

Post on the developers LibVLC section of the VideoLAN forum.

Post on StackOverflow.

Chat on our Discord or open a GitLab issue.

Contribute

Contribute to the VideoLAN non-profit https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

Resources

Browse the VideoLAN Wiki.

Browse the opensource code from VideoLAN.