I would like to add a video player to my Lazarus program (currently on Windows using Laz 2.0.0).

I have browsed through the article "Displaying video files using Free Pascal and Lazarus", which I found here:
https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/lazvlc/lazvlc.pdf

Other web references also quote this document.

Problem is that it states:
Lazarus users can install thelazvlcpackage.

But I can not find where one can obtain this package...

Any ideas?

Note:
I am currently programming this application on Windopws 7 X64 and I have installed both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Lazarus 2.0.0.

It's available in the lazarus installation:

lazarus/components/vlc/lazvlc.lpk

Michael.

Or rather I found it here:

Package/Install_Uninstall_Packages/Available_for_Installation

I actuially entered lazvlc into the search box and it appeared as version 1.0.
So from there I installed and rebuilt the IDE...

Now I have to get it working too, but youre document should help here.

Unfortunately (for me) the lazvlc package is not graphical so I cannot use it in RAD fashion...
But I found another package PasLibVlc that does what I need: https://prog.olsztyn.pl/paslibvlc/

There is also a blog article describing how to get going: http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-make-simple-video-player-in.html

This made it possible for me to create my videoplayer and it works OK for the level of functionality described in the blog.

I have run into difficulties trying to implement incremental position move buttons in the player, though.
Described on the Lazarus forum here:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=45343.new#new

What do you mean by this ?
It's a component you can drop on a form, and on which you can set properties. Is this not RAD ?

What is missing to make it usable for you ?

Michael.

What I mean is: when I drop the TLCLVLCPlayer component on my form I get a small VLC icon rather than a video viewer panel. It is similart to dropping a non-visual component like a TOpenDialog on the form....

With the alternative I found (also operating through VLC) I get a video screen item I can drag the size of and position RAD-fashion on the form.

Yes.
You must indicate a control (for example a panel) in which the video will be shown. (ParentWindow property)

With the alternative I found (also operating through VLC) I get a video screen item I can drag the size of and position RAD-fashion on the form.

Indeed. But you can shape the indicated control in any way you want.

But creating a TCustomPanel descendent that embeds the player should not be difficult...

Michael.

Just to close this thread:
I made a mistake in my code (!) where I assumed times into the video was in seconds where PasLibVlc actually uses ms. So my steps were 1000 times too small to be visible...

Now working as I need.