VLC ActiveX Control (1.1.4) and Hardware Acceleration (ffmpeg-hw) Bug

The "ffmpeg-hw" does not enable hardware acceleration in the latest VLC ActiveX control. Whether set or not, hardware acceleration is never used by VLC ActiveX. Setting this option manually via VLC player options or the command line interface does work. It is only the ActiveX control that doesn't work.

The inability to use hardware acceleration makes playback of some files (such as VOBs) difficult on machines with slower CPUs.

Code Sample:

string[] options = new string[1];
options[0] = "--ffmpeg-hw";
string fileName = "Video.m2ts"
string metaName = "Simuilationsfahrt";

axVLCPlugin21.playlist.add(fileName, metaName, options);
axVLCPlugin21.playlist.play();

Other options such as "novideo" do work fine, so the problem isn't caused by the calling code.

Multiple users seem to be affected. See forum topic here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=80903

ffmpeg-hw is purposefully not allowed in web pages. It is not up to webmasters to decide how to use the visitor's hardware.

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I agree with your comments regarding the web, but the ActiveX is very commonly used in Windows applications and in those cases, VLC should allow hw accel.

If the dev team's decision remains unchanged, is it at least possible for users/integrators to recompile the activeX project with hw accel enabled?

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Nevermind last post as hacking the activex project source resolves the problem.

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ActiveX is used by applications, but this isn't the best way.