Is there a way to integrate libVLC with Tauri?

[hxhxhx88]

I am using Tauri to build a cross-platform desktop application. Most parts of my application are written in React and are working happily with Tauri. However, the video player part causes some trouble.

The HTML video tag can play only a limited set of video formats and codecs, and I would like to use libVLC to overcome such limit. Furthermore, I would like to render the video only in a subarea of the window.

For now I am trying something like:

use vlc::{Instance, Media, MediaPlayer};
fn main() {
    tauri::Builder::default()
        .on_page_load(|window, _| {
            let instance = Instance::new().unwrap();
            let md = Media::new_path(&instance, "/my/video.mp4").unwrap();
            let mdp = MediaPlayer::new(&instance).unwrap();
            mdp.set_media(&md);

            // set the window handle to the vlc media player for rendering the video
            let handle = window.ns_window().unwrap();
            mdp.set_nsobject(handle);

            // does not work.
            mdp.play().unwrap();
        })
        .invoke_handler(tauri::generate_handler![greet])
        .run(tauri::generate_context!())
        .expect("error while running tauri application");
}

However, the above code does not work with the log:

cache_read stream error: cannot pre fill buffer
mjpeg demux error: cannot peek

The video playing part does work if running directly within main():

use vlc::{Instance, Media, MediaPlayer};
fn main() {
    let instance = Instance::new().unwrap();
    let md = Media::new_path(&instance, "/my/video.mp4").unwrap();
    let mdp = MediaPlayer::new(&instance).unwrap();
    mdp.set_media(&md);

    // does work although you can only hear the sound
    mdp.play().unwrap();
}

Besides, I failed to find a way to create a subview within the window. Calling window.ns_window() presumably will render the video into the whole window.

My code follows this example of video playing in Rust with libVLC.

Therefore, my question is:

• is it possible to somehow place a subview in a window, and get the handle to that subview?
• how to fix mdp.play() not working within Tauri issue?

Thanks!

[Ar-mane]

i reaally need this