The MediaPlayerElement iis not supported for Skia Desktop (Linux/Raspberry Pi)

[Grzesik]

I'd like to ask, when the MediaPlayerElement will be supported for Skia Desktop. I develop an app for Raspberry Pi and the MediaPlayerElement worked for Skia GTK. Skia GTK is now no more supported, so I have a problem to show a video in the app.
Do you have any plan, when the control will be released? Is there any other possibility to show a video on a page in the uno platform?

[morning4coffe-dev]

Hi Grzesik,

Yes, we’re aware of the need — and we’ll be revealing our plan very soon. Stay tuned! 😉

Best regards,
Dominik

[Grzesik]

Thanks for your answer. It sounds good!
Meanwhile II asked LibVLCSharp and sent them a sample.

[jeromelaban]

We've now updated the support with Uno 6.0! Give it a try and let us know.

[Grzesik]

Hi Jerome,
I tried to test it, but for now I got stuck, becase of this bug #20273

The Platform 6.0 is really great, I can work with it on Windows and WSL2, but on Raspberry Pi 5 works nothing :-(

[jeromelaban]

Thanks. This particular issue is a SkiaSharp-related issue, which does not have a resolution for now.

[Grzesik]

@jeromelaban I've tested the MediaPalyerElement on RaspberryPi5, but unfortunatelly it doesn't work. The Nuget supports only win-x64 and win-x86.

In my project file I have only this:

Material; MediaElement; Hosting; Toolkit; Logging; LoggingSerilog; Mvvm; Configuration; Localization; Navigation; SkiaRenderer;

Do I need a sperate Nuget package?

PS. I could solve the problem with running the app on RP5 #20273

Uno.UI.Dispatching.NativeDispatcher[0]
NativeDispatcher unhandled exception
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Uno.UI.MediaPlayer.Skia.X11.SharedMediaPlayerExtension' threw an exception.
---> LibVLCSharp.Shared.VLCException: LibVLC could not be created. Make sure that you have done the following:
- Installed latest LibVLC from nuget for your target platform.
Unable to load shared library 'libvlc' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider using a tool like strace. If you're using glibc, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable:
/home/s2b/app/libvlc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/s2b/app/liblibvlc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/s2b/app/libvlc: cannot read file data: Is a directory
libvlc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/s2b/app/liblibvlc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Core.Native.LibVLCVersion()
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Core.Native.LibVLCVersion()
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Core.EnsureVersionsMatch()
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Helpers.MarshalUtils.CreateWithOptions(String[] options, Func3 create) at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Helpers.MarshalUtils.CreateWithOptions(String[] options, Func3 create)
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.LibVLC.<>c__DisplayClass8_0.<.ctor>b__0()
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.Internal..ctor(Func1 create, Action1 release)
at LibVLCSharp.Shared.LibVLC..ctor(String[] options)
at Uno.UI.MediaPlayer.Skia.X11.SharedMediaPlayerExtension..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

[jeromelaban]

Thanks for the report. The error you're getting means that libvlc is not installed in your environment and that it needs to be installed. We're adjusting that error in an upcoming build to make it clearer, still.