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[caprica]

You know that when allocating objects on the heap they go out of scope and become eligible for garbage collection when the method they're declared in ends?

private Player(String[] args) {
        ...
        EmbeddedMediaPlayer mediaPlayer = mediaPlayerFactory.newEmbeddedMediaPlayer(); // <--- heap variable
        ...
} // <--- goes out of scope

You need to make sure your object doesn't go out of scope - usually this just means declaring it as a field in your class.

You should probably start with the vlcj sample BasicEmbeddedMediaPlayerComponentTest and compare it to your own code.

[caprica]

I think this is something that changed in vlc 2.0.0, you have to use a file URL, not a path.

You do this:

mediaPlayer.playMedia("C:/Default/Player/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi")

You need to do something like this instead:

mediaPlayer.playMedia("file://C:/Default/Player/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi")

[ugomeda]

Sorry for the delay of the response.

You made my day, the problem was effectively comming from the malformed url. I changed it to this and now it works :

mediaPlayer.playMedia("C:\\Default\\Player\\big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi");

Thanks a LOT !

[caprica]

Because of this issue, I changed the playMedia and prepareMedia methods to return a boolean indicator to show whether or not the native media item was successfully created. That would at least tell you that the MRL you passed in was or was not valid.

[caprica]

With vlcj 2.2.0 you should no longer need to use the URL-based syntax.