dbusmpris2C

Intended to be a minimalist C, header only, DBus controller for video players using the MPRIS2 convention (vlc, omxplayer...).

Code is using the low-level libdbus library (no X server required).

Compilation

Compile using the provided Makefile or with:

gcc -Wall -o Example example.c pkg-config --cflags dbus-1 pkg-config --libs dbus-1

Supported players

So far only two players have a (very) partial support:

• VLC
• omxplayer

Note that some functionnalities are only available for one or the other (since omxplayer doesn't fully respect MPRIS2 standard). See source code for details.

Extend

To extend to another player, simply use the vlc model (which respects the MPRIS2 standard).

References

MPRIS2 specifications can be found here: http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/ .

omxplayer repository on GitHub: https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer .