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LibVLCSharp.GTK

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The official GTK# views for LibVLCSharp.

This package contains the views that allows to display a video played with LibVLCSharp in a GTK# app (the mono/gtk-sharp one, see below).

LibVLCSharp.Forms.Platforms.GTK depends on this package.

This package depends on LibVLCSharp.

Supported frameworks:

  • net47 (on mono)

Supported platforms:

  • Windows
  • Linux

NOTE: This package does not currently support macOS! See this issue

WARNING: To create a GTK# program and run the samples, you will need mono and GTK# installed on the machine you build AND on the machine you run.

A note on mono/gtk-sharp vs GtkSharp/GtkSharp

Let's face it, mono/gtk-sharp has a lot of drawbacks:

  • It is based on GTK 2 (GTK 3 was released in 2011... but no stable version of GTK# for GTK3 as of now)
  • Requires mono and GTK# installed on both the build and the target machine. (aka no nuget package)

On the other hand, GtkSharp/GtkSharp fixes this issues by providing a .NET Standard 2.0 package for GTK 3.0 and NuGet packages for the GTK# libraries.

Unfortunately, Xamarin.Forms.GTK is only implemented using the former, which means that in order to support Xamarin.Forms.GTK, our views needs to support mono/gtk-sharp, hence this package.

Why should I reference this package in my project?

If you want to create a video application using GTK# and C# with mono, this package is made for you.

You can also create a true cross-platform application with Xamarin.Forms, and use the GTK# backend to target linux and windows. In that case, you would need the LibVLCSharp.Forms.Platforms.GTK package instead, which internally references this one.

For other platforms, see the main documentation