How to install VLC Media plugin

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Hi guys, I am having some trouble installing this third party plugin

I am getting random errors, I am putting it in the file myProject/Plugins/
I’ve tried rebuilding it through VS2015 and VS2017, and have tried many different releases of the code relating to the release of UE4. I have then closed and re-opened UE4 and was asked to build the dll’s only for it to run into an error: ‘Project can not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually’.

Any suggestions and help will be much appreciated. I am pretty new to UE4, so apologies for any of the low technical details.

UPDATE: Seems to work with UE 4.16 without problems, It was updated to this version without release specifications on GitHub

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Trying too, there are issues with the build.cs files. Not yet sure what exactly

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Managed to compile.

There are three build.cs files, one in each subfolder of …/VlcMedia-master/Source

Change the lines from : public XXX(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
to: XXX(TargetInfo Target)

EDIT: This code change is only neccesary for 4.15 and below. The code is correct for 4.16+.

Now I’m stuck. How to use the plugin?

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Hi, To use the plugin:
Click on media player class you created, in the bottom right on-top of the timeline you will see ‘playback options’, click it, then chose ‘decoder’ then ‘vlc player’

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Thanks you. How did you manage to find that out?

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I just played around - I knew it had to do with the media player asset / blueprint / class.

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Well, was looking there as well, but didn’t even knew the button existes…
Thanks again