CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore.LgplLicenseForever 3.0.117

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore

A fully managed, cross-platform audio / video media-player library for .NET, providing a comprehensive multimedia API that can render video, output audio, and control playback across Windows, Linux, and macOS desktops.

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore is a .NET 10 drop-in-compatible port of the LibVLCSharp NuGet package (version 3.9.7) — the official .NET wrapper around VideoLAN's LibVLC library. CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore has no managed NuGet dependencies of its own; it requires the native libvlc library to be installed or referenced via one of the official VideoLAN.LibVLC.* runtime packages (VideoLAN.LibVLC.Windows, VideoLAN.LibVLC.Linux, etc.).

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore is provided as a .NET 10 library and associated CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore.LgplLicenseForever NuGet package.

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore supports applications and assemblies that target Microsoft .NET version 10.0 and later. Microsoft .NET version 10.0 is a Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of .NET, and was released on Nov 11, 2025; and will be actively supported by Microsoft until Nov 14, 2028. Please update your C#/.NET code and projects to the latest LTS version of Microsoft .NET.

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore supports:

• Play every media file format, every codec, and every streaming protocol supported by libvlc
• Hardware-accelerated decoding up to 8K
• Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS) and servers (UPnP, DLNA)
• Playback of Audio CD, DVD, and Bluray with menu navigation
• HDR, including tonemapping for SDR streams
• Audio passthrough with SPDIF and HDMI, including HD codecs (DD+, TrueHD, DTS-HD)
• Video and audio filters
• 360 video and 3D audio playback, including Ambisonics
• Casting and streaming to distant renderers (Chromecast and UPnP renderers)
• A MediaPlayerElement-style management layer for building playback UIs

Sample Code

Play a local media file

using CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore;

Core.Initialize();

using var libVLC = new LibVLC();
using var media = new Media(libVLC, new Uri("file:///path/to/video.mp4"));
using var mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(media);

mediaPlayer.Play();

// ... keep the process alive while playback runs ...

Enumerate audio output devices

using CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore;

using var libVLC = new LibVLC();

foreach (var device in libVLC.AudioOutputDevices())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"{device.Description} ({device.DeviceIdentifier})");
}

License

Copyright (C) VideoLAN and the LibVLCSharp authors. Copyright (c) 2026 Jeremy Ellis and contributors.

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later (LGPL-2.1-or-later). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License for an overview. The full, verbatim LGPL-2.1 text is in LICENSE at the root of this repository and ships inside the NuGet package.

This library is a port of LibVLCSharp version 3.9.7 (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp), originally authored by VideoLAN and distributed under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license. All upstream copyright and license notices are preserved in the ported source files. Per-file modification notices dated 2026-04-18 appear above every ported source file. See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt for the upstream attribution, the source-availability statement, and the MIT notice covering the bundled FontAwesome icon-codepoint file.

Notes for consumers

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore is distributed as a standalone CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore.dll inside a NuGet package and is intended to be consumed via <PackageReference>. This satisfies LGPL-2.1 §6 (relinkability): end users of your application can replace CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore.dll in your bin folder with a modified, interface-compatible version at any time. Do not static-link CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore into your host assembly (e.g. via ILMerge / ILRepack); doing so forfeits LGPL-2.1 §6 eligibility and extends the library's copyleft to the combined work.

Consumers of CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore are free to license their own code under any license they choose, provided they (a) preserve this notice, (b) allow end users to substitute a modified version of CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore.dll, and (c) include the LGPL-2.1 license text in their distribution (the LICENSE file ships inside the NuGet package for this purpose).

Trademark and non-affiliation

CodeBrix.Platform.MediaPlayerCore is an independent fork and is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with VideoLAN or the LibVLCSharp project. "VideoLAN", "VLC", and "LibVLC" are trademarks of VideoLAN. The native libvlc library is distributed separately by VideoLAN; consult https://www.videolan.org/ for its terms (which include codec and patent considerations not covered by this notice).