Hello friends,

I'm new here.

Just a simple question: Is there a function in vMix API to just check if a media file exists?

I know I can do that by checking the return of AddInput or ListAdd functions, but I'd like to check it without needing to add sometime (an input or a list item) to vMix.

Is there any way to do that?

Thanks in avance

Basically, what I'm looking for is a way to make the API tells me that vMix can access a media file without having to add an input to perform this check. This would be a pre-check for registration purposes.

Let me give you an example:

I can do the following request to check if vMix can access the file 'image.jpg':

http://vmix-pc:8088/api?Function=AddInput&Value=Image|c:\path\to\image.jpg

If the file's not found, the request will returns null. This is OK for my checking purposes, because the input won't be added to vMix. But if the file exists, the request will return something, which allows me to know that the file has found, but it will also add the input to vMix. I would like to avoid that. I just want to know if the API provides a way to do this check without needing to change anything in the vMix's GUI (like adding a new input, for example).

Thanks again.

In my case, vMix is running on a computer and my program is running on another computer. The program doesn't have access to the media file paths. These paths are only accessed by the computer where vMix is installed. My program just gets (reads) a list of paths (it doesn't know if they exist) and passes them to vMix through the API.

I could solve that by creating another program to run on the computer where vMix is installed, check the paths and send the info that I need, but I'd like to avoid that, if it's possible to validate file existence using the API.

5th example

https://forums.vmix.com/...ng-for-Dummies#post70735