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I'll try to make some more arguments for getting info about audio-streams with the activeX/mozilla-plugin. Hopefully somebody is interesting in implementing it. Getting and setting the current selected audio-stream works. However there's no way to get any information about the audio-streams. I think...

When playing DVD with VLC you can choose to use the dvd:// protocol but not supply a devicename. This seems very usefull since you can't use Javascript to search for DVD media in a drive (unless you run from an XUL application). However both the VLC player and plugin take somewhere from 30 seconds t...

The response to the post quoted below was not specific (at least on a line item by line item basis). It would appear that the ability to switch between audio tracks while the video is playing is not yet a feature for the plugin? As far as I can tell the only way to select which audio track is throu...

With the Mozilla plugin/Javascript I have no problem in using :start-time with DVD's in the options with 0.8.6 and 0.9.0. (I use dvdread:// as protocol to play DVD). I can't imagine it should make a difference whether you use it in the Mozilla plugin or ActiveX with C#, because the options are parse...

I think he means the feature some programs, like for example WinAMP have. When you drag their window and the resulting position will be within an X amount of pixels distance of top/bottom/right/left of the desktop, it'll move to the corner its close to. So for example when it gets close to the botto...

Thanks for the nice testpage Quovodis. Only problem is the page you link with documentation is a little outdated and has some mistakes. Maybe you can link the wiki version: http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Advanced_Use_of_VLC#Build_HTML_pages_that_use_the_plugin_.28version_.3E_0.8.5...

And use the WIki for documentations ! ok, I've noted that .playlist.add gives back a item number, added the missing playlist.playItem(), changed an incorrect note after .remoteItemID, noted .video.subtitle=0 disables the subtitles and also noted .audio.track=0 disables the audio. jpsaman allready w...

Ok, by coincidence I also have a case where VLC fails to play back sound. It might have something to do with trying to start playback before VLC is fully initialized?? In any cause it happened in both 0.8.6, but in 0.9.0 I could force the sound to restart (when playback started) using: player.player...

I don't know why it would start to fail. Did find some other interesting stuff though: A list of all options you can pass to VLC: http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_command-line_help More recent version of the VLC-plugin methods: http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Play_HowTo/Advanced_Use_of_...

Thanks to jpsaman for the adding the code ( changeset #19304) to change subtitles. The first nightly with .video.subtitle support is: vlc-0.9.0-svn-20070312-0000-win32 How to use: Selecting an subtitle stream like vlc.audio.track the streamnumber is one higher than if set with the command-line (prob...

I have a big problem,everything was working well, i didn't touch anything and now it doesn't work anymore, i don't understand what is going on! The problem is that the function var itemId = vlc.playlist.add(media_url,null,':audio-track=0 :sub-track=0'); is not recognized anymore Which version of th...

This is the official description of the API: http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html#id294468 It's not 100% complete/correct though: afaik there's also an .playlist.playItem(itemID) method it doesn't mention .audio.track yet, probably since it's in 0.9.0 nightlies (testversions) and not ...

If you're using 0.8.6 or newer of the plugin you can use the options to set the starting audio-track and subtitle : var options = ':audio-track='+(audioTrack)+' :sub-track='+subtitleTrack; vlc.playlist.clear(); vlc.playlist.add(URI,null,options); // MRL, name, options vlc.playlist.play(); If you're ...

I've got some questions in relation to DVD playback within the VLC (mozilla) plugin: Is there a possibility to start from a chapter but continue playing the title, without stopping at the end of the chapter? Is there or will there be a way to get the start/end-time of a chapter within the title? Cur...

With the browser plugin you can pass the subtitle you want to use as an options when you add an item to the playlist. However I want to give the enduser the ability to switch subtitles on/off or change the subtitle track while the video is playing. The only way to do this at the moment is to restart...

What about Firefox? Firefox on windows *can* use ActiveX controls. Using ActiveX for what he wants is bad because: the plugin requires a different version for different Firefox versions only meant for Firefox up to 1.5 (although it seems to work on 2.0 too) doesn't work in Firefox 3 (tested in alph...

this problem is related to http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/920, until we fix it, you will need to make sure that IE/firefox command line is empty Then I'm quite convinced this also causes ticked #900 (with Mobile Firefox and Portable Firefox not working since 0.8.6-test2). I'm guessing they pas...

I'm trying to make an abstraction layer in Javascript for VLC and MS(VidWeb)DVD (activeX for playing DVD). (meaning calls to my own functions get translated to the preferred player). This way my webapplication can choose between MSDVD (stabile, very complete instructionset, audiostream info, access ...

Where does it save the playlist?
On a server, in a cookie or client-side session?

Hey divx118 The vlc.playlist.add(mrl, name, options) ? Then I guess its me doing something wrong. I have tried with var options = new Array(":rtsp-tcp"); vlc.playlist.add("http://...url", "", options); and with vlc.playlist.add("http://...url", null, options)...

If the system you want to run the webapplication on doesn't have VLC installed, you'll also need to copy over the content of VLC's plugins map. There's a lot of stuff in that map you won't need (like interface stuff for VLC player) but if you want to cut down on size you'll have to find out yourself...

Great. Could you, Spellcoder, report to this thread whether there is real improvement on getting the audio track info. Function was called get_track() , wasn't it? Well, I've got it to work now. The main improvement is that you can change audio-stream while playing. (which I now use in my webapplic...

Reading the current audio-stream ID ( = objVLC.audio.track ) and setting the audio stream (objVLC.audio.track=) works great in the 0.9.0 nightly ! (thanks!) I have some futher requests too, because although setting audio tracks during playing was on my wishlist it doesn't give information about avai...

Yep, and you'll need the plugins for VLC (all the lib*.dll) in the Firefox/Plugins map too (or else you'll have to install VLC on all computers you use your USB stick/DVD on). It makes the Firefox plugin map a bit messy though. I think the guys from Songbird modified VLC so all it's plugins go into ...

I tried the vlc-0.9.0-svn-20070104-0002-win32 nightly, which at least could play video again, but I havn't got the audio track methods to work yet. I tried to use audio.get_track(), audio.set_track().... and later audio.getTrack()/audio.setTrack().. But all give an Trying to get unsupported property...