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We did a nasty trick in our application.

You really can't load file name by javascript; however, you CAN read a file path by java applet.

So we added an additional java applet to our app (so now, we require both VLC plugin and Java. Hurray for open internet.)

This is easily fixed, I put it as a bug into trac but it was closed as duplicate and as already done for 1.2 You have to open the plug-in package and add this into Info.plist file: <key>WebPluginMIMETypes</key> <dict> <key>application/x-vlc-plugin</key> <dict> <key>WebPluginExtensions</key> <array> ...