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use playlists/metafiles..

Link to a playlist in the web page, and then open the downloaded playlist in VLC...

MSDN article explaining why

did you add an id ? (because the embed tag only has a name attribute in my page ...) it does not make any difference if I do, and I don't think I need to: document.video1 is a valid object in Opera (if I use a different name, I get a different error message: "Statement on line 1: Could not con...

I have also been looking at this. As fas as I know there is no way of getting IE to quit downloading a certain file type and then use another program to download that file (which would be VLC in yor case) The exception is for the file types known by WMP such as MP3, WMV where IE insists on using Win...

Thanks for the quick response... I am using your own test page :) http://vthr.videolan.org/~dionoea/april/ with 2 minor modifications - specifying a different target file -- which exists and is played by FireFox, and adding the alternative action using getElementById("video1"): <input type...

Is the mozilla plugin meant to be useable with other browsers? I have tried it in Opera, and it plays back video and audio if the url is passed in the <embed> element, and AutoStart is enabled, so the plugin is obviously installed, but the problem is that none of the controls actually work -- a butt...