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OK. I am getting too old for this. I bought a foscam video camera. It claims I need a plugin on the audio page so I clicked the hot link and it took me to VLC. I downloaded the dizzy that came up and I still cannot get the foscam to realize the plugin is loaded. If anyone knows anything about either VLC or my video camera please tell me how to get audio and video to work. Thank you...

Regrettably, we don't have such a plugin available.

Are you looking for the VLC web browser plugin? If yes, it will be available again later this quarter!

Hi Felix, you are correct. It is the browser plugin that he means.

It works like a charm under Windows with Firefox.

Are you looking for the VLC web browser plugin? If yes, it will be available again later this quarter!

Ha, I just happened to be looking into a solution for the same issue on the last day of this quarter.

I gotta hold your feet to the fire on this one, Felix! I'm needing a VLC browser plugin to enable audio through Foscam's web app, too!

Try a nightly build available at http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/mac ... l/?C=M;O=D It's very very stable already. We are actually waiting for the normal desktop app to be ready for release

Try a nightly build available at http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/mac ... l/?C=M;O=D It's very very stable already. We are actually waiting for the normal desktop app to be ready for release

Woot! Thanks!

I'm having trouble getting the plugin installed, however. Do I need to have the desktop nightly installed (I currently have the most recent stable desktop app). Or is installation done through the terminal? When I open the .dmg there is a .plugin file in the top directory, but this simply opens a terminal window. Tried searching the forums with nothing found, so it might be that I'm just missing something simple, but any help would be appreciated...

When you open the dmg, there is a linked folder called "Internet Plug-Ins". Just drop the plugin on this link. Finder will ask you for an administrator password (because the plugin will be installed globally for all users on your Mac). Restart your web browser (if it runs) and you are ready to go.

That's exactly it, thanks! I'm a relatively new Mac user, so this type of installation, while it probably makes perfect sense to long-time users, is a bit foreign to me. I'm used to everything having an installer, for better or worse.

Anyway, I certainly appreciate the help!

Try a nightly build available at http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/mac ... l/?C=M;O=D It's very very stable already. We are actually waiting for the normal desktop app to be ready for release

Felix, I am having the same issue and have tried the link you posted for the nightly build and the link doesn't seem to be working... can you tell me where I can get the plugin?

Just try again, for me it works currenty. The nightly builds server has some issues lately.

I cannot get the audio to work on Google Chrome. This is what I see when I try to access the audio:



I downloaded VLC and all it's plug-ins. Still the same as above. Has anyone found out why this is yet?

Try another browser, like Firefox.

Hi, this is obviously a mac problem and Foscam dont seem to be able to help. I downloaded the plugin and I get a blank box when I click on audio in
Firefox and Safari. In Chrome I get as above 'No plug-in available to display this content'. I asked Foscam to explain exactly how I download the plugin but they couldnt help. I did as above and still no luck. Incidentally I get sound when I use the uFoscam app on my mac but after about 5 minutes the sound and video go out of sync by about 30 seconds or more. I emailed the app makers about that - no reply.
What do we do - give up, buy a PC...?

Hi Felix
Thanks for providing the nightly build site. I am a new Mac user and hope you will answer some questions about installing it.

I downloaded vlc-2.2.0-x86_64-20141009-0312.zip from the nightly build site and opened the zip file which created a folder called vlc-2.2.0-rc1. This folder has Goodies and a VLC application file.

I searched for Internet Plug-Ins on my mac and found one in /Library/Internet Plug-ins. That folder has a few files like FlashPlayer.plugin, Silverlight.plugin etc.
Are you suggesting that I copy the VLC application file to the /Library/Internet Plug-ins folder ? I tried that and restarted the browser but the about:plugins in Firefox does not show VLC media player.

Am I missing something ?

thanks
Shantanu

ssjoshi: The web plugin package is named VLC-webplugin-*.dmg on our nightly builds server. This is seperate to the desktop application.