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Hi all!

On the Windows version of the plug-in, when you hover over the video, you are presented with speaker (mute) and volume (slider) controls.
On the MAC version, this is not shown or available. Is there some hidden command in the plug-in call on a mac to make this show up?
Removes cross-platform functionality not having consistency

Peter

Maybe I can rephrase the question -

Can someone pull the code from the windows plug in build that does this and incorporate it into the Mac plug in build?

Due to lack of developers on the Mac side the plug-in doesn't get the attention it could, so the feature set will lag over the other platforms. I don't myself use the plug-in, so I can't provide any constructive feedback over its functionality.

Understood - Perhaps whomever is working on the Mac Plugin can drop this in. That would be cool. Like a Christmas present in April. Or an easter egg found weeks after easter hidden in the grass.

Do not expect any big improvements of the existing NPAPI plugins - this technology is getting dropped by more and more browsers nowadays, so it does not make much sense to do huge improvements here.

Note that you always can write your own controls with javascript, controlling the VLC plugin.

I'll also add that when developing web services it is generally preferable to limit video formats to MPEG4 or WebM. What you will see for other file formats is the server doing the transcoding into one of these two formats.

I am curious, what is the scenario you find yourself using the plugin for?

I'm using it to create live preview boxes of streaming video content. It's tricky code and yes, I've got a javascript mute button working. However, because I'm doing some tricky on the fly code replacement of the video preview window to change the port # so it changes the "Channel", the mute javascript breaks for some unknown reason. I'm trying to debug that but if only the mac plug in would just add the MUTE button like it is in the Window version, this would be, well... mute! lol. Bad pun monday go!

As a web developer myself, I would encourage you to look into HTML5 'video' element and associated JS object. It is more limited in terms of supported video formats, but it will mean a larger audience for the solution you are developing. The web is slowly moving away from plugins.

Agreed ajmas. I will revisit that soon.
Last time I tried, it failed pretty miserably on all browsers

So unfortunately, LIVE RTSP streaming video is 100% NOT supported in HTML 5... BOOoooo.....