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Hello,

I developed a WEB application to play videos in .mov, .mxf and .mp4 formats in browser.
I installed VLC player 2.2.6 on a Mac OS X notebook El Capitan vers. 10.11.4, however I can not
view the video in SAFARI browser because I can't enable the VLC web plugin.

How do I enable web plugin in SAFARI browser?

Here's my code:

<object classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... /axvlc.cab" id="vlc">

<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org" name="vlc" src="http://www.mobidata.inf.br/Repositorio/ ... 504082.mov" width="500px" height="290"/>

</object>

<embed
type='application/x-vlc-plugin'
pluginspage='http://www.videolan.org'
version='VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2'
width='800'
height='600'
id='vlc'
loop='yes'
autoplay='yes'
target='http://www.mobidata.inf.br/Repositorio/ ... 504082.mov'>
</embed>

Both do not work.

Thank you.

As far as I know, Safari does not support ActiveX plugins.

Browser plugins are a dying breed, with the focus shifting towards HTML5 friendly technologies. You should really focus on video types supported by the HTML5 'video' tag. Currently the highest common denominator is mpeg4/h264, especially given mobile.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ia_formats

But there are some video sources out there that aren't HTML5 <video> compatible, and never will be. For example I have a MicroSeven video camera that stores AVI files on its internal SD card, and serves them up from an internal web server. I have no control over that, so if I want to see what's on my camera, I need to be able to display AVIs. Furthermore, these AVIs are somewhat malformed, and the only way I've been able to get them to play in a browser on a Mac is with the VLC Web Plugin in Safari.

Where does that plugin live, by the way? Is it still being updated? Mine reports version 2.2.5, but don't remember where I got it from. The latest DMGs from videolan.org don't include the plugin installer.