IE 11 keeps opening Windows Media Player despite installation of VLC Plugin

[Nini]

So, that's the problem: VLC Player including the Plugins for IE and Pale Moon are installed and marked as activated. While in Pale Moon Ogg files now are opened and played with VLC plugin, IE opens Windows Media Player which tries (to no avail, of course) to connect. How do I tell IE to play Ogg files with the VLC Plugin?

You can use as a test any of the Ogg Playists on this website
http://www.deutschlandradio.de/deutschl ... 08.de.html

Oh, and since I had that in the German VLC Player forum, please be so kind to restrain yourself from comments such as "why not use Firechrome", "I don't use IE" or "active x is evil". Such are no solution for the problem on hand. People have reasons for using the programmes they use, and since there is such a thing as an IE plugin there must be a way to make it work, otherwise why should it have been created?

[kodela]

Hi Nini,

Nobody has asked you at vlc-forum.de, why you "not use Firechrome" and no one has written, "active x is evil".

But you wrote, if there is an IE plugin of VLC, then it must be also usable. And this is what the VLC people have knitted, not the IE people.

Why are you doing this?

[Nini]

It doesn't make sense to develop a plugin which cannot be used. Nobody would do that. So it must be usable. And someone must have made it. And certainly VLC, since the plugin is even incorporated in the installation file. The Flash Player Plugins, for example, also have been made by Adobe and not by the browser companies.
And as a reply to a question to say "I don't use that browser since long" with "readable" sniffing down your nose, is nothing to the point, you know. Why does this person bother to answer in the first place, just for telling me that he doesn't use the browser? If I don't know or like a programme somebody asks about I don't reply. Period!

[da2424]

In IE, plugins will be only used if you call these directly over the HTML tags <embed> or <object> with its CLSID or MIME type.