Problems with VLC and Firefox

[bugmenot]

Hello,

a few days ago my Windows Media Player decided not to play any more videofiles. That wasn't a big problem cause I'm using mainly VLC, so I decided to deinstall der WMP (as good as possible). After reinstalling VLC in Version 0.8.6f even the playback in the Firefox worked ... partial ...

The problem is that I have no control elements! The playback starts but I cannot pause, stop or jump to an other time position which is realy getting on my nerves! A screenshot of a music stream played on that way (the same problem persists on videos!):


Is it possible to get some control elements? If yes, HOW? Would the same problems exist under linux (Ubuntu 8.04)?

[bugmenot]

Does noone has an idea?

[VLC_help]

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1140
same issue?

[bugmenot]

No, the video or audio is played without problems in firefox!

I'm just missing the controlbuttons!! Just open that link and tell me, if you are able to stop or rewind the movie... I can't!

[bugmenot]

Does realy noone ever saw controll buttons in the embedded player?

[cagedsun]

I am having this problem as well. The thing plays fine, but there are no play/pause or volume controls.

[chocolatejesus]

i have the same problem.
no solution yet?

[patclash]

Hello all ,
the solution is to use MediaPlayerConnectivity add-on to run embled wmp videos with VLC in Firefox
It work very well

[thannoy]

VLC mozilla plugin does not have a control bar embed like pause, stop and others buttons. In fact, a first shot is for linux (because it is based on X11) on 0.9.0.
For the ActiveX, no control bar still implemented ; but I think hotkeys works, at least in fullscreen mode, for both moz-plugin and Activex.


If you are a website developer, you can use the javascript interface of the plugin to add HTML buttons and control the playback. It is also doable to write a grease-monkey script to add this piece of code to many websites, in firefox.

This feature was an idea of a summer of code project, but it seems that this project have not found student to work on it (only mentor listed):
http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2008#GUI_i ... s_plug-ins