Cannot get javascript reference to embedded player

[TheTheresa]

Hi!

I have vlc player embedded in html code, the video is playing fine, but I cannot get a javascript reference to the player and can therefore not acces the javascript API. I do get a reference to the html element, but it is lacking all of the properties/functions of the vlc API. As far as I can see I'm following the examples in the documentation for the WebPlugin.

I'm using firefox v 57.0.4 for Windows.
I have vlc v. 2.2.8 installed with the Mozilla addOn.
(I have Windows 10, if that may be of any interest)

This is my code:

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<object classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/axvlc.cab" id="vlc"> <embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org" src="http://www.html5videoplayer.net/videos/toystory.mp4" name="vlc" width="640" height="480" /> </object> <script type="text/javascript"> function test(){ var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc"); console.log(vlc.VersionInfo); } </script> <button onclick="test()">Run code</button>

When the code is run, vlc.VersionInfo is undefined. I have tried other properties/functions on the vlc object as well. But everything is undefined.
I'm invoking the code by clicking a button only to make sure that the vlc player has really been loaded.

Ps. I have also tried to embed the player without the object element like this:

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<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org" src="http://www.html5videoplayer.net/videos/toystory.mp4" id="vlc" width="640" height="480" />

But that does not work either.

Greatful for help!

[da2424]

Since Firefox v52, NPAPI plugins like VLC web plugin will not longer be supported and Firefox will play the video with a own HTML5 player.
It will still work with Internet Explorer.
If you want to use Firefox (and other browsers), you could use the HTML5 media API: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_av_dom.asp

[TheTheresa]

Ok. Thanks!