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Hi, just a simple question ...

In order to use vlc to play video in a web page, I know there's vlc activeX for IE, and Mozilla plugin for FireFox, ... my question is ..how about for the browser Opera?

I am a newbie of Opera ..so,.. don't laught at my question pls ..

Thanks ..

Opera (on WinXP at least) automatically searches "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC" for the mozilla npvlc.dll plug-in.

If Opera finds it, it will show up under tools -> advanced -> plug-ins and Opera will be able to use it.

In Opera, you may also have to go to tools -> preferences -> advanced -> downloads -> uncheck "hide file types" and edit application/x-ogg, application/ogg ogg, application/x-vlc-plugin and application/x-google-vlc-plugin to "Use-plugin".

If Opera doesn't detect npvlc.dll in that directory, copy it to Opera's plugins directory and restart Opera.

For example, this works in the latest weekly of Opera.

Also, on a side, Opera has been working on video element support. It will allow Opera to play ogg theora videos natively with no need for a plug-in. Look for that some time in the future once the video element spec becomes stable.

Thanks Shadow !!

Sory for the necrobump, but...

I got Opera to recognize the VLC plugin after a coupple tries but what I really want to know is if I can configure it to play formats besides OGG and its kin...like Quicktime files. (Would so love not having to install Quicktime for Windows, when VLC plays them, dare I say better, in standalone mode).

You can use resource hacker to add mime types and extensions to the dll. Then, Opera will see that the plugin is reporting that it supports more types and will let you configure them.

As to whether the plugin will play the type, you'll have to try.

Might anyone have one that is, shall we say, pre-hacked? I'm an art geek, not a code geek. >.>

The ones at http://nightlies.videolan.org/ report that they support a whole bunch of stuff. But, they might not be too stable.