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Hi,

There seems to be a problem with Firefox (I am using Firefox 3.6. running the latest VLC mozilla WebPlugins. I tried both with 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 and both crash Firefox a couple of seconds to half a minute after it returns from a page with an embedded video.
Tried the same with Internet Explorer and the ActiveX version of the same plugins and the problem doesn't appear then.
Anyone aware of this?

I had to go back to plugin version 0.9.9 (and the 'old' API).

yes I also experienced this behaviour.

R U creating the <embed> tag manually in the page?

Have you tried using the VLCObject library from

http://www.revolunet.com/labo/code/VLCobject

As this has some clean up code which seems to destory the player better than just loading another page. I am just switching to using this but have not yet managed to retest in FF, still fighting with IE .

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I have the mozilla <EMBED..> and the activeX <OBJECT..> tags directly written in the HTML/PHP file.
I also didn't try the VLCObject library because I was/am not sure whether it supports VLC 1.1.x and because until now I had my own set of VLC Javascript objects (for VLC plugin v1 and v2) and was not so attracted by the fact to learn a new API.
But maybe I have to give it a try.

With respect to IE I didn't experience any issues. The only thing that doesn't work with IE is the possibility to do a mouse click on VLC's video area, e.g. to resize the area.