Testing the VLC media player Mozilla/Firefox plugin

[goa103]

Hello,

Read the The Mozilla plugin section of the Documentation:Play HowTo/Advanced Use of VLC Wiki article.

Test pages :

• Testing the VLC media player Mozilla/Firefox plugin.
• Example 1 page of the Wiki article.

My configuration :

• VLC media player 0.8.6b
• Firefox 2.0.0.4 with QuickTime Plug-in 7.1.6 (Enter about:plugins as a URL)
• Windows 2000 Pro.

Test results :

• Default player : QuickTime.
• Forcing VLC : Blank object, it's like the plugin wasn't installed.
• Example 1 : Blank object.

Note that my goal would be to play Apple - Movie Trailers without QuickTime, like the I Am Legend trailers for example. Firefox is very unstable with QuickTime running, it crashed 3 times while writing this message, and I hate being forced using a media player. Open the player, free the end-user !

Don't hesitate to post your configuration and test results,
JM.

[Cornflake]

I've been having a problem where Quicktime crashes all my browsers, (even on a clean install of Windows XP) so I also hoped that VLC could be used to play .MOV files and I would never have to use Quicktime again.

Well like you have found, the plugin does not play Quicktime files for some reason which is ridiculous - Not only can it play all my .MOV files stored on my hard disk, but if I type in a path of a .MOV video on my hard disk with the VLC Plugin test page it plays the files beautifully. The plugin test page will even play 720p files!

I'm running VLC v0.8.6b, with Firefox 2.0.0.4, on Windows XP Pro SP2 (No quicktime plugin installed).

[ustunozgur]

see http://wiki.videolan.org/Useful_Firefox_Extensions

[goa103]

Well like you have found, the plugin does not play Quicktime files for some reason which is ridiculous - Not only can it play all my .MOV files stored on my hard disk, but if I type in a path of a .MOV video on my hard disk with the VLC Plugin test page it plays the files beautifully. The plugin test page will even play 720p files!

Any idea if that page HTML code is documented somewhere ? I can't believe embedding the player is that complicated. Moreover it doesn't play any video, the display remains empty.

[DJ]

Many of the files on Apple's website are links within links, which VLC does not do properly. This should be resolved in the next revision.

[goa103]

Many of the files on Apple's website are links within links, which VLC does not do properly. This should be resolved in the next revision.

Yes but what about our test pages ?

[BrokenUnity]

The Media Player Connectivity extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 from the link in one of the above posts seems to have worked for the Apple trailer site. Thank you for the suggestion. Now I just have to work out videos in youtube.

[goa103]

Just bumping this topic to know if anyone tested my pages. Also don't hesitate to check out my Firefox crashes on exit while QuickTime is still downloading topic to understand how I got interested by the plugin in the first place.

Let's hope we'll be able to play browser embedded videos using VLC some day.

[ustunozgur]

goa103, is using vlc through media-player connectivity inconvinient for you?

[goa103]

Just tested the page with version 0.8.6c and now I get a "(no video)" white text on a black background. At least it seems the player object is properly working… but no video

Maybe there's something wrong in the HTML code, but as QuickTime is able to play it…

[CloudStalker]

Hopefully there will be a GUI for the Firefox plugin that's somewhat similar to Quicktime's GUI.

[goa103]

Hopefully there will be a GUI for the Firefox plugin that's somewhat similar to Quicktime's GUI.

Thanks for the info ! That's why the Wiki article code use JavaScript to control the video ! However any idea why my video is not properly played ? Isn't there any working player online ? What about my test page, does it work for you ?

[goa103]

Any idea if that page HTML code is documented somewhere ? I can't believe embedding the player is that complicated. Moreover it doesn't play any video, the display remains empty.

Explaination posted in the Mozilla / Firefox plugin missing from 0.8.6c ? topic :

Well, that is how it should look. You should also have the "MRL" address box at the top(?). Just enter a files location (e.g. "C:\Temp\Test.avi") and press "Go". Does it work?

You can use the Sample.mov video from my test page for example. It worked like a charm

[ssssssssssss]

firefox 2.0.0.9
vlc 0.8.6c

<embed id="video" version="VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2" type="application/x-vlc-plugin"/>

"video.subtitle" not available

Anyone knows why?

[ssssssssssss]

var vlc = document.getElementById('vlc');
var mrl = "file://c:/movie/01.mkv";
var name = "dd";
var options = "--sub-track=0";
var item = vlc.playlist.add(mrl, name, options);

vlc.playlist.playItem(item);
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0.8.6c command-line interface OK!

Does not have subtitle selected. Why?