VLC and mozilla Firefox

[Ar4i]

After installing VLC player on FireFox 3.0.4 (Windows XP) it seems to have replaced media player plug-in and now click on a streamed video like a TV would show a "Video is loading..." message that would stay forever. While the same video worked just fine before installation of VLC.
When I disable the VLC plug-in in Firefox the videos no longer load anything. How can I remove the VLC plug-in and restore media player plug in? I still would like to use VLC player to watch TV as external player, but it seems that it won't work in the browser. The same thing happened on both my computers.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC version?

[Ar4i]

VLC 0.9.6

[VLC_help]

Uninstall VLC and install it again without browser plugins.

0.9.8a hopefully has working browser plugin if you want to try that.

[giangy11]

i've vlc 1.0.0-git compiled by myself with mozilla plugins.
Mozilla plugins are activated on firefox browser (typing about:plugins i see all the mozilla vlc plugins activated).

Now where can i find a website where i can use this vlc browser player?
thank you
Gianluca

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

vlc.revolunet.com ?

[giangy11]

with mozilla plugins of my source-compiled version of vlc (1.0.0-git-goldeneye) plugins don't works (modifing registry key with the 1.0.0 plugin path)

if i use mozilla plugins of vlc 0.9.6 (installer.exe) plugins work correctly.

in your opinion what is the problem?

[giangy11]

i've seen that only with vlc installer version-win32 the mozilla plugin on it works fine.

with others version it doesn't.

I think it's a problem of key registry, but i don't know :-/

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Of course, you cannot use the plugin without registering the dlls.

[giangy11]

how have i to proceed?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use the installer.

[giangy11]

installer is not present for 1.0.0-git

can i create an installer like the 0.9.8a version, by myself?

[thannoy]

Yes you can:

Here is how to proceed, in two steps (it can be done in one step but don't have it in mind)

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make package-win32-debug-zip # or others similar targets, you can look at the Makefile to get them # will generate vlc-1.0.../ and vlc-1.0...zip, which have to be removed before calling the make above

on a Windows OS, unzip vlc-1.0...zip generated by first step, get nullsoft NSIS compiler (easy to find, sourceforge iirc), right-click on the .nsi file of the extracted folder->compile. The .exe installer will be generated in the parent folder.

NB: if you have not compiled some parts of VLC, NSI can fail to compile. You can edit the .nsi file to comment out non-generated files install.

[giangy11]

thank you for the answer but i've already make an exe installer with nsis (before i've compiled with make package-win32-zip)

the problem is that this installer created is different from the "official" one used by videolan crew.

In fact on their installer (see 0.9.8a version) there is the choice to install mozilla plugin (and in fact it's installed by default also in win32 registry key) automatically...but how i can do the same by me?

Or elsewhere if i put manually the registry values for npvlc.dll 1.0.0-git, mozilla plugin doesn't work. (see pic)
Anyone else could try it?
Thank you

[thannoy]

Everything works like a charm for me (the make target I gave, then windows nsi compilation). Except the version string, I get a "normal" installer, with mozilla install choice, etc. Below is the insertion made by the vlc-installer:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@videolan.org/vlc,version=1.0.0-git] "Description"="VLC Multimedia Plugin" "Path"="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\npvlc.dll" "Product"="VLC media player" "Vendor"="VideoLAN" "Version"="1.0.0-git"

Your key is different (,version=1.0.0-git)

[giangy11]

i don't understand, your mozilla plugin of vlc 1.0.0-git works fine or not?

and how do you make that vlc-installer complete?

[giangy11]

Yes you can:

Here is how to proceed, in two steps (it can be done in one step but don't have it in mind)

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make package-win32-debug-zip # or others similar targets, you can look at the Makefile to get them # will generate vlc-1.0.../ and vlc-1.0...zip, which have to be removed before calling the make above

on a Windows OS, unzip vlc-1.0...zip generated by first step, get nullsoft NSIS compiler (easy to find, sourceforge iirc), right-click on the .nsi file of the extracted folder->compile. The .exe installer will be generated in the parent folder.

NB: if you have not compiled some parts of VLC, NSI can fail to compile. You can edit the .nsi file to comment out non-generated files install.

thank you problem resolved

[thannoy]

My VLC-1.0 web-plugins are unstable, but somehow they works.

I used a very recent updated git view of VLC, modified a bit to compile (stdio includes in activex, one line commented in qt4.cpp, see latests @vlc-devel mails). Then cross-compilation (the make) succeed. I make the target related to windows package, which create a folder vlc-1.0 with everything in it.
NSI compile it and simply it works, no abracadabra.

Is your local .nsi modified? (git diff extra/package/windows/vlc*.nsi.in iirc)
Isn't your NSIS compiler too old?
I don't have any clue for you since it worked for me, even if I am dealing with segfaults, deadlocks or failed assertions at webplugins runtime, after install.
NB: I'm using win XP

[giangy11]

thannoy i've resolved the problem using again nsi installer.
now installation is the same of the previous versions, and i can choose mozilla plugins to install (and they work as before)