Launching VLC from browser

[jcheste1]

I'm working on a webpage where users will select a training video to watch from the browser. The video needs to open in vlc, play full screen, then close vlc when finished. I can do this in my command line with the following: vlc --fullscreen "filepath" "vlc://quit". However, I'm not sure how to make this work on the page.

VLC is installed on the machines the users will be on.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It's up to the browser what applications to start and when. You should not be able to control this from a web page, if only for security reasons.

In other words, you need to tweak the browser configuration to run the correct command line.