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Can't make VLC plugin work on Firefox

Postby feinfadiges » 11 Jul 2011 19:46

People, me and a friend of mine we tried to make the VLC plugin work on firefox so that we could make some tests to an application that we are developing.

I followed the following steps:
1- Closed Mozilla Firefox
2- Copied the two files in Mozilla folder placed in the VLC Player installation folder
3- Pasted both files in the folder Plugin of the Mozilla instalation folder.

Then I made a HTML with a local MPEG and an AVI videos and it did not work.
The HTML code was just like that:

http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch07.html

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<html> <head><title>Demo of VLC mozilla plugin</title></head> <body> <h1>Demo of VLC mozilla plugin - Example 1</h1> <embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" name="video1" autoplay="no" loop="yes" width="400" height="300" target="http://server.example.org/video1.vob" /> <br /> <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.play()'>Play video1</a> <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.pause()'>Pause video1</a> <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.stop()'>Stop video1</a> <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.fullscreen()'>Fullscreen</a> </body> </html>
Nothing happened. I couldnt even see the black space where the movie was supposed to be played.

This is the last version of Firefox. Does anyone know whats going on?

THank you all!

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Re: Can't make VLC plugin work on Firefox

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Jul 2011 19:55

Does about:plugins display vlc?
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Re: Can't make VLC plugin work on Firefox

Postby feinfadiges » 11 Jul 2011 23:54

i'm sorry, what is 'about:plugin' ? Is it a command?

Can you make it clear?

BTW, the same happened when I tried to run it on linux. But in Ubuntu, at least, it showed the black space, but did not played the video

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Re: Can't make VLC plugin work on Firefox

Postby feinfadiges » 12 Jul 2011 16:16

VLC Multimedia Plug-in
audio/mpeg MPEG audio mp2,mp3,mpga,mpega
audio/x-mpeg MPEG audio mp2,mp3,mpga,mpega
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe
video/x-mpeg MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe
video/mpeg-system MPEG video mpg,mpeg,vob
video/x-mpeg-system MPEG video mpg,mpeg,vob
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4,mpg4

....

This information appears in about:plugins, but when I try to play a movie (an MPG now) the browser runs QuickTime (nothing is played thou). i changed the mime type and now the black space for the movie is shown. but i cant make the vlc plugin work =/

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Re: Can't make VLC plugin work on Firefox

Postby darius » 17 Aug 2011 12:56

Hi,

just testing plugin.
What's wrong is the example coming with dead multimedia link

http://server.example.org/video1.vob

try my demo

http://tweettv.orgfree.com/vlc.htm

Unfortunately I can't make javascript code to work to have plugin commands to work.
Don't know what's wrong.

I can set video to autoplay, but can't make plugin commands to work.



Looking for another player coming with firefox plugin and working commands, since vlc is not supported.


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