What happened to axvlc.cab?!

[magic]

Hi,

The wiki page about the web plugin references this URL to be use for the IE web plugin:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... /axvlc.cab

However, when you try to open that URL, you will get a 404 error as the whole win32 directory was removed.

Where did the cab file go?

It is important for our project that the VLC plugin can be used without actually installing the whole VLC player application.

Please advise.

Thank you.

[magic]

Can somebody please provide some kind of answer to that?

If VLC doesn't provide the .cab file anymore, what are the solutions for using the ActiveX on computers where VLC is not installed? Create the .cab on your own from the .dll files?

Please advise asap. This is getting really urgent.

[RSATom]

yes, no one build .cab anymore... you can assign to vlc team and make it for youself and all others....

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I will rebuild one , as far as 2.0.0

[magic]

Great, thanks.

Would you mind posting the link here when it's done. I'm not sure I'd know where to look for it.

Also, I do understand it right that when you link up the .cab in ActiveX tag, the plugin will work without installing VLC on that computer, correct?

What about the Mozilla/Chrome plugin? How can I get it to work on a computer where VLC isn't installed?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, the same.

[dpotochniak]

magic,

Can you post your html on how you embed the vlc player in your page to you don't have to have the player installed? I use the <Object> tag but if someone does not have the activeX installed they just get the little red x.

Thanks,
Dave

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I will do that after the 2.0 release.

[dpotochniak]

Just to be clear...is the cab file going to be build and put back on the site? If so, when and where?

Thanks,
Dave

[magic]

Jean-Baptiste: An ETA would be great. I'm having a project deadline next week, so it would be great to have that .cab file in the next few days. Not sure when v2.0 is supposed to come out.

Dave - Here's the code I'm using for both Mozilla/Chrome and IE. I'm detecting whether it's IE and showing the ActiveX, if it's not, the other code. I think it's mostly the same that is posted in the wiki.

The sample code incl. dynamic information I populate with C# MVC.

My understanding is that this code currently only works if you have VLC installed on the given machine. However, if the .cab file would be in the defined location, the ActiveX would be downloaded and install from that location and everything should work on any machine (no need to install "the full VLC" separately)

IE:

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<object classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/axvlc.cab" id="vlcPlayer<%= Html.Encode(Model.DisplayId) %>" name="vlcPlayer<%= Html.Encode(Model.DisplayId) %>" class="vlcPlayer" events="True"> <param name="Src" value="<%= Html.Encode(Model.CameraStreamUrl) %>" /> <param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" /> <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" /> <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" /> </object>

Mozilla:

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<embed target="<%= Html.Encode(Model.CameraStreamUrl) %>" id="vlcPlayer<%= Html.Encode(Model.DisplayId) %>" name="vlcPlayer<%= Html.Encode(Model.DisplayId) %>" class="vlcPlayer" type="application/x-vlc-plugin" autoplay="yes" loop="no"> </embed>

[magic]

I unfortunately haven't heard back anything regarding the availability of the .cab file and my deadline is approaching fast.

So I'm starting to wonder what my options are for generating the .cab file myself (from the existing plugin dlls?) ... can I do that somehow at all?

[RSATom]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=npapi-vlc.gi ... XT;hb=HEAD : "IV. Internet Install"

but It can be broken, since no one build it very long time...

[magic]

Jean-Baptiste - Now that 2.0 is out, could you please make the ActiveX and Mozilla plugin available again as discussed above?

Thanks!

[thomassimonsen]

Any update on this matter?
We're also facing serious problems due to the missing .cab file.
Hoping for a solution very soon.

Thank you.

[yeyong]

I have the same trouble.can somebody make the axvlc.cab from the latest version of VLC2.0? and I actually want to know how to make it ,can you show us the SOP?

[magic]

I just double-checked and the plug-ins for v2.0.1 for both Mozilla and Safari seem to be available here:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/

However, I still don't see the .cab file anywhere.

I know it can be (somehow) built on your own, what I however don't understand: Is there a specific reason why the plug-ins for both Mozilla and Safari are now built with each release, but the .cab for IE still isn't?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

laziness

Or just because it is not automated enough.

[thomassimonsen]

it would be nice to know whether a cab file will be compilated or not. Or if there is any time estimate on this. Please reply. Maybe a donation could speed things up?

[magic]

+1

[mddirba]

According to VideoLAN's wiki http://wiki.videolan.org/ActiveX in regards to providing a Windows CAB file.

This comes at a cost which the VideoLAN project is not able to bear.

I priced this out using VeriSign http://www.symantec.com/verisign/code-s ... ticode/buy and it appears it will cost between $400-$500 US dollars per year. So maybe the solution is several of us need to make restricted donations to VideoLAN stating this money can only be used for work related to providing and signing ActiveX controls. If this is the case, then how do I make a restricted donation?

[magic]

From what Jean-Baptiste said, it sounded more like a matter of having time than money, didn't it?

The idea of the restricted donations doesn't sound bad in principle ... if it's a matter of money.

[thomassimonsen]

A restricted donation could be a solution. I'm also ready for that.

[mysoogal]

just reading this makes me extremely angry

1 Year $499
2 Year $895
Save over $100
3 Year $1295
Save over $200

even Mozilla is acting like this, why Are Plug-ins not signed by Mozilla Foundation ????? they are making millions of Google search but every freaking plug-in is " author not verified "

i found this one, http://www.instantssl.com/ the cheapest, £45 Per year, we should start a donation, to sign this stupid cab for the next 100 years.


I found FREE from Poland for open source

http://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_code_signing.xml

http://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_ ... rce_cs.xml


come on guys sign it already



here is a guys experience with this CERT provide

http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/11/free-code-s ... -open.html

[magic]

It's been quite a while and I was wondering if there are any updates on providing the axvlc.cab at all.

Thanks.

[frankpc]

The VLC plugin works great. Unfortunately it has to be installed along with the full VLC player package. If the player is embedded in your website, a person using a PC without the VLC player installed is unlikely to install the full package just to view webpage content.

Since there is so much older information about the VLC plugin on the web, several days of research were required to realize the aforementioned is the current status.

While people have suggested they would write a cab for the plugin, that hasn't happened. I looked into that possibility to some extent, however it appears to be a very complicated process. I don't believe it would have to be an officially verified app to be useable.

There appears to be no beneficial answer to this issue. I don't know of another frameless/sizable & seemingly transparent embedded application that will allow viewing of an rtsp video stream, which is something VLC does very well.

Thanks