VLC plugin for embedded video in Chrome/Chromium/html5

[tand]

Is there a plugin that will make it possible to embed VLC-rendered video in an html5-based webpage that will be accessed through a Chrome/Chromium browser?

[tand]

Solved.
Downloaded latest code from http://git.videolan.org/git/npapi-vlc.git
Built, installed libvlcplugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and tested OK with a short html test code snippet in chromium-browser on Oneiric Ozelot.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yep. VLC 2.0.0 fixes Chrome support.

[briand123]

Hi,

I want to give the VLC 2.0 web plugin for chrome a test drive with Chromium on Ubuntu. I installed VLC 2.0 on Ubuntu via aptitude. Work great stand-alone, but that doesn't give me this web plugin I'm after. So I found this thread here about it not being included as part of the the VLC 2.0 install.

Thus, I brought in this plugin's source via git to build it as shown above. That's not finishing because it wants libvlc. No problem. I brought in the VLC 2.0 git to meet those requirements. Problem for me is with building VLC. Configure complaining of not being able to find 'dbus-1' (and it's there) and a lot of other libraries. Major PIA for just wanting to evaluate this new support of VLC plugin for Chromium.

Is there a anyway for me to get a 32-bit pre-built VLC 2.0 web plugin for Chromium without having to build it myself from source? Let me know.

Thank you for your help,
Brian

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It is packaged as mozilla-plugin-vlc on ubuntu

[briand123]

Thank you for the quick response Jean-Baptiste. For what it's worth, I tried that approach and got this result:

briand@briand-desktop:~/Downloads/npapi-vlc$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mozilla-plugin-vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.13-1~ppa4) but 2.0.1-4~ppa1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
briand@briand-desktop:~/Downloads/npapi-vlc$

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

get it from the ppa too.