Setting VLC as default audio player in IE

[supster]

ive been searching all over for this, can someone answer these questions:

- there is an activex control that comes with VLC: does this allow VLC to play audio files (mp3, wav, aif, FLAC) from within IE?

- if so, how do you set VLC to be the default audio player

- if either one of these is not the case, IS there a media player that will replace both WMP and Quicktime as the default audio player for IE?


I absolutely need FLAC support in IE and i cant get either one of those plugs to support it ... thx

.

[Quovodis]

there is an activex control that comes with VLC: does this allow VLC to play audio files (mp3, wav, aif, FLAC) from within IE?


yes

- if so, how do you set VLC to be the default audio player


you don't need to set VLC as a default player all you need to do is insert the following code in your web page, IE will do the rest...

Code: Select all

<OBJECT classid="clsid:E23FE9C6-778E-49D4-B537-38FCDE4887D8" codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab#Version=0,8,4,0" width="0" height="0" id="vlc" events="True"> <param name="MRL" value="http://mywebsite/mymusic.mp3" /> <param name="ShowDisplay" value="False" /> <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" /> <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" /> <param name="Volume" value="50" /> </OBJECT>

[supster]

there is an activex control that comes with VLC: does this allow VLC to play audio files (mp3, wav, aif, FLAC) from within IE?


yes

- if so, how do you set VLC to be the default audio player


you don't need to set VLC as a default player all you need to do is insert the following code in your web page, IE will do the rest...

Code: Select all

<OBJECT classid="clsid:E23FE9C6-778E-49D4-B537-38FCDE4887D8" codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab#Version=0,8,4,0" width="0" height="0" id="vlc" events="True"> <param name="MRL" value="http://mywebsite/mymusic.mp3" /> <param name="ShowDisplay" value="False" /> <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" /> <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" /> <param name="Volume" value="50" /> </OBJECT>

thanks for the reply,

no i need a player that supports all formats set as the default audio player for IE

I use an explorer replacement called xPlorer2 to do all of my file management - this uses IE's default audio player to preview audio files (mp3, FLAC, wav, aif)

i have a business that require me to preview and sort hundreds/thousands of audio files of those types. the preview and workflow in X2 is the best ive found for what im trying to do

but niether IE or QUicktime support FLAC, which is my archive format of choice - so i need to be able to preview these files and cant

so can i set VLC to do this?

.

[Quovodis]

I think you need the directshow filter for FLAC

http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html