

For personal use, you could still use an old browser on your local network if you had built something in particular for your own video streaming using that, but would not suggest you build anything for regular web users/visitors this way. The above just won't work anymore, unless VLC team brings the plugin back from the dead by developing a version that works with WebExtensions standard. The above notice is now more important to take into consideration than ever.

Might want to consider using HTML5 tag and encoding in a Note that with HTML5 support getting more and more ubiquitous you VLC can easily be run by command-line (specified at the top of the page in that VLC Chapter 4 link). OR: rtsp://You could include "help" instructions on how to set VLC as your default player, or, alternatively you would require some software of your own to be installed on the client-side to ensure that VLC is the application that gets opened, not something else. You should provide some form of fallback, such as a regular link.Īs for linking to VLC-supported protocols, it will depend on the user's device and/or OS settings, particularly which application they've selected as the default Media player for a given protocol. The MIME-type application/x-vlc-plugin is used to activate the VLC plugin (when it is available). The VLC player plugin exposes a useful JavaScript API accessed either by name or ID: Play video1 Click Change All to change the default for all. Step 5: Choose the video player you would like to be default. Step 4: In the Info window, scroll down until you see Open With and Open the Drop Down. Step 3: Right Click (Or Click with two fingers on the trackpad) and Choose Get Info. Here's an excerpt showing how to embed and fallback to download or click to stream: Step 1: Open Finder from your dock: Step 2: Navigate to a video. Plugin depending on your Browser and OS versions, see: It was possible on older browsers, but required a client-side browser UPDATE: Most of this response only applies to older browsers, so updating some sections.
