Vlc For Chrome Browser
Chromecast stream content on high-definition TV via the HDMI port and It is powered by USB included within the box. You can use Chromecast to access videos from Netflix, YouTube, Google play store and other services and you can even cast PC Videos to Chromecast with help of a VLC.
Is it possible to add a type of link on a webpage that will open up VLC Player and start playing a stream video? Like this one:
Alternatively, is it possible to embed VLC Player in the browser?
Metafaniel4 Answers
UPDATE: 2018-09-25 Most of this response only applies to older browsers, so updating some sections.
It was possible on older browsers, but required a client-side browser plugin depending on your Browser and OS versions, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20150212035837/http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html
Here's an excerpt showing how to embed and fallback to download or click to stream:
The VLC player plugin exposes a useful JavaScript API accessed either by name or ID:
The MIME-type application/x-vlc-plugin is used to activate the VLC plugin (when it is available). You should provide some form of fallback, such as a regular link.
As 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. But an example could be:
OR:
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. VLC can easily be run by command-line (specified at the top of the page in that VLC Chapter 4 link).
Note that with HTML5 support getting more and more ubiquitous you might want to consider using HTML5 <video> tag and encoding in a supported profile of Ogg, MP4 or WebM.
UPDATE: 2018-09-25The above notice is now more important to take into consideration than ever. Stick to HTML5 & open standards. 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. 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.
bcmoneybcmoneyI have built a few programs to open vlc:// links in Windows, Mac and Linux. See https://github.com/stefansundin/vlc-protocol
You basically need a program in between the protocol and VLC, to remove 'vlc://' because VLC doesn't know about these links and that it needs to remove this prefix before trying to open the URL.
stefansundinstefansundin
In iOs you can use a callback-url to open vlc from a web page:
Check out more info here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:IOS/#x-callback-url.
In Chrome on Android you can do it with an Intent:
Here an example opening a Barcode reader from a link:
yglodtyglodtChrome Media Player
You can open a streaming site, view the source of the page and find the URL of the video (sometimes you have to play the video in order to be able to see the URL). Then copy and paste this link on 'Open network stream...' (Ctrl+N) and here you go.
I wrote a little script that automates this process finding the URL in the streaming site and then opening it with VLC using a custom protocol. It's a really simple JS script that find the videos URL in the page and redirect to vlcs:URL; the custom protocol opens another script that delete the vlcs: from the string and send the resulting URL to VLC. All this simply by opening the streaming site.
It works with some streaming sites but I will upgrade the script with also others. Feel free read the code and add your favorite streaming site or send pull requests for new sites.
Here's the link with the instructions: https://github.com/giuseppe-dandrea/Stream-to-VLC
Vlc Web Plugin Chrome
Hope it could help you!