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This is a plugin for Mozilla browsers (Firefox, Netscape, Google Chrome, Chromium etc.). It adds media player support for these browsers under Linux. Since for Windows there is the Media Player for Firefox plugin, I haven't developed yet a version for Windows.

The reason for developing this lays in the fact that I just couldn't find a good enough media player plugin for Mozilla browsers under Linux. The ones that I found are vlcplugin, gecko-mediaplayer (based on gnome-mediaplayer) and xine-plugin. All of them have different problems.

The only one which worked decently has been gecko-mediaplayer. But this also has some problems. For example, it does not have seeking capabilities and other problems.

So I decided to develop my own plugin, based on vlc, which is in my opinion the best media player out there. The only dependency it has is, of course, VLC. You have to have VLC installed on your system. And to compile it, you also need the Qt libraries and development files.

Features

• Javascript API compatible with Media Player Firefox plugin
• Full screen capabilities
• Playlist support (all the playlists that VLC supports)
• Seeking capabilities
• WMV compatible

Important

Apparently (at least on my system), Firefox has a problem with the plugin related with the /usr/share/vlc/lua/meta/reader/filename.luac file. So, if the plugin crashes in Firefox, just remove that file. Personally, I don't know what that file is used for. If anybody knows what the problem is or what that file is used for, please let me know.

Javascript

The plugin exposes a javascript API compatible with the Media Player Firefox's javascript API. Please find bellow a list of properties, method and events supported:

Properties

• src
• autoStart (is not considered for playlists)
• baseURL
• mute
• volume
• SendPlayStateChangeEvents
• uiMode (only "full", "invisible" and "none" modes)
• currentPosition
• ShowTracker
• AllowScan
• bgColor
• AllowFullScreen
• EnableContextMenu

Methods

• play
• stop
• previous
• next
• fastForward
• fastReverse (just for compatibility, because VLC does not support it, so this method will have no effect, but it will not return a javascript error)
• isAvailable

Events

• PlayStateChange

For a documentation on all these methods, properties and events, please see the Microsoft site:

I've tried to make it compatible with the Media Player control, made by Microsoft.

Of course, there are many javascript elements missing. However, I've tried to implement the most important ones.

Enjoy.