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Send to VLC (VideoLAN) player by Joe Ertaba

Send streamable media from current tab to VLC (VideoLAN) media player

3.5 (38 reviews)3.5 (38 reviews)
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This extension observes network activity and offers send-to-VLC functionality when a streamable media is detected. This way you can watch media streams in your VLC media player instead of the built-in media player and use the power of VLC for watching or listening to media sources.

There are many optimizations performed on this extension to make it as lightweight as possible. For instance, the background page of the extension is in nonpersistent mode and hence the extension does not use any resource when it is inactive. Also, media detection algorithm does not demand usual observation and hence it is much lighter compared to other similar extensions.

Please report bugs to:
https://github.com/belaviyo/send-to-vlc/issues

For more info on how the extension work or to browser some useful FAQs check:
http://add0n.com/send-to-vlc.html

Notes:
1. For the extension to be able to send media resources to an external executable such as VLC music player, a small native client needs to be installed. For more info please check the FAQs page of the extension
2. Badge number is the total number of audio or video resources detected for the current tab. If you don't need this number, use the options page to disable this feature
3. You can copy all the detected links from right-click context-menu item over the toolbar button.
4. Badge color is configurable in the options page
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  • Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox
  • Input data to the clipboard
  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Access browsing history
  • Display notifications to you
  • Access your data for all web sites
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Version
0.2.2
Size
86.87 kB
Last updated
5 years ago (13 May 2020)
Related Categories
  • Photos, Music & Videos
  • Tabs
Licence
Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
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Release notes for 0.2.2
1. Allows skipping of M3U8 file creation
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