[vlc-devel] Re: Embedded vout in Windows Mozilla

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:50, Andre Pang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been playing around with VLC's Mozilla plugin in the past few 
> days, and I'm really happy (and impressed!) to see that it builds and 
> works out of the box.  It's especially useful if you use 
> --enable-mostly-builtins, since then all the required modules are 
> compiled statically into the npvlc.dll file.  Thanks heaps to everyone 
> who's worked on it -- I once again have a newfound respect for VLC's 
> build infrastructure.
> 

--enable-mostly-builtins won't be enough for you (the directx module will 
still be compiled as a plugin for instance). You can use --disable-plugins 
for that.
Although you don't really need to disable the plugins. The mozilla plugin 
looks up a registry key (written by the VLC installer) to know where all 
the plugins are installed.

> Anyway, I've been trying to use the VLC plugin in the context of a 
> XUL-based Mozilla application, and right now the video output on 
> Windows seems to be displayed in a separate window, rather than being 
> embedded in the browser window at the point of the <embed/> tag.  Is 
> the video output meant to be separate on Windows right now?  I'm 
> guessing it's because I'm using directx_vout to display video rather 
> than wxwindows, but I'm not sure if that's right.  Any hints on getting 
> it to draw in the embedded area would be appreciated!
> 

As stated above the reason is probably that you are not using the directx 
vout (which is the only embeddable vout with the opengl one).

Also I woud advise you to use the development version of VLC because a major 
problem was fixed in the windows mozilla plugin (it used to crash when 
destroying the plugin instance).

--
Gildas

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