[vlc] Re: mozilla plugin for vlc

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Youen Le Roux wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I first of all want to congratulate you for work that you do on 
> VideoLAN, and in particular VLC.
> the object of this mail relates to the plugin mozilla which makes it 
> possible to read in streaming videos directly in the famous 
> navigator.  indeed I currently work on a project aiming at installing 
> a video on demand server within the university of Brest (France). 
> however the majority of the future potentials users (teachers for 
> example) are under Windows xp and thus use as navigator Internet 
> explorer.
> so my question is the following one: is there a possibility to read 
> the videos in Internet explorer as it is currently the case with 
> mozilla, or is this completely unrealizable ? and if not, is there a 
> plugin (in preparation maybe ?) for mozilla under windows ? 

AFAIK nobody is working on that. My first guess is that it would be 
about 2 weeks of work to create an ActiveX wrapper around libVLC to load 
it into IE.

For Mozilla under Windows I am not sure if that would work. Maybe others 
could comment on this?

-- 

Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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