[vlc] VLC Player Firefox Plugin without Controls!

[Jean-Paul Saman]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jan Müller <jan.mueller79 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for weeks now for a solution to my problem but I can't find
> anything that helps.
> I've always watched divx videos in Firefox with the DivX web player.
> Unfortunately it causes big problems and crashs in recent versions of FF. So
> I looked for an alternative and installed the VLC Player (Version 1.1.7)
> with the FF plugin. The video is played without problems and crashes but
> unfortunately without any controls. I can see no bar with the button "Play /
> Pause" etc. and I can not activate full screen mode via double click on the
> video. Right click on the video does not show anything anyway.
> I have now completely reinstalled Windows and installed the codec packs from
> Shark. So everything should be fine as far as the system is concerned... but
> the problem still remains.
>

The web plugin provides an JavaScript API to program against. Look
into this documentation:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin#Building_HTML_pages_for_Mozilla.2FFirefox.2FInternet_Explorer.2FSafari

> My system:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo E6750 @ 2,66 GHz
>
> Mainboard: GIGABYTE P43 ES3G
>
> Grafikkarte: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB
>
> Speicher: 4 x 1024MB Corsair XMS2 PC6400 @ 900MHz
>
> OS: Windows 7 Professional x64
>
> Browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.15
>
> Many thanks in advance

Kind Regards,
Jean-Paul Saman