Launching VLC using an html link

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I am trying to stream my media library over my lan by listing them all on a html file. Chrome has native supports h.264 so files encoded in h.264 is not an issue by about 30% of my media is encoded using h.265 which is not supported by chorme yet. Vlc has a browser plugin but that uses NPAPI which has been depreciated in chrome. So is it possible to launch vlc by clicking a html link for streaming videos similar to magnet links for torrents? Or is there any other way of accomplishing this?

Icarus

Posted 2016-04-18T01:41:48.040

Reputation: 57

Could I make a program in c/c++ that would launch vlc with the appropriate video source (example: http://192.168.1.10/video.mkv) and register it to a URI scheme? I don't know how this URI scheme works, but would this be possible?

– Icarus – 2016-04-18T02:18:54.640

Answers

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You can open http links to files directly, so you can right-click a link, "Advanced Open..." -> "Network tab".

This is similar to Create a playlist of URLs in VLC - But note a on step 4: you don't hit "Enqueue" anymore, but "open"

Ashley Coolman

Posted 2016-04-18T01:41:48.040

Reputation: 365

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