Send to VLC (VideoLAN) player

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

Send to VLC: Stream Media Directly to VLC Player

Send to VLC (VideoLAN) player is a Firefox add-on designed to provide efficient streaming of media. It detects streamable media on your browser and provides easy one-click to VLC functionality. It's optimized for low-resource usage and doesn't interfere with your browsing when inactive. It also offers configuration options like badge color and the ability to copy detected media links. A small native client installation is needed for optimal functionality.

Add-on stats

Users: 1,258
-31
Rating: 3.50
(38)
Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2020-05-13)
Creation date: 2017-06-20
Weekly download count: 29
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • nativeMessaging
  • notifications
  • contextMenus
  • downloads
  • clipboardWrite
  • history
Size: 88.96K
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • works exactly as hoped
  • wonderful extension
  • cool
Cons
  • tedious setup
  • do not emulate some required protocols
  • all the permissions needed make me anxious
  • needs to be more user friendly
  • doesn't work
Most mentioned
  • tedious setup
  • works exactly as hoped
  • wonderful extension
  • do not emulate some required protocols
  • all the permissions needed make me anxious
  • needs to be more user friendly
  • doesn't work
User reviews
tedious setup but works exactly as hoped, wonderful extension : -)
by Raposa Coltran, 2023-04-19
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Send to VLC (VideoLAN) player requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Send to VLC (VideoLAN) player has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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