ActiveX/HTML
Embedding Activex using Javascript
You can insert the ActiveX control in your HTML pages like this :
<OBJECT classid="clsid:E23FE9C6-778E-49D4-B537-38FCDE4887D8"
codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab"
width="640" height="480" id="vlc" events="True">
<param name="Src" value="" />
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
<param name="AutoLoop" value="False" />
<param name="AutoPlay" value="False" />
</OBJECT>
Then, using Javascript, you can select another source, or change the audio track :
document.vlc.playlistClear();
var options=[":audio-track=5"]; // select audio track 5 (=6th, 1st is 0)
document.vlc.addTarget("...",options,2,0); // replace entry 0
document.vlc.play();
Embedding ActiveX using m3u Playlists
Maybe a better to show VLC in an HTML Website is to use m3u Playlists. It has got the advantage that users with turned-off Javascript can also use this plugin, since document.vlc.addTarget won't work with javascript turned off.
- Step 1: Create the HTML website with the VLC-Object linked to the m3u playlist
- Step 2: Create your m3u playlist with all options, save and upload it to your webspace.
- Step 3 (optional): Create buttons and other objects to control VLC (like document.vlc.play();)
Step 1: Creating the website to embed ActiveX Control
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
You should modify the values of width, height and volume (0-100) fitting to your desires. If you don't know them, simply delete them (e.g. remove width="640" from the code).
Step 2: Creating the m3u playlist
Open Notepad, create your playlist and save it as 'myplaylist.m3u' for this example.
#EXTM3U // Required to identify this file as m3u file #EXTVLCOPT--input-repeat=-1 // repeat the following file/playlist #EXTVLCOPT--http-reconnect=true // required for a streaming-client to enable repeat #EXTVLCOPT--any further parameter goes here // see also VLC command-line help #EXTINF:0, Test Description // set the title for the following file shown in your playlist video.mpg // the actual file to be displayed
Annotations:
- For actual looping of the entire playlist, the user has to have check 'Repeat all' under Preferences --> Playlist --> General
- Mind that options have different names if you play a file locally or if you want to stream it (--sub-filter --> --s-filter)
Mind the different Options-styles:
--option A global option that is set for the duration of the program.
-option A single letter version of a global --option.
:option An option that only applies to the playlistitem directly before it
and that overrides previous settings.
