Open in VLC™ media player icon

Open in VLC™ media player

by yokris.dev

v0.4.3 Updated Jan 17, 2025 102KiB
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★ 3.86
865 reviews
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of 99.7K
entertainment
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⚠️Not updated in over a year ⚠️Requests 2 sensitive permissions

Description

Open in VLC™ media player extension, sends video and audio links to the well-known VLC media player. This way you can directly watch online streams in the VLC media player with just one click. To send these links to the VLC media player, right-click over the video or audio link and use the context menu item or use the browser action button. If the extension only grabs a single link, the link is opened in the player. If multiple links are detected, you will get a prompt box to select media links to be sent to the player. Note: For this extension to work, you will need to install a minimal native-client application. Instruction on how to install the native client will be displayed once the extension is used. You can also watch installation instruction on the FAQs page How to use this extension: 1. The extension appends a context menu item to the browser context menu when the media element is the target. 2. The toolbar icon becomes active (colorful) when a page is supported As of version 0.2.0, there is a tool to join media files in a single media file. You can find this tool on the right-click context menu over the page action button. The output format of this tool is WAV. You can use VLC to convert this WAV file to any other audio format. --- Legal VLC is a trademark of the VideoLAN organization. This extension is an independent project and has no relationship to the VLC team or VideoLAN organization.
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Reviews (62 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-28
Zoran M

Not working.

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-15
David Carnow

3 HOURS WASTED AND I AM NOT SURE WHY I DID NOT GIVE UP SOONER I MUST BE CRAZY WHEN MY GRANDSON GETS OUT OF MIT I WILL ASK HIM TO SEE IF HE CAN GET IT TO WORK FOR NOW I WILL NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO GET THE INFORMATION TECH Phd. ONE NEEDS TO GET THIS TO WORK - IF INDEED IT CAN WORK I CANNOT SAY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER Ciao for now DRC

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-09
Aric Harp

Chrome will not allow this to open.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-06
Mohamad Alm

Did not work

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-06
Albert Mantel

I want to us it with the Open Source Web Interface for Linux set-top box (Vu+ Ultimo4K receiver) Its certainly not working as it is on Firefox. There by clicking the stream icon it's opening VLC and plays the stream. With Chrome you can only save the stream link. (Window 11)

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-13
Lucy Heartfilia

dosent work on linux and yes i have vlc media player installed

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-26
Dayton “daycord” Mickens

What the hell just happened?!?!? Before this morning I could open up multiple video streams, now it will only open one stream at a time. If I happen to have a video stream already playing in the vlc media player in try to send another video stream to the vlc player using the extension, it plays over the current video stream already playing. Use to be able to play multiple video streams at once. As of this morning it will only open and play one video stream at at time. What happened overnight?!?!? I did not tweak any of the settings in my vlc player or the extension. Why is it now only allowing one video stream to play at a time?!?!?

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-13
Belay Mulat

not working

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-25
Thegirlinthosehats

Does not work on chromebook

★☆☆☆☆2020-01-23
シレックポール

Followed all the steps, and its not working, tried on both Firefox and Chrome (all are up to date)!

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-03
William Ingram

dosn't work on chromebook OS please make it better.

★☆☆☆☆2019-10-29
Chris wytten

It's not working

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-02
T B

Would be useful if there was a guide or instructions as to how to use this to cast to a Chrome device. As is, just another waste of time

★☆☆☆☆2019-08-22
Marian Cîrstea

It actually requires another third party tool in order to work

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-02
rony monsalve

good

★☆☆☆☆2019-02-12

Doesn't even show up as an option to play movies in Chromebook. Pathetic.

★☆☆☆☆2018-12-30
big vibes

probable virus.

★☆☆☆☆2018-09-20
Miguel Angelo Campos

Not Work on Seven

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-11
Kupfer Kuppel

Sucks big time. Made my chromebook useless for playing video. It seems to have replaced the functioning video player on Chromebook and plays nothing correctly. I tried uninstalling it to reinstall to see if it was an installation problem or I could use the prior video player and it is now uninstallable.

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-02
Riley Smiley

Foreign file needed to be downloaded and installed in order to use.. Possible virus.

★☆☆☆☆2018-06-02
Julian Lewis

useless of my chromebook

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-26
Aastha Dhawan

Does not support .AVI

★☆☆☆☆2018-04-24
Amanda Nadeau

I don't like all the web extension it wants you to make.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-13
Prakash

Asks you to install other software locally, plugin doesn't do what you expect.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-03
Mark

Doesn't work for chromebook

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-05
Grumpy Stan

Doesn't work!

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-05
Liz Simac

wont WORK

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-02
Matt Rietz

This isn't what you think. Waste of time.

★☆☆☆☆2017-12-03
Henri Sainio

Not working anymore! (If you still get this page even when the "Check Button" reports successful connection, it means the application cannot be accessed <- everytime i got that) // Ei toimi!

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-26
Fbk Washington

INCONSISTENT AND DISAPPOITING TO BE NICE,I'LL STOP THERE.

★☆☆☆☆2017-11-15
Andy Bulka

Needs some extra node.js extension that is hard to find, on a page with ads, hard to install and has confusing instructions and links to all sorts of irrelevant places. Is launching the regular VLC player in this way worth it?

★☆☆☆☆2017-10-24
Moriah Craft

always opens up a tab on my web browser disrupting my netflix

★☆☆☆☆2017-09-06
Kelly McCann

does not work for chrome

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-06
Robin Steiner

Doesn't work... waste of time

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-02
cry0xen

doesn't wort on eOS(ubuntu) chrome

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-25
Dorian B

doesn't work for chrome book

★☆☆☆☆2017-05-22
Elizabeth Carrasco

doesnt work on my chromebook

★☆☆☆☆2017-05-22
sam

DUMB

★☆☆☆☆2017-05-01
Akaylia Morse

it wont let me add it ugghhh i hate my chrome book

★★☆☆☆2024-07-23
Amir Hasheminasab

Maybe it was working before but at least for YouTube it is not working now.

★★☆☆☆2024-03-06
Brad Rooksby (Brad)

the extension didnt work for me on Firefox, googlechrome or edge. i had to download the program to my PC

★★☆☆☆2023-02-17
Alexander Kholodovitch

Don't work with kinopoisk.ru

★★☆☆☆2023-01-24
Jess B

It doesn't work

★★☆☆☆2022-06-10
Jacob Schweiger

All the reveiws complaining that it doesn't work on chrome os are silly. The real issue is that the quality of the video is lower in vlc with the extention then it is normally (at least with the youtube video I tested) so unless you're really short on time and/or storage space and really love vlc then your probably better off using the sites native video player or downloading the video and running it in normal vlc.

★★☆☆☆2021-01-14
Baar Bisiriyu

I tried unzipping the files, but it won't work

★★☆☆☆2020-02-24
Coot Master

doesnt seem to open anything anymore

★★☆☆☆2018-10-28
Juan José

I've tried to play my Amazon Prime Video but it does work.

★★☆☆☆2017-06-22
Imran Malik

malik

★★☆☆☆2017-06-06
Franco Santoni

you can t add subtitles and also doesn t reproduce some files

★★☆☆☆2017-05-30
AKOLGO PHILIMON

good

Permissions (6)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads nativeMessaging Can communicate with programs on your computer scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 0.4.3
Updated Jan 17, 2025
Size 102KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026