Open in VLC™ media player

Open in VLC™ media player

Send audio and video streams directly to the well-known VLC™ media player

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What is Open in VLC™ media player?

Open in VLC™ media player is an Edge add-on by Bermet. This add-on has 49,705 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.20, and is most similar to 360 Internet Protection and Read&Write for Microsoft Edge™. The latest version, 0.3.3, was updated 4 months ago.

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By: Bermet
Rating: 4.20 (23)
Version: 0.3.3 (Last updated: 2023-02-11)
Creation date: 2021-11-08
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • nativeMessaging
  • webRequest
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 83.26K
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

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Summary
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.

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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.
User reviews
I never got it to work at all.
by Robert, 2023-01-04

THANK YOU. Works like a charm and covers a niche that was sorely missing.
by Leo, 2022-07-11

People like Johannes here: Don't berate the author of the extension for DESINFORMATION just because you are too STUPID to fall for a FAKE. If it doesn't work for you and you have the VLC-Plus player, please inform yourself and you will find out that the VLC-Plus player is a FAKE and installs EVIL and or other unwanted programs along with it. Get rid of the crappy software and get the official version from videolan.org. Sue Google, because they earn money from the fakes because of advertisements. Legally, this is certainly different but in my opinion, the providers of VLC-Plus Player violate trademark rights and Google ***** on it. No one can tell me that they do not know about it and can do something about it. Still a shame that search engines are allowed to display ads as search hits and then not even mark them and put them above the official information. About the extension: If you follow the instructions, it works fine.
by Patrick, 2022-02-19
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Safety
Risk impact

Open in VLC™ media player requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Open in VLC™ media player if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

Open in VLC™ media player is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood measures the probability that an Edge add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Edge add-on reputation on Edge Add-on Store, the amount of time the Edge add-on has been around, and other signals about the Edge add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing an Edge add-on, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.

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