Iceweasel and browser-plugin-vlc does not work as expected

[Nex]

Hi,

I want to watch flash videos (e.g. youtube) in vlc instead of the embedded flash player in iceweasel. For that purpose I installed the browser-plugin-vlc which I thought is meant for that. In Preferences -> Applications all media files and of course the flash stuff is assigned to the VLC-Plugin. But still all content is played in the embedded player within the browser. What am I doing wrong? Is there anything else I have to do? (Iceweasel restart and system restart did not help).

Iceweasel-Version: 14.0.1-2
Plugin-Version: 2.0.0-1

Any help is appreciated.

Regards

[ralul]

You might able to watch youtube  without flash
- using html5 (option of youtube site)
- having installed minitube-1.8 (not yet in debian)

vlc can show multimedia streams but not flash scripts itself.

[Nex]

Hi ralul and thanks for your answer.

Youtube was just an example. I am aware of the html5 possibility. But there are sites which do not have the possibility. There flash is a must. And it is possible to watch the streams in VLC. If you use Downloadhelper (Iceweasel Addon) to get the URL of a file you can directly watch it. Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the browser-plugin but I thought it is exactly for that: playing embedded videos in an external player.

Regards

[ralul]

playing html embedded videos, not flash embedded!

If flash scripting is used to calculate the effective stream uri, how do you expect vlc to do just that

[Nex]

Ok, that sounds reasonable

But still there has to be a way to play flash videos directly in vlc ... no?

Regards