[tw] Re: Embedding vlc player

2012-02-06 Thread perlguy
Oh! One thing I forgot to mention, in case anyone else stumbles on this thread. I had to re-install VLC using their installer, to get it working. Using the portable version (simple zip file) wasn't working. I had been upgrading with zip files overwriting previous versions, but hadn't been using

[tw] Re: Embedding vlc player

2012-02-05 Thread FrD
Thanks for the test. Finally I use the video tag (html5) in both firefox 10 and IE 9. It works natively in IE with an mp4 file (H264/mp4) and in firefox with an ogg file. Firefox : video width=400 height=300 poster=myposter.png controls source src=myfile.ogg / /video IE : video width=400

[tw] Re: Embedding vlc player

2012-02-04 Thread perlguy
This seems to work just fine... though, in Firefox 3.x it seems a bit unstable (I use FF3 with prism plugin to have standalone tiddlywiki apps). Under the latest FF it works great. html embed type=application/x-vlc-plugin autoplay=false loop=true width=320 height=240

[tw] Re: Embedding vlc player

2012-02-03 Thread FrD
Hi, I'm dropping the vlc player and considering a broader problem : What is the right format for a video file so that it can be embedded easily in a TW ? The videos are on my computer, so is the TW. I'm able to convert the files (I'm on ubuntu with avidemux, and firefox as a browser). And