293554 - Wish: option to make embedded media open in external player (i.e. no plugins)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Richard Neill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I'd like an option to make all multimedia stuff (except java/flash) open in an
external media player (such as vlc). This give far better control over the
playback experience (eg zoom, transport controls) as well as making it easier to
save to a file. It also means less installing is required. Is there any chance
of this being possible? 

Essentially, I think we need a plugin (how about "plugme-not") which treats the
<embed> tag as if it were an <a> tag, so that embedded multimedia can be
launched externally.

There is another advantage: buggy plugins cannot crash firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Try MediaPlayerConnectivity extension
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=1899

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is possible now under the Applications tab.