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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon stefansundin

Simple and efficient - Love it !

Open lc-thomas opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Hey, just passing by and saying thanks, this works great on Fedora.

Kudos !

lc-thomas avatar Nov 21 '18 14:11 lc-thomas

Great to hear! :)

We can leave this issue open as an appreciation thread. 🎉

Write whatever you want in here.

stefansundin avatar Nov 21 '18 18:11 stefansundin

Thank you for creating this!

psociety avatar Sep 05 '20 12:09 psociety

I totally love this! I was trying to find a way so that when I browse to a video link on my nas, the link will automatically open in vlc without me having to manually trigger it. This totally helps to achieve that!

Brief of how I did it:

  1. Install chrome extension 'Open with VLC'
  2. Install chrome extension REDIRECTOR
  3. Add redirect rule to add vlc:// to url matching one to NAS
  4. Install the vlc:// handler (easy version with batch file)
  5. The default batch file will truncate a url if it encounters a &, so I had to modify the batch as such:

Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set url=%1 start "VLC" "%~dp0vlc.exe" "%url:~7%"

My browser would originally popup a window asking me if it's ok that this site is trying to open the vlc handler batch file. I've found ways to disable that popup so now everything works automatically.

robertyung001 avatar Sep 15 '22 00:09 robertyung001