I recommend against wasting time on this non-functional add-on.

When I click on the icon in the address bar, the VLC window pops up and momentarily shows the video on the web page in the play list. Then it disappears from the playlist and nothing plays. A waste of time. I am now using "Open in IINA" which works correctly but loads IINA instead of VLC. IINA is a better video player than VLC anyway.

Loaded the extension then attempted to follow the youtube Linux instructions for loading the Firefox extension, which were in a different language, in CHROME(!), and flowed so fast that I had to stop and back up several times. Could not replicate the steps, nor could find the resulting toolbar icon. I've been running Ubuntu for 14 years now, and am a programmer myself. Yet this was hands down the most awkward, convoluted installs I've ever seen. Not worth any more time or frustration.

Kamil Jaszkowiak

It sends the files to VLC, but do not emulate some required protocols, for example if the website sends video by parts, the extension will be able to only play the downloaded parts 1 by 1 . unlike a VLC for Android app by Videolabs .

Thanks, this is a great tool for playing videos that have low sound on websites like Youtube. :)

Great add-on to stream media from websites in VLC with much more control.

The one thing missing would be a menu button to start it on websites with disabled right mouse click, like Spotify.

perfect!

This works with Plex!!! so awesome. I would add this to the description so other plex users can find easier. Thanks so much Andy!

Great wheels of fire... thanks a lot Andy Portmen for this fine development for Mozilla, Chrome, ...

only works on youtube, tried on rapidvideo, ok.ru, and any jw server, could not work