Important: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-006 (February 2006) reported a vulnerability in the standard Windows Media Player plugin file "npdsplay.dll" on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems, that could result in remote code execution when using non-Microsoft web browsers. The WMP plugin is automatically detected through plugin scanning and will be used by Mozilla applications for embedded media that require the WMP plugin. Standard WMP plugin: In Windows XP and earlier, the WMP plugin file "npdsplay.dll" and related plugin files are normally included in the Windows Media Player program folder. This article describes how to get the Windows Media Player plugin working on Windows operating systems. Just look at the toolbar badge number and when the number is not incrementing anymore, it is the time to request VLC play.Some websites require the use of the Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin for certain content such as embedded audio and video. So basically if you wait enough for all the resources to be fetched by this extension before requesting play with VLC you will get a complete set of URLs. "Send to VLC (VideoLAN) media player" however, catches all the streams that are already loaded by the page and send them all to the VLC media player as a "m3u8" file. Since there is no single URL for the entire media anymore, by sending a URL just a portion of media is being played in the external player. This method is very useful to reduce the load over servers and basically, users do not feel the difference until they want to stream the URL in an external player like VLC. Basically, a single long media file is split into different segments and when a segment is done being played, another segment is fetched from the server. Nowadays most websites offer media playing in segments. When a streamable media is detected, you will get an increment on the toolbar badge number of the current page.
Easy integration to the external media player.Also, it can record DASH-type media and successfully send them to the external player while others can't. Basically, there is no need for a persistent background script on this add-on and hence it does not consume any memory nor CPU while it is inactive. This extension is very lightweight compared to the other similar extensions. This way you can take advantage of your external player's power and lightness. Upon sending the streams, the current browser player goes to the pause state (if any player element is detected) and media will be played in the external music player application. The "Send to an External Media Player" extension tracks all the possible streamable media sources in your browser tabs and offers to send them to the VLC, MPlayer, or Media Player classic external music player.
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