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andy-portmen / external-application-button

Communicate with external applications of your OS through a toolbar button or context menu item.
https://webextension.org/listing/external-application-button.html
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Chrome & Firefox Not working on YouTube #51

Open nollinvoyd opened 4 years ago

nollinvoyd commented 4 years ago

Windows 10 Pro 1909, EAB 0.4.0, Firefox 82, Native client 0.9.1

I'm aware this is the case for Chrome, but is this now the same for Firefox? The only exception for what I have tried so far is sending a page to the other browser.

I have tried with several media players: Daum Player, MPC-BE, MPC-HC, SMPLAYER, VLC. In the past the success rate was maybe 75%, but it got progressively worse until now where it fails every time.

So, I am I doing something wrong, Is this what should be expected in the future?

Thanks

andy-portmen commented 4 years ago

This extension only sends the requested link to a native executable. That's it. It is the player's responsibility to parse the link. As far as I know, VLC can play any YouTube videos with no problem. Make sure you have the latest version though. If it is not working, export the settings to a JSON file and share it here.

nollinvoyd commented 3 years ago

VLC doesn't work. All of the media players are recognized and launched when a task is selected, but the only thing produced by the media players is an error message.

I'm using the same settings I've always had.

I tried to upload the .json, but I got this,

json

So i made a text file external-application-button-preferences.json.txt

BTW, this is what my Github toolbar looks like on Firefox toolbar firefox

But on Chrome, there is no 'Attach Files" button toolbar chrome

nollinvoyd commented 3 years ago

I just tested YouTube again with all the players listed in the EAB settings. Picked a random video. VLC, along with MPC-BE player, worked. The others, on the same video, did not, including Potplayer, which is usually reliable in this task.

The same pattern went for some other random YouTube videos, but then there were other YouTube videos that did not play with any of the media players.