Possible to use VLC for video playback?

Hello Marijn, Is it possible to configure RPS to use some other video player like VLC?

Right now I see that RPS invokes Windows Media Player (or sometimes movies) via Internet Explorer. The resulting video playback is very choppy / jerky. Here is what I have tried so far

Checking the "use GPU rendering for IE" in RPS' settings
Unchecked "use video smoothing" in WMP's options
Tried editing the monitor.js file as you suggested in issue #30

None of these things helped.

I really love your software. Works perfectly fine with my photos. I hope it can play my videos also nicely. Please let me know if you want me to test something. Thanks!

PS:

In VLC, all my videos play very smoothly.
All my content (photos and videos) are kept on a networked machine which I call server
Network connection between this machine and my server is 10Gbps Fiber channel, so there is no network bottleneck
I really did not understand what needs to be done to monitor.js so that VLC is executed by RPS. but I tried changing this line to this:

if(typeof getVideoObject != 'function'){
    function getVideoObject(source, settings) {
        var playCount = 1;
        var stretch = "";
        if (settings.stretchSmallVideos) stretch = " stretch";
        if (settings.loop) playCount = 9999;
        html = '<object class="object media' + stretch + '" id="mediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"'
        >>> >>>>+ 'codebase="C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"'<<<<<<<<<
                + 'standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">'
                + '<param name="FileName" value="' + source + '" />'
                + '<param name="Mute" value="' + settings.mute + '"/>'

marijnkampf / Random-Photo-Screensaver

Possible to use VLC for video playback? #140