After installing the helper app, I got the windows version working playing a live channel.
Recordings also work.
Working in Brave, Edge and Firefox now.
I takes awhile for live tv to appear in vlc this way.
14-38 seconds to start.
When you stop and close vlc it takes awhile for Channels DVR to close the tuner.
Recordings start instantly.
If we just want to paste the URL into a media player like VLC or IINA on macOS, and launch it manually, what's the proper format to use? Because these attempts are failing:
It doesn't work remotely yet. It's on my todo list.
OK, cool, thanks.
Everything @chDVRuser said is exactly my experience. Also, when I try to jump back and forth on the timeline there is the same many seconds delay before it starts playing again.
Earlier, I had tried the "Launch in VLC" add-ons for Firefox that were available, but none of them had worked for me. The one @tmm1 found works, though is convoluted to set up for sure! The only real issue I have is that when you select to play in VLC it opens a new tab and doesn't close it.
This worked for me and I am able to use VLC with a couple clicks to watch my recordings.
https://github.com/stefansundin/vlc-protocol 5
On Windows.
It's also transcoding for HDHR sources when it shouldn't since VLC can handle mpeg2 video and AC-3 audio.
Transcodes both video and audio with source mpeg2 video/AC-3 audio and says it's transcoding.
Transcodes audio with source H.264 video/AC-3 audio but says it's just remuxing.
I get that in Firefox, but not Brave or Edge.
I also found you don't need to make this config change in Firefox. Works with or without it.
"To get this working in Firefox, you have to open about:config. Once there, enter network.protocol-handler.expose.vlc in the search field and create it as a boolean. Once created, set the value to false."
I might be missing something, but the Play with VLC option has went missing from the web player drop down.
Still there for me in 2002.02.03.2057
Maybe not shipped in the stable build. Did you update prerelease or update stable release?
And yes, I know the stable and latest prerelease are the same version number, but there is a difference.
I know in the past some new features were only available when running a prerelease version.
I am on 2022.02.03.2057 and I have tried on 3 different PC's. I only get Web Player and Full Player.
Same here. Running latest pre release and no VLC option in player.
Update to new prerelease and you will see it.
Confirmed that's what happened.
When the prerelease and stable builds are the same version numbers, easiest way I found to tell which one you're running is to look at the json that the API endpoint /status returns
"prerelease": true means you're running the prerelease version
or
"prerelease": false means you're running the stable release version
Do you know anything about this the vlc-protocol.exe or the author? virustotal.com says McAfee, TrendMicro, and others are reporting it as malicious. False positive maybe?
You could use the bat if you're concerned. It seems legit to me, and the developer responded to my issues about the Mac version.
You can file an issue and let him know mcafee is complaining.
Thank You, I just updated and it now shows.
I have scanned it with ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus and it says nothing was found and to be safe. Malware Bytes didn't find anything with it either. So, I don't know. Even that virus total website, shows it as clean.
