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VLC plugin in the future DataMiner versions

Solved25.13K views9th March 2022Visio vlc
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Srikanth Mandava [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]912 4th June 2021 0 Comments

In the DataMiner 10.0.10+ versions, there is a known issue with VLC plugin where it can only be used with IE browser. VLC Visio Links in dataminer X - DataMiner Dojo provides a workaround so that VLC plugins can be used in the Visio shapes.

However with the recent announcement from Microsoft, The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge | Windows Experience Blog, IE will be out of support completely by June 15th, 2022. So what is the future and path forward for VLC plugin in the DataMiner?

Dominik Kosteletzky [DevOps Advocate] Answered question 9th March 2022

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Wim Bruynooghe [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]6.59K Posted 4th June 2021 1 Comment

Currently VLC offers two native browser plugins, one is ActiveX for IE and the other is NPAPI for other browsers. Once installed, native browser plugins have full access to the client pc, which has a lot of security concerns. Secondly, mobile devices became very popular, on which these native browser plugins don't work. So web browsers started to drop support for native plugins, and standard HTML5 alternatives were introduced, which is safer and works on any device. Very popular plugins back in the day are now all deprecated (Flash, Silverlight, and many others). Newer versions of VLC, like VLC 4, will probably not include the browser plugins anymore.

So the path forward is to stop using the VLC plugin and to use an HTML5 compatible alternative. DataMiner already has an HTML5 compatible video player, and in future DataMiner versions we could also add support for DASH and HLS streams, without the need of having to install VLC.

VLC could also be directly integrated into Cube (see Bert's answer), but this won't work in the mobile apps like Monitoring and Dashboards.

Srikanth Mandava [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 4th June 2021
Srikanth Mandava [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented 4th June 2021

Wim, thanks for the response. You have provided the background and also the path forward but I can only chose one correct answer on Dojo. Ideally for this question, I should be selecting both responses as valid answers.

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