I can preview with VLC only if I manually copy paste the m3u8 link in vlc when using chrome 130 ! #83
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Hi, I recently discovered an updated chrome for windows 7 os, and I reactivate the capital option that I previously disabled: "continue running applications in the background after closing chrome" in
chrome://settings/system,
I use official chrome boosted with api, ddl...so that it is compatible with my windows 7 os, it is a portable chrome 130:
https://github.com/Blaukovitch/GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7
I reinstall VLC and add to the path yt-dlp with a vlc addon that adds support for yt-dlp to VLC:
A VLC addon for youtube-dl integration.
https://github.com/mjasny/vlc-youtubeDL
I even reinstalled native client!
so the conditions are ideal and optimal to test the preview with VLC again, VLC interested me because we can increase the network buffer up to 60 seconds which can help when the internet connection becomes very weak!
I test with different media players platforms of this anime streaming site:
https://v6.voiranime.com/anime/shangri-la-frontier-2-vf/shangri-la-frontier-2-07-vf/
when I use Open in vlc to open the video stream, Vlc opens with an error message, so I had the idea to copy the url link of the video given by Open-in vlc and paste it manually into VLC and it works! i can preview with vlc and playback streaming videos from vidmoly, and from other streaming platform...
even if this problem is not very annoying since we can manually copy paste the m3u8 link, but it can affect the prestige of Open in vlc in addition some users may not have the idea to manually copy paste the m3u8 link in vlc ....
this problem of preview affects also preview feature of Cat-Catch extension with VLC !
Mr Andy explained this to us previously:
""You can get a non-functional M3U8 link from this extension (or any other extensions) and then use VLC Player's "Open Network Stream" feature to load the M3U8. If it doesn't work, the problem lies with VLC; if it does work, then the issue is with the extension."
so we hope this problem will be solved please, my concern is that I use chrome 130 and I do not use the latest version of chrome 131, maybe Mr Blaukovitch will soon release a new release of GOOGLE_CHROME_Windows_7 based on chromium 131 kernel because I see new commits and I hope to do new tests, in any case what is certain is a preview problem with vlc, unless we manually copy and paste the m3u8 link, this preview problem does not exist with Potplayer.....
i opened an issue on vlc forum more than 2 weeks ago about the preview problem, I made it clear that the preview problem affects chromium 131 kernel because 2 weeks ago, I was using catsxp browser based on the latest chromium kernel 131:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=165744
so the question is, preview problem in chromium 130 and chromium 131 comes from vlc or the extension? that is the question, because I can preview with vlc if I copy paste the link manually in vlc when I use chrome 130 !