Open in VLC™ media player

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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Send audio and video streams directly to the well-known VLC™ media player

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Open in VLC™ media player
Description from store

Open in VLC™ media player extension, sends video and audio links to the well-known VLC media player. This way you can directly watch online streams in the VLC media player with just one click. To send these links to the VLC media player, right-click over the video or audio link and use the context menu item or use the browser action button. If the extension only grabs a single link, the link is opened in the player. If multiple links are detected, you will get a prompt box to select media links to be sent to the player.

Note: For this extension to work, you will need to install a minimal native-client application. Instruction on how to install the native client will be displayed once the extension is used. You can also watch installation instruction on the FAQs page

How to use this extension:
1. The extension appends a context menu item to the browser context menu when the media element is the target.
2. The toolbar icon becomes active (colorful) when a page is supported

As of version 0.2.0, there is a tool to join media files in a single media file. You can find this tool on the right-click context menu over the page action button. The output format of this tool is WAV. You can use VLC to convert this WAV file to any other audio format.

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VLC is a trademark of the VideoLAN organization. This extension is an independent project and has no relationship to the VLC team or VideoLAN organization.

Latest reviews

Rifat 2025-08-31

Best, I can stream my ftp contents without integrated online players. Superv

Zoran M 2025-03-28

Not working.

Michael V 2025-03-14

Was looking for this for a long time. There used to be an old extension which unfortunately didn't work for mac but this worked perfect

Mehedi Hasan Sahad 2025-03-05

A bit tricky to install, but once you get past that, rest will be worth it I guarantee.. I take a lotta screenshot among videos for my notes, and it's always the youtube interface shadow that gets in the way; so this extension massively helped me ignoring those overlays shadow via playing those videos on VLC turning on "minimal interface" Thanks a ton devs <3

Manoj Keswani (manoj91) 2025-02-27

need to use node js or something. instructions not simple. need better tutorial step by step.

Bobby Avitia 2024-10-16

The icon has a red "E" on it, which I'm pretty sure means error. Would be great if it told me what was wrong.

David Carnow 2024-09-15

3 HOURS WASTED AND I AM NOT SURE WHY I DID NOT GIVE UP SOONER I MUST BE CRAZY WHEN MY GRANDSON GETS OUT OF MIT I WILL ASK HIM TO SEE IF HE CAN GET IT TO WORK FOR NOW I WILL NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO GET THE INFORMATION TECH Phd. ONE NEEDS TO GET THIS TO WORK - IF INDEED IT CAN WORK I CANNOT SAY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER Ciao for now DRC

Aric Harp 2024-09-09

Chrome will not allow this to open.

Amir Hasheminasab 2024-07-23

Maybe it was working before but at least for YouTube it is not working now.

Mohamad Alm 2024-07-06

Did not work

Kerem Caner Özin 2024-06-26

It works flawlessly on Windows 11/Chrome and does to the job :D Thanks to the developer.

Asriel Dreemurr 2024-04-26

Only works if you know how to script code everything might be useful for Rumble since no media player exists if not I wish VLC would update a patch for it to work on Rumble to add a third party mediaplayer for Linux I wish this could bypass VUDU and make it work on Linux as well.

Brad 2024-03-06

the extension didnt work for me on Firefox, googlechrome or edge. i had to download the program to my PC

Albert Mantel 2024-01-06

I want to us it with the Open Source Web Interface for Linux set-top box (Vu+ Ultimo4K receiver) Its certainly not working as it is on Firefox. There by clicking the stream icon it's opening VLC and plays the stream. With Chrome you can only save the stream link. (Window 11)

Gary Will 2023-12-01

Have used it every day for months to stream video from file storage sites -- happy to have it.

Lucy Heartfilia 2023-09-13

dosent work on linux and yes i have vlc media player installed

Lucy Heartfilia 2023-09-13

dosent work on linux and yes i have vlc media player installed

Cena Bale 2023-09-07

Thank you! I wish new adding the mpc-be it :(

Cena Bale 2023-09-07

Thank you! I wish new adding the mpc-be it :(

Victor Sinichkin 2023-08-31

В YouTube снова намудрили, теперь не работает, они ведут борьбу с таким творчеством.

abdo akarey 2023-08-21

The best without comparison 😉🫣☠️

abdo akarey 2023-08-21

The best without comparison 😉🫣☠️

mhmd mhan 2023-08-06

ممتاز برنامج جميل ورائع

Paweł Zabrowski 2023-04-30

Nie działa w ChromeOS Flex, pokazuje się okno aplikacji bez żadnego menu, nie da się używać. Does not work in ChromeOS Flex, application window appears without menu, I cannot use the app.

Pedro Suarez 2023-04-30

Trababa bien en muchos videos de YouTube. Última actualización ya no me funciono. ¿Algún consejo?

Azamat Ossipov 2023-04-02

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Петр Савельев 2023-03-29

Столкнулся недавно с проблемой ,когда приложение отрывает внешний плеер ,только саму ссылку не открывает .Приходится вставлять ссылку самому из этого же приложения .У меня одного такое?

Dayton “daycord” Mickens 2023-03-26

What the hell just happened?!?!? Before this morning I could open up multiple video streams, now it will only open one stream at a time. If I happen to have a video stream already playing in the vlc media player in try to send another video stream to the vlc player using the extension, it plays over the current video stream already playing. Use to be able to play multiple video streams at once. As of this morning it will only open and play one video stream at at time. What happened overnight?!?!? I did not tweak any of the settings in my vlc player or the extension. Why is it now only allowing one video stream to play at a time?!?!?

Dayton “daycord” Mickens 2023-03-26

What the hell just happened?!?!? Before this morning I could open up multiple video streams, now it will only open one stream at a time. If I happen to have a video stream already playing in the vlc media player in try to send another video stream to the vlc player using the extension, it plays over the current video stream already playing. Use to be able to play multiple video streams at once. As of this morning it will only open and play one video stream at at time. What happened overnight?!?!? I did not tweak any of the settings in my vlc player or the extension. Why is it now only allowing one video stream to play at a time?!?!?

Belay Mulat 2023-03-13

not working

Belay Mulat 2023-03-13

not working

Aras Baran 2023-02-28

olmadı

Alireza Farvardin 2023-02-24

MKV file extensions has been removed form Show "Open in VLC" context menu in recent updates, then we should add it manually. Please fix this.

Alireza Farvardin 2023-02-24

MKV file extensions has been removed form Show "Open in VLC" context menu in recent updates, then we should add it manually. Please fix this.

Eugene Panchenkov 2023-02-20

пушка вообще, всё работает как часы!!!

Alexander Kholodovitch 2023-02-17

Don't work with kinopoisk.ru

Alexander Kholodovitch 2023-02-17

Don't work with kinopoisk.ru

Jess B 2023-01-24

It doesn't work

Jess B 2023-01-24

It doesn't work

油管总管长(油管总管长) 2022-10-10

where can I download uninstall.bat to uninstall it????? I delete the zip file after I've installed.

油管总管长(油管总管长) 2022-10-10

where can I download uninstall.bat to uninstall it????? I delete the zip file after I've installed.

Prateek Rai 2022-09-10

It Does the Job but the youtube stream in vlc is not smooth i thought of playing it in 3x but vlc stream sucked !

Prateek Rai 2022-09-10

It Does the Job but the youtube stream in vlc is not smooth i thought of playing it in 3x but vlc stream sucked !

LuckyOd 2022-08-14

супер

Jacob Schweiger 2022-06-10

All the reveiws complaining that it doesn't work on chrome os are silly. The real issue is that the quality of the video is lower in vlc with the extention then it is normally (at least with the youtube video I tested) so unless you're really short on time and/or storage space and really love vlc then your probably better off using the sites native video player or downloading the video and running it in normal vlc.

Jacob Schweiger 2022-06-10

All the reveiws complaining that it doesn't work on chrome os are silly. The real issue is that the quality of the video is lower in vlc with the extention then it is normally (at least with the youtube video I tested) so unless you're really short on time and/or storage space and really love vlc then your probably better off using the sites native video player or downloading the video and running it in normal vlc.

XaL XaL 2022-05-13

Only thing missing is context menu call, otherwise perfect.

XaL XaL 2022-05-13

Only thing missing is context menu call, otherwise perfect.

andrie setiawan 2022-04-24

im always choose VLC player , good & easy

andrie setiawan 2022-04-24

im always choose VLC player , good & easy

Statistics

Installs
300,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
3.86 (861 votes)
Last update
2025-01-17
Version 0.4.3
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