![]() ![]() Can’t install this stuff on a Mac and I’m a second year Computer Science student. There’s also an Active Extensions tab to help you manage your installed features. You can find skins, playlist parsers, service discovery, interfaces, art and media fetchers as well as the usual extensions. You can easily search the library to find your desired plugin. The manager will automatically download and install the plugin to your player. Once you find your desired extension, select it and then on the Install button. It will retrieve the list of extensions from their online repository. After loading the Plugins and extensions window, click on the Find more addons online button. We can access it by going to Tools > Plugins and Extensions. The most recent version of VLC Media Player has an inbuilt add-on manager. Then you copy the downloaded file to the location mentioned above, depending on your OS. So, to install a VLC addon, you select one from the official VLC addon website () and download it. Some addons go into other directories of the lua folder like “playlist”. The final directory /extension in this case might not be the same for all addons. Note: You have to create the directories if they don’t exist. In Linux: ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/ In Mac OS X: /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support//lua/extensions/ In Windows: %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\extensions\ In Linux: /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/ or /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/ In Mac OS X: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/ In Windows: Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\ It also depends upon which users you are going to make available the add-ons for. VLC addon files are copied to VLC’s directory depending upon the OS. Then depending upon the addon,you will find them on menu items. After copying the lua files, you will have to restart your VLC player or start a new instance of the player.No fancy install wizard or anything of that nature. ![]() lua files are downloaded and are copied to a location in the VLC’s program files directory to be installed. VLC Addons are downloadable from the official VLC website.Generally those third-parties are promoting their own service(s) with VLC. VLC Media Player add-ons are developed by third-parties, who are interested in extending the possibilities of VLC’s usage.Although this extension is not unique to VLC, it still is quite a unique one for a normal PC user. ![]()
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