At 1/7/21 10:18 AM, joshexdirad wrote: the headline says it all. VLC media player comes with an optional browser addon which is for playing movie files better than windows or microsoft media player addons will.

I had forgotten that it played swf files. I openned my newest browser and decided to see if flashplayer was there, the answer was I had never installed it on that browser. but flash games were still loading. because I had VLC media player's addon installed.

not only that it installs in all browsers new and old and plays swf games better than ruffle. not perfect, some loader bars don't work (ninja kiwi). but many do. I have yet to test more complicated games in it to see where it's functionality fails.

but yeah, so there is hope because no newer browsers block vlc media player from being installed or running.

At 1/8/21 07:05 AM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/7/21 10:18 AM, joshexdirad wrote: the headline says it all. VLC media player comes with an optional browser addon which is for playing movie files better than windows or microsoft media player addons will.

I had forgotten that it played swf files. I openned my newest browser and decided to see if flashplayer was there, the answer was I had never installed it on that browser. but flash games were still loading. because I had VLC media player's addon installed.

not only that it installs in all browsers new and old and plays swf games better than ruffle. not perfect, some loader bars don't work (ninja kiwi). but many do. I have yet to test more complicated games in it to see where it's functionality fails.

but yeah, so there is hope because no newer browsers block vlc media player from being installed or running.

update, I've tried a lot of flashes in it, it handles mouse pointer mazes, rapid clicking, buttons, statistics and strategy games. to tell the truth it runs some things better than flashplayer 31. I was running a -8 anim edit someone on the chans made and it was running at a slow frame rate in flashplayer but at a fluid normal rate in VLC.

find me some more things to throw at it! I really can't find any SWF so far that doesn't work in it.

At 1/8/21 02:23 PM, OnixDark wrote:

At 1/8/21 07:05 AM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/7/21 10:18 AM, joshexdirad wrote: the headline says it all. VLC media player comes with an optional browser addon which is for playing movie files better than windows or microsoft media player addons will.

I had forgotten that it played swf files. I openned my newest browser and decided to see if flashplayer was there, the answer was I had never installed it on that browser. but flash games were still loading. because I had VLC media player's addon installed.

not only that it installs in all browsers new and old and plays swf games better than ruffle. not perfect, some loader bars don't work (ninja kiwi). but many do. I have yet to test more complicated games in it to see where it's functionality fails.

but yeah, so there is hope because no newer browsers block vlc media player from being installed or running.

update, I've tried a lot of flashes in it, it handles mouse pointer mazes, rapid clicking, buttons, statistics and strategy games. to tell the truth it runs some things better than flashplayer 31. I was running a -8 anim edit someone on the chans made and it was running at a slow frame rate in flashplayer but at a fluid normal rate in VLC.

find me some more things to throw at it! I really can't find any SWF so far that doesn't work in it.

What sorcery is this? How tf does a 3rd party tool work better than the thing the games were meant to run on? o_O

Anyway, how do these 2 games run on it? if they both run bug-free I'll give the addon a shot:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/345127
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581080
last time I checked, gateway was unplayable and you couldn't use items on your monster in monster arena...

At 1/7/21 10:18 AM, joshexdirad wrote: the headline says it all. VLC media player comes with an optional browser addon which is for playing movie files better than windows or microsoft media player addons will.

I had forgotten that it played swf files. I openned my newest browser and decided to see if flashplayer was there, the answer was I had never installed it on that browser. but flash games were still loading. because I had VLC media player's addon installed.

not only that it installs in all browsers new and old and plays swf games better than ruffle. not perfect, some loader bars don't work (ninja kiwi). but many do. I have yet to test more complicated games in it to see where it's functionality fails.

but yeah, so there is hope because no newer browsers block vlc media player from being installed or running.

At 1/8/21 04:47 PM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/7/21 10:18 AM, joshexdirad wrote: the headline says it all. VLC media player comes with an optional browser addon which is for playing movie files better than windows or microsoft media player addons will.

I had forgotten that it played swf files. I openned my newest browser and decided to see if flashplayer was there, the answer was I had never installed it on that browser. but flash games were still loading. because I had VLC media player's addon installed.

not only that it installs in all browsers new and old and plays swf games better than ruffle. not perfect, some loader bars don't work (ninja kiwi). but many do. I have yet to test more complicated games in it to see where it's functionality fails.

but yeah, so there is hope because no newer browsers block vlc media player from being installed or running.

wait. no. I found whats happening. Flashplayer was installed but is being blocked. VLC is not blocked, VLC is defaulting to flashplayer which is somehow bypassing the flashplayer block. so actually all this time it was flashplayer but flashplayer being booted up by VLC.

I have no idea how that works but it does.

At 1/9/21 04:25 AM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/8/21 06:07 PM, Forty-Eight wrote:

At 1/8/21 04:47 PM, joshexdirad wrote:
I have no idea how that works but it does.

Do you think it'll continue working?

so long as Flash player is installed and set to "ask to activate" but is blocked by your browser, yes it should work.

At 1/9/21 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/9/21 08:43 AM, OnixDark wrote: I guess we'll have to wait 3 more days to know for sure, though...

Was gonna say this - Flash is actually still working in Chrome and other browsers until the 12th, so we'll have to wait and see what happens next there.

At 1/9/21 06:33 PM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/9/21 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/9/21 08:43 AM, OnixDark wrote: I guess we'll have to wait 3 more days to know for sure, though...

Was gonna say this - Flash is actually still working in Chrome and other browsers until the 12th, so we'll have to wait and see what happens next there.

lets test it, I'll change the date and see what happens. brb
I set the date to the 13th, Flashplayer still gets triggered by activating VLC. - Seamonkey
no change flashplayer is not disabled - Firefox 51.0
I will attempt to install VLC web player in chrome on my other machine tomorrow and see if it works the same there with and without a date change.

so it may well be a loophole. now to go back to the present.

At 1/11/21 09:04 AM, OnixDark wrote:

At 1/9/21 06:33 PM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/9/21 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 1/9/21 08:43 AM, OnixDark wrote: I guess we'll have to wait 3 more days to know for sure, though...

Was gonna say this - Flash is actually still working in Chrome and other browsers until the 12th, so we'll have to wait and see what happens next there.

lets test it, I'll change the date and see what happens. brb
I set the date to the 13th, Flashplayer still gets triggered by activating VLC. - Seamonkey
no change flashplayer is not disabled - Firefox 51.0
I will attempt to install VLC web player in chrome on my other machine tomorrow and see if it works the same there with and without a date change.

so it may well be a loophole. now to go back to the present.

I need to remember to disable flash player updates (I doubt this will do any good, but worth a shot)
will you run the VLC test again tomorrow?

At 1/12/21 10:21 AM, Peruraptor wrote: Does it work with older versions of VLC Player?. The VLC player on my MacBook refuses to launch and because current version doesn't support my operating system (OS X Sierra). Funnily enough Flash Player still works in Firefox on my PC because I cancelled updates for both in preparation a few years ago and it seems that the older version lacks the killswitch (I foolishly ended up updating flash player on my MacBook last fall for better security and can't figure out how to revert it to an older version despite having accumulated a large collection of older installers over the years).

At 1/12/21 12:50 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 1/12/21 10:32 AM, joshexdirad wrote:

At 1/12/21 08:31 AM, HerbieG wrote: Were you trying to play any games with medals with it? And if you did - were the medals unlocking?

medals A-OK.

Thanks a lot for checking. I am currently trying to make it work. I picked it from the list of add-ons available for Firefox and installed it, but when I wanted to run a game with it it still asked me to do "just one more step" by downloading a packed archive and install it. Should it work like this?

Mine worked through the desktop installer. so you install VLC on your desktop and it gives you the option to install the addon to play movies in your browser. so I'm not aware of what it's like if you do it the other way around. keep in mind you do not want the "Open in VLC" addon that is offered through some browser maker's sites. You want the VLC Web addon.

At 1/12/21 01:41 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 1/12/21 01:09 PM, joshexdirad wrote:

Mine worked through the desktop installer. so you install VLC on your desktop and it gives you the option to install the addon to play movies in your browser. so I'm not aware of what it's like if you do it the other way around. keep in mind you do not want the "Open in VLC" addon that is offered through some browser maker's sites. You want the VLC Web addon.

Ok, I got it installed, what now? How would you open games like
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/773322
or
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600176
Do they work under VLC?