Can someone tell me how to install a VLC extension? I went to the Plugins and extensions menu from the VLC toolbar and clicked on the link to get extensions from addons.vieolan.org.

I downloaded one named “Song Teacher 1.2f”. No I have no idea what to do with it. It's a zipped java package.

Thank in advance for anyone that has any suggestions.

-- L. James

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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames

I opened VLC.
I went to the Plugins and Extensions menu.
I downloaded the extension (while VLC was open)
Song teach opened by itself on my desktop. I has horrible colours but it certainly installs easily enough. BTW there are installation instructions given on the Song Teach entry on the website.
jdk
Oh, and you need to have installed java (openjdk seems to work ok).

Hi, Jdkaye. Thanks for responding. I would have remained lost without your message.

By the way, I apologize that I didn't mention all the obvious things that I had done before (included what you just mentioned).

I should have described what you said, which I had done, but it didn't work. My default browser is Opera. I don't know how it happened or why, but the file that I initially got was a zip file. Not a jar file.

I had also done a lot of reading about VLC and installing pluggins and extensions. I had followed all the steps that I had found which included copying the contents of the zip file to (http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic....1535#p236567):

I used lots of combinations tryging to put the files there from the zip package then clicking on the reload button from the VIC Pluggin and extensions screen.

After reading your message I changed my default browser to Firefox and tried again. This time I got a jar file which I can easily and obviously run as an executional.

Oh yea, I had studied very intensively the developer's site which said just click on the file. When clicking on the "zipfile" it just opened the package. The only think in the zip package that was clickable is the HTML file which was just a help screen. The java files brought up my java development application.

Sorry for all the details, but I'm trying to be clearer this time. At present I see the application as a standalone package that I can run from the desktop. I'm still trying to figure out how to use it as an addon/extension with VLC. I have placed the jar file into the locations I quoted above, but still don't find it anywhere in the VLC addon's menu.

Can someone tell me if this is possible? I'm sure I'm missing something else obvious.

Thanks!

-- L. James

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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames

1. In the jar archive there is a file called "build". This is set up for windows (the path to the java folder is a windows type path). I think you need to hand edit it so that path variable is set to your own java installation.
2. I would suggest you run the jar file in a terminal and look at the error messages that appear.
That may help you out.
jdk