VLC Media Player, itself is a great piece of work. If you are looking to play video and audio files along with other supported things like subtitles, VLC media player needs nothing else. But if you are one of those who require some unique features or who want to extend the functions of a software, then you probably heard about add-ons and plugins. VLC Media Player has a ton of those add-ons. We can load them up manually by downloading the .lua files or automatically through the inbuilt plugin manager.
VLC Media Player allows you to add some new features to the player. Adding a skin to the player change the interface of the player. There are other types of add-ons which allows VLC to do something different like, load lyrics automatically for songs or load subtitles automatically for videos. There are different other possibilities for VLC Media Player. Let’s explore the two options to download and install VLC Media Player add-on.
Option 1: Downloadable Lua Plugins
First of all, it is necessary to understand a bit about VLC Media Player Addons. Here are a few things that you must know about them:
- When it comes to filetype, VLC Media Player add-ons is kind on unique. The files generally have a .lua extension. Although this extension is not unique to VLC, it still is quite a unique one for a normal PC user.
- VLC Media Player add-ons are developed by third-parties, who are interested in extending the possibilities of VLC’s usage. Generally those third-parties are promoting their own service(s) with VLC.
- VLC Addons are downloadable from the official VLC website. The url for it is: http://addons.videolan.org
- Addons or .lua files are downloaded and are copied to a location in the VLC’s program files directory to be installed. No fancy install wizard or anything of that nature.
- After copying the lua files, you will have to restart your VLC player or start a new instance of the player. Then depending upon the addon,you will find them on menu items. Click on those to activate them.
Where to copy lua files to?
VLC addon files are copied to VLC’s directory depending upon the OS. It also depends upon which users you are going to make available the add-ons for. The default ones are:
For All Users
In Windows: Program FilesVideoLANVLCluaextensions
In Mac OS X: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/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 Linux: /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/ or /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
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For Current User
In Windows: %APPDATA%vlcluaextensions
In Mac OS X: /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/
In Linux: ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
In Mac OS X: /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/
In Linux: ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
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Note: You have to create the directories if they don’t exist. The final directory /extension in this case might not be the same for all addons. Some addons go into other directories of the lua folder like “playlist”.
How an Addon (.Lua) is Installed?
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So, to install a VLC addon, you select one from the official VLC addon website (http://addons.videolan.org) and download it. Then you copy the downloaded file to the location mentioned above, depending on your OS. Then you restart VLC and you’re done.
Option 2: Addon Manager
The most recent version of VLC Media Player has an inbuilt add-on manager. We can access it by going to Tools > Plugins and Extensions. After loading the Plugins and extensions window, click on the Find more addons online button. It will retrieve the list of extensions from their online repository.
Once you find your desired extension, select it and then on the Install button. The manager will automatically download and install the plugin to your player.
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You can easily search the library to find your desired plugin. You can find skins, playlist parsers, service discovery, interfaces, art and media fetchers as well as the usual extensions. There’s also an Active Extensions tab to help you manage your installed features.
Lua is a lightweight programming language and has good reputation among game engines. In this article, you will learn how to install and use the latest version of Lua (5.2.x) on Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
How to Install
Rudix provides Lua pre-compiled packages for Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion and Snow Leopard.The page you will going to access is rudix.org/packages/lua.html.
After you download, double click the package and follow the installation instructions.
Default installation path
Lua will be installed under
/usr/local/
and the full path for the Lua interpreter will be /usr/local/bin/lua
, but you don’t need to type the full path every time you want to call Lua, it’s OK just to type lua
on the Terminal to get the interpreter.Important files:
Security note for Mountain Lion and Mavericks
On Mountain Lion and Mavericks things are a bit hard, you will probably get “lua-5.2.1-0.pkg” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. This means that the package was not registered with Apple – but you can choose to trust Rudix developers (I’m the author) and install anyway.
Here is how to bypass once your security settings:
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- Press the
Control
key and click the package. - Choose Open from the pop-up menu.
- Click Open button.
Now follow the installation instructions.
Testing Lua
Test if your installation is OK by printing “Hello World!”.
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Type Control+D to exit.