{"id":1366,"date":"2015-07-09T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:33:31","slug":"updating-vlc-plug-in-in-firefox-with-64-bit-vlc-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2015\/07\/updating-vlc-plug-in-in-firefox-with-64-bit-vlc-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating VLC plug-in in FireFox with 64-bit VLC installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this issue as part of checking that all plug-ins in Firefox is up to date (thanks to Adobe&#8217;s security mess). The VLC plug-in was listed as outdated so I updated VLC from their web site &#8211; the 64-bit version as that is what I use.<\/p>\n<p>Checking Firefox again (plugincheck) I noticed VLC was still listed as outdated with the version unchanged. Thanks to Google I found an article that shows how to get the path of all Firefox plug-ins (about:plugins). This gave me the path C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\npvlc.dll . Fortunately VLC provides a plain zip\/7zip download of their apps (http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/download-windows.html) which you can use to simply copy the files over the old version.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is one way to skin a&#8230; fix a plug-in I mean&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this issue as part of checking that all plug-ins in Firefox is up to date (thanks to Adobe&#8217;s security mess). The VLC plug-in was listed as outdated so I updated VLC from their web site &#8211; the 64-bit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2015\/07\/updating-vlc-plug-in-in-firefox-with-64-bit-vlc-installed\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[126,185,299],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-plug-in","tag-vlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}