"Send to VLC (VideoLAN) media player" however, catches all the streams that are already loaded by the page and send them all to the VLC media player as a "m3u8" file. Since there is no single URL for the entire media anymore, by sending a URL just a portion of media is being played in the external player. This method is very useful to reduce the load over servers and basically, users do not feel the difference until they want to stream the URL in an external player like VLC.
Basically, a single long media file is split into different segments and when a segment is done being played, another segment is fetched from the server. Nowadays most websites offer media playing in segments.
When a streamable media is detected, you will get an increment on the toolbar badge number of the current page. Pauses the internal player when stream is sent to the external player.Easy integration to the external media player.Also, it can record DASH-type media and successfully send them to the external player while others can't. Basically, there is no need for a persistent background script on this add-on and hence it does not consume any memory nor CPU while it is inactive.
This extension is very lightweight compared to the other similar extensions. This way you can take advantage of your external player's power and lightness. Upon sending the streams, the current browser player goes to the pause state (if any player element is detected) and media will be played in the external music player application. "Send to an External Media Player" tracks all the possible streamable media sources in your browser tabs and offers to send them to the VLC, MPlayer, or Media Player classic external music player.
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