Makes play buttons in Video Station generate VLC playlists rather than playing videos in the browser.
Makes play buttons in Synology Video Station generate VLC playlists rather than playing videos in the browser.
With this script, Video Station will offer videos you play as "playlist.vlc".
You can then set up your browser to automatically open playlists for seamless VLC playback.
In Firefox (and variants):
In Iron (and presumably Chrome):
For Windows users, VLC Station also comes with a small, optional utility to improve the playback experience.
To download it, choose "Download VLC Full Screen Launcher (Windows)" from the Greasemonkey User Script Commands menu.
You can also get it directly here: https://github.com/gurok/VLCStation/releases/download/v1/vlc-full.exe
The source is available here: https://github.com/gurok/VLCStation
This utility launches VLC with the following parameters:
To use it, place the utility in the same directory as "vlc.exe" and point your file association to "vlc-full.exe" instead.
Tested with:
Support for the "TV Recording" video type is untested. I was unable to get my DiskStation to work with my DTV adapter.
Support for Mac OS and indeed anything not explicitly tested above is not guaranteed.
VLC Station will not work when accessed through the Application Portal feature of Synology DiskStations. You can make it work by modifying the regular expression for this script to suit your setup, e.g.
/^https?://mydomain\.com/video/.*$/
Feedback about operating system and browser compatibility is welcome.
