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vlc media player plugin in Internet explorer not showing video in fiddler

I am currently trying to debug a flex application that uses a vlc media player plugin to watch mpeg-2 videos.

I have run up Fiddler and I can see lots of calls from the flex application for resources it uses but when I play a video in the player, I do not see any requests for the video in Fiddler.

Any ideas how to get Fiddler to show the http traffic when a video is played?

Solution

  • Fiddler will show any HTTP/HTTPS traffic that is sent through it. For traffic not seen in Fiddler, there are two possibilities:

    1> The traffic is non-HTTP/HTTPS (e.g. straight TCP/IP). 2> The traffic is HTTP/HTTPS but is not configured to go through the proxy.

    If the traffic is non-HTTP/HTTPS, there's nothing you can do to get it to appear in Fiddler.

    If the traffic is HTTP/HTTPS but isn't using the system's default proxy, you may be able to configure it to do so. For instance, I don't know if the VLC plugin respects the settings from the VLC client, but try clicking Tools > Preferences > Input & Codecs and put 127.0.0.1:8888 the box for the proxy URL.