PPAPI is a cross-platform API for plugins for web browsers. It is currently an experimental feature of Chromium and Google Chrome.
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Is it possible to record video stream in Chrome Plugin using NaCL / PPAPI?
I am trying to record stream from html5 video tag and since I can not achieve 60FPS in JS with canvas I was wondering can I do it from chrome plugin?
Any ideas is it even possible and what are the places to start?
thanks
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Parallel port access using Google native Client (NaCl)
I am trying to write a Chrome app that would support printing to old printers connected to the computer via the parallel port. I found out that Chrome apps can not use any kind of NPAPI plugins so those are out of the question. The remaining option…

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Run a local dll file, select printer etc... Alternative to NPAPI
I´m looking for a sustainable solution when it comes to communicating with hardware on a local machine. I´ve been reading about NPAPI but unfortunately it is being phased out.
I would like to run things like silent printing from a website. The…

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Loading a file in PPAPI
I have built a chrome extension which require data from a configuration file. I achieved it through NPAPI plugin but now I have to use PPAPI since Chrome is going to discontinue it Jan, 2014 onwards. Is it possible to load a file in PPAPI. If not,…

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Detect Pepper API Flash in Chrome and force NPAPI version?
Chrome's PPAPI version of Flash is now half the speed of the NPAPI version. This is purely unacceptable. In both using Stage3D and conventional Flash Display list, PPAPI lags miles behind in performance and doesn't even make use of hardware…

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Register PPAPI plugin to Chrome
I am developing an out-of-process plugin for Chrome, where I need some kind of resource management mechanism (shared memory) that can be used by multiple processes. Then I found the Pepper plugin and it looks promising to achieve my goal.
Here…

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How can i check PPAPI status of Flash Plugin in Chrome using JavaScript
Can anybody help me to get PPAPI details of Flash Plugin installed in Chrome using JavaScript ?
Here is the image containing details what i need to detect:…

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Working with files NPAPI/PPAPI/NSPR
I need in Chrome extension these actions:
Download binary file to temp
Unzip it (it's clear .zip package)
Move files from unpacked directory, to directory of my extension
Delete temp files
I've been looking for similar what Firefox Scriptable…

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Can't get flash content to display in electron application
I have an Electron app running an angular web app within it. We need to show flash content. I previously had this working when my Electron app was running in 64-bit mode on a 64-bit machine.
I am now attempting to run Electron as 32-bit mode on my…

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Pepperflash not working in Cefsharp version 65.0.0.0
We have recently upgraded Cefsharp to 65.0.0.0 from 43.0.0.0 in one of our projects. After the upgrade flash no longer loads in browser, it gives an error that
"Adobe Flash player is out of date"
. We have embedded a specific version of…

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how to enable flash in --incognito mode of chrome by selenium python
i want it can load and enable the flash in --incognito mode. but i have no idea how to make it.
DETAILS:
i use selenium python for chromedriver. there's a website with video area need loading flash.
here's my code, when i active --incognito mode,…

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How to get the current EGLContext in a PPAPI Plugin that uses OpenGL
I try to develop a PPAPI Plugin (in a Chromium application) that Renders 3D Graphics using the OpenGL PPAPI Wrapper. Moreover I'd like to leverage an EGL extension that would allow me to access a shared DirectX Texture that was rendered in another…

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Can I use Vulkan with the pepper API
I have read here: Calling Windows API from Native Client/Pepper Plugin
that if you start chrome with --no-sandbox, you can call windows api´s. So my question is, if I use the flag --no-sandbox can I develop a pepper plugin, that will only be run on…

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No type named 'VarDictionary' in namespace 'pp' using PNaCl
Can someone explain me why am I getting the compile error
error: no type named 'VarDictionary' in namespace 'pp'
pp::VarDictionary dictionary;
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I'm tying to set a dictionary in the function
virtual void HandleMessage(const…

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How do I use the Python modules in webports/naclports with the Python interpreter Chrome app?
Webports has projects in the ports directory for Python and several Python modules, including NumPy. The "python" port compiles a Chrome app that runs the Python interpreter in a console window. I'd like to be able to use modules that include native…

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