Media plugins for modern players / alternatives

Even when Messenger was active, showing the video info from players was considered a bug and considered undesired, for obvious reasons :stuck_out_tongue:.

The only way I can think of is to use Winamp as a video player with a plugin that supports showing the video, like this one:

As for other players, I do know VLC dropped Messenger support back in 2.1, and I’m not even sure it was working then or would show for video.