VLC Portable

Alright, most of the latest posts/threads are dealing with (non-portable) freeware , so I'll bring back some focus to open-source. Well, the topic says it all, VLC Portable doesn't adjust the paths in "vlc-qt-interface.ini", "vlcrc" ... .
Wait, what? Yes it's true, not portable

• "vlc-qt-interface.ini" stores funny things like [General] "filedialog-path", [RecentsMRL] "list" ...
• "vlcrc" contains many paths like "snapshot-path", "input-record-path", "scene-path", ...

Mcafee is picking up vlc (all the *.dll files) as gnuCompiler trojans.

I tried 1.0.1 and 1.0.3. Currently i'm using 0.9.8a with no issues.

Can't find the option anywhere, the only thing I have seen is Album Art; I Would imagine if it can identify and find the album art online it can get the track names.

I've got a whole bunch of old avi files I want to share with a relative; they're encoded with Divx 5. She's really into portable apps, so I wanted to see about playing them for her off a USB-drive.

My question:

Is there a way to somehow package the codec with VLC Portable, without installing extra stuff on my aunt's machine? Or would I be better off re-encoding the files (which I can do, technically, but find a pain).

Just thought to let you guys know that a new version been out for awhile now.

Change Log:

# Decoders:
* Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
* Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
* Various fixes on theora and ogg

# Demuxers:
* Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
* Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

# Access:
* Fixes for v4l2 devices
* Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning

# Qt Interface:
* Fix some playlist sorting issues

# Mac OS X Interface:
* Fixed a crash when updating VLC

Is anyone else noticing that the past few versions of VLC including the most recent 1.0.1 takes a while to start up. Typically, it takes somewhere between 20-30 seconds for the main app window to appear. This happens to me on 3 different computers, all running Windows XP and from an internal hard disk.

Curiously, if I close VLC then re-open, any subsequent loadings are almost instantaneous. Is this something to do with caching?

So is VLC slow for anyone else? Once it opens, it's great but it just takes a while to get there. Is that just the way it is?

Learned something new, lost something... maybe important, I don't know.

I found the "Customize Interface" box, and was having some fun changing the "raised" icons to the "flat" ones, taking stuff off I don't need, adding a couple things, etc... well, nothing on that box about the menu bar, but I close it, it takes my changes, and takes away the menu bar. And put a black box with a big VLC logo (like a paused video, maybe) between the title bar and the controls.

Many times, when I run VLC Portable, after watching something in full screen (e.g. episodes of Lost, most recently), there will be another program running on the taskbar beside VLC. It won't have a name and its icon will be the default Windows .exe (white window with solid blue title bar). Clicking the taskbar entry twice makes it disappear.

I can't find anything out of the ordinary in the Task Manager.

I have attempted opening music and videos with VLC 1.0 portable. The app loads fine, select open a file, browse to it, select it. The app then closes, it will not play.

This has occured on local drives and network shares.
Opening MP3s and WMVs have had the same experience. I have not tried other media so far.
Running it on Windows XP SP2 as a non-admin user.

This seems quite bad.
Any input, suggestions, or similar experiences?

Hi we are looking for a way to start the vlc portable player in a minmial view window, the ability to not allow right click to get any menus, and only go between the minimal view and full screen.