VLC Media Player Portable 0.8.6d Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 1, 2008 - 4:40pm

VLC logoVLC Media Player Portable 0.8.6d has been released. VLC Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. This release updates VLC to the latest version, has an improved launcher and installer and is now digitally signed to ensure integrity. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Features

VLC Portable ScreenshotVLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. Learn more about VLC media player...

New In This Release

This release updates VLC Media Player to the latest release. It has an improved launcher and installer using the latest PortableApps.com Format. And it's now digitally signed to ensure integrity.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

VLC Media Player Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

VLC Media Player Portable is available for immediate download from the VLC Media Player Portable homepage. Get it today!

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server points me to Error 404: File not found... Sad

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report Biggrin

It just sits here when I try to download. The box asking where to save it never pops up. I also tried the direct link. Is anybody else having the same problem?

EDIT: Looks like Aciago's in the same boat. Could it be internal Sourceforge problems?

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Sorry about that. I fixed the issue. The package is copying to the download servers and should be available within a few minutes.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

I had to switch trough the whole world until I found the file on Australia's server... Wink

It looks like we are faster than John... lol

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report Biggrin

Will you update the version history any time soon?
They are all pretty outdated...

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

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I think I may ditch them or just include a text file of them. The full version history is on SourceForge for anyone that cares (most people don't). The important part (whether or not the launcher is updated) is included in each announcement. Maybe I'll link to the release notes on SF from the PortableApps.com pages.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

works without a hitch. and leaves nothing.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

line 139 and 145:

shouldnt "GoTo" be "goto"?
Cause one is displayed in blue and the other isn't.
Or doesn't NSIS care about capitalisation

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

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Displayed in blue is based on your text editor, which varies. Goto, GoTo and goto are the same in NSIS.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

AVG warns me the installation file of VLC 086d portable is infected with the Downloader.Zlob trjoan horse, which seems to be quite dangerous.
I'm sure it's a false positive, but I'd just like to be sure before upgrading.
Anyone else has the same problem?

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Howdy mick973. AVG has issues like this often. As directed on the Support and Contact pages, please double-check with another virus scanner such as one of the free online ones or ClamWin Portable before posting about an issue like this. If you can confirm it, please post a note in the support forum (not as a comment on a news story like here). This helps us ensure that we're dealing with real issues and not AVG getting things messed up again.

And welcome to PortableApps.com Smile

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Thank you. No alert today. AVG automatically updated on start up and made no issues when I downloaded and opened the VLC file again. They probably fixed the false positive.
Checked the file with Clamwin and of course no virus found.
I had no doubt of course. I totally trust these apps.
I've already had false positives in the past, like with Yamipod.
The main reason I wrote about it was so that you could warn AVG about this issue.
I know that you don't spread viruses, but other less experienced visitors approaching this site for the first time might not be as sure as me.
The only little possibility I thought there could be there was actually a virus was that the Sourceforge server had been attacked.
Quite unlikely, but you never know with todays' crackers... I've had my (paid) web host under attack recently, and visitors of my site were getting rootkits because the bastard had been able to exploit a javascript vulnerability of the host's server, had to move everything while they cleaned their machines.
I wasn't aware of the difference between normal comments and support, I'll pay more attention in the future.

Hello, there are a lots of videos on the RMVB format. Will VLC be able to open these files soon? Or, which portable application can I use to open them.

Thank you,

Miguelpc

Hi, please don't post application support questions on a news story, rather in its appropriate forum. I'm afraid I can't help you with this, but it may have been mentioned before, so just make sure to check before posting within the forum.

Thanks!