VLC Media Player Portable 1.0 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 7, 2009 - 4:07pm

VLC logoVLC Media Player Portable 1.0 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, adds Windows 7 support and has an improved installer. 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 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 1.0 (release notes - scroll down), adds Windows 7 support and has an improved installer.

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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Comments

Not only did they FINALLY get to version 1.0, but I learnt about it here and PortableApps.com is amaizingly fast!
Congratulations John!

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disturb3d1

July 9, 2009 - 12:58am

that you updated this fairly quickly. I am used to having to get it "elsewhere" until you update yours. Congrats and thanks.

(Although I don't use this... lol. I INSTALL it on my computers. If I still worked for Sprint or somewhere where I worked with computers, I would use this though)

Finally, VLC is able to remember the last opened directory.
I'm going to cry like a baby :).

Thanks for the update BTW.

thank you for updating!

However, the progress sliding button (control which time frame you want the video to go) is static and doesn't move along as the video plays.
Is it just me?

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John T. Haller

July 9, 2009 - 9:47pm

Some formats don't provide the proper information for VLC to be able to search in them. In particular some flash videos and anime-specific ones. Look in the support forums for VLC for more info.

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

I take back my previous comment-last time I probably did something wrong; and when I installed VLC on another computer and played some other video files, the progress bar functioned fine.

Seems like the file size ballooned on this release. The 20MB download is more than twice the size of firefox. :|

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John T. Haller

July 15, 2009 - 5:27pm

VLC Portable 0.9.9 was 18.4MB. 0.9.8 was 17.7MB. VLC gets a hair bigger with each release as they add more supported codecs and improve existing ones.

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

Guess I more than a few releases behind then. Blum I downloaded updates for VLC and FF 3.5 at the same time. I was just surprised to see how much bigger VLC was than FF.

Thanks for all your hard work, John!