Music & Video Apps Support

I've been looking for a portable video on demand server for some of my media files, and was wondering if anyone had any experience getting VLCPortable to enable the http server built into it for on demand streaming?

-Using VLC in my pc (not installed in a usb drive)

-Windows XP Pro SP3

Steps I did:

-Double clicked VLCPortable.exe (running from app/vlc/vlc.exe has the same result... is there a difference in running from this instead of the xxxportable.exe on root?)

-Went to preferences

-File associations

-Set up what I wanted (everything except playlists)

-Clicked apply

-Vlc crashed

found instances of *.cache-2 in VLCPortable.nsi and changed them to *.cache-3, recompiled and it no longer has to build the font cache. No idea why vlc developers changed the file name, but it changed with 1.1.3

Thanks for the update, been waiting for it for a while. I have gotten to the point that I can and do sometimes compile my own but prefer to have the official releases whenever possible.

I downloaded the new vlc player a few minutes ago and when i went to use it,it didn't load. I tried both normal and run as administrator and while it shows up on the list,it won't run. What i ended up doing was that i created a shortcut directly to the executable in the main app folder and it's working now. My question are: Is this a bug in the vlc player,the download installer,somewhere in the process,etc and is there a way i can fix it to where i can load it from the platform instead of using the shortcut i made?

When my screen saver activates, VLC abruptly closes and the process terminates.

I'm running on Win XP, all latest updates, and this is happening on VLC 1.1.0 and all subsequent versions.

I downloaded it and extracted zip in the ffmpeg folder. I use the locate button to locate the dll, and then ok but it still says |FFmpeg library not found", wth?

HI!
(Audacity Portable 1.3.12 rev 2/ PA on USB hard drive.)
At startup Audacity receives error messages:
Failed to convert file "M:\PortableApps Suite™\PortableApps\AudacityPortable\App\Audacity\Portable Settings\audacity.cfg" to Unicode.
can't open user configuration file 'M:\PortableApps Suite™\PortableApps\AudacityPortable\App\Audacity\Portable Settings\audacity.cfg'.
The program does not remember preferences and settings (language, folders, location of LAME and ffmpeg).Reinstalling and change directories did not help.

Re: I tried to use VLC1.1.2R2 from portableapps.com

OS: Win7 home
6Gb RAM
Intel Core i7

I have configured a multi-user desktop on this machine. Since then, VLC is unacceptably slow, on fresh boot more than 1 min to open, then I get a message "mise à jour du cache pour les polices de caractère" and wait another minute.

Are there some security validations checks from win7 which makes it so slow ???

Portable MPlayer 1.rc2 opens in less than 2 sec....
Portable SMPlayer in less than 2 sec....

Answer from VLC: "Videolan team doesn't provide VLC portable."

I am having some strange issues with the latest version of VLC (besides the folder opening problem mentioned in an earlier thread).

I upgraded all of my portable apps using the new updater, and discovered that the open folder command (Ctrl-F) now crashes VLC after I select a valid folder full of MP3s. Using the file open command to select all the files in the folder works fine.
This worked correctly with VLC Portable 1.1.0. I have not tried it with a non portable version yet.

The error is from the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library,
Assertion failed!
Program: Full path to vlc.exe
File: ../.././src/text/strings.c
Line: 1120
Expression: path[0] == DIR_SEP_CHAR