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VLC: Codecs?

Submitted by linker27 on October 9, 2009 - 5:20pm

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).

VLC media player (1.0.2)

Submitted by s06cf on October 8, 2009 - 7:19am

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

Food Network uses Audacity

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on October 4, 2009 - 9:30pm

I wasn't even watching the TV, my wife was, they were doing a making-of one of the shows. Couldn't even tell you who it was, but the guy said he was on a set, and they were shooting something about football food. I just happened to look, and they were mixing the audio with Audacity.

I was really hoping to come in here and say it was one of the 1.3.x betas, but I took the DVR remote and went back, frame by frame. It's probably 1.2.6.

But it's nice to know that they're using a free, open source program that many of us use, and not some commercial program.

VLC 1.0.1 slow to load

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Submitted by Darkbee on September 25, 2009 - 6:35pm

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?

VLC: Menu bar disappeared

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on August 29, 2009 - 10:39pm

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.

Unidentified app runs with VLC Portable, closes when accessed

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on August 21, 2009 - 2:14am

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.

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