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Can the 'VLC Portable player' do this ?

Submitted by mac097 on January 16, 2010 - 12:36pm

Hi
I would be grateful if anyone can tell me if the following is possible with the 'VLC Portable player' and if so, how I should set it up to get the desired effect.

I’ve created an AVI video file, that I wish to play (from a CD) at its original 100% video quality, in full screen mode.

My AVI video was recorded on a PC, with a PC's Screen resolution of 800x600.
My AVI file was also created at the full Screen resolution of 800x600.

So I wish to include the 'VLC Portable player' and my Video on the CD, so that the video will 'autoplay' upon inserting the CD into any PC's CD player…

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?

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