Music & Video Apps Support

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.

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?

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.

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.

I have attempted opening music and videos with VLC 1.0 portable. The app loads fine, select open a file, browse to it, select it. The app then closes, it will not play.

This has occured on local drives and network shares.
Opening MP3s and WMVs have had the same experience. I have not tried other media so far.
Running it on Windows XP SP2 as a non-admin user.

This seems quite bad.
Any input, suggestions, or similar experiences?

Hi we are looking for a way to start the vlc portable player in a minmial view window, the ability to not allow right click to get any menus, and only go between the minimal view and full screen.

I wish I could watch my DVDs (and any other video format) mirrored, for some of them I have watched often and everything looks the same. I would like to view the picture mirrored. I see that VLC portable can slow down and speed up DVDs with ease, so why not add this feature? Please. Also, if it can be done, could you reverse/mirror also the sound output? so it comes from the right instead of left and vice versa?
I am left handed and like to see things from a different view sometimes.

I'm using the new 0.9.9 VLC portable, and any video source I try to play shows no video, only plays the audio. I'm talking DVDs, .avi (xvid)files, .mpeg files. If I launch the VLC app directly, it works. But if I launch VLCPortable, no video.

I re-D/Led it and installed it to my flash drive again, but the same result. No video, no how. Am I missing some setting? Thanks.

Somehow I understand that with the VLC I could save some internet radio bradcast.
But after days of trying and search for some helpfiiles, I have to ask some experts on this.

OK, I have the VLCportbale on my stick. I can listen to the internet radios I like, but when I want save such stream, nothing works. I could not find any suitable documentation so far.

So what is the procedure for this? Select stream, then enter the inpput (web in this case) then select where it should go (file)

But then it tells me that the address if the internet radio is wrong, the file is wrong etc.

Ok, so I edited a song and tried to export it from flac, to flac or mp3.
It starts to export, but just freezes, says it has like an hour to go and stays on the 1st loading bar and doesn't do anything...
Nothing works, I don't know if it's just plain impossible to do or if I'm doing something wrong.

Can someone help?

Just tried it again, and it has an error message saying that it can't export it...