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VLC won't install

Submitted by MattNW on March 2, 2008 - 7:38pm

I just downloaded VLC and can't get it to install. I've dowloaded twice and each time I get a 9.5 Mb file. When I click on the .exe nothing at all happens. My specs are P4 3.2Ghz, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Vid card, ASUS P4P8X SE MoBo. Windows XP Home.

VLC: Energy Managemant

Submitted by Vittek on February 23, 2008 - 8:05pm

My Energy Management turns off the PC screen every few minutes, even if I'm playing something with VLC Portable. I remember that the 'normal' VLC didn't have this 'problem'.
Is there an option to suspend Energy Management while playing? Where is it?

PS: No, changing Energy Management settings is not a viable course of action Wink
PPS: Sorry for my english, I'm italian.

VLC: DVD Ripping

Submitted by gdibble on February 6, 2008 - 3:38pm

I had to rip a movie trailer to post for a promotion at work and tried to use this guide:
http://www.therealcaffeine.com/how-to/rip-dvd-with-vlc/

When using VLC portable, it crashes no matter what video codec was selected.

I then installed VLC using their local-installer, and it also crashed using mp1v as they suggested (just for reference in this post.) I then selected encoding using mp2v and it worked. So I tried VLC portable with mp2v and it also crashed. I then assumed that VLC portable has a ripping issue and may be looking for libraries (?) just a theory.

Can't run VLC with wine

Submitted by Mogaba on January 21, 2008 - 3:13pm

I have next problem when trying to run VLC with wine in Suse 10.1:

fixme:win:SetWindowTextA setting text "VLC Media Player Portable | PortableApps.com" of other process window (nil) should not use SendMessage
fixme:win:SetWindowTextA setting text "VLC Media Player Portable | PortableApps.com" of other process window (nil) should not use SendMessage

err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "libvlc.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\Vovan\\Documents\\VLCPortable\\App\\vlc\\vlc.exe" failed, status c0000142

VLC: Unable to open relative path in XSPF playlist

Submitted by jmn1995 on January 6, 2008 - 9:46pm

Saving playlist in XSPF format stores the absolute file paths by default in VLC. To make it portable, I have created my XSPF playlist with relative paths including only the filename itself between the <location> tags as the playlist file is in the very same directory as the media files. The validator at http://validator.xspf.org/ said it's OK, but VLC gives the error message:

Unable to open 'video001.avi'

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