Music & Video Apps Support

Was curious if it's possible to minimize the VLC player to the system tray. Could not turn up any definitive information while googling for this topic on the web.

Hey guys, I use Portable VLC on my computer (and portable firefox and lotsa portable version of apps coz it doesnt scattrer settings around). Anyway, I tried associating video files to the launcher and all works fine, except for avi and .mov. when I double click on an avi file I get this error:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3492/untitledto4.jpg

but when I double click on mpeg/wma and other video files it opens it in vlc just fine. How do I fix .avi and .mov association?

Also when I right click on a video file my pc get sluggish for a second and the cpu usage graph spikes up. In addition it adds a "Play on My -> Monitor" Contect Menu on the right click menu.

Hi,

It is possible to remove some plugins from VLC.
There are a lot options most people never use, especially the network streaming parts.

Maybe it would be a good idea to create a "Stripped Portable VLC"?

Here is the list of plugins which are safe to remove:

libwxwindows.dll
libwingdi_plugin.dll
libskins_2.dll
libnetsync_plugin.dll
libt(w,o)olame.dll

Stream Output
libstream_out_*.dll
Access Output
libaccess_output_*.dll
Muxers
libmux_*.dll
MPEG-TS TS Muxer (libdvbpsi)
libts_plugin.dll not sure?
Packetizers
libpacketizer_*.dll
SAP
libsap_plugin.dll

Is there a way to make this the default media program for Firefox?

Im just curious as to why have this here since you can get one from the main vlc site that is porable. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
You just download the zip archive instead of the exe.

Check it out. VLC can't handle WMV3 without having WMP10 installed, which means PVLC isn't quite portable.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=74379

There is a minor bug in the launcher if you use:

-\ --- Directory with PortableVLC.exe
+\PortableVLC\
+\App\
+\vlc\
+\Data\
+\settings\

PortableVLC.nsi contains:

IfFileExists "$EXEDIR\${NAME}\App\${DEFAULTAPPDIR}\${DEFAULTEXE}" "" CheckPortableAppsDIR
StrCpy "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY" "$EXEDIR\App\${NAME}\${DEFAULTAPPDIR}"
StrCpy "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY" "$EXEDIR\Data\${NAME}\${DEFAULTSETTINGSDIR}"

Note that Name\App is what is checked, but App\Name is what is set.

G'day,

I've tried Portable VLC at a couple of locations. At home, I have k-lite codec pack installed in windows with ffdshow etc to play back AVC codecs like x264. On my work computer though, P-VLC just shows a blank window where the video should be.

Does VLC need any of the windows codecs to be installed - it shouldn't to be portable! Should I copy the AVC codec DLL file into a directory on my flash drive?

My video is compressed as x264 with AAC audio in an MP4 container.

Cheers

not sure if it's the right place for that kind of stuff, but I noticed that if you capture a screenshot wusing the app, it will automatically save it to your my documents folder on your C drive.

I think it would be nice to have it saved to, let say, .\screencaps

Thanks!

I am sorry for asking coz I do not know much about VLC player but was wondering if I can play the songs from Internet which require say for example...the real player?
I noted that the VLC player can play .rm files from the hard disk.
Thanks in advance!!