Music & Video Apps Support

Whenever I start the newly released "Audacity Portable 1.2.4b" the splash screen pops up for a second and after that Audacity Portable kills itself.
I do controll the running processes and apps with Sysinternals' Process Explorer.

The same thing happens on a USB stick and on my HD as well.

Other Portable Apps as Firefox, Thunderbird, Abiword, VLC ... run all well.
So what might be wrong with Audacity?

stek

System: WinXP Pro SP2

I'm having trouble getting VST plug-ins to work. I installed them as the main Audacity instructions specify, but AudacityPortable won't display them in the Effects menu.

Steps thus far:

* Downloaded the VST handler from SourceForge and some VST plug-ins (Endorphin and Fish Fillets from the Portable Fish Phones guy) from another site
* Unzipped the files as the instructions said
* Put the handler DLL and plug-in DLLs into the AudacityPortable Plug-Ins directory (\AudacityPortable\App\Audacity\Plug-Ins)
* started AudacityPortable

When I open a sound file, highlight a section, and click on the Effects menu, I expect to see the VST effects at the bottom of it, along with all of the other effects. Instead, I just see the basic set of effects that AudacityPortable included at first execution.

Audacity portable would be a boon to anybody who does any remote podcasting, and doesn't have the same machine to rely on day in and day out. Anybody taken the portable version for a test drive yet?

I thought portable VLC would play DVDs without needing codes. Can it and if so how?
Thanks,
Donna

I'm used to using normal VLC ... but where do you put the plugins in portable VLC??

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.