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VLC Media Player 0.x
Company: Videolan
Setup Type: Legacy setup with switch support
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Record Created On: 2/28/2007
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Full Name: VLC media player 0.9.9

Version: 0.9.9

Publisher: VideoLAN Team

Uninstall String: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe

More Info URL: http://www.videolan.org

Categories: Audio / Video

Threat: Unknown

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Download software http://www.videolan.org

Run "vlc-0.7.0-win32.exe" /S

Above Entry Provided on 6/7/2004 by nicola 		Rate It
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I found this in the videolan forum

"NSIS installers recognize /S for silent installation, /NCRC to suppress the CRC (verification) step, and /D=dir to specify the "output directory", which is where the program will be installed. These options are case-sensitive, so be sure to type them in upper case."

I tried this with success:
vlc-0.8.6c-win32.exe /S /NCRC

No language message appears.

Above Entry Provided on 9/14/2007 by ahe 		Rate It
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You can Uninstall VLC (until 0.9X) with this uninstall command:

in the path "c:\program files\Videolan\VLC\"
launch "uninstall.exe /S /NCRC"

Above Entry Provided on 12/23/2008 by aryanman 		Rate It
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Use vlc-0.9.9-win32.exe /L=1033 /S for silent install using dutch language

Above Entry Provided on 4/20/2009 by jsoetens0001 		Rate It
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Download ZIP version with installer of VLC and edit vlc.win32.nsi file to not associate all MP3/avi to VLC (unless you want ALL)

Then to install run:
%~dp0vlc-0.9.9-win32.exe /L=1033 /S /NCRC
1033 = EN-us, 1036 = FR-fr, 1053 = SV-sv etc.

To uninstall:
%Programfiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe /S /NCRC

With version 0.9.9 the user has just to answer once how to deal with thumbnails etc but I let it be since the user should chose a personal setting here. The installation is however 100% silent.

More here:
http://john.bryntze.net/jbkb/index.php?title=OpenSource-kb5_Silent_installation_and_configuration_of_VLC_Media_Player

Above Entry Provided on 5/6/2009 by jbappdeploy 		Rate It
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I tried this command line with VLC mediaplayer 1.0.0 and it still works fine. No major changes in the commands, i guess....

vlc-1.0.0-win32.exe /L=1044 /S /NCRC

Above Entry Provided on 7/14/2009 by dallius 		Rate It
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the 1.0.3 still works:

> vlc-1.0.3-win32.exe /L=1034 /S

(to install in spanish language)

Above Entry Provided on 1/5/2010 by migus 		Rate It
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Notes: Shared "notes from the field" covering how to handle the automated installation of this software.

If you need to deselect certain file type associations when installing VLC silently, you need to download the ZIP version instead of the EXE installer, and do the following to rebuild the installer yourself:

ZIP version of VLC 0.8.6d:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6d/win32/vlc-0.8.6d-win32.zip

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download

1) Install the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
2) Unzip the VLC ZIP file
3) Open the vlc.win32.nsi file with Notepad
4) Enter the version number on line 7
5) Change line 23 so that the file name uses the correct version variable: ${PRODUCT_VERSION} instead of ${VERSION}
6) Put a semi-colon at the beginning of any line (roughly between line numbers 112 and 155) for any file for which VLC should not steal the association (I've removed ASF, ASX, WMA, and WMV to keep Microsoft formats with Windows Media Player - needed for files with DRM as VLC doesn't cope with DRM-update requirements)
7) Save the file and exit Notepad
8) Right-click on the vlc.win32.nsi file and choose Compile NSIS Script (this will take a minute or so and will save a new installer in the directory above the current one)
9) Hopefully you'll now have a VLC installer without any undesirable file type associations. The re-compiled installer still supports the /S silent switch, too.

Above Entry Provided on 12/11/2007 by mfearby 		Rate It
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VLC, unlike most players, can play DVD without the need for a DVD codec installed. To make it the default add the following key to your package.

Subkey: Hkey_Classes_Root\DVD\shell\play\commandString
Value:(Default)
Data: "P:\Apps\VLC\vlc.exe"dvd://

Above Entry Provided on 1/25/2008 by DanGay 		Rate It
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REM Unattended VLC 0.9.x installation, with old version removal and browser plugins.

REM Remove self-packaged VideoLAN 0.8.4a MSI
%systemroot%\system32\MsiExec.exe /X{3F927A23-9913-4BBF-B70D-566327589B72} /PASSIVE

REM Remove earlier VideoLAN-versions
"%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe" /S

REM Finish up removing old versions
rmdir /s /q "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN"

REM Install VLC Player 0.9.8a from default distribution package
\\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\vlc-0.9.8a-win32.exe /S

REM Install the browser plugins manually after this - just registry additions.

REM Install Mozilla VLC Plugin 0.9.8a
REM These were extracted from the zip file
if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %systemroot%\system32\xcopy.exe \\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\vlc-0.9.8a\mozilla\npvlc.dll "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\" /y /c
if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %systemroot%\system32\xcopy.exe \\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\vlc-0.9.8a\mozilla\npvlc.dll.manifest "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\" /y /c
if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %systemroot%\regedit.exe /s \\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\VLCMozPlug.reg

REM Install IE VLC Plugin 0.9.8a
%systemroot%\system32\xcopy.exe \\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\vlc-0.9.8a\activex\axvlc.dll "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\" /y /c
%systemroot%\system32\xcopy.exe \\server\share\installs\VLCplayer\vlc-0.9.8a\activex\axvlc.dll.manifest "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\" /y /c
%systemroot%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s "%ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"

REM Allow modifying of desktop icon
%systemroot%\system32\cacls.exe "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\VLC Media Player.lnk" /e /g users:c

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The Mozilla reg file was extracted from a manual install, here's the copypaste of VLCMozPlug.reg:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@videolan.org/vlc,version=0.9.8a]
"Description"="VLC Multimedia Plugin"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\npvlc.dll"
"Product"="VLC media player"
"Vendor"="VideoLAN"
"Version"="0.9.8a"

Above Entry Provided on 5/26/2009 by CSCmikrotuki 		Rate It
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-== VLC media player 0.9.9 ==-

Although the .exe installer does take a /S switch, there is not a nice way to control the shortcuts (e.g. remove desktop shortcut) without a 'delete' command somewhere, and there is not a nice way to stop the 'Privacy and Network Policies' window opening on first use. The window asks for update notification settings and auto-download of album art.

The preferences including the auto-update check settings are stored in:
%UAPPDATA%\vlc\vlcrc
This is a text file that can be edited with Notepad. The two settings that are required in this file are:
qt-updates-notif=0
qt-privacy-ask=0

This will prevent the notification of updates and not prompt for the settings at first run. If you set these, put the vlcrc file aside for later.

I then downloaded the windows zip file vlc-0.9.9-win32.zip from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html.

I created a new msi (using Wise Windows Installer Editor) and added all the files and folders from the zip to install to [INSTALLDIR] = %ProgramFiles\VideoLAN\VLC which is the same as the folder that is used when using their installer.

Then add the vlcrc that was amended earlier, to install to Windows\Profiles\Application Data\vlc
Then add an HKCU value as the primary key to the vlcrc component to ensure that the app auto-repairs for each user (e.g. HKCU\Software\VLC media player\Packaged = "by fred bloggs"). Note that you may get an ICE91 warning on the vlcrc component, but adding the HKCU value within the component as the primary key ensured that the self-repair ran properly and installed the file for me for all users logging on and running VLC, thus preventing the initial option screen and having update prompts off by default.

Above Entry Provided on 6/25/2009 by Daz 		Rate It
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