trying to avoid MS s/w

[dwater]

Hi,

I have used vlc on my mac w/o much problem for a long time, so, when my boss asked me to install 9 dvd drives on our school's computers, I thought I would configure them to use vlc, and thus avoid the proliferation of MS 'lock-in'.

Unfortunately, they all run MS Windows 2000, which is causing me some problems.

I installed it OK, but to start with, it wouldn't run very well - getting sound but jumpy video at anything but miniscule window size.

Some seaching made me enable a few things - DMA on the drive, something about windows in the video module preferences panel, and, I found, a non-default video filter helped too (crop?).

So, that got it working acceptably as administrator, but now one or two users are trying to use it, I have to tell them to make these changes too. Well, one or two might be OK, but it isn't gonna fly for all of them.

Is there a way of changing the default for everyone? It seems like trying to get vlc working under MS Windows in a bit of an art, while it worked fine first time on my Mac.

I would really like to not have to use some 'other' s/w.

Max.

[markfm]

Once you get a configuration you like, copy the vlcrc file -- this is vlc's "ini" file.

It's located in \documents and settings\your_username\application data.

Copy the "vlc" directory in "application data" to any new user's "application data" folder. The VLC directory only has one file in it -- vlcrc. If you open vlcrc you will see that it is indeed a standard ini file kind of thing, a bunch of application settings.

[dwater]

Thanks for your response

Will it work to put the vlcrc the 'all users' document and setting folder? How about doing that on the pdc (W2K server)? All users will be managed using the pdc (I'm no Windows expert, as you can tell).

Max.

Once you get a configuration you like, copy the vlcrc file -- this is vlc's "ini" file.

It's located in \documents and settings\your_username\application data.


Copy the "vlc" directory in "application data" to any new user's "application data" folder. The VLC directory only has one file in it -- vlcrc. If you open vlcrc you will see that it is indeed a standard ini file kind of thing, a bunch of application settings.

[markfm]

I think you need to get it into the individual username folder. It's easy enough to try -- just cut and paste your current VLC folder into the All Users area, then start VLC, see if it works (I'm pretty sure I tried this once before, at work, and it didn't take -- needed to be in the actual individual folder).

You might be able to automate pushing the information, so that it automatically occurs when a person logs in. Check your Win2K Server documentation, something like automatic scripts, group policy. For instance, see:
http://www.osborne.com/networking_comm/ ... 4_ch01.pdf