Automatic updates to the nightly builds?

[Fabulist]

Hello everyone,

As the topic suggests, is there a way to do this?

Similar to Chrome's Canary builds that update automatically daily, is there a way to automatically or manually install the latest VLC build, but without navigating to the website and going through the installation process?

Thanks in advance!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

so far, we have not done that.

[Fabulist]

Alright, it would be so nice if we could do that though; be able to automatically stay up to date with the 'nightlies'.

Some of us like to live on the edge

Thanks for taking your time responding!

[Sébastien Escudier]

note that there are versions without installation. Don't download the .exe if you don't want to install.

[Fabulist]

Well I asked this so I can get an "automatic" update of the latest nightly version the next time I start VLC.

For example, assuming I have the latest nightly build today, I can get the new one (that will come out tonight?) tomorrow morning that I will launch VLC again to watch another video.

This can either happen silently, like it happens most of the times with Chrome Canary, or after manual confirmation, or I can simply decide when to update VLC, but the program will look for new nightly builds (assuming I want it to) and I can update accordingly.

I assume this can help power users and developers identify problems and compatibility issues faster and easier instead of waiting for RC versions or manually updating to the nightly builds daily, which I most of the times need to look again for myself to get; like visiting your website, developer website, VLC build tree and so on.

And since you guys take the effort building and uploading daily, I believe more users would be able to use them more often than what they are now, just an assumption.

Another example: assuming you have 2.1 or 2.0.1 RC right now online, unless I visit your websites, I can't know; and for those who want to stay up to date they need to to this on a daily basis to actually be able to use your work.

As you understand the problem is not installation, but more broad and convenient ways of interacting with your work.

Thanks for your time again!

[Sébastien Escudier]

I know what you asked, and you also said "without navigating to the website and going through the installation process"

Just wanted to let you know that skipping the installation process is possible that's all.

[Fabulist]

Alright I thought I should elaborate a bit.

Thanks for your time again guys!

[forcharity]

since he said not to use the *.exe, what about a script that goes to
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/last/
and grabs the latest *.zip and extracts it to the C:\Program Files\VLC folder?

Who is technically competent to write one?

[mattvail]

Here's a PowerShell script that should do the trick.
Prerequisites:
- 7-Zip for extracting (.7z results in a smaller download)
- BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) to download the file. This should technically already be a running service in Windows.

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Import-Module BitsTransfer $7zip = "C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe" $url = "http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win64/last/" $vlc_folder = "C:\Data\VLC\" If (!(Test-Path $vlc_folder)) { New-Item -Path $vlc_folder -ItemType Directory } $response = Invoke-WebRequest $url -UseBasicParsing $filename = ($response.Links |?{$_.href -match ".7z"} ).href $download_url = $url + $filename Start-BitsTransfer -Source $download_url -Destination $vlc_folder $downloaded_file = $vlc_folder + $filename Get-ChildItem $downloaded_file | % {& $7zip "x" $_.fullname -o"$vlc_folder" -y } Remove-Item $downloaded_file

[mattvail]

script broke since they added debug builds

need to change line

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$filename = ($response.Links |?{$_.href -match ".7z"} ).href

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$filename = ($response.Links |?{$_.href -match "win64.7z"} ).href