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Hello,

We just started providing a msi installer in the VLC 2.1.0 (beta) nightly builds.

Please test it and report back!

Windows x64 nightly builds should also come in .msi form once they are back (after I had to disable gnutls / https modules).

Hi
What is the difference between the exe and the msi?
According to Wikipedia it is better to use msi, or at least is what MS recommends:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer
So it is advisable to use it instead of exe?

The MSI will probably be the default installer for VLC 2.1 but for now it still lacks some important features (like a proper upgrade path). I do not recommend using it except for testing purpose.

Ok etix, so we go to testing it then. There are some errors or behavior that you expect/search?

I installed the last msi file and all work fine, the unique error was when the installer tried to launch the VLCmp when it finished. Is related at the problem in this ticket: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8410

But the msi work fine.

Edit:
I've seen that does not remove versions already installed before the installation like the exe does, but I guess that's not a error.

Win8-x86-64
VLC-32bit

Thanks for the quick test.
I'm aware that installing a new version is not removing/upgrading correctly in some cases, this should be fixed soon.

Hi.
All the MSI builds are broken, since its first build:
210-git-20130409-0023.msi (1st. msi build)
It can't play files, showing this error:
"Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///C:/Users/SKY/Desktop/SONG.mp3'. Check the log for details."
Here is the log at verbosity 2 (210-git-20130412-0010.msi):
Since version:
210-git-20130413-0009.msi
Does not start the GUI, but start the VLC process and gradually uses more and more RAM, like the behaviour in this threads:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=109463
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=109790

Aparently are missing some files:
libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll
libstdc++-6.dll
If they are aggregates then the GUI starts and there aren't memory leak but it can't play files anyway:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///C:/Users/SKY/Desktop/SONG.mp3'. Check the log for details.
(210-git-20130416-0008.msi) Win8 x64 - VLCmp 32 bits

This should have been fixed (not sure at which date exactly), but last time I tried MSI it did not install properly

Bumping the thread to ask for MSI testing.

I just installed a new component on our buildbot machine to try to fix Bug 8858, and also enabled MSI building for 2.1 nightly builds.

Please test nightly builds as they appear in the next days and report success/failure.

Thanks!

Will the MSI installer finally fix the incredibly obtrusive update process? I hate it when I play a video, accept an update, then have the movie playing but the player completely unresponsive while the updater is running, and finally having to restart the video once the update is installed. It would be much better if the update downloaded in the background and installed after the current playlist finished or on the next run or at least make the player responsive while it's downloading.

Hello,
Is there an MSI planned for VLC 2.1.0 final ?

Thanks for the quick test.
I'm aware that installing a new version is not removing/upgrading correctly in some cases, this should be fixed soon.

Bumping the thread to ask for MSI testing.

I just installed a new component on our buildbot machine to try to fix Bug 8858, and also enabled MSI building for 2.1 nightly builds.

Please test nightly builds as they appear in the next days and report success/failure.

Thanks!

MSI installer is working well, after a few edits to the msi (I'm pushing a silent install)
the installer is not honoring the "EULA_ACCEPT" property for the silent install, so I just removed the condition on the install button that forced the check box to be checked before continuing.

I'm really interested in how to edit the msi so vlc sets itself as the default program for all the file types it has associations for?

I was able to get the file associations sorted.

Open the msi with an editor (I use orca) and go to the "feature" table, change the "Attributes" column to "24" for each set of associations you want by default.

Hi,

I already created a Windows Installer package for 1.1.11, 2.0.8, 2.1.0 and finally 2.1.1 using WiX fitting my personal needs since last year, although I didn't make it public. So my installer is "just" copying files, registering the Mozilla/ActiveX plugins and creating the start menu shortcuts (which are customizable through Orca or "InstEd It")

Please tell me how I can share my efforts with you without having to use a bug tracker or something like that (I just want to share my VS project source files and maybe the compiled binaries), as I would have to join a large amount of bugtrackers just to provide my source files/binaries for a handful of applications. At least it would be helpful to have the same upgrade code in case a package needs to be upgraded by one of another author.

As for my personal opinion, it is not reasonable to integrate associations for file formats, which are used by more than just one application, which would be replaced by every update of your installer, without providing the ability to repair (let's say restore) the file associations that existed before installing your MSI package which were associated to other applications... Or maybe got registered to another application since the last update of VLC media player MSI... Could you provide THAT beside clean install/uninstall and caring of non-MSI-installers of VLC media player? I'm not able to do this, so I didn't include file format associations in my Windows Installer package.

Btw. which kind of users are you targetting with your MSI installer? Do you want to replace the regular installer or do you want to provide an installer for enterprise environments, where some of the features of the regular installer just don't need to be cared of? Or where you don't have to care about non-MSI-installed VLC media players?

Kind regards, ldlx

The WiX code is inside the main vlc.git, if you want to help.

We want to replace all the installer, if possible.

Apologies if this not the right place to post; Neither google nor #vlc in FreeNode came back with any answers.

We are building a windows image to deploy, and I would like to get some Continuous Integration going.

Is there a stable msi package with fixed name we can point wget to? something like http://get.videolan.org:81/vlc/last/vlc-setup.msi , which points to the latest installer?

So far, no, sorry.

Hello,

Our nightlies build machine has now been upgraded with a newer version of mono to hopefully fix the long standing issue.

Last build works fine for me, please test builds in the following days to see if they continue working or if the issue is back.

Thank you!

Hello,

is posible to set property like "NOUPDATE" etc.. to achieve "run vlc.exe --no-qt-privacy-ask --no-qt-updates-notif"? Otherwise MSI work fine. Great job!

Tried installing vlc-2.2.0-git-20140207-0020.msi as well as vlc-2.1.4-20140207-0203.msi and got this error.
"There is a problem with this Windows installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact you support....."
followed by
"VLC media player 2.2.0 (32-bit) Setup Wizard ended Prematurely.

System: Win7 Pro 64bit
Old version of VLC: 2.1.2

Hi,

vlc-3.0.0-git-20141028-0403.msi - Setup Wizard ended Prematurely.

System: Win7 Pro 64bit

Is there any list of stable MSI? I would like to use it but I already tried five more versions and all of them was useless...

When I ran the installer by double clicking it in windows explorer I had the same error message that has been reported in the last 2 posts.
To figure out what went wrong I launched the installer from an elevated cmd ( in windows 8.1 ) using the following command: and the installation ran without any issues. After the installation I removed VLC again and tried to run it in explorer again to reproduce the error but it completed the installation without any errors.


EDIT: Same for vlc-3.0.0-git-20150324-0003
C:\temp>msiexec /i vlc-3.0.0-git-20150324-0003.msi /L*v "%cd%\3.log"

MSI (c) (70:CC) [20:38:24:662]: Product: VLC media player 3.0.0 (32-bit) -- Installation completed successfully.

MSI (c) (70:CC) [20:38:24:662]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: VLC media player 3.0.0 (32-bit). Product Version: 3.0.0.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: VideoLAN. Installation success or error status: 0.

MSI (c) (70:CC) [20:38:24:662]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (70:CC) [20:38:24:662]: Cleaning up uninstalled install packages, if any exist
MSI (c) (70:CC) [20:38:24:662]: MainEngineThread is returning 0

Is there a way how to install the VLC via MSI with GUI? It works fine with GUI for EXE, but not for MSI.