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Hi,

I downloaded the 2.0.1 Windows files and noticed that the folders "NSIS" and "languages" are missing (7z und zip file). These folders are required for a custom installation with the nsi file.
Am I supposed to take the folders from the 2.0.0 release?

Any help appreciated.

BR,
CyberMCM

Hmm, that's a mistake...
Maybe we should officially create our msi.

Thx for your reply
So you gonna fix it?

Older folders should also work, but yes, it would be better to fix this.

Hi,

when will it be fixed?

Hopefully for 2.0.2, I will ticket this during weekend.

Ticket is
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6491

Ticket was closed by courmisch, marked as invalid. If I want to modify the installation parameters I need those files.
Is there another way to configure the installation (e.g. shortcut creation, deactivation of ActiveX component, file extension configuration)?

Use the file from git or from a NB.

In other words, find a replacement for us corporate users that want to package it. Gotcha =)

In all honestly thought, any quick tips how to package it to not check for autoupdates nowdays? Could we parhaps get a msi for the installation with a noupdate property? Thanks.

Well, try the MSI:
http://people.videolan.org/~etix/msi/

@Jean-Baptiste: thx for the file but I don't really understand why these folders won't be easily available in future versions. I don't think that you will provide a special msi for every new version

Thanks for MSI. Would be lovely if that could be provided in the future as well.
I can not find any easy properties for disabling autoupdates though. Is there a way, except for adding "--no-qt-privacy-ask --no-qt-updates-notif" to about 1000 registry entries in a .mst file?

Lots of errors in that MSI by the way. Open it in wise, go to components and there are a LOT of reds. While this can be fixed by setting them with "Set as key", it looks bad and there are a lot of them.

Unless that is fixed, a .mst created in wise is not possible to do as it can not save the .mst file and just complains about all the components.

Also a bad Category in table _Validation for key Directory.DefaultDir

Still, with those things manually fixed, wise can not create a mst from this msi. I give up.

@Jean-Baptiste: thx for the file but I don't really understand why these folders won't be easily available in future versions. I don't think that you will provide a special msi for every new version

Why not? Msi are better than .exe for installation.

Lots of errors in that MSI by the way. Open it in wise, go to components and there are a LOT of reds. While this can be fixed by setting them with "Set as key", it looks bad and there are a lot of them.

Can you share the list of errors please ?

Why not? Msi are better than .exe for installation.

MSI files would be great as long as these are configurable (e.g. no update, file assoc, etc...)

Lots of errors in that MSI by the way. Open it in wise, go to components and there are a LOT of reds. While this can be fixed by setting them with "Set as key", it looks bad and there are a lot of them.

Can you share the list of errors please ?

Well, theres the two I wrote about that show up in Wise Package Studio. I can not explain why, even after fixing them myself, it does not compile the transforms file. Load it in wise, edit anything (remove shortcut) and try to compile it.

Or load it in InstEdit and try to make any change (remove a shortcut). Try and run a verify after that and you get:
Function failed during execution. MainWindow failed to process message 294 with the params 5, 3015.

I have no idea whats wrong with it, but something is wacko with the msi.

Made a good old snapshot in Wise from the EXE instead. Made sure to check Mozilla Plugin.

In wise Registry editor, clean it up under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, leaving only
Microsoft (uninstall information for MSI)
MozillaPlugin
VideoLAN

Removed all icons except one in Start / Programs. Added
--no-qt-privacy-ask --no-qt-updates-notif
to that icon.

Go to Setup Editor / Tables / Registry
Search and replace
--started-from-file
with
--no-qt-privacy-ask --no-qt-updates-notif --started-from-file

Done.

update on this one...
I downloaded this one:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 0.1.tar.xz
Then I extracted (use 7zip) languages and UAC.nsh, UAC.dll from here:
\extras\package\win32

Put the language folder in your root vlc path (from the zip file), create a NSIS sub folder within the root path and place the two UAC files there.

The vlc.win32.nsi is included within the 2.0.1 zip package. Edit the nsi file because some languages are not included within source (e.g. russian), compile with your modifications -> done...

You have my vote for an official .MSI that allows disabling of autoupdate/desktop icon/etc!

You have my vote for an official .MSI that allows disabling of autoupdate/desktop icon/etc!

Vote does not write code...

The files necessary for creating a customized version with NSIS are missing again in 2.0.5 (from version 2.0.2 until 2.0.4 the files were available)
This time it is also not possible to extract these files (described viewtopic.php?f=14&t=99300&p=337664#p337664) from the tar.gz archive as uac.dll is missing there.

Why were the files removed (again)?