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It would be good to have a VLC MSI package to allow mass deployment (and then subsequent updating) through the Windows Active Directory.

Unlikely to happen.

Why don't you like the NSIS installers ?

ok, thanks for the reply. how do i install through the active dir. using NSIS. I've never heard of it.

Thanks again.

It may be doable using NSIS:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=272544

VLC would need to be recompilied with the modified NSIS script.

Arite.

No, you don't deploy NSIS through AD, you just deploy vlc-$(version).exe /S on your machines use WSUS.

How do you deploy 3rd party software with WSUS?
Everything I've read says that WSUS theoretically supports non-microsoft products but no one has done it yet. SUS supports installs but it is not free like WSUS.

Sorry, yes, my mistake, it must be SUS and not WSUS.

Anyway, we use nsis to do our installer.

OK. 2 years later, the same request. MSI please! It would save a lot of manual transformations from .exe to .msi. What I do is to register all video types and turn off the first-run screen. But I do it just because of AD deployment with MSI.
The same issue at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=60966

OK. 2 years later, the same request. MSI please! It would save a lot of manual transformations from .exe to .msi. What I do is to register all video types and turn off the first-run screen. But I do it just because of AD deployment with MSI.
The same issue at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=60966

PAtches are welcome.

PAtches are welcome.

That's nice, but...

Where do I find the NSIS scripts for the installer of VLC? Tracing the install process of an open source installer, which is installing an open source application is kinda ironic. I made WiX templates to deploy Firefox and Thunderbird on my network and it was very easy to translate the actions into WiX's XML, because I found these scripts!

They are on the source release, and on the git and on all the .zip releases...

My VLC media player 1.1.11 GPO install file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5puugd530odr9z5

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

Help us write it.

I know this is not a new post, and that there is an MSI available now, but you did say “help us write it.”

I have done a bit of work on this in the past and created a WiX project that I use to deploy VLC. The MSI is intended for group policy use only and doesn’t have a UI, the options that would normally be offered by the installer UI (such as file association hijacking) are controlled via a group policy template instead.

In order to avoid using the classic VLC icon for every file type I also created some icons and an icon library DLL, so that reassigned file types are given their own icon. (Well, the common ones anyway)

Let me know if any of this is of interest and I will make it available.

It is. http://people.videolan.org/~etix/msi/vlc-2.0.3.msi is the latest installer and is done in WiX. But we need help to make it correct.

Okay, is there anything I can do to help? Your MSI is already very good, so I doubt my WiX project will offer much, but maybe the option to use a group policy template preset some options is of use.

Would you like me to send you the WiX project?

Would you like me to send our WiX project?

Okay, it would be nice to contribute if I am able to.

Where should I send it?

Will the MSI package be a standard for future VLC releases?

Will the MSI package be a standard for future VLC releases?

Yes, if people test it.

I checked http://people.videolan.org/~etix/msi/vlc-2.0.3.msi -version just a moment ago... few pointers:

- Make the languages as installable features or at least some kind of selection what's the default language (could be based on the OS UI-language)
- Make the shorcut locations to be modifed (just like the installation folder)
- Is the autoupdate feature still present? The dialogs in the first run?

I'm more than willing to test this. MSI-packages are a standard in corporate environments so this is really good news!

- Make the languages as installable features or at least some kind of selection what's the default language (could be based on the OS UI-language)
- Make the shorcut locations to be modifed (just like the installation folder)
- Is the autoupdate feature still present? The dialogs in the first run?

- I don't see the point of that: disk storage is cheap. Patch welcome.
- Why?
- Yes. Yes.

- Make the languages as installable features or at least some kind of selection what's the default language (could be based on the OS UI-language)
- Make the shorcut locations to be modifed (just like the installation folder)
- Is the autoupdate feature still present? The dialogs in the first run?

- I don't see the point of that: disk storage is cheap. Patch welcome.
- Why?
- Yes. Yes.

- Because of the customization
- Because of the customization
- This should also be a custom option within the installer (choice to disable or enable it)