Standalone Software Player

[ejd]

Hello all
I'm looking for a software player that i can use from a memory stick and play DivX/Xvid encoded avi files without having to install ffdshow or divx codecs onto the local machine (I don't have any admin rights on the machine) :sly:

Is this possible? the "Core Media Player" seems to do this albeit on mobile devices. If anyone have any ideas please can you let me know.

J

[mod]

Hi, try VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) , it has it's own filters.

[Leak]

I'm looking for a software player that i can use from a memory stick and play DivX/Xvid encoded avi files without having to install ffdshow or divx codecs onto the local machine (I don't have any admin rights on the machine) :sly:
Media Player Classic allows you to specify filters to load on the command line, so if you drop ffdshow's files next to it and run

mplayerc /filter ffdshow.ax

you should be able to use ffdshow without having to install it - the same goes for XviD/DivX, so if you just drop all your codecs in MPCs directory and run "mplayerc /filter *.ax" you're done.

(Run "mplayerc /?" for a documentation of command line switches)

np: Death Cab For Cutie - Marching Bands Of Manhattan (Plans)

[ejd]

Thanks for the idea Leak, I have setup the following,
mplayerc.exe (6.4.8.4) in a folder with all the .ax and .dll files from ffdshow. The video I want to play is in a sub folder media and is called ep03.avi (it is encoded with DivX 5 and mp3 sound).

I have a .bat file setup to run the command
"mplayerc.exe ./media/ep03.avi /filter *.*"

This fires up mplayerc.exe but I end up getting some errors:

Audio switcher :: out it is missing an
MPEG-1 audio switcher & ACM wrapper,
MPEG-3 audio switcher & ACM wrapper.

And avi splitter :: stream00 error saying no avi splitter.
For the MPEG-1/3 i assume i'm missing an mp3 decoder and would appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction (i was thinking mpglib.dll ?, as for the avi splitter I have no idea).

Doeas anyone have any more ideas ?

Cheers
J

[lrms]

You could also try mplayer - it (like VLC) has its own filters all built-in. It can also use (proprietary) external binary codecs without registering/installing (just copy to codecs directory).

Some suggested download links (binaries for Win32):
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd.asp?dir=/mplayer
http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/