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VLC Media Player 3.0.21 (MSI-x64)?

Started by iamr00t, June 17, 2024, 06:52:31 AM

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iamr00t

We are updating VLC for EXE x86, EXE x64. and MSI x64. I am seeing that this new release 3.0.21 does not seem to have a version for MSI x64. Is that per the developer or something we need make plans for? We have 1275 on EXE x64 but we also have 972 on MSI x64, so we will need to work through migrating them all to EXE x64 if this new version will not be updated any longer. Please let us know.

Dan Gough (Patch My PC)

We are monitoring their site for a new MSI:
https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.21/win64/

Here is a thread on the vendor forum about it that is now locked:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=164735

Their MSI was problematic due to being compiled on Linux rather than Windows, so they may have run into some build issues:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/18985

If we decide to pull this from our catalog, we can add a pre-script to the EXE release to remove the MSI version.

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Quote from: Dan Gough on June 17, 2024, 07:58:38 AMWe are monitoring their site for a new MSI:
https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.21/win64/

Here is a thread on the vendor forum about it that is now locked:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=164735

Their MSI was problematic due to being compiled on Linux rather than Windows, so they may have run into some build issues:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/18985

If we decide to pull this from our catalog, we can add a pre-script to the EXE release to remove the MSI version.
Is there any update about this?

iamr00t

I concur in asking for an update. I agree that this should generally on the software vendor, but if you offered to script the removal of the MSI version, that would work around this vendor's lack of action.

Dan Gough (Patch My PC)

There is another post here where the developers have stated they ran into issues but still intend to get an MSI working:

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/28677

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To be frank, that post dates from 2 months ago.
I would rather remove the MSI version at this point and just use the exe version