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Portable player? Yes. Portable codecs? Not so fast there, buddy

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Mar 15, 20261387 views
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I have come across a very rare, interesting problem. I need to play video on a computer with Windows XP on which I have no system-wide privileges. I cannot install any software. However, I can run executables, naturally, as long as they stay away from system32 and folders like that. That's why I do…

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Fix for: Portable player? Yes. Portable codecs? Not so fast there, buddy

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Try VideoLAN (Client). While the official release is an installer, you can extract it with 7-Zip (available as a portable version), or just get a portable version of VLC. VLC supports most video formats via files in its own folder, so it does not ne…

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