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Answer» Good Morning, A vid player is gonna run painfully slow from a flash drive... Why? Most apps including the ones designed for this...including Portable apps i have ran are slow... I would think this will hold true for a vid player as well.Well, I thought I had BETTER make sure I know what I am talking about, so I downloaded VLC Media Player Portable from here http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable and installed it on a folder I created on a pen drive I have lying around (Staples own brand 4 GB cheap drive, plugged into a powered hub) and tried it out. The first time I ran it there was a pause of about 30 seconds and a message saying "Rebuilding font cache" and then I was able to go to the "Media" menu, "Open File", and open a movie file actually on the same pen drive. The second time I ran the app it just loaded briskly. The file is an Mpeg-4 (Xvid) 608 x 320 movie with a bitrate of 814 kbps. The audio is 134 kbps stereo mp3. It loaded in a very short time (in a "flash" hee hee) and PLAYS smoothly without glitches. It also plays movies off my hard drive(s) and CD/DVD drive and another pen drive the same way. My system is reasonably modern: AMD quad core Phenom II 4 GB RAM, and all my USB hardware is USB 2.0 but I used to do these things on my 2004 Pentium 4 system and my 2001 AMD Athlon 1800+ system. In fact my home DVD player has a USB port on the front and I can PLUG in a pen drive or an SD card in an adapter and play an AVI or mpg movie off these. However, to the OP, I do not think you can just copy a nornally installed program out of its folder in Program Files and expect it to work from a pen drive - it has to be specially made portable. Interesting you took the time to test it out...i'm in the process myself. Portableapps has some great stuff... I'll update my findings as well later. Thanx Salmon. |
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