Works in both pure BartPE and BartPE+[Sherpya's]XPE:

*** Click on the "Download vlcplayer.cab" link NOT on the "Download" link with the big green down arrow.

Download:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/72a7e187-b3e0-4e...660b7/vlcplayer

Thank you! Just what I was looking for.

Has anyone tested it?

I tested it in both pure BartPE and BartPE + XPE using vmware and it worked fine, it was able to play everything I threw at it.

It is interesting, but how to make it work as a plugin in BartPE ?
Should I try an analogous plugin and try to adapt it to VLC ?
Or is there a working one somewhere "at hand" ? ;-)

Do you not see the link in the opening post??

I see a link there, but it leads to downloading the
vlcplayer.cab file , which I downloaded allright.
However, what about the typical plugin files
like the INF file, HTM and XML file ?

Or is it enough for the CAB file to go into I386 folder ?

Just like here:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=24260&hl=

I have the impression you are somehow trying to understand the way BartPE works from the top to the bottom, instead of the ol' way from bottom to top.
You need to read and study a bit the documentation which is available.
Remember that google is your friend :
http://users.telenet.be/Robvdb/how_plugin.htm
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=1816

Haven't you noticed that plugins available on the home page (and in most other sources) are actually a single .cab file?
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/plugins/
http://www.paraglidernc.com/plugins/plugins.htm

What kind of files do you get from the above?

What is inside the vlcplayer.cab?

Try opening it in 7-zip ...



jaclaz

Thanks Jaclaz for the links.

Although I use 7-zip for some time I didn't know it could
browse the structure of CAB files.

Now I see, that all files needed to create the plugin
are there.

I wasn't used to think about CAB format as just
another alternate way of compressing a file structure.
When I see a CAB file I automatically think of it
as something compressed to be used by an
external installation program, usually Windows
installer.

As far as the "way of getting to know things" is concerned
('top to bottom' or 'bottom to top') people usually have
some time limits and try to use learning shortcuts.
In such a situation the experimenter's way is chosen,
which means trying to modify existing solutions
and checking if this works.
The experimenter's way is the way our science
has been created. This is the way from experiment
to theory and not the other way round.
This way should be called the "ol' way from bottom to top".
The way from theory to experiment should be
then called "from top to bottom".
Nowadays we are so much used to getting to know
theory first, that we start thinking this is always
the proper way to do things.
However when you take the time limit into consideration
the above mentioned view may be sometimes thought
of as wrong.

Sorry about the lenghty post here.
It may seem a bit not to the point.

.CAB files are complete, and compressed, plugins and are added to PEBuilder by clicking on it's Plugins button at the bottom of window, then the Add button and then finding the .CAB file. PEBuilder does the unpacking and adding of the files to the plugin folder.

The .CAB file itself does not need to be within the PEBuilder folder or even on the same drive as PEBuilder.

hth

@M_E_G

Sure , but you see, experiments are usually performed in disused lavatories dark laboratories, by lonely, shy, peeps, that don't ask questions on technical forums... .

In other words, that is NOT taking shortcuts, it is taking shortcuts asking for other people help (and time) when the solution to your current problem is ALREADY easily available.

Another "general" idea is that, if you really need to re-invent wheel or hot-water, such a wheel needs to be rounder (and hot-water hotter) thus you have to know ANYWAY the roundness of existing wheels and temperature of the usual hot-water everyone else uses.

And you are advised against taking ANY experiment WITHOUT some basic knowledge of the tools used, it's just like reverse engineering, it makes LOTS of sense if you don't have source and proper documentation, but is frankly a much looonger shortcut then the "main" path if these are available.

Please also review my signature , I am all for experiments..... but needed ones, to prove the unproved or to explore the unexplored.... just imagine that every odd year of his life a land surveyor's mind is wiped blank and he needs to re-discover empiricallly Pythagoras's Theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
or the whole Euclidean approach to geometry......

jaclaz

Solutions and answers are only available if you know where to look. More than one person has been lost in the woods only to be found yards away from the trail.

Sure , but that is an "emergency situation", and anyway in those particular cases the usual approach is to SHOUT VERY LOUD asking for help or light a fire and wait for rescue, instead of asking passers by if they could show how a compass works. (because some time was saved by omitting reading the instructions that came with it when you bought it or because you spent your time as a kid playing softball instead of reading ATTENTIVELY your Junior Woodchuck GuideBook ) .

I was ONLY pointing out that saving time at the expense of other people's time is NOT "saving time" in a holistic view of all the time of all the people involved (including BTW the time spent by the Author to document his/her work).

jaclaz

@ MEG

I'm sorry for not replying to your posts on time, I'm glad you got all things together now