The video files contained on these archival discs are in the "Flash Video" format (.flv). Some computers may require additional media player software to play these files.
VideoLan Organization provides the VLC Media Player, a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. It is a very good, widely used player with very low system requirements. It is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and other operating systems. There is a "portable version" also, VLCPortable Media Player, available for use on Windows computers only.
VLCPortable Media Player can be installed on and run from CDs, DVDs and flash media. VLCPortable.exe is installed on this disc in the VLC media player\VLCPortable\ folder. It can be run from there and used to play the video files on this disc. The video files are located in the folder videos\. Users of this disc may exit their Internet browser and use the Windows file browser to navigate to and open VLCPortable, then use VLC's pull-down menu to navigate to the videos: "menu>open file>[video file]".
Note, however, that some operating systems, such as Mac OS X, and some browsers, such as Google Chrome, do not allow "local" video files to run within the browser. In those cases, users should open their media player in a seperate window and use the media player's menu to select and play the desired video file. In VLC, that would be: menu>open file>[video file]. Other players will have similar menus.
Installation files for Windows and Mac operating systems as well as VLCPortable are included on this disc and linked below. The source code and libraries are provided also, in accordance with VLC's GNU General Public License requirements. These files are the latest available as of August 3, 2013. Other and newer versions maybe available on the VLC download page
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