Vlc Player On An External Hard Drive?!

[Scarlett]

I have to screen a video in a small lecture theatre next week. It have the video as an avi file which is 25GB. It plays on my PC via the VLC player. I have been advised to download the VLC player to my external hard drive as an executable file, so that it will play using this. I have no idea how to go about this!
If anyone could give me a link and a step by step guide I would be so grateful!! Thanks in advance!

[VHG]

I assume you mean your external hard drive will be plugged into another PC and you will play the video through that?

If so you need to copy vlc.exe from your computer to the external hard drive.

You need to use Windows Explorer to display all the files on your PC, then go into the Program Files (x86) folder and you see a VideoLan folder.

Go into the VideoLan folder and you see a VLC folder.

Go into the VLC folder and you see a list of files, one of which is vlc.exe

You then need to copy (drag and drop or copy and paste) the vlc.exe file from there on to your external hard drive.

Note I have no idea if the vlc.exe file will work on its own on the external hard drive I have never tried it so I suggest you try it out before going there.

Note the instructions above are on my Windows 7 PC but they may be different on other versions of Windows.

[VHG]

After doing some researh it seems you may need vlc media player portable.

This is a version of VLC that runs without installation.

You can download it from here.

http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable

My GUESS is that the normal version (the one I described in my first reply above) will NOT work if you just copy vlc.exe to your external hard drive.

You need this portable version.

[pinkyboyid]

If the video file is in .avi format as have you indicated, then the default Windows Media Player should be capable of playing the video without the need for VLC.

To test, use Windows Explorer to browse to the video file location and RIGHT-Click on the filename and then select the option 'Open With' and select Windows Media Player.

[Scarlett]

Many thanks- ill try these!