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Originally Posted by basicxman
Disagreed. Web browsers are making their way in the desktop world. While plugins are certainly an overhead, not a large one.
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This really isn't true. Flash is a disgusting resource hog. Last week my CPU (4 year old Core 2 Duo) was pegged at 100% all weekend watching all the streams and having the chat open. This weekend it was ~75% with the same number of streams and the system was noticeably more responsive. The big difference was VLC vs. the Flash plugin for a number of the streams. For reference I am using the latest version of Flash on Firefox 3.6.15 in Windows 7.
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This is my main issue, over a Ubuntu and Windows 7 laptop, and an iMac running OS X 10.6 with Chrome/FF/Safari (and a Windows VM) the only platform that worked optimally was Safari on OS X and IE in the Windows VM and laptop host.
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http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable
This version of VLC will run without installation off of a flash drive for any locked down school machines running Windows.
I don't have any experience with the Mac version, but there appears to be one here:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21279/portable-vlc/
I'm sure one exists for Linux somewhere, but it doesn't appear to be quite as easy to find.