Enterprise deployment and management (Score 1)

VLC media player is used widely in my organization (a large university) because of its broad coverage of media formats. Several separate players from different vendors would be needed to cover the media formats playable in VLC media player, and this level of capability is to be applauded. As someone responsible for software deployment, updating, and management on Windows, though, I find the product frustrating to manage. The program and its installer suffer from a number of bad behaviors: (1) installation options are not customizable (other than the language); (2) no way is provided to eliminate first-run prompts on a per-computer basis—a critical capability in classrooms and labs; (3) it attempts to steal file associations, prompting recent versions of Windows to change them back and then inform the user (IIRC, though, this behavior may have been changed in the latest version of VLC media player); and (4) it does not uninstall cleanly because the uninstaller resides within the program folder, preventing that folder's deletion.

Does VideoLAN have plans to improve the enterprise deployment and management story of VLC media player? Are you receptive to contributions in this area, such as development of a Windows Installer package to replace the current executable installer?