Adding a Theme or bit of Colour to vlc Player

danjo-xx

All the grey black and white is soo drab, is there any way of adding a theme or some colour to liven it up a bit, like adding a theme to gmail.

I've tried a few of the 'skins' but they just give me a jukebox thingy which I dont really want.

GreenWolfe

That isn't skinned, that's just in playlist view [Ctrl + L]. To start VLC in skinned mode, you have to use a switch -Iskins. If you don't have a VLC media player skinned shortcut in your Start menu, put this as the target:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -Iskins

Skins and instructions here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php

danjo-xx

Hi EarthlyPangaea and thanks for your reply,

I know the screenshot above is not skinned, I was just using it as an example of what I want but to colour it a bit.

Using skins I get this









Anyway think I've made a bit of a boo boo:D in so far as I "assumed" that vlc can rip and burn songs like wmp. Apparently it can't. Well not very easily anyway.


think I'll start a new thread!

GreenWolfe

Ah, right.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=88699

The native interface isn't a skin, there isn't an easy way to customise it. VLC isn't much of a CD ripper either, there are many other specialised and better programs for that.