obtaining "Advanced Controls"

[pdo0007]

When I click "View" and then "Advanced Controls", nothing happens. I can't get the record button to appear. What am I missing?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Did you customize the toolbars in Tools?

[pdo0007]

I didn't think so, but after reading your reply, I played with the custom interface options, and voila... I have the advanced controls now. Thank you!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Cool.

[Rdshuz]

What exactly did you do with the interface - I have the same problem and have yet to crack it...

[edwardw]

What exactly did you do with the interface - I have the same problem and have yet to crack it...

Read the posts above you...

[badAdjective]

I am having the same issue. I have tinkered with the customize interface feature under tools however this does not bring up advanced controls. They used to be there but now there is nothing. Can you please clarify what you did in the customization screen to have the controls return?

[JSLover]

It appears that a combination of "Line 1" & "Advanced Widget toolbar" determine what appears under the "Advanced Controls"...unfortunately, it doesn't appear there is a simple, built-in way to reset just the Toolbars. There are profiles, & you can select one of those, which might contain defaults, but no guarantee. In my version, "VLC 1.1.x Style" seems to be "my default"...but I've never customized my toolbar.

So, solutions...

• In Tools ► Customize Interface..., select a profile & see if any of them "do what you want".
• Carefully edit %AppData%\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini to reset the Toolbars to default (I'll post more info if I find it)
• Delete %AppData%\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini to reset all prefs (including the toolbars) to default (not recommended)

...once you get the toolbars reset, I highly recommend saving a new Toolbar profile & call it "VLC Default" (why are the default Toolbars not ALREADY a default profile???), once saved, also backup the file %AppData%\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini somewhere else.

[badAdjective]

Thanks for the quicl reply. It appears to work when I place the desired controls on line 1 rather than the advanced toolbar.

[JSLover]

It appears to work when I place the desired controls on line 1 rather than the advanced toolbar.

...it can also work, if you drag the "Advanced Buttons" (from Toolbar Elements on the left) onto Line 1, then put buttons in the Advanced Widget toolbar.

(I'll post more info if I find it)

To Reset JUST the Toolbars...

• Close any running instances of VLC.
• Open vlc-qt-interface.ini in Notepad (preferably Notepad2) (full path to file on Windows: %AppData%\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini)
• Find the Section [MainWindow]
• Delete the following values (this means to delete the entire line, including the empty line that would be left over)...
  • ToolbarPos
  • MainToolbar1
  • MainToolbar2
  • AdvToolbar
  • InputToolbar
  • FSCtoolbar
• Save the File (press Ctrl+S)
• Run VLC

For example, if you have this in your file...(note: this is only a small section of the file)...

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  [MainWindow] pl-dock-status=false playlist-visible=true adv-controls=4 status-bar-visible=true bgSize=@Size(960 420) playlistSize=@Size(-1 -1) ToolbarPos=0 MainToolbar1="64;39;64;38;65;" MainToolbar2="0-2;64;3;1;4;64;7;9;64;10;20;19;64-4;37;65;35-4;" AdvToolbar="12;11;13;14;" InputToolbar="43;33-4;44;" FSCtoolbar="0-2;64;3;1;4;64;37;64;38;64;8;65;25;35-4;34;" [Playlist]

...it (just this small section) should look like this when done...

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  [MainWindow] pl-dock-status=false playlist-visible=true adv-controls=4 status-bar-visible=true bgSize=@Size(960 420) playlistSize=@Size(-1 -1) [Playlist]

...I included the next Section header ([Playlist]) only for context. We only edited a small section of the file, leave the rest alone (I mean: you can edit anything you want, but for the sake of these instructions, you don't need to edit anything else). If the next section in your file is not [Playlist], don't worry about it, only edit the contents of the [MainWindow] section.

You can also reset just the Advanced Toolbar, by deleting the line "AdvToolbar" (& nothing else) or reset just Line 1 by deleting "MainToolbar1".