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Hi there, I'm trying to control VLC via Telnet. This command for starting vlc.exe -I telnet --telnet-host=localhost --telnet-port=4212 --telnet-password="admin" (found it in another thread on here) is working as far as I am able to connect to the player by Putty afterwords. However there i...

Problem sorted out: I found the attribute "art" in the XML file of the default theme and added it in my custom theme. Works fine now.

Hi there, currently I'm using the skin "DestroyVLC" and modified it a bit by use of the skin editor. Unfortunately it doesn't display the cover image. I tried to follow the instructions of Erwan10 but cannot find any parameter "art" in the skin editor, neither in "DestroyVLC...

PS: I ended up in an ugly workaround: Use AutoIt and set the volume by turning the mouse wheel: #include <AutoItConstants.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <File.au3> Example() Func Example() Opt("ExpandVarStrings", 1) ; Retrieve the position as well as height and width of the V...

Thanks for this info. Is there any other way or workaround of increasing the volume per song?

OK, that explains why it doesn't work. Does the same apply to the pure :gain? Would be regrettable as I need to adjust the volume per song.

I didn't install to the default directory. The program path in my command line is correct. Everything works apart from the parameter gain preceeded by a colon.
And you can be sure that I've read the manual carefully, however didn't find a solution.

Dear VLC experts, yesterday I started using VLC. Fine player so far, however I encountered one issue: I have serveral videos where the sound level is too low. I created sortcuts and added --gain=3 to the command line. This works fine. However when I use a colon like this :gain=3, it doesn't work any...