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I don't know how far you got with this but I found your research very useful. I had been running vlc from a panel icon or the command line using the channels.conf file as a playlist. That works fine. My .tzap directory contains channels.conf for SD and xchannels.conf for HD so I have to run separate...

Help forthcoming from the Mandriva newbie list. It appeared that I did not have the skin engine installed. A quick urpmi vlc-more-skins did the trick. It installed the svlc package and now all is well.

Len

OK, thanks. I'll wait.

Len

vlc 0.9.8a on Mandriva Linux 2009.1 After several years of using the default setup for VLC I thought about using skins. It looked like a simple enough procedure; downloaded the skins package, copied the .vlt files to .local/share/vlc/skins2 and checked that they were all there. So far so good. Ran v...

Replying to my own post - naughty naughty. While poking around in the Mandriva package list I discovered svlc (I had installed vlc only) and vlc-more-skins. After installing both packages I found the skinnable interfaces section so all is well. FYI the Mandriva install places the skins under /usr/sh...

Yes I shall have to give up also. I have looked at all the documentation and tried Preferences -> Interface -> Main Interfaces and tried the drop down list but nowhere can I find any reference to skinnable interfaces. To be precise I see: Default, HTTP remote control, Remote control interface, wxWid...