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Using the skins2 interface with the latest vlc1.2 version, this can be achieved only in fullscreen mode, but not on a regular window. The fullscreen controller (a dedicated skinned window) can now be easily positioned (In your case, centered at the bottom of the screen) and transparency can even be ...

This issue was indeed addressed in the vlc1.2.0 version. (Both Windows and Linux ports)

If you don't mind, please give it a try, and report if you still see some misfunctioning, as the Windows port was not tested as much as the Linux port.

This is indeed a missing feature. And it seems easy to implement. For instance, something like a %R for the current playback speed. I'll see if such a patch can still be submitted for the next major release.

skins are shipped as a single vlt file, that is not meant to be unzipped at the end user level. This single file is to be placed in the vlc skins folder. Manually unzipping the vlt file only makes sense if you plan to hack on it.

I just committed a patch for the vlc1.1 and vlc1.2 series that does this job of disabling vlc windows when libvlc developper specifies both mouse and keyboard support to be disabled via the libvlc api.

So no more need for this hack in future versions.

No such skin.

Moreover, A-B selection is only available with the default interface (qt4). The skins2 engine doesn't offer this feature.(yet?)

On Linux in vlc1.0 or vlc1.1, the skins2 engine does have a few issues with respect to Drag&Drop. In vlc1.2 (dev branch), these problems have hopefully been worked out. As for "always on top", it is supported by the skins2 engine. (For the default skin you mention, it is available via ...

vlc -I skins --skins2-last /path/myskin.vlt

skins are not to be blamed. The skins2 engine was simply not managing multiple screens at all in fullscreen mode whether on Windows or on Linux. The result was unsatisfactory for both platforms, though problems ended up being slightly different. In vlc1.2.0 (the dev version), this should be remedied...

Alternatively, if you just want multiple videos in a single window, the skins2 interface is your friend. You can create your own skin with multiple <VIDEO> tags within a single window. These videos tags will be used in the order they appear in the theme.xml file. This can be used either with multipl...

If that can be of any help for maintainers, Ubuntu10.04 runs a pulseAudio that vlc sees as too old as shown below : configure:42264: checking for PULSE configure:42272: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libpulse >= 0.9.22" Requested 'libpulse >= 0.9.22' but version of libpulse is 0.9.21...

I guess it doesn't work because the first parameter is misspelt. "fullscreen" should be read

I have been experiencing this very same problem for a while with vlc1.2-git on Ubuntu10.04. Whatever the file (.mp4, .mkv, ...) and the interface (qt4, skins2), the audio is lost when seeking with the position slider. A workaround is to uncheck and check again the Audio/Device/"playback/recordi...

As of today, the only way to create more actions is to write C++ code and enhance the skins2 engine.

The following applies to all skins (that's a feature of the skins engine) : - With the current vlc version (vlc1.1.x), showing/hiding the fullscreen controller is done manually (either press the 'i' hotkey or click the mouse middle button to toggle it) - With the next not-yet-released version (vlc1....

(( i tried to make ".vlt " skin but vlc player screen shown black ?! )) The error log says two files are missing as shown here (process:1284): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. [0x97b540c] skins2 interface: skin: SplashVLC1 author: Majid_KSA...

You can use the default skin for instance

- loop is referred to as "Toggle playlist/song repeating"
- slow down is "play slower"

Almost all features mentioned in these previous posts are supported by the skins2 engine (frame-by-frame, record, loop, slow down, ...). The only one that is not supported is the a->b feature. Btw, the concept of "advanced controls" solely makes sense within the qt4 interface. There is no ...

Have you considered the vlc skins2 interface ?

The latest vlc1.2.0-git version now allows relative placement of a window within the screen. You can for instance alter the default skin to meet your requirements. (just need some very basic knowledge of xml)

Actually, .wsz skins files do have some issues with the current vlc release. Patches have just been applied to solve them.

vlc used to support the winamp .wsz files. It should still be working.

vlc does not support the more recent winamp .wal files

There was indeed a bug with boolean composite variables (using 'and' or 'or'), that led the checkbox control into believing the state had toggled when it actually didn't A patch has just being applied that should fix the problem (patch applied to both vlc1.1 and vlc1.2). As usual, nightly builds ava...

1. skins2 always saves and restores positions. But, you can prevent automatic resizing when a video is launched by either unchecking "no video resize" parameter (first panel of preferences) or forcing autoresize="false" in the skins theme.xml file. 2. Yes. It will be fixed in the...

Patches have just been applied to make skins2 more consistent with qt4 as far as volume is concerned. (both 1.1 and 1.2 series)
Tests and feedbacks welcome with next nightly builds.

What do you call a "broken volume change" ? Everything seems to work as it always did. What is indeed true and unfortunate is that the skins and qt4 interfaces don't provide the same volume measurements : - qt4 ranges from a 0 to a so called 200 or 400% depending on whether qt-volume-compl...