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The player black-out problem when transitioning from one video to the next has been a real issue, not yet really addressed satisfactorily so far, imo. For your request, the skin engine doesn't manage the mouse-over events over the video area. So no skins can provide what you describe. But, that's a ...

vlc players does it too. The series of 'o', alt-'o' and alt-shift-'o' hotkeys are your friend.

the color of the currently played item is not used. the value for normal text color and selection background color works, but the played item is not highlighted as defined.... :( This was a known bug. It is solved with the new vlc1.1 version. On Windows, you can already use it from a nightly build ...

vlc1.2 will take some time, (vlc1.1 is just about to be released) But, at least for Windows users, latest nightly builds for vlc1.2 are available (http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/last/) and are quite usable these days. This new 'art' feature can be tested right out of the box with the defa...

Yes, they might implement auto hide feature in the next version of VLC.

Yes, I think it is a good thing to add. But, it won't come for vlc1.1. At best, it could come for vlc1.2 ....

Erwan10

You can get latest build from http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0521-0202/

and beware, name is --mouse-events (ending with a 's')

Erwan10

Have you tried the following with the soon-to-be released vlc1.1 : vlcVideo1.playlist.Add "c:\video\test.avi", "", Array(":no-mouse-events", ":no-video-title-show") In vlc1.1, --[no]-mouse-events is now also available for Windows. It disables all mouse interac...

To skins developpers, As a new feature (committed in the dev branch only, aka vlc1.2 ), art can now be used in skins In a nutshell, it goes like this : - a new 'art' parameter(boolean) is added to an Image control so that the skin engine can reuse the control to display the art file associated to th...

No, no undocumented feature. It is just not implemented.

Erwan10

on Linux, vlc0.9 and vlc1.0 vlc have got many problems as far as the skin engine is concerned.

soon-to-be-released vlc1.1 should work out those problems.

Erwan10

I'm not that good with computers, and I have no idea what the hell the cat stepped on to make it go psychotic... help? Please?

How can you expect a mouse-driven computer not to go psychotic when a cat is meddling around !
A cat-driven computer is an good idea ..... .. and not yet patented

Hi xanax, thanks for reporting it. Actually, a skinned window used as fullscreen controller SHOULD NOT call other windows or dialog boxes, since those latter are not meant to be visible in fullscreen mode. (It is not forbidden per se. Those windows are activated in the background, but the user canno...

No, what that only means is that skin developpers can now implement a skinnable fullscreen controller.

But, no miracle, a fullscreen controller won't come out of nowhere ...

For the skin shipped with vlc, a fullscreen controller has been implemented in vlc1.1

Erwan10

Here is a summary of what I found on Window (Linux is a quite different story), - Intercepting keyboard events should not be a problem. By default, keys are dispatched to the top window being active, not the vlc video window which is only a child window. Since you're in charge of developping this to...

- The Mute button doesn't work anymore (though, I haven't touched its code..) and I got this error : skins2 warning: drawBitmap: source rect too small, ignoring skins2 warning: sub-bitmap main-window-mute_hover ignored skins2 warning: drawBitmap: source rect too small, ignoring skins2 warning: sub-...

- alpha channel = 0 or = 255 is always taken into account (control overlapping another control, or against the background) - Alpha channel (1-254) may or may not be taken into account depending on the type of controls. (For button/checkbox controls, alpha channel is taken into account when the contr...

Where can I get the nightly build (and what is nightly build)? nightly builds are builds from the vlc dev repositories usually generated on a daily basis for test purpose. (http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/) - branch refers to the current release (vlc.1.0.x) - trunk refers to the next majo...

Hi, very nice skins. In the next major release (vlc1.1, already available as nightly builds), you do have the possibility to have a fullscreen controller. This is just one more skinned window (<Window> tag) with id="fullscreenController" in theme.xml. This window is processed sightly diffe...

vlc1.1 from trunk ..... but, actually not the latest one anymore, since a new bug has it crash again at termination (should be corrected by a few days)

Choose one between March15 and March30, for the best result

Erwan10

What I mean is that, in the following example, width and height refer to the whole image size ( not the frame size). It also means that the height is often far greater than the width. One can easily be mistaken ..... <SubBitmap id="id1" x="339" y="424" width ="24&q...

Hi, Animated images should work fine. AFAIK, there are no limitations at all. Maybe one common error is to give the 'height' parameter the height value of a frame. Actually, 'height' expects the whole png height size ( i.e height_for_one_frame * nbframes ). If you give the height of a frame, it mean...

I do use vlc to watch TV with a Hauppauge usb product (analog TV) on both WinXP and Linux(Debian). It works fine.

IIRC, titles and chapters are automatically updated in the Playback/Title and Playback/Chapter menus of vlc (default qt4 interface)

For security reasons, passing options in a playlist is no longer as straightforward as it used to be. An alternative can be to write a shell script (Linux) or a bat script (Windows32) describing the whole set of images and their specific options (duration, ... ). Something along the lines of vlc \ f...

Which OS do you use ? ... probably Windows :( ? - autoscale parameter (aka ctrl-'o' hotkey) On Windows, there is a technical limitation that prevents video from exceeding screen size. This limitation was added to work around some side effects (black screen). Yet, the autoscale toggle hotkey keeps on...