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Does anyone know if theres a way in the playlist to display not the path to the file, but the just the file name. Im useing the wmp skin and its just not fuctional. Im useing the windows media player skin and i want to to look like the regular WMP playlist looks like it i load an .m3u file all I see is file paths in the skin I have no idea whats what. Thanks

visual aid posted.. hope this is posible

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At present there is no way to parse the command line, internal or external to VLC as the program uses the Windows interface to navigate to files and this navigation is different for every operating system.

Suggestion: make a directory with a short name that at or close to the root of your hard drive and the path won't get in the way of your file name.

Or

Try the "Feature Requests" section of this Forum.

hmmm i was afraid of that ill post a feature request i suppose. thanks for the reply.

It _is_ possible already, but you will have to change slightly the XML file of the skin. It is simply a matter of replacing $F with $N, as explained on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#textvars
See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#id279024 to know how to get the XML file from the .vlt file, and vice-versa.

It _is_ possible already, but you will have to change slightly the XML file of the skin. It is simply a matter of replacing $F with $N, as explained on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#textvars
See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#id279024 to know how to get the XML file from the .vlt file, and vice-versa.

hi ipkiss,

thanks for your help
change slightly the XML file of the skin works fine

best Regards
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Ipkiss thanks a bunch going to change it right now!

UPdate could figure it out with the media player skin... ive emailed the auther of the skin maybe they would know. Or maybe someone on these forums could check out the media player skin.

oh nevermind the authers email doesnt exsit

It _is_ possible already, but you will have to change slightly the XML file of the skin. It is simply a matter of replacing $F with $N, as explained on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#textvars
See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html#id279024 to know how to get the XML file from the .vlt file, and vice-versa.

I looked at this last night and was quite surprised I missed this one somehow.

Anyway I followed the instructions and saw the place for the change. I would think that the biggest problem windows people would have is archiving it properly again. I know for myself I would prefer putting it back the way it was before opening the archive. Is there a program that would allow you to do this under windows?

I realize it says that in 0.8.5 skins2 will read zip files. At the moment I would really rather stay with the older method.

Thanks for the info.

On Windows, you can use 7-zip to create the .tar.gz file.
And as you noticed, the next version of VLC will be able to open zipped skins (this was needed for the support of winamp skins). This feature is already available in the nightly builds.

Also note that VLC is able to load the skin directly from the .xml file (which is particularly useful when creating/modifying a skin).

the problem is that the playlist function itself is limited... for MP3s, the playlist will automatically show the song name (not the file name/location) most of the time, however as far as videos go, it will show the location only... this is as far as im aware of.

- Asim