funman, thank you for your input but I am wondering if you understand what I am asking about? I am trying to get the VLN player to look like it does on the front page of the VideoLAN website. Which appears like this:
My problem is that after downloading and launching the player for the first time mine looks like this:
Rather plain by contrast isn't it? If it is just a matter of changing skins I have not been able to find it in the skins page link.
i don't know maybe in display properties you can select the Silver Skin
I don't know what you mean by 'display properties'? I don't see that as an option anywhere in Preferences or Settings. Do you mean switching to Skins 2 mode?
Anyway, I may be mistaken but I was assuming the look of the player as shown on the front page of the VideoLAN site is how it would look in it's basic
unaltered (i.e. unskinned) mode in Windows XP.
But as mentioned earlier, after downloading and launching mine appeared this way:
You also state:
the difference is the Microsoft Windows XP Theme, not the VLC skin
This also does not make sense to me. Are you implying that the Windows XP operating system is why I have the blue-bordered beige look to my player?
From the front page of the VideoLan website, as is shown here . . .
. . . are the player's features, the appearance of the player (which I am trying to obtain), and the
WINDOWS download link which are all together in the same box. That was the link I used to download the player and I assumed that would be the look of the player 'right out of the box' so-to-speak.
The reason this is important to me is for gaining access to the Extended GUI interface (found under Settings or using Ctrl-G) which allow for the video image to be adjusted for hue, saturation, contrast, etc. I haven't been able to find a way to access these video display settings in any skin mode. Ctrl-G does nothing. It seems the only access I have for making these changes is from the Extended GUI in the
unskinned mode. So, for example, to adjust the contrast of the file I am viewing means stopping the player and re-opennig in unskinned mode. I am essentially forced to use unskinned mode if I want to have the option of changing these settings. However I could easily live without the other skins if I could obtain the silver/metallic look of the player as shown on VideoLAN's front page. I am thinking I would probably have access to the Extended GUI by the same 'Settings' function right on the front of the player controls since it is layed out the same as the blue-bordered and beige version of my unskinned player.
As usual, any help would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps a moderator or developer might know why my default player looks the way it does or more importantly how I can get access to the Extended GUI or change the video's contrast, hue, etc., in skin mode?
Thanks for listening.
Sorry this is so long-winded.
