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I would like to control video (avi) playback with osd controls. How can I do it?

I thought that VLC can't do this but I found the folder "osdmenu" in VLC directory with pictures of buttons (volume, play, stop, etc).

I also found box "OSD Menu" (in preferences > Stream Output > Sout Stream > Transcode) which was deselected and I selected it.
Still don't have osd menu control (or how do I access it?).

If I start console and type "menu on" it returns: "main interface error: osd_MenuNext failed".

So how can I turn on On screen controls and does things I mentioned affect it?

Thanks in advance.

I would also like to use OSD controls.
In fact, I'd like a skin which shows an entirely naked vid frame, with(when VC has mouse focus):
1. invisible resize box at lower right corner,
2. invisible frame drag bar at top,
3. visible playback controls(play/pause, ff, rew, slow, fast, all OSD ONLY

OSD stands for On Screen Display. This is not a menu that offers control.

try with this command lines. You will get an consol command and in this console you're going to enter :menu on.
Osd will appear. type help or ? in console to get more command , also you could type longhelp

cd "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC"
vlc c:\Tanberg.mpg --marq-marquee="Test" vlc -I http --http-host 127.0.0.1:8081 --marq-position=8 --extraintf rc --sub-filter=osd menu --osdmenu-file="C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc\osdmenu\default.cfg"