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Hi,

I'm running VLC on a Barco videowall (and yeah, it's a cool toy!!). The videowall has an application to make, load and unload predefined layouts.
As the Barco layout software uses the window name (the one in the titlebar) I can't define more than one VLC window in the layouts as all the VLC windows are all called "VLC media player". Is there a way I can change the titlebar?

Teta

Not that I know. There is a feature request on that one.

I'll have to be patient then

Thanks for your answer.

Teta

You want to have it numbered or just to be able to change the title ?

Doesn't matter as long as it is unique to each instance of VLC.

I was just commenting on the nightlies post as well

Teta

This looks great! Gonna test it when I'm back at the office.

Thanks!

Teta

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/19984

The fix, changeset 19984, is in Qt trunk.
Need to build VLC on centOS5 (RHEL5), x86 arch.

I also need to change (customize) the title-bar (from "VLC media player"), reading the above postings,
I have the following questions:

* The files affected by this changeset are not in the src distro of vlc-0.8.6c most likely. The binaries
http://nightlies.videolan.org./ are not available for RHEL5, i.e.,
I need to build from source. Where do I get the source containing the above changeset (19984)?
* How Qt is different than wxWidgets, wxX11, WxGTK2.0+, etc which comes w/src distro?
I am new to VLC, this forum and would really appreciate some help in this area to get going.

Many thanks in advance,
vlcLinuxUser

My apalogies . . .
After submitting my last posting I realize that it should be posted to a different forum. I'll repost there.

Sorry,
vlcLinuxUser

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/19984

So to change the title, I use the $MEDIANAME environment variable? I can't seem to get it to work using 0.8.6c

Nope, not for 0.8.6c, just dev version.