VLC Skin Editor // Current release: 0.8.5

[Sparrowhawk]

Hello Jean-Baptiste
Do you have any information about if a new build (0.8.6 ???) is likely to ever be made?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We should fix it

[Bexcoder]

Look nice and simple to use, I will able to create my skin soon

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

If it is not 100% broken, yes

[don123]

I've downloaded and installed Java + Skin editor, but when I want to run the .exe it says that I have no java installed. How can I solve this?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

32bits vs 64bits?

[_fred_berg_]

This is a interesting feature but I hope it wont cause malfunction on the prog.?
Is there any tutorial I can use so I can start?

[nfoxinc]

Hi there, is there will be updates on VLC Skin Editor, because it looks abadoned at this time? Maybe there is alternatives how to build skin with more advanced features like skinning playlist tree or skinning other UI parts!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

So far, noone has picked it up.

It shouldn't be hard.

[Vattenpistol]

Hi!

How come the latest skin editor is 0.8.5 on http://get.videolan.org/skin-editor/? I have seen skins with 0.8.6.dev. I did some googling and found it at another site.

Here's whats in the changelog:

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0.8.6 - Support for new skins2 features in VLC 1.1/1.2 + cover art + video recording action + new image resize mode - Bugfix: XML Output was not proper UTF-8 - Bugfix: " was tolerated as value for IDs, actions etc. and could thus break your skin file - Bugfix: Paths to resource files could contain \ and thus break your skin on Linux - several other small bugfixes - more languages

However a more up to date version would have been great.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

That was in the git repo, that's all.

The Editor needs some love.

[DMenT]

I have java 8 and vlc skin 8.5, but when it comes to running it says it needs java 8. How to solve?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I have java 8 and vlc skin 8.5, but when it comes to running it says it needs java 8. How to solve?

I believe it needs some code changes for that.

[kevindowney2019]

In Windows 7 x64, after installing Java RE and the skin editor, browse to the editor directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC Skin Editor" and launch the "VLCSkinEditor.jar" file rather than the .exe.
Worked for me.

[areena]

I would really appreciate hosting and SVN/CVS functionality

[Nano]

In Windows 10 x64 with Java 8.251 doesn't work. The main window opens, but nothing works (no open to import, no export, nothing). Doing that same workaround to open the jar file doesn't work too: the same problem occurs (window opens but nothing).


Although, Android AVD works, so isn't a Java problem.

[zmotan]

In Windows 10 x64 with Java 8.251 doesn't work. The main window opens, but nothing works (no open to import, no export, nothing). Doing that same workaround to open the jar file doesn't work too: the same problem occurs (window opens but nothing).


Although, Android AVD works, so isn't a Java problem.

Installing latest Java 32bit and creating system variable "JAVA_HOME" with path to the Java 32bit solved this problem for me.

[theshyla]

Are there any alternatives to this made yet? I can't get mine to work without it glitching.

[TheRedLime]

[SOLVED] Hi! I'm a web dev, and I got a slick looking skin off the website. Then I thought, I wanna make my own, because I'm also a hobby artist. So okay, I'm on linux, don't have Java installed yet. I go and install it, put it in /usr/java, I install the .tar.gz package for the editor from the website (I'm on Ubuntu 22/Jammy). I try to use the software installer on the tarball, get an error. Okay, so I unpack it and try to open the .jar using the JRE, no dice, still get an error about it not being an executable or something.

[SOLUTION] For everyone on Linux trying to run the editor, here's how I got it to run after many errors, trials and tribulations:

Java:
1. Download Java linux version.
2. Export the tarball for it
3. Move it into /usr/java (sudo chown $USER:$USER ./java in order to be able to paste stuff in there, then change it back to root)

Editor:
1. Download the tar.gz file
2. Unpack the tarball
3. CD into the extraction target folder
4. Use the command from the shell script named 'VLCSkinEditor' (this one: java -jar VLCSkinEditor.jar)
4.1 OR, you can type bash VLCSkinEditor and it will also launch (if you're in the extraction's target folder)
5. Success! To close the program you can ctrl+c from the terminal to stop the command.
6. Additionally, you should probably make a bash script you can double click to run the bash command at the path of your extraction. You can also right click > properties > allow opening file as executable and then you can open the program without having to also type bash