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sorry if this has been discussed before, i wasn't sure what to search for.

I'm using a skin in full screen mode and everything works perfectly except for this one problem. If VLC is playing the 1st track in the playlist and my "previous track" button is selected, the skin vanishes and then reappears as if it were being reloaded.

i can get around it by screen-shotting the skin and setting it as the desktop background, but i was wondering if there's a way of stopping VLC from realoading the skin when you tell it to return to the beginning of the playlist.

I've just noticed that this only happens when VLC is launched with a skin from the command line - if i open VLC, switch interface to skins2 and load the m3u manually everything is fine. Is there something i can add to my command line (batch file) that will fix this?
windowsxp btw.

thanks in advance,

mark.

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start c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe -I skins2 C:\lp\lpskin.vlt --volume 320 file://C:\lp\temp.m3u

This is not the correct syntax to choose a skin from the command-line. What you are doing here is to add 2 playlist items, the first one being a skin and the second one being the m3u file (which will get expanded to the actual contents of the playlist). And vlc is able to load a skin automatically (if it is in skins mode) when it is asked to "play" it. So indeed the skin is reload when you come back to the first playlist item!

The correct syntax would be: Also note that you can set all these parameters in the preferences if you want.

i see. the command line wiki makes it sound like the --skins2-last option just tells VLC to use the most recently used skin - i did wonder why it had a <string> option.

thanks ipkiss!

mark.