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Is it possible for skin developers to make a skin that goes around the video when using minimal mode? I think it would look allot better to have a decoration that match’s the skin and that’s unique to that particular skin while still offering the same functionality to minimize, resize, and move the video. Maybe a simple outline that goes around it or something with semi transparency, kind of like a glass effect. Thanks in advance for any responses.

Sorry, I meant to put this in the “Skins” page. Can it be moved please?

It is possible, but the problem is VLC is broken when switching layouts. Thus, when you switch to a "minimal" mode with a skinned video window, the video will stop playing. If switching from fullscreen, then the video window actually breaks out from the skin interface into its own window, even if the skin had requested an embedded display.

Until the developers fix this problem, your request isn't really do-able for the skin designers.

a dodgy way of fixing this could be (for vlc developers...) to pause the video, obtain the position of the current file, stop the video, and upon resizing the skin, place the video at that position earlier, then play... a dodgy fix... but thats just my 2 cents (AUD) worth.

- Asim

Thanks, I just wanted to know if this was possible.

So anyway, if this problem is fixed, is it possible to make some sort of mouse-over feature so that the video window won’t appear until the mouse is moved over the video itself?

Currently, actions are not supported for a mouseover, only a mouse click. It would be possible to show controls only when you have clicked a show control type button.