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Hi,

there seems to be no volume control via mouse wheel when starting VLC in skinned mode ( -Iskins). However, i'm not sure if this is a bug or a missing feature.

thx

It should work ..... which OS ad vlc version do you use ?

Please, be aware that mouse wheel leads to volume increase/decrease if the mouse pointer is away from sliders. The default behavior at the vlc core level is then to manage volume with OSD display of information. If the mouse pointer happens to be within the scope of a slider, the slider value is instead increased/decreased and their entity is acted upon accordingly, for instance position slider or volume slider. In that latter case, volume increase/decrease is done without OSD display of information. This small difference (volume managed with or without OSD display of information depending on where the mouse pointer lies) may be what makes you think there is a bug, and it is a bit unfortunate. To my knowledge, qt4 and skins2 interfaces work similarly in that respect.

Win7 64 bit, VLC 2.0.1

I give you a use case:

- Open VLC from start menu: "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -Iskins
- Open a video
- Click on the video area
- Use mouse wheel, does nothing

Interesting is however a variation:

- Click on video area
- move mouse completely outside VLC
- use mouse wheel and it works

so i guess it's rather a bug

Classic skin works as it should

OK, my tests on WinNT lead to the same behaviour as yours, whereas it works fine on Linux.

This can be reported as a bug.

I can do the trac report during weekend, if nobody else wants to do it.

trac entry is https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6457

A fix is underway .... it should be corrected for the next release.