we at Skin Consortium didn't gave up completely to port our ClassicPro Skinning framework to VLC.
Today i heard of the RC1 release and thought let's check if VLC finally supports well-blended RGBA PNGs.
First of all: transparent PNGs show up at all now, but the blending doesn't work 100%

This is an excerpt of a semi-tranparent PNG - see the tranparent area in the inside of the repeat buton?

This is what VLC renders:

the semitranparent area > 50% is blended w/ #000000 instead of the yellow background everything below 50% is set to 100% yellow
this is how it should blend on a yellow background (how it does in Winamp & Photoshop)

Well i know that the example looks a bit bad, but some ClassicPro skins really take advance of per pixel alpha blending. So is there any trick to get this working for 1.0.0 or is this still a TBD thing?