Replacing the Cone

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when no video is playing VLC has an image of a cone in its center

is it possible to replace that image with a skin, even if all I do is make it blank, or is that cone hard coded into the executable? I am not really worried about the rest of the interface side of things, since my plan is to run VLC full screen and control it via HTTP or Telnet

Basically I am trying to make a video player, and when nothing is currently playing, i would like, if possible a black screen. I can sort of get around this right now by queuing up a bitmap of all black, but this has issues if i need to stop a video mid play.