Change black background to dark brown

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Change black background to dark brown

Postby Aroema » 03 Oct 2012 18:00

Is it possible to change the background colour on VLC media player 2.0.2 Twoflower from black to dark brown? Thanks.

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Oct 2012 18:29

During video playback?
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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Aroema » 03 Oct 2012 18:34

Yes

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Oct 2012 22:47

Not possible.
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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Aroema » 04 Oct 2012 13:14

Would it be possible with a hex editor?

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 Oct 2012 21:00

I don't think so.
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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Aroema » 06 Oct 2012 16:50

I imagine that somewhere in vlc.exe or one of the other files is a byte or bytes that dictate the colour of the background during playback.

If 3 bytes mean...
Red Green Blue
___00 00 00_____indicating black could become...
___80 40 00_____indicating brown

If i knew where in which file then i could just change it?

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 Oct 2012 18:44

No, it asks for a HBRUSH like this (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH);
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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Aroema » 17 Oct 2012 20:46

The reason why i want this feature is because some videos are different shapes and sizes but I suspect at times have a lot of wastage black at the sides or black on the top and bottom so you can't tell how big or the true shape the video really is because VLC player also has a black background on playback. Changing black to another colour would easily highlight this.

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Oct 2012 23:47

I understand the reason. I just tell you how it happens, that's all.
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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby THX1138 » 24 Jul 2017 23:18

I would also like this feature so I can see when I accidentally transcode video with wrong settings which put black borders on the sides.

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby EodiV » 26 Jul 2017 01:21

ticket 18602
The reason why i want this feature is because some videos are different shapes and sizes but I suspect at times have a lot of wastage black at the sides or black on the top and bottom so you can't tell how big or the true shape the video really is because VLC player also has a black background on playback. Changing black to another colour would easily highlight this.
I dont think you should be using VLC for these kind of things, there are loads of video editors and encoders on the internet to do such stuff with. But I can see how a different background color would also do the job.

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby eerkatoka » 01 Aug 2017 09:26

I want this for taste reasons / because dark gray would be nicer and closer to average color.

Give options for 3 color channels, color number from 0 to 255. Also, html color codes. Also, Qt has feature to take color names like "green" from the user.

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby artur4224 » 14 Aug 2019 17:05

Not possible.
hi there, can the background color be changed nowadays ?

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Re: Change black background to dark brown

Postby SullyPanda76cl » 21 Sep 2021 02:41

Same request here....
Need to understand is black area I'm seeing is in-video black zones, or just player filling up screen


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