How to Change the Skin in VLC Media Player. VLC Media Player is one of the best there is around when it comes to playing media files in your Windows, Linux,.
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I've been using VLC to play videos in formats/watch subtitled movies, but lately VLC's omnipresent, bright-grey UI has been getting on my nerves and there isn't a night mode. I've spent the last hour or so of my life searching for a good looking dark skin to no avail, all of the skins I've found so far make a lot of changes to the UI I don't like. For instance, one problem I kept having was the skinmakingitso that I can only resize the app by pulling on specific corner, which doesn't work because if I open a high-res video and I don't already have VLC at the top-left of my screen, it will go below the taskbar and I can no longer acess the ONE corner that I can resize the window by. That seems like a really specific problem, but I've encountered that with about four skins I've tried so far (Is it a problem on my end?). A few others I've seen recommended have really tacky/early-00's looking designs.
Sorry for the rant, Essentially, I'm wanting to know if anyone has a VLC media player skin that is dark, efficiently designed, and isn't bugged to hell.
E: Alright, thanks for the answers lads. I think I'll just switch to Potplayer,
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The developers of VideoLan released the VLC Player version 3.0.5 for Linux, macOS and Windows on December 27, 2018. This is a maintenance update which brings some minor changes.
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The info can already be found in this comment (thanks for that), but I’m only now able to post the info here. The release notes indicate the following changes in version 3.0.5.
Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
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Access:
* Improve RTSP playback
* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
* Improve RTSP playback
* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
Codec:
* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
* Enable libaom decoder by default
* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
* Enable libaom decoder by default
* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
Demux:
* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
* Fix CAF integer-underflow
* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
* Fix CAF integer-underflow
* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
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Packetizer:
* Add an AV1 packetizer
* Add an AV1 packetizer
macOS:
* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
* Fix convert & save panel stream option
* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
* Fix convert & save panel stream option
Audio output:
* Fix corking when the playback state is paused
* Improve corking on Android
* Fix corking when the playback state is paused
* Improve corking on Android
Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
* Misc Direct3D11 fixes
* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
* Misc Direct3D11 fixes
Miscellaneaous:
* Improve ChromeCast
* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
* Update Youtube support
* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
* Improve ChromeCast
* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
* Update Youtube support
* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
The downloads are available here and on the VideoLan page – under Windows you can also download a ZIP version, which does not have to be installed.
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