VLC video and controls seperated

So I installed a new version of VLC and it's video window and the controls(like the play/pause/scan etc) are in different windows. How do I move them together? I've looked around the properties, but I can't find it.

 

Can't you just "dock" the controls under the main window?

 

Like drag the controls to the video window? I've tried that.. It used to come together.. Now it's like MPlayer..

 

Have you tried changing the skin?

 

Nope. I tried the WMP11 skin, but it'll still open the video and the controls in two seperate windows.

 

Great. Now every time I run VLC, it automatically opens the dialog for me to select a skin from my filesystem. If I press cancel, it closes VLC. If I select a skin, it closes VLC. Looks like a pacman -R is in order...

 

Try starting it this way:

Code:

vlc -I skins2

In any case, the latest version of VLC (0.9.x) seems to have a problem with skins. There's already a bug trac, and the problem appears in all platforms.

P.S. Give SMPlayer a shot. It's my favorite MPlayer frontend. It's very centralized and clean. It's a Qt4 app, but I use it in my Gtk-based GUI and it doesn't look bad imo. You can hide the widgets with the compact interface option if you wish. I use SMPlayer everywhere, even in my windows box and flash drive.

 

Ok. I'll have a look-see. Thanks

 

That's a good thing ;/ I've always like MPlayer better than VLC on Linux, but VLC is the best on Windows.

Anywho, are you running VLC 0.9? There are some big chances with 0.9, so that's probably it.

 

Code:

vlc -I skins2

outputs this chunk

Code:

VLC media player 0.9.5 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.5 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-dvdread' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-madi' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-qt4' '--enable-faad' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-dmo' '--with-ffmpeg-faac' '--with-ffmpeg-vorbis' '--with-ffmpeg-dts' '--with-ffmpeg-ogg' '--with-ffmpeg-theora' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-theora' '--enable-flac' '--enable-snapshot' '--enable-hal' '--enable-dbus' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-dbus-control' '--enable-shared' '--enable-nls' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-shout' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-release' '--program-suffix=' '--with-dv-raw1394=/usr/include/libraw1394' '--enable-fast-install' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
Couldn't gzopen /home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt
[00000408] access_directory access error: /home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt: No such file or directory
[00000408] access_file access error: cannot open file /home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt (No such file or directory)
[00000400] main interface error: no suitable access module for `/home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt'
[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to open /home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt for reading
[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /home/gary/Themes/WMP11.vlt
[00000411] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : failed to load external entity "skin.dtd"

[00000411] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 2) : Validation failed: no DTD found !
[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /tmp/vltGHRnyb/default/theme.xml
[00000400] skins2 interface error: error while parsing /tmp/vltGHRnyb/default/theme.xml
[00000414] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty

[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /usr/share/vlc/skins2/default.vlt
[00000417] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : failed to load external entity "skin.dtd"

[00000417] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 12) : Validation failed: no DTD found !
[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /tmp/vltD7RfXx/theme.xml
[00000400] skins2 interface error: error while parsing /tmp/vltD7RfXx/theme.xml
[00000420] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty

[00000400] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /home/gary/Themes/VLC/WMP11.vlt
[00000400] skins2 interface error: cannot load the theme, aborting
[00000404] main generic error: object is not attached

My Mplayer comment was about it's interface, not about it's capabilites. I don't like media players to come in two seperate windows. What's the point?

Anywho, it's 0.9.5-3.. I guess I'll do a re-install.

 

SMPlayer is not MPlayer. But yeah, a downgrade seems to be the best choice for you. I can't go with VLC because of its horrible subtitle handling.

 

Well, I run MPlayer from the command line, so I only actually end up with one window (well, two if you count the terminal emulator, but I always have one of those open anyway).