Re: Skin browser does not work in vlc

On 16/05/10 02:20, Len Lawrence wrote:
> Has anybody tried to use skins in vlc?
>
> I have gone through all the motions but cannot get the skin browser in 
> the Tools/Preferences section to do anything.  Not possible to get vlc 
> to accept a named skin either.  The 32 Mb package was unpacked into 
> ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2 and the vlcrc file in ~/.config/vlc contains 
> the lines:
>
> # string (Interface module)
> intf=skins2
Information from the Videolan forums indicates that we are on a hiding 
to nothing with vlc skins under Linux; better to wait for vlc 1.1 
(available soon).  Compiling that from source is likely to be 
problematic though.  I tried with 1.0.6 and ran in to so many problems, 
dependencies and the like, that I had to give up.  The configuration 
procedure failed to find the fribidi package even though the libraries 
and /usr/bin/fribidi were definitely there.  Let us hope that some kind 
person comes up with an RPM for 2010.* when vlc 1.1 is released.  The 
current version comes from PLF.

Len


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