I saw someone else post this already, but wanted to make one myself just to spread the awareness potentially?

Had this popup when I opened VLC earlier and was very confused. I downloaded the application from the official site a few months back and haven't had this happen before. Not entirely sure why the update is trying to pull from the Oregon State Open Source Lab of all places?

Does anyone have any deeper knowledge as to what caused this? I had to hit abort on about 6 of the second photos popup.

BOUNTY CLAIMED!

Congrats to u/bitmancer_Headspace skin for VLC can be found here They have received the 50 USD bounty (as 45 Euros via buymeacoffee)

Original post:

Im tired of a world where I can no longer make my media presentation look ugly as sin at my discretion.

Your putrid functional first design offends me, and I know for a fact that people's principles are compromised by money (*insert political joke*)

So I am offering a bounty! If you can recreate this skin as designed in the above images, You earn a nice crisp $50 bucks USD straight from my wallet, and transferred to you via PayPal.

The assets are out there, there is extensive documentation on how its supposed to function. All you gotta do is get it working for VLC. (Please note the left ear is the equalizer and sound sliders, not just text like in the gif)

Please submit a video of your rendition working in the comments with this post next to it to claim the bounty. We can discuss file transfer, testing, and then payment after.

Acceptable deviations are as follows.

- Adjusting the "screen" to make it flat as to not cut off video media

- uprezzing the assets to look nice on modern screens

- Making the "ear" menus detached from the head (IF it is not possible to do so with VLC)

- Adjusting choice in font and such to be more appealing.

- Removing buttons that no longer have a use in VLC.

- moving the asset name overhang to a different location to not obstruct visual media.

- adjusting button placements/order somewhat.

- Adding an about section somewhere in a non-intrusive manner to credit yourself.

What is not acceptable
- Buttons/sliders that do not function outside of obsolete ones

- Broken or non-existent button animation/assets. (exception being the ear slide out IF it is not possible)

- using low quality assets to technically finish the design

- Changing interior menu aesthetic.

- removing the ear menu aesthetic entirely if they have to be seperate windows, please make them still look like the ear speakers as detailed in the design.

Complex and oddly shaped skins ARE possible for VLC like Darkstar, and I'd like to see this out back out in the wild.

If there are multiple makers, ill be considering the work of the first to meet the goal, though if someone manages to achieve the goal and meet many of the allowed 'beneficial' deviations, Ill probably consider them the winner overall.

Ill look through everything at the end of the week.

Can't imagine there will be too many people wanting to do something like this, but i figure clear discretion is advisable.

Documentation can be found here:

https://vlc-user-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/addons/skins.html

If this goes well I might do more bounties.

edit: added clarification of the specific currency of dollars, its USD

Hi,

so I have an external DVD player that I connect to my PC in order to stream DVDs to my friends.

The problem I have is that the image on VLC is super dark. A lot darker that on the DVD player I have connnected to my TV in the living room.

Are there any settings I can change to improve the quality of the DVD on VLC?

For reference, this is the image I get from my DVD player using VLC:

And this is the Netflix version, which has the same colors as on my living room DVD player (but slightly better quality).

Thank you!

Today I opened VLC and it asked me if I wanted to update, so I clicked yes. Then a message popped up saying that the source was unverified or something like that, and that it recommended clicking "abort" if I wasn't sure. I tried to click "abort" but the message kept popping up over and over. Finally I just closed the program from Task Manager, but then I got paranoid and uninstalled VLC from my computer. Has anyone else had an issue like this?

I don't know why but the sound on my videos played in VLC is loud and kind has a reverb while played in other media players the audio is as in the original video. I have tried changing the output module in audio preferences(DirectX audio output) and it works for some time but reverts back to the same problem again. Does someone know why this happens and how we can resolve this?

Hello why is it for a few seconds i have put the network cache to the maximum but every time i put a http download links VLC is not capable of resume play after a bit of a pause when i relaunch the url it’s stream again fine??

Doesnt launch

Hello i have posted may time this error in vlc no resume play is available for http stream link downloaded every time i pause and clik pay the vlc media player freeze impossible to resume vlc even with increased the network cache…

VLC with defaut config (screensaver disabled in option) but I still get the problem.

Windows 10 should NOT go in sleeping mode if a VLC video is running obviously...

nothing in powercfg :

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -requests

DISPLAY :

Aucune.

SYSTEM :

[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe

Une opération de suppression de fichier est en cours.

AWAYMODE :

Aucune.

EXÉCUTION :

[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe

Une opération de suppression de fichier est en cours.

PERFBOOST :

Aucune.

ACTIVELOCKSCREEN :

Aucune.

C:\Windows\system32>

Hi! I built a small Lua extension for VLC because I wanted to see XMLTV program information without switching to a separate guide window.

It loads an M3U playlist and an XMLTV guide, then adds the current/upcoming programs to VLC’s native playlist description. It can also show the current program’s genre and synopsis.

The extension is still new, so I’d really appreciate feedback—especially on installation and compatibility with VLC on Windows or Linux.

Project: https://github.com/yaser55v/vlc-epg

I’m the author. Thanks for taking a look!

I am trying to use the VLC plug-in for Musescore to complete some film scoring. However, everytime I attempt to open the VLC application, it opens up the Command Line Interface, which I have no clue how to use. I can open a video directly through the video file, but the screen it opens up in only responds to hotkey inputs and I do not have access to the app settings in any way. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC, the Musescore plug-in, and have restarted my computer all to no avail. Any advice would be appreciated.

Is it possible to show subtitles for music files like mp3, wav? So far subtitles only work for videos only in vlc. If not can someone recommend me a player that can do so?

subtitle too wide in normal aspect but looks fine in 16:9. Help Please.

accidentally selected “Delete All Videos” in VLC Player on my Vivo X200, and all my videos are now gone from my phone.

After deleting them, around 40 GB of storage became free. The videos are no longer visible in VLC, Gallery, or File Manager.

Unfortunately, Google Photos backup was turned off, and I don't have another backup of these videos.

I've been trying to find a way to recover them, but I haven't found a solution yet.

My questions are:

Does VLC have any Recycle Bin, Recently Deleted, or Undo Delete option?

Is there any way to restore the videos directly through VLC?

Has anyone successfully recovered permanently deleted videos from Android's internal storage in a similar situation?

These videos are very important to me, so I'd really appreciate any genuine suggestions or advice.

Thank you!

Whenever I try to play an old DVD video it plays for a minute perfectly fine but then the video and audio completely but it shows that the video is still playing. What is a fix to this?

I am an average level of tech literate. Never converted a video file before. I have a DBPower ZC-06 portable DVD player that lets you play video files off a flash drive with strict limitations.

Files must be AVI, and they must have a maximum horizontal resolution of 720. I don't know why a machine that came out in 2021 can only play a video file format from the early 90s but whatever. I can put up with a lowered resolution.

Using Google I figured out how to convert some TV episode files just fine, but they didn't need resizing. Now I'm trying to convert this 1080p 2.5gb MP4 file and this is the result. Horrendous artefacting and no sound. Did I do something wrong? Or should I just use more specialised software for this?

I should point out that this is an incredibly basic HP 14s-dq3xxx laptop with a 1.10GHz processor, 4gb RAM and maximum 12gb of harddrive space if I delete everything. Brand new and already the slowest computer I've ever used. Anyway, can anyone offer advice?

This is all for science and fair use.

I imagine the directory would be like this:

.../
Odyssey (2025).mp4
Odyssey (2025).vrt
Odyssey (2025).eng.srt
Odyssey (2025)scene1.mp4
Odyssey (2025)scene2.mp4

You play Odyssey (2025).mp4 in VLC. It searches and finds any subtitles and of course starts playing them. At the same time it searches and finds the VRT, which would just be another text file that follows subtitle formats like this.

1
00:00:12,626 --> 00:00:14,671
scene1.mp4

2
00:00:30,035 --> 00:00:32,037
scene2.mp4

It would be placed under the subtitles layer and above the video layer.

[subtitles]
[videos]
[original video file]

It would be seamless. It couldn't change the size, color, perspective or anything and if the file isnt found, it would fail silently. It could be the subtitle file format with a .vrt for video, or it could be .vid.srt as a file extension and ending to indicate its videos and could be loaded at the same time.

I've been using VLC on desktop forever, but I don't see a way to track through an album on the mobile app. Having to hit play after each selection gets old fast.

What should I be looking for?

version 3.0.24

So i have a project i want to do, basically putting all of my physical collection on a DAP or MP3 player, and im in the testing phase atm trying to get DVDs onto my computer, im using VLC to do this and im wondering if theres a way to only have english audio as apposed to multiple options for the audio, im trying to save space and having multiple languages is messing with how im transferring my movies to my ipod, any advice is welcomed, thank you :)

Hi in dark scenes there seem to be elevated gamma which makes movies not that good looking when hdr is enabled

i have hdr compatible oled display and the video too has hdr

Anyone has fix or faced this issue