- VLC Skins by clemencyworld1 This skin resembles some car media player hence the name. It has some basic controls including full screen control. However, it does not include equaliser window.Use and modify to your heart's content.
- Main video page and a playlist. Perfect for just watching movies.To be added:-Equalizer page.-Settings button.-Mouse over buttons. VLC Skins by Dverted. A simple and clean skin for VLC.Update: It has come to my attention that the skin has issues with 2.20.
- VLC media player is a versatile media player for Windows, Linux and Mac platform. It is lightweight, open source and highly customizable. Moreover it has some video editing features like trimming video, converting videos etc. After installing VLC media player, you can change default theme / skin to something that you like. You can find lots of skins for VLC media player on internet.
Devices and Mac OS X version. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs.
Devices and Mac OS X version
VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases.
Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below.
If you need help in finding the correct package matching your Mac's processor architecture, please see this official support document by Apple.
Web browser plugin for Mac OS X
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.
Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player
We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required
Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required
Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma
Vlc Mac Theme
Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.
VLC media player supports skins (sometimes also called themes) through its skins2 interface module. To get new skins go to the Skins website.
The steps mentioned here apply to VLC 0.9 and upward.
Skins are not available on macOS.
If you do have problems with VLC after applying a skin, a reinstall is NOT necessary. See #How do I fix VLC when it does not anymore show up properly.
How to switch to the Skins interface
In order that you can use skins you have to change from VLC's native interface to the skinnable one. You can do that by opening the preferences and choosing Use custom skin in the section Look and feel. Then click the Save button and restart VLC. It should then show up in the default skin.
or use command-line to start VLC with skins interface
How to get new skins and where to save them
You can download a variety of skins from the Skins website. They usually should come as files with the extension 'VLT'. Although your browser or operating system might identify them as archive files, don't unpack them. Rather put them as they are into the skins folder of VLC.
Vlc Skins Touch
On Windows this folder is located in the installation directory of VLC,
- e.g. C:Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins.
On Linux/Unix it is located in
- ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2.
If you downloaded the skin pack just unpack it to the folders mentioned above.
Warning: Not all of the skins available for download are fully functional.
How to change to another skin
To change to a downloaded skin, right-click anywhere on the skin's background and choose Interface.Then chose either Select skin to change to a skin that is located in the default skin folder of VLC or Open skin to open a skin file that is located elsewhere.
How to switch back to VLC's default interface
When you open VLC and the skin you chose appears, right-click somewhere on the skins background and then choose Interface and Preferences (also accessible by pressing Ctrl+P). In the preferences dialog change the Interface type to Native. Then click save and restart VLC. It should show up in its default interface.
How do I fix VLC when it does not anymore show up properly
If you chose a broken skin it might happen that VLC does not anymore show up properly and that you cannot anymore access the settings as mentioned above.
Then you have to switch back to the default interface.
On Windows you can just open your Start menu and open
- All programs > VideoLAN > Quick Settings > Interface > Set Main Interface to Qt (default)
On any other system, or when the start menu entry is missing, run VLC with the following command line:
Now that VLC has been started with its native interface you can open the preferences (Ctrl+P) and change the active skin file. Chose the default skin or a skin you know that works. Then again set the skin interface to be the default one and restart VLC.
Are there skins with a full screen controller?
Full screen controllers in skins are supported since VLC 1.1. But apart from the default skin coming with VLC not many other skins have this feature.
How to create your own skin
There exists a program that enables you to create skins without any deep knowledge how skins are made up exactly. It is the VLC Skin Editor
If you'd rather want to explore all the possibilities of the skin system and get to know how skins are made up and how to create them in detail, check out the Skins2 documentation.
If you have any problems while creating your skin, please turn to the skins forum.
See also
- Skins2 Contest (contest over)