VLC media player is full of nice features, but the interface is a bit "geeky". It's minimalistic, grey... but you can change it!

Customizing Qt4

Default profiles

In the Qt4 interface, there are a few different looks you can choose. Go to Tools->Preferences->Interface Type->Native->Display mode and then select one of the following profiles: basic VLC interface

Full VLC interface

Minimal VLC interface

Make your own profiles

OK, that's not enough. You want more? Then go to View->Customize Interface... and you'll see the Qt customization interface: My interface personalization

Go to Select profile, name it like you want, and then choose what buttons will go in your interface. Here, I have removed some buttons from the "advanced controls" line, and added the frame-per-frame and snapshots buttons to the fullscreen controller.

That's neat, but it's still that grey interface... Now take a look at the skins interface.

Skins

Go to Tools->Preferences->Interface Type->Skins and you'll have a new look for VLC! This theme you see is named "SubX", and was selected in a contest 2 months ago.

SubX VLC skin

Do you like it? If not, you can use another skin. Download it from videolan.org and save it in c:\Users\yourlogin\AppData\Roaming\vlc\skins then go to ''View->Themes" and choose it. As an example, here is the Winamp theme: VLC Winamp skin

There are a lot of skins to download and try! But if you're not pleased yet, you can create your own with the VLC skin editor: VLC Skin editor

If you create a nice theme, feel free to send it to VideoLAN, we will add it to the list of downloadable skins :)