VLC Media Player (short for VLC) is a free and open-source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can stream over networks and transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC is used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialization no longer applies. VLC is one of the most platform-independent media players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows (10), Mac OS X, GNU, Linux, BeOS, and BSD. Playing videos in VLC is very easy and simple, and VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, Unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. VLC has a lot of hidden features, and VLC still uses the native style theme. Modern media players allow users to switch to dark themes, but in VLC there is no direct way to switch to the dark theme. But with the recent VLC update, we can download and switch to the custom dark theme. This article will guide you to Enable Dark Mode in VLC media player.
Enable Dark Mode in VLC media player:
First, download the eDark VLC theme, download theme from this link. You can also look for other dark themes from this link.
Once you downloaded the Dark theme, you’ll get the .vlt theme file.
Next launch the VLC player, click on Tools > Preferences, or directly press Ctrl + P to open the Preferences window.
Click on the Interface tab and under the Look and feel section, check the Use custom skin.
Next, choose the theme file which you have downloaded recently, select the .vlt file and click on Save.
Close and reopen the VLC media player. Now you can see the Dark vlc theme will be applied on the VLC media player.
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Problem with these so called “dark mode” skins is that the people that make them can’t help themself from from trying to go all fancy with it to the point to where when you open the skin you no longer recognise VLC anymore and have to re learn how to operate it. We want a real dark mode that looks exactly like the default VLC only black background. Everything else is just a custom skin with the word dark in it.