Interfaces

Interfaces are the way you tell VLC what to do. VLC has 2 main Interfaces:

• The wxWidgets Interface (wx) is the default interface.
• The skins2 Interface is an interface where you can choose how VLC player looks.

The full list of interfaces is

wx	Default wxWidgets interface
skins2	Load VLC with a skin
http	Web Interface, used for controlling VLC from over a network
gestures	Mouse Gestures, where you can control vlc by moving the mouse
rc, ncurses, telnet and rtci	Console Interfaces, a non-graphical interface.
showintf	Show Intefaces module
hotkeys andjoystick	Control VLC with the keyboard/joystick
dummy	Don't use an interface

There are some other interfaces, you can view the list by running VLC with the -l option:

vlc -l

This also displays the muxers and encoders/decoders. On linux, run

vlc -l | grep -i interface

to display the interfaces.

To run VLC with a different primary interface, use the following command:

vlc --intf name

You can also use

vlc -I name

You can also change the default in the Preferences.

However you can also launch more than one interface:

vlc --intf wx --extraintf sap,telnet,http

This will launch VLC with the default wxWidgets interface, but will also launch the sap, telnet and web interface in addition to the wxWidgets one. The default for this can also be changed in the Preferences.

Note that if you only use the dummy interface, you won't be able to tell vlc to quit - you may have to break it manually with Ctrl+C; or use vlc:quit as the last item on the playlist.