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Interfaces are the way you tell VLC what to do. VLC has 2 main Interfaces:
* The [[wxWidgets Interface]] (wx) is the default interface on Linux and Windows.
* The [[Skins|skins2 Interface]] is an interface where you can choose how VLC player looks (Works on Linux and Windows).
* The [[Mac OS X Interface]] is the default (and only) graphical interface on Mac OS X.
* The [[BeOS Interface]] is the default (and only) graphical interface on BeOS.


The full list of interfaces is 
{|
|'''wx'''
| Default [http://www.wxwidgets.org/ wxWidgets] interface on Linux and Windows
|-
|'''skins2'''
| Load VLC with a [[Skins|skin]]. (Linux and Windows only)
|-
|'''macosx'''
| Default Mac OS X interface
|-
|'''beos'''
| Default BeOS interface
|-
| '''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'''
| [[Console|Console Interfaces]], a non-graphical interface.
|-
| '''showintf'''
| Show Intefaces module
|-
| '''hotkeys''' and'''joystick'''
| 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.