VLC Media Player Redesign (unofficial)

The VLC you know, with a new face: the real VLC 4 engine and codecs under an interface built screen by screen from Juxtopposed's design. Unofficial, free and open source.

0.6.3 · 2026-11-13  ·  next: 0.6.4  ·  all downloads · what's new · wiki · website

Everything shown is the real app, playing freely licensed films and music. The tour in full quality (56 s).

[!IMPORTANT] This is an unofficial fork. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by VideoLAN. VLC, VLC media player and the cone logo are trademarks of VideoLAN; for the official player, go to videolan.org. This build is based on the VLC 4.0 development branch, so please report problems here, not to VideoLAN. As free software under the GPL, it uses these marks only as VideoLAN's trademark policy allows: the app calls itself VLC Media Player Redesign and never uses the name VideoLAN as its own.

Design by Juxtopposed

Interface designed by Juxtopposed.

Every screen of this interface was designed by Juxtopposed; this project only turns that design into working software on top of VLC.

▶ Watch the video: I Redesigned VLC After 25 Years

YouTube · Website · Figma · X / Twitter · Bluesky · Instagram · GitHub

If you like how this looks, go subscribe to Juxtopposed's channel. That's where it all comes from.

The design is "VLC Redesign (Community)" by Juxtopposed, licensed under CC BY 4.0. It was adapted to Qt/QML for this build, and its icons were redrawn and modified. Juxtopposed does not endorse this project. The same credit is in the app, under ⋯ → About VLC.

Features

Also included: frame previews on the seek bar, a waveform seek bar for music, effects that apply live, small signed in-app updates on Windows, a sleep timer, A-B loop, picture-in-picture, a mini player, volume up to 200 % with a meter at the side of the window, the designer's cat living on the idle screen, a cable-box information bar on Live TV, and bookmarks and chapters. Every option is documented in the wiki.

The video

▶ VLC Media Player Redesign: every feature, on every screen on the project's YouTube channel

On each platform:

Click a clip to open its MP4. All clips are listed in docs/media/demo and in the Feature Tour on the wiki.

Download and install

All files are on the Releases page, with their SHA-256 checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt. The full guide is Install and Update on the wiki.

This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗