StickyGonzales/vlc-redesign-juxtopposed v0.1.0-beta

Cone 0.1.0 beta: Juxtopposed's redesign on a real VLC 4 fork (not a skin)

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Cone 0.1.0 beta: the first public test build of Cone, a media player for Windows based on VLC media player, with Juxtopposed's "VLC Redesign" as its interface.

This is a beta: it tracks VLC 4 development code, so expect rough edges. Please report problems in Issues.

Download and start

1. Download Cone-0.1.0-beta-win64.zip below (Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit).
2. Unzip it anywhere and run Cone.exe. Nothing gets installed.
3. Settings stay inside the portable folder next to Cone.exe. Your installed VLC and its settings are not touched, and both can run side by side.

What's in it

• The redesigned player: a floating control bar and top bar, a seek bar with thumbnails, a cone-shaped volume control up to 200 %, and a tracks popup with Embedded and External Tracks.
• A settings sidebar (Playback, Video, Audio, Subtitles) with per-show presets, sleep timer, speed and subtitle sync sliders.
• A queue with bookmarks (Ctrl+B) and chapters, the redesigned main and right-click menus, Keyboard Shortcuts, and the new Settings with every page.
• A library with Home, Videos, Music, Playlists and Recent, a music view and a mini player.
• Customize Player and profiles, the onboarding, dark and light themes and accent colours.
• Subtitles move above the control bar while it shows.
• Cone has its own settings folder, its own entry in the Windows volume mixer and its own single-instance name, so it never takes over an installed VLC.

Known issues

• Rarely, Windows may log a background error after closing Settings; no visible effect.
• Escape does not close the library sidebar in the player; use the library button.
• New Cone texts are in English in every language for now.
• The app shows version 0.1.0; "beta" is only in the file names.
• The About dialog still uses the old light style in dark mode.
• In the light theme, a thin grey line shows at the top of the control bar.
• An external subtitle file is listed with its full file name.
• The installer comes later; this beta is the portable zip only.
• Like VLC, Cone keeps a small graphics cache in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Cone\cache, also when run from the zip.

Credits and license

• Design: "VLC Redesign" by Juxtopposed, CC BY 4.0: Figma file and video.
• Engine: VLC media player by VideoLAN and its contributors.
• Built by StickyGonzales.
• Licence: Cone is free software under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. The libVLC engine is under the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later. Source code: this repository.

Cone is not affiliated with or endorsed by VideoLAN or Juxtopposed. VLC, VLC media player and VideoLAN are trademarks of the VideoLAN non-profit organization.