Change Icon Mode to List Mode

When pulling up a list of movies via our remove UPNP video player, it shows very large Icons with a shortend movie name underneath.
The Icons are way too big and I would like to change it to list mode.
I found how to do it for the internal player, but I cannot figure out how to do it for external devices that come in via Remote Connection.
Any pointers in the docs I have missed?

thanks,
Loopie.