- #MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS INSTALL#
- #MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS SKIN#
- #MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS ZIP#
#MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS SKIN#
Choose the skin you want to use by selecting the "Choose." button and selecting it from the available skins.
To use any of the new skins, change the radio button from "Use native style" to the "Use custom skin" setting. However, if every user has this directory in their /home directory, each user may have and use a different skin for VLC. Done this way, the skins are available only to the particular user who has the skins in the specified directory in their /home directory. You can also extract them to -/.local/share/vlc/skins2 (remember that - specifies a user's /home directory).
However, only one skin may be chosen for all users on the computer. Done this way, all of the skins are available to all the users of the computer. Be aware that you will have to switch to the root user in order to place the skins there. Under PCLinuxOS, most skins for VLC are in the usr/share/vlc/skins2 directory. Instead, it's VLC skinned to look like Windows Media Player.īefore you can use the VLC skins, you must first extract the skin files to your computer. No, it really is not Windows Media Player. The above is just one of those 120 skins that are available for VLC.
#MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS INSTALL#
It is a JAVA application that requires JAVA Runtime 6 or greater (so it should be safe to install to a directory in your /home directory, and run from there), and allows you to create/edit VLC skins without having to know the internal structure of VLC skins. You can also download and install the VLC Media Player Skin Editor from here. If you want to try your hand at creating your own VLC skin, check out this link.
#MEDIA PLAYER CLASIC SKINS ZIP#
The only way to download the VLC skins are with all of them in a 37 MB ZIP file, containing 120 different skins. Most people will be content using VLC as it is out of the box, so to say, with its default interface.īut, you can make it look however you want. Hopefully you can find one that better suits your individual idea of how the interface should look and function. All of them are functional with their default appearance, even if their default appearance(s) are rather boring.įortunately, all of them can be "skinned." That means giving them a new look, jazzing things up a bit.
But out of the box, their interfaces can become a bit stale and boring. They all definitely do a fine job of playing back our multimedia files. Most users are familiar with quartet of multimedia players: VLC, MPlayer, SMPlayer and UMPlayer. Get A New Look For Your Multimedia Player: Skin It!
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