Change Media Player Skin

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Free Windows Media Player Skins
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Notes:

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After that, open the VLC media player on your computer and click on the tools button provided within the menu. Click on the preferences from the tools menu. Click on the interface and select the option of use custom skin. Choose the skin that you have downloaded on the website by clicking on the browse button. Changing of Skin is only available to Windows and Linux users of VLC Media Player. This tutorial will guide you on how to revert to the native or default skin of VLC Media Player. To change the skin of VLC Media Player back to the default or native skin, Please follow the instruction below: 1. Launch VLC Media Player. On the Menu bar, Click.

VLC media player is a versatile media player for Windows, Linux and Mac platform. It is lightweight, open source and highly customizable. Moreover it has some video editing features like trimming video, converting videos etc. After installing VLC media player, you can change default theme / skin to something that you like.

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Get help

Find help and how-to information for your version of Windows Media Player. Learn about the features and how to fix problems.

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If Windows Media Player stopped working correctly after the latest updates from Windows Update, you can verify that the updates are the problem by using System Restore. To do this:

Select the Start button, and then type system restore.
Select Create a restore point, and then in the System Properties pane, select System Restore.
Follow the prompts to select the restore point just before the round of updates that seemed to trigger the problem. Then run the system restore process. (This takes a while.)
After your system is restored to the earlier configuration, check to see whether Windows Media Player runs correctly again.

For advanced video features like 4K, you might also want to try Microsoft Movies & TV. To download this for free from Microsoft Store, go to Movies & TV and select Get.

Make it yours

Customize Windows Media Player with easily installed skins, visualizations, and plug-ins for a new look and extra features. Learn more.

VLC media player supports skins (sometimes also called themes) through its skins2 interface module. To get new skins go to the Skins website.

The steps mentioned here apply to VLC 0.9 and upward.

Skins are not available on macOS.

If you do have problems with VLC after applying a skin, a reinstall is NOT necessary. See #How do I fix VLC when it does not anymore show up properly.

How to switch to the Skins interface

In order that you can use skins you have to change from VLC's native interface to the skinnable one. You can do that by opening the preferences and choosing Use custom skin in the section Look and feel. Then click the Save button and restart VLC. It should then show up in the default skin.

or use command-line to start VLC with skins interface

How to get new skins and where to save them

You can download a variety of skins from the Skins website. They usually should come as files with the extension 'VLT'. Although your browser or operating system might identify them as archive files, don't unpack them. Rather put them as they are into the skins folder of VLC.

On Windows this folder is located in the installation directory of VLC,

e.g. C:Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins.

On Linux/Unix it is located in

~/.local/share/vlc/skins2.

If you downloaded the skin pack just unpack it to the folders mentioned above.

Warning: Not all of the skins available for download are fully functional.

How to change to another skin

To change to a downloaded skin, right-click anywhere on the skin's background and choose Interface.Then chose either Select skin to change to a skin that is located in the default skin folder of VLC or Open skin to open a skin file that is located elsewhere.

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How to switch back to VLC's default interface

When you open VLC and the skin you chose appears, right-click somewhere on the skins background and then choose Interface and Preferences (also accessible by pressing Ctrl+P). In the preferences dialog change the Interface type to Native. Then click save and restart VLC. It should show up in its default interface.

How do I fix VLC when it does not anymore show up properly

If you chose a broken skin it might happen that VLC does not anymore show up properly and that you cannot anymore access the settings as mentioned above.

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Then you have to switch back to the default interface.

On Windows you can just open your Start menu and open

All programs > VideoLAN > Quick Settings > Interface > Set Main Interface to Qt (default)

On any other system, or when the start menu entry is missing, run VLC with the following command line:

Now that VLC has been started with its native interface you can open the preferences (Ctrl+P) and change the active skin file. Chose the default skin or a skin you know that works. Then again set the skin interface to be the default one and restart VLC.

Are there skins with a full screen controller?

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Full screen controllers in skins are supported since VLC 1.1. But apart from the default skin coming with VLC not many other skins have this feature.

How to create your own skin

There exists a program that enables you to create skins without any deep knowledge how skins are made up exactly. It is the VLC Skin Editor

If you'd rather want to explore all the possibilities of the skin system and get to know how skins are made up and how to create them in detail, check out the Skins2 documentation.

If you have any problems while creating your skin, please turn to the skins forum.