Change Media Player Skin

Hello in the previous article, I showed you how to install VLC media player and instructions on how to use VLC player.This article will guide you how to change the interface (skins) for VLC media player.With gorgeous skin and free VideoLan, you will have moments of great entertainment.

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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. In Media Player, open the Access applications menu button, point to View, and then select Skin Chooser. In the skins list, click the skin you want to apply. A preview of the skin appears.

We have 4 step to change your VLC media player skin:

Instruction: To change the VLC media player interface you need an Internet connection and have installed VLC player

Step 1: Go to the skin page of VLC media player

– This is the skin page: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php

– All VLC media player skin is Free.

Step 2: Choose your favorite vlc player skin

– We have many skin to choose, you can find and choose a vlc skin you like.
– I like AlienWare, so i will choose AlienWare skin (very nice).
– After you select your favorite vlc player skin, click left mouse button on thumbnail of your skin.

– A popup display with skin demo picture you just choose, and give you link download your vlc skin to your computer.

Step 3: Download your skin vlc media player to your computer.

– Click left mouse button to Download link to start download your skin

– In case your skin don’t auto Download, VideoLan will redirect you to a Directory, you will see more skill located in there, now you search with your skin name and download file skin with extension (.vlt), see image below:

– Choose a location to save the file on your computer and click Save to start the download vlc player skins

– After the download is completed, you will see your skin file like this

Step 4: Setup to change you vlc media player skin

– Open VLC player to begin active your skin.
– At this time VLC player is the default interface, as image below:

– From the VLC player menu click on Tools, then select Preferances

– The Simple Preferences windows appear, allows you to change the skin

– Click left mouse button to [Use custom skin], then click on [Choose…] to find the location that skin you just downloaded, then select the VLC Player skin file and click Open

– After you click Open, your skin was changed, now click Save and restart your VLC Media Player to see new Interface

– Finally, this is the result that we have achieved a very beautiful new skin.

Notes:

You can download and install more skins to VLC media player to be used when needed without internet connection

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Publication date: 22.11.2016
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VLC Media Player is probably the best media player available for download on the internet, especially when it comes to playing video files on your Mac, Windows or Linux PC. It plays almost any type of media file, it’s fast, smooth and super streamlined. It also has support for most subtitle formats found on the Internet. All this simplicity and power though is shelled in one of the most boring skins of all time. Thankfully though we can Flash things up a little.

VLC Media Player(more appropriately known as VLC) is a free and open-source, media player available on just about anything you can play media files on. From Windows 10 mobile to Android and all the Apple device you can name, alright maybe not the Apple watches but it wouldn’t be surprising if VLC figure that one out soon. VLC is available from all app stores, Apple's App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Window’s quite lacking app store. You can also grab the windows files with a quick Google search.

As mentioned earlier VLC media player supports a huge range of media files and in all the years I have personally been using it, I cannot recall a video/audio file it wouldn’t open. Apart from its profound ability to play anything, it’s also quite good at what it does quality wise. Especially for a program that is completely free. Anyway enough about how it all works, let’s get to making this ugly beast somewhat more pretty.

Note: Skins currently do not work on Mac OS X.

Applying a Custom Skin to VLC Media Player (VLC)

Even though it’s quite a simple program to use, it can be somewhat more tricky to locate the place to change your skins from. Firstly, you will need to find a skin to use, if you haven’t already picked out something you like. Google is always a great place to start searching.

Note: Downloading skins directly from the VLC website is a good way to make sure your download is virus free and compatible.

Save your downloaded skin file somewhere that’s easy to access or somewhere you will remember where to find it. The Downloads folder is probably the most foolproof place or the Desktop. VLC skin files have a file extension called VLT (.vlt) so you won’t need to worry about confusing them with other files or compatibility. Once you have your new skin downloaded, unzip it(if it’s zipped) and place it into the following folder.
On Windows: C:Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins)

On Linux/Unix: ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2

Mac OS X: Skins not available :(

Now you have the files in their new home, open VLC and go to settings using either Ctrl+P or by going to Tools then Preferences. Here, locate the Look and Feel section. This can be found on the upper middle part of the window, right below the Language section or to the left of the little VLC picture. Once you located this, you will notice two options.

Use Native Style - This option sets the skin of VLC to default.

Use Custom Skin - This option allows you to use any custom skin you’ve downloaded.

Change the option to Use Custom Skin Then change the skin resource file to the one you placed in the VLC skins directory: C:Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins
Once you have selected the files, click save down the bottom and restart the program to apply the change.

Note: Some of the skins look fantastic but remove some of the function buttons, making use frustrating at times, so spend a little bit of time finding the best one for you. This might mean some trail and error is in order.