VLC Player (short for Videolan Client) is one of the most popular media players. It is free, open-source and cross-platform compatible and plays most formats of video. Perhaps the only drawback is its drab interface skin.
VLC’s official site and numerous enthusiasts are the saving grace, however. VLC has skins to customize the inteface. Below are 8 beautiful VLC skins that could replace the default skin. Note that the below screenshots do no justice to the skins – skins are (relatively) better-looking once installed.
How to install VLC skins
Installing skins on VLC is as easy as placing the skins into VLC skins directory (differs according to OS).
- On Windows: (usually C:Program FilesVLCskins)
- On Linux: ~/.share/vlc/skins2
Once the skin is installed, open VLC settings and change interface from native to skins. Then, right click anywhere and go to Interface>Choose Skin to select your skin. VLC needs to be restarted to change to skins mode. Sadly, VLC skins do not work on Mac OS X.
To download these VLC skins, visit the Skins page on the VLC site and search the first few letters of the theme name – they’re all listed in a single page.
Mac-style VLC skin: Crossover Leopard theme
Crossover is my favorite VLC skin (Windows-only). The interface is well designed and brings a Mac feel to VLC. See our original post about Crossover theme.
Askin theme
Blissta VLC
Colibri: Mac-style skin
HX-Milky theme
Neon skin
PSPvlc: PSP-style VLC theme
WMP11: Windows Media Player-like theme
Related reading
- Crossover Leopard, a beautiful VLC media player skin
- How to play FLAC audio files in Windows Media Player
- Play FLV: Open flash video files on Windows Media Player
- Foobar: free, lightweight media player
PSPvlc skin looks awesome !!
Thanks
C’est la plus mauvaise traduction française que j’ai vu à date !
Merci quand-même pour l’information.
Les programmes de traduction n’ont pas l’air encore à point.
Marc
How to download these skins?
Blissta VLC
Neon skin
PSPvlc: PSP-style VLC theme
M
realy good
There is no link to download these skins..
and tere is no instructions also.. so idiotic
@bob: The instructions have been given at the beginning of this article, and direct links to a download is not considered ethical (it is like stealing their bandwidth and not giving them the deserving visitor attention). If you like, you can download all the VLC skins in one go (a 20 MB download) from a link on their page.
How todownload these skins?
As mentioned in this post, visit the downloads page (linked in post) and you can download skins from that page.
HOW TO USE THE SKIN
1.download the skins
2.open the vlc player
3.go to “file>open file” and browse your skin and click ok
4.go to “settings>switch interface>your skin”
Then your skin will be changed.
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