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can anyone help me with the skin thing? how to install new skin??

i downaload the skin from the internet, but i dont know how to install it?

is there a real different between the exe version and the zip version of the vlc player?

The exe version of the player is the same as the zip one for the set of functionalities, but it adds a few shortcuts as well as an uninstaller.

To start VLC with the skins interface, you can use the following command-line: vlc -I skins
This should use the default skin, then you can hit Ctrl+S to change your skin.

thanks, i just figure that out,,,

i find that a lot of bugs using skins... crashes a lot

also skins2 has bugs.... crashes

so i switch back to no skin now... no crashes

It's pretty new stuff. Therefore it crashes a lot

What kind of bugs do you find in skins2?
(those of skins1 don't interest me much, since they are deprecated anyway )

What kind of bugs do you find in skins2?
(those of skins1 don't interest me much, since they are deprecated anyway )

i just have it crash 1 or twice.... i was watching a movie in full screen, after about 20 minutes or so, i double click to change it back to 100% windows, then it crashes... i try to do the same thing next time, it doesnt crash....

i dont know, it's perfect without skins

I have the same problem - Video Lan player crashes usually
after 20 to 30 seconds after playing any video or audio file
when using the skins or skins2 interface.

It works flawlessly when using the default no-skins interface!

skins mode crashes and reports error with the skins library .dll file.


( Windows 98se, pentium-4 @ 1.6Ghz w/ 128MB ram, Direct-x 8.1,
32MB AGP nvidia card with most recent drivers.
PC is virus-free ( AVG7 Free Edition ) & free of "spyware",
compliments of ad-aware personal SE v1.05 & Spbot S&D v1.3 )

Hope the next version of the player has stable skins interface !

Definitely a problem with the coding for using the skins - which is a
shame and disappointment as I really would like to use the skins2 mode!