Window media player 11 & Winamp both are multi media player software for window operating system but you can use theme and change your vlc media player looking like Window media player 11 & Winamp.

For changing look first you need skin file, you can download here

Window media player 11 skin file download
Winamp skin file download

Now press Alt +F2 type gnome-terminal and enter or you can also do same  with click application go to Accessories and then click Terminal and type this command and enter.

gksudo nautilus /usr/share/vlc/skins2

Enter your root password if it is asked to you.

Now copy and paste your skin file here (/usr/share/vlc/skins2) from your download location

Now open vlc player press Ctrl + P or go to Tools and click on Preferences…

Click Skins radio button then click browse and choose your vlc skin file (/usr/share/vlc/skins2)
select skin file ubuntu Install Window media player 11 & Winamp like looks for vlc player in ubuntu

Select your skin file and click open button now click on save button and restart your vlc player.

vlc media player skins Install Window media player 11 & Winamp like looks for vlc player in ubuntu

Now enjoy with your new vlc player skins.

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Theme customization is a good option for any software so that you can change it according to your Operating System environment  and your own desire.

In this condition Vlc player is good choice for every one , which is available with nice theme / skin collection for users.

But sometimes theme creates some problems and don’t work according to your choice and in this condition you have only one way that switch back to your original theme and vlc  configuration.

For restoring  original VLC skin and configuration follow these steps.

Click Start button and Type VlC in search bar then click on Reset VLC media player preferences and cache files

vlc restore skin How to restore original VLC skin and config on Window Vista

Now click on ok button and start your VlC player.

This tutorial also work for window -7, All vista version.

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VlC player is a good software for playing different  types of music and video file, it also supports different types of multimedia file format generally you don’t find in another multimedia software and the best thing of vlc is that it is free for everyone.

By default theme of vlc player is not attractive but vlc Player have option for changing theme according to your choice.

For changing theme in vlc first you need theme you can download here

Download window media player 11 theme

Here you can download more vlc theme (click on your desired theme image and then click on download)

After Downloading copy these file (theme name.vlt) on this folder (C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\skins)

Now open vlc player press Ctrl + P or go to Tools and click on Preferences…

Click Skins radio button then click browse and choose your vlc skin file

(C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\skins)

vlc interface settings Install window media player 11 theme in vlc on windows vista

Click on save button and restart you vlc player again and enjoy your new window media player 11 theme.

vlc media player skins Install window media player 11 theme in vlc on windows vista

This tutorial also work for window -7, All vista version and Xp

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If you have new skin on your vlc player but now you want to change it as a default theme due to some skin problem and lose some configuration options.

You can also find some more things like some skin don’t support drag & drop function.

You don’t need to reinstall again you can do this with some simple steps.

Click on Places and go to home folder in panel.

Click on view in menu bar and click on show hidden files or you can do same thing with (Ctrl + H)

Now open .config folder

Delete vlc folder

Restart / start VLC player in application menu and set up your settings from beginning.

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Another great reason for using vlc player is – Most of the people use mobile for recoding video clips but most of the video clips are recorded with a little bit problem because they don’t know how to record video in right angle and when you play this video on your computer. it becomes difficult  to watch these  video clips.
right angle video Play Mobile Video Clip With Vlc Player Easily

Well, but you can solve this type of problem with Vlc player easily  in some simple steps.

Play video with vlc player, click tools in menu bar then click extended settings…  or press Ctrl + E with key board.
Now go to video effects tab and click on Geometry sub tab and select rotate check box (if not selected)
Now you can change video angel easily according to your video.

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Mostly people use Nero for burning cd & DVD and its biggest reason is that it comes with your cd/DVD writer bundle (Samsung, Sony, LG, Asus & many others).

Many people have hobby, to create image from cd and store in  local hard drive, so that no cd file can be missed  and burn easily again when it is shared  with friend or may be some other reasons, by default when you create image with Nero it always create in NRG format. You can mount with daemon tool and play video file if you don’t have daemon tool.

You can play this NRG file directly without extracting or mounting with VlC player, Only NRG image which have video file (not for games & software NRG image).
Right click NRG image (only have video file) and open with VlC player.

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For Playing srt and avi file together, open vlc player and go to file menu and click open file.
open vlc player How to play srt and avi files together with vlc player

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