- VLC Media Player 2.2.4
VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. The open source media player was publically released in 2001 by non-profit organization VideoLAN Project. VLC Media Player quickly became very popular thanks to its versatile multi-format playback capabilities. It was aided by compatibility and codec issues which rendered competitor media players like QuickTime, Windows and Real Media Player useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options have enforced VLC Media Player’s position at the top of the free media players.
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Installation the Graphical way (for installation into Ubuntu OS)
Open Synaptic application (click on System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager).
Search for vlc and install it. You may also want to install browser-plugin-vlc.
If you are interested in streaming or transcoding, you should additionally install libavcodec-extra-53.
Installation the Command line way (for installation into Ubuntu OS)
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc
How to use these skins?
Skins do not work on Mac OS X!
Put the downloaded VLT files in the following folder:
On Windows: the skins folder in the VLC installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\skins)
On Linux/Unix: ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2
Then open your VLC settings and change your interface from native to skins. You can choose your desired skin already there or change it when you are in the skins mode by rightclicking somewhere on the skin and going to Interface>Choose Skin.
VLC needs to be restarted to change to skins mode.