WMP Mobile skins?

[Guest isnips909]

Hi,

I'm tryin to add some new skinss to windows mwdia player on my omnia and have downloaded a couple of vistaish ones but cannot get them to work. I have tried placing the folders in the media player folder in program files and application data/microsoft but media player either says it can't find skins or just keeps searching?

Can anyone help?

[Guest murphotronic]

took me a while to get this:

1. On your PC, go into the skin folder and open the .skn file with note pad. Resolution is listed in the first few lines; if it is not 240x400 or 400x240, change it to be so and resave the skn file.

2. Paste the whole folder onto the device here: /Program Files/Windows Media Player/

3. Start/restart and WMP skin browser should now list the skin with a preview (listing with no preview means somthings funky with the format and it have a black playscreen).

Note, most WMP skins were design for QVGA resolution, the Omnia is WQVGA, so this crude editing will often leave a black area along one edge of the screen. There's only a handful (currently) designed/adapted for omnia. search for "IPhone-WMP-Skin-Wide-WQVGA" over at XDA forums, it's the nicest I've found so far (mainly because both portrait and landscape are functional with no black box.

Also, I had to load the skin once in protrait mode, rotate the screen then reload in landscape mode, then both worked with accellerometer rotation.

[Guest serexa]

took me a while to get this:

1. On your PC, go into the skin folder and open the .skn file with note pad. Resolution is listed in the first few lines; if it is not 240x400 or 400x240, change it to be so and resave the skn file.

2. Paste the whole folder onto the device here: /Program Files/Windows Media Player/

3. Start/restart and WMP skin browser should now list the skin with a preview (listing with no preview means somthings funky with the format and it have a black playscreen).

Note, most WMP skins were design for QVGA resolution, the Omnia is WQVGA, so this crude editing will often leave a black area along one edge of the screen. There's only a handful (currently) designed/adapted for omnia. search for "IPhone-WMP-Skin-Wide-WQVGA" over at XDA forums, it's the nicest I've found so far (mainly because both portrait and landscape are functional with no black box.

Also, I had to load the skin once in protrait mode, rotate the screen then reload in landscape mode, then both worked with accellerometer rotation.

:( Tried this but it didn't work! When i open the .skn file in note pad, the resolution is in the following forms:

[ Description ]

Dimensions 240, 320 96

Orientation Portrait

[ Description ]

Dimensions 320, 240 96

Orientation Landscape

I've tried to change 320 with 400 but did not work.

Any more suggestions?

[Guest thierryyy]

found a skin here

Edited April 28, 2009 by thierryyy

[Guest Bartonq]

I struggled long and hard trying to get skins for WMP10.2 in the Omnia. Once I got it to work I did several experiments and learned the following:

A. Only certain skin files will work. I found that I could edit the .skn file to make most skins work. Most of the skins I found were QVGA (240x320) and wouldn't be recognized until I edited 320 -> 400.

1. Version must be 9.0.1 or later (10.2.0 worked as well). I was able to simply edit this.

2. A [Description] section must exist with the size = 240 x 400 and dpi = 96

----------------------------------------------------

[Pocket WMP Skin File v9.0.1]

[ Description ]

Dimensions 240, 400 96

Orientation Portrait

----------------------------------------------------

3. If there isn't an image file named portrait (portrait.gif, portrait.png, portrait.jpg, or portrait.bmp all worked for me), then there will be no preview image on the selection page.

B. I found that you can locate your skin directories anywhere you want and edit the registry to tell WMP where to find them (thanks to Saloei: http://www.samsung-omnia.org/audio-(music-...3695/#msg23695)

1. I edited HKLM>Software>Microsoft>MediaPlayer>Skins>DefaultPortraitSkin = \My Storage\WMP_Skins\Diamond WM Skin\Diamond WM.skn

2. I copied the directory "Diamond WM Skin" from the attached zip file into \My Storage\WMP_Skins\

3. In WMP at the main screen, select Options from the Menu and choose the skins tab (last but one to the right). Wait, it takes a few seconds (5-15) for WMP to read all of the skin files. It won't show anything for those it doesn't understand (like wrong resolution...).

4. Then you should be able to press Next and Prev buttons to rotate through the directories that you have in \My Storage\WMP_Skins.

I also grabbed the original skin files from \Windows and put them in a directory too. It took be a bit to figure out why they were invisible (they are tagged as system files, so my explorer "hid" them...sigh), but then I created a skin directory for them (see attached WMP10.2_orig.zip).

Diamond_WM_Skin.zip

WMP10.zip