Skins For Windows Media Player
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I was listening to an album on the old version of Media Player and it reminded me of a forgotten era of UI design. The psychedelic graphic visualizers that played during songs were always so fun to look at, it's kind of embarrassing but sometimes I'd just stare at them for the duration of the album. The same thing goes for skins, a big part of the appeal of that old era was the customizability. It would be fun to just browse and download random skins from the internet, my favorite being the freaky floating green head one. I think this level of personalization and fun should really come back.
I completely agree!! I truly miss how customizable UI design used to be. Things like tumblr or myspace accounts designs were truly a forgotten art. Having to learn HTML to get cool account designs was definitely a pain but the look it gave always brought satisfaction. I loved looking for skins for my Media Player and I definitely agree that this level of personalization should make a comeback!
Sadly, there used to be a visualizer. It was kind of hidden though, and it eventually got scrapped. I wish I could have experienced it, so I hope it gets brought back with the hopeful addition of skins.
Did anyone here ever use Sonique? It was a basic media player with some of the best visualizers I've ever seen. I too, miss the heck out of those. I either having parties with those in the background, or sitting in the dark and just being mesmerized by color and sound.
Spotify, please ditch the creepy AI D.J. and work on this please
Google is blocking my pages!.
Google claim my pages have duplicates and I have not selected which should be used.
They state my pages have: 'Duplicate without user-selected canonical'. My pages do not have duplicates on my site, there is only one copy of each page.
The only thing I can think of is that they are detecting normsweb.com & www.normsweb.com and treating that as duplicates although they are the exact same pages. I await a reply from Google.
If you use the 'Revert' skin in windows media player 10 (WMP 10) and then get media player 11 (WMP 11), you will notice that the skin goes transparent when you take the mouse off it. Ok some people may like this new 'feature', but I don't, I like it to stay opaque. There is no (known) official way to make it stay opaque, so I had to figure a way to do it... turns out it was easy...
To make the revert skin opaque all the time, you will need: 'winRAR' decompression software and windows notepad. Goto Program Files, then windows media player, then skins... in the skins folder you should see a file called 'Revert.wmz'
I was thinking of putting my altered version of 'revert.wmz' skin here for download, but as I dont fancy getting sued by Microsoft, I decided against it and you will have to modify it yourselfs unfortunately...
There is another way to fix the revert skin. just copy the old revert skin from the old version of wmp and paste it into the new version. if u want to keep the new 1 then rename the old 1 before u copy and paste. i hav tried ths method and it works. mayb u cn add it to the page.
[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
When you embed the Windows Media Player control in a C++ program, you can customize the Player user interface (UI) by applying a skin definition file to it. A skin definition file is an XML-based document specifying the layout of standard and customizable UI components and any accompanying graphics. Using Microsoft JScript, you can specify the behavior of these components and manipulate the Windows Media Player control without the overhead of C++ and COM syntax.
Skins provide an easy way to keep your user interface code and your main program code separate so that they can be maintained and developed independently. You can also reuse skins originally designed for use by the standalone Player in skin mode. Skin code that you design specifically for C++ programs can interact with your programs through a scriptable object that your program can provide.
To enable skin mode for the Windows Media Player control, your program must implement the IWMPRemoteMediaServices interface. Although you can use skins with the control and remote the control at the same time, you can use this interface to enable either feature without enabling the other. To disable remoting, simply pass a value of "Local" as the out parameter of the GetServiceType method, and return an HRESULT of E_NOTIMPL from the GetApplicationName method.
To switch the Windows Media Player control to skin mode, call the IWMPPlayer::put_uiMode method, passing in a value of "custom". Specify the path and file name of the skin definition file to use by returning it from the IWMPRemoteMediaServices::GetCustomUIMode method.
If you want to provide a scriptable object for communication between your skin and your program, pass a name and a pointer to an IDispatch pointer as the two out parameters of the IWMPRemoteMediaServices::GetScriptableObject method. Your skin can then make calls to the scriptable object by using the name specified as though it were a global attribute similar to the player global attribute.
A skin applied to a remoted Windows Media Player control can access the PlayerApplication object using another global attribute called playerApplication. Because the Player.playerApplication property cannot be accessed by skins, you must use this global attribute when you want your skin code to manage docking and undocking.
Follows my methodology for Windows Media Player skin design which is to create WMP skins as real world objects and not "picture" skins. This looks like a portable media player Catwoman would use in the real world.
Captions provide equivalent text for individuals who are unable to hear the audio portion of a video presentation. Open captions are part of the video and can not be turned off. Closed captions, however, are contained with a separate text track and can typically be toggle on or off as needed.
Audio description is a technique for making video accessible to individuals who are blind. If important information in a video is presented visually but is not obvious through the program's audio, this information must be described by a narrator and made available in a separate track for individuals who need it.
Many media players today are embedded into web pages, and are most commonly developed for Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-ins. Tools are readily available for developing in these environments, and as a result many developers have created custom video players or "skins". Unfortunately many of these players do not include support for closed captions, but a few do. Two of the most popular Flash video players that support closed captions are JW FLV Player from LongTail Video and ccPlayer from the National Center on Accessible Media. Each of these players includes a "CC" button on the controller bar for toggling captions on and off. In early versions of the JW FLV Player (prior to version 4.0) the closed caption button was labeled with a "T" for "text". In all versions of the JW FLV Player, this button is only shown if captions are available, and only if the web developer chooses to include it.
JW FLV Player provides similar support for audio description. If audio description is available and implemented, an audio description button is provided on the controller bar, labeled with the letter "A". This button allows users to toggle the narration on and off. The narration track itself is provided in an MP3 audio file, which is synchronized with the video program by the player controller.
YouTube supports closed captions, but not audio description. If captions are available, they can be turned on by clicking the button in the lower right corner of the YouTube video player. This activates a pop-up menu from which "turn on captions" can be selected. Once captions have been turned on in the YouTube player, they remain on indefinitely unless the user follows this same procedure to turn them off. The YouTube player also provides user with control over the display of captions, including font size and background. These options are explained on YouTube's Captions and Subtitles page.
In standalone media player software applications such as Apple iTunes, Microsoft Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and Real Player, captions and (if supported) audio description are typically activated by selecting relevant options in the application menu. The precise wording and location of these options varies across products and versions. Below are a few examples:
Since so few of the players described in this Knowledge Base article provide support for closed audio description, the best solution currently is to premix the narration track into the video, and provide two versions of the video, one with audio description and one without.
To learn how to provide captions on videos, see the Knowledge Base article What types of closed caption files do video players support?. For more a more general overview of multimedia accessibility, see the Knowledge Base article How do I make multimedia accessible?
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