05-08-2005, 03:00 AM
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Skin Me!
Pocket PC Thoughts member, djpandora, recently announced the availability of his Plastic VGA skin for Windows Media 10 Mobile. If there ever is a lack of anything in this world, it would be Windows Media 10 Mobile skins. Head over to Microsoft's very own skin page and the results are obvious. Even more so - the lack of VGA skins! So djpandora really has put the icing on the cake with this one and with the help of Pocket PC Thoughts, he has decided to offer it for free to the community. To install it, download Plastic from here, unzip the contents of the archive into a folder of your choice (e.g. Plastic) and copy that folder to "\Program Files\Windows Media Player". Open up Windows Media 10 Mobile and you should see the skin appear in the Skin Chooser. Simply select it and enjoy!
Click the thumbnail above for a larger version of the picture.
Now I'm not going to cut the thread short just yet. Since it's the weekend and news is a little dry, I'm going to give any skinners the opportunity to do a bit of self-promotion! If you have a skin creation that you would like to share (whether it be for QVGA or VGA devices), then feel free to add a link to your skin as well as a few descriptive sentences, and hopefully, we can turn this into a resourceful skin thread for future use.
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05-08-2005, 03:17 AM
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Here are my 3 latest WA2 themes, click on the images for more info & download:
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05-08-2005, 05:37 AM
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^ All very nice skins 
Anyways I was just curious if in fact most current Pocket PCs these days already ship with WMP10? I ask since all my current WM2003SE PPCs (save for one) had shipped with WMP9 out of the box...
P.S. Does Plastic work on QVGA?
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05-08-2005, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bitequator
Anyways I was just curious if in fact most current Pocket PCs these days already ship with WMP10? I ask since all my current WM2003SE PPCs (save for one) had shipped with WMP9 out of the box...
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Some have it, some don't. It really is up to the manufacturer to either release their device with WMP10 pre-installed, or a ROM update which will add WMP10 at a later date. Dell's X30 and X50 has it. The i-mate JAM has it. HP's rx3000 series has it. There's talk of HP releasing a ROM update with WMP10 for the hx4700, but that hasn't been released yet so we'll just have to wait.
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Originally Posted by bitequator
P.S. Does Plastic work on QVGA?
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Nope.
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05-08-2005, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by bitequator
Does Plastic work on QVGA?
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It doesn't even show up in the skin chooser on my iPaq, so I'm guessing no  .
I think it's because this skin is made of png files whereas skin files for previous versions of WMP (at least the skins I've seen) are composed of bmps and jpgs.
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05-08-2005, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ctmagnus
I think it's because this skin is made of png files whereas skin files for previous versions of WMP (at least the skins I've seen) are composed of bmps and jpgs.
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Nah. It's because the SKN file has been strictly hardcoded to work only with VGA devices in the portrait display mode.
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05-08-2005, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Nah. It's because the SKN file has been strictly hardcoded to work only with VGA devices in the portrait display mode.
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So how does that work? I tried dividing all location numbers (in the skn file) by two, rounding all odd numbers off, but it still won't open.
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05-08-2005, 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by ctmagnus
So how does that work? I tried dividing all location numbers (in the skn file) by two, rounding all odd numbers off, but it still won't open.
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Are you using WMP9 for WM2003 or WM2003SE? If it's the former, it doesn't support different display modes, so you need to scrap the [ Description ] header and its contents. You'll also need to have the graphics resized to fit a QVGA display.
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05-08-2005, 08:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Anything better than WMP10 for PPC?
I've been using WMP10 on my i-mate Jam pretty much since I bought it in December. However, it does have some drawbacks compared to my hard disk player.
One thing that really bugs me is that there appears to be no way to sort songs in the library into alphabetical order. In fact I can't even determine how the song list is sorted.
The 'shuffle' mode also appears to be on some kind of 'fixed' random rather than truly random setting which is not user adjustable. If I start from a particular song then I always get the same songs in shuffle order.
In fact, all in all, pretty much standard MS dross.
Is there anything better out there??????
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05-08-2005, 08:45 AM
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Re: Anything better than WMP10 for PPC?
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Originally Posted by biglouis
Is there anything better out there??????
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and PocketMusic are two popular replacements. To name a couple of other players, there is the freely available MortPlayer or GSPlayer.
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Linear Mode
