help from you top skinners please
 

hello, i am in desperate need of a winamp skin any onld winamp skin - the thing is when it plays back a video clip i want just the clip - no border no edges just a square with the clip playing so i can intergrate it into my samurize skin im doing.

i dont care what the player is, as it wont be seen.
you could download any skin at all and chop it up as i can access the controls through samurize.

any help would be greatly appreciated i have no idea what i am doing.

i just want the video playback to be the clip and thats it i dont care what the rest looks like at all.

thanks alot for any help

You'd need a modern skin to do that.

*woooosh*

right ok thanks, how do i go about changing an exisiting modern skin then?
if only it was as easy as deletign the pngs.

thanks for your reply

Allright, let's see here. First, go into the winamp modern folder in skins, and go to the folder marked "window". Look at the file plwindow.png. That's the basic background image file for all the frames. It's the border for theplaylist editor, the Vis, Video, etc. What you would need to do is edit that file so that the frame is prettymuch just a thin black line. Then, in player-elements.xml, you'd need to find this section:

<bitmap id="player.pl.topleft" file="window/plwindow.png" x="0" y="0" h="5" w="6" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.topright" file="window/plwindow.png" x="58" y="0" h="5" w="6" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.topcenter" file="window/plwindow.png" x="20" y="0" h="5" w="10" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.left" file="window/plwindow.png" x="0" y="5" h="5" w="6" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.right" file="window/plwindow.png" x="58" y="5" h="5" w="6" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.bottomleft" file="window/plwindow.png" x="0" y="16" h="67" w="20" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.bottomright" file="window/plwindow.png" x="44" y="16" h="67" w="20" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>
<bitmap id="player.pl.bottomcenter" file="window/plwindow.png" x="30" y="58" h="25" w="10" gammagroup="Backgrounds"/>

For each of the x,y,h, w coords, you need to change them to fit your new frame.

Then open video-normal.xml from the xml folder, and look for this line:

groupdef id="video.frame.layout"

Beneath it, you'll find different layers that correspond to the bitmap ID's you've modified above. For each layer, you have to now tell winamp where these pieces go (because you've changed their sizes.)

Lastly, delete the tag:
<group id="video.buttons.group"/>

It's a pain in the ass, so I'd strongly recommend reading the standardframe tutorial by FrisbeeMonkey, it'll really explain what I'm trying to tell you.

You should also note that even when done correctly, this won't completely solve your problem. For one, doing this will change ALL the other component windows, but if you just want to rip winamp up, then that shouldn't be a problem. There's still going to be the titlebar at the top, but I'm positive that somebody else out there can help you get rid of that. Good luck!