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v5 PNG Skin

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I love bleeding edge tech. But with it of course some early problems. Still, I also want to prep a skin so when v5 finally does come out, I'll be good to go on my site the way I want it to look.

How do you load the skin.xml? Is it just a direct replacement instead of the old swf skin? (e.g. flashvars.skin = "http://domain.com/path/file.swf";)

I uploaded the example Silk skin and tried it out to no avail. But instead of it simply not working, my host actually ended up banning my IP because it logged an aggressive tcp connection to the host. I'm guessing it's the fact it tries to load so many PNGs at the same time?

This is what the admin told me regarding the lockout from my website: "The port flood was caused by your browser on port 80, it will block an IP if there are more than 20 connections to tcp port 80 within 5 seconds."

I'm hoping I'm just improperly loading the skin.xml and not stumbling onto another problem :P

Thank you in advance,

Nikita

jw? Anyone? :P

Hey thanks for the interest!

Right now we're still in the process of testing the v5 PNG Skin functionality and I couldn't give you exact instructions on developing your own.

However, once we've locked it down I'll be writing a tutorial on it, which I'll link to you here as soon as it's complete.

Hope that helps!

Bill

Thanks for the update, Bill.

If possible, please bump this thread when the functionality is built into the latest trunk. Can't wait to test it. :D

Didn't want to start up a new thread...

Is there a link to be able to download the PNGs for the skin Five? I see the fla and swf, but was wondering if you had the original PNGs zipped up somewhere.

Thanks in advance :)

Hi Nikita,

Here's some information on PNG skinning for JW5. You'll notice we also have a contest, but there's also links to the Skinning Guide and a sample skin.

Can't wait to see your skin!

Bill

I spent last weekend just tinkering with the Beelden skin and simply using Five as the base, only with color scheme to match my site. It's pretty much pixel-perfect (sans the 1 pixel off on the playlist (item.png).

Are capLeft and capRight required? I was trying to delete them from the XML and the skin refused to load. I had to leave it in and do a workaround, but ideally I'd like to get rid of certain elements without the player refusing to load?

Thanks again Bill and keep up the great work you all. :D

P.S. Didn't see any contest info yet, but my 'skin' is just more of a recolor for my site based on Five. ;)

Oops, here's a link I guess so you guys can see what I meant with the playlist.

http://imNikita.com/Video.html

Nikita,

The skin looks great! You should enter it into the Skin Contest (there's a link on the JW Player page)

I'm looking into the capLeft and capRight issue. You should conceivably be able to remove them from the XML and have the player work.

I'll take a look at the playlist thing, as well.

Bill

Nikita,

Still looking up the Playlist issue, but I've discovered the following:

- CapLeft
- CapRight
- VolumeSliderRail

are all elements that must be there, otherwise the skin won't load.

A simple workaround would be to make them 1px transparent PNGs, for the time being.