SkinSpace
Classic Windows Media Player skins & visualizers for VLC (skins2) - fan port, starting with the legendary 'Headspace'
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 98%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- fan-project
- projectm
- skins
- skins2
- visualizer
- vlc
- +2 more
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Partial The skin UI and visualizers can be prototyped with AI help, but porting Windows Media Player skins into VLC's skins2 module means working inside VLC's C++ internals and matching the WMP skin format.
What it would actually take: The work requires reading and modifying VLC's skins2 C++ codebase, parsing the classic WMP skin format (XML plus bitmap assets), and implementing a visualizer rendering pipeline. It needs C++ and VLC internals familiarity and a lot of pixel-level testing against the original skins.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #147 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 212 days after the earliest competitor.
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