M Player Skins?




OK I give up, I have tried every which way I can interpret the
following instructions to get a new skin into MPlayer.

Can somebody please translate the following into coherent English for
me

STEP6: Installing a GUI skin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Unpack the archive and put the contents in
/usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named
default
of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told
otherwise
via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin
subdirectory or
make a suitable symbolic link."

Wherever I put folders, whatever I call them I just get the default
blue skin and no options in the skin browser.

"unless told otherwise by the skin switch"

How do you tell it otherwise and what is the skin switch.

Sorry to rant but its driving me mad?

TIA

Jonah
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