Can I "improve" the Looks of Xine-ui's Menus OR Can I Setup Gxine to Perform as Well as Xine-ui?

hello to another mailing list!

first of all, xine-ui is the best performing video player on my old 
laptop. great and thanks to many people over the years...

this post contains 2 questions.

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1.)
skinning is not to hard, but i would like to change the looks of the 
right-click menu, tooltips and setup dialog.
the skin resembles my gtk-style (i like to use pixelfonts) but the right 
click menu does not fit in.
now i found this file: /usr/local/share/doc/xitk/README
which gives me a blueprint for a xitkrc that will allow me to influence 
the looks a little.
it does something when i put it in the appropriate folder - but never 
what i intended. the colors change, but seemingly randomly. the example 
provided says "almost green" but in fact it's blue. i don't know what 
the proper syntax is. the font never changes. does anybody know anything 
about this ancient, hidden toolkit?

[excerpt from the file: "colors can be: pixel color value, tripled value 
or named colors (see widget.c)" - i don't know what the first two mean, 
but i looked up widget.c and it uses names like "maroon" or "peach", but 
i never managed to get anything maroon-colored with that. i also tried 
this common format: #232e29 and also this: 231,210,176 - always checking 
what the actual color is, but it never comes out that way. "black" seems 
to be the only one working.]

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2.)
i have also tried gxine, but it doesn't perform as well as xine-ui. 
there seem to be, depending on the video, little freezes every 10 
seconds or so. no frames are dropped, but the following frames come 
faster as if wanting to catch up with the timeline.
aren't they using the same engine? is it possible to move the settings 
of xine-ui to gxine?

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any help is appreciated. thanks in advance.

ps: where can i find/share xine-ui-skins?
pps: is it possible to load .srt-subtitles with xine-ui?

daniel


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