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Phantom Player is conceived to reproduce and organize lists of videos from a hard-drive.

Some of its major features are:

• Play lists of videos in order or randomly (without repeating videos).
• Remember the last played playlist, and the videos progress.
• Organize the play order.
• Hide videos or files.
• Automatically discover new/renamed/moved videos.
• Set a start/end time to skip the introduction/credits.
• Set the default audio/subtitle track.
• Turn off the screensaver while playing.
• Keep playing mode.
• Rename videos.
• and more...

Reproducing videos directly form the hard-drive.

It is possible to simply play a video directly from the hard-drive:

1. With the desktop interface right-click > open with > Phantom-Player
2. With a command phantom-player --open-file='/path/to/file'

*If the video is in a playlist, the playlist will be selected.

Reproducing videos from torrents

When it comes to torrents, the most important is to do not modify the data to continue seeding. With this software, you can:

• Add a parent directory and create a recursive playlist.
• Add multiple directories to a play list.

And it will filter only the fully downloaded video files and display them nicely in the interface, and give you a streaming platform feeling.

Also, if there are multiple seasons, or you have many episodes to download, it will automatically discover the new videos.

Organizing videos of a hard-drive

The software is great for organizing data from a hard-drive.

For example, you can add the root directory of the hard-drive as a playlist path, and set it as recursive. The software will then scan the whole hard-drive and create a playlist with all the videos. This will allow you to:

• Identify all the videos (and their paths).
• Identify the duplicated videos.
• Rename the videos.

How to Install

NOTE: THE PLAYER IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, and the first stable version is not yet released more info.

1. Download the stable branch.

2. Install the dependencies:

   • Debian based distributions: apt-get install python3 python3-vlc python3-pil libgtk-3-0 gir1.2-webkit2-3.0.
   • ArchLinux: pacman -Suy python python-pillow python-magic webkit2gtk and from AUR python-vlc.

3. Execute the setup file.

*If the dependencies are satisfied, the software can be directly executed, the installation is not mandatory.
**When the stable version be released, there will be some packages for popular distributions & windows.

User Manual

The user manual is in progress. For the moment, here you can find some details about the controls & behavior.

Playlists menu

• Select a playlist with a single left-click.

• Keyboard shortcuts:

  • ctrl+o to open a file.
  • ctrl+f find/filter playlists by name.
  • ctrl+h hide/display missing playlists.
  • ctrl+n create a new playlist.

Videos menu

• Play a video with a double left-click.
• Open a video's menu with a right-click.
• Order the videos with drag and drop.
• Modify the columns to display by doing a right-click in the videos-list header.
• Resize the player by grabbing the separator with and moving it up or down.
• Keyboard shortcuts:
  • back to return to the playlists' menu.
  • ctrl+s open the settings menu.
  • ctrl+h hide/show missing videos.
  • ctrl+v Fill the progress of the selected (mark as viewed).
  • ctrl+u Reset the progress of the selected (mark as un-viewed).
  • ctrl+i ignore the selected videos.
  • ctrl+j un-ignore the selected videos.
  • ctrl+r rename the selected video.
  • ctrl+o open the directory of the selected video.
  • ctrl+d delete the selected video.
  • ctrl+l move the selected videos one place down.
  • ctrl+t move the selected videos one place up.

Media Player

• Controls:

  • Change the volume with the mouse wheel.
  • Fullscreen only:
    • Toggle Play/Pause with a left-click.

• Keyboard shortcuts:

  • F11 to set fullscreen.
  • Fullscreen only:
    • Esc to quit fullscreen.
    • up/down arrows to change the volume.
    • space bar or enter key to toggle play/pause.

*The media player controls only work if a video is loaded.

Extra

• All paths (and video names) containing the pipe | character will be excluded from the software.
• If a video has a *.srt file with the same name and same location, it will be used as default subtitles.
• It is not possible to remove videos while the playlist is loading/discovering videos.
• You shall not add partially downloaded files to the software since they break the hashing system. The software will automatically exclude *.part files, but if they do not have this extension, the software will not be able to detect that the file is incomplete.