Voodoo Player

Equipped with Voodoo Player, you with easy can:

play over 30 multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD and DivX.

seek in the media, rewind and fast-forward.

change sound volume and balance.

watching playing media position and duration.

switch to full-screen mode and back to windowed mode.

adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and HUE.

change playing rate from normal to slowest or fastest.

step through a video as slowly as one frame at a time.

create screen-shots to file otherwise to clipboard.

see current time.

zoom movie and change aspect ratio.

change internal components(filters) properties.

create play lists, search by name, sort by duration/size/path or randomly.

extended features for playlist: "shuffle" and "jump".

set bookmarks.

view subtitles.

attach addinitional sound files (translation).

see detailed information(as which video codec used, file size, avi tags, which audio codec used, and more) about video file.

How to open video file
There are number of ways to open video:
  1. You can click "^" button, select file you want to play, then press OK.
  2. You can press F3, select file you want to play, then press OK.
  3. You can drag file from explorer window and drop it to player. If you drop file on video area currently playing media will be immediately stopped and new file is loaded.
      If you drop file on playlist area it will be added to the end of playlist.
  4. You can double-click to video file to start playing immediately. This option is available after registering file types.

How to switch to full screen mode
You can use player in windowed or full-screen mode.

To switch between these options you can press Enter, or click by middle mouse button on the video.

How to control sound volume
You can adjust sound volume by rolling mouse wheel. The same action can be done by pressing Up and Down arrow keys on the keyboard.
You can set desired audio level by clicking directly on sound volume slider.

Also you can quickly switch sound off by pressing M on keyboard.

How to seek in a video
You can seek to the desired playback just by clicking on the position slider.
Also you can do it from keyboard by Left and Right arrow keys. Key Backspace will remind video to the begin. Key Space will set video to pause.

Video color control
When playing video you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and HUE by the following keyboard shurtcuts:

Numpad "+" and "-" - color brightness.

Ctrl + Numpad "+" and "-" - color contrast

Alt + Numpad "+" and "-" - color saturation

Shift + Numpad "+" and "-" - color HUE

Default keyboard shortcuts
You can easily change them in Preferences->Keyboard.

Player control:

Esc - close player

F3 - open file

F7 - search for DVD disk

/ - close file

Tilde(~) - hide/show control panel and mouse

P - show playlist

End - minimize player

A - stay on top of all windows

F1 - about Voodoo Player

I - file information

W - maximize

F10 - preferences menu

Playback control:

Space - toogle between Play and Stop

Backspace - Rewind to the begin of the video

Left/Right - rewind, forward by 3 second by default

Shift + Left/Right - rewind, forward by 30 seconds by default

Ctrl + Left/Right - rewind, forward by one frame

Sound control:

Up/Down - change audio level

M - sound on/off

Video Control:

Enter - switch full-screen mode on/off

Home - resize window to original movie size and move it to screen center

+/- - zoom video

1, 2, 3 - aspect ratio: FullScreen, WideScreen and Stretched

F11 - screenshot to a file

F12 - screenshot to clipboard

Playlist control:

PgUp, PgDn - play previous or next by list

Insert - add file(s) to playlist

Shift+Insert - add folder to playlist

Shift+Delete - clear playlist

Ctrl+Home - sort playlist

Delete - delete from playlist

S - shuffle feature

J - jump feature

See Preferences->Keyboard "Action" drop-down list for more shorcuts.

v1.0 build 211 RC2:

Added:

· General: 'Screenshot to file' function: text under video which contains name of saved screenshot file. (Vortex)

Changed/updated/upgraded/improved:

· Playback: Don't set window to screen center when you back from fullscreen mode. (Vortex)
· Internal: More comments to source code. (Vortex)

Fixed:

  · Playback: A bug when movie is loaded, and you did open your cd-rom, movie will close. (Vortex)
  · Playback: A bug when you return from fullscreen, main window being have invalid height. (Vortex)
  · UI: A bug when you press "~" and main window moves to bottom approximate at 8 points(actually only for first press of "~", following keypresses of "~" don't affected main window). (Nickolay)
  · General: 'Screenshot to file' function: current movie time in filename was wrong. (Vortex)

- Public release.

v1.0 build 200 RC 1:

Added:
  · General: DVD Support. (Nikolay)
  · General: Partial Unicode Support. (Vortex)
  · General: Autosave feature. Saving following values: Audio level on program shutdown, playlist opened/closed status and playlist height. (Vortex)
  · General: Drag'n'Drop. (Vortex)
  · General: Memory usage optimization. (Vortex)
  · Preferences: Tabs has been redesigned. (Vortex)
  · Preferences: New keyboard shortcuts(*Original size*, *Search for DVD disk*, Dvd menu control, *Move window to screen center with default w/h*). (Vortex, Nikolay)
  · Preferences: New tab - "Playlist". (Vortex)
  · Preferences: New tab - "Events". (Vortex)
  · Preferences: New option for "On load file" groupbox - "Disable screensaver". (Vortex)
  · Preferences: New options for "On load file" groupbox - "Seek to last playing position". (Vortex, Nikolay)
  · Preferences: New button - Reset to default. (Vortex)
  · Preferences: New option for "File association" - "DVD Autorun". (Vortex)
  · Preferences: "On playlist end" now works by purpose. (Vortex)
  · Preferences: Ability to set color for overvideo text. (Vortex)
  · Playlist: Shuffle. (Vortex)
  · Playlist: Hints for playlist elements which shows full path to movie file. (Vortex)
  · Playlist: "^" and "v" buttons now workable. (Vortex)
  · Playlist: Now you can copy selected line to clipboard. (Vortex)
  · Video: Now works "Screenshot to file" and "Screenshot to clipboard" functions. (Nikolay)
  · UI: Total movie time. (Vortex)
  · UI: Partial multilanguage support. (Vortex)
  · UI: Progress bar. (Vortex)
  · Etc: Logo on player center screen when no movie loaded. (Nikolay, logo by Kula)
  · Etc: This, ReadMe.html, file. (Vortex)

Changed/updated/upgraded/improved:

  · Playback: Code for imagery text when volume/brightness/etc changed is rewritten. (Nikolay)
  · Playback: Returned ability to change aspect ratio. (Nikolay)
  · Playback: Immediately cursor showing/hiding when control panel was opened/hided. (Vortex)
  · Playback: The "^" will no more stop current video. (Vortex)
  · General: "File Types" now works correctly. (Vortex)
  · Etc: Move main voodoo player window to screen center by default(if "Remember window state" not checked). (Vortex)
  · Etc: Now you can choice more than one file in "Open dialog". (Vortex)
  · Etc: Minor usability changes. (Vortex)

Fixed:

  · Playback: Bug with cursor hiding in fullscreen mode. (Nikolay)
  · Playback: "Stop video" was working a little wrong. (Vortex) /* Thanks to Nathanmx for reporting this */
  · Playlist: Problems with resizing and buttons align. (Nikolay)
  · General: Problems when Voodoo Player was loaded with deleted VP.xml. (Vortex) /* Thanks to Colin for reporting this */
  · General: Problem with detecting what kind of click of mouse has been made: single or double... (Vortex)
  · General: *File information* wasn't properly work if path to movie file contains Russian(and, may be, others) charset symbols. (Vortex)
  · General: Stability fixes. (Vortex)
  · General: Some wheel options for mouse tab was work incorrectly. (Vortex)
  · General: Twinkling when application resizing. (Vortex)
  · General: Brigthness/Saturation/Contrast cannot be changed(sorry guys, just old code has not been updated). (Vortex)

- Public Release.

v1.0 build 93 Beta 2:

Added:

  · Text to show current volume/brightness/contrast/saturation percent and seek time over video.
  · New option for Preferences->Keyboard settings: 'Increase/Decrease HUE'.
  · Unabling to load non-video files (dirty method used =P).

Changed/updated/upgraded/improved:

· From now moving window in fullscreen mode is unable.

Fixed:

  · Bug in system requirements checking.
  · Typo in "On load file" group box. /* Thanks to "Colin" for reporting this. */
  · "Resize on movie bounds" was not calculate form caption and control panel height size to proper resize.
  · Aspect ratio wasn't work. /* Thanks to "Colin" for reporting this. */
  · Problem with erasing of VP.xml on player shutdown.

- Public release.