The Playback page at Ribbon bar is grouping all buttons that controls playback features of Sprintbit Media Player
Play
This is master playback start button. It starts the playback of selected file.
A few of software features have its own playback buttons included as well but you can use all of them interchangeably.
To start the playbacks select a file in one of the following windows and click the button to play.
| • | File Browser |
| • | Media Player |
| • | Bookmark's List |
| • | Scheduler's playlist |
| • | Daily Scheduler's list |
Notes:
Some of software features allows starting the playback by simply selecting a file and hitting on Enter key on your keyboard.
The master play button will always play a file in whole regardless of the file origin. For example if you select a file to play in Bookmarks then the file will be
played from the beginning anyway. To play file as the Bookmarks are set use Bookmarks play button instead.
Also if you select a file to play in Scheduler then the file playback will start immediately regardless of scheduled time.
If you start the playback of a file selected in File browser then it will start to play files in the order as is set on the Main Media Player window.
Pause
Pause the playback
Stop
Stop the playback.
Previous
Next
Play previous or next file from a selected playback source.
If you have previously started playback from:
| • | File Browser, then player will look for a file to play in the File Browser. |
| • | Playlist, then player will look for a file to play in currently selected playlist. |
| • | Bookmark list, then player will look for a file to play in the bookmark list or move to the previous bookmark in the list if no file is assigned. |
| • | Scheduler's playlist, then player will look for a file to play at Scheduler's playlist. |
| • | Daily Scheduler, then player will look for a file to play at its list or move to previous file if playlist was started by Daily Scheduler |
| • | Media Player, then player will look for a file to play in media player list |
Rewind
Forward
These buttons rewinds or forwarding the playback to a new position about 10% further from current position.
Note:
If Bookmarks system is working then after rewinding or forwarding a playback of file might stop if a new playback position is
out of the bookmark's time range.
Viewers Menu
Statistics
Click on this button to open Playback Statistics, a feature for keeping the statistics of software playback
Picture Viewer
Click on this button to open Picture Viewer, a feature for viewing image files on your computer
File Browser
Click on this button to show or hide File Browser window
Lyrics
Click on this button to show or hide Lyrics window
Pictures
Click on this button to show or hide Pictures window
File Searcher
Click on this button to open File Searcher, a feature for searching files on your computer
CDDB Database
Click on this button to open CDDB Database, a feature for obtaining information about audio CD from Internet database
Players
Main
Click on this button to open Main Media Player, a feature for playing media files and playlists
Video
Click on this button to open Video Player, a feature for playing video files
Full Screen
Click on this button to open Full Screen Video Player, a feature for playing media files in full screen mode
Standalone
Click on this button to open Standalone Media Player, a feature for playing media files in a small standalone window
Internet Playback
Click on this button to open Internet Playback Playlist, a window where you can setup the items for playing internet stream
Schedulers
Daily Scheduler
Click on this button to open Daily Scheduler, a feature for scheduling files to play daily in a given time
Scheduler
Click on this button to open Scheduler, a feature for scheduling simple media playback at given time
Bookmarks
Click on this button to open Standalone Media Player, a feature for playing a part of media files
Video:
Zoom In
This button zooming in the video screen, after you use it the fit mode will be set to Fixed (see more about fit modes below)
Zoom Out
This button zooming out the video screen, after you use it the fit mode will be set to Fixed (see more about fit modes below)
Full Screen
Click on this button to open and play selected video file in a Full Screen Mode
If no file is selected to play then a blank full screen window with visible toolbar will be opened.
Later you can use full screen window toolbar commands to open and play files as well.
Video screen fit modes:
Here you can select how the video screen will be resized to fit video player window bounds.
Original
The video will be played with video original size
Fit
Video will be resized to fit entire video player window. The video will be resized proportionally.
Clip
If a video original size is bigger the video player window then video will be resized to fit into a video player window otherwise it will be played in its original size.
Fixed
The video size will be calculated accordingly to the last set Zoom In or Zoom Out size. Calculations are done in percent so the size of video screen may vary.
For example if you have played some video and used zoom command then the video is zoomed in or out, in about 5 percent of its original size anytime you click.
If you start play next video then the video will be resized to last calculated size.
These settings applies to the main video player and Full Screen video player as well, however for Full Screen video player they may be overridden
by setting specified in General Options
Picture:
These buttons works with main Picture Viewer and Pictures viewer for images associated with media files.
However the main picture Viewer when active has the priority over other viewers.
Zoom In
This button zooming in the picture on Picture Viewer window
Zoom Out
This button zooming in the picture on Picture Viewer window
Tools
Full Screen
Click on this button to open and view selected picture file in a Full Screen Mode
If no file is selected to view then a blank full screen window with visible toolbar will be opened.
Later you can use full screen window toolbar commands to open and view files as well.
Start Slideshow
Start the pictures slideshow. You can select the first picture to show in File browser or select a picture from PPL playlist.
This command will show all the pictures in selected folder or in all PPL playlists listed whenever.
Pause Slideshow
Pauses previously started slideshow
Start Slideshow
Stops the pictures slideshow
Picture screen fit modes:
Here you can select how the pictures will be resized to fit picture viewer window bounds.
Original
The picture will be shown with original size
Fit
Picture will be resized to fit entire picture viewer window. The picture will be resized proportionally with aspect ratio preserved.
Clip
If a picture original size is bigger the picture viewer window then picture will be resized to fit into a picture viewer window otherwise it will be shown in its original size.
Mute
Mutes the currently used audio device
Equalizer
Click on this button to open playback Equalizer window
Effects
Click on this button to open Playback Effects window