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Overview
In this section all the plackback screens with their elements and functions are explained.
Controls
The controls consist of buttons and the progress bar. The buttons are only visible, if they offer a functionality. If e.g. a media is not able to foreward, the corresponding button is also not shown.
Player
Buttons controlling directly the media plackback.
| Play | Plays the media item |
| Pause | Only visible during playback - pauses the playback |
| Stop | Stops the playback |
| Previous | Only visible if not first item and > 1 items existing - jumps to previous item |
| Next | Only visible, if not the last item and > 1 items existing - jumps to the next item |
| Foreward | Forewarding, multiple presses increase the speed |
| Backward | Backwarding, multiple presses increase the speed |
The full overview of key binding for the described functions be found in the chapter Input devices. The keybinding can be changed any time by usage of the Input Device Manager.
During playback, there are additional control buttons appearing for mouse users when focusing the right or left area of the screen.
Left Area:
- "<" InstantSkipBackward
- "<<" SkipStepBackward
Right Area:
- ">" InstantSkipForward
- ">>" SkipStepForward
The instant skip and skip steps can be configured in settings > players.
Functions
Function buttons related to the current media.
| Eject Disc | For disc media - ejects the disc |
| Menu | For disc media - navigates to the root menu |
| Chapter | Opens a dialog to select a chapter |
| Settings | Opens a setting dialog |
| Info | Opens the info screen for the current media item |
| Subtitle | Provides a list of subtitles for selection |
| Audio | Toggles audio and provides a list of audio tracks for selection, if > 1 track present |
General
Navigation buttons.
| Back | Navigates to the previous screen |
| Exit | Exits MediaPortal 2 directly |
Progress Bar
The progress bar is located between the player and function keys. It provides the total duration and the progressed time on top of the indicator.
Mouse users may jump to any position directly by pressing at the targeting position in the progress bar. The current playback position indicator can not be dragged and moved over the timeline with playback.
Playback Current Item
MediaPortal 2 has reserved the bottom right corner to always show the playback controls for the current item independ from which screen you visit. This is a huge advantage for e.g. mouse or tablet users, because they can always control the current playback and toggle back to full screen playback while using MediaPortal 2 elsewhere.
PiP Playback
PiP (Picture in Picture) works with basically all media types. This means, that you can watch / listen to two media sources (audio, video, TV) at once, while one is shown in full screen (primary player) and the other is shown in a small PiP window (secondary player). In case of TV this means, that you can watch 2 channels at once (e.g. so as not to miss when a program restarts after advertisement).
PiP examples with controls
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You can switch between the players by selecting the focusable PiP window (remote/mouse/keyboard) or just the the "Red" button (or the button mapped to it) on your remote. To watch the primary player, while listening to the audio of the secondary player, enable (unmute) audio with the mute button on the secondry, audio from the primary player will be automatically muted.
See also → PiP functionality with Live-TV.
Video Playback
This section covers playback of movies, series or every other video item.
The OSD in the bottom of the screen slides in/out when pressing
- Keyboard: Menu
- Mouse: Right click
- Remote: Info
The OSD shows the media information and thumbnail (if present). Addtionally it offers player controls:
- Player buttons as play, pause, stop, forward ...
- Progress bar with start/end time and current time
- Menu button
- Info screen
- Chapter & chapter up/down buttons
- Subtitles
- Audio button to select track & volume up/down buttons
- Navigate to previous page
- Close MediaPortal 2
Audio Playback
The screen shows fanart in the background (if present).
According to the audio levels a dynamic spectrum analyzer animating the playback additonaly. → Deactivate the audio spectrum analyser
The OSD in the bottom right shows when pressing
- Keyboard: Menu
- Mouse: Right click
- Remote: Info
The OSD shows the media information and cover (if present) with spinning disc. Addtionally it offers player controls:
- Player buttons as play, pause, stop, forward ...
- Progress bar with current playback time
- Info screen
- Audio button to select track & volume up/down buttons
- Navigate to previous page
- Close MediaPortal 2
Image Playback
The OSD in the bottom right shows when pressing
- Keyboard: Menu
- Mouse: Right click
- Remote: Info
The OSD shows the media title. Addtionally it offers player controls:
- Player buttons as play, pause, stop, forward ...
- Info screen
- Audio button to select track & volume up/down buttons
- Navigate to previous page
- Close MediaPortal 2
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