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For questions or bugs, please create an issue on GitHub.

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.

Note:

• All paths (and playlist names) containing the pipe | character will be excluded.
• You shall not add partially downloaded files since they break the hashing system. Phantom Player will automatically exclude *.part files, but if they do not have this extension, it will not be able to detect them.

Videos menu

• Play a video with a double left-click.
• Open a video's menu with a right-click.
• 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.

Note:

• It is not possible to remove videos while the playlist is loading or discovering videos.

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.

Notes:

• If a video has a *.srt file with the same name and same location, it will be used as the default subtitle.
• The media player controls only work if a video is loaded

Extra

• The location of the program files is the following:
  • Configuration file: ~/.config/phantom-player.ini
  • Playlist files & icons: ~/.local/share/phantom-player/

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