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User Manual

Index:

1. Playlists menu
2. Videos menu
3. Video Player
4. Command Line
5. Extra

Playlists menu

This menu allows users to create and visualize all the playlists, and to open a playlist, you can simply do a left-click on it.

How to create a playlist

1. Click Main menu > New Playlist or use the CtrlN shortcut.
2. In the general tab, fill the playlist name.
3. In the sources tab, use the add button to select a directory containing videos.
4. In the bottom of the window click the add button to save the playlist.

Remarks:

• All paths (and playlist names) containing the pipe | character will be excluded.
• The paths shall not contain partially downloaded files that do not have the *.part extension. This is crucial because such files will disrupt the hashing system used to recognize files.

Keyboard shortcuts

• CtrlN Create a new playlist.
• CtrlO Open a video.
• CtrlF Filter playlists by name.
• CtrlM Hide or Display missing playlists.
• CtrlH Hide or Display hidden playlists.

Videos menu

The videos menu allows to visualize all the content of a playlist, and to manage its settings.

Actions

• 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.

Remark: It is not possible to remove videos while the playlist is loading, or it is discovering new videos.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Backspace Go back to the playlists' menu.
• CtrlS Open the settings menu.
• CtrlH Hide or Show ignored videos.
• CtrlR Rename the selected video.
• CtrlO Open the directory of the selected video.
• CtrlV Fill the selected video's progress (mark them as viewed).
• CtrlU Reset the selected video's progress (mark them as un-viewed).
• CtrlI Ignore the selected videos.
• CtrlJ Un-ignore the selected videos.
• CtrlD Delete the selected videos.
• CtrlL Move the selected videos one row down.
• CtrlT Move the selected videos one row up.

Video Player

Actions

• Change the volume with the mouse wheel.
• Toggle Play/Pause with a left-click, but only in fullscreen.

Keyboard shortcuts

• F11 to set fullscreen.
• Fullscreen only:
  • Esc Quit fullscreen mode.
  • Up/Down Increase or Decrease the volume.
  • Spacebar or Enter Play or Pause the current video.

Remarks:

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

Command line

It is possible to start playing a video directly from the command line: phantom-player --open-file <file_path>

Extra

The location of the configuration files is the following:

• GNU-Linux

  • Configuration file: ~/.config/phantom-player.ini
  • Playlist files & icons: ~/.local/share/phantom-player/

• Windows

  • Configuration file: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\PhantomPlayer\phantom-player.ini
  • Playlist files & icons: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\PhantomPlayer\Playlists\