Video Player Tab¶

The Video Player tab controls settings for the integrated Video Player. You invoke the Video Player when you double-click a video in the Video Catalog window or play from a scene in the Video Scenes panel.

NOTE: If you can't find the player, ensure that 'Video Player' is active by looking in the View menu.

Use MPV player instead of Internal player window -- Check this to use the external MPV video player instead of a build in player in the video window. When using MPV you can start and seek in the video using the thumbnails but some features are not available like the support of encrypted videos. MPV is also not part of the layout so the window position is not saved, if using MPV its probably best to have it full screen on its own screen. MPV supports a lot of features and can be heavily customized.

Use MPV player when holding down the ALT key -- With this open the program will check if the ALT key is pressed when starting a video. If ALT is down the mpv video player will be used for that video.

Video Start Offset - this is where the movie starts in seconds from the video's real beginning. Typically, this is a few seconds into the movie.

Some videos stall if played from the start because they have a bad first couple of frames. Video Start Offset is set to 4 seconds by default.

Video player to use -- This is an advanced setting that you should not have to touch unless you have problems playing a video in Fast Video Cataloger. The integrated Video Player can use three different Windows APIs to play videos, which the drop-down-list allows you to choose combinations from.

Best - Will try the integrated safe codecs first, then it will do a smart connect with other different video renderers. This has the highest chance of playing the video, but it can cause the program to crash if codecs are badly configured on the computer.

Smart connect VMR9 -- Use DirectShow's smart connect to play the video; i.e. it will try to search all codecs installed on your computer in their merit order to try to play the video and then render using Microsoft's Video Mixing Renderer 9 technology.

Smart connect VMR7 -- Use DirectShow's smart connect to play the video; i.e. it will try to search all codecs installed on your computer in their merit order to try to play the video and then render using Microsoft's Video Mixing Renderer 7 technology.

Smart connect EVR -- Use DirectShow's smart connect to play the video; i.e. it will try to search all codecs installed on your computer in their merit order to try to play the video and then render using Microsoft's Enhanced Video Renderer.

Direct -- Will only play the video with integrated codecs. This is the safest option but might not work for videos requiring some exotic codecs.

Direct + MadVR -- Will only play the video with integrated codecs but using the MadVR video renderer. This requires MadVR to be installed.

Direct, NoSound -- Will only play the video with integrated codecs and will not connect the sound stream. This is the safest option and usually the fastest playback.

Stretch video -- When ticked, the video will stretch to fill the whole Video Player screen, in conformity with its aspect ratio. If this is not checked, the video will only be played at its actual size.

Restart from Thumbplay -- This is a compatibility option for some video codecs. Try this option if you have an issue with playing videos from thumbnails. Keep unchecked otherwise.

Resume on Thumbplay -- If the video is paused and you select a thumbnail, the video will play from that thumbnail.

Hide on change video -- Whenever a new video is selected, the video player window is hidden to give more space for other windows.

For each video in this folder -- When you play a video in this folder, remap the path to the path supplied in "Also try playing from here" (below).

Also try playing from here -- Remap videos from "For each video in this folder" (above) to the folder specified by the path entered here.

Autohide buttons -- Hide Video Player control buttons when the mouse cursor has been still for a few seconds.

Fast custom playback speed -- This option is a custom playback speed factor (1.0 being normal, 2 -- double speed, 0.5 half speed). This option will be a menu option in the video player speed dropdown.

Slow custom playback speed -- This option is a custom playback speed factor (1.0 being normal, 2 -- double speed, 0.5 half speed). This speed will be a menu option in the video player speed dropdown.

Default playlist clip time -- When adding a clip to a video playlist, this is the clip's length from where it is added.