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4.1.2.1 Main menu

The menu button will show the main menu of the player. Here, you can control practically the whole application:

Audio, video and subtitles
See Configuring playback pipelines.
Chapters
../img/player_chapters.png

Chapters in gmerlin are just seekpoints with optional labels. If an input plugin supports chapters (e.g. of DVDs), gmerlin will make them available through the chapter menu.

Visualizations
../img/player_vis.png

If the upper menu item is enabled and the video window isn't used otherwise, Visualizations will be turned on. The audio stream of an Audio/video track can be visualized by disabling the video stream of that file (See Configuring playback pipelines).

Then you can set some plugin-independent options ../img/config_16.png and finally the plugin itself ../img/plugin_16.png . The menu for visualization plugin works exactly the same as for output plugins (See Configuring playback pipelines).

Windows
../img/player_windows.png

Here, you can show or hide the Log window, the Track info window and the Media tree.

Options
../img/player_options.png

Here, you can set Preferences ../img/config_16.png , configure Input plugins ../img/plugin_16.png , select skins or configure the Keyboard daemon.

Commands
../img/player_commands.png

Here you have some commonly used commands. The good news about the shortcuts is, that they work in the media tree and in the video window as well.

Only exception are the shortcuts, which map to ASCII-characters (Pause and Seek to start), they don't work in the media tree and in albums.

Use this menu as a quick-help for all global shortcuts.

Accessories
../img/player_accessories.png

Here, you can conventiently fire up some other gmerlin applications like the GUI Transcoder, the Visualizer and the Alsamixer.