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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
<class>HelpDialog</class>
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<string><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, cursive'; font-size:16pt;">WebPhonon User Manual</span></p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon is a fully functional cross-platform multimedia player that is available for Windows and Linux.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">Features:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon uses the Phonon Multimedia framework developed by the KDE development team. By itself WebPhonon does not do any decoding or provide codecs for media files. It uses whatever video playback backend available on the Operating system that the Phonon framework supports. Currently, it uses DirectShow on Windows, QuickTime on MacOS and Gstreamer on Linux.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon also has capabilities for reading media urls stored in a MySQL database as well as streaming media using HTTP over a network and can therefore work as media client for an existing media server.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">Installing WebPhonon:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; font-weight:600;">Windows: </span><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon is distributed as a zip archive called WebPhonon.zip available at this site: </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">To install this unzip the archive using Windows explorer or WinRAR to a location of your choice. To run WebPhonon just double click on the executable file WebPhonon.exe</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; font-weight:600;">Linux:</span><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> </span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; font-style:italic;">Ubuntu/Debian:</span><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> WebPhonon is available on an Ubuntu PPA </span><a href="https://launchpad.net/~aaron-zakhrov/+archive/webphonon-git"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; text-decoration: underline; color:#000080;">https://launchpad.net/~aaron-zakhrov/+archive/webphonon-git</span></a></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Users on Ubuntu and distributions based on Ubuntu can add the PPA to their software sources and install WebPhonon from their package managers.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Debian users can download the .deb file that matches their architecture (i386 for 32 bit systems or amd64 for 64 bit systems) and launch it in their package manager.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; font-style:italic;">Installing from Source:</span><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> WebPhonon is available as a source archive at </span><a href="https://github.com/Zakhrov/WebPhonon"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif'; text-decoration: underline; color:#000080;">https://github.com/Zakhrov/WebPhonon</span></a> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">To build and install WebPhonon you will need the Qt and Phonon development libraries already installed on your system.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">First unzip the downloaded source archive and open a command line prompt at the extracted folder.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Then run the following commands:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono, serif';">mkdir build</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono, serif';">cd build</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono, serif';">qmake ..</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono, serif';">make</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Then run the following command as root or sudo:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono, serif';">make install</span></p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">After installation WebPhonon should show up in your applications menu like so:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/menu.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">WebPhonon UI Overview:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">This is the main WebPhonon window:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/image02.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">It has a main toolbar that holds all the media playback, file handling and database management controls. It also has a seek slider and a volume slider. Apart from those controls it has a table for viewing files currently queued and a text field for entering a url for a media stream.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">Playing local media files:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">To play a media file stored locally on the hard drive, either click the </span><img src=":/help/helpimages/image03.png" /> <span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">icon or go to File-&gt;Open-&gt;local file in the File menu. A new dialog box will pop up where you can select the media file. WebPhonon will let you open more than one file at a time.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">This is the open file dialog:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/image04.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Once the file is selected, you can either press the “Enter” key or click on Open and the file will play automatically. Depending on the video resolution, WebPhonon will scale the video to the maximum size it can within the confines of the main window.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/image05.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">You can scale the video higher by hiding the url bar and the playlist table by clicking on the </span><img src=":/help/helpimages/image07.png" /><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> icon or going to Database-&gt;Hide table.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">This is how the window usually looks without the table or Url bar</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/image06.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">Playing URLs and media streams:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon can also play media streams over the HTTP protocol. Right now, this does not include Youtube URLs or links from other Youtube-like sites. This is because, by default Youtube links are dynamic PHP pages that include their own flash player which cannot be read by WebPhonon.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">To play a stream click on the </span><img src=":/help/helpimages/image09.png" /><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> icon or go to File-&gt;Open-&gt;Http Stream.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">The Url bar will the appear, type or paste the url into the url bar and then click on the launch button. Once the launch button is clicked, the url bar is automatically hidden.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'Energon Oblique, serif';">Playing from a database:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">WebPhonon can read media file paths stored in a MySQL database. To load data from a database click the </span><img src=":/help/helpimages/image08.png" /><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> icon. This will pop up the following dialog:</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><img src=":/help/helpimages/image10.png" /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Here you have to enter the database hostname (if your database is on the same computer as WebPhonon this will be localhost), your database name the user name and password and the table name. These details can be given to you by your database/network administrator.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Once all the information has been entered, click on OK to load the database or Cancel to drop the changes.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';">Once the database has been loaded, click on the </span><img src=":/help/helpimages/image00.png" /><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Serif, serif';"> icon or go to File-&gt;Open-&gt;From Database to play the media from the database.</span></p></body></html></string>
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