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WHY LADYBUG PLAYER XP?

Shark in Lake Ladybug Player XP is a fast, ease-of-use, and high quality movie player. You can make one click to play VCD, watch AVI and MPEG movies on the windowless and fullscreen. You can watch and listen video music during web browsing. You can generate an attractive picture by snapping a frame from movie and make a transform with your psersonal picture. Finally, you can open multiple windows to play many movies at the same time.

WHAT ARE SPECIAL FEATURES OF LADYBUG PLAYER XP?

  • recognize many video formats
  • normal, windowless, fullscreen windows
  • video frame snap and store
  • arbitrary window size and position
  • watch picture files on XP
  • video picture composition (only for full version)
  • run for all windows (95, NT, 98, 2000, ME, XP)
  • customize playback and control
  • play multiple video simultaneously
  • set video view as top window

HOW TO PLAY VCD?

Insert VCD disk and click VCD button on NBar.
I CAN'T PLAY VCD ON MY CD-ROM, WHAT'S WRONG?

First make sure your CD-ROM/DVD can recognize the VCD format. You can copy a small file on your VCD to your hard disk. If it is not OK, your CD-ROM has trouble to recognize the VCD. Second make sure your VCD disk is fine.

CAN I PLAY VCD ON A DVD DRIVE?

It dependents on DVD drive. There are VCD on published CD, on CDR, and on CDRW. If you plan to play VCD in the CDR media, PIONEER DVD drive is a good selection. APEX and RAITE DVD drives can recognize CDR, CDRW, and VCD. SONY and PANASONIC DVD drives can not read the VCD that stored in the CDR media. However they can read VCD on the CDRW media. And they can read audio-only VCD.


HOW TO PLAY AVI/MPEG VIDEO IN FULLSCREEN WITH IE VIA BROADBAND?

  1. Launch Windows Explorer from Star/Programs.
  2. Click View/Options open option sheet and select File Types.
  3. Find Ladybug Files with details such as Extension: AVI; Content Type (MIME): video/avi; Open with: LBXPDEMO.
  4. Click Edit to open Edit File Type Window.
  5. In the Application used to perform action Edit box, fill the parameters such as "H:\Program Files\Ladybug Player XP Full\bin\LBXPDEMO.exe" "%1" /c "H:\Program Files\Ladybug Player XP Full\bin\LBXPCONF.ini". Where the first parameter is the LBXPDEMO.exe full path name; the "%1" represents the video file parameter; /c is the tag to use the initial customize file; the last parameter LBXPCONF.ini is the initial customize file.
  6. Set mode=fullscreen in the LBXPCONF.ini file to launch as fullscreen.
  7. Set autoexit=false in the LBXPCONF.ini file allows you leave the video screen opened. Press ESC key to exit the window.
  8. In similar way you can view other type of video in fullscreen.
  9. You can see the power of customization of Ladybug Player XP.
  10. This function allows users to watch movie in fullscreen through broadband.

HOW TO PLAY AVI?

Click the "Open File" button on the top-left of the control NBar and select the .avi file you want, click OK, the player will play automatically.

THERE IS ONLY AUDIO IN AVI VIDEO WHAT IS WRONG?

Click here to run and install a codec.

CAN I PLAY DivX VIDEO WITH LADYBUG PLAYER?

Yes. You need to install DivX codec at first. To download DivX codec Click here

HOW TO GET THE VIDEO CODEC?

Download and install codec then you can watch almost all the movies with Ladybug Player XP. Please Click here to download codec pack (7.5MB).


CAN I PLAY VOB VIDEO IN DVD?

Yes, if you have a DVD codec installed in Windows. The vob video is in the MPEG-2 video format with Dolby Digital sound. To open a vob file you can goto the folder with the vob files and input *.vob in the file open dialog box, then select one or more .vob files.

HOW TO SNAP A PICTURE FROM VIDEO?

Click the top right-most button and save the image in the Transform sheet.

CAN I RUN LADYBUG PLAYER XP ON A NOTEBOOK?

Absolutely. Your OS must be Windows95/98/2000/NT4/ME/XP.

DOES LADYBUG PLAYER XP WORK ON AMD AND OTHER X86 PROCESSORS?

wipe00 Sure. Ladybug Player XP is well done on Intel's processor. We and our customers have tested it on Intel's Cerlon, Pentium, Xeon, and Itanium processors. In addition, AMD's X86 processors are also very good to run Ladybug Player XP. The AMD's engineers have tested Ladybug Player on their processors without problems. Ladybug Player XP will work for other X86 compatible processors if they can run Windows Operating System.

HOW TO COMPOSE TWO PICTURES?
This is only available for full version of Ladybug Player. You can select to the transform table and click the Open button and open Image A or Image B. Then you need to select a transform and click the forward button (>>) to watch the transform animation.

HOW TO DOUBLE CLICK A .MPG FILE TO LAUNCH LADYBUG PLAYER?

Following operations tells you how to change .mpg file association to your LBXPDEMO.exe. Similarly you can replace Ladybug Player by other Player for default file association. 
Windows Explorer ->
  View -> 
    Options ->
      File Types -> Find "MPG File" and Select It
      Edit ->
        Edit File Types->
          Edit Button ->
            [Application used to perform action] -> 
            Input C:\Program Files\\
              Neatware Ladybug Player XP Demo\LBXPDEMO.exe "%1"
            to replace the old player.

HOW TO USE PLAYLIST?

To use playlist, first click new button to create a playlist title name, then select that title and click add button to add files into the playlist. You can add more than one video files in a folder by press SHIFT+Arrow key in the file open dialog.
HOW TO USE LADYBUG PLAYER XP AS A SLIDE SHOW PLAYER?

wipe02 LBXP can play avi video, mp3 music, and jpeg picture separately. In addition LBXP can also play these mixed video in sequence. By simply clicking the stop button or press the space key you can jump to watch another media. For example, you can play donkey.avi video, and pause to display dog.jpg picture, then play monkey.mpg video.

Select a set of media which could be any acceptable formats of LBXP from a folder. You can choose them with three methods in the open file dialog: (i)press CTRL key down and pickup file by left mouse button. (ii)press CTRL+SHIFT keys down and move the down arrow key. (iii)press CTRL+A to select all files.

After closing open file dialog, the media will start to play automatically. To jump to next media, you can click the stop button or press the space key. If the loop check button has been marked, the media will go forward in a loop.

A picture will stay to display on the screen forever if you do not press the stop button to go ahead. This feature allows us to select a series of pictures inbetween a group of video clips and pause a group of video playback automatically.


HOW TO SNAP A VIDEO FRAME AND GENERATE A SPECIAL EFFECT PICTURE?
  1. click transform button on the top-right when you watched the right frame.
  2. select transform sheet and a transform item such as fade or wipe.
  3. click >> button allows you to play a transform from 0 to 1.
  4. drag the tag of scale to choose the right picture.
  5. use open file B to select the second picture as composition.
  6. click save button to save the effect picture to a .png file.
  7. close transform to continue playback.

tips: fade and wipe are most widely used transforms. You may need do multipass and mixing of transforms to generate an attractive picture.


HOW TO LAUNCH MULTIPLE LADYBUG PLAYER XP SIMULTANEOUSLY BY ONE CLICK?

  1. The customiziation by command line in Ladybug Player XP is required.

    The typical command format is

    LBXPFULL.exe  ..\media\video\neat.avi  /c  .\LBXPCONF.ini

    The first parameter is the executable Ladybug Player.
    The second parameter is the full path of your video file.
    The third parameter /c is the id for access control file.
    The last parameter .\LBXPXCONF.ini is the configure file.

  2. Open an DOS Command Console from Start\Programs\Accessories\ and change folder to

    cd "C:\Program Files\Neatware\Ladybug Player XP Full\bin"

  3. To launch suppose three videos at the same time just copy following lines and save them into a .bat file such as three.bat. 

    start LBXPDEMO.exe  ..\media\video\neat0.avi  /c  .\LBXPCONF0.ini
start LBXPDEMO.exe  ..\media\video\neat1.avi  /c  .\LBXPCONF1.ini
start LBXPDEMO.exe  ..\media\video\neat2.avi  /c  .\LBXPCONF2.ini

  4. So one click on three.bat you can launch three Ladybug Player XP simultaneously.

    By using different LBXPCONF.ini file you can control windows size, position and control. Moreover, you can launch Ladybug Player XP for multiple monitors.

Refer to Customize page for more details. There are sample .ini files and a .bat file available.
HOW TO DISPLAY TWO VIDEOS ON TWO MONITORS?

Support the resolution of your both monitors are 1024x768. You can set the (orgx, orgy) to (0, 0) in the first .ini file; and the (orgx, orgy) to (1025, 0) in the second .ini file. Therefore two videos will be displayed on two screens.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LADYBUG PLAYER AND LADYBUG PLAYER VISTA?

Ladybug Player XP can run on all Windows even on Windows 95 and NT. It does not require any programmable GPU support.

Ladybug Player Vista requires programmable GPU supports to demonstrate the power of visual effects (FX).
How to watch Youtube HD video in Ladybug Player XP?

New version Ladybug Player XP 2.6 can play MP4 video in Youtube. You can do in following:

  1. Download and install Firefox here
  2. Install Firefox Add-On Download YouTube Videos in HD and MP4 1.0 here
  3. Goto Youtube page you'll see download MP4 and download HD MP4 link.
  4. Right click mouse button on the link and select Copy Link item
  5. In Ladybug Player click Open File button on the top-left, paste Copy Link to file name box.
  6. Click OK button and wait video to download.
  7. After download Ladybug Player is going to play video automatically.

Why Ladybug Player XP is good for dual monitor?

Unlike most players Ladybug Player separates its view and control. Therefore you can set video in preview monitor and control bar in control monitor. You may watch video on the screen of projector and control video's playback in your laptop. It is good for video presentation.



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