Ladybug Player 7.0 is a small, fast, and vivid media player.

Optimized for Windows 7, Ladybug Player can play many formats of media files, display Full HD (1080p) video in vivid and clarity, use the video hardware acceleration for Windows 7/Vista/XP from tiny Atom processors to powerful Core i7 processors.

Multiple Ladybug Player can display videos in windowless simultaneously on multiple screens or in the form of Picture-in-Picture (PinP). A SQL database file called .npm is used to customize and configure the player. Furthermore, Ladybug Player can support a netbook for video presentation by displaying control panel on netbook and video on projector.

Finally, the 2D ribbon Nbar and the simple playlist allow users to control and manage their media files easily. Ladybug Player is suitable for video applications on Netbook/Notebook, Embedded System, and Digital Signage Player.

The key features of Ladybug Player include

• Rich media format support

  Support almost all media formats as MP4, WMV, AVI, JPG, MP3

• Best for Windows 7 and Windows XP/Vista enabled

  Work best on Windows 7 and run on Vista, XP, 2000, 2003, 2008

• HD video with hardware acceleration

  Apply DXVA/DXVA2 to play Full 1080p HD video by hardware acceleration for Widnwos 7, Vista, 2008, XP

• Multi-player and multi-screen

  Multiple Ladybug Players 7 can be run simultaneously on multiple screens

• Movable windowless for zoning videos

  Display multiple videos on screen

• Customization by SQL database

  User can modify nwm database file to customize configuration and playback

• Video presentation support on netbook

  Media control panel on netbook and display video on projector

• Playlist for continuous playback

  Add, delete, and reorder media in playlist

Technologies

One technology used in the Ladybug Player is to access the hardware acceleration for video processing. Another technology is to implement the multiple player. Third technology is to use SQL database for player management.

This snapshot shows three Ladybug Player, one in fullscreen, another two in picture-in-picture on Windows 7.

GUI

Ladybug Player is consist of a control panel and a video viewer. The control panel called Nbar is a set of 2D ribbon buttons. The viewer can be windowless or window. The Nbar and viewer can be put on different monitors.

Mouse is a device to control media playback on viewer.

Double clicking the left mouse button on the viewer surface, the video can be resized from normal display to fullscreen or in reverse. User can also drop and move the view window to anywhere even if the view is in windowless.

Clicking the right mouse button on the viewer surface, user can show/hide Nbar.

Here is the Nbar snapshot.

The title bar displays the elapsed time of a video in the format hours : minutes : seconds. ms and the elapsed time vs the total duration in percentage.

There are four rows of control buttons.

• The first row includes Open, Step, and Settings buttons.

  Open button allows you to select mp4 video, mp3 audio, or jpg image from an Open File Dialog.

  Step button allows you to step forward video in one frame.

  Settings button allows you to set controls in more details. We are talking about the settings later.

• The second row includes Previous, Play/Pause, and Next buttons.

  Previous button allows you to go backward to the previous media in the playlist.

  Play/Pause button allows you to play or pause video. While video is playing, press this button will pause the playback. While video is paused, press this button is going to play the video again.

  Next button allows you to go forward to the next media in the playlist.

• The third row includes Save As, Loop, and Windowless buttons.

  SaveAs button allows you to save current configuration of the player such as windows size, clicking *.npm file to restore the player to current state.

  Loop button allows you to enable or disable the playback of a playlist in loop.

  Windowless button allows you to set window in normal or in windowless (without border).

• The last row includes Up, Down, and Exit buttons.

  Up button allows you to increase the volume a little bit.

  Down button allows you to decrease the volume a little bit.

  Exit button allows you to exit the player. If the player was launched alone with a *.npm database file, after exiting, the *.npm file will be upgraded to the last status of the player. While the player was launched by itself, there are no any files to be saved.

Here are two pages of the settings: playlist and media.

Playlist page allows user to add and delete a media file into the playlist. User can also use the up and down button to change the position of a media item in the playlist.

Media page allows user to set loop, rate, volume, balance, mute, and windowless. Furthermore user can click info drop down button to display the media information. The value of rate is ranged from 0.033333333 to 200. The regular value is 1.0. So you can watch the speed video by setting rate to 2.0 and watch the slow video by setting rate to 0.06.

Customization

You can customize player and store the configuration in a .npm file. You can also double click the .npm or launch it in a command line in the following format:

"FullPath\Ladybug Player.exe" [FullPath\myconfig.npm | FullPath\mymedia.*]

This command line means that run Ladybug Player without parameter or with parameter myconfig.npm, or mymedia.*.

If there are no parameters Ladybug Player will be launched with default configuration. You can launch as many Ladybug Player as your computer resources are not exhausted. *.npm represents Neatware Player Media.

In the case that the first parameter is a *.npm file, Ladybug Player is going to launch the player by setting the configuration from the *.npm file. *.npm is a Sqlite 3 database file that is an open standard. You can read and modify *.npm files by any Sqlite Database Managers free or commercial. Usually we use an added-on called Sqlite Manager for FireFox browser.

In the case that the first parameter is a media file, Ladybug Player is going to launch the player and display the media file instantly.

More than one parameters are reserved for future use.

Keyboard Control

Ladybug Player supports the use of keyboard for media player control. Here is the list of keyboard control:

Applications

Ladybug Player can be used for Notebook, Digital Signage, and Mobile Video.

Intel's second generation Atom platform integrated a CPU and a GPU in one chip package. It is suitable for small devices that require low power consumption such as MID (Mobile Internet Device) and touch media pad. Its GPU includes a hardware acceleration for video that supports DXVA2 for windows 7/Vista. Ladybug Player can apply this capability to display vivid video in mobile device.

Intel's new Core i5/i7 processor also includes GPU inside. Intel's GMA4500HD include double HD hardware acceleration cores and support DXVA2 for windows 7/Vista. This is suitable for the multiplayer function of Ladybug Player.

Ladybug Player Demo Download

Ladybug Player can work with Nvidia's and AMD's GPU because of their capability to support DirectX and DirectShow in Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

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