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Videos Specification

The Video application manages and plays various types of video files. The available files are listed using the Qtopia document model. The videos are categorized and information about the files is displayed.

Features

Supported Formats

Videos supports a range of video formats including:

Scanning for Video Documents

Video files are searched for in the following locations:

As files are found, they can be filtered and listed according to the user's selection of a category.

Re-scanning takes place when the program is notified of document changes. Events that cause an update of the listed files are:

Video Documents List

Playing Video Files

When a video file is selected from the list for playing, the appropriate decoder plugin is found and initialized with the file to be played. The application then displays the user interface in order to provide user control of the file's playback.

Different decoder plugins can be installed in the system and detected by the player. Video files are also played when selected from the documents list of the Qtopia Launcher. When launched from the documents list the player user interface is immediately displayed and the scanning for documents is avoided.

Playback Options

When a video file is selected and played the user is able to perform the following operations:

Playback Keypad Support

For keypad phones hardware keys are mapped to player actions. During playback of a video the following mappings are used:

Playback Status

When a video file is played the following information, if available, is displayed:


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