Playback Control Panel - Button Guide

This section describes the main controls available in the StPlayer playback interface:

Player Controls

Status Display

  • Status Indicator
    Shows the current status of the player (e.g., "Running", "Paused", "Stopped").

Playback Controls

  • Playback Control Slider
    Allows seeking within the video. Drag the slider to jump to a specific point in the stream or file.

  • Playback Control Buttons

  • ▶️ Play: Start playback.
  • ⏸️ Pause: Pause playback.
  • ⏹️ Stop: Stop playback.

Capture & Display

  • 📸 Screenshot
    Capture the current frame as an image.

  • ⛶ Full Screen
    Toggle full screen mode on or off.

  • 🕒 Go To KLV Time
    Jump to a specific timestamp based on KLV metadata.

  • 📊 Stream Analysis
    Open stream analysis charts showing timestamps, bitrate, discontinuities, and more.

Playback Information

  • ⏱️ Current Position
    Displays the current playback time (e.g., 00:01:10.821).

  • 🧾 KLV Info Monitor
    Shows KLV metadata packets and rates.

  • KLV Pkts: Number of KLV packets received.

  • KLV Rate: Rate of incoming metadata (e.g., packets/sec).

Geospatial Tools

  • 🗺️ Map
    Toggle map view with platform footprint and location overlay.

  • 🌐 Overlay On/Off
    Enable or disable the video overlay features.

  • 🧩 Overlay Tools
    Access GPU-accelerated overlay tools like:

  • Perspective grid
  • Distance ruler
  • Video-to-Geo mapping

  • Annotations

  • 📍 Annotations On/Off
    Toggle all annotation layers on or off.

  • 📌 Video/Map Marker
    Drop a marker at the current video frame location.

  • ✏️ Draw Annotations
    Manually draw annotations on the video or map.

  • 📏 Ruler Tool
    Measure distances on the screen using on-video ruler overlays.

  • 🧭 Mouse Geo Coordinates
    Displays real-time geographic coordinates of the mouse cursor (Latitude / Longitude).

DVR Control Panel - Button Guide

The DVR interface adds controls for time-shifted playback, recording, and precision navigation.

DVR Controls

  • ⏪ Step Back
    Skip one frame backward. Useful for frame-accurate inspection.

  • ⏩ Step Forward
    Skip one frame forward to analyze fine video changes.

  • 🔴 Go Back to Live
    Jump to the current live stream position if you're viewing delayed content.

  • ⏯️ Start / Continue Shifted TV
    Resume playback of time-shifted (buffered) video from the current location.

Recording Controls

  • ⏺️ Recorder Start / Stop
    Start or stop recording the current stream. Saves video to disk in TS or HLS format.

  • 💾 Recorder Status
    Displays:

  • Current recording state (e.g., Paused, Recording)
  • Recorded data size (e.g., 0.2 MB / 0.5 MB)

Seek & Time Display

  • 🎚️ Seek Bar
    Drag to jump to a specific point in the recorded or time-shifted content.

  • ⏱️ Current Position
    Shows the current playback time with millisecond precision (e.g., 00:00:06.766).