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User Guide for Leawo Free Blu-ray Player

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Content 1. Introduce Leawo Free Blu-ray Player ................................................................................... 3

1.1 About the main interface ................................................................................................ 3

1.2 Leawo Free Blu-ray Player Menu..................................................................................... 5

File ..................................................................................................................................... 6

Playback ............................................................................................................................ 6

1.3 How to Set Leawo Free Blu-ray Player ............................................................................ 7

1.3.1 Playback settings: .................................................................................................... 8

1.3.2 File Association settings: ......................................................................................... 8

1.3.3 Audio output settings: ............................................................................................. 9

1.3.4 DVD Blu-ray settings .............................................................................................. 10

1.3.5 Subtitles settings.................................................................................................... 10

1.3.6 International settings: ........................................................................................... 11

1.3.7 Snapshot settings:.................................................................................................. 11

1.3.8 Skin settings: .......................................................................................................... 12

1.3.9 Power Manager settings: ...................................................................................... 12

1.3.10 General settings: .................................................................................................. 13

2. How to Play Blu-ray/DVD/Video/Audio/ISO Files ............................................................. 13

2.1 Step 1: Load source media files ..................................................................................... 13

2.2 Step 2: Subtitle settings(optional) ................................................................................. 15

2.3 Step 3: Video settings (optional) ................................................................................... 15

2.4 Step 4: Audio settings (optional) ................................................................................... 16

3. Share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player to Win Software For Free ............................................. 17

3.1 Step 1: Open "Share" page ........................................................................................ 17

3.2 Step 2: Reach the "Share to Win" page ................................................................... 18

3.3 Step 3: Share on Facebook ........................................................................................ 19

3.4 Step 4: Select preferred prize .................................................................................... 19

3.5 Step 5: Enter personal email address ............................................................................ 20

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1. Introduce Leawo Free Blu-ray Player Leawo Free Blu-ray Player is a very easy to use Blu-ray media playback software program. It gets

very simple user interface, but offers quite abundant settings to fully meet your needs.

1.1 About the main interface

After launching Leawo Free Blu-ray Player, on the main interface, you could see a big green

“Open File” button , by clicking which you could browse and load video,

audio and ISO image file from your local drive. Once you insert a blank disc into the disc

recorder drive, you could see a disc loading icon like this to load disc

directly from disc drive.

At the bottom of the main interface, you could see multiple playback control buttons to help

you control media playback:

: Click the Mute button to mute playback, or slide the adjuster limiter to

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adjust audio volume.

button: Click to stop playing and return to the home interface (shortcut: Ctrl+S).

button: Click to play previous movie on the playlist (shortcut: Alt+Up).

button: Click for fast backward play in up to 16 times. Hold this button to stay fast

backward state and release this button for normal playback (shortcut: Alt+Left).

button: Click to start playing. During playing, it would change to pause button

, by clicking which you could pause playing (shortcut: Space).

button: Click for fast forward in up to 16 times. Hold this button to stay fast forward

state and release this button for normal playback (shortcut: Alt+Right).

button: Click to play next movie on the playlist (shortcut: Alt+Down).

button: Click to play movies on the playlist in order.

button: Click to play movies on the playlist in loop playback mode.

button: Click to play movies on the playlist in shuffle playback mode.

button: Click to share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player on Facebook.

button: Click to open/hide the playlist panel (shortcut: F3).

button: Click to start/quit full-screen playback (shortcut: F11).

button: Click to contact Leawo Software and send feedback.

button: Click to enter the program settings panel.

Meanwhile, on the home interface, you could see the date and time. What’s more, you could

right click the main interface for more options. You will then see a right-click menu as below:

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On the right-click menu, more options are available:

Open: Open File (Ctrl+O, to open one single file) and Open Folder (Ctrl+P, to open a folder).

Play Disc/Eject Disc: Choose to play/eject which disc you’ve inserted into the disc drive if you

get multiple disc drives.

Playback: multiple operations to control playback, like Play/Pause (Space), Stop (Ctrl+S), Next

(Ctrl+Down) and Previous (Ctrl+Up).

Menu: Click to invoke the disc menu interface to let you choose which to play back.

Videos/Audios/Subtitles: These options enable you to adjust video settings, audio settings

and subtitle settings during playback.

Also, the right-click menu includes some playback operations: Fullscreen playback (F11), Always

On Top (Ctrl+T), Playlist (F3), Snapshot (Shift+S), Player Settings (F5), start to Record or Convert

(these requires you to install corresponding apps).

1.2 Leawo Free Blu-ray Player Menu

On the top-right corner, you could see an inverted drop-down triangle button , by clicking

which you could call out the program operation menu to do more operations upon Leawo Free

Blu-ray Player, as showed below:

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File

On the drop-down menu panel, when you move mouse to the File option, you could get

multiple choices: Open File (Ctrl+O), Open Folder (Ctrl+P), Play Disc (allow you to choose which

disc to play back if you get more than one drive and disc inserted), Eject Disc (enable you to

choose which disc to eject), Playlist (Add Files to playlist or Empty Playlist).

Playback

On the Playback menu, you could control playing to Play (Space), Stop (Ctrl+S), Rewind

(Alt+Left), Fast Forward (Alt+Right), Next (Alt+Down), Previous (Alt+Up), Mute (M), Volume Up

(Ctrl+Up), Volume Down (Ctrl+Down), and Playback Settings (Videos, Audios and Subtitles).

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Next to the Playback operations are more options for you to control playback and get more

information about Leawo Free Blu-ray Player, including: Fullscreen (F11), Always On Top (Ctrl+T),

Playlist (F3), Snapshot (Shit+S), More operations (Record and Convert, which require you to

download and install corresponding apps). Also, the drop-down menu allows you to access to

User guide, Feedback, Bug report, Check for update, and About Leawo Blu-ray Player.

1.3 How to Set Leawo Free Blu-ray Player

By clicking the Player Settings option on the drop-down menu panel (drop-down-

menu.jpg) (shortcut key: F5), or clicking the wheel icon on the play panel’s bottom right,

you could call out the program settings panel of Leawo Free Blu-ray Player. The program

settings include: Playback, File Association, Audio output, DVD Blu-ray, Subtitles, International,

Snapshot, Skin, Power Manager, and General settings.

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1.3.1 Playback settings:

On the Playback tab, you could set Render method, All hardware acceleration, Adjust display

refresh rate to match video, Pause during refresh rate change, Sync playback to display, A/V

sync method, Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars, Display 4:3 videos as, Activate

Teletext, and Scale Teletext to 4:3 or not.

1.3.2 File Association settings:

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On the File Association tab, you could select format to associate with Leawo Free Blu-ray Player,

or simply click the “Select All” button or “Select None” button

to choose to associate all or none. And then click the “Apply” button

to save your settings.

1.3.3 Audio output settings:

On the Audio output panel, you could set audio output in different aspects, including: Audio

output type, speaker configuration, volume boosting level, Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver,

DTS capable receiver, AAC capable receiver, Multichannel LPCM capable receiver, TrueHD

capable receiver, DTS-HD capable receiver, Audio output device, Passthrough output device,

Play GUI sounds, etc.

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1.3.4 DVD Blu-ray settings

On the DVD Blu-ray tab, you could carry out DVD/Blu-ray playback settings upon Play DVD/BD

automatically, Forced BD player region and whether or not to skip introduction before DVD/BD

menu.

1.3.5 Subtitles settings

On Subtitles tab, you could set subtitle font, size, style, color, character set, allow overriding

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ASS/SSA subtitles fonts, and determine subtitle fonder and location.

1.3.6 International settings:

Open the International tab to set language, region, character set, preferred audio language,

and preferred subtitle language.

1.3.7 Snapshot settings:

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The Snapshot tab allows you to set snapshot format (JPG, PNG or BMP) and directory to save

snapshots.

1.3.8 Skin settings:

The Skin tab offers you 4 preset skin themes for you to choose from, and allows you to custom

background with your own favorite picture (in JPG, PNG or BMP format).

1.3.9 Power Manager settings:

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The Power Manager tab allows you to monitor the battery status of your computer while you’re

enjoying movies. You could set Power status and enable battery protect by setting a value to let

the program automatically protect your battery.

1.3.10 General settings:

The General settings panel offers several options to help you activate and purchase Leawo Free

Blu-ray Player, get help from Leawo Software (User guide, Support, and Bug report), check for

update and translate Blu-ray Player interface to more languages for Leawo Software.

2. How to Play Blu-ray, DVD, Video, Audio

and/or ISO Files As an all-inclusive free Blu-ray media player software, Leawo Free Blu-ray Player enables you to

play Blu-ray, DVD, up to 4K videos, ISO image file, audio files, IFO files, etc. This part of Leawo

Blu-ray Player user guide would show you how to play Blu-ray/DVD/video/audio/ISO image

files.

2.1 Step 1: Load source media files

Launch Leawo Blu-ray Player and then you could see a clean interface with several options.

Click respective buttons to load corresponding media files for playback.

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1. Click the green “Open File” button to browse and load video,

audio and ISO image file for playback.

2. To play Blu-ray/DVD folder, you could either right click on the main interface and then

select “Open > Open Folder”, press “Ctrl+P” shortcut, or click the inverted triangle

drop-down menu on the top right corner and then select “File > Open Folder” option

(mentioned above).

3. To play Blu-ray/DVD disc, you need to insert your Blu-ray/DVD disc into the disc drive,

and then click the disc name on Leawo Blu-ray Player home interface to start playing.

4. To play IFO file, you could figure out the IFO files inside "VIDEO_TS" folder of your DVD

folder for playing, like "Thor/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO".

After loading source media files, you could see loaded movie file(s) on the playlist, which could

be opened via clicking the button. On the top of the playlist panel, you could click the

thumbnail button to display all loaded files on playlist in thumbnail or hit the detail button

to display all loaded files on playlist in detail. Also, you could click the plus, minus or trash

icons at the top of playlist to add extra file, remove selected file or empty playlist.

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2.2 Step 2: Subtitle settings(optional)

After loading source media files, this media player would start to play. During playback, move

mouse to the title area, then you could see 4 icons pop out. By clicking the "Subtitles" icon

to do subtitle settings: Enable (Disable) subtitles, Subtitle offset, Subtitle selecting,

Browse for subtitle.

You could also open the subtitle settings panel by right clicking on the main interface and

then choosing “Subtitles” option to set subtitles.

2.3 Step 3: Video settings (optional)

Click the "Videos" icon on the top-let corner, or right click on the main interface and

then choose “Videos” option to enter the Video Settings panel, where you could do multiple

video settings during playback.

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2.4 Step 4: Audio settings (optional)

Click "Audio" icon on the upper-left corner, or right click on the main interface and then

choose the “Audios” option to do audio settings during playback, including: audio volume,

amplification, offset, stream, output, output device, etc.

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3. Share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player to

Win Software For Free Leawo is currently holding a "Share to Win" activity, in which you could share Leawo Free

Blu-ray Player on your Facebook and then get one of 4 apps prepared by Leawo for totally

free. These 4 apps are Music Recorder, iOS Data Recovery, iTransfer and Tunes Cleaner. The

shared post should stay active on Facebook for at least 24h.

3.1 Step 1: Open "Share" page

After you launch Leawo Free Blu-ray Player, click the "Share" button at the bottom right

corner of the main interface.

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3.2 Step 2: Reach the "Share to Win" page

By clicking the "Share" button on the main interface, you will be leaded to the “Share to Win”

page. You could see all 4 prizes of this “Share to Win” activity at the bottom of this page. Click

the “Facebook Share to Win” button to share your experience with Leawo Blu-ray Player on

Facebook.

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3.3 Step 3: Share on Facebook

Log in Facebook account to share Leawo Free Blu-ray Player software and this “Share to Win”

activity on your Facebook.

3.4 Step 4: Select preferred prize

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After sharing, you will be guided to the app selecting page. Select desired app. At the bottom,

you could see “Do not forget to like Leawo Blu-ray Player to get more giveaway news” box.

Click the “Like” button to like Leawo Blu-ray Player Facebook page.

3.5 Step 5: Enter personal email address

After that, there would pop up a box where you could input your personal email address to

get license and download link of your selected app. Then click the “Get” button to get the gift.

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Notes:

1. The license code and download link would be sent to registered email address only if

the “Share to Win” post has been kept on your Facebook for 24 hours.

2. The backstage would automatically detect your computer system and offer you

download link of Leawo Blu-ray Player according to your system. The given app would

also be in accordance with your current computer system.