professional video player for presentations

[Santa]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a video player with the capabilities of showing a control interface on a 1st screen and the video output on a 2nd.
It would be great to have on the control side a preview of a selected clip in the playlist and the buttons to play, pause, stop, load another clip etc. and also some basic effects such as fade to black, fade from black, cross fade between 2 clips, loop clips, loop from point to point, and so on.

I've found playbackpro plus for mac but i'm looking for something similar for a windows platform.
do you know any similar player?

[JanWillem32]

Well, for MPC-HC (and quite a few other players) there's the D3D fullscreen mode with output to a secondary screen. That way the main player window (with the controls) can stay on another monitor.
More advanced effects are a bit harder. A single-frame preview can be seen by using the video thumbnails of the Windows explorer. Windows 7 comes with some basic splitters and decoders to create these video preview thumbnails. For thumbnails of additional types of video containers and codecs, additional software is required.
Basic effects can either be done by an enhanced decoder (such as ffdshow tryouts) or by pixel shaders in various enabled video renderers. It depends a bit on the type of effect you want, available GPU processing power and color quality you want in the stage you are transforming to decide which one of the two is more suited. I also don't mind writing some renderer filters on request. I already have the fade from black effect, for example.
For advanced controls for a timeline (more than a simple looping) I wouldn't know what to use at the moment. Maybe someone else knows a trick for this?
A video cross fade effect requires more than DirectShow can offer through regular routes. I know that ffdshow tryouts can do it, but it requires quite a bit of juggling with an internal playlist feature (and you can't use the player's playlist together with it).

[smok3]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a video player with the capabilities of showing a control interface on a 1st screen and the video output on a 2nd.
It would be great to have on the control side a preview of a selected clip in the playlist and the buttons to play, pause, stop, load another clip etc. and also some basic effects such as fade to black, fade from black, cross fade between 2 clips, loop clips, loop from point to point, and so on.

I've found playbackpro plus for mac but i'm looking for something similar for a windows platform.
do you know any similar player?

mostly any video editing app (premiere cs6 = commercial, lightworks beta = free, ect)

[Asmodian]

I know Zoom Player supports many features for professional demos etc. but I am not sure about cross fades or the other features you mention. It would be a good option to look at.

[Santa]

I know Zoom Player supports many features for professional demos etc. but I am not sure about cross fades or the other features you mention. It would be a good option to look at.

nice player but it lacks many features for example the possibility to switch between a continuos playback of the playlist's elements and a play 1 element then stop (sometimes I need to launch the videos only when the relator asks for it...) and it lacks a real control interface.

editing videos software are an option but I've always avoided using those software cause they aren't meant for playback and sometimes the playback is not so smooth or have some issues/crash etc.

I can't believe that there is not a windows based solution for playing videos in a presentation mode... even microsoft powerpoint has the possibility to have dual screen with a control interface on a screen and a slide display on the other...

[smok3]

I'd write something then, perhaps based on avisynth templates and some batch files and some player.

on drag and drop <
a. make avisynth script with this two video files and put some dissolve there
b. play this with some player
>

[Blue_MiSfit]

Video editing applications aren't made for playback? Are you kidding me?

You are aware that this is how video tape mastering is done, right?

You might have slowdowns if your content needs to be rendered, but that's part of the process.