The Formidable Media Player ("FMP") is a downloaded media player installed on a user’s computer on which they can view, read or listen to the online pictures, audio or video files specifically licensed to them.

Any image file, MP3 and MP4 files, including proprietary encrypted Formidable files can be played via the Media Player.

Your Formidable account can be maintained and updated using the My Formidable Account window.

The My Formidable Account form captures your personal data to edit your online registration account.

Creating a new Account

1. Enter your name, email address details and Master Password. (These fields are compulsory.)
2. Optionally, you may also enter your physical address details.
3. Enter your membership number, if you have one available. Alternatively, leave this field blank and a membership number will be provided to you.
4. Enter a promotional code. If you have received a promotional code number then you may enter it here.
5. Select the "Allow all publishers to license media to me" checkbox to allow media publishers to make free and licensed media available to you.

When you have entered all your details, click the Update button to complete the registration process.

To ensure the security of the Formidable products, your Formidable user account is linked to the local Windows login on your computer. Therefore, once you have entered and applied your account details, you will be unable to change the logged in user without the assistance of our helpdesk. It is therefore essential that you enter the details you intend to use before applying them to your account.

If you want to change your Master Password, click the Change Master Password button.

1. Enter your old password. (This is required to validate authenticity.)
2. Enter and confirm your new password.
3. When you are done, click the OK button to confirm the change or click the Cancel button to abort the change.

To terminate the Media Player application completely, click the Close button on the toolbar.

When you have created and registered a new account, a list of media publishers who have media content available will appear on the Media Publishers' tab.

The following options are available on the Media Publishers' tab:

1. The Refresh button is used to manually refresh the list of publisher data, if any new data exists on the online repository.

NOTE: This data is usually updated automatically each time Media Player is started.

2. You can allow all or individual publishers to license media to you:

• To allow all publishers in the list to license media to you, select the "Allow all publishers to license media to me" checkbox in the Subscribe column.
• To allow only specific individual publishers to license media to you, then select the checkboxes adjacent to each publisher.

3. The URL column adjacent to a publisher contains a website address that you may visit to browse available media content.

Click the Update button to save the changes made to your publishers.

Important: If you have purchased licensed media from a publisher you must allow the publisher to see your account (see 2.i. above) on the system for to access the media, or be licensed for any media.

On the right-hand side of the Media Player is a panel called the Playlist that is normally hidden when Media Player starts, only showing the Playlist tab.

If the Playlist is closed, then the Playlist button will appear on the Toolbar. To open the Playlist panel, click the Playlist button.

Managing the Playlist window

There are various options to displaying the Playlist:

1. You can Show or Hide the Playlist panel by floating the mouse pointer over the Playlist tab.
2. The Playlist can be made permanently visible by clicking the pin icon on the Playlist's title bar.
3. The Playlist can be completely undocked from Media Player window.

Showing and Hiding the Playlist

The normal Media Player interface displays a Playlist tab on the right-hand side of the window. Floating the mouse pointer over the tab will cause the Playlist to slide into view. While the Playlist is visible, you can scroll and select a media item to play or display.

Moving the mouse pointer away from the tab will cause the Playlist to slide away out of view again.

Locking the Playlist

The Playlist tab can be locked into a permanently visible position by clicking on the pin icon. The Playlist will lock into this position and remain visible, the viewing panel will adjust in size to the left of the Playlist.

The Playlist tab can be unlocked again by clicking the pin icon again. The Playlist should slide away once more.

Undocking the Playlist

The Playlist tab can be undocked from the current position and moved anywhere on your desktop and remain visible while the viewing panel of the Media Player displays the media content.

Click the Playlist on the Title bar and drag it away from its current position.

The Playlist window can be docked again by dragging the Playlist window onto the Media Player viewing panel's dark-grey frame then release the mouse button.

NOTE: Ensure that the point of the mouse pointer is on the dark-grey frame before you release the mouse button.

The Playlist selection panel

The Playlist contains all the media files that you have downloaded and is used to view or play the media files.

The Playlist consists of two tabs:

• the "Media Group" tab that contains a list of the Media Publishers who have licensed material to you.
• the "Available Media" tab that contains a list of media files provided by a selected Media Group.

To open a list of media files of a specific publisher, double-click on the Publisher's name or select a Publisher and click the "Available Media" tab.

The "Available Media" tab opens for the selected Publisher and displays the list of media files provided by the Publisher.

Downloads

To download media files from the online repository, click the drop arrow on the Downloads button on the toolbar.

A two-option menu is displayed.

Available Downloads

The Available Downloads window displays a list of media files that are available on the online repository.

1. Click the Available Downloads option to open the Available Downloads window.
2. Click the Refresh button to update the list in the window.
3. Select the media files you want to download.

•  The group checkbox is selected by default. This implies that all media files for this group will be downloaded.
•  To select individual media files, deselect the group checkbox and then select each individual media file checkbox you want to download.

4. Click the Download button to populate the download queue.
5. The current download window opens displaying the selected media files in the queue.

Current Downloads

The Current Downloads window displays a list of any media files that may be in the queue status or currently downloading status.

1. Click the Current Downloads option to open the Current Downloads window.

Download Queue

Media files selected for download will reside in the queue until you start the download manually. The queue list displays showing the attributes of each entry: The Media Group, The Media Name, Status and the Progress.

To start the download, click the Start button.

Downloads in progress

Media files currently downloading will show the current download progress in the progress column unless you stop the download.

To stop the download, click the Stop button.

To ensure the security of the downloaded media, it is not possible to view the files outside of the Formidable Media Player. To transfer this content to another machine, you will need to transfer the licence to, or purchase a new licence for the other machine(s) and re-download the content.

Close

Click the Close button to terminate the application. However, this will not interrupt any downloads currently in progress.

Yes.

To add media files from the online repository provided by Formidable Media:

1. Select the "Download available Videos" option.
2. Click the Next button to continue.

Media Player connects to the Formidable server and lists which media files are available for you to download. The list of Media files will be displayed under each Publisher collection.

On this window, you have several options available to you:

1. Click the "Refresh available downloads" button to reload the list from the website.
2. Select the checkbox for the entire Publisher group or deselect the group checkbox and browse through the list and select the checkbox adjacent to individual media files.
3. When you are done, click the "Download Selected" button to queue the selected media files to the download list.

If you wish to stop the pending downloads in the queue starting automatically on the next step, deselect the checkbox.

4. Click the "Finish" button to continue to the download step.
5. You may also click the "Back" button to return to the previous window to change your option selection or click the "Close" button to cancel the process.

Yes.

To add media files from a DVD supplied to you by Formidable Media:

1. Select the "Add from DVD" option.
2. Click the Next button to continue.
3. Select the DVD drive from the drop-down selection list, then click "Scan Drive" button to start a scan which will list the media files available on the DVD.