MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Use Shift-[\] to open the MMP config dialog
Use Ctrl-[H] to open a [H]elp panel

screenshots

In MMP, “screenshots” are far more powerful than in other comparable software.

For one thing, they capture the rendered contents of the MMP window, rather than a screenshot of part of your desktop.
Consequently, they are of a far higher resolution and quality than a standard screenshot ¹⁾.

Any video frame or image can be resized to your desired dimensions by simply resizing the window it fills.
The current, adjusted, dimensions of the image (not the window) will be displayed.
The dimensions of the saved image file will be the same as that shown in MMP ²⁾

The image Brightness, Contrast, Gamma and Saturation can be adjusted.

You can zoom in (or out) and pan (left, right, up, down) to isolate a particular section of the video frame or image.

You can rotate by 45^o at a time.

Finally, after making your adjustments, you can save the results to a high-resolution .png image file.
There is a direct relationship between the size of the image on your screen and the size of the saved disk file.
There is also a direct relationship between the dimensions of the image on your screen and the dimensions of the image in the file.

If you are currently displaying subtitles, any on-screen subtitle will be captured with the image.
The image will never include the audio/video progress bar or the audio/video timestamp ³⁾.

In the Image & Thumbnail Browser, the moment you make an adjustment to the current image, the arrow keys will be disabled.
This is to prevent you accidentally moving to a different image (or folder) and losing your changes.
You can still use other playlist keys (such as [Q] and [W]) to change to a different image, in which case your adjustments will be applied to the newly-displayed image.

To quickly reset all your adjustments (except window size) and release the arrow keys, press [Backspace]

Control	Action
Adjustments
`[-]`	decrease Brightness
`[=]`	increase Brightness
`[8]`	decrease Contrast
`[9]`	increase Contrast
`[`	decrease Gamma
`]`	increase Gamma ⁴⁾
`{`	decrease Saturation
`}`	increase Saturation
Pan
`Ctrl [↑]`	pan Up
`Ctrl [↓]`	pan Down
`Ctrl [←]`	pan Left
`Ctrl [→]`	pan Right
Rotate
`[Pg Dn]`	rotate clockwise 45^o
`[Pg Up]`	rotate anti-clockwise 45^o - you must rotate clockwise at least once before you can rotate anti-clockwise
Window Size*
`[G]`	[G]reater window size
`Ctrl [G]`	un[G]reater ⁵⁾ window size
Zoom
`[I]`	zoom In
`[O]`	zoom Out

* You can also adjust the window size with your mouse by grabbing the bottom edge or corner of the window and dragging your mouse up and down.

In the Image & Thumbnail Browser you have some additional fine controls for adjusting the window size (and therefore the image size):

Control	Action
`numpad [-]`	decrease window height by 1 pixel*
`numpad [+]`	increase window height by 1 pixel*
`Ctrl numpad [-]`	decrease window width by 1 pixel*
`Ctrl numpad [+]`	increase window width by 1 pixel*

* including a [Shift] key will alter the window size by 10 pixels.

The “display” dimensions of the image | D: … | (not the window) will be displayed in the status bar, e.g. | 754 x 482 | D: 1800 x 1200 |
When you then Ctrl-[S] screenshot the image as displayed, the resultant .png file will have the same dimensions
Also, resizing the window has a direct effect on the size of the disk file as well as the dimensions of the image stored in it⁶⁾

Capture image/"screenshot"

`[F5]`	`Main Media Window`: save image / “screenshot”
`Ctrl [S]`	`Image & Thumbnail Browser`: [S]ave image / “screenshot”

These are different keys because in the Image & Thumbnail Browser all the function keys [F1] to [F12] are reserved for user-defined folders

Resets

The first four numeric keys are resets:

Control	Action
`[1]`	reset Speed (not applicable)
`[2]`	reset Contrast
`[3]`	reset Pan ⁷⁾
`[4]`	reset Rotatation
`[0]`	reset Brightness
`[']` ⁸⁾	reset Gamma ⁹⁾
`[;]`	reset Saturation ¹⁰⁾
`[M]`	reset the window size to the [M]aximum for the monitor while maintaining the correct aspect ratio
`[Backspace]`	reset All image adjustments except window size

Note that [2], [3] and [4] are in alphabetical order

If you forget which key is for which reset, just remember that [Backspace] resets everything

¹⁾

zooming in tends to reduce the quality and resolution of an image

²⁾

an image saved from the main window will be 1 pixel wider than stated.

³⁾

To include MMP captions other than subtitles you will need to take a standard desktop screenshot

⁴⁾

handy tip: often, increasing Gamma can often have better results than increasing the Brightness of a dark image

⁵⁾

i.e. smaller

⁶⁾

“…as well as the dimensions of the image stored, innit.” :D

⁷⁾

move video image Up, Down, Left, Right

⁸⁾

single quote

⁹⁾

on a full-size QWERTY keyboard, this is usually directly below the [ and ] Gamma keys

¹⁰⁾

on a full-size QWERTY keyboard, this is usually directly below the { and } Saturation keys

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