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VERSION 3 introduced the Image & Thumbnail Browser with image manipulation and saving. Check it out! Download Page

VERSION 2 RELEASED: Fast, lossless audio and video editing - see Editing Overview

Now also displays all IMAGES in the current playlist folder (.jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png, .webp, animated .gif, .avif). If you set an image display duration, a slideshow of consecutive image files will be shown.

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NEW: Now supports .AVIF image files which will be included automatically in the playlist and the slideshow.

TIP: You can crop an image by using zoom ([I]n/[O]ut) and pan (Ctrl-left, ctrl-right, ctrl-up, ctrl-down) until the window shows only the part of the image you want, then [F5] screenshot it to a new file. The screenshot will include any changes you've made to the Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Saturation or Rotation of the original image.

TIP: You can edit (Ctrl-[E]) an entire audio or video file using just [I] and [O] to set [I]n and [O]ut points. E.g. Use the TAB key to fast forward through a video: when you get to the next section you want to include, press [I]; when you get to the next section that you want to exclude, press [O]. When you're done, click Export. It really doesn't get much easier than that!!

MMP: Minimalist Media Player

A powerful and very effective media player built on MPV's API, libMPV, which is, in turn, built on the famous FFMPEG.

MMP: Minimalist Media Player provides a minimalist keyboard- and mouse-operated user interface. Minimal on-screen clutter allows videos to be viewed without distractions. There are no window borders and no window title bar/caption, and keyboard options allow you to also have no progress bar and no audio/video timestamp, if that's what you want.

Also, the window resizes to fit the video perfectly, eliminating ugly black borders/bands around the video, particularly above and below. All of this provides an immersive viewing experience even when played in window mode rather than full-screen. Despite all this, MMP: Minimalist Media Player provides a wealth of functions via the keyboard and mouse for manipulating the user-interface and the media files themselves.

This is a complete rewrite of (and supercedes) an earlier application that was built on Windows Media Player. As such, MMP: Minimalist Media Player, built on MPV/FFMPEG, provides far superior media file handling and playback functionality such as zoom, pan, step frame (forwards and backwards!), rotation, brightness control, etc. and will play the overwhelming majority of the World's media files (audio/video/image).

• Automatically matches the aspect ratio of the window to the aspect ratio of the video so it fits the window perfectly, but still allows you to zoom and pan. This is something the MPV player itself doesn't do - you can only have one or the other. So no ugly borders. Ever. Unless they're hard-baked into the video, of course.

• Opening a media file from Windows Explorer (etc.) will automatically fill the playlist with all media files in the same folder. The playlist is sorted in “natural order” to match the order your files are [usually] listed in your file manager, taking numeric digits in filenames into account.

• You can “fast forward” through an entire media file by holding down the TAB key. Or backwards by holding down CTRL-TAB. Thanks to MPV, the audio is maintained at the correct pitch.

• If a corresponding subtitle file exists for the media file (.srt file, for example), or if the media file contains subtitles, the subtitles will be shown automatically. [F7] will cycle through all the subtitle tracks in the media file.

• Full-resolution screenshots can be saved for individual frames and for a displayed image.

• All the keyboard and mouse functions (nearly 200) are listed in a handy help panel which can be shown or hidden by pressing Ctrl-[H]. The full functionality of MMP: Minimalist Media Player can be used while this panel is showing so you can try things out.

• MMP: Minimalist Media Player provides handy keyboard access to brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation. Handy tip: quite often, if you want to brighten the picture, increasing the gamma setting (and sometimes the contrast) gives better results than going straight to the brightness control.

• You can quickly bookmark the current position of a media file and restart from that point at a later time.

• You can quickly resize the video by holding down the [G] key to enlarge it. Or quickly reduce it by holding down Ctrl-[G].

• MMP: Minimalist Media Player provides full zoom and pan functions as well as video rotation.

• MPV playback can be configured via the normal mpv.conf file. As always with this file, some experimentation will be required to get the effect you require.

• N.B. Many keys can be held down for rapid repetition.

Although there are a lot of keyboard controls, the alphabetic letters have been applied intuitively. The action description will therefore help to associate the action with the letter.

Many of these controls also apply to the Image & Thumbnail Browser. However, in some cases, the Image & Thumbnail Browser uses a different key for the action described below than what the Main Media Window uses (e.g [5] vs [F5] for screenshots). Also, the Image & Thumbnail Browser has additional key controls specific to managing your image library which are not available in the Main Media Window. Refer to the Ctrl-[H] Help Panel in both the Main Media Window and in the Image & Thumbnail Browser if you're unsure. In both cases, the Help Panel can be left open while you use the full functionality of MMP, in order to help you learn the many controls available to you.