MMP: Minimalist Media Player

NEW

Shift-[E]

• In the Audio & Video Timeline Editor (Ctrl-[E]) when you Export the Timeline of your edited audio or video file, MMP will create an “[edited]” file, named after the file you're editing. (e.g. “Summer Holiday.mp4” will be exported to “Summer Holiday [edited].mp4”)
• Now, after exporting your Timeline, Shift-[E] will play the [E]dited, [E]xported media file in a new instance (copy) of MMP.
• The edited media file will be the only media file in the playlist of this new copy of MMP.
• You can then check your edits and your export (and maybe Ctrl-[M]ove the file to a “Finished Edits” folder?)
• Export always overwrites the “[edited]” file, so if you decide you have further editing to do to this file, you can simply [Esc]ape out of the second MMP and continue your editing session, followed by another Export.
• If you let the edited file play to the end, MMP will stop there (the same as the editor does), rather than moving on to the next folder (assuming that's what your config settings would normally have MMP do). This lets you review and replay all or part of your edited file until you're ready to return to your editing session.
• Of course, you can [if you wish] open a second Timeline editor (Ctrl-[E]) in the second MMP and edit your exported file directly (in which case, when you click Export, MMP will create an “ [edited] [edited]” file.) And you can then Shift-[E] to play that edit in a third instance of MMP, and so on, ad infinitum.
• Shift-[E] can only be used while you have the Audio & Video Timeline Editor open.

Ctrl-[E] is now a “universal” control

• You open and close the Audio & Video Timeline Editor using Ctrl-[E]
• This will now be sent to all running instances of MMP if you have Numlock On
• This is ostensibly so that if you launch multiple instances of MMP (and then probably Ctrl-[9] to auto-arrange them) while you have the Start in Editor option set, you can quickly and easily close the Timeline editor in each MMP window
• This saves you from either having to turn off Start in Editor temporarily, or having to click each MMP window in turn and then Ctrl-[E] each one to close its editor.

Moving the Image & Thumbnail Browser

• You can drag the Image & Thumbnail Browser around the desktop by left-clicking on the image being displayed and dragging the mouse.
  This is more convenient than having to use the window's title bar. (When viewing thumbnails, the window still needs to be dragged using the window caption)

A Side Note

• In MMP Config (Shift-[\]), for convenience, you can set Start In Editor if you have a lot of video files to edit.
• When you launch MMP by clicking on a file in your file explorer software, you can temporarily override this setting by holding down a [Shift] key.
• If you do have Start In Editor set and you subsequently Shift-[E] to play the [E]xported/[E]dited file, having the [Shift] key down will mean that the second MMP will always override the Start In Editor setting and will launch without the Audio & Video Timeline Editor open.
• If you're very quick at releasing the [Shift] key when you Shift-[E], you can make the second MMP launch with the Timeline editor open, in accordance with the `Start in Editor` setting.
• But generally speaking, you will probably prefer that the second MMP only opens for playing not editing.

A note about Screenshot dimensions

• When you manually resize the Main Media Window for an image or a video, the dimensions of the image or the video frame will be shown in the notification area (bottom right corner).
  If you then [F5] screenshot the current display, the resultant .png image file will have the same dimensions as the window.
• The Image & Thumbnail Browser does the same but in the status bar it shows both the dimensions of each image (encoded in the file), and the dimensions at which it's being displayed,
  e.g. | 710 x 547 | D: 1800 x 1200 | .
• Again, this allows you to resize the window to the exact dimensions you want the Ctrl-[S] .png screenshot file to be.

Fixes

• If, when playing an audio or video file, you used [B] to [B]lank out the progress [B]ar, when you then played a different audio or video file, the progress bar would be redisplayed.
  This has been fixed. The progress bar now remains blanked out until you re-instate it again with a subsequent [B], or close MMP.
• Various minor additions, corrections and improvements to the Ctrl-[H] [H]elp panels.

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Quick Install
The quickest way to get up and running with MMP is to

• run the mmp-install.bat file which will register all the file extensions that MMP supports*.
• rename the example MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf_ file by removing the _ so that MMP uses it.
• double-click any media file (audio, video, image) in your File Explorer software.

* mmp-uninstall.bat unregisters them.

Any issues, please let me know Issues

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow. The Wiki greatly expands on the brevity of the Ctrl [H] help panels by providing comprehensive info to help you get the most out of using all of MMP's many controls and configurable options.

If there is a particular aspect of MMP that you would like more information about, let me know and I will add a topic to the Wiki or enhance an existing topic.

Feedback
All feedback, issues and suggestions should be raised in Issues or Discussions

Asset files
The “…full.zip” release file below contains everything you need to run MMP: Minimalist Media Player:

- MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe
- MediaInfo.dll
- libmpv-2.dll
- ffmpeg.exe
- libeay32.dll
- ssleay32.dll

N.B. Only MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe will be updated automatically. If the zip file contains newer versions of the other files, you should update and test these for yourself to ensure they will run on your Windows system. MMP will not make that assumption and overwrite your working versions. You are advised to make a copy of the older versions in case you need to revert to them.