MMP: Minimalist Media Player

MMP (v3.0.3) can now play through all the media files on an entire drive, starting wherever you choose. Folders that don't contain supported media files will be skipped. For those folders that do, a new playlist will be created and played through automatically. You can, of course, have the [P]laylist panel open while you do this and watch MMP create each new playlist as it navigates through all your folders. You can use any of the playlist controls or double-click with the mouse to skip items in the list and jump to others. Requires the new nextFolderOnEnd=yes setting. See the release notes.

N.B. Some v2 users have reported issues with the main window resizing itself several times on normal-sized monitors, e.g. 1920 x 1080, until it eventually fits. These issues have been fixed in v3.

MMP: Minimalist Media Player now has its own domain and its own wiki (currently being developed)

THE POLLS ARE OPEN! HAVE YOUR SAY: https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/discussions

VERSION 3 is HERE!! Now with image and thumbnail browsing and image manipulation. (https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/releases)

VERSION 2 RELEASED: Fast, lossless audio/video editing

• https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/wiki/Lossless-Audio-Video-editing

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

• https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/releases

NEW: Now supports .AVIF and .JFIF 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 video window shows only the part of the image you want, then [F5] screenshot it. 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-2.dll, which is, in turn, based 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 Playerprovides 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) https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayer (which is based on Windows Media Player). As such, this [here] incarnation of MMP: Minimalist Media Player provides far superior media file handling and playback functionality such as zoom, pan, step frame (forwards and backwards!), rotation, brightness control, etc.

Key Features

• 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 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 repitition.

The following list will be missing some of the very latest - see the Wiki for an up to date and detailed description of all of MMP's many controls and features.

Keyboard Controls

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.

Alphabetic and Numeric Controls

Full List of Controls By Category

Media File Formats

MMP: Minimalist Media Player uses MPV/FFMPEG for its media playback and manipulation functions and will therefore play the overwhelming majority of media files (audio/video/image).

Dependencies

1. MMP: Minimalist Media Player requires libmpv-2.dll to be in the same folder as the executable. If you have an mpv.conf file in the same folder, MPV will take it into account when initializing, for example to specify your audio output preferences.

2. Each release comes with a program called "rot.exe". When deleting a file or the contents of a folder from within MMP: Minimalist Media Player, it is actually rot.exe that carries out the deletion. This allows the deletion to be done in a separate process which results (in my experience) in less chances of Windows complaining that the file is in use (by MPV); although, having said that, MPV seems to be much better behaved in that regard than Windows Media Player on which the previous incarnation of MMP: Minimalist Media Player was based. If you wish, you can checkout rot.exe's many features by running it from the command line. Many of you will recognize it, I'm sure ;) If you want to completely disable the ability to delete files, simply delete rot.exe. Although MMP: Minimalist Media Player will still ask for confirmation, nothing will happen.

3. Massive credit and thanks are due to Edward Guo for his excellent port of the MPV API (libmpv) to Delphi, https://github.com/nbuyer/libmpvdelphi.

4. The VCL component in MarkdownHelpViewer (https://github.com/EtheaDev/MarkdownHelpViewer) allowed the original RTF help file to be replaced with much more convenient and flexible .md markdown resources.

5. Acknowledgement is due to the author of Perpetual Notes v4.05 (https://www.enselsoftware.com/product/PerpetualNotes.html) for being the only RTF editor I could find on the entire internet that could actually [,accurately] read back in what it had written out! (And I tested some big players during my search!)