Release v3.0.0.

[BazzaCuda]

NEW

IMAGE THUMBNAIL and IMAGE LIBRARY BROWSER

Many Fixes!!

N.B. A comprehensive Wiki on how to use all of Minimalist Media Player's functions, and particularly the new Image Browser, is currently being developed at minimalistmediaplayer.com - in the meantime, use [T] or [Y] to open the new Thumbnail and Image browser and then press Ctrl-[H] to view the Help panel listing all the keyboard and mouse controls.

If you are viewing an image in the main MMP window, you can press [T] to open the Image [Thumbnail] Browser. Alternatively, regardless of which type of media file you are currently viewing, [Y] will do the same. Thumbnails of all the [supported] images in the current folder will be displayed - click a thumbnail to view the full image. Spacebar starts a slideshow.

N.B. If you have an image format that MMP doesn't currently support, please let me know. I will immediately add support for it when I have proven that MPV/FFmpeg displays it correctly.

Browse through page after page and folder after folder of thumbnails of all your images, or browse through the images themselves, using (if you wish) just the four arrow keys.

Click on a thumbnail to view the full image

You can either return to the thumbnails where you left off or browse through the images. Holding down the left or right arrow key will rapidly browse through the images in either direction (or through the thumbnail pages).

You can manipulate an image's brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation and rotation, and zoom in/out to crop the image. If you save a high-resolution screenshot with Ctrl-[S], your image manipulations will be included. You can adjust the size of the saved file by adjusting the size of the window displaying the image: the smaller the window the smaller the file size and vice versa.

You can browse up and down the entire folder structure of a hard drive using the up and down arrow keys! And browse every single image in each folder using the left and right arrow keys.

You can organize your images into user-defined folders. Each of the 12 function keys, F1-F12, can be assigned to a different folder: either as subfolders of a user-defined base folder; or as individually-specified full folder paths; or a combination of both.

Shift-Up arrow and Shift-Dn arrow will increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails. You can also alter the size of the thumbnail window to fit more or fewer thumbnails per page. The arrow keys can be held down for rapid increase/decrease of thumbnail size. The thumbnails will be redrawn at the new size on every keystroke.

A help panel gives easy access to all the available keyboard and mouse controls, all of which can be used while the help panel is showing.

NEW
Added support for .jfif images

Changes

• [DEL]ete will delete the current media file if the user confirms the deletion. [D] used to do the same but this has now been removed so as not to be confused with the [D] in the thumbnails browser which skips to the next [D]irectory/folder.
• The same goes for Ctrl-[DEL]ete which deletes the entire folder contents (but doesn't touch subfolder contents) - Ctrl-[D] no longer does this.
• Remember, you can disable the deletion functions entirely by deleting rot.exe, if you wish. MMP will still ask for confirmation but nothing will/can happen even if you click "Yes" to delete the file.
• There was an undocumented function, Ctrl-[P] which could be toggled on/off to play every audio and video file in PotPlayer. This was a leftover from the previous incarnation of this app which was based on Windows Media Player which wasn't able to play all media files, notably many .flv files - in that case you were able to defer playback to PotPlayer. Minimalist Media Player (MMP/MPV/FFMEG) has no such problems and will play practically every media file on the planet. This feature is therefore redundant and has been removed.
• The ad[J]ust aspect ratio key [J] only works in the Image Browser. This, too, was a leftover from the WMP days. Adjusting the window to match the aspect ratio of a video is now entirely automatic and always works, therefore there is no longer any need for the user to sometimes manually action a readjustment. It can still be useful for some images in the Image Browser where the [J] remains available.
• The help panel is operated using Ctrl-[H]. The option to use [F1] instead has been removed so as not to cause confusion with the Image Browser which uses all the function keys for moving images to user-defined folders.

A Change to the NumLock Key
Previously, if you held down a CTRL key or if you had NumLock set ON, you could drag your mouse along the progress bar to rapidly "scrub"/"jog" though the video or audio. This now works with a CTRL key only. The NumLock key has been repurposed....

You can have multiple instances of MMP running and for videos you can hit Ctrl-[9] to have MMP auto-arrange up to 4 (or more) windows so they can all be viewed simultaneously. This is very useful for, say, comparing different resolutions of the same movie.

To facilitate this comparison, there are a number of keyboard commands that get sent to all MMP windows:

• [Spacebar] - Pause/Play
• [TAB] and Ctrl-[TAB] - [T]ab though the video/audio
• [T] and Ctrl-[T] - [T]ab through the video/audio
• [S] - [S]tart over/re[S]tart the video/audio
• [#] - show media file caption and its number (#) in the playlist
• [C] and Ctrl-[C] - show all [C]aptions including the media file meta-data
• [G] and Ctrl-[G] - [G]reater window size, and un[G]reater (i.e. smaller) window size
• and...
  • Auto-arrange All windows, Ctrl-[9] - initially 4 but it will actually operate on an unlimited number
  • Synchronize All [V]ideos/audios, [V] - so they all play from the same point
  • Close All MMP windows, Ctrl-[0]

This does cause a small problem though when you want to, for example, work on (and possibly edit) a video in one MMP window, while you have another MMP window playing music.: the background music will also skip or stop as you skip or stop through the video you're working on.

Consequently, the commands in the above list will now only be sent to all MMP windows if you have activated NumLock ON; if not, you will only control the window you're viewing.

The exceptions to this rule are the final three commands in the above list, Auto Arrange All, Synchronize All, and Close All, as these are, by design, intended to be broadcast to all MMP windows.

This will give you much finer control in a multi-MMP window scenario.

N.B. If your keyboard doesn't have a NumLock key and you wish to make use of these "universal" functions, please let me know, I already have a proposed solution in mind if people ask for it.

Any questions, please feel free to ask in Discussions.

Fixes

• There were some major issues running MMP on normal-sized monitors, e.g. 1920 x 1080, which caused the window to continually resize itself until it fitted the desktop - it was developed on a 3440 x 1342. These issues have now been resolved: MMP decides how big the window can be and then sets it once. This issue was a left-over from the old Windows Media Player-based version of this app. If I had known earlier that this was causing issues I would have removed the offending code much sooner. It pays to speak up, folks! :P
• When editing a video, setting an [I]n point was also performing a slight zoom [I]n of the video, and setting an [O]ut point was also performing a slight zoom [O]ut of the video. Bizarre. I apologize for not spotting this sooner!
• autoUpdate=yes in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf requires two files which I assumed(!) were automatically distributed with Windows 10 and Windows 11, namely libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll. Apparently not. They are now included in the full release zip file. Despite their names, they are 64-bit binaries.

Asset files
The "...full.zip" release file below contains everything you need to run Minimalist Media Player:

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

Replace all of your existing files!
(I strongly recommend that you do not download this zip file from any source other than Github)

All comments and suggestions for additional functionality or to highlight operational issues will be well received over on the Discussions page.

Thanks for taking an interest in Minimalist Media Player!

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