Release v4.0.3

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder.
These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v4.0.3 =====

Fixes

An intermittent anomaly could happen after opening the Timeline Editing facility (Ctrl-E). Using the spacebar to stop and start the audio or video would very occasionally trigger the Export button prematurely. In testing, this was actually impossible to reproduce deliberately, but when it happened it was really annoying. Consequently, as the Stream List panel is entirely mouse-controlled, all keystrokes that might be directed to it should now be trapped and discarded.

If you still experience this anomaly at any time, please let me know.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think! What do you like? What don't you like? What other functionality would you find useful?

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Release v4.0.2

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder.
These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v4.0.2 =====

NEW

• a new control in the main MMP window, Ctrl-Shift [C], will [C]leanup audio/video timeline editing files in the current folder.
• This includes all .mmp, .log and .seg files and all the ...seg01.xyz-type exported segment files listed in the .seg files.
• If a .seg file has already been deleted, MMP will not try to identify the files that were listed in it. You will need to delete them manually.
• If you're using deleteMethod=shred, you can of course play any ...seg01.xyz-type audio or video file and [DEL] delete it.
• the shredding of multiple files is carried out simultaneously in concurrent threads.

CHANGES

• [K]ept files are now renamed with a leading "! " (exclamation point and space) instead of an underscore.
• Ctrl [K] [K]eep/Delete now keeps files that start with an exclamation point, not an underscore.
• This all-but guarantees that [K]ept files will surface to the top of any folder in your File Explorer software when sorted by name.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think! What do you like? What don't you like? What other functionality would you find useful?

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Release v4.0.1

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder.
These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v4.0.1 =====

NEW

• a new setting, exitBrowser=exitApp in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf. When you exit out of the Image & Thumbnail Browser this will also exit MMP.
• When used in conjunction with the existing openImage=browser you can, in effect, use MMP as two apps in one: the main window for playing and editing audio and video files; the Image & Thumbnail Browser for managing your images.
• a new control, Ctrl-[X] will e[X]it the Image & Thumbnail Browser ignoring the exitBrowser=exitApp setting and fall back to the main MMP window.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think! What do you like? What don't you like? What other functionality would you find useful?

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Release v4.0.0

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder. These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v4.0.0 =====

NEW

• Completely re-architected as an MVVM application, or more accurately, a V-VM-M application.
• a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, deleteMethod= can be set to recycle, delete or shred to give three different levels of deletion. The default is recycle: all deleted files will be restorable from the Windows Recycle Bin; delete: will require software to recover the contents of deleted files; shred: "When they're gone, they are gone!". Confirmation dialog warnings reflect the chosen level of deletion.
• MMP no longer uses the rot.exe application to carry out deletions and this can now be deleted from your MMP folder.
• if you choose shred as the delete method, for long operations, e.g. very large movie files, or thousands of very large images files, MMP will keep you informed as to how many shredding tasks are in progress. You won't be able to exit the app until they have completed.
• opening a Ctrl-[H] help panel or the [P] playlist panel or the Ctrl-[E] timeline editor will automatically resize the main window or the Image & Thumbnail Browser so that everything fits on the desktop. Closing those items will restore the window size. This allows the application to automatically accommodate more modest screen sizes, e.g. 1920 x 1080.
• Playlist Filtering: a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, playlistFormat= can be set to audio, image, video or nothing (meaning all). The main window will only show or play the file format you specify. This allows you to, for example, play a slideshow consisting entirely of images, or have an instance of MMP playing only audio files such as background music. If you have nextFolderOnEnd=yes, the newly-generated playlist for the next folder will only contain files of the specified format. Also, if you skip to the next file, e.g. with [W], MMP will skip to the next file of the specified format in the playlist, or if there isn't one, skip to the next folder that does have one. Playlist Filtering allows MMP to play through all the images, or just the audio files, or just the video files, on an entire drive while ignoring any other media formats.
• a new control, Ctrl-[P], will toggle Playlist Filtering on or off.
• when you launch MMP with a playlist format filter set, the initial playlist will contain all the media files in the current folder and will show/play the file you used to launched MMP, regardless of its media type. If you then filter the playlist with Ctrl-[P], MMP will only play the relevant files, ignoring the others.
• you can change the playlist filter format setting while MMP is running. It will be actioned on the very next file.
• If you use the spacebar on an image to start a slideshow, this will also respect your playlist filter format if you have specified one. In fact, when displaying an image in the main window, the [Spacebar] and Ctrl-[P] controls are synonymous.
• The current folder is displayed at the bottom of the playlist panel and updates as MMP navigates to other folders.
• you can now double-click the main window to toggle fullscreen mode.
• a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, repeatDelayMs= allows you to limit the keyboard repeat speed of the left (previous image) and right (next image) arrow keys when they're held down. The default is 100ms. More on this below.
• if you use Ctrl-[C] to display the media metadata captions, this will be recorded in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file and the metadata will be displayed next time you launch MMP and until you turn off the display again with Ctrl-[C].

Limiting the left and right arrow keys
If you hold down either of these keys you can rapidly flick backwards and forwards through a folder of images, very quickly viewing each image. However, it is possible, depending on the repeat speed of your keyboard, for the keyboard to issue the command for the next image before MPV has finished rendering the current image to the screen. Unfortunately, although MPV notifies client applications that a file has been loaded, it doesn't signal that the loaded image file has finished rendering to the screen, which is an entirely different matter. As a result, some images can appear to be skipped if you have a folder which is a mixture of large and small image files.

To help mitigate this issue, MMP sets a default arbitrary delay of 100ms between repeats of the left and right arrow keys. Whether this is long enough to display an image before it loads the next one depends on the speed of your computer and the size of the image files. If you have lots of very large images, e.g. 20MB or more, 100ms may not be long enough. Conversely, if you set the delay to 500ms (half a second), this may be noticeably too long for the majoriy of your image files and the browsing between images will seem very slow.

You can experiment with the repeatDelayMs= setting in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf until you find a speed which suits your computer and image collection. Note that one second is 1000ms. This setting affects both the main window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser. Note also that you only specify the digits; don't include "ms", e.g. repeatDelayMs=250 sets the delay to a quarter of a second.

Note that the repeatDelayMs= setting is currently the only setting in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf which is read only once when MMP first launches. If you change it, you will need to restart MMP.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think! What do you like? What don't you like? What other functionality would you find useful?

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Release v3.0.5

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder. These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v3.0.5 =====

Tweak
If you edit an audio or video file so that there is only one segment to be exported (which could either be the entire audio/video, or only part of it), MMP will now export even faster by omitting the "Joining" step.

Normally, after exporting several segments to separate files, MMP will join them into your final "[edited]" output file. It would also do this, however, even if you only exported one segment, so you would end up with, e.g., the "...seg01.mp4" file and an identical copy of this file in the "...[edited].mp4" file. Clearly, this is a waste of disk space, especially if both files are 10GB in size, and it's also a waste of time to perform a "join" of only one segment file which is, in effect, actually a "copy".

Now, when only one segment is exported, MMP will simply rename it to become the final file.

The observant among you may think I had already made this change in an earlier version. However, the previous change only applied when you exported the entire audio or video as one segment, "seg01". A subtle difference which I failed to spot. Now, for example, if you chop a file into three segments (two deleted segments either side of a segment for export, "seg02"), MMP will export the middle segment and immediately rename it to the final "[edited]" file, thus making editing even faster than it already was.

I hope that's clear. If not, feel free to ask.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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
• rot.exe

(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.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player!

Release v3.0.4

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder. These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

===== Release Notes v3.0.4 =====

BUG FIX
Bug introduced in v3.0.3. When you clicked on an image in File Explorer, MMP played that image and then immediately played the next image. Now fixed!

Fixes/Improvements
The Ctrl [H] Help panels are more compact and now resize themselves to be the same height as the main window. Also, each list of controls is now scrollable with either the scrollbars or the mouse wheel:

This makes them far more accommodating to more modest screen sizes, e.g. 1920x1080 laptops.

Ctrl [G] is also useful for reducing the size of the main window or the Image & Thumbnail Browser to fit both side by side on the desktop alongside the Help panel.

In the Ctrl [E] Timeline Editor, the side panel containing the segment and stream lists has also been made more compact:

The help panel can also be scrolled with either the scrollbars or the mouse wheel:

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player!

Release v3.0.3

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder. These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

MMP 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. Requires the new nextFolderOnEnd=yes setting. See below.

===== Release Notes v3.0.3 =====

New

• if you launch MMP with an image, a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, openImage=browser, will open the image directly in the Image & Thumbnail Browser. Any value other than "browser" will disable this.
• N.B. remember, you can associate MMP with all supported image formats by un-commenting the appropriate lines in mmp-install.bat. Specifically, remove the double colons :: at the start of the 7 lines following the line that says
  • :: uncomment the following lines to manually include image formats.
  • MMP will then become your default app for managing your library of audio, video and image files.
• if you are viewing an image in the main MMP window, Ctrl [I] will open the image in the Image & Thumbnail Browser. You can then use [T] to view the [T]humbnails for the current folder.
• In both cases, no matter where you navigate to in the Image & Thumbnail Browser, if you exit back to the main MMP window, you will return to the original image (unless, of course, you delete the image in the Image & Thumbnail Browser, in which case MMP will behave exactly as if you had deleted the image in the main MMP window and try to move on to the next item in the playlist).
• if you [Del] delete the last remaining item in the playlist or Ctrl [Del] the remaining contents of a folder or [S]ave the last remaining item out of the folder, a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, nextFolderOnEmpty=yes will automatically navigate to the next folder [that contains a media file!] and play the first item, or exit MMP if there is no next folder.
• after playing the final audio or video in a playlist, or the final image in a slideshow, a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf setting, nextFolderOnEnd=yes will automatically navigate to the next folder [that contains a media file!], create a playlist from it and continuing playing if there are playlist items to play. (By contrast, the slideshow in the Image & Thumbnail Browser always loops in the current folder)
• Ctrl [F] - a new control which will open your [F]ile Explorer at the current [F]older. This works both in the main MMP window and in the Image & Thumbnail Browser.
• Alternatively, in the Image & Thumbnail Browser you can now click on the folder panel in the status bar, where the current folder is being shown, and this will also open your File Explorer.
• Ctrl [V] - a new control In the main MMP window sets your system [V]olume to max (100%). You then control the volume of the audio/video file with the [Up] and [Down] arrow keys or the mouse wheel.
• If your system volume is muted, Ctrl [V] will also unmute it.
• If your MMP sound is muted, altering the volume with the [Up] and [Down] arrow keys (or your keyboard's volume media keys, or the mouse wheel) will unmute MMP. Note, this is entirely independent of your system volume and system mute.
• You can now manually edit the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file without having to re-launch MMP to effect your changes. If it has changed, the file will be reloaded the next time MMP needs to access any of the settings.
• if you turn on the slideshow in the main MMP window and have nextFolderOnEnd=yes specified in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file, MMP will play through every folder on a drive which contains supported media files, skipping those folders which don't.
• this may cause issues if you allow MMP into your "C:\Windows" (or whichever drive Windows is installed on) system folder. Consequently, a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file setting, allowIntoWindows= defaults to no.
• allowing MMP into "C:\Windows" is unlikely to cause your system any issues, but the behavior of MMP itself cannot be guaranteed. It can be interesting to occasionally see what's in there, though, including finding some tasty wallpaper images!
• for performance reasons, even when you allow MMP into your "C:\Windows" folder, MMP will ignore the "WinSxS" folder which contains tens of thousands of subfolders of no interest to you or MMP.
• When switching between images, audio files with album art, audio files without album art, and videos, MMP now does a much better job of selecting the appropriate window size.
• If you manually alter the window size with [G] or Ctrl-[G], or by dragging a corner or the bottom edge with the mouse, this cancels auto-maximize and the next file will not be maximized but will use the current window size and location as a basis. Pressing [M] to Maximize, re-instates auto-maximize; in the same way, if you drag the window somewhere it will stay there for subsequent files, and pressing [H] to center MMP horizontally (and vertically) will re-instate auto-center.

Changes

• [Backspace] Reset All no longer affects the brightness of the captions and the audio/video progress bar. You can set your preferred brightness for these and they will persist until you change them.
• [Backspace] Reset All affects the following: playback speed, image/video Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Pan, Rotation, Saturation, Zoom.

Control	Action
[B]	toggle [B]lackout of the progress [B]
Ctrl [B]	make the progress [B]ar and the captions brighter - can be held down for rapid change
Shift [B]	make the progress [B]ar and the captions darker - can be held down for rapid change
Ctrl Shift [B]	reset the progress [B]ar and the captions to their default color/brightness

• Although MPV supports playing playlists (.m3u8, .m3u, .pls), this has never been actively implemented in MMP. Support has been disabled for now to avoid problems.
• In the Ctrl [E] audio and video Timeline Editor, if your export is for just one segment (which may be the entire video), MMP will skip the Joining stage and simply rename the exported seg01 file to your final [edited] file rather than instructing FFmpeg to copy from one to the other. Apart from making the export even quicker, it also saves disk space by not having, for example, two identical copies of an edited 10GB movie on disk. This also speeds up certain operations such as when you just want to remove particular audio, video or subtitle streams from the original movie, or extract just the audio stream from it.
• Ctrl [9] to auto-arrange multiple MMP windows has been improved so that each window is correctly adapted to the aspect ratio of the video it is displaying even when mixing portrait and landscape videos. If you auto-arrange more than 4 video windows, they will now be displayed to fit in a single row right across the desktop. You can then manually re-arrange them and use [G] to make all of their windows [G]reater, simultaneously (as long as you have Numlock On).

Fixes

• Although the Image & Thumbnail Browser slideshow started at the user's image-display-duration= speed setting from mpv.conf (if it was specified), resetting the speed with [1] set it to the MMP default of 3 seconds rather than to the user's specified speed. This has now been fixed.
• Some videos with chapters have a zero-duration first chapter. This caused FFmpeg to fail trying to extract a zero-duration segment. Such initial chapters are now deleted from the media info.
• With audio and video, the cursor auto-located to the middle of the progress bar for clicking convenience when a new file played. However, this wasn't helpful when editing, so this has currently been disabled.
• launching MMP with a file which had no name but just an extension (e.g. ".mp4") caused a problem when sorting the playlist. The consequent "range check error" has been fixed. Such files will appear at the top of the playlist.
• After using another app, just clicking the window so you can send it keystrokes was enough for Windows to register it as a window drag, which would cancel auto-center. This has been fixed. You must now manually drag the window at least 10 pixels in any direction for it to cancel auto-centering.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

Known Issues
The Ctrl [H] Help panels are too large for modest-sized monitors, like 1920x1080. MMP is developed on a large, widescreen 3440x1440 gaming monitor, and this issue was discovered late on. Various solutions are being considered. In the meantime, Ctrl [G] to un[G]reater the size of the main window and dragging the window to the left will help to show the Help panels.

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

*...

v3.0.2

Windows 64-bit binaries.

This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box if you have v2.2.2 or later and the libeay32.dll
and ssleay32.dll files in your MMP folder. These release notes can be read in a more user-friendly window from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed.

New

• For images displayed in the main window, ad[J]ust Aspect Ratio ([J]) has been reinstated (it's already a feature of the Image & Thumbnail Browser). This assists you in sizing the window (and therefore the image) to your required size before saving the image to another file as a hi-res [F5] screenshot. The display dimensions will be displayed in the lower right corner (as is already the case when resizing the window with either the mouse or with [G] and Ctrl [G]).
• the URL for the Wiki site has been added to the Ctrl [A] About Box.
• Ctrl [W] will open the Wiki site in your default interwebs browser. Works both in the main MMP window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser.
• Ctrl [N] toggles the Numlock key ON and OFF - or OFF and ON. Not all keyboards have a Numlock key. Having Numlock ON allows you to control any number of MMP windows simultaneously. Turning Numlock OFF allows you to control the current MMP window in isolation - useful if you have one MMP instance playing background music while you manage your image library in another 'MMP' instance. N.B. For those with keyboards that also don't have a Numlock LED light, you need my KBInds (Keyboard Indicators) tray icon: KBInds which shows you the status of the Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock keys.
• when viewing an image in the main window, Up Arrow and Down Arrow will navigate to the Previous Folder and the Next Folder, respectively. This doesn't work with audio/image files as they alter the volume.
• in the main window, [D] will navigate to the Next [D]irectory/Folder as is already the case in the Image & Thumbnail Browser.
• in the main window, Ctrl [D] will navigate to the Previous [D]irectory/Folder (this has also been added to the Image & Thumbnail Browser in addition to [E]).
• in the main window, when viewing the final item of the playlist, if it is an image, MMP will not exit when you press any "Next item" control, nor if it's the last image in a running slideshow.
• you can now auto-select specific language subtitles in mpv.conf - see the wiki page on subtitles for more details.
• when you alter the window size, both the main window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser show the dimensions of the displayed image. These are the dimensions that any saved image ([F5] or Ctrl [S]) will have.
• you are able to mark any media file as "Keep" by pressing [K]. This actually renames the file to include a leading underscore _ which brings that file to the top of the folder in your File Explorer to distinguish it from the rest of the folder contents. A new control Ctrl [K] will delete all files in the current folder which have not been marked as "Keep", i.e. only those that start with an underscore will remain. As with Ctrl [Del] the contents of any subfolders in the current folder are left entirely intact.
  In addition to the big warning message that is displayed when you select Ctrl [K]...
  
  ... in order to use this functionality you must explicitly enable it in MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf by adding the line keepDelete=yes. Without this setting, MMP will refuse to carry out a Ctrl [K] Keep/Delete operation.

File Deletion
There are now two ways in which you can control which deletion operations MMP will carry out.

=== Option 1 ===

In the ''MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf'' file, the following settings are available from v3.0.2:

Setting	Effect
audioDelete=yes/no	whether ''MMP'' can delete individual audio files
imageDelete=yes/no	whether ''MMP'' can delete individual image files
videoDelete=yes/no	whether ''MMP'' can delete individual video files
folderDelete=yes/no	whether ''MMP'' can delete the contents of entire folders (but never any subfolders)
keepDelete=yes/no	whether ''MMP'' can delete all but the "Kept" files in a folder (but never any subfolders)

If you attempt to carry out a deletion operation which conflicts with your settings in the ''MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf'' file, even after you have confirmed the delete, you will received the following message:

The default for each of these settings (and if they're not currently in your .conf file at all) is 'no' so you will have to explicitly set them for v3.0.2 to carry them out.

=== Option 2 ===

All deletion operations are delegated to the ''rot.exe'' program that comes with MMP.
The MMP application itself contains NO file deletion code of its own.
Consequently, if you delete or rename the ''rot.exe'' program, MMP cannot delete any files even if you confirm their deletion!

N.B. Warning! Files that you get MMP to delete are not recoverable. When they're gone, they are GONE!
A future version of MMP may have the option of deleting to the Recycle Bin but only if people ask for it.

Changes
The controls for Brightness and Contrast have been switched. This actually makes both sets easier to remember. Most users are likely to go for the Brightness controls before they think of altering the Contrast. Conseqently, the Brightness controls have been assigned to the three prime location keys at the end of the number row on a standard QWERTY keyboard, [0] [-] [=].
[2] [8] [9] are now the Contrast controls with [2] being the reset. Fortuitously, this keeps the [2] [3] [4] reset keys in alphabetical order: Contrast, Pan, Rotate.

Minor Fixes

• when you set infinite repeat on or off with Ctrl [R], the confirmation caption saying "Repeat on" or "Repeat off" was the wrong way round.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow by the day. 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.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player!

Release v3.0.1

Windows 64-bit binaries.

Minor fixes

• MediaInfo reports some JPG file contents as video streams! Consequently, MMP wasn't getting the dimensions of these images.
• Adjust Aspect Ratio ([J]) in the Image & Thumbnail Browser is significantly more accurate, particularly in view of the above fix.
• trying to delete a non-existent bookmark for an audio or video file would result in an "Out of Bounds -1" error message.

Wiki site
The fully-detailed wiki at minimalistmediaplayer.com continues to grow, daily.

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

(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.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks for taking an interest in MMP: Minimalist Media Player!

Release v3.0.0.

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 1440. 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!