Release v3.0.3

[BazzaCuda]

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 [(u)] and down [(d)] arrow keys.
• 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) 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 that 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.

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!

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