MinimalistMediaPlayerX 3.0.2

Multimedia
11 June 2024, 10:47

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A simple but very effective media player built on MPV's API, libMPV-2.dll

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, Minimalist Media Playerprovides a wealth of functions via the keyboard and mouse for manipulating the user-interface and the media files themselves.

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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.
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 F1 or Ctrl-H. The full functionality of Minimalist Media Player can be used while this panel is showing so you can try things out.
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.
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 repetition.

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