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===== Release Notes v6.2.3 =====
in the Main Media Window, animations can optionally be turned off when rotating videos or album art
a new setting for this is on the Animations tab of the [Shift-Backslash] Config Dialog
various minor tweaks and fixes
===== Release Notes v6.2.2 =====
when using Ctrl-[9] to auto-arrange multiple MMP video windows on the desktop, animations will be skipped
closure animations will still occur when using Ctrl-[0] to close all the windows simultaneously
===== Release Notes v6.2.1 =====
Animated Window
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as promised when v6.2.0 was released, the closure animation will now happen "in-place" wherever you have moved or resized the Main Media Window or the Image & Thumbnail Browser to on the desktop
fixed the "Open in Editor" issue introduced in v6.2.0
launching MMP directly into the Main Media Window for an image instead of into the Image & Thumbnail Browser is now deprecated
the long-recommended setting of "Open in [the Image & Thumbnail] Browser" when launching MMP with an image is now the standard functionality
exiting MMP when you exit the Image & Thumbnail Browser is also now standard functionality
you can still drop back to the Main Media Window for images if you wish using Ctrl-[X] in the Image & Thumbnail Browser
the Config Dialog has been amended to reflect the deprecation of the legacy functionality
minor tweaks to the animation mechanism to ensure it doesn't activate when not required
===== Release Notes v6.2.0 =====
Animated Window
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MMP now boasts a cool new feature, particularly when playing videos, or when playing audio files that contain cover art
the Main Media Window will adapt smoothly to the new video or cover art dimensions
in the case of videos, this mimics being at the cinema when the screen resizes after the adverts and trailers to accommodate the size of the featured movie
the animations don't delay the start of playback whatsoever
launching straight into the Image & Thumbnail Browser to display an image can also be animated
when using [J] and [M] to adjust the window size to the aspect ratio of the image, the adjustment can be smoothly animated
exiting MMP and exiting the Image & Thumbnail Browser can be animated to give a very nice "closure" effect
the closure animation will currently only happen if auto-center is still in operation, which generally means that you haven't moved or resized the window with the mouse
this will be addressed in a future release
a new tab in the Config Dialog lets you edit the default settings:
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Visual and Performance Enhancements
thumbnails are drawn quicker and more efficiently
eliminated the little flash/blip that happens after a full page of thumbnails has been drawn
eliminated the Main Media Window showing very briefly when you use an image to launch MMP directly into the Image & Thumbnail Browser
eliminated the Main Media Window displaying a small blank window which then gets resized to the size of the video you used to launch MMP
a brief "Loading playlist..." notice appears when launching MMP with a large folder containing thousands of images
you can now hit [Escape] to exit the About Box when it has been launched from the Image & Thumbnail Browser
when viewing thumbnails, holding down the [G] to increase the window size multiple times could result in the thumbnails being drawn over and over again until the keyboard buffer was exhausted. This has now been fixed
this also means that the thumbnail page can be now be resized by dragging a window edge. The thumbnails' response to the resize is now crisper and more decisive
===== Release Notes v6.1.0 =====
NEW FEATURES
New ControlAction
Ctrl-Shift-[P]create a Preview/Contact Sheet
create a Preview/Contact Sheet almost instantly
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in the .conf file (and the Config Dialog) you can
set the percentage of the video to skip at the beginning to allow for opening logos, etc (defaults to 5%)
set the percentage of the video to ignore at the end to allow for closing credits (defaults to 5%)
set the number of columns and rows (defaults to 4x5 - 5x5 shown as a non-default example)
set the width of each thumbnail (defaults to 300 pixels)
set whether you want to view the Contact/Preview Sheet as soon as it's created (opens in a new instance of MMP)
set whether you want the Preview Sheet saved as a high quality JPG or an even higher resolution PNG
these options are configurable from a new tab in the Config Dialog:
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the new tab can also be accessed directly from the Options tab in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor:
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Improvements
fixed a minor issue when exporting one single segment where you end up with both the exported segment and the final edited file, both of which are identical. This wastes disk space. The functionality to simply rename the one exported segment to the final edited file got lost during the many v6.0.0 enhancements. It has been restored
in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor when showing the default "Segment nn" segment titles, when you cut a segment in two you could end up with two segments with the same title and one wouldn't match its segment number. This didn't affect the export but it was a little confusing, visually. Segment titles are now kept unique
the ability to remove audio Covert Art from a file entirely by deselecting its stream has been restored
for some non-standard videos, if no streams were reported in the Editor, the Export button was disabled. It is now enabled regardless. When there are no streams reported and you only have the one default segment for the entire video, when you click Export, MMP will simply make a copy of the video file. This uses slightly different ffmpeg parameters from the current Copy facility, so between the two of them, you should be able to copy a malformed video file and edit the copy instead
the countdown of active shredding tasks reported in both the Main Media Window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser now gives a smoother countdown, particularly when there are large numbers of files involved
you can now edit files which contain apostrophes in their file name. Previously, such a file would break the ffmpeg command line parameters but a fix for this has now been implemented. Until now, MMP actively prevented you from opening the Editor until you had fixed the file name. This restriction has now been lifted
if you already have the Audio & Video Timeline Editor open, the lower parts of the Ctrl-[H] quick Help panel and the [P] Playlist panel will now display on top of the Segments & Streams Panel
New Look Image & Thumbnail Browser
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the browser now follows the Main Media Window theming without a standard thick window frame. This makes images more immersive and focal, the same as with videos. It also makes the browser more responsive to resizing and to drawing thumbnails
on that point, when viewing thumbnails, the best way to resize the window is still with [G] and Ctrl-[G] as it resizes based on the size of the thumbnails, which makes it significantly faster to respond than trying to drag a window edge with the mouse
the lack of a standard window frame (with the exception of the title bar) makes the status bar and all its information much more subtle and unobtrusive, and keeps the displayed image as the main focus
when first launched, the Image & Thumbnail Browser window will match the aspect ratio of the image that launched it so that the image fits the window perfectly. Of course, you can always use [J] or [M] on any image:
[J] will ad[J]ust the window's height to match the image's aspect ratio
[M]aximize will do the same thing but at the largest size for the height of your monitor
with the browser, you can get a lot done with the window and the displayed image using just a combination of [G], Ctrl-[G], [H], [J] and [M], all handily-located in the middle of your keyboard
===== Release Notes v6.0.0 =====
NEW & ENHANCED FEATURES
a subtle prettification of the playlist background (example from the audio player):
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the shred-delete function has been optimized for modern SSDs and is now significantly faster: 66.67% faster in fact
New in the Main Media Window
when listening to videos through an external audio device, the audio can sometimes lag behind the video picture. New controls Ctrl-[\] and Ctrl-[/] now let you adjust the audio/video sync to bring forward the audio [relative to the video] in order to remove the lag
in addition to all the many [Tab] and [T]abbing controls for tabbing/skipping/advancing/rewinding forwards and backwards through an audio or video, you can now Shift-Left-Arrow and Shift-Right-Arrow to skip backwards/forwards by a set number of seconds which you can specify in the "skipSeconds=" setting in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file. MMP will default to 5
when you delete the current audio or video file ([Del]), you can also opt to cleanup, at the same time, any remaining Audio & Video Timeline Editor files in the current folder. These two operation frequently go hand-in-hand when editing audio/video files so combining them adds additional convenience for the user; Shift-[DEL] will carry out a combined [DEL] and Ctrl-Shift-[C]
the Confirm Delete Dialog will notify that this will occur and will require you to check the "Are you sure?" box
New ControlAction
Ctrl-[\]bring audio forward, relative to the video
Ctrl-[/]delay audio, relative to the video
Shift-[] right arrowskip forwards 5 seconds or skipSeconds= value in .conf file
Ctrl-[] left arrowskip backwards 5 seconds or skipSeconds= value in .conf file
Shift-[Del]do a combined [Del] and Ctrl-Shift-[Del] to cleanup Timeline Editor files
New in the Image & Thumbnail Browser
a new audio/video panel was added to the status bar in v5.4.0 which lights up to alert you when the current folder also contains audio and/or video files. As of v6.0.0, if you click this panel you will exit out to the Main Media Window where the current image will be displayed. You can then view the playlist ([P]) to see which audio/files are in the current folder. Unless you play any of these files, Ctrl-[I] will re-show the image back in the Image & Thumbnail Browser or [T] will re-open the browser in [T]humbnail mode. Alternatively, if you do play one of the audio/video files in the playlist, [Y] will immediately re-open the Image & Thumbnail Browser, albeit in [T]humbnail mode
clicking the audio/video panel is the equivalent of the existing functionality of using Ctrl-[X] to eXit the Image & Thumbnail Browser and drop back to the Main Media Window, or by clicking the window's X in the top right corner to do the same
in previous versions, if you made adjustments to an image (Brightness, Contrast, Rotation, etc.) the right/left arrow key navigation controls would be disabled so that you didn't lose your adjustments by accidentally hitting an arrow key and moving to another image. Now, your adjustments are applied to every image you navigate to until you cancel some or all of the adjustments. Consequently, moving to another image and back again, whether accidentally or not, will not lose your adjustments, so the arrow keys are no longer disabled
all the [F1]-[F12] function keys are reserved for user-defined folders meaning that the [F10], [F11] and [F12] keys to launch external applications have until now only been available from the Main Media Window. By dexterous use of a [Ctrl] key in combination with [F10], [F11] or [F12], external applications can now also be launched from the Image & Thumbnail Browser, with the full path to the displayed image file passed as a parameter to said application
Ctrl-[Z] has been added as an alias for Ctrl-[U]ndo, to undo the previous move/save
[T] will now switch between [T]humbnail mode and viewing the current image full size. Previously, you could only exit [T]humbnail mode by clicking on a thumbnail to view the full size image
New ControlAction
Ctrl-[F10]launch an external app with the current image
Ctrl-[F11]launch an external app with the current image
Ctrl-[F12]launch an external app with the current image
[T]toggle/switch between [T]humbnail mode and a full size image
Ctrl-[Z]alias for Ctrl-[U] - undo the previous move/save
click Audio/Video alert paneldrop back to the Main Media Window to view audio and video files
New Full Help Dialog
v6.0.0 introduces a brand new Full Help dialog (Ctrl-Shift-[H]) to assist you in understanding everything that MMP can do and to assist with learning the many controls, so that you can get the best use of MMP. MMP provides around 200 mouse and keyboard functions for playing, viewing and managing your entire library of audio, video and image files, and for carrying out fast (really fast!), lossless editing of audio and video files, without the time-consuming need to re-encode them. It has been a concern for some time now that it can be a little overwhelming for new users to get a grip on just how much functionality is actually built into MMP - the minimalist design obviously bears some responsibility for this. The new Full Help dialog is in addition to the current "Quick Help" summary help panels (Ctrl-[H])
All of the MMP controls can continue to be used while this new help dialog is open
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the new fully-integrated Full Help panel includes a previous-next, history navigation mechanism and the ability to jump directly to related sections of the Help Dialog, the Config Dialog and the official Ctrl-[W] Wiki
both the Full Help Dialog and the Config Dialog can be open at the same time. You can close each one in turn using [Escape]
New in the Config Dialog
a new tab has been added for setting keyframes permanently on. The Config Dialog as a whole aims to be instructional and informative about how to use the features of MMP, rather than just provide a series of obscure check boxes, and the new tab follows in this vein:
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the Config Dialog has been enhanced to make navigating the various tabs easier and now uses the same approach as the new Full Help panel with the topics also listed on the left in addition to tab captions
the topics are listed in alphabetical order on the left, and the tabs are arranged in order of typical frequency of use
the explanation of the Playlist Filter options in the Config Dialog has been brought up-to-date
New in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor
the color palette for the Timeline and the Segments & Streams Panel has been softened and some color added to make it all easier on the eyes rather than the previous rather stark monochrome color palette
when editing audio files, album cover art is now included as a stream and can be included or excluded from the exported file just like any other stream
if an audio file doesn't contain cover art, you can attach a "cover.jpg" file to the exported file
a right-click on a segment will toggle whether that segment will be included or excluded from the final edit. As this doesn't alter which segment is currently selected in the Timeline, this is more convenient than having to left-click a segment to firstly select it, and then having to press [X] or [R] to e[X]clude a segment or to [R]estore a previously e[X]cluded segment
the correlation between MediaInfo's stream indexes/indices and FFmpeg's has been greatly improved. The editor now lists streams according to the indexes that FFmpeg will assign them. This makes exports more robust, especially for non-standard video containers, and helps when examining the .log file after exporting your edited media file
you can now create chapters in your exported file from your exported segments. They can be given titles
previously, chapter titles were initially loaded from the media file but then discarded
chapter titles are now saved to the .mmp file containing your segment definitions
double-clicking a segment in the Timeline Editor or in the Segments & Streams Panel pops up a dialog for you to edit the segment/chapter title
if you wish, you can display chapter titles for editing purposes but not have the chapters created in the exported file
===== Release Notes v5.4.0 =====
** NEW **
Audio & Video Timeline Editor:
KeyFrame processing has been completely rewritten
ffprobe only returns keyframe information for the minute currently being played
keyframe information will only be retrieved for the parts of the video you actually view during editing
rather than running ffprobe in the background to return the keyframe information for the entire video in one go, the .key file (and the keyframe cache) is now built-up gradually, minute by minute. This enormously speeds-up keyframe info retrieval
This is particularly true using a sample 4K, VP9 animated movie for which an enormous amount of keyframe info would be returned by ffprobe. This has now been reduced to no more than a few seconds. For standard videos, the info is obtained almost instantaneously
when you turn on keyframes in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor using [F], this will be confirmed in the notification area (bottom right corner) with keyframes on
subsequently, each time you jump to a new section of the video for which keyframe info has not yet been retrieved, the notification area will display keyframes... indicating that new keyframe info is being retrieved from ffprobe
the progress bar will flash when the keyframe info has been retrieved and is in operation for the minute of video currently being viewed
there is now very little gap between these two notification signals and in many cases they will appear simultaneously
if you simply play through a video, you will see that each time it hits the minute mark, the new keyframe info is retrieved and the progress bar flashes
the ffprobe parameters have been tweaked to make ffprobes's keyframe retrieval faster and more efficient, ironically by getting it to report more info than previously, and then performing some post-processing on the keyframe info
if a .key file already exists for a video when the Audio & Video Timeline Editor initializes for that video file, the keyframe info from that .key file will be preloaded when you turn on keyframes with [F], and the progress bar will flash to signal that it was loaded
if the .key file is out of date for the video being edited, it will be cleared and rebuilt as you view the video, as described above
only one ffprobe keyframe-info-retrieval process will run at a time. If you grab the editor's vertical cursor and drag it along the timeline, you will populate some of the keyframe info for the minutes you have dragged through, but not all. There is no advantage to trying to pre-load the keyframe info cache using the vertical cursor
a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file setting keyframes= can be set to yes or no. Keyframe processing is so fast now that it is viable to permanently default to keyframes being on when the Audio & Video Timeline Editor is opened. This option will be added to the Shift-[\] Config Dialog in a subsequent release. For now, the setting will need to be set manually
if you perform a Ctrl-Shift-[C] auto-cleanup of Audio & Video Timeline Editor files with the editor open and keyframes set on, the .key file for the current video will deleted. However, the in-memory keyframe cache will remain intact for as long as the editor remains open. The next time the editor needs to obtain new keyframe info, the entire .key file will be rebuilt from the keyframe cache and saved back to disk
FIXED
In v5.3.2 if you exported an edited video when the previous export already existed (the [edited] version), MMP issued an unnecessary "hard stop" to MPV while it deleted the previous export. Once this happened there was no way to resume playback of the video being edited without either
going to another video in the playlist and then back to the original
closing and re-opening MMP
manually deleting the previous [edited] export before exporting again
===== Release Notes v5.3.2 =====
** NEW **
Image & Thumbnail Browser: when browsing through your image folders, a new panel in the status bar will light up when there are also audio and/or video files in the current folder. This is in addition to the current warning you already get if you try to mass-delete the current folder's contents from the Image & Thumbnail Browser and that folder also contains audio and/or video files mixed in with the image files you've been viewing
FIXES
Main Media Window: fixed minor "end-of-drive" issue when nextFolderOnEnd and nextFolderOnEmpty are set, and MMP gets to the end of the drive without finding another audio/video file to play. This issue was probably only apparent in development builds not in release builds
Main Media Window: the code which searches for the next media file to play (when nextFolderOnEnd and nextFolderOnEmpty are set) has been rewritten to better allow for it to navigate through hundreds of folders which don't contain a suitable file. Previously, this could cause a silent "overflow" error and MMP would close. MMP will now correctly search until the end of the drive to find a suitable media file to play
after completing a Ctrl-[K] Keep/Delete operation, the playlist is now rebuilt and will contain only the remaining "Kept" files
various other minor fixes, corrections and efficiency improvements
===== Release Notes v5.3.1 =====
** FIXES **
Prevent the Audio & Video Timeline Editor from trying to react to messages when it's in the process of closing
Minor bug fixes, memory-management tweaks, and resource clean-up on Exit
Minor tweak to popup dialog messages
===== Release Notes v5.3.0 =====
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
When exporting an edited video in the Timeline Editor, FFmpeg might report an error when extracting one or more segments of the video
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Clicking the Rerun button will display something similar to this [contrived example]:
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such messages often mention problems with the stream mapping, e.g. "Stream map '' matches no streams" (see the first line of red text, above)
although FFmpeg error messages can seem daunting, the solution to this one, and several others, is to simply have FFmpeg make its own copy of the video file
when doing so, FFmpeg reads and rewrites all the streams it finds. This can often correct problems caused by some video-creation software
Making an MMP / FFmpeg-compatible copy of the video file has now been automated
with the Ctrl-[E] Timeline Editor open, hold down Ctrl-Shift and move the mouse over the Export button
the Export button will change to Copy
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when you click Copy, MMP will make a copy of both the media file and its corresponding .mmp file
it will also make a copy of any keyframe .key file
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the copy operation will be as quick as if you were to copy the file yourself
the file name of the copy will match the original with the addition of [c], e.g. "myvideo [c].mp4"
a Console window will open showing you the progress of the FFmpeg copy operation
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for large video files (the example above is a 9GB file which took ~20 seconds to copy), the most useful information is the time=hh:mm:ss.ms timestamp on the last line which will show where FFmpeg has got to
you can cancel the copy operation by clicking the Cancel button or by closing this Console window
the copy will be loaded into the current playlist and will be loaded into the Timeline Editor
the file will be positioned at the correct timestamp
if the [audio or] video file was playing during the copy operation, the copy will continue playing at the exact point at which the copy operation completed, otherwise playback will be paused
although not guaranteed, for many common FFmpeg problems with video files, when you click Export now, it often results in a successful export of your edited video
FIXES
in most media files, stream IDs tend to correlate with the stream indices. Occasionally, this isn't the case. Either way, MMP should only use stream IDs for display purposes in the Segments & Streams panel, and only use stream indices in FFmpeg parameters. This is now the case
ASSETS
this release includes new versions of ffmpeg.exe, ffprobe.exe, MediaInfo.dll and libmpv-2.dll (MPV as a library)
you will need to update these manually: Auto Update will only update MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe
you are advised to make backup copies of your existing files before overwriting them
===== Release Notes v5.2.0 =====
IMPORTANT FIXES
there was an occasional, intermittent, non-predictable, non-repeatable access violation when delete-shredding or Ctrl-[M] moving the currently-playing video. This caused a continuous stream of popup error messages to be generated, and required the user to manually kill MMP using a Task Manager. The cause of this problem appears to have been identified and fixed
doing a Ctrl-[M] move of the current video when the Timeline Editor was open caused the Timeline Editor to create and maintain a .mmp editor file for the moved video in the destination Moved= folder, rather than in the current folder for the next video actually being edited. Consequently, any subsequent Export operation worked on the moved video file instead. A bizarre and elusive bug which has now has been fixed
GitHub has once again changed the URL entries for images included in release notes. Auto Update now allows for the new entries when downloading release notes and images will be correctly displayed when viewing release notes from the Ctrl-[A] About Box
launching MMP when there are existing .segnn. segment files created by the Timeline Editor results in those video segment files correctly being included in the playlist for the current folder. Doing a subsequent Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files will now remove them from the playlist, whereas previously they remained in the playlist
when you batch-delete/shred several files at a time, e.g. with Ctrl-[Del] folder contents, or Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files, MMP will prevent you from issuing further deletion operations until the current batch-delete operation has completed
the previous release broke the Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files so that nothing happened. This has been corrected
===== Release Notes v5.1.6 =====
FIXES
There were two notable issues when deleteMethod=recycle:
Firstly, the delete/recycle code wasn't calling the full Unicode-supported Windows API. Consequently, it wasn't clear if files that contained Unicode characters were always recycled correctly
Secondly, not all removable drives are supported by the Windows Recycle Bin. If you try to delete a file to the Recycle Bin from an unsupported drive, Windows will simply delete the file
For example, a standard 2TB NTFS-formatted SanDisk USB Drive is likely to be supported by the Windows Recycle Bin; conversely, a Micro SD card mounted as a drive via a USB adaptor might not be supported
if you have set deleteMethod=recycle and try to delete a file, MMP will now check whether that drive is supported by the Windows Recycle Bin
if it is, MMP will continue with the delete/recycle operation
if not, MMP will now warn you that continuing with the delete operation will simply delete the file(s)
e.g. for removable drives:
For fixed drives which have been set to not use the Windows Recycle Bin:
N.B. If you choose to continue, the usual confirmation dialog will appear asking if you want to delete the file(s); it will report your deleteMethod=recycle setting but will warn that you are about to delete the file rather than recycle it
===== Release Notes v5.1.5 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
After issuing a Ctrl-Shift-[C] to Cleanup Timeline Editing files, the progress of the deletion process wasn't being displayed correctly in the notification area in the bottom righthand corner of the window. This issue was created in the previous release trying to fix the intermittent error described below in Known Issues. As far as I know, this only occurs when the delete method is set to Shred
TWEAKS
When the Main Media-Player Window is centered in the middle of the screen and you Ctrl-[E] to open the Timeline Editor, the window will only be shifted left (off-center) in order to ensure that the whole of the Streams & Segments Panel is displayed and isn't cut off at the righthand edge of your monitor
Previously, MMP always shifted left the entire width of the Streams & Segments Panel, even when this was unnecessary
Now, it will only shift left the amount of pixels required to have the panel on-screen, as necessary
Having the editing session centered is more visually appealing
===== Release Notes v5.1.4 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following the deletion of the current media file, the item is removed from the current folder's playlist. In this scenario, MMP didn't always correctly identify which item in the playlist should be played next. This bug was introduced as an unintended, unexpected and unnoticed side-effect of the previous fix and has now, itself, been fixed
when deleting the final item in the playlist, or the last remaining item in the playlist, MMP will continue to the next folder if Next Folder on End or Next Folder on Empty has been set in the config dialog
if neither of these is set, MMP will close
===== Release Notes v5.1.3 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following a Ctrl-[M]ove of a media file to the user-defined "moved=" folder, or following a Shift-[S]ave of a media file to the user-defined "saved=" folder, the item is removed from the current folder's playlist. In this scenario, MMP didn't always correctly identify which item in the playlist should be played next. This has now been fixed
when moving or saving the final item in the playlist, or the last remaining item in the playlist, MMP will continue to the next folder if Next Folder on End or Next Folder on Empty has been set in the config dialog
if neither of these is set, MMP will close
===== Release Notes v5.1.2 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following a Ctrl-[M]ove of a video file to the designated user-defined "moved=" folder, an intermittent issue could occur whereby MMP would repeatedly throw an access violation, but only for some video files not others
this could also happen intermittently after shredding particular video files (deleteMethod=shred)
this required the MMP process to be ended in a Task/Process Manager
this release attempts to address this by forcefully stopping a video file prior to these operations
for consistency, this fix has also been applied to the Shift-[S]ave operation
===== Release Notes v5.1.1 =====
if you do a Ctrl-[Del]ete in the Image & Thumbnail Browser to delete all the remaining files in the current folder, before progressing to the Confirm Delete dialog, MMP will warn you if the folder also contains audio and/or video files which you may have overlooked while you were browsing the images. You will have the option to either proceed to the normal Confirm Delete dialog or to cancel the delete operation immediately
minor bug fix: when renaming an image file in the Image & Thumbnail Browser, pressing Enter/Return to close the dialog box also proceeded to the next image
Release v5.1.0
This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box
These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed, as well as the release notes for all previous releases.
Use Shift-[\] to open the MMP config dialog
Use Ctrl-[H] to open a [H]elp panel
Don't forget, the recommendation is to set openImage=browser and exitBrowser=exitApp and to associate all your audio, video and image file extensions with MMP using the provided mmp-install.bat file. This operates MMP as [in effect] two applications in one: the main media-playing window for playing (and editing) audio and video files, and the Image & Thumbnail Browser for viewing and managing all your image files. See the wiki to get the most from your use of MMP, particularly the MMP Config File topic
===== Release Notes v5.1.0 =====
NEW
SHUFFLE
There is now a shuffle mode which can be toggled on and off using the Shift-[Home] key
this applies to all media types being played/displayed in the Main Media Window
if you set a playlist filter in the Shift-[\] (shift-backslash) config dialog, e.g. to audio, this will ensure that MMP doesn't display an album cover image file that you might have in the playlist folder and stop on it
with Shuffle set ON, the Main Media Window's image slideshow will be random rather than sequential and will run continuously. (Normally it would stop at the end of the folder/playlist)
during playback you can navigate to another folder/directory ([D] next folder, Ctrl-[D] prev folder) and shuffle playback will continue
during playback, any command for "Play Next" will select a random file in the playlist to play/display
you can still select any file to play immediately using the [P]laylist Panel. Shuffle will continue at the end of playing that file
the on/off status of Shuffle Mode will be remembered when you close and subsequently relaunch MMP
the [P]laylist panel will indicate whether the current playlist folder is being shuffled
shuffle mode doesn't affect the operations and, in particular, the slideshow of the Image & Thumbnail Browser: both slideshows deliberately operate slightly differently to one another to give you the choice of which slideshow to use in any given situation
PLAYLIST FILTER
A combined Audio & Video filter has been added to the Playlist Filter in the Shift-[\] (Shift-Backslash) config dialog. Ostensibly, this is so that if your music folder contains a mixture of audio files and music videos, all of them will be included in that folder's playlist
The playlist filter is now applied when you launch MMP regardless of the type of media file you use to launch MMP from your file explorer application
Regardless of the playlist filter, you can still launch 'MMP' with any type of [supported] media file
Regardless of the playlist filter, the launch file will always be included in the playlist even when it doesn't match the filter
If you launch MMP and forget that you had a playlist filter set, you can change the filter in the config dialog and then re[L]oad the playlist. The playlist will be rebuilt from the current folder
The file you are currently viewing will only be included in the rebuilt playlist if it matches the playlist filter
If it doesn't match, when the end of that file is reached, MMP will continue with the first item in the rebuilt playlist, or a random item if Shuffle is on
If you intentionally launch MMP with a file that doesn't match your playlist filter, you can immediately eliminate it from the playlist using re[L]oad playlist
This way, you can view an album's artwork and then listen to the album on shuffle without the album artwork appearing again
Note, if you have "open image(s) in browser" set, you can drop out of the Image & Thumbnail Browser back to the Main Media Window with Ctrl-[X], and then re[L]oad and play the rebuilt playlist
FIXED
with the "Next Folder on Empty [folder]" setting OFF, the Main Media Window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser now close the application correctly any time you perform a command which, in effect, clears the remaining playable/viewable items in the playlist folder:
[Del]ete the one remaining file in a folder
Ctrl-[Del]ete all remaining files in a folder
Ctrl-[K]eep/Delete all files not marked as [K]eep
in the Main Media Window: Ctrl-[M]ove or Shift-[M]ove the one remaining file to the "Moved" user-defined folder
in the Main Media Window: Shift-[S]ave the one remaining file to the user-defined "Saved" folder
in the Image & Thumbnail Browser: [S]ave the one remaining image to the user-defined "Saved" folder
N.B. after Ctrl-[K]eep/Delete, when you're left with just the [K]eep files in a folder, MMP reasonably assumes you're now done managing the files in the playlist folder and treats this situation just like any other end-of-playlist/end-of-folder condition, applying the "Next Folder on Empty [folder]" setting
KNOWN ISSUES
There are currently no known issues. If you experience one, please create a New Issue at https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/issues and it will be investigated immediately
Keyframes
The wiki article on keyframes is now available at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/keyframes
There is also an example editing session at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/editingexample showing how to use the new keyframes functionality to achieve clean edits, with video clips showing the difference that using keyframes can make
Ctrl-[W] in MMP will quickly take you to the wiki
in the Main Media Window, animations can optionally be turned off when rotating videos or album art
a new setting for this is on the Animations tab of the [Shift-Backslash] Config Dialog
various minor tweaks and fixes
===== Release Notes v6.2.2 =====
when using Ctrl-[9] to auto-arrange multiple MMP video windows on the desktop, animations will be skipped
closure animations will still occur when using Ctrl-[0] to close all the windows simultaneously
===== Release Notes v6.2.1 =====
Animated Window
output
as promised when v6.2.0 was released, the closure animation will now happen "in-place" wherever you have moved or resized the Main Media Window or the Image & Thumbnail Browser to on the desktop
fixed the "Open in Editor" issue introduced in v6.2.0
launching MMP directly into the Main Media Window for an image instead of into the Image & Thumbnail Browser is now deprecated
the long-recommended setting of "Open in [the Image & Thumbnail] Browser" when launching MMP with an image is now the standard functionality
exiting MMP when you exit the Image & Thumbnail Browser is also now standard functionality
you can still drop back to the Main Media Window for images if you wish using Ctrl-[X] in the Image & Thumbnail Browser
the Config Dialog has been amended to reflect the deprecation of the legacy functionality
minor tweaks to the animation mechanism to ensure it doesn't activate when not required
===== Release Notes v6.2.0 =====
Animated Window
output
MMP now boasts a cool new feature, particularly when playing videos, or when playing audio files that contain cover art
the Main Media Window will adapt smoothly to the new video or cover art dimensions
in the case of videos, this mimics being at the cinema when the screen resizes after the adverts and trailers to accommodate the size of the featured movie
the animations don't delay the start of playback whatsoever
launching straight into the Image & Thumbnail Browser to display an image can also be animated
when using [J] and [M] to adjust the window size to the aspect ratio of the image, the adjustment can be smoothly animated
exiting MMP and exiting the Image & Thumbnail Browser can be animated to give a very nice "closure" effect
the closure animation will currently only happen if auto-center is still in operation, which generally means that you haven't moved or resized the window with the mouse
this will be addressed in a future release
a new tab in the Config Dialog lets you edit the default settings:
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Visual and Performance Enhancements
thumbnails are drawn quicker and more efficiently
eliminated the little flash/blip that happens after a full page of thumbnails has been drawn
eliminated the Main Media Window showing very briefly when you use an image to launch MMP directly into the Image & Thumbnail Browser
eliminated the Main Media Window displaying a small blank window which then gets resized to the size of the video you used to launch MMP
a brief "Loading playlist..." notice appears when launching MMP with a large folder containing thousands of images
you can now hit [Escape] to exit the About Box when it has been launched from the Image & Thumbnail Browser
when viewing thumbnails, holding down the [G] to increase the window size multiple times could result in the thumbnails being drawn over and over again until the keyboard buffer was exhausted. This has now been fixed
this also means that the thumbnail page can be now be resized by dragging a window edge. The thumbnails' response to the resize is now crisper and more decisive
===== Release Notes v6.1.0 =====
NEW FEATURES
New ControlAction
Ctrl-Shift-[P]create a Preview/Contact Sheet
create a Preview/Contact Sheet almost instantly
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in the .conf file (and the Config Dialog) you can
set the percentage of the video to skip at the beginning to allow for opening logos, etc (defaults to 5%)
set the percentage of the video to ignore at the end to allow for closing credits (defaults to 5%)
set the number of columns and rows (defaults to 4x5 - 5x5 shown as a non-default example)
set the width of each thumbnail (defaults to 300 pixels)
set whether you want to view the Contact/Preview Sheet as soon as it's created (opens in a new instance of MMP)
set whether you want the Preview Sheet saved as a high quality JPG or an even higher resolution PNG
these options are configurable from a new tab in the Config Dialog:
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the new tab can also be accessed directly from the Options tab in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor:
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Improvements
fixed a minor issue when exporting one single segment where you end up with both the exported segment and the final edited file, both of which are identical. This wastes disk space. The functionality to simply rename the one exported segment to the final edited file got lost during the many v6.0.0 enhancements. It has been restored
in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor when showing the default "Segment nn" segment titles, when you cut a segment in two you could end up with two segments with the same title and one wouldn't match its segment number. This didn't affect the export but it was a little confusing, visually. Segment titles are now kept unique
the ability to remove audio Covert Art from a file entirely by deselecting its stream has been restored
for some non-standard videos, if no streams were reported in the Editor, the Export button was disabled. It is now enabled regardless. When there are no streams reported and you only have the one default segment for the entire video, when you click Export, MMP will simply make a copy of the video file. This uses slightly different ffmpeg parameters from the current Copy facility, so between the two of them, you should be able to copy a malformed video file and edit the copy instead
the countdown of active shredding tasks reported in both the Main Media Window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser now gives a smoother countdown, particularly when there are large numbers of files involved
you can now edit files which contain apostrophes in their file name. Previously, such a file would break the ffmpeg command line parameters but a fix for this has now been implemented. Until now, MMP actively prevented you from opening the Editor until you had fixed the file name. This restriction has now been lifted
if you already have the Audio & Video Timeline Editor open, the lower parts of the Ctrl-[H] quick Help panel and the [P] Playlist panel will now display on top of the Segments & Streams Panel
New Look Image & Thumbnail Browser
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the browser now follows the Main Media Window theming without a standard thick window frame. This makes images more immersive and focal, the same as with videos. It also makes the browser more responsive to resizing and to drawing thumbnails
on that point, when viewing thumbnails, the best way to resize the window is still with [G] and Ctrl-[G] as it resizes based on the size of the thumbnails, which makes it significantly faster to respond than trying to drag a window edge with the mouse
the lack of a standard window frame (with the exception of the title bar) makes the status bar and all its information much more subtle and unobtrusive, and keeps the displayed image as the main focus
when first launched, the Image & Thumbnail Browser window will match the aspect ratio of the image that launched it so that the image fits the window perfectly. Of course, you can always use [J] or [M] on any image:
[J] will ad[J]ust the window's height to match the image's aspect ratio
[M]aximize will do the same thing but at the largest size for the height of your monitor
with the browser, you can get a lot done with the window and the displayed image using just a combination of [G], Ctrl-[G], [H], [J] and [M], all handily-located in the middle of your keyboard
===== Release Notes v6.0.0 =====
NEW & ENHANCED FEATURES
a subtle prettification of the playlist background (example from the audio player):
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the shred-delete function has been optimized for modern SSDs and is now significantly faster: 66.67% faster in fact
New in the Main Media Window
when listening to videos through an external audio device, the audio can sometimes lag behind the video picture. New controls Ctrl-[\] and Ctrl-[/] now let you adjust the audio/video sync to bring forward the audio [relative to the video] in order to remove the lag
in addition to all the many [Tab] and [T]abbing controls for tabbing/skipping/advancing/rewinding forwards and backwards through an audio or video, you can now Shift-Left-Arrow and Shift-Right-Arrow to skip backwards/forwards by a set number of seconds which you can specify in the "skipSeconds=" setting in the MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file. MMP will default to 5
when you delete the current audio or video file ([Del]), you can also opt to cleanup, at the same time, any remaining Audio & Video Timeline Editor files in the current folder. These two operation frequently go hand-in-hand when editing audio/video files so combining them adds additional convenience for the user; Shift-[DEL] will carry out a combined [DEL] and Ctrl-Shift-[C]
the Confirm Delete Dialog will notify that this will occur and will require you to check the "Are you sure?" box
New ControlAction
Ctrl-[\]bring audio forward, relative to the video
Ctrl-[/]delay audio, relative to the video
Shift-[] right arrowskip forwards 5 seconds or skipSeconds= value in .conf file
Ctrl-[] left arrowskip backwards 5 seconds or skipSeconds= value in .conf file
Shift-[Del]do a combined [Del] and Ctrl-Shift-[Del] to cleanup Timeline Editor files
New in the Image & Thumbnail Browser
a new audio/video panel was added to the status bar in v5.4.0 which lights up to alert you when the current folder also contains audio and/or video files. As of v6.0.0, if you click this panel you will exit out to the Main Media Window where the current image will be displayed. You can then view the playlist ([P]) to see which audio/files are in the current folder. Unless you play any of these files, Ctrl-[I] will re-show the image back in the Image & Thumbnail Browser or [T] will re-open the browser in [T]humbnail mode. Alternatively, if you do play one of the audio/video files in the playlist, [Y] will immediately re-open the Image & Thumbnail Browser, albeit in [T]humbnail mode
clicking the audio/video panel is the equivalent of the existing functionality of using Ctrl-[X] to eXit the Image & Thumbnail Browser and drop back to the Main Media Window, or by clicking the window's X in the top right corner to do the same
in previous versions, if you made adjustments to an image (Brightness, Contrast, Rotation, etc.) the right/left arrow key navigation controls would be disabled so that you didn't lose your adjustments by accidentally hitting an arrow key and moving to another image. Now, your adjustments are applied to every image you navigate to until you cancel some or all of the adjustments. Consequently, moving to another image and back again, whether accidentally or not, will not lose your adjustments, so the arrow keys are no longer disabled
all the [F1]-[F12] function keys are reserved for user-defined folders meaning that the [F10], [F11] and [F12] keys to launch external applications have until now only been available from the Main Media Window. By dexterous use of a [Ctrl] key in combination with [F10], [F11] or [F12], external applications can now also be launched from the Image & Thumbnail Browser, with the full path to the displayed image file passed as a parameter to said application
Ctrl-[Z] has been added as an alias for Ctrl-[U]ndo, to undo the previous move/save
[T] will now switch between [T]humbnail mode and viewing the current image full size. Previously, you could only exit [T]humbnail mode by clicking on a thumbnail to view the full size image
New ControlAction
Ctrl-[F10]launch an external app with the current image
Ctrl-[F11]launch an external app with the current image
Ctrl-[F12]launch an external app with the current image
[T]toggle/switch between [T]humbnail mode and a full size image
Ctrl-[Z]alias for Ctrl-[U] - undo the previous move/save
click Audio/Video alert paneldrop back to the Main Media Window to view audio and video files
New Full Help Dialog
v6.0.0 introduces a brand new Full Help dialog (Ctrl-Shift-[H]) to assist you in understanding everything that MMP can do and to assist with learning the many controls, so that you can get the best use of MMP. MMP provides around 200 mouse and keyboard functions for playing, viewing and managing your entire library of audio, video and image files, and for carrying out fast (really fast!), lossless editing of audio and video files, without the time-consuming need to re-encode them. It has been a concern for some time now that it can be a little overwhelming for new users to get a grip on just how much functionality is actually built into MMP - the minimalist design obviously bears some responsibility for this. The new Full Help dialog is in addition to the current "Quick Help" summary help panels (Ctrl-[H])
All of the MMP controls can continue to be used while this new help dialog is open
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the new fully-integrated Full Help panel includes a previous-next, history navigation mechanism and the ability to jump directly to related sections of the Help Dialog, the Config Dialog and the official Ctrl-[W] Wiki
both the Full Help Dialog and the Config Dialog can be open at the same time. You can close each one in turn using [Escape]
New in the Config Dialog
a new tab has been added for setting keyframes permanently on. The Config Dialog as a whole aims to be instructional and informative about how to use the features of MMP, rather than just provide a series of obscure check boxes, and the new tab follows in this vein:
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the Config Dialog has been enhanced to make navigating the various tabs easier and now uses the same approach as the new Full Help panel with the topics also listed on the left in addition to tab captions
the topics are listed in alphabetical order on the left, and the tabs are arranged in order of typical frequency of use
the explanation of the Playlist Filter options in the Config Dialog has been brought up-to-date
New in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor
the color palette for the Timeline and the Segments & Streams Panel has been softened and some color added to make it all easier on the eyes rather than the previous rather stark monochrome color palette
when editing audio files, album cover art is now included as a stream and can be included or excluded from the exported file just like any other stream
if an audio file doesn't contain cover art, you can attach a "cover.jpg" file to the exported file
a right-click on a segment will toggle whether that segment will be included or excluded from the final edit. As this doesn't alter which segment is currently selected in the Timeline, this is more convenient than having to left-click a segment to firstly select it, and then having to press [X] or [R] to e[X]clude a segment or to [R]estore a previously e[X]cluded segment
the correlation between MediaInfo's stream indexes/indices and FFmpeg's has been greatly improved. The editor now lists streams according to the indexes that FFmpeg will assign them. This makes exports more robust, especially for non-standard video containers, and helps when examining the .log file after exporting your edited media file
you can now create chapters in your exported file from your exported segments. They can be given titles
previously, chapter titles were initially loaded from the media file but then discarded
chapter titles are now saved to the .mmp file containing your segment definitions
double-clicking a segment in the Timeline Editor or in the Segments & Streams Panel pops up a dialog for you to edit the segment/chapter title
if you wish, you can display chapter titles for editing purposes but not have the chapters created in the exported file
===== Release Notes v5.4.0 =====
** NEW **
Audio & Video Timeline Editor:
KeyFrame processing has been completely rewritten
ffprobe only returns keyframe information for the minute currently being played
keyframe information will only be retrieved for the parts of the video you actually view during editing
rather than running ffprobe in the background to return the keyframe information for the entire video in one go, the .key file (and the keyframe cache) is now built-up gradually, minute by minute. This enormously speeds-up keyframe info retrieval
This is particularly true using a sample 4K, VP9 animated movie for which an enormous amount of keyframe info would be returned by ffprobe. This has now been reduced to no more than a few seconds. For standard videos, the info is obtained almost instantaneously
when you turn on keyframes in the Audio & Video Timeline Editor using [F], this will be confirmed in the notification area (bottom right corner) with keyframes on
subsequently, each time you jump to a new section of the video for which keyframe info has not yet been retrieved, the notification area will display keyframes... indicating that new keyframe info is being retrieved from ffprobe
the progress bar will flash when the keyframe info has been retrieved and is in operation for the minute of video currently being viewed
there is now very little gap between these two notification signals and in many cases they will appear simultaneously
if you simply play through a video, you will see that each time it hits the minute mark, the new keyframe info is retrieved and the progress bar flashes
the ffprobe parameters have been tweaked to make ffprobes's keyframe retrieval faster and more efficient, ironically by getting it to report more info than previously, and then performing some post-processing on the keyframe info
if a .key file already exists for a video when the Audio & Video Timeline Editor initializes for that video file, the keyframe info from that .key file will be preloaded when you turn on keyframes with [F], and the progress bar will flash to signal that it was loaded
if the .key file is out of date for the video being edited, it will be cleared and rebuilt as you view the video, as described above
only one ffprobe keyframe-info-retrieval process will run at a time. If you grab the editor's vertical cursor and drag it along the timeline, you will populate some of the keyframe info for the minutes you have dragged through, but not all. There is no advantage to trying to pre-load the keyframe info cache using the vertical cursor
a new MinimalistMediaPlayer.conf file setting keyframes= can be set to yes or no. Keyframe processing is so fast now that it is viable to permanently default to keyframes being on when the Audio & Video Timeline Editor is opened. This option will be added to the Shift-[\] Config Dialog in a subsequent release. For now, the setting will need to be set manually
if you perform a Ctrl-Shift-[C] auto-cleanup of Audio & Video Timeline Editor files with the editor open and keyframes set on, the .key file for the current video will deleted. However, the in-memory keyframe cache will remain intact for as long as the editor remains open. The next time the editor needs to obtain new keyframe info, the entire .key file will be rebuilt from the keyframe cache and saved back to disk
FIXED
In v5.3.2 if you exported an edited video when the previous export already existed (the [edited] version), MMP issued an unnecessary "hard stop" to MPV while it deleted the previous export. Once this happened there was no way to resume playback of the video being edited without either
going to another video in the playlist and then back to the original
closing and re-opening MMP
manually deleting the previous [edited] export before exporting again
===== Release Notes v5.3.2 =====
** NEW **
Image & Thumbnail Browser: when browsing through your image folders, a new panel in the status bar will light up when there are also audio and/or video files in the current folder. This is in addition to the current warning you already get if you try to mass-delete the current folder's contents from the Image & Thumbnail Browser and that folder also contains audio and/or video files mixed in with the image files you've been viewing
FIXES
Main Media Window: fixed minor "end-of-drive" issue when nextFolderOnEnd and nextFolderOnEmpty are set, and MMP gets to the end of the drive without finding another audio/video file to play. This issue was probably only apparent in development builds not in release builds
Main Media Window: the code which searches for the next media file to play (when nextFolderOnEnd and nextFolderOnEmpty are set) has been rewritten to better allow for it to navigate through hundreds of folders which don't contain a suitable file. Previously, this could cause a silent "overflow" error and MMP would close. MMP will now correctly search until the end of the drive to find a suitable media file to play
after completing a Ctrl-[K] Keep/Delete operation, the playlist is now rebuilt and will contain only the remaining "Kept" files
various other minor fixes, corrections and efficiency improvements
===== Release Notes v5.3.1 =====
** FIXES **
Prevent the Audio & Video Timeline Editor from trying to react to messages when it's in the process of closing
Minor bug fixes, memory-management tweaks, and resource clean-up on Exit
Minor tweak to popup dialog messages
===== Release Notes v5.3.0 =====
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
When exporting an edited video in the Timeline Editor, FFmpeg might report an error when extracting one or more segments of the video
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Clicking the Rerun button will display something similar to this [contrived example]:
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such messages often mention problems with the stream mapping, e.g. "Stream map '' matches no streams" (see the first line of red text, above)
although FFmpeg error messages can seem daunting, the solution to this one, and several others, is to simply have FFmpeg make its own copy of the video file
when doing so, FFmpeg reads and rewrites all the streams it finds. This can often correct problems caused by some video-creation software
Making an MMP / FFmpeg-compatible copy of the video file has now been automated
with the Ctrl-[E] Timeline Editor open, hold down Ctrl-Shift and move the mouse over the Export button
the Export button will change to Copy
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when you click Copy, MMP will make a copy of both the media file and its corresponding .mmp file
it will also make a copy of any keyframe .key file
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the copy operation will be as quick as if you were to copy the file yourself
the file name of the copy will match the original with the addition of [c], e.g. "myvideo [c].mp4"
a Console window will open showing you the progress of the FFmpeg copy operation
progress
for large video files (the example above is a 9GB file which took ~20 seconds to copy), the most useful information is the time=hh:mm:ss.ms timestamp on the last line which will show where FFmpeg has got to
you can cancel the copy operation by clicking the Cancel button or by closing this Console window
the copy will be loaded into the current playlist and will be loaded into the Timeline Editor
the file will be positioned at the correct timestamp
if the [audio or] video file was playing during the copy operation, the copy will continue playing at the exact point at which the copy operation completed, otherwise playback will be paused
although not guaranteed, for many common FFmpeg problems with video files, when you click Export now, it often results in a successful export of your edited video
FIXES
in most media files, stream IDs tend to correlate with the stream indices. Occasionally, this isn't the case. Either way, MMP should only use stream IDs for display purposes in the Segments & Streams panel, and only use stream indices in FFmpeg parameters. This is now the case
ASSETS
this release includes new versions of ffmpeg.exe, ffprobe.exe, MediaInfo.dll and libmpv-2.dll (MPV as a library)
you will need to update these manually: Auto Update will only update MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe
you are advised to make backup copies of your existing files before overwriting them
===== Release Notes v5.2.0 =====
IMPORTANT FIXES
there was an occasional, intermittent, non-predictable, non-repeatable access violation when delete-shredding or Ctrl-[M] moving the currently-playing video. This caused a continuous stream of popup error messages to be generated, and required the user to manually kill MMP using a Task Manager. The cause of this problem appears to have been identified and fixed
doing a Ctrl-[M] move of the current video when the Timeline Editor was open caused the Timeline Editor to create and maintain a .mmp editor file for the moved video in the destination Moved= folder, rather than in the current folder for the next video actually being edited. Consequently, any subsequent Export operation worked on the moved video file instead. A bizarre and elusive bug which has now has been fixed
GitHub has once again changed the URL entries for images included in release notes. Auto Update now allows for the new entries when downloading release notes and images will be correctly displayed when viewing release notes from the Ctrl-[A] About Box
launching MMP when there are existing .segnn. segment files created by the Timeline Editor results in those video segment files correctly being included in the playlist for the current folder. Doing a subsequent Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files will now remove them from the playlist, whereas previously they remained in the playlist
when you batch-delete/shred several files at a time, e.g. with Ctrl-[Del] folder contents, or Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files, MMP will prevent you from issuing further deletion operations until the current batch-delete operation has completed
the previous release broke the Ctrl-Shift-[C] cleanup of Timeline Editor files so that nothing happened. This has been corrected
===== Release Notes v5.1.6 =====
FIXES
There were two notable issues when deleteMethod=recycle:
Firstly, the delete/recycle code wasn't calling the full Unicode-supported Windows API. Consequently, it wasn't clear if files that contained Unicode characters were always recycled correctly
Secondly, not all removable drives are supported by the Windows Recycle Bin. If you try to delete a file to the Recycle Bin from an unsupported drive, Windows will simply delete the file
For example, a standard 2TB NTFS-formatted SanDisk USB Drive is likely to be supported by the Windows Recycle Bin; conversely, a Micro SD card mounted as a drive via a USB adaptor might not be supported
if you have set deleteMethod=recycle and try to delete a file, MMP will now check whether that drive is supported by the Windows Recycle Bin
if it is, MMP will continue with the delete/recycle operation
if not, MMP will now warn you that continuing with the delete operation will simply delete the file(s)
e.g. for removable drives:
For fixed drives which have been set to not use the Windows Recycle Bin:
N.B. If you choose to continue, the usual confirmation dialog will appear asking if you want to delete the file(s); it will report your deleteMethod=recycle setting but will warn that you are about to delete the file rather than recycle it
===== Release Notes v5.1.5 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
After issuing a Ctrl-Shift-[C] to Cleanup Timeline Editing files, the progress of the deletion process wasn't being displayed correctly in the notification area in the bottom righthand corner of the window. This issue was created in the previous release trying to fix the intermittent error described below in Known Issues. As far as I know, this only occurs when the delete method is set to Shred
TWEAKS
When the Main Media-Player Window is centered in the middle of the screen and you Ctrl-[E] to open the Timeline Editor, the window will only be shifted left (off-center) in order to ensure that the whole of the Streams & Segments Panel is displayed and isn't cut off at the righthand edge of your monitor
Previously, MMP always shifted left the entire width of the Streams & Segments Panel, even when this was unnecessary
Now, it will only shift left the amount of pixels required to have the panel on-screen, as necessary
Having the editing session centered is more visually appealing
===== Release Notes v5.1.4 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following the deletion of the current media file, the item is removed from the current folder's playlist. In this scenario, MMP didn't always correctly identify which item in the playlist should be played next. This bug was introduced as an unintended, unexpected and unnoticed side-effect of the previous fix and has now, itself, been fixed
when deleting the final item in the playlist, or the last remaining item in the playlist, MMP will continue to the next folder if Next Folder on End or Next Folder on Empty has been set in the config dialog
if neither of these is set, MMP will close
===== Release Notes v5.1.3 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following a Ctrl-[M]ove of a media file to the user-defined "moved=" folder, or following a Shift-[S]ave of a media file to the user-defined "saved=" folder, the item is removed from the current folder's playlist. In this scenario, MMP didn't always correctly identify which item in the playlist should be played next. This has now been fixed
when moving or saving the final item in the playlist, or the last remaining item in the playlist, MMP will continue to the next folder if Next Folder on End or Next Folder on Empty has been set in the config dialog
if neither of these is set, MMP will close
===== Release Notes v5.1.2 =====
FIXES
Main Media-Player Window
Following a Ctrl-[M]ove of a video file to the designated user-defined "moved=" folder, an intermittent issue could occur whereby MMP would repeatedly throw an access violation, but only for some video files not others
this could also happen intermittently after shredding particular video files (deleteMethod=shred)
this required the MMP process to be ended in a Task/Process Manager
this release attempts to address this by forcefully stopping a video file prior to these operations
for consistency, this fix has also been applied to the Shift-[S]ave operation
===== Release Notes v5.1.1 =====
if you do a Ctrl-[Del]ete in the Image & Thumbnail Browser to delete all the remaining files in the current folder, before progressing to the Confirm Delete dialog, MMP will warn you if the folder also contains audio and/or video files which you may have overlooked while you were browsing the images. You will have the option to either proceed to the normal Confirm Delete dialog or to cancel the delete operation immediately
minor bug fix: when renaming an image file in the Image & Thumbnail Browser, pressing Enter/Return to close the dialog box also proceeded to the next image
Release v5.1.0
This release is available through the auto-update facility in the Ctrl [A] About Box
These release notes can be read from the What's New? button in the About Box after the auto-update has completed, as well as the release notes for all previous releases.
Use Shift-[\] to open the MMP config dialog
Use Ctrl-[H] to open a [H]elp panel
Don't forget, the recommendation is to set openImage=browser and exitBrowser=exitApp and to associate all your audio, video and image file extensions with MMP using the provided mmp-install.bat file. This operates MMP as [in effect] two applications in one: the main media-playing window for playing (and editing) audio and video files, and the Image & Thumbnail Browser for viewing and managing all your image files. See the wiki to get the most from your use of MMP, particularly the MMP Config File topic
===== Release Notes v5.1.0 =====
NEW
SHUFFLE
There is now a shuffle mode which can be toggled on and off using the Shift-[Home] key
this applies to all media types being played/displayed in the Main Media Window
if you set a playlist filter in the Shift-[\] (shift-backslash) config dialog, e.g. to audio, this will ensure that MMP doesn't display an album cover image file that you might have in the playlist folder and stop on it
with Shuffle set ON, the Main Media Window's image slideshow will be random rather than sequential and will run continuously. (Normally it would stop at the end of the folder/playlist)
during playback you can navigate to another folder/directory ([D] next folder, Ctrl-[D] prev folder) and shuffle playback will continue
during playback, any command for "Play Next" will select a random file in the playlist to play/display
you can still select any file to play immediately using the [P]laylist Panel. Shuffle will continue at the end of playing that file
the on/off status of Shuffle Mode will be remembered when you close and subsequently relaunch MMP
the [P]laylist panel will indicate whether the current playlist folder is being shuffled
shuffle mode doesn't affect the operations and, in particular, the slideshow of the Image & Thumbnail Browser: both slideshows deliberately operate slightly differently to one another to give you the choice of which slideshow to use in any given situation
PLAYLIST FILTER
A combined Audio & Video filter has been added to the Playlist Filter in the Shift-[\] (Shift-Backslash) config dialog. Ostensibly, this is so that if your music folder contains a mixture of audio files and music videos, all of them will be included in that folder's playlist
The playlist filter is now applied when you launch MMP regardless of the type of media file you use to launch MMP from your file explorer application
Regardless of the playlist filter, you can still launch 'MMP' with any type of [supported] media file
Regardless of the playlist filter, the launch file will always be included in the playlist even when it doesn't match the filter
If you launch MMP and forget that you had a playlist filter set, you can change the filter in the config dialog and then re[L]oad the playlist. The playlist will be rebuilt from the current folder
The file you are currently viewing will only be included in the rebuilt playlist if it matches the playlist filter
If it doesn't match, when the end of that file is reached, MMP will continue with the first item in the rebuilt playlist, or a random item if Shuffle is on
If you intentionally launch MMP with a file that doesn't match your playlist filter, you can immediately eliminate it from the playlist using re[L]oad playlist
This way, you can view an album's artwork and then listen to the album on shuffle without the album artwork appearing again
Note, if you have "open image(s) in browser" set, you can drop out of the Image & Thumbnail Browser back to the Main Media Window with Ctrl-[X], and then re[L]oad and play the rebuilt playlist
FIXED
with the "Next Folder on Empty [folder]" setting OFF, the Main Media Window and the Image & Thumbnail Browser now close the application correctly any time you perform a command which, in effect, clears the remaining playable/viewable items in the playlist folder:
[Del]ete the one remaining file in a folder
Ctrl-[Del]ete all remaining files in a folder
Ctrl-[K]eep/Delete all files not marked as [K]eep
in the Main Media Window: Ctrl-[M]ove or Shift-[M]ove the one remaining file to the "Moved" user-defined folder
in the Main Media Window: Shift-[S]ave the one remaining file to the user-defined "Saved" folder
in the Image & Thumbnail Browser: [S]ave the one remaining image to the user-defined "Saved" folder
N.B. after Ctrl-[K]eep/Delete, when you're left with just the [K]eep files in a folder, MMP reasonably assumes you're now done managing the files in the playlist folder and treats this situation just like any other end-of-playlist/end-of-folder condition, applying the "Next Folder on Empty [folder]" setting
KNOWN ISSUES
There are currently no known issues. If you experience one, please create a New Issue at https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/issues and it will be investigated immediately
Keyframes
The wiki article on keyframes is now available at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/keyframes
There is also an example editing session at https://minimalistmediaplayer.com/video/editingexample showing how to use the new keyframes functionality to achieve clean edits, with video clips showing the difference that using keyframes can make
Ctrl-[W] in MMP will quickly take you to the wiki