2024/06/10

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).
  
  1. 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.
     
  2. 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.
  
  1. Having Numlock ON allows you to control any number of MMP windows simultaneously.
     
  2. 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.
     
  3. 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.
  1. This doesn't work with audio/video files as those keys 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 ! which brings that file to the top of the folder in your File Explorer to distinguish it from the rest of the folder contents.
  
  1. 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 ! will remain. As with Ctrl [Del] the contents of any subfolders in the current folder are left entirely intact.
     
  2. 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.

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

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.

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:

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!

* 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] [-] [=] (reset, decrease, increase).
[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.

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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

(You are strongly recommended to not download this zip file from any other source)

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

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