MMP: Minimalist Media Player

You can view and control any number of instances of MMP simultaneously.

This allows you to, for example, compare two copies of a movie at different resolutions to decide which one to keep.

You can auto-arrange up to four MMP windows using Ctrl [9] ¹⁾ and MMP will arrange them in a 2 x 2 grid, properly sized to respect the Aspect Ratio of each video.

Watching all four John Wick movies simultaneously

If you auto-arrange more than four MMP windows, MMP will display them in a single row across the desktop.

7 Alien(s) movies after Ctrl [9]

You can then arrange them as you will.

7 Alien(s) movies after manual arrangement of the windows

There are two ways to launch more than one instance of MMP.

1. select more than one video file in your File Explorer and press [ENTER]1). This will launch all the videos simultaneously.
2. double-click a single video file in your File Explorer to launch it in MMP ²⁾. Repeat.

Or you can do a combination of the above; say, launch two videos simultaneously and then add a third and a fourth individually, as you wish.

There are several “universal” keyboard commands which can be used to control multiple videos simultaneously.
Or, you can use the same commands to control just one particular video.
Whether a command controls one video or all videos is determined by whether you have NUMLOCK set ON or OFF.
With NUMLOCK ON, the following commands will be sent to all MMP video windows.

The following commands are always sent to all MMP windows, regardless of whether NUMLOCK is ON or OFF.

If your keyboard doesn't have a NUMLOCK key:

If your keyboard doesn't have a NUMLOCK LED light you can use the free Keyboard Indicators app, available from KBDInds, which sits in your system tray and has indicators for NUMLOCK, CAPS LOCK, and SCROLL LOCK.