Release v2.0.1

[BazzaCuda]

Windows 64-bit binaries.

Fixes

• Some video files can appear to contain chapter information when they actually contain none. This resulted in an error message being displayed trying to convert the non-existent start time of the first chapter to seconds. This error is now prevented.

New
Videos are played at the maximum height of the desktop while maintaining the correct width according to the aspect ratio of the video. This should result in less auto-resizing of the video to fit the desktop. The whole auto-sizing process is a leftover from the original incarnation which was based on Windows Media Player which wouldn't report the video dimensions until after the video had started playing. This required the video window to be resized after playback had commenced. With MPV and MediaInfo this is now a complete non-issue but I don't want to start removing code that works.

Known minor issues

• There are still some minor issues with the Undo (Ctrl-[Z]) and Redo (Ctrl-[Y]) stacks.
• Audio-only media files without cover art images should be displayed at a neat default height of 56 pixels in TUI.setWindowSize. Somewhere along the line, this got broken and the audio-only window is much taller than it needs to be. This will be addressed when I work out how I broke it. ;) - If you spot the cause of the problem first, please feel free to let me know.

The "...full.zip" release zip file contains everything you need to run the program:

• MinimalistMediaPlayer.exe
• MediaInfo.dll
• libmpv-2.dll
• ffmpeg.exe

Alternatively, if you already have any of these from a previous release, you can download the others individually.

MinimalistMediaPlayer_v2_0_1.zip
(I strongly recommend that you do not download this file from any source other than Github)

mediaInfo.zip
This contains the new v23.11 of MediaInfo.dll - You may stick with the previous version if you wish.
N.B. You don't need to download this file again if you already downloaded it for a previous version.

libmpv-2.zip
This contains the build from 2023/12/12 - You may stick with your current version if you wish.
N.B. You don't need to download this file again if you already downloaded it for a previous version.

(If you have a lower-spec machine (or you have any issues at all with playback), you may prefer this version of libmpv-2.dll):

libmpv-2.lower-spec.zip
This contains the build from 2023/09/17 - You may stick with your current version if you wish.
N.B. You don't need to download this file again if you already downloaded it for a previous version.
If you prefer, a more recent version of libmpv-2.dll ("mpv-dev-x86_64...") can be downloaded from https://github.com/BazzaCuda/mpv-winbuild/releases.
N.B. The file marked "v3" is for higher spec machines.

Optional Files:

rot.zip
You need this file if you want the "file delete" functionality. Without this file, no file deletions will occur even if you confirm them.
N.B. You don't need to download this file again if you already downloaded it for a previous version.

ffmpeg.zip
You need this file if you want the timeline editing (Ctrl-[E]) functionality. Without this file, nothing will happen when you click "Export" unless you already have FFMPEG.exe installed and on your system path. Even then, some builds of FFMPEG are not compatible with all the functionality that MMP uses and it would be better to use the build provided here and to unzip it to the same folder as the MMP executable.
N.B. You don't need to download this file again if you already downloaded it for a previous version.

All comments and suggestions for additional functionality or to highlight operational issues will be well received over on the Discussions page https://github.com/BazzaCuda/MinimalistMediaPlayerX/discussions

Thanks for taking an interest in Minimalist Media Player!

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This discussion was created from the release Release v2.0.1.