MediaPlayer

[Vortex]

Hi fearless,

Visiting your GitHub page, I downloaded the new version, keep up the good work

[fearless]

Thanks Vortex.

A small bug found its way into the x64 version, I have since updated it to fix that, and uploaded it to github and here.

[fearless]

v1.0.0.2

https://github.com/mrfearless/MediaPlayer/releases/tag/1.0.0.2

• Clicking middle logo now toggles between play/pause (for audio playback).
• Removed double click option on main window.
• Moved F11 fullscreen toggle to accelerator table instead of WM_KEYDOWN.
• Fix menu activation not working when pressing Alt key + menu key (IsDialogMessage was the culprit).
• Fix for stepping past duration of media file with play speed increase and step 10.
• Fix for SeekBar position still showing after end of media when play speed is increased.
• Added EN, DE, FR, PL, IT languages using google translate (any mistakes let me know, or requests for languages).
• Added language menu item on menu bar and loading menus based on language selection.
• Made language specific versions of main menu.
• Moved context menu to language specific versions.
• Language setting saved in ini file, and applied when starting MediaPlayer.
• Moved strings (tooltips etc) to string table resource for language change processing.

[greenozon]

great news!
quick quesiton: where do you keep the ini file? I didn't find it nearby the exe :)

[fearless]

I keep it in the AppData\Roaming\MediaPlayer folder, which is the recommended place for applications, that wont be affected by Windows complaining or blocking write access - like say if it was installed in Program Files\MediaPlayer and the ini file was located in the same folder. This way a user could place MediaPlayer.exe in one of those protected folders, and it should work fine, as the ini file is located elsewhere.

Located at:

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C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\MediaPlayer\⏯ MediaPlayer.iniReplace <UserName> with your own name, for example:

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C:\Users\greenozon\AppData\Roaming\MediaPlayer\⏯ MediaPlayer.ini

[greenozon]

thanks! nice
but why do you have that strange symbol - "⏯" in the path?
just curious

https://prnt.sc/1Wr43FDjDXqo

also why 2 ini files?

[fearless]

The unicode glyph "⏯" is the play/pause button, used as a hint to someone looking at the .ini file that perhaps as it has a unicode symbol in the name, then perhaps the file also is unicode format.

If someone edits the ini file with notepad or other basic text editor, instead of say notepad++ (which has support for reading the unicode file and writing to it properly) then the BOM byte markers at the beginning of the file (FFh,FEh) will be destroyed, thus rendering the ini file useless as the wide versions of the GetPrivateProfileString, WritePrivateProfileString wont work.

Instead, I check the ini file for the BOM presence and if its not there the ini file gets re-created anew with the BOM - and thus will also delete anything that was in the unreadable non-unicode ini file.

The Ansi version of the ini file doesnt have the play/pause glyph, and is not used, unless you recompile MediaPlayer without the unicode support. It is a leftover from when the first version of MediaPlayer was not compiled with unicode support. You can safely delete it.

[fearless]

v1.0.0.3

https://github.com/mrfearless/MediaPlayer/releases/tag/1.0.0.3

• Limit play speed to between x0.125 and x4.
• Adjusted German translation (thanks to Biterider).
• Added Spanish language menu resources (thanks to Biterider).
• Added Spanish language tooltips (thanks to Biterider).
• Reduced size of resources with sorcery and dark magic.
• Step 10 now only works at normal play speed or below.
• MediaPlayer Engine restart on every media file load.
• Fix video freeze/engine kill when opening a media file with a different codec than previous media file (MediaPlayer Engine restart).
• The i (info/about) button tooltip shows media information for streams when a media file is loaded, otherwise it just displays "About MediaPlayer".
• i button tooltip prepends stream number if total streams > 1
• i button tooltip prepends stream selection (or [-]) if total streams > 2

[NoCforMe]

Reduced size of resources with sorcery and dark magic.

Now that's the kind of programming we all want to hear about!

[fearless]

Just updated the x64 version in the post above, it had a tiny crash, so fixed that and re-uploaded it.

[greenozon]

Never before had I seen the resources in such a cryptic format *.rtlc

it should be some new revolutionary SW magic, isnt' it? :)

[vitsoft]

x64 version works well, including drag&drop, thank you   

I play music noninteractively with a script, using an old Media Player Classic from Windows XP, which can shut itself down when the song is over: 
mplayerc.exe /Play /Close "aSong.mp3"

I'd like to replace mplayerc.exe with your MediaPlayer.exe but it doesn't seem to accept command-line arguments except for the file name.
Would it be possible to accept the /Close parameter please?

[fearless]

@vitsoft - Yes I will add that feature in the next version.

[fearless]

v1.0.0.4

https://github.com/mrfearless/MediaPlayer/releases/tag/1.0.0.4

• Added /close command line option to close MediaPlayer once play ends (request from vitsoft on masm32 forum).
• Also added /minimized, /fullscreen and /volume:xx command line options.
• Add Ukrainian language menu resource (thanks to greenozon).
• Add Ukrainian language tooltips (thanks to greenozon).
• Add Persian language menu resources (thanks to Yashar Mahmoudnia).
• Add Persian language tooltips (thanks to Yashar Mahmoudnia).
• Add Right To Left Layout for Persian language selection (thanks to Yashar Mahmoudnia for testing).
• Changed play rate from slower/faster menu and buttons to a playback speed submenu and a button with a dropdown menu.
• Added audio stream switching via a submenu and a dropdown menu (from volume mute toggle button) (request from makson5 on github).
• Playback speed and audio stream menus are dynamically created when a media item is loaded. Otherwise menu will show a menu item showing "Unavailable".
• i button tooltip displays filename as well now.
• Holding CTRL whilst clicking on Help->About or i button will open folder containing MediaPlayer's ini file.
• Fixed menu items width on menus still showing very long widths after clearing MRU list.
• String resources are now compressed with rtlc in a block and are loaded and decompressed per language selection on first access.
• Removed some string resources, icons and bitmaps that are now redundant.

[greenozon]

fantastic progress, kudos!