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Simple Media Player v1.0.0 - Initial Release

First stable MVP release! 🎉

A modern, lightweight, cross-platform video player built with Python and PyQt6 by Arjun Biswas.

✨ Features

🎥 Media Playback

  • ✅ Universal format support - MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WebM, and more
  • ✅ Hardware acceleration - Uses native OS frameworks (Media Foundation, AVFoundation, GStreamer)
  • ✅ Perfect audio/video sync - Qt Multimedia ensures smooth playback
  • ✅ Variable playback speeds - 0.5x, 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x with pitch preservation
  • ✅ Subtitle support - Load SRT, ASS, SSA subtitle files

🎨 User Interface

  • 🌙 Beautiful themes - Modern dark and light color schemes
  • 🖱️ Intuitive controls - Click-to-seek on progress bar
  • 🖼️ Smart fullscreen - Auto-hiding controls, mouse-activated
  • 📐 Auto-resize - Window adapts to video resolution (limited to 90% screen size)
  • 🎯 Drag and drop - Simply drop video files to play

⌨️ Power Features

  • ⚡ Complete keyboard shortcuts - Control everything from keyboard
  • 🔄 Fast forward - Click and hold video to skip ahead (2x speed)
  • 🎚️ Precise volume - Slider and keyboard control
  • ⏯️ Full playback control - Play, pause, stop, seek

📥 Installation

Windows (Recommended) ⭐

No Python required!

  1. Download SimpleMediaPlayer.exe (below, under Assets)
  2. Double-click to run
  3. Enjoy! 🎉

macOS / Linux

Download Source Code:

  1. Download Source code (zip) (below, under Assets)
  2. Extract ZIP file
  3. Open Terminal in extracted folder
  4. Install dependencies: 
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  5. Run player: 
    python3 -m src.main

Or Clone from Git:

git clone https://github.com/ArjunBiswas-99/simple-media-player.git
cd simple-media-player
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m src.main

🎯 System Requirements

Windows

  • Windows 10 or newer
  • No additional software needed (for .exe)

macOS

  • macOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer
  • Python 3.10 or higher

Linux

  • Ubuntu 20.04+ or equivalent
  • Python 3.10 or higher
  • GStreamer (usually pre-installed)

⌨️ Quick Reference

Essential Shortcuts

  • Space - Play/Pause
  • F - Fullscreen
  • M - Mute
  • ←/→ - Seek ±5 seconds
  • ↑/↓ - Volume up/down

Mouse Controls

  • Click progress bar - Jump to position
  • Double-click video - Toggle fullscreen
  • Click & hold video - Fast forward

Full keyboard shortcuts in README

🔧 Technology

Built with modern Python technologies:

  • PyQt6 - Modern Qt6 bindings
  • PyQt6-Multimedia - Native media framework
  • Python 3.10+ - Latest language features

Uses native OS codecs for maximum compatibility and performance.

🐛 Known Issues

None currently! This is a stable release. Please report any issues you encounter.

📝 Documentation

💬 Feedback & Support

🙏 Thank You

Thank you for trying Simple Media Player! Your feedback helps make it better.

Made by Arjun Biswas

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