What's new in Desktop Movie Player 2.6.3
Nov 13, 2018
- Desktop movie is a simple application to play movie files on your desktop.
- The player projects the movie to the background replacing your background image temporarily.
- The player is based on directshow meaning every movie you can play with a directshow player can be played with desktop movie too.
- At start you can choose your movie and the player starts. A tray icon can be found on the tray bar during the playing process. Here you can load another movie, pause, rewind or forward the video and set the volume level.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.6.2 (Oct 19, 2017)
- Window shadows are disabled while the player runs.
- Added 'Refresh Display' option to menu together with a global hotkey (Shift + R). You can use this to clear the desktop if random black borders around used desktop icons starts to be annoying or or when the movie misteriously disappear. These phenomena are quite random and occur only on Windows 10
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.6 (May 31, 2016)
- Shuffle and Repeat One states are now saved and restored
- Optimized Shuffle function to avoid repetitions
- Playlist window can be fully resized
- Added Remove All option to playlist
- Multimedia keyboard's Stop button can be used to stop and exit(Play\Pause works as before)
- Enter can be used to play file in playlist
- Added Magic glass fun trick. You can see what's going on even if another window fully covers the desktop
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.5.4 (Mar 18, 2016)
- Fixed 'Invalid floating point operation' popups in case of some formats.
- Fixed unicode file name handling from command line/batch files.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.5.3 (Oct 19, 2015)
- Added a workaround for handling unicode file names that the active code page does not support.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.5.2 (Oct 19, 2015)
- Added play/pause, prev, next multimedia keyboard hotkeys as global hotkeys (focused window is not required).
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.5.1 (Jun 3, 2015)
- Added 'shuffle'option.
- Fixed 'repeat one' mode related regression (version 2.5).
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.5 (May 11, 2015)
- Last played item on playlist is saved and restored at next program start (if Restore Playlist is enabled).
- Multi-monitor optimizations/bug fixes.
- You can attach/remove displays and change resolutions without risking the program to crash.
- Smoother transition into the same video in repeat one mode.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.4 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Added DPI aware manifest to avoid High DPI virtualization on Win7/8.
- Added store settings in INI file option for maximum portability.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.3.1 (Nov 11, 2013)
- This version is just a quick fix to save new settings and restore your normal desktop background even if you don't close Desktop Movie the regular way but you simply restart windows while the program is running.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.3 (Nov 8, 2013)
- Added multimonitor support. Because of overlay limitations only 1 monitor can be selected at the same time
- Added drag & drop support
- Runtime settings (Volume, Display aspect ratio etc.) are saved and restored at start up
- Added option to restore last playlist at start up
- Added start with windows option (useful only if restore playlist option is enabled)
- Fixed playlist error in case of adding the same movie to the list multiple times
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.2 (Oct 23, 2013)
- Added 'Repeat One' mode. In this mode the actual movie on the playlist repeats forever.
- Added 'Cropped' movie display mode. So now you have three aspect ratio mode choices: Letterbox(default), Stretched, and Cropped.
- You can activate/deactivate these modes in the right click context menu of the tray icon.
- Some performance enhancements so Desktop Movie is even smaller, lighter and faster than before.
New in Desktop Movie Player 2.0 (Jul 23, 2012)
- Playlist implemented. You can add and remove movie files, moreover you
- can reorder the list with left click drag&dropp. Double click plays the
- given file from the playlist. The playlist is available through the context
- menu or by clicking the logo in the playing control form.
- hanks to the playlist now you can select multiple files at once (right
- at the beginning).
- On the playing control form you can see the name and path of the actual
- video, the actual playing position and the video duration.
- Left click on the tray icon can be used to bring up playing control form
- (and from there playlist).
- Improved file open dialog.
- Improved volume control algorithm.