A media player built for Windows 10 and 11 — a hand-painted Fluent
interface, three interchangeable playback engines, and a media library
that finds anything instantly. No account. No telemetry. Nothing leaves
your computer.
Free · 49 MB installer · installs for your user only,
no administrator prompt
The real window, captured on Windows 11 at 200% display scaling.
Built like a Windows application, not a web page in a frame
Every control is drawn by the application itself with Direct2D, so it
stays sharp at any display scaling and follows your accent colour and
light or dark preference.
Native Windows 11 look
Dark title bar, rounded corners and the Mica backdrop through the system DWM APIs — with a plain background where the OS does not support them.
Sharp at every DPI
Per-monitor DPI awareness with every measurement scaled, not just the fonts. Verified at 200% scaling, where most players start clipping text.
One click to play
Click a row in the playlist and it plays. Drag to reorder, search to filter, Ctrl-click to select several. No double-clicking required.
A library that answers instantly
Point it at your folders once. Everything is catalogued in a local SQLite index with durations and tags, so search returns while you type.
Picks up where you stopped
Playback position, watch history and bookmarks are remembered per file, and the playlist you had open comes back with the window.
Subtitles that just appear
Sidecar subtitle files next to the video, and anything in a Subs folder, are found and loaded. Adjust delay in 50 ms steps.
Three engines. You choose, or it chooses for you.
The player talks to one internal interface, so the decoder underneath
can be swapped without restarting. Drop in a library for wider format
coverage, or use nothing at all and rely on Windows.
mpv optional
Widest format and subtitle coverage, exact seeking and single-frame stepping. Add libmpv-2.dll to the backends\mpv folder.
VLC optional
Broad format support through libVLC, including a hardware equaliser. Uses a matching 32-bit VLC installation if you have one.
Windows always there
The decoders already in Windows, through DirectShow. Nothing to install, nothing extra to license — this is what a fresh install uses.
Formats out of the box
Coverage depends on the active engine; the list below is what the application recognises.
0.25× to 4× playback speed, frame-by-frame stepping, an A–B loop range, and screenshots saved straight to your Pictures folder.
Audio control
A 10-band equaliser with eight presets, volume boost above 100%, audio delay adjustment, and output device selection.
Keyboard first
Every action has a shortcut, listed in one place with F1. Seek steps, volume, speed, subtitle track and full screen are all one key away.
It does not phone home. At all.
This is not a positioning statement, it is a property of the build:
the application contains no code that opens a network connection on
its own.
No account and no sign-in. There is nothing to register.
No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting. Nothing is measured and nothing is sent.
No update check. The application never contacts a server to look for a new version.
No advertising and no third-party SDKs bundled in.
Your files stay where they are. Nothing is uploaded, copied or indexed anywhere but your own machine.
The only network traffic is yours. If you paste a stream address, the player connects to that address and nowhere else.
Details of exactly which files are written, and where, are in the
Privacy Policy.
What it needs
Operating system
Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or later, and Windows 11. Rounded corners and the Mica backdrop need Windows 11.
Disk space
About 170 MB installed. The installer is 49 MB.
Privileges
None. It installs into your own user profile, so there is no administrator prompt.
Runtime
Nothing to install separately. The Python runtime it needs is included in the installer.
Portable use
Supported. Put a file named portable.txt next to the application and it keeps its settings and library in its own folder.
Price
Free.
Get Media Player Windows
One installer, four screens, two clicks. It tells you up front what it
changes on your computer — including that it starts with Windows and
exactly where to switch that off.
