Video Editor Player

A fast Windows video player that combines everyday playback with practical editing tools. It was created to make detailed inspection and adjustment of videos possible without constantly switching between a media player and a full editing suite—especially when zooming, panning, comparing audio tracks, or correcting track loudness.

Highlights

• Smooth video playback powered by libmpv
• Precise zoom and pan controls for inspecting any part of a frame
• Multiple audio-track playback, muting, mixing, gain, EQ, pitch, and per-track loudness normalization
• Adjustable target loudness in LUFS
• Playback speed control with optional pitch preservation
• Brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, hue, sharpening, and denoising controls
• Rotate, flip, crop, opacity, and framing tools
• Editor timeline with clips, thumbnails, waveforms, and captions
• Landscape and portrait output, output-size and frame-rate controls
• GPU export through NVIDIA NVENC and CPU export through x264/x265 when supported by the included FFmpeg build
• Reusable audio, video, and render presets
• English interface by default, with an optional Czech translation
• Portable settings stored beside the executable

Download and start

1. Open the latest GitHub release and download the ZIP file.
2. Extract the complete ZIP to a writable folder.
3. Run Start Video Editor Player.bat or VideoEditorPlayer.exe.
4. Open a video from the application, pass a file to the launcher, or drag a video onto the launcher.

The release package includes the runtime components required for playback, previews, and rendering. No separate Visual C++ Redistributable installation is required.

Basic use

• Use the transport controls or keyboard shortcuts shown inside the application for playback and seeking.
• Open the editor to generate the waveform and thumbnail strip, split clips, adjust framing, add captions, and prepare an export.
• Configure each audio track independently. Enable normalization and choose a target loudness when tracks have very different levels.
• Save frequently used audio, picture, or export combinations as presets.
• Select a different encoder if an export fails. NVENC options require a compatible NVIDIA GPU and driver; CPU options require the relevant encoder in FFmpeg.

Language and settings

English is the default on a fresh installation. To switch languages, open the application settings and select the Czech translation. The application creates vp_settings.json beside the executable and stores preferences, presets, recent positions, and the selected language there.

No personal settings or playback history are included in the public release.

Build from source

Requirements:

• Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit
• Visual Studio 2022 or newer with the Desktop development with C++ workload
• A Windows SDK
• libmpv-2.dll in vendor for video playback
• ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe in vendor for previews, analysis, and rendering

Run build.bat. The program is built with the static MSVC runtime and placed in build.

Important notes

• Hardware decoding and GPU rendering depend on the installed graphics driver.
• NVENC export requires supported NVIDIA hardware.
• Very large videos, waveform generation, thumbnails, and complex filters can require substantial CPU, GPU, memory, and temporary storage.
• Always keep the original media files until the rendered result has been checked.

Credits

Created by FajkPes with assistance from ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code.

License

Video Editor Player is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. This GPL-compatible license is required for a complete package that includes the GPL builds of libmpv and FFmpeg used by the application. See LICENSE and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.