The IMatch Media Player plays many video formats in the Quick View Panel and the Viewer.
The IMatch Media Player is a capable and feature-rich media player based on Windows Media Foundation.
The player offers common features such as navigating back and forth, scrubbing (dragging the slider to navigate to positions in a video), volume control, muting, auto-play, looping, auto-scale, and a full-screen mode.
The video player has been designed to work like similar players used by popular video platforms.
Hover the mouse over a toolbar icon to see a description and the corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
SPACE or K | Start or pause a video. |
Left-click the video | Start or pause a video. |
Cursor-left / Cursor-right | Go back/forward 5 seconds. |
Cursor-up / Cursor-down | Increase/decrease volume. |
M | Toggle mute. |
R | Toggle looping. When looping is enabled and the video ends, it automatically starts again from the beginning. |
S | Toggle auto-scaling. When enabled, videos are scaled to fit the media player area. This scales smaller videos up. |
A | Toggle auto-play. |
PageUp / PageDown | In the Quick View PanelGo to the previous / next video in the active File Window. Only supported video formats are considered by this command. The ribbon buttons for this command may not show when the Quick View Panel is very narrow, but the keyboard shortcuts will work. In the ViewerPlay the previous / next video in the Viewer. If a video was playing and the new file is also a supported media format, it automatically starts to play. If the next/previous file is not a supported media format, the Viewer exits video mode and shows the file in normal mode. |
F and ESC | Toggle full-screen mode (ESC to end full-screen mode). |
B | Edit bookmarks. |
Click the bookmark icon in the player toolbar to set, delete, and navigate to bookmarks you have already created. Using bookmarks enables you to quickly navigate to specific time points or highlights in videos.
The bookmark icon in the ribbon shows a check mark when a video already has bookmarks.
IMatch creates a number of video previews for each video and plays them as a short animation when you hover the mouse cursor over a video.
You can configure thumbnail settings via Edit menu > Preferences > Database.
If you create more than one bookmark for a video, the File Window by default uses the video frames from those bookmarks for the animated preview instead of the auto-generated preview thumbnails.
If you don't want this, you can disable it via the Edit menu > Preferences > File Window.