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--- What's new in v6.00:
New :
* Since a lot of people don't appreciate the changes microsoft
made to Windows Vista with its UAC limitations, the Zoom Player
installer now lets you choose between two modes:
Standard install where dynamic files are saved in the AppData
(Application Data) directory and static files are saved in the
install directory. This is required when running Windows Vista
with UAC enabled or running Windows XP with a limited user account.
Legacy mode where all the files are saved in the selected directory.
This is easier to backup, but wont work properly when running
Vista with UAC enabled or Windows XP on a limited user account.
With Legacy mode selected, the file extension association functionality
is restored to Windows XP levels (UAC under Windows Vista limits some
file extension association functions such as changing file icons).
* To maintain compatibility with Windows Vista's user account control
(UAC) mechanism, the Zoom Player installer (using Standard Install)
will move all files that require modification to the windows Application
Data directory (Can be reached by typing "%AppData%\Zoom Player"
in any folder window).
In addition to the move, user-specified skins must be re-selected
through the skin selection dialog.
* Zoom Player now warns you when it detects you are running in
legacy mode under restricted file access (UAC in Vista or a limited
user account under XP/Vista).
* New "Auto-Configure" button on the Smart Play options dialog.
When clicked, all current decoder configuration will be reset
and then the system is scanned for the best decoder configuration
using the currently installed decoders.
* New F8/F9 skin modes (equivalent to the Onyx Lite skin).
* Full EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer) support.
Please note that due to a Microsoft issue/bug, you must use
YUY2 as the colorspace, otherwise color control features
will not function.
* Added support for Haali's Video Renderer technology.
Haali's Video Renderer uses Bicubic interpolation of video using
3D hardware. This means improved video quality, especially when
up-scaling to higher resolution. Older 3D Graphic card may not
be supported (Cards with PS 1.4 or better should work well).
* Zoom Player can now communicate with uTorrent's Web UI interface
in order to display download progress within the Media Library
and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature
is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on
this page for additional information.
* Zoom Player can now keep track with eMule's temporary files directory
in order to display download progress within the Media Library
and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature
is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on
this page for additional information.
* New "Download Manager" navigation interface (Ctrl+"J"), allowing you
to get an overview of your currently downloading files (compatible with
eMule and uTorrent).
* You can now specify additional paths for the File Browser (Adv. Options /
Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation).
New paths appear as drives. You can add network shares (for example
"//USER/Video/" and even local paths such as "C:\Media" creating instant
shortcuts to important directories on your system.
* The File Navigation interface now shows the drive sizes and free space.
* The Chapter editing interface has been modified with a chapter name history
drop-down list and instead of a dialog opening up when adding a chapter,
now you can just type in the chapter name (or pick from the drop-down
history list) and press enter or click the add chapter button, making it
easier to add chapters.
* The Scene Cut editor has been simplified and enhanced. The Scene cut
editor no longer requires you to click on the save button, saving is
done automatically now. A new edit button allows you to edit entries
without having to remove an old entry first. Lastly, the scene cut
interface layout has been updated to make it simpler to use.
* Zoom Player's ".zpl" playlist format has been extended to support
TAG data (author,composer,artist,etc). All TAG data read from
a media file (ID3,ApeTAG,WMA Tag,etc) is automatically saved
within the play list format (allowing you to override TAG data
display without actually modifying the source media file).
* New "Configure Subtitle Filter" button (Adv. Options / Playback /
Video & Subtitles) allowing you to configure the Subtitle filter
more easily.
* Options dialog tree nodes now have an icon to make them easier to
navigate and remember.
* The Media Library, File Browser and Playlist fullscreen
navigation interfaces now offer a "Quick Search" option
allowing you to more easily browse through large listings.
The Quick Search option is accessible by navigating to the
right and selecting the "Quick Search" entry.
* The Media Library and File Browser navigation functions have
been restructured so that the sorting function is now part
of a sub-menu.
* "Select All" and "Clear Selection" functions have been added
to the Media Library and File Browser navigation interfaces
as a sub-menu under the "Select" function.
* The Playlist navigation interface has been restructured so
that the sorting method is now a sub-menu with more sorting
options available (by Size, Directory, Date and Randomly).
* Pressing right on the Playlist history navigation interface
now brings you to the top of the list (the most recently
played item).
* New "Navigation Style" Navigation interface, allowing the
navigation skin to be replaced from within the navigation
interface itself.
* New "Open Navigator" button on the Media Library Path Editor.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Video / Aspect Ratio)
instructing Zoom Player "Derived" Aspect Ratio mode to Automatically
Adjust (fix) the Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content.
This would convert 4:3 content encoded as 720x480 to display as 720x540,
720x576 to 768x576, 352x240 to 352x264, 352x288 to 384x288, etc...
Badly encoded 16:9 content is also adjusted in a similar fashion.
This setting also fixes small aspect ratio inaccuracies caused by a
requirement made by video encoders for the video pixel width or height
to be dividable by 16 (or 8 or 4).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to disable the
delete key from erasing the currently playing file.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to lock filter/decoder
configuration (property) pages to the main user interface (otherwise they
appear as a floating window).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) allowing you
to select custom DVD & Media background images.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to skip the "Library
Filter Mode" page. With this setting enabled, navigating left on the
media library category list will go straight to the Main navigation menu.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to specify the minimum number of
characters that appear when using Quick Search.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) restoring the ability to "Play all
files in this Directory" from the main file list (file and
media library navigators).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to select if Cut,
Copy & Paste operations allow you to overwrite files.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to highlight previously
viewed files. This setting with the "remember last
media position" setting (Adv. Options / Playback) and will
highlight any previously viewed file in the Media and File
Navigation interfaces by making its icon semi-transparent.
Please note that this feature can tax the CPU if the play
history (generated by remembering the last media position)
is over a few 100 files.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to set the
"On Play Complete" event (which triggers when a playlist has
finished playing) to "Randomize & Replay", giving you another
random play method.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to limit
remembering the last media position to media files longer than
a specified amount of minutes. This is useful when you don't want
the last media position remembered when playing short media files.
* New Button (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to reset the
Remember Last Position cache (and play history, which use the same data).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video & Subtitles) allowing
you to enable/disable Closed Captions support for media files.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video & Subtitles) allowing
you to automatically hide Closed Captions when playing media files.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video & Subtitles) allowing
you play media files with the subtitles not showing by default.
* New "Guard Dog" feature (Adv. Options / System).
When enabled, the Guard Dog periodically tests that the Zoom Player
process is responding. If the process stops responding for a
specified number of seconds, the Guard Dog will close the player and
start a new instance using a specified command line parameter list.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System & Files / Paths, Folders
and Files), allowing you to select the Frame Capture (screenshot)
format. BMP, PNG and JPEG are supported.
* New Auto-Segment load setting (Adv. Options / System & Files /
Paths, Folders and Files), allowing you to match file names
automatically by how similar they are. Press the "?" button
for more details on how the matching works. This feature is
on by default for versions that support it.
* New Function (fnBlankMonitors) assigned to the Alt+Shift+"K"
keyboard macro, allowing you to manually toggle blanking
(black-out) of non-playing monitors. The automatic-blanking
of non-playing monitors is accessible through the options
dialog (Adv. Options / System - Blank non-Playing Monitors
while in Fullscreen / Zoom mode). Pressing ESC restores
any blanked out monitor.
* New Function (fnFSActMonitor) assigned to the Alt+Shift+"Enter"
keyboard macro, allowing you to go fullscreen on the currently
active monitor, overriding the fullscreen to monitor "X" setting.
* New "fnPosToClipboard" function (Alt+Ctrl+"C") allowing you to copy
the current playing position to the windows clipboard (which can then
be pasted in another program).
* The Zoom Player function selection dialog is now split into three
categories: Content, Interface and Control. The function list is
also sorted, making functions easier to find.
* New Vista specific feature allowing you to make the entire
Zoom Player window semi-transparent. This also requires that
you use a video renderer that would work (Haali's/VMR9/EVR)
and that VISTA Aero is enabled. To use:
Alt+Ctrl+F4 = Fully visible window.
Alt+Ctrl+F5 = 80% visibility.
Alt+Ctrl+F6 = 60% visibility.
Alt+Ctrl+F7 = 40% visibility.
You can also specify exact transparency values using the new
"exTransWin" extended function.
* New "exTransWin" extended function, allowing you to specify
a transparency value (1-255) for the Zoom Player window.
This function requires Windows VISTA with Aero enabled.
* New "exRandomPlay" extended function, allowing you to discretely
set the Random Play setting to on/off (compared to the fnRandomPlay
function which toggle between on/off).
* New "exSkinTint" extended function allowing you to set the skin's RGB
tinting value.
Example:
zplayer.exe /exfunc:exskintint,$7F3000
* New "/Browse" command line parameter instructing Zoom Player to open
the specified web address in its internal web browser. This command line
works even if Zoom Player is already running.
Example:
zplayer.exe /browse:http://www.inmatrix.com
* New "/SP:[n]" command line parameter allowing you to turn Smart Play ON/OFF.
To turn Smart Play off use "/SP:0" to turn it on use "/SP:1".
* New "/Color" command line parameter allowing you to set the skin's RGB
tinting value
Example:
zplayer.exe /color:$7F3000
* New "/Config" command line parameter. Using this parameter,
you can specify which local (non-registry) configuration file
Zoom Player should use. This parameter is very useful when running
multiple instances of Zoom Player, each with a different configuration.
If the specified configuration file doesn't exist, Zoom Player will
create one (using the default configuration).
Usage:
zplayer.exe "/config:z:\path to config file\filename.local"
Note that the "" characters are required as this command
line parameter contains spaces.
* New "/Func" command line parameter. This parameter allows
you to instruct Zoom Player to execute functions directly
from the command line.
This parameter can also be used while Zoom Player is running,
enabling simple command-line based automation.
Example for always starting with the Main Navigator open:
zplayer.exe /Func:fnMainNav
For a full function list, see the Function List:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/zpfunctions.shtml
* New "/ExFunc" command line parameter. This parameter allows
you to instruct Zoom Player to execute extended functions
directly from the command line.
This parameter can also be used while Zoom Player is running,
enabling simple command-line based automation.
Example for always starting with the Playlist Editor open:
zplayer.exe /ExFunc:exInterface,2
For a full function list, read the Skinning Tutorial:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/zpfunctions.shtml
* New "/MultInst" command line parameter. Using this parameter
instructs Zoom Player to start another instance of the player
even if Zoom Player's multiple-instances setting is set to
disabled.
* New "/nCols", "/nRows", "/Col" and "/Row" command line parameters
allowing you to divide the active monitor into columns and rows which can
be used to position the player window. The "/nRows" defines the number
of rows, "/nCols" defines the number of columns, "/Col" defines the
active column (starting with column "0") and "/Row" defines the active
row (starting with row "0").
Example:
zplayer.exe /ncols:3 /nrows:3 /col:1 /row:1
* New "/StartPath" command line parameter allowing you to set the initial
path for the file-open dialog and the file browsing navigation interface.
* New "IconScale" parameter for the "ListData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to set the size of
list line icons relative to the size of the line height.
* New "" skin script dynamic variable that returns the current
playing index.
* New "" skin script dynamic variable that returns the current
playlist item count without adding the "file(s)" text to the returned value.
* All screen saver settings have been moved to:
Advanced Options / System / Screen Saver
* The internal screen saver has been enhanced to support image
slideshows in addition to the plasma background.
* You can now specify if the text information and animated streamers
are displayed by the internal screen saver.
* Added support for the Microsoft DVD decoders (part of Windows Vista).
* Support for PowerDVD v8 filters (CD Audio/H.264/MPEG2 and DVD Navigation)
* Added support for the "ffds" XVID sub-type created by the
ffdshow encoder.
* New "default" button next to the Archive Playback configuration
dialog (Adv. Options / System & Files / Paths, Folders and Files).
* Added support for DCoder's Bass Source filter. The bass
source filter adds support for the following audio formats:
AAC, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MPC, TTA, WV, MO3, IT, XM, S3M,
MTM, MOD, UMX.
* Added support for DCoder's Bass Source filter SHOUTcast streaming.
DCoder's Bass Source filter is more reliable and supports streaming
of SHOUTcast MP3/OGG/AAC content.
* Added support for the Illiminable FLAC decoder as an alternative
to CoreFLAC.
* Added support for FLV4 type Flash Video (".FLV" files).
* The Keyboard Shortcut list (F1) has been restructured, making it
easier to find keyboard macros.
* Can now quickly get duration for Windows Media Audio (".wma") files.
The default value for auto-get duration now includes the "wma" format,
If you are upgrading from a previous installation, you will need to
go to "Adv. Options / System / File Extensions" and press the Default
button next to the "Auto-Get Duration" edit line.
* The ".DVR-MS" file extension can now be associated with Zoom Player.
* The ".EVO" file extension can now be associated with Zoom Player.
* Added support for the ".CBR" and ".CBZ" comic book formats to the
archive extraction tool. To enable, you must reset to the default
archive extensions (Adv. Options / System & Files / File Extensions).
* Initial EVO/EVOB (HD-DVD video files) playback support,
If you are upgrading from a previous installation, you will need to
go to "Adv. Options / System / File Extensions" and press the Default
button next to the "Video" edit line.
* You can now activate a Zoom Player registration by double-clicking
on a valid "zplayer.regkey" file from within Explorer.
* New "ProgressColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
Skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be
used when displaying download progress within the Media Library,
File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "PathColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be
used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing
and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "PathOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will
be used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing
and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "PathExtraColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will
be used for the extra path text within the Media Library, File Browsing
and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "PathExtraOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will
be used for the path extra text within the Media Library, File Browsing
and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "ConfirmColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be
used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
* New "ConfirmOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation
skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will
be used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
* The DVD AutoGraph script format now supports a parameter that
connects the Video Decoder's Subpicture pin to the Video Renderer
directly (to support DXVA with subtitles).
* New DVD profiles for the Convolver filter:
http://convolver.sourceforge.net/
* The Main fullscreen navigational interface is now accessible directly through
the right-click context menu.
* Support for the ".WAX" ,".WVX", ".WMX" playlist file extensions.
+ Newly supported file extensions: M4B, HDMOV.
* New "1130" CommAPI command that retrieves the currently playing frame rate
per second (FPS). This is the same value seen on the information dialog
("I" keyboard macro).
* New "1140" CommAPI command that retrieves that estimated frame rate per
second (FPS). This value is not 100% accurate as some formats do not
have a fixed frame rate or simply do not report a frame rate. In cases
where the real FPS is unattainable, an estimated FPS value is returned.
* New "1811" CommAPI command allowing you to retrieve the number of items
in the current playlist. This message is also shown when the playlist
item count is modified.
* New CommAPI message 1860 allowing you to pass a web address (URL) for
Zoom Player to open.
Changes :
+ "Zoom Player WMV Professional" has been renamed to
"Zoom Player Home Premium".
"Zoom Player Standard" has been renamed to
"Zoom Player Home Basic".
+ Dropping items into the playlist now drops the items at the mouse
cursor position in the playlist.
+ The Color Control and Equalizer navigation interfaces have been
redesigned to take less screen space.
+ The default skin is now selected directly from the skin list,
(as the first skin listed) instead of clicking on the default
skin button.
+ The skin selection interface is now sorted alphabetically.
+ The skin selection interface behavior has been changed slightly.
In order to apply a custom tint, you must now click the Apply Tint
button.
+ The default Audio mode skin now has a wider volume bar and
includes a new button that opens the station manager.
+ The Control Bar and OSD Pop-ups are now accessible even when the
player window is set to "Stay on Top".
+ Pressing stop twice was set to resume playback from the position
prior to the stop function being called. This wasn't too clear so
now a "Resume" OSD message pops up.
+ The Navigation interfaces should work slightly faster, especially
in situations where more complex navigation skins are used (skins
with large transparency effects).
+ When setting the navigation interface's line count, the Equalizer
and Color Control interfaces ignore a value of "-2" as they are
only 3 lines to begin with.
+ The Frame Capture Alt+"F" (screenshot) function should now work
in all video renderers except Overlay Mixer, VMR9 Renderless
(VMR9 Windowed and Windowless should work) and EVR.
+ The archive configuration now allows you to specify dynamic system
paths. For example:
"%programfiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%n" "-o%p"
Instead of :
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%n" "-o%p"
The default values have been updated and you can use the new
default button to set them.
+ The ".iso" and ".img" extensions have been moved from the executable
extension list into the archive extension list. With the latest
version of 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org) installed, you can now extract
and play CD/DVD images directly from within Zoom Player. Make sure
to press the default buttons (Adv. Options / System / File Extensions).
+ The Main Navigation interface should appear much quicker now,
especially when accessed while a video is playing.
+ The "/X", "/Y", "/W" and "/H" command line parameters now
function even if Zoom Player is already running, allowing
you to re-position & size the main user interface window
from the command line (previously, these parameters only
worked when initially running Zoom Player).
+ The Media Library and File Browser navigation functions have been
re-ordered for increased usability.
+ The File Association options dialog has been restructured
for additional clarity.
+ You can now specify a +6,+8 or +10 values for the navigation
interface line count.
+ Function descriptions have changed to make them easier to Read,
Understand and Search.
+ The Girder Exported commands are now sorted and split into
categories, making it easier to program remote devices
and home automation systems.
+ Mouse left click while holding the Alt key now zooms in 10%
instead of 50% (which wasn't as useful).
+ The Alt+"S" keyboard macro that shows the subtitle filter configuration
dialog can now be used without any media playing.
+ Ctrl+"C" now enables/disables closed captioning when used by
media files (it was previously limited to DVDs).
+ You can now select a custom playlist font without having to
customize the playlist colors as well.
+ Synchronizing the Subtitles Ahead/Back is now done in 100ms
increments (instead of the previous 25ms).
+ The Mouse Wheel "function-cycle" function and the Mouse Wheel
Function navigation interfaces now list the custom function as
the actual function name instead of "Custom".
+ The AB-Repeat function (Alt+"R") used to loop a specific section of
audio/video will now highlight the timeline to indicate the looping
section (only on the default and newer skins).
+ When using the File Browsing and Media Library navigation interfaces, the
Copy & Paste functions will now show an OSD message while moving files and
a success/fail OSD message when the file operation completes.
+ The File Browser and Media Library navigation interfaces will now
display the file's icon when using the function pane.
+ If no navigation interfaces are enabled through the options dialog,
the main navigation interface will no longer be accessible.
+ The DVD Fast Forward and Rewind rate now support two more values:
"8/16/32" and "12/24/48".
+ Opening "mms://" addresses should now work a little better.
+ When opening the player with secondary windows open (playlist editor,
equalizer, etc...) the keyboard focus did not remain on the main window.
+ Several items on the right-click menu have been renamed for clarity.
+ The "Add Chapter" function's keyboard macro has been changed from "C" to
Ctrl+Shift+"C".
+ Real-Time Frame rate reporting on the information dialog should now work
with Custom Video Renderers as long as they support the IQualProp interface.
+ The "1600,1601 and 1703" Audio Track CommAPI commands are now accessible
for media files (no longer limited to DVDs).
+ The "1700,1701,1703 and 1704" Subtitle CommAPI commands are now accessible
for media files (no longer limited to DVDs).
+ Updated description of video renderers.
+ When opening the options dialog on a monitor with resolution too low
to display the entire dialog, the dialog will now cover more of the
screen area.
+ Enabling/Disabling the DVD & Media Background images has moved to
"Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display"
Fixes :
- A bug in the archive extracting code could cause extracted
archive to extract in the wrong directory under some conditions.
- When random play was enabled and only one file was playing,
the "On Play Complete" event was called if the same file was
opened twice.
- The external command to "Enqueue/Play with" Zoom Player has been
moved to a shell extension under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, making it
faster and more reliable.
- Playing the next/previous file in the directory, or using similar
functions such as playing the next/previous file of the same type
in the directory didn't work with UNC paths (network paths).
- When extracting and playing the content of an archive file, the
first file in the archive would be loaded twice in succession.
- Some M3U playlist files wouldn't load properly if the files within
contained ANSI characters which conflicted with UTF8 decoding.
- Setting a custom aspect ratio with a "0" value could cause
Zoom Player to crash with an invalid division by zero error.
- A sorting glitch was fixed in the file browser and media library
navigation interfaces where the "Go to previous directory" option
appeared at the bottom of the file list instead of at the top.
- Deleting entries from the Chapter Browser navigation interface no
longer causes a "Divide by Zero" error in some cases.
- Having both "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio"
and "Prevent moving the user interface off the primary monitor" enabled
could cause a freeze when using the Alt+"4" or Alt+"5" functions to Zoom
the video window beyond the size of the monitor.
- When using the internal image decoder, Zoom Player can now detect
badly named image files (such as PNG files with JPG extension).
Supported mislabeled image formats include: BMP, JPG, PNG.
- Some MJPEG files may not have been detected properly by Smart Play.
- Fix for the Zoom Player Install Center where it wouldn't
recognize certain updates as up to date if they were
installed to a unicode file path.
- The Zoom Player registration key is now searched for in
both the Zoom Player directory and in the application data
directory.
- Pressing "Del" to erase the currently playing file with
other entries selected in the playlist would not remove the
erased file from the playlist.
- ID3/TAG display of unicode file name would show "???" if
the audio file had no ID3 data.
- ID3/TAG display of unicode file name would show "???" if
the audio file ID3 data containing unicode text and the
Windows country code was non-english.
- ID3/TAG display wouldn't always update when loading certain
audio file formats.
- When trying to select a DVD auto-execute software (Adv. Options /
Playback / DVD / DVD Tools), typing in the "New" field would not
enable the "Apply" button.
- The Skip to the next file in the playlist when an unplayable file is
encountered function no longer skips to the next file if the entire
playlist is unplayable. This fix prevents the playlist from looping
in error messages forever.
- Improved Network path support for paths starting with "//".
- The internal image decoder can now load images from network paths.
- Ejecting a drive while listening to streaming media could cause
playback to stop.
- Using the "," character as part of a chapter name would truncate
the chapter name.
- When specifying a transparent color for the Timeline, loading
a different skin that didn't contain timeline transparency would
not clear the transparent regions properly.
- Fixed a bug where applying a custom File Extension Association icon
would not always work properly.
- Failing to load a media file with a background image enabled could
cause the background image to display in an incorrect aspect ratio.
- The TV Pattern mode would incorrectly draw a red vertical line at
some resolutions.
- The background image and circle pattern would not respect the source
relative stretch feature when it was set to a specific monitor (the
stretch value was applied to all monitors).
- Cosmetic fix for the navigation scrollbar widget being slightly
inaccurate position wise.
- Under some conditions, the TCP port would not become accessible.
- File Association should now be working under Windows VISTA with
UAC mode enabled.
- The "Continue to the next item on the playlist when an invalid
file is played" didn't work when the file was missing rather than
corrupt/problematic.
- Using the play next file in the same directory should no longer flash
the media background images between files. This fix also makes the
images load faster.
- When the player was set to "Stay On Top", some options dialog sub-menus
would appear beneath the options dialog, making them inaccessible.
- When Stay On Top was enabled, some interfaces were appearing behind
the main user interface.
- Setting a Playlist Font/Color override would return to the skin values
when switching skin modes.
- When the player window would lose focus, the control bar
stopped auto-hiding.
- With some file formats, the playlist would not update the
total playlist duration properly.
- Enabling the "Show Time Seek Position Over Timeline" feature
would cause the Zoom Player window to become the top-most
window if the mouse cursor hovered over the timeline.
- Trying to open the Options dialog with the main window set
to "Stay on Top" and Zoom Player set to only show an icon on
the tray area would cause the options dialog to appear behind
the main window.
- Monitor Powerdown will no longer be disabled when playing
in windowed mode (Powerdown will only be disabled when
fullscreen).
- Exporting Girder commands while using a local configuration file would
not use the correct window name, preventing the exported girder file
from working.
- More cases of unsupported hardware color control are now detected by the
color control navigational interface.
- Disabling the "'Del' key moves media files to the recycle bin (with
confirmation)" setting would erroneously disable the erase function from
working in the media library and file browsing navigation interfaces.
- Trying to play Audio-CDs through the file browsing navigation interface
would not play the file.
- Detaching the control bar would not snap its position to
the previously saved detached position under some conditions.
- With a detached Control Bar, it was possible for the mouse wheel
functions not to work if the control bar was moved.
- Trying to play streaming content while in DVD Mode would not
switch to media mode automatically and then fail to play.
- The Context Navigator did not use the scripting parameters
assigned to it correctly.
- The Contact Sheet creation form didn't allow you to select
the contact sheet color values.
- Some navigation interface titles could not be translated
into other languages.
- The "exSetMode" function would not switch modes properly
under some conditions.
- Switching between Media/DVD/Audio mode could result in
an Audio mode skin loaded in DVD mode.
- Switching between skin modes in the skin selection dialog would not update
the available skin lists properly between modes.
- Opening the skin selection dialog with a navigation interface visible
would not show the correct tint values (it showed the skin's tint
values rather than the navigation tint values).
- When Stay On Top was enabled, the seek-to hint window would appear
behind the main user interface window.
- The "Scrollbar Highlight" color for forced Playlist colors
was not being saved properly.
- If the internal screen saver got activated with the open
file dialog already open, it could cause Zoom Player to
become non-responsive.
- Navigation interfaces would not appear when using VISTA Aero and
having the blank secondary monitor feature enabled.
- Pressing Insert in the File Navigator with no files listed would
raise a List out of Bounds error.
- The File Navigator would forget the last active drive if you opened
and closed Zoom Player without opening the navigator.
- The "/F:[x]" and "/Z:[x]" parameters did not go Fullscreen on the right
monitor if Zoom Player was in window mode.
- Fixed a buffer overlow issue thanks to Luigi Auriemma.
- Fixed a number is not integer error with the uTorrent file tracker.
- The Zoom Player install center would not allow you to configure
filters if Zoom Player was installed in a unicode directly.
- Loading ".WPL" playlist containing network addresses should now
look for the files over the network rather than in a local path.
- The basic options dialog tree list wouldn't translate properly.
- Windows Media files that required a password to play would fail to
display the password prompt and fail to play.
- Switching the Navigation Interface color-tint through the skin
selection interface could cause a crash under certain circumstances.
- Playing a media file from one of the navigation interfaces no
longer shows the media background image before playing the file.
- Having the Control Bar Auto-Show and then having it Auto-Hide
if the distance is too big could cause the Control Bar to
remain on-screen under some circumstances.
- The Scene-Cut Jump and Mute Audio functions were not working correctly.
- Clicking on the Zoom Player tray icon while fullscreen on a secondary
monitor would cause the Zoom Player window to resize without drawing
the skin properly.
- Improved stability for DCoder's DVB filter's graph building.
- Ejecting a non-playing CD/DVD/USB device while a DVD is playing
would cause the DVD to stop.
- The Next/Previous chapter functions were not working properly in
the default DVD skin.
- On some non-standard resolution, the fullscreen navigation interface
would not cover the right-most pixel.
- Playing audio files with file extensions that could also be used for
video files (such as ".MP4") would have Zoom Player remember the
last media position for the audio file, even if remembering audio
file last position was disabled.
- Playing a Matroska file with External subtitles would not allow you
to cycle through the external subtitle tracks with Ctrl+"B".
- Having On Play Complete set to "Do Nothing" while having "Remember
Last Media Position" enabled would cause the video to rewind, even
though it should have paused on the last frame.
- CommAPI message 5130 (call navigation function) was not working.
- Under Windows VISTA, pressing Alt+Tab with some interfaces would
cause several buttons/checkboxes to disappear.
- Filter property pages will now appear on the same monitor as the
Zoom Player user interface.
- Several small cosmetic glitches fixed in the default skin.
- Cosmetic glitch fixed in the advanced playlist control (buttons could
overlap).
- Several navigation interfaces were not showing unicode text correctly.
--- What's new in v5.02:
Fixes :
- Bug Fixes.
--- What's new in v5.01:
Fixes :
- Fixed a possible exploit involving malformed ZPL playlist files.
- The Next/Previous Chapter buttons didn't work as intended using
the default skin in DVD mode.
--- What's new in v5.00:
New :
* The default skin has been replaced with a new cleaner, clearer
and more versatile skin.
* All navigation interfaces have been rewritten from scratch.
Navigtion is now much simpler, only using 5 directional
controls (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT/ENTER).
All interfaces are inter-connected through the "MAIN"
navigation interface and are much more easy to control
using a mouse or touch-screen.
Furthermore, navigational interfaces are now scriptable
using a simple text-based scripting language, allowing you
to easily reposition the layout and introduce alternative
graphical elements.
Clicking the right and left most pixels in any of the
navigation interfaces is equivalent to clicking
RIGHT/LEFT on the arrows. The mouse wheel can be used
for UP/DOWN and Double Clicking is the same as SELECT/ENTER.
Multiple navigation styles are now available for download.
* Smart Play (previously Customized Media Mode) has been
vastly simplified. In the simple mode, only the available
profiles and the currently used filters are visible. If the
currently used filter matches a profile (which it most always
will), the profile will be highlighted.
Smart Play is now available in all version of Zoom Player
to a lesser degree.
* The Advanced Options dialog has been rewritten from scratch.
The new dialog layout is much more logical and should help
make Zoom Player's powerful features much more easy to access.
* A new install center application is now available, allowing
for easy updates and filter configuration without the need
to manually install each component.
* The Keyboard Editor will now let you create Global HotKeys.
These are functions assigned to keys that are active even if
Zoom Player itself is not the active application.
Global HotKeys also have (on a per-key basis) the option to
bring Zoom Player to the front.
* The Auto-Get Duration for media files has been rewritten to
get the duration in the background (working only on unused CPU
cycles), allowing you to load massive play lists without having
to wait.
Getting durations for media files also supports more formats
and is now enabled by default.
* You can now drop Subtitle files on the main user interface in
order to display the subtitle track with the currently playing
media file.
Requires DirectVobSub installed and Smart Play enabled.
* New Equalizer Navigator (Shift+"Q"), allowing you to access
Equalizer settings through the navigation system.
* New Play History Navigator (Shift+"H"), allowing you to return
to previously played files (if they still exist).
* New "ZPS" Skin Installation System. Simply opening any
"ZPS" file (file with a .zps extension) will run Zoom Player
and prompt you to install the skin.
* New Navigation Skin selection option within the Skin Selection
interface ("N").
* New Contact Sheet creation dialog (Alt+Shift+"C"). Using this
new interface, you can easily create contact sheet for the
currently playing media file (doesn't work with DVDs).
You must also set the video renderer to VMR9 Windowless.
* New Functions allowing you to play the Next and Previous files
in the same directory as the currently playing file with a
matching file extension. These functions are now assigned to the
"PgUp" and "PgDn" navigational keys when navigator interfaces
are not visible.
For example, when viewing "MyImage.jpg" in a directory that looks
like this:
MyImage.jpg
MyImage.avi
MyImage2.jpg
Pressing "PgDn" will show "MyImage2.jpg", skipping "MyImage.avi"
These functions enhance Zoom Player's capability as an image viewer.
* New Functions (Accessible on the Play List's right-click context menu)
allowing you to move selected items to the top/bottom of the play list.
* New Function (Alt+"E") that enables you to Open/Close the last visible
navigator. This last visible setting is saved between sessions, thus
allowing you continuous navigation through multiple sessions.
* New Function (Shift+"L") allowing you to show/hide the all Control Bar
buttons (without the need to select/remove which buttons are visible).
This function has also replaced the Hide/Show All Control Bar buttons
on the Control Bar Context-Menu. You will now be presented with
a "Hide All Button" toggle (with a checkbox indicating ON/OFF state).
* New Function (Shift+"J") that reloads the currently playing
media file.
* New Function "fnDeleteCurrent", Assigned by default to the Delete key
(when the navigational interfaces are not in use), allowing you to
erase the currently playing file (with confirmation).
* New Function (Shift+"Esc") allowing you to close all navigational
interfaces. If no navigators are visible, this function does nothing.
* New Functions allowing you to go to the Next/Previous DVD Title.
This requires that the DVD is authored to accept this functionality
(some DVDs are authored to prohibit certain types of access).
The macro keys are Alt+Shift+"]" for Next DVD Title and Alt+Shift+"["
for Previous DVD Title.
* New Extended Function (exZoomTo). This function can be set to Zoom
the video area to a specific Zoom percentage (for example, Zoom to 125%).
You can access this function using the keyboard editor.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface) allowing you to have
Zoom Player switch to fullscreen/zoom modes when starting to
play new content.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD), allowing you
to force all OSD Displays (Navigators, OSD Actions, Control Bar,
etc...) to display relative to a specific position on screen
(while in fullscreen) or locked to fullscreen on the active monitor.
When enabled, it allows you to Zoom/Move the video without it having
an effect on the positioning of the On Screen Display elements.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD / Fullscreen
Navigation), allowing you to choose if you want to sort directories
first (list the directories before listing any of the files) in the
File and Media Library navigators.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD / Fullscreen
Navigation), allowing you to choose if you want to include
sub-directories when playing all files in a directory.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Playback), which by default tells
Zoom Player to play the next file in the play list when the current
file ends, but when disabled, Zoom Player will pause at the end of
each file (useful for presentations).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Video / Aspect Ratio) allowing you
specify which monitor you want Source Relative Stretch (Pixel Aspect
Ratio) to apply to.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / System) allowing you to blank
(black-out) all secondary monitors (any monitor not currently
playing video).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / System) allowing you to enable the
Internal Screen Saver for Audio-Only files (so that the Internal
Screen Saver would kick-in even if the file is playing).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Playback / Windows Media)
allowing you to use the "WMAPro over S/PDIF" DMO filter to output
Windows Media Audio through the S/PDIF port. This setting requires
that you use an external Receiver with Windows Media Audio capabilities.
* New Setting (Skin Selector / Save Position). When enabled,
each skin's position (window position and size) will be remembered
on an individual basis.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar
/ Display), allowing you to position the control bar
at the Top, Center or Bottom of the video area.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to choose
which navigation interfaces are to be listed on the
Main Navigator.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation), allowing you to enable a Safe Mode where
potentially unsafe navigation functionality (cut/copy/paste/erase
files) is hidden from the function list.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation), allowing you show hidden files (default off).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Audio Tags) allowing you to choose Auto-Hide
the background folder image along with the tags.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar)
allowing you to show the Control Bar when the mouse cursor
is at the top of the screen.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar) allowing the
Control Bar to hide automatically if the mouse cursor is moved
a certain distance away from the control bar (50 pixels).
* The mouse left click (DVD/Media), double click and middle click
can now be assigned custom functions.
* New Mouse Left-Click setting to only move the user interface window
(without the ability to move the video while in fullscreen).
* Support for DCoder's DC-DVB filter (a filter capable of using
Zoom Player to view Digital-TV with TimeShifting) has been
improved with new Teletext funtionality (number 0-9 to enter
page numbers and Ctrl+"B" to switch Teletext on/off).
Download the filter at "www.dsp-worx.de".
* The Chapter Editor and GoTo dialog have been merged into a single
interface. The new interface is easier to use and more powerful.
* The Chapter Editor now allows you to input a time to seek to using
an HH:MM:SS.ms structure. The input is pretty flexible, allowing
variants such as H:M:S, M:S, S.ms, etc...
* Pressing Ctrl+"V" in the Chapter Editor pastes the clipboard value
into the "H:M:S.ms" Time field.
* New Setting on the Chapter Editor allowing you to keep the dialog
open even after seeking to a new position.
(Useful for FanSub Editors)
* The current time in MS is now visible on the Chapter Editor.
* The Navigation Keyboard Macros (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select) can now
have a custom function assigned to them when a navigator is not
in use.
* New "Remove Non-Exisiting Entries" button on the Play History
interface, allowing you to remove old entries where the file no
longer exists on the system.
* New "On Play Complete" value of "Open Media Library".
* New "/MEDIACAT:category name" command line parameter allowing you
to open the media library navigator within the category selection
screen when Zoom Player starts. Using "/MEDIACAT" alone will open
the category list in the previously saved position, while specifying
a category name would highlight a specific category, for example
"/MEDIACAT:Music" would highlight the Music category.
* Automatic support for Audio file folder image support by base name.
For example, if you have "song.mp3" and "song.jpg" in the same
directory, "song.jpg" will automatically load as a folder image.
* New "FolderImage" Skin-Script function allowing you to draw the
folder image anywhere within the main user interface.
* The "VolumeExData", "BalanceExData" and "RateExData" Skin-Script
functions can now use a Target parameter allowing you to place a
Volume, Balance and Rate Control interfaces on the Play List Editor,
Equalizer and Control Bar.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the main user interface
window is maximized.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the skin selector
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the station manager
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the color control
navigator is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the equalizer
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if any navigation
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the media library
editor interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the chapter
editor/GoTo interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is maximized.
* New Skin Script Commands allowing you to have Transparent
elements within the timeline (both on the control bar and
on the main user interface).
* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHint" value, allowing
you to change the button's hint value depending on the button
active state.
* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHoverX" and "ActiveHoverY"
values, allowing you to set a button image when the button is
both active and the mouse is hovering over it.
* Entering a negative FunctionParam value on any of the group
skin script functions ensures that the skin's window size
remains unchanged (use with care).
* New Skin Script "SearchFG" play list parameter, allowing
you to set the font color for the search box.
* New Skin Script command "CBarFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the Control Bar timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.
* New Skin Script command "TLineFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the main GUI timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.
* SHOUTcasted audio information (Title, Author, URL, Copyright,
Description) can now be accessed by the following Skin-Script tags:
<trackname>, <artistname>, <urllink>, <copyright>, <comment>.
* New "<Volume>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the current
Audio Volume level percentage (0-100).
* New "<FileIndex>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the
currently playing file's index number.
* New "<VideoZoom>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the
current video zooming used in the window interface (affected
by the Alt-"1..5" keys and the new "exZoomTo" function).
* New "cBarTLMinWidth" Skin-Script constant allowing you to specify
the minimum width of the Control Bar's TimeLine (default 64 pixels).
* The Skin Selection dialog now has an "Uninstall" button.
* New "RN" tag for the Zoom Player Play List file format (".zpl")
instructing Zoom Player to randomize the play list once loaded.
* New Communication API Messages "2610, 2611, 2620, 2621, 2630, 2631,
2640, 2641" allowing you to query the current video display area
located within fullscreen mode and to set a new location/size.
* New Communication API Messages "2700, 2701" allowing you to get
and set the current Play Rate (Media Mode Fast Play/Slow Motion and
DVD Mode Fast Forward/Slow Motion/Rewind rates).
* New Communication API Message "5130" allowing you to execute
navigational control functions.
* New Communication API Message "2710" allowing you to query the
Random Play state (it is also sent when the user changes
the Random Play state).
* New Communication API Message "1450" allowing you to request
the Unique DVD Identifier information.
* New DVD "Additional Filter", the "Trombettworks Channel Downmixer",
http://www.trombettworks.com/directshow.php
* The Nero DVD Navigator is now a DVD Navigator option.
* New support for ".FLV" (Flash Video) files (used on YouTube and
several other locations). You need a recent version of ffdshow
(with the FLV1 codec support enabled) and the Gabest FLV Splitter
to get the files to play.
* New Smart Play support for WMV:AP (Windows Media Video:Advanced
Profile). You also need updated Windows Media decoders to play
this new format (the decoders come with WMP 11 and possibly in
a decoder pack from Microsoft).
* New Smart Play profiles for several uncommon AVI/MOV codecs.
* New Smart Play profiles for WavPack Audio.
* New 256x256 Windows VISTA icon.
Changes :
+ The WMV DRM license acquisition code has been improved and you
should no longer be required to use Windows Media Player to
acquire licenses.
+ Zoom Player's image-scaling code has improved. This means a
very nice speedup when drawing scaled image elements
(navigators, background/folder images, etc...) and a slight
improvement in image quality.
(Licensed from Avery Lee's VirtualDub)
+ The Media Library Path Editor ("Shift+"M") interface has been
restructured, making it clearer and easier to use.
+ The Skin Selection ("N") interface has been restructured,
making it clearer and easier to use.
+ The Station Editor ("X") interface has been restructured,
making it clearer and easier to use.
+ When running a new version for the first time, you will now be
prompted only for important missing decoders. The full list
can still be found in the options dialog.
+ The missing decoders list in the Advanced Options dialog has been
split into a list of Important decoders and All decoders in order
to emphasize that not all decoders listed are required for
general day to day media playback. The Simple Options dialog will
only show the Important decoders.
+ The Media Library navigator interface should work faster on
networked drives and use less drive access.
+ The Media Library navigator will now only highlight the currently
playing file once instead of constantly trying to highlight it.
+ The Media Library navigator now remembers the last path
location for each category.
+ The erase navigator confirmation dialog now returns to the
navigator it was called from.
+ The navigation interfaces can now work without any graphics
(without the "NavData" directory). Won't look very good though.
+ Using the Next/Previous Track function with only one file
in the play list will play the Next/Previous media file in
the same directory (useful for picture browsing).
+ The Auto Show control bar when the cursor is at the screen's
bottom now also Auto Shows the control bar when the cursor is
at the screen's top.
+ The control bar no longer closes when opening a navigation
interface while the control bar is detached.
+ When stay on top is enabled, the control bar remains accessible
if it is detached from the user interface.
+ "Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar / Buttons" no
longer lists inaccessible functions.
+ The Information Dialog ("I" with a media file playing) now shows
format information for the playing file (requires Smart Play enabled).
+ Integration into Windows Vista file association interface.
Zoom Player should now appear as a supported program for all
association extensions supported by Zoom Player.
+ A new value has been added to the "Select" (Enter key) allowing
it to open the previously open navigator.
+ Switching display resolution while in fullscreen should now react
better with the main window covering the full display in the new
resolution. And if the display area covered the entire monitor,
the display area is now modified to cover the new resolution.
+ Pressing Stop while already stopped (in media mode) will now return
the playback position to its previous position.
+ The Default Play List skin has been tweaked a bit for usability
and clarity.
+ The File and Media Library Navigators will now dynamically update
their content when a removable media is inserted/removed.
+ When opening the File Navigator and the previous saved directory
position no longer exists, the file navigator will go up through
the directory path until a valid directory does exist or the root
path for the drive is reached (previously, it would go straight
to the root path).
+ The Blanking Navigator will now allow you to Enable/Disable Blanking.
+ The Control Bar will now have a minimum width of 64 pixels for the
timeline and whatever space the active Control Bar buttons take.
+ The Mouse Cursor over the Volume, Rate Control, Balance and
Equalizer bars will now use the "Hand Point" mouse cursor.
+ The Fast Play/Slow Motion rates have changes slightly.
+ Showing the Control Bar now hides the navigator interfaces.
+ Better streaming support.
+ Customized Media Playback has been renamed to "Smart Play".
+ Updated Smart Play profiles to account for Elecard v4's change
of filter identifications.
+ The "Mouse Wheel" section of the Options Dialog has been renamed
to "Mouse" and the "Mouse Toggles" section has moved under it.
+ The Skinning Constants "<filename>", "<filetitle>" and "<filebase>"
in DVD Mode will now display the DVD Title instead of the file name
(which when playing DVDs always points to "VIDEO_TS.IFO". This is
simply more informative.
+ Pressing Enter in the Chapter Editor without any fields filled will
now seek to the current position (useful for Subbing).
+ The Information Dialog (Press "I") now shows an approximate bitrate
as calculated using size of the file being played when DirectShow
doesn't return a valid bitrate.
+ Playing external audio tracks should now maintain proper
synchronization when seeking. Playing external tracks will
also create improved graphs.
+ The Sort by Date feature now sorts new files first.
+ "Play List Editor display moves to follow currently playing track"
setting now centers the currently playing track within the list
(instead of having it appear at the top of the list).
+ The White Wash pattern (Shift+"P") now ignores aspect ratio and
moves the bar somewhat faster (previously it was too slow).
+ The Smart Play Source Filter selection now allows you to add
DMO filters as post processors.
+ Improved shortcut support. When loading shortcuts, instead of loading
the shortcut into the play list, the entry is replaced by the file
the shortcut is pointing to.
Furthermore, you can now use shortcut files in the file and media
library navigators.
+ The TAG-Display background color now uses the user-specified
Fullscreen Background color instead of Black.
+ The Browse for Folder dialog is now resizable.
+ The Sub-Type list on the Audio/Video Smart Play configuration
dialog will now display the FourCC code for each Sub-Type.
+ The Girder Command export function now exports Zoom Player's
functions in a more orderly list grouping function types into
Girder categories.
+ The Key Edit dialog is now a bit more friendly.
+ The Blanking Navigator key has been changed from "K" to Shift+"K" in
order to prevent accidental activation.
+ The File Navigator key has been changed from "E" to Shift"F" in
order to prevent accidental activation.
+ The Scene-Cut and Chapter Editor interfaces now require the use of
Zoom Player Professional.
Fixes :
- Executing external applications on Windows 95/98 could cause a crash.
- Audio Renderers containing "00" in their device name (such as the
"SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A400]") could have disabled audio under some
conditions.
- Under certain conditions (such as logging a user out while
Zoom Player is still running), Zoom Player would have crashed
with an "Unhandled OS Exception" error.
- Trying to run multiple instances all using the same TCP/IP port
will no longer crash with a bind error.
- Opening non-standard URLs (tivo:// for example) should now
work from command line.
- The Hide TaskBar setting could cause issues in VMR9 Renderless
Exclusive mode.
- Flash files should now play in the proper aspect ratio on display
devices that do not use square pixels.
- OSD Messages wider than the monitor will now be cut to fit the monitor.
- Possible fix for VMR9 Renderless Exclusive fullscreen mode where
tray icons may have flashed.
- Shortcuts with targets using unicode paths are now supported.
- Auto-Get duration would not work under certain conditions.
- Under certain cases, loading play list files with relative paths
would not always find the files.
- Parameters in shortcut files are no longer ignored.
- Zoom Player can now use/display BMP files created with Photoshop.
(Recent versions of PhotoShop create improperly formatted BMP files).
- Zoom Player user interface elements will now snap to the Visible
Work Area (Task Bar rather than the Monitor border).
- The mouse cursor would not hide properly when using the
internal image decoder or the Flash/HTML/QuickTime ActiveX
controls.
- When Zoom Player was set to save its configuration file
locally, or when using an alternative window name,
Zoom Player would not load files from external programs if
it was already open.
- Auto-Disable DVD Subtitles and Preferred DVD Subtitles are now
mutually exclusive (with warning message).
- Opening a new file with the mouse cursor hidden and the
control bar visible would hide the mouse cursor to the point
it wouldn't show again.
- When Detached, The Control Bar can now be resized from the right
as well as the left sides of the interface.
- Better handling of filters that change the duration of the
currently playing media in real-time (such as TSFileSource).
- The navigation interfaces would not display properly on a
secondary monitor under certain conditions.
- You should now be able to erase the currently playing file from
within the Media Library Navigator.
- Mid-Stream aspect ratio changes should now work better (was not
working well when switching DVB TV-Channels).
- Switching to Audio Mode from DVD Mode and then back to DVD Mode
would load the Media Mode skin instead of the DVD Mode skin.
- A few stability tweaks to the skin parsing engine (better handling
of badly written skin-script).
- The setting to prevent Zoom Player from using Smart Play by the
extension of the file being played was not working properly.
- Fixed a possible stability issue with Smart Play and problematic
filters.
- A System-Sound would play when trying to exit Zoom Player using
the TCP Interface.
- The Hand Icon used over the Volume/Balance/Play Rate controls
was not the windows hand icon, this is now fixed.
- The Definition File "SetAudioSync" setting wasn't being applied
when playing DVDs.
- Using the "/F" or "/Z" parameters while Zoom Player is already
fullscreen on a secondary monitor could cause the display to move
to the primary monitor.
- The Change Resolution on Fullscreen feature may not have properly
covered the video area.
- The Search area background color on the Play List Editor was not
being set properly for the default skin.
- External Control Bar buttons (not part of the control bar button
list) would not show under certain conditions.
- Having blanking enabled should no longer obscure the navigation
interfaces.
- Audio TAGs (ID3) would not position properly in some cases.
- Opening directories would not always sort them properly.
- When ejecting DVDs as they are playing, Zoom Player may have tried
to automatically replay them causing a DVD Not Found error to pop.
- Setting the mouse left click to move the video area would not work
in fullscreen mode.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition would only accept
the image if it existed in the root skin directory.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition was ignored if no
icon file was set.
- Automatic Save/Restore of the last position for ".dvr-ms" and ".ts"
files was not working correctly.
- Scene-Cut would malfunction under certain conditions (especially
when trying to use it in combination with ".dvr-ms" files).
- The Play List Editor Window sizes would glitch if closing
Zoom Player while the Play List Editor was maximized.
- When Zoom Player was set to disable the Windows Screen Saver
in fullscreen mode, it could under some conditions cause
hardware powerdown not to activate after Zoom Player was closed.
- Having a Volume/Balance/Play Rate bar on either the
Control Bar, Equalizer or Play List interfaces would disappear
when going fullscreen.
- When scrolling on the Play History or the Key Editor, the
screen will now update while scrolling.
- Audio files will now be listed in the Play History even if the
setting not to remember the last position for audio files is enabled.
- Removing the currently playing file from the play list would not
clear the file name from the Task Bar or Tray Icon.
- Adding Chapters/Bookmarks would not automatically make the new
Chapters/Bookmarks accessible in certain cases.
- The "<track>" Skin Script value wasn't being cleared when a file
was closed.
- Sorting the play list could lead to the currently playing item
highlight on the play list editor to show the wrong file.
- Moving items in the Play List up/down could fail on unicode files.
- The Bookmark/Chapter Navigator would not support unicode
chapter descriptions.
- The Gradient skin commands were not being effected by the skin tint.
- Several Option dialog tabs may have not translated properly when
a unicode translation was used.
- Using a forced duration value in a Zoom Player Play List file would
carry over the duration to the next file in the play list if it
did not have a forced duration.
- The Pop-Up OSD Action message would not show Unicode characters
properly under some conditions.
- Pressing Enter in the Station Navigator when the navigator contained
no entries would have caused a crash.
- Switching from DVD Mode to Audio Mode and trying to select a
different skin, would set the skin to the DVD Mode and not
the Audio Mode.
- Closing the Player when the screen saver is active on a secondary
monitor caused Zoom Player to crash and not close properly.
- Opening a URL from the command line would have caused it to open
using uppercase, which some servers would not accept as a correct
location for the item.
- Communication API Message 2500 would only transmit if a specific
play on insert setting was enabled. It will now always transmit
if a new disc/drive was inserted.
- Communication API Message 1850 did not properly support
UTF8 file names.
- Enabling the TCP/IP interface using an Extended Function did not
properly enable the interface.
- Holding Alt+Enter (fullscreen) for a several seconds straight
could cause a crash.
- Some cosmetic glitches when using XP Themes.
- Grid Interfaces (Play History, Key Editor etc...) now respect
the windows color scheme.
--- What's new in v4.51:
New :
* The Zoom Player Function Selection dialog (accessible through
several interfaces) contain a new search function, allowing
you to search through Zoom Player's 100's of functions.
* New button on the Keyboard Editor's Add/Edit key interface
allowing you to select a function from the Function Selection
Dialog instead of the drop-down list.
* The Intergrated Keyboard Editor contains a new search function.
* New Search function on the Play History dialog.
* New "Dot Crawl" Test Pattern (Shift+"P"). Dot Crawl is the
effect caused by using Composite cables where the Color and
Brightness signals are transferred on the same wire. S-Video
partially eliminates this problem and Component Cables should
eliminate it completely.
* New H263 Customized Media Playback video profile.
* New AMR Customized Media Playback audio profile.
* With the two changes above, you can now play 3GP files over
DirectShow. Currently, this requires the use of the Haali
Media Splitter with the MP4 setting checked during installation
and FFDShow with AMR enabled for the Audio Decoder and H263
enabled for the Video Decoder.
* New Communication API #2600 Message, allowing you to set the
Derived Aspect ratio of the currently playing video.
* New Comm API messages #1704.
Changes :
+ Resizing of Skinned Windows (Main UI/Play List/Control Bar)
should now be (quite?) a bit faster.
+ The "Allow EXT anywhere in name" checkbox for the Archive
Playback function now requires that the extension contained
within the file name be followed by a period.
+ Changes to how DVD Next/Previous chapter operates, might
be a bit faster (on our test systems, chapter changes are
now instantaneous).
+ The setting that controls whether the Increase/Decrease Rate
function uses Fast Forward/Rewind or Fast Play/Slow Motion
will not effect the Increase Rate/Decrease Rate functions
and not only the user interface control.
+ The Customized Media Playback profile for MP4 files will now
support the 3GP file format (which is basically the same file
format).
+ Zoom Player no longer defaults to using the QuickTime Active-X
control for the playback of 3GP files (video format used mainly
on cell phones) as there is a DirectShow alternative which
is much more reliable.
+ The "exSetMode" function can now be used to discretely set
Zoom Player to Audio Mode (instead of the usual function
which is an ON/OFF toggle).
+ Added a few safety checks so that badly formatted Communication
API messages won't cause Zoom Player to crash.
+ Erasing a file through the navigator interfaces should no longer
erase all the files with the same base name.
Fixes :
- Dragging the video window to a different monitor or switching
resolutions while a video is playing should no longer cause
DVDs to restart! This has been a long time issue which is
hopefully finally resolved.
- Fixed a "List Index out of Bounds" error when using the Halli
Media Splitter filter along with the Preferred Subtitle
stream feature.
- Sending Comm API message #1600/#1700 would return a stream's
name instead of its index number.
- If the Play List Editor was Magnetized and the Equalizer was
not, opening the equalizer would open it in a magnetized
position instead of its last position.
- The Random Play button on the Play List Editor would show
an incorrect bitmap when enabled (cosmetic glitch).
- Color control changes should work better when the color changes
are done while paused in Media Mode.
- It should now be impossible for the Control Bar to appear
if the internal screen saver is visible.
- Manual DVD Graph mode would keep prompting you to set the
DVD decoders if Customzied DVD Graph mode did not have
decoder entries selected.
- You can now switch to Audio Mode even when in fullscreen.
- You can now switch to Audio Mode from DVD Mode.
--- What's new in v4.50:
New :
* IMPORTANT! All VMR7/9 settings have changed. If you have previously
selected VMR7/9 as your video renderer, make sure to re-select.
* IMPORTANT! Several key Microsoft features that involve the playback
of WMV/WMA files have changed. It is required that you to re-install
Windows Media Player 10. Even if you already have it installed or
are not planning to use it as a player (Windows Media Player contains
component that effect playback of all other players).
You need at least version "10.00.00.3802" installed.
* Zoom Player can now play WMV (Windows Media Video)
DRM level 2000 content!
* New Advanced Play List Control Interface in Zoom Player Professional.
Can be opened by pressing "J" (Or the "Wand" button on the Play List
Editor). This new interface opens up advanced search and management
controls to the play list. Similar to WinAmp's jump dialog,
but allowing multiple search queries, moving selected items
to the top/bottom of the list, removing selected items from
the list, etc...
* The Play List Navigator has been enhanced to accept the
Navigational Insert key to toggle selection of the
currently highlighted play list entry. This ties into
the above functions to allow you to re-order multiple
items at once. The color used for file selection
is selectable under "Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators".
* New Magnetic Hard Docking functions (fnPLMagToggle,
fnEQMagToggle) and Buttons on the Equalizer and Play List Editor.
When activated, Zoom Player will try to make these interfaces
always-docked onto the main user interface and auto-adjusting
to remain on screen and retain position as the user interface
is moved and resized.
When either interface is magnetized, the standard snap-docking
is disabled for that interface.
* New functions "fnIncPreAmp" (Ctrl+Home) and "fnDecPreAmp" (Ctrl+End)
allowing to Increase/Decrease the PreAmp volume.
* The "fnPLItemUp" and "fnPLItemDown" functions which allow
you to move items up and down within the Play List have
now been assigned keyboard macros of "Alt+PgUp" and
"Alt+PgDn". These functions have also been extended to
update the Play List Navigator, so that you can now
re-order items within the Play List using a remote.
* Zoom Player now includes an integrated key editor allowing you to
assign Zoom Player functions to any key or compatible Multimedia
device (such as Multimedia keyboards and 4-Button Mice).
You can edit the keys separately for either DVD or Media modes through
the Advanced Options Key dialog by pressing the "Edit" button next to
the custom key file selection.
Pressing Edit with no key file specified will allow you to select a
new file in which to save the updated key map.
* New Station Navigator allowing you to navigator through Radio Stations.
* With the Gracious help of Milenko Mitrovic, The Station Manager
can now fetch the Top-500 SHOUTcast radio stations (Internet
connection required) and let you add them to the Station Manager
or play them directly.
* New Button on the Station Editor allowing you to play a new
station by appending the station to the play list instead
of clearing the play list.
* Zoom Player now supports playback of segmented MPEG-2 Transport files
(as in multiple files representing one video) as one file using the
NVIDIA MultiSource DirectShow filter (shipping with ForceWare 4.xx).
When the filter is specified as a source filter in Customized Media
Playback (Options / Filter Control / Customized Media Playback),
Zoom Player will try to automatically match additional file segments
using the Zoom Player auto segment matching feature
(Options / Values / Other) which can now use Regular Expressions (see
below).
This feature requires Zoom Player Professional.
* Zoom Player now supports the PNG image format for Background Images,
Folder images, Skinning Elements and the Internal Image Viewer
(which now can also view Windows BMP files).
* New "White Wash" Pattern (Shift+"P"). White Wash is a mechanism that
allows you to wash out the burn-in effect of Plasma Televisions.
Prolonged use of Plasma televisions can sometime burn a signal onto
the screen if left on for too long. Popular examples of this is
when watching a lot of the same TV Channel and having the Station's
Logo burned into the screen.
When enabling white-wash, a white bar will move very slowly across
your screen (one pixel every 10 seconds) which over a few hours
should wash away any of the burn-in effects.
* New "Gradients" Pattern (Shift+"P"). Useful for seeing the color
range of your display device.
* Zoom Player now supports external Matroska Chapter files (".mtxchp"
extension).
The support is optional (Advanced Options / Settings / Playback)
as doing file searches when opening files causes a slight slowdown
(probably not noticeable, but it accumulates).
* Zoom Player now supports CUE Chapter files (".cue" extension).
The support is optional (Advanced Options / Settings / Playback)
as doing file searches when opening files causes a slight slowdown
(probably not noticeable, but it accumulates).
* Zoom Player now supports internet based playlists. This should help
some MMS streams which are linked to by an ASX file.
* You can now specify different file names to be used for different
skinning elements (such as Equalizer, Play List and On Screen Display).
* New Enchancement to the Skinning code, allowing you to
specify a negative group value to make sections of the
skin only activate if the specified skin group is disabled.
* 12 new Dynamic Skinning Variables allowing you to display TAG
Information (ID3/APE/WMV/OGM/etc...) on the skin.
The new constants are:
<trackname>, <genre>, <track>, <language>, <artistname>,
<albumname>, <year>, <authorname>, <encoder>, <comment>,
<urllink>, <copyright>.
* New "NoTintSource" Skin script command enabling you to exclude
sections of the skin bitmap from being tinted by the skin selection
dialog's tinting controls.
* New "ToggleInterface" Skin script command that can be used to show
or hide some of the Zoom Player user interfaces as the skin loads.
* Extended the "PlayListData" Skinning script command to enable
specifying the font used by the play list. You can still override
the font through the Advanced Options dialog.
Furthermore, the "PlayListData" command now included extended
documentation for additional functionality.
* New Target Parameter on the CreateExButton and DrawExText skin
commands allowing you to create Button and Text labels on the
Control Bar (outside the Dynamic-Button area).
* Extended the "DrawExText" Skinning script command to support all
function modes previously only supported by "CreateExButton".
* DVD External (as-in not part of the DVD itself) subtitles can now be
loaded automatically by placing a subtitle file with "disc" as the
base name within either the directory the VIDEO_TS.IFO exists in,
or in the DVD Bookmark directory for the playing disc (which is
created once the disc is played once).
For example:
C:\Movie Backup\My Movie\disc.sub
or
C:\Zoom Player\DVD-Bookmarks\MY_MOVIE.2F751008DCF7124A\disc.srt
You must also make sure that DirectVobSub is set as an Additional
DVD Filter. Any subtitle extension with the base name of "disc" is
searched when trying to auto-load a subtitle file.
* Trying to run Zoom Player when it's already running will bring
the current Zoom Player window to the front.
* New Control file ("zplayer.regfilters") allowing you to automatically
and dynamically register/unregister and set/remove registry settings
when Zoom Player is opened/closed. This is especially useful for
USB Flash Drives (UFD Devices), See:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/mobile.shtml
* New Setting (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Setup / Customized)
allowing you to specify the Video ColorSpace that the video
renderer should try to connect at. This should be a relatively
safe option as Zoom Player will try to fall back to the default
ColorSpace connection if the specified mode doesn't connect.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Aspect Ratio) allowing you to
Enable/Disable support for Anamorphic Matroska files. This is
optional as when DirectVobSub (VSFilter) is enabled with the
option to extend the video to a different aspect ratio, it
will corrupt the aspect ratio on such files.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Actions) allowing you
to have a hint box pop when the mouse cursor is over the timeline
indicating where the seek would go when clicked (enabled by default).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) allowing
automatic switching to Audio Mode when a media file containing no
video stream is loaded.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) allowing
automatic switching to Media Mode when a media file containing a
video stream is loaded (and you are currently in Audio Mode).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Interface) that controls
whether the options dialog is forced to appear on the active monitor
(default to on). When disabled, the Options Dialog position is
remembered across multiple monitors.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Other), enabling you to
have Zoom Player save its configuration in a local file within the
Zoom Player directory ("zplayer.local").
The benefit of this feature is that it allows you to run Zoom Player
from external devices such as USB Flash Drives (UFD devices) while
maintaining your personal settings across multiple systems.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings)
allowing you to have VMR9 Renderless mode work in exclusive
fullscreen mode. When this mode is enabled, certain ZP
features will get broken. Basically any OSD and Navigation
interface, including the context-menu.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing
you to enable YUV Mixing mode on the VMR Video Renderers (VMR7/VMR9).
This mode may reduce CPU/GPU use on some systems.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings), allowing
you to force VMR Video Renderers from trying to compensate for the
Video Aspect Ratio. This setting can help prevent resize artifacts
with certain video formats (similar to the VMR9 Resize Fix).
You need at least Windows XP Service Pack 2 for this feature to work.
* New Value (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Customized Media /
Settings) allowing you to disable Customized Media Playback for
a list of specified extensions.
* New Value (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Tools) allowing you to
automatically execute an external application/script when a
PAL disc is identified.
* New Value (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Tools) allowing you to
automatically execute an external application/script when an
NTSC disc is identified.
* New Value (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Tools) allowing you to
automatically execute an external application/script when a
DVD is stopped.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Tools) allowing you to
have Zoom Player wait for "On NTSC/PAL/DVD Stop" executed programs
to close prior to Playing/Stopping the DVD.
* New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Play List) allowing the
Title extracted from Media Tags (ID3v1/ID3v2/APE Tag/WMA Tag/Etc...)
to be used instead of the file name. Media Tags are only extracted
when a file is opened, Scanned by the "Get Media Duration" function
on the Play List Right-Click context menu or Automatically scanned
by specifying the file extension under:
"Advanced Options / Values / Extensions -> Auto-Get Duration/Title".
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Values / Play List) allowing
the Play List Editor display to follow the currently playing
track.
* New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you
to specify the distance (in pixels) the mouse cursor needs to move
to be shown once it was automatically hidden.
* New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you to
specify a delay after closing a media file. This can be useful with
some filters that may not close themselves properly if not given
such a delay.
* New Value (Advanced Options / Values / Other) allowing you to
specify a default file to open in the web navigator if no
specific file exists for the currently opened Media/DVD.
* New OSD Value (Options / OSD / Actions) allowing you to have a
hint box pop when the mouse cursor is over the timeline indicating
where the seek would go when clicked (enabled by default).
* New "/DVDBM" Command Line Parameter allowing you to specify a DVD
bookmark file from command line. For example:
"/dvdbm:c:\zplayer\DVD-Bookmarks\DVDVOLUME.2E662BB6D20F0ECF\start.chp"
* New "/CPR" command line parameter allowing you to set a color
present. For example:
"c:\program files\zoom player\zplayer.exe" /CPR:2
* New "/TCP:[port]" command line parameter which enables the
Zoom Player TCP/IP interface. Using just the "/TCP" parameter
will enable the interface on the current port, using "/TCP:4096"
will enable the interface on port 4096.
* New Command Line Parameter "/CLOSE" allowing you to close a
currently running instance of Zoom Player from the command line.
* New Customized Media Profiles for Nero Digital filters, including
H264 playback (using nero file-reader with FFDShow as the decoder).
* New Customized Media Profile for ".ms-dvr" files. For it to work,
you must download the MS-DVR patch from the Microsoft Windows Update
web site.
* New Customized Media Profiles for the new OpenSource DScaler decoders
(MPEG/AC3/DTS Audio and MPEG-2 Video).
* New Customized Media Playback profiles for LPCM MPEG Audio.
* Radio Stations are now based on user defined names instead of just
the URL. You can also rename stations now.
* New Button on the "Advanced Options / Association" page allowing you
to set the Zoom Player icon to all associated file extensions.
* New Button on the "Advanced Options / Association" page allowing you
to select all Audio Extensions.
* New Button on the "Advanced Options / Association" page allowing you
to select all Video Extensions.
* New Button on the "Advanced Options / Association" page allowing you
to remove all selected extensions.
* Zoom Player should now appear on the "Open With" windows dialog on
all supported formats, even if they are not specifically associated
with Zoom Player.
* Support for the NVIDIA DVD Navigator. Not really sure it works
well as a DVD Navigator, but feel free to give it a shot.
* Support for the FFDShow RAW Video Processor Sub-Filter as a DVD
Post-Processing filter. This filter comes with newer (as of the
last few months) of FFDShow and doesn't require you to enable RAW
mode in the filter dialog itself.
* New Customized DVD Profile for the GPL DVD/MPEG decoder:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gplmpgdec/
* New Customized Media Profile for DV Video.
* New profiles to support the Haali Media Splitter under Customized
Media Mode.
* New Functions (Alt+Shift+"+" and Alt+Shift+"-") allowing you to
reposition the Subtitle vertical position in media files (when
the DirectVobSub filter is used to display subtitles).
* New Functions (Alt+Ctrl+"+" and Alt+Ctrl+"-") allowing you to
resync Subtitles in media files (when the DirectVobSub filter
is used to display subtitles).
* New Function (Alt+Ctrl+"D") that pops an OSD with the current
date and time.
* New Function allowing you to open the directory of the currently
highlighted file in the play list within Explorer. This function
is now accessible on the right-click Play List context menu.
* New Extended Function "exEjectDrive" allowing you to Eject/Insert
a specified removable drive.
* New Extended Function "exEnableTCP" allowing you to enable the
TCP/IP interface on a specific port.
* New File Definition function allowing you to set the Audio
Synchronization offset value.
* New "zplayer.zdf" Definition function allowing you to automatically
save the Audio Synchronization offset value.
* New Dummy Function (doesn't do anything, can be useful for skinning).
* New Keyboard Macro (Ctrl+"U") and Function (fnSceneCutToggle) allowing
you to enable/disable the Scene Cut feature.
* Ctrl+C now copies the content of a Red error message to the clipboard.
Changes :
+ The Main GUI on the default skin has changed. Some buttons
graphics have been changed to be more windows-centric. The
Eject and Options buttons have been dropped (still accessible
through the keyboard and the right-click context menu).
The Equalizer and Switch to Audio Mode buttons have been moved
in place of the Options and Eject buttons.
The Minimalistic mode button has been removed (still
accessible in several modes through the keyboard F4-F7 keys).
+ The Play List Editor GUI on the default skin has changed.
By default, most of the buttons are no longer visible (their
functionality is accessible through the right-click context
menu). However, by pressing the "+" button, you can have the
Extra Controls appear.
+ When Customized Media Playback fails to create a working graph
for media files, standard mode will now retain the Audio and
Video Renderer selection as used under Customized Media.
+ The Windows Media settings have been moved under the Filter Control
section of the Advanced Options Dialog.
+ Using the Next/Previous Track function while in Fast Forward or
Rewind will do a Time Seek (default 2 minutes).
+ Using the Next/Previous Chapter function while in Fast Forward or
Rewind will do a Time Jump (default 20 seconds).
+ The DVD Next/Previous Chapter buttons now also act as Next/Previous
titles when you're currently playing the last or first chapters.
+ Using Next/Previous frame while playing will now pause the video
(instead of doing nothing).
+ Auto-Get of Media File Duration/Title should now work better with
formats such as CD Audio, Monkey Audio, FLAC Audio and MPC.
+ Playing Radio Stations will now show the station name on the
Play List Editor if "Use Media Title" is enabled under
"Advanced Options / Values / Play List".
+ Zoom Player can now use Regular Expressions (www.regexpstudio.com)
when matching Auto-Segment (Options / Values / Other) file loading
(this feature is disabled by default). Regular Expressions allow
for much greater string matching capabilities but take quite a bit
more CPU power. Using the open dialog to open 100's of files may
mean a massive CPU hit (opening directories doesn't have this issue).
If you previously set a customized Auto-Segment mask, you will need
to update your Auto-Load masking values. The previous method of
auto-loading segments is still available as it's much easier to
use than Regular Expressions and takes much less CPU power.
+ Zoom Player's Window Snapping has been improved. When a window is
docked to the main user interface, dragging the main user interface
will now also drag any attached windows.
+ You should now be able to click badly authored DVD Menus and
Interactive DVD Branching (DVD Menus within actual DVD Footage).
+ The Customized Media Mode Source Filter configuration dialog now
allows you to specify a filter-chain (previously you could only
select one filter).
+ With "Prevent VMR Video Renderers from correcting Aspect Ratio"
(Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings) enabled, you should
now be able to turn off "Fix VMR9 Scaling Bug" and have improved
aspect ratio compatibility when playing certain WMV titles
(T2:UE, Taxi3, etc...) in VMR9 mode.
+ The Pattern Images (Shift+"P") now respect the current Aspect Ratio
and the Pixel Aspect Ratio (Source Relative Stretch) which makes
them better suited for manually aligning the Aspect Ratio.
+ Removed the white border on the gradients pattern, it was bleeding
and making gradients harder to evaluate.
+ The skin selection dialog has been changed so that single
clicking on a selected skin will apply that skin while
double clicking will apply the skin and close the dialog.
+ When loading a skin that is missing a skinning element (such as
skin data for the Equalizer, Play List or On Screen Display),
the default skinning elements will be used instead.
+ Extended the "exInterface" function to support more interfaces.
+ You can now set a Hint value for the Volume, Play Rate and
Audio Balance Controls.
+ Major Enhancement to the Communication interface.
+ When entering hours/minutes/seconds on the GoTo dialog, entering two
digits will now go to the next cell automatically.
+ The Internal Format database has been updated with newly released
decoders (such as the DScaler filters and the improved MP3 decoder).
+ Shoutcasted currently playing audio track will now be listed in the
tray icon tool tip and on the application task bar (if the setting
to show the currently playing file in the task bar is enabled).
+ You can now specify a Down Active bitmap using the CreateExButton
Skin script function.
+ Any RGB value entered as part of the skin script can now contain
an "NT" suffix to specify that the color shouldn't be tinted.
For example:
FillRect(4,4,<VidWidth>,<VidHeight>,000000NT)
+ The FillRectNT skin function has become obsolete as you can now
specify which RGB values should not be tinted.
+ The "AddBarButton" skinning function has become obsolete. It is now
replaced with the CreateExButton with a target value of "CBar". This
allows access for a few more settings for the buttons. There are some
limitations, read the function documentation (within brownish.skn) for
more information regarding the limitations.
+ The "DrawExText" skinning function can now show a hint label.
+ Zoom Player will now automatically associate the ZPL (Zoom Player
Play List) extension upon first run.
+ The Media Library navigator will now open to the location of the
currently open file if the file resides anywhere within the media
library paths (previously it would only open the root locations).
+ When deleting items using the Navigator interfaces, the deleted
item name will now appear as part of the confirmation dialog.
+ Context Navigator now supports the Tab (Ascii #9) Character for use in
right-alignment of text as used in the regular Context Menu.
+ Communication messages 1600 and 1700 have changed. They now
give an audio/subtitle track index instead of the name (which
is now delivered for all available streams in a new message).
+ The Filter selector interface is now resizable.
+ The "Dock Play list to Main user interface" setting has been dropped
as it has been replaced by the screen snapping and magnetized hard
docking features.
+ The "External" tab on the Advanced Options page has been updated to
support the latest version of the WinDVD Decoder.
+ Auto Stream Selection should now work with the Haali Media Splitter.
+ Zoom Player now supports stream switching with the Haali Media
Splitter filter (which can be used to split Matroska and MP4 files).
+ Extended the "exInterface" function to support more interfaces.
+ The Brownish skin is no longer part of the official distribution,
but would still be available through the Zoom Player Skin site.
Fixes :
- Zoom Player should function again on Windows NT4.
- Fixed a "Divide by Zero" problem with some decoders that returned
invalid aspect ratio information.
- The /AR command line did not accept "0" (disabled AR) as
a valid parameter.
- Some language files may have gotten only partially loaded under
certain conditions.
- The "click here to search" text entry on the play list editor
may not have gotten its translated text to appear properly.
- When switching between various DVD decoding/rendering filters, a
DVD bookmark may not get loaded properly (due to how Microsoft handles
DVD Bookmarks) and cause playback to stop. Zoom Player will now
intercept this call and erase the offending bookmark so once Play
is clicked again, the DVD should play normally.
- Playing DVDs in VMR9 Windowless mode may not always clear the
top/bottom sections of the screen when the aspect ratio mode changes.
- "DVD Auto-Execute" values should now properly pass parameters
to the executed programs.
- Inserting a CD/DVD with no content should no longer close the
playing media and clear the play list.
- Zoom Player now Intercepts when applications try to artificially
maximize its window when loading and will maximized itself
accordingly (instead of weird glitches showing up).
- Zoom Player no longer checks if a file exists before adding it
to the play list when the file is in fact a URL address.
- While in Audio Mode, the Audio Bar will not be resized when a new
file is loaded and Auto Set user interface to Source Resolution
is enabled.
- Trying to load an 0 byte play list or playing a non-existant
play list off the internet could cause a crash.
- Fixed "List Index out of Bounds" error when trying to play SHOUTcast
streams that contained no actual audio streams.
- Loading a QuickTime ".MOV" file using the ActiveX component with
the Zoom Player user interface set to auto-resize to the content
source size should no longer show a cropped initial image.
Now try saying that fast 3 times.
- Fixed a problem when Enqueue from external applications that
could cause a ghost window to flash and possibly cause the
Zoom Player skin to corrupt.
- Loading "ASX" play lists that contain certain character tags
should now work.
- Loading an ASX play list with non-UTF8 encoded non-english
character sets should now work more reliably.
- Having Auto-Size user interface to maintain video aspect ratio
enabled would prevent resizing of the user interface in audio mode.
- Fixed a cosmetic navigator display issue where the width of unicode
strings was not calculated properly.
- Unicode text may not have been displayed properly in some of
the dialog bevel elements.
- Timeline text may have not been properly centered if unicode
characters were part of the text.
- Fixed a small memory leak when playing SHOUTcast streams.
- Fixed a problem with WMA/APE tags containing unicode characters.
- Fixed a problem with Zoom Player's Next/Previous Chapter commands
not working properly with certain media files.
- Fix for error "10054" in the TCP/IP communication interface.
- Setting the Player Thread Priority would not have an effect until
the player was restarted. Now the effect is instant.
- When specifting a default file navigator starting path, the starting
file index was not always correct.
- The Context Navigator should now show the correct stream selection
list each time it is opened.
- Sorting by "Date" was actually only sorting by "Day" and not the
exact date.
- When exporting the Zoom Player settings, you would get a message
saying that there was an error. This was cosmetic as the settings
were exported correctly.
- You can now use negative values on Text/Button skin positioning.
- Under some conditions the File Navigator would not remember the
last path.
- DVD NumPad commands should now work outside of menus.
- Could not create new Customized Media profiles.
- Using the Mouse Wheel to move the window/video was broken.
- When extracting Archive files, Zoom Player will now let you know
when it's unable to extract the file.
- Switching Audio Mode skins (or skin modes) would wrongly
accept a skin width below the minimal skin width specified
by the skin author.
- Switching skins while in fullscreen would not show proper active
value for certain buttons.
- Fixed a bug where enabling auto-size window to fit source size
could cause the image to appear in the wrong position and possibly
corrupt the skin.
- The Scene Cut feature was not saving MS values properly.
- The mouse wheel video positioning functions should now work regardless
of what the keyboard arrow functions are set to.
- When the "Remember Last Media Position" and "Stop closes media files"
settings are enabled, the last media position will be remembered
properly.
- The Internal Screen Saver will now cover the entire screen area and
not just the screen area active by the current Aspect Ratio (navigator
interfaces were not hidden by the screen saver). Also, file names
appearing in the screen saver can now contain unicode characters.
- Enabling/Disabling Button Hints on the Basic Options dialog wouldn't
have had an effect until you restarted.
- Couldn't toggle Button Hints for the Equalizer dialog.
- Loading GraphEdit ".GRF" files will no longer throw an error when
Customized Media Playback mode is enabled.
- Fixed a bug in the SendMessage API that would report a wrong
DVD/Media mode.
- Comm Message #1930 wasn't updating the play list properly.
--- What's new in v4.03:
New :
* Some new functionality in the Communication interface.
Changes :
+ If you were using a custom keyboard file with versions prior to
4.02, navigation keys may not work unless you rebuild the custom
file with the new "nvAddKey" commands (see default.key).
Fixes :
- Fixed a "List Index Out of Bounds" error on the customized media
playback configuration dialog when pressing the "Update Selected
Profile" button with no profiles selected.
- Fixed a "List Index Out of Bounds" error when trying to open an
Archive file that contained no media files.
- The Disable VMR7 Overlay setting (Options / Filter Control / Settings)
had the opposite intended function.
- Fixed Freezes when opening files with multiple audio tracks.
- Fixed a cosmetic glitch on the DVD Context Menu under certain languages.
--- What's new in v4.02:
New :
* When enabling Customized Media Playback, Zoom Player will now scan
all the customized media profiles to make sure each profile is
registered on your system. If a profile is not registered then
Zoom Player will go through all the profiles in a category to
see if it can find one that is registered. This removes the
requirements for initially setting each profile manually.
* More functions added to the TCP/IP interface.
* New Setting that allows you to disable Overlay on the VMR7 renderer
(Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings).
* AC3Filter profile for Customized DVD filters.
* H264 profile for Customize Media Mode using the VideoSoft decoders.
http://www.videosoftinc.com/decoders.html
* Skin files can now be grouped within directories under the Skins dir.
* New skin constants <LTimeRemain>, <LTime> and <LDuration>.
Changes :
+ Quite a few error and warning messages have changed from the standard
windows error dialog to the Red-Box Zoom Player dialog so that the
error messages could be dismissed using a remote device (requires
a new export of the girder command file).
+ Zoom Player Girder GML export now uses PostMessage instead of
SendMessage, which is required to close certain dialogs.
+ Zoom Player no longer reserves any keys, you can now assign any
function to any key for complete keyboard automation.
+ Per the change above, The Space key has been set as a standard
function (fnSpace). The navigation keys have been split to a new
set of navigation class (see default.key for more information).
+ Workaround for certain versions of the NVIDIA ForceWare (NVDVD) v3.xx
filters not working with Zoom Player.
+ When the main window is minimized, opening a new file through an
external program (such as explorer) won't make the window reappear.
+ MPEG-2 Transport has been given its own path in customized media mode so
that you can pick a different video decoder for standard MPEG-2 and for
MPEG-2 Transport. Since the formats are essentially the same, the
distinction is done by the file extensions of the playing files
(TS/TP/TSP considered MPEG-2 Transport, every other extension is assumed
to be standard MPEG-2).
+ The Red Error dialog now resizes to fit the content of
the error message.
+ Switched to a different EXE compressor.
Fixes :
- Filter Blacklisting was broken in Zoom Player Standard.
- When not logged in with administrator privlages, a user should still
be able to see which decoders are missing on the system and which
decoders are currently installed for the various formats.
- Color Controls were not working in DVD VMR9 Windowed mode.
- With Control Bar disabled from showing in Window Mode and set to
always show in Fullscreen mode when playing Audio files, the control
bar wouldn't hide when exiting fullscreen mode.
- Auto-DVD Subtitle selection could fail under certain conditions.
- Aspect Ratio with certain WMV files (T2:UE, Taxi3) should now work
correctly as long as you use VMR9 as the video renderer and disable
the "Fix VMR9 Scaling Bug" setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control).
- The "Auto-Get Duration for Media Extension" value didn't save properly
under some conditions.
- Fix for a crash when playing Matroska files with a stream description
over 127 characters long.
- When using Inverse Scene Cut, the current file would play in a loop
between the cut segments instead of moving to the next track.
- The filter versions shown on the Formats / System dialog were for
the wrong files.
- File sorting in the File Navigator would glitch on certain conditions.
- Zoom Player should now catch file-corruption error when opening
the zplayer.playcache file.
- Fixed a 1-pixel cosmetical glitch in the playlist editor.
- Fixed a few cosmetic glitches with the Windows XP theme.
--- What's new in v4.00:
New :
* Zoom Player Professional has been split into a third version.
"Zoom Player WMV Professional" is a seperate version of Zoom
Player which is capable of playing DRM encoded Windows Media
files.
Due to the licensing fees involved in playing DRM content files,
Zoom Player WMV Professional requires a purchase upgrade from any
previous version of Zoom Player.
In order to play DRM files you must first obtain the DRM license
by using Windows Media Player 9 to obtain the license, or with
certain WM-DVD discs, just by inserting the disc in the drive
for the first time (note that license can expire after several
sessions).
You must also download this patch from microsoft which fixes
important issues with Windows Media DRM playback:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823738
* Zoom Player now has an Audio-Bar mode.
Playing files in the Audio-Bar mode will disable any video
output and certain features that relate to video output and
navigation. There is also a new Audio-Bar default
skin element with 3 visual configuration (F4/F5/F6). You
can switch to Audio-Bar mode by pressing F2, or using the
new skin button.
* Double clicking on the file name area will now switch between
Audio mode and DVD Mode.
* The Navigator Interfaces have been rewritten from scratch.
Most of the functionality has remained the same, but the
graphical elements have a clearer look and are now skinnable.
Here are the usability changes:
- The File Navigator
1. Switching between the file and drive listing is now done
using the left/right (directions switched).
2. The right direction in the file navigator will go up a
directory where possible.
3. The current path is now always visible.
- The Play List Navigator:
1. The design has changed entirely, the display is now split
into three regions, the main play list, the current directory
for the highlighted file and a mini file browser.
2. When the Play List items are active, pressing the Left button
will remove the currently highlighted item from the list.
3. When using the Up/Down buttons within the Play List items,
the file browser will automatically switch the current location
of the highlighted file.
4. The Right button switches between the Play List items and the
File Browser.
5. Pressing Enter in the file browser will add a highlighted file
or enter a directory.
6. Pressing the Left button in the file browser will add an
entire directory or all the files in the directory if a file
is highlighted
- The Media Library Navigator:
1. Similar to the File Navigator design, the media categories are
now visible on the left pane at all times.
2. The Right/Left buttons always switch between categories and the
active category is highlighted on the left pane.
* The Professional version of Zoom Player can now automatically
extract and play any Archive Format (default presets for
7Z,ARJ,BZ2,CAB,RAR and ZIP using the freely available 7-Zip
extraction suite). You can configure your own extractors
under "Options / Values / Other", but I recommend grabbing
7-Zip at www.7-zip.org as it's free and fast.
This new feature can also be used to extract AlbumWrap MP3 files
using the freeware "mp3splt.exe" tool from "http://mp3splt.sf.net".
* New Stream Selection Interface (Only for the Professional version)
allowing you to automatically select Audio and Subtitle streams
according to Language Codes, Stream Name text matching and specific
stream numbers.
* Zoom Player can now filter out filters that can cause
playback instability in standard playback mode through
a Filter Black List.
By default I have included the following filters that
are known trouble-makers:
BiCubic Resizer
DivX Antifreeze
DeDynamic Audio Filter
Morgan Stream Switcher
Subtitle Mixer
Subtitle Parser
TFM Audio Filter
You can easily add/remove filters to the black list through the
options dialog (Filter Control / Standard Media Playback). This
should make Zoom Player a lot more stable on systems where a lot
of 3rd party software have been installed.
* On a fresh install, Zoom Player will look for missing
components required to play popular file formats. If
no components are detected for a specific file format,
you will be prompted to go to the media setup guide.
This check is only done once when installing a new
version.
* Zoom Player will now try to load JPEG image files outside of
DirectShow. It seems that DirectShow is very resolution-limited
and even the best display hardware doesn't support a video-surface
with the resolution captured by recent Digital Cameras.
The new JPEG Module uses a software bilinear scaler to resize the
images, so quality should be better than standard image viewers,
although a bit slower.
You can disable the JPEG Module and let DirectShow try to load
these images under "Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings".
* Customized Media Playback Splitter, Audio and Video profiles can
now blacklist themselves according to the file extension being
played (previously you could only whitelist extensions).
* New Entry (Advanced Options / Values / Other) allowing you to Auto-Get
the duration of Media Files according to file extensions. The default
is not to Auto-Get as this slows down loading of play lists, however
an entry of "AVI;MP3;MPA;OGG" won't slow it too much.
* New Setting (Options / DVD Setup) allowing you to hide the
Audio/Video decoder profiles that are not currently registered
on your computer.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Mouse Wheel) allowing you
to reverse the direction of the mouse wheel with regards
to the functions it calls.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Playback), allowing
the Media Definition File (a file containing information on the
file being played such as color values, volume, balance, etc...)
to be saved automatically (default:off).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you
to have the Play List Navigator opened if the Chapter Navigator
is opened and doesn't contain any chapters.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to
select whether the Left Pane on the File and Media Library
navigators is visible. When the Pane is invisible, the
top-directory box will show additional details about the media
category and drives.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar / Settings) allowing
you to limit the control bar so that it only shows up on mouse
movement when in fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar / Settings) allowing you
to have the Control Bar always visible when playing an Audio file
in fullscreen.
* New Button (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Management /
Registered Filter Manager) on the Registered Filter Manager allowing
you to Re-Register the DirectShow filters that come as default with
windows. This should help in such cases where a 3rd party program can
destabilize the default system or in case you want to unregister all
filter and restore your system to a default state.
* New Color Selection (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) for
Navigators Internal, External and Select Framing Colors.
* You will now be prompted to install DirectVobSub if it's not
installed on your system (only one time when a new version
is installed).
* New "/SPEAKER:[value]" command line parameter allowing you to
set the Windows Speaker setting. Zoom Player will restore the
default speaker value when exiting. Possible values are:
/SPEAKER:0 - Direct Out
/SPEAKER:1 - Headphone
/SPEAKER:2 - Mono
/SPEAKER:3 - Quad
/SPEAKER:4 - Stereo
/SPEAKER:5 - Surround
/SPEAKER:6 - 5.1
/SPEAKER:7 - 7.1
* New "/AUDBAR" command line parameter starting Zoom Player
in Audio-Bar mode.
* New "/LOCKFS" command line parameter which locks Zoom Player in
fullscreen mode (useful for Kiosk-Type operation).
* New "/VOL" command line parameter allowing you to set the
Zoom Player volume level on start-up. Value can be 0-100.
Example:
"x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" /vol:75
* New "/MEDIANAV:[CATEGORY]" parameter allowing you to start
Zoom Player opened in the Media Library Navigator at a
specific category. Example:
"x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" "/MEDIANAV:TV Shows"
* New "/EJECT:[n]" command line parameter allowing you to eject
a CD/DVD drive from the command line. Example:
"x:\path\to\zplayer.exe" /EJECT:F
* Zoom Player can now associate and play CellPhone 3GPP (.3GP)
s263 video files (Must have QuickTime installed for it to play).
* You can now associate the OptimFROG (.OFR) extension and play
OptimFROG files once you the decoder installed. OptimFROG is
yet another lossless audio compression format (in the nature of
APE and FLAC). You can get the OptimFROG decoder here:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/optimfrog.shtml
* You can now associate the ".FLAC" extension. FLAC is
an Open-Source lossless Audio Format. You still need
a decoder for it to play. For more information see:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
* You can now associate the ".MPC" extension. MPC is
a lossy audio format similar to MP3 and Vorbis.
* Two new sections have been added to the Menu file.
These new sections allow you to define the menu used
for the Context Menu Navigator in DVD and Media modes.
I have included useful default entries for these.
* Zoom Player should now support WMV PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio).
You must set the Aspect Ratio mode to Derived for PAR to
kick in (you should always set the Aspect Ratio to Derived
unless you have other special requirements).
* The LCD interface has been extended and can now be used to call
Zoom Player standard and extended functions.
* New Toggle (Advanced Options / Settings / Toggles) allowing you
to choose how text is truncated to fit the desired space. This
effect a lot of text elements within Zoom Player such as the
Navigator display and ID3 display.
The default setting is to "Vowel Decimation" which tries to remove
vowels so that more text remains readable. The alternative is
to cut the end of the text.
* Two new ID3 display tags "<Length>" returning the length of the
currently playing file and "<PlayListTotal>" returning the total
duration for the entire play list.
* The DVD AutoAR feature can now execute an external program when
a DVD Aspect Ratio mode changes.
* Zoom Player can now display APE Tags from MPC/MP3/APE/FLAC files.
* Zoom Player can now display WMF Tags from WMA files.
* Zoom Player can now play UTF8 encoded M3U play lists.
* Zoom Player now has 4 default skin visual configuration modes, one
with only the volume control (Press "F4"), the same layout with
the Balance and Play Rate controls (Press "F5") or the minimalistic
layout (Press "F6") or the Video Only Layout (Press "F7").
* New Profiles for Nero Digital filters. These filters seem
to be capable of decoding MPEG-1 audio (including MP3),
MPEG-1 Video, XVID and DIVX. Playback is not perfect, I
noticed big issues with DIVX playback. These filters are
also supposed to decode MPEG-2 video and possibly even DVD,
but I was unable to get them to work.
* New Profile for the Elecard Video Decoder as a DVD Video
Decoder. It may only work for unencrypted DVDs.
* New "Select All" button on the Association Page.
* The ScanCode button (Options / Keys) now shows you when
a multi-media key is pressed so you can now identify such
keys and add support for them in the keyboard file using
the "mcAddKey" function.
* Two new skin variables "cBarNoText" and "tLineNoText"
allowing you to disable text display on the timeline
and control bar timeline.
* Two new skin variables "tLineFontHeight" and "cBarFontHeight"
which are superseding "tLineFontSize" and "cBarFontSize" which
were ill suited for Large Fonts. Support for the older variable
remains to keep compatibility with old fonts.
* New skin variable "AudioSkin" implying that the specified
skin doesn't contain any video area.
* New skin constant "<TimeLineText>", showing the user
selectable entry that usually shows within the timeline
(useful to use if you want to disable the text on the
timeline itself and show it elsewhere).
* New Keyboard Macro (Shift+"V") to enable/disable the Internal
Screen Saver. This macro uses the new "fnSSaverToggle" function.
Changes :
+ Zoom Player now supports VMR7 Windowed playback in all play modes.
If you previously used a customized video renderer, make sure to
update your settings.
+ Audio DSP should take less CPU power, especially under SSE/SSE2
capable processors.
+ The External Audio Track support has been greatly expanded. You
can now specify an alternative search path for External Audio Tracks
(Advanced Options / Values / Other), audio track naming is now more
flexible, for example:
MyVideo.avi
MyVideo.english.mp3
MyVideo.spanish.wav
MyVideo.japanese.mpc
All are valid names now. You can use any file format specified
as an audio extension under "Advanced Options / Values / Extensions".
+ The Customized Media Playback configuration dialogs should now be
a little easier to understand.
+ The Segment Matching Code has been enhanced to support "*" masking.
This new method only works when used at the end of the mask. For
example, a mask of "x??.*" would match the following:
Andromeda.4x01.answers_given_to_questions_never_asked.avi
Andromeda.4x02.pieces_of_eight.mpg
Andromeda.4x03.waking_the_tyrants_device.avi
And so forth ...
+ SHOUTcast Playback should now be more reliable, Zoom Player will
now try the alternate servers if one fails to connect.
+ The "System" Options dialog entry has been replaced with a "Formats"
entry. The content of the previous "System" dialog has been moved to
the "System Overview" tab within the new "Formats" section. Another
tab on the formats section now contains a list of detected missing
playback components with links to where you can download and get
more information about each component/format.
+ If Windows Animation is enabled (in windows), Zoom Player will no
longer animate the window when going fullscreen or when minimizing
as it's not very elegant.
+ The "zplayer.regpath" file now allows you to specify a
second line with the new Zoom Player Window Name so that
you can run multiple instances of Zoom Player and control
each remotely as a unique entity. For example, the content
of the "zplayer.regpath" file would look like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayer2
Zoom Two
+ The "System" Options dialog section now displays the merit
of each listed filter and also lists known "bad filter"
offenders (filters can cause cause audio-loss, flipped
video image and so forth).
+ The Flash (SWF files) background color is now set to the
fullscreen background color (Advanced Options / Values / Interface),
default to black.
+ The Flash and QuickTime playback experience should be better
now. The Right-Click context menu should now work perfectly
and the keyboard/mouse should be a bit more responsive.
+ DVD "VIDEO_TS.IFO" files are now ALWAYS listed on the File
and Media Library navigators.
+ OGM Audio Selection should now work even if the OGG Splitter
is not set to Output all Streams.
+ Zoom Player will now check your DirectX version when you try
to select the VMR9 as the Video Renderer and inform you if
you don't have DirectX v9 installed.
+ The external Minimalistic and Ultra Minimalistic skins have
been removed as their functionality is more than covered by
the new skin layouts within the default skin.
+ Zoom Player now checks the DirectVobSub path list when looking
for subtitle files instead of only looking in the same directory
as the media file.
+ The Customized Media Playback Audio/Video Decoder configuration
dialog now fits 800x600 resolution in advanced mode.
+ The /F:[n] and /Z:[n] will now allow you to force Zoom Player
to fullscreen/zoom mode on a selected monitor even if
Zoom Player is already running.
+ DVD Auto-AR values are now applied only once each time the
Aspect Ratio mode changes instead of every chapter.
+ The screenshot function will now save the screenshot to the
"My Documents" folder if no alternative folder is specified.
+ New "function" parameter on the "DrawExText" skinning function
allowing you to specify a double-click function for text labels.
+ Vowel decimation is now used to ensure ID3 display fits within the
display area.
+ The Resize Navigator now displays the current Video Aspect Ratio.
+ Adding a chapter from the chapter editor dialog will now enter
the specified text as the chapter name if such a text was given.
+ You can now select the Custom Mouse Wheel function from a list
instead of manually typing it in.
+ Going fullscreen now moves the Zoom Player window to the front.
+ The System Overview now lists the filter version numbers when the
filter files contain them.
+ The Alt+"A" macro will now also open the AC3Filter property dialog.
+ The F1 keyboard macro now opens the key-help dialog with the
focus on the search field.
Fixes :
- Zoom Player could stop responding when trying to load a new
media file while the first media file was still being loaded.
- Wrong date encoding error could pop when opening files with
no creation dates (could happen with some VCD/SVCD images).
- Playing multiple VIDEO_TS.IFO file through a play list should now
work again (as long as the IFO files are not looped in a DVD Menu).
- Going to fullscreen on a second monitor using the setting
on "Options / Values / Interface" would set the fullscreen
size according to the resolution of the monitor the user
interface currently resides on instead of the real monitor
resolution.
- Using Zoom Player to execute external files could cause
certain Zoom Player features to stop responding.
- Opening a DVD while another DVD is already playing would not
save the last position properly for the original DVD.
- Remembering the last position on media files would ignore the
number of days to save this data and would in fact save it
forever. Furthermore, several entries were kept for each
file played. It is recommended that you erase the old
"zplayer.playcache" file as old entries may stick forever.
- The Increase/Decrease Play Rate wasn't working in the correct
order when increase after decreasing or the other way around.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer disable the VMR9 scaling fix.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer reset the VMR9 color control values.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer reset the Overlay color control values.
- The /Q parameter now works when used in combination with the
scene-cut end playback event.
- Flash end-of-file should now be detected better.
- Flash clipping should now be OK when setting to the Source
or Derived AR modes.
- The Setting to have ZP not clear the play list when opening
files externally, wasn't really working (play list was getting
cleared anyhow).
- Enter will now open the selected navigator in DVD Mode
as long as there is no DVD playing.
- If customized media playback failed to renderer a graph,
it was possible that a valid standard graph would get created,
but the video would wrongfully appear in an external window.
- Changing the Customized Media Mode Splitter twice would throw
an error about the file being in use.
- The Screen Snap Pixel value would not save properly.
- Could not save a Scene-Cut file for DVD discs if they were not
previously played.
- Trying to play a truly locked media file (most applications
allow you to read files even if they are using them, so not
a lot of files are truly locked) could cause ZP to stop
responding after an error dialog popped.
- The DrawExText "ShadeBottom" parameter was actually using
the value from the "ShadeTop" parameter.
- Switching skins would not set the active skin elements correctly.
- The Control Bar and TimeLine fonts should now appear properly when
Windows is set to 120dpi Large Fonts.
- Can now load UTF8 file names from WPL play list files.
- Fixed too many unicode related issues to even begin listing
them here.
- "SetOPMWReversed" wasn't exported properly for translation.
- Possible "Insert Disc in Drive" dialog opening inappropriately
when opening an ejected DVD drive.
- The /OpenDrive parameter would open a dialog asking you to insert
a disc if a CD drive has been ejected and the drive then opened.
- Mouse wheel would not work properly when the play list editor
window was visible before going to fullscreen.
- Custom Media Playback should now work with WMV file that use internal
scripting code.
- With Random Play enabled, items would play that were previously
removed from the play list.
- Tab switching in options dialog is now more logical.
--- What's new in v3.31:
New :
* VERY IMPORTANT:
The Zoom Player registration key structure has changed!
Updated registration keys have been sent to all registered
users by eMail. However, if you are a registered user
and have not received your key, go to the Zoom Player forum
and post on the registration section and post your purchase
details (TransactionID or Invoice number, or if you haven't
kept these, the Name or eMail used).
Changes:
+ Upgraded to NSIS 2.00 installer (smaller file).
Fixes :
- Trying to execute a Media file with Zoom Player running under
Windows 95/98/ME would not work.
- The DVD Bookmark Navigator was completely broken.
- Trying to use the Web Navigator when no file to display would
cause Zoom Player to throw an error.
- The "/Q" parameter stopped working for DVDs with no Menu.
- Older Girder files should now work again without having to
re-export. Newer exports are not effected.
--- What's new in v3.30:
New :
* I highly recommend that on the first run, you should go to
"Options / Values / Extensions" and press on all the default
buttons so that all the latest file formats will be properly
listed on the open dialogs.
* The Options Dialog has been split in two. The Basic options
dialog (default) will show a very limited feature-set that is
should simplify setup. The Advanced options dialog is the
same dialog as in previous versions. This should now make
Zoom Player much less intimidating to new users.
* New "System" Options dialog, allowing you to see an overview of
which codecs on your system are available for the various audio
and video formats and wrappers and which are missing which may
prevent proper playback.
* Zoom Player now has limited capability Flash (*.swf) playback
capability. You must have Flash previously installed for this to
work and playback isn't as flexible as standard media playback.
* Customized Media Entries are now split into two files. One for
the actual entry in use and another for available profiles.
This should help you keep the current Custom Media Playback
settings when upgrading. If you do manual installation, just
make sure to only copy the "*.profiles" over from the
"MediaAutoGraph" directory.
* Created a few Customized Media profiles for the new ffdshow
Audio Decoder filter. This filter can't play DVD AC3 quite yet,
but it can decode AC3 in media files along with MPEG-1/2 Audio and
MPEG Layer 3 audio (MP3). It also has a few interesting DSP
features. Not sure if they are all active though.
* Created a Customized Media Profile for the Sorenson Video 3 video
format. This is the format used by nearly all the QuickTime
trailers! You need a recent version of ffdshow for this to play
(I used the ffdshow-20021029.exe version). Between this decoder
and the 3ivx QuickTime parser, you can play quite a bit of
QuickTime content without having to resort to using the somewhat
unpredictable (and CPU hoggish) QuickTime ActiveX component
(Which you can disable under "Options/Filter Control/Settings".
* It seems that Vorbis Audio in an OGG container is not the same
thing as Vorbis Audio in a Matroska container. The only way to
get proper 100% smooth playback for both formats is to use the
older Vorbis decoder that comes with the OGGDS package along
with the CoreVorbis decoder (http://corevoribs.corecodec.org)
set to a higher merit. If you don't like to mess around with
filter merits, I have created properly working Customized Media
Playback profiles as well (Requires Zoom Player Professional in
Custom Media Playback mode).
* You can now specify a forced Sub-Type identification on
Customized Media Mode Source Filter profiles. In some cases,
source filters may not properly identify the file being played
and may not assign a proper Sub-Type. By entering one manually,
you assure that the correct Splitter filter will get connected.
You can see an example of this in the MPEG-2 Transport source
profile.
* You can now use filters with no output pins within the
Customized Media Audio/Video Decoder Profiles (such as
renderer filters). Doing so will automatically force
Zoom Player to ignore any specified rendering filter.
* Can now associate the ".MID" Midi Audio extension.
* New setting (Options / Settings / Playback) that allows you to
select whether the Speed Control on the User Interface is used
for "Fast Forward/Rewind" or "Fast Play/Slow Motion" as it was
in previous versions (v3.10 and older).
* New Setting (Options / Settings / Interface) allowing you to
show the Zoom Player version within the FileName area of the
user interface when nothing is playing.
* New Setting (Options / Values / Interface) that slows down the
Zoom Player internal screen saver so that it won't hog the CPU.
* New setting (Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to decide
whether you want "Play all files in this Directory" to appear
in the File and Media Library Navigators.
* New Settings (Options / DVD / AutoAR) allowing you to set
default Video Position, Blanking and Aspect Ratio presets
when a DVD Starts.
* New Settings (Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you
to determine whether Zoom Player will try to use the ActiveX
control or DirectShow to play Macromedia Flash files.
* New Settings (Options / Filter Control / Settings) that makes
Zoom Player check if the file size changed when playback ends
and if it does, reload the file at the last position. This
is useful if you are streaming a file and it keeps growing as
you watch it.
This feature is limited to the professional version.
* New Toggle (Options / Settings / Toggles) allowing you to select
if the video is aligned to the top, center, bottom, left or
right side of the screen.
* New Toggle Entry (Options / Settings / Mouse Toggles) allowing
the middle mouse button to pop the Mouse Wheel Navigator. This
makes selection of a mouse wheel function a breath.
* DVD Forced/Commentary subtitle tracks are now identified as such.
* DVD Audio Tracks with Commentary are identified and the khz and
bit value of each track is displayed.
* Included support for Matroska Aspect Ratio handling. This works
well as long as no filter modifies the Aspect Ratio (like
DirectVobSub does when set to enforce an aspect ratio).
* When playing matroska files with multiple audio tracks, you will
now be able to see the track name alongside the language (as long
as a track name is entered by the original author).
* Alt+"I" will now Minimize the Player.
* You can now Customize the Play List right-click Context Menu.
* Menu files are now fully unicode.
* Some new icons on the options dialog.
Changes :
+ Due to a Class name change, you will have to re-export the girder
command list as previous versions would no longer identify the
Zoom Player window correctly. Sorry for this snafu, but it was
required for unicode support. If you have no idea what Girder is,
don't worry.
+ DVD Definition files can now modify registry entires before
the DVD Graph is constructed, allowing you to change filter
properties (which are saved in the registry) on a per-disc
basis.
+ The Customized Additional DVD Filters can now be ordered so the
connection order in the graph can be determined. You can also
load multiple instances of the same filter.
+ More changes to the default settings to make them friendlier to
a new user.
+ Restructured the Right-Click context menu to be a bit more
useful and less cluttered. It also context the keyboard context
for activating each of the functions. Only relevant if you use
the default keyboard mapping.
+ Playing a Media file containing two video streams in Customized
Media mode will have Zoom Player intercept the second video
stream and connect it to a null renderer so no other video
window will pop-up. Customized media playback could still fail
as certain filters will not allow themselves to be loaded twice
(ffdshow, corevorbis, etc...).
+ Zoom Player will now properly highlight subtitles that contain
a language string (MyMovie.Eng.sub for MyMovie.avi). And will
also automatically add DirectVobSub in customized mode if such
subtitle files exist.
+ Window snapping is now smoother and also made on
vertical/horizontal matches.
+ The mouse wheel can now be used for seeking when over the time
line on the main user interface and not only on the control bar.
+ There seems to be some weirdness in the XCard DVD support, at
some point, the XCard DirectShow filter allowed for SubPicture
decoding (Displaying DVD Subtitles), but this functionality seems
to have been removed, causing the Zoom Player Customized DVD Mode
profile not to load. I've made some modification and now a
"NoSub" profile for the XCard is available for experimentation.
+ I have restored the Filter File (filename.filters) functionality.
This feature has a very specific usage which is not required
under normal circumstances and as such I put a few warning
messages when using this feature.
+ Using "exInterface" function you can now discreetly set
Zoom Player to Window or Zoom Modes.
Fixes :
- 8 Bit Buffer Processing fix to the Zoom Player Audio DSP filter.
This can fix the No Audio issue some people experienced with v3.20.
- Updated to work with QuickTime v6.5. You MUST have QuickTime
v6.5 or newer installed for QuickTime to play properly.
- Pressing Insert or Delete on the Media Library Navigator will
no longer throw an "List Index Out of Bounds" error.
- The Next/Previous buttons on the DVD Skin Control Bar were set
to the wrong function.
- Fixed a couple of inaccuracies in the Auto-Segment loading code.
- A chapter file saved when the media file was on a read-only
media (such as a CD) wasn't saved under the right name and was
basically useless.
- Play List formats were not being listed on the File and Media
Library navigators.
- Having the Internal Zoom Player Audio DSP filter enabled with
the InterVideo Audio Decoder could cause audio issues if you
change the number of audio-channel output while playing.
- Small cosmetic bug fixed dealing with folder images scaling
to fullscreen even though the setting was set not to.
- You could not access all of the Resize Navigator functionality
using the mouse.
- You could not access all of the Resize Navigator functionality
using the mouse.
- Using the Eject function will now only close currently playing
Media File/DVD if it is being played from the ejected drive.
- When the Search box on the Play List Editor was disabled, you
couldn't use the mouse to highlight the bottom items on the list.
- Switching skins should no longer disrupt the maximized window state.
- Erasing files using the file navigators should now refresh the list
when reopening the navigator.
- Detaching the Control Bar would restore it to the primary
monitor once it was toggled.
- Folder images now work properly in unicode subdirectories.
- Should now be able to open Ripped DVD Images from unicode paths.
- ID3 display with non-english characters should now work.
- Couldn't read ID3v2 from certain MP3 files.
- Exporting Girder file and selecting Cancel will no longer export
the file anyhow.
- Girder export should now work with Zoom Player even if it's
minimized (as long as it's not only minimized to the system
tray as girder doesn't seem capable of finding Zoom Player
there).
--- What's new in v3.20:
New :
* You can now select an alternative DVD Navigator filter when using
Customized DVD Playback mode. Currently supported are the
Microsoft, InterVideo and Cyberlink filter (previously, only the
Microsoft filter was used). However! Both the Cyberlink and the
InterVideo filters are SERIOUSLY flawed. If you use either one,
expect problems.
* You can now define a Customized Video Renderer when using
Customized Media and DVD Playback. This is useful when using
a customized rendering device.
* Zoom Player now incorporates a new DSP engine filter courtesy
of Milenko Mitrovic (DCoder). Right now it's charge of the
Internal Equalizer, PreAmp controls ("Q" on the Keyboard or
the EQ button on the GUI), Audio ReSync and Audio Track
Identification (Matroska/OGG) and Switching (Any multi-track
audio format). But I'm hoping to expand it to support user
controlled DSP and Visualization plugins.
This filter is enabled by default, but if you installed any of
the beta version and didn't enable it, you need to enable the
filter support under "Options / Filter Control / Settings".
You will also be prompted for this when opening the EQ dialog.
* New skin grouping code that allows you to segment the skin
code into groups and then select which groups are active at
any one time. This allows you to create modular skins, skins
with different color sets that can be toggled through a button
on the skin itself, or even an internal minimalistic skin.
* New Internal minimalistic skin ("F4" on the keyboard or the
inner-arrowish button on the top of the default skin). Switching
to this skin hides nearly all of the user interface elements,
making it ideal if you quickly want to pin the video in the
corner of the screen (remember, by default holding ctrl while
dragging with the left mouse clicked will move the entire window).
This new skin is created using skin groups and you can see how it
works by viewing the default.skn file in any text editor.
* 4 new "ex" functions allowing you to toggle, enable or disable
skin groups for the active skin, open "default.key" file in any
text editor for more information. There's also some examples in
the default skin and some more background in the Brownish.skn file.
* New "ex" function allowing you to set the volume level, open the
"default.key" file in any text editor for more information.
* New Skin Code variable "ActiveGroups" which determines which
Skin Groups are enabled by default when first loading the skin.
* The entire Fast Forward, Rewind and Rate Control systems have
changed for Media Mode (DVD Remains the same). Fast Forward
is now based on Quick Seeking as rewind has previously been used.
A new Fast Play function (Shift+"Z") is now in place and acts the
same as the previous method of fast forwarding (In Media Mode only).
The Rate Control bar on the user interface now works as
Fast Forward/Rewind in media mode as well and you can actually
specify the rates under "Options / Values / Playback".
* New Play List Editor right-click context menu which makes it
easier to access the Play List Editing functions.
* New "Play all files in this Directory" meta tags on the File and
Media Library Navigators allowing people using a remote to skip
the use of the INSERT button.
* Two new functions "fnResyncAhead" (Shift+"+") and "fnResyncBack"
(Shift+"-") allowing you to dynamically resync the Audio in 10ms
increments. The Internal Audio Processing filter must be loaded
for this function to work (Options / Filter Control / Settings).
* New "fnOpenURL" function (Shift+"U", also available through the
right-click context menu) allowing you to open URLs directly.
* Zoom Player now supports the Morgan Stream Switcher just in case
it is installed and so you can retain Multi-Audio support for
media files. However! Certain versions of the Morgan Stream
Switcher breaks support for the Zoom Player Audio Filter (EQ/DSP),
so make sure you use at least version 0.99 of this filter.
* New Definition File function "SetBalance" allowing you to set
the Audio LEFT/RIGHT balance. There's an additional
"SaveBalance" function to be used with the "zplayer.zdf" file
which instructs Zoom Player as to which values are automatically
saved in Definition Files.
See "default.df" for more information.
* New Definition File function "SetEQ" allowing you to set
the Equalizer Values. There's an additional "SaveEQ" function
to be used with the "zplayer.zdf" file which instructs Zoom Player
as to which values are automatically saved in Definition Files.
See "default.df" for more information.
* New Definition File function "SetPreAmp" allowing you to set
the PreAmp Values. There's an additional "SavePreAmp" function
to be used with the "zplayer.zdf" file which instructs Zoom Player
as to which values are automatically saved in Definition Files.
See "default.df" for more information.
* New Sigma Designs XCard profile for Customized DVD Playback.
Haven't tested it myself as I don't really have an XCard.
* Improved the Customized Media Playback Audio/Video decoder and
splitter setup dialogs to allow forcing a decoder only to accept
specific file extensions. This allows you to create two or more
different profiles for playing back the same media types.
For example, you could use one decoder entry to use a specific
decoder for "TS/TP" MPEG-2 Transport files, another decoder
for "MPG/M2V" for standard MPEG-2 decoding such as SVCD and yet
a third decoder for "VOB" to be used on extracted DVD Content.
To associate forced extensions, open up the decoder entry and
click on the advanced button, from there you can easily add
extensions. Only these extensions would be played by this
entry. Duplicate the entry and use a different set of
extensions and filter profiles as you see fit.
* New "Filter Properties" button on the Customized Media Playback
Audio and Video Decoder profile editor allowing you to open
the filter property page of the selected filter (may not work
with all filters as some require a Playing File).
* When saving Zoom Player Play Lists (ZPL), the last played item
is remembered and restored once the lists are reloaded
(Can be disabled under "Options / Settings / Playback").
* New "DefaultSettings.exe" Mini-Utility to reset the Zoom Player
registry settings in case you need to return Zoom Player to its
default state.
* Support for one-level Matroska Chaptering (Next/Previous Chapter
and Chapter Navigator). No idea what happens if you try to feed
in a multi-level chaptered Matroska file as I haven't encountered
any so far.
* Automatic Support for Gabest AVI Splitter when dealing with
incomplete AVI files. For this to work, you must have the
filter registered and the Load Incomplete AVI Files setting
enabled (Only on Professional version). The benefit of
Gabest' filter is that it allows you to seek in the middle
of AVI files even without seeking to keyframes. You may
see corrupt motion vectors until a key frame is reached,
but at least seeking is instantaneous.
Download Filter at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
* Along with Dimitar Pankov, I've formulated a structure in which
Masked Automatic Segment loading works. By specifying a mask
string, you can control how additional Media File Segments will
be loaded automatically into the Play List.
The formula is pretty flexible, allowing you to specify multiple
masks which can include both a prefix and a suffix. For Example,
"?of" would work for "My Video 1of2.avi" -> "My Video 2of2.avi"
"CD?" would work for "My Movie CD1.avi" -> "My Movie CD2.avi"
"[?" would work for "Movie [1 of 2].avi" -> "Movie [2 of 2].avi"
"(?" would work for "Movie (1 of 2).avi" -> "Movie (2 of 2).avi"
And so forth... Auto Segment Load is optional under
"Options / Values / Other" and can slow down play list loads when
dealing with massive play list (1000's of items, no slow down on
on small play lists).
* Zoom Player now supports Extended MultiMedia control devices such as
MultiMedia keyboards and additional buttons on explorer-type mice.
I've included a few default commands, but you can expand/modify these,
so take a look at "default.key" using a text editor.
I've also included a list of known commands codes here:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediacommandlist.shtml
* New Button on the Association options dialog allowing you
to load Icon Definition Files to automatically set the icons
for all the extensions that have an association.
* With the new filter support by Gabest, Zoom Player (and any
other directshow based player) can now be used to play most
Real Media files! For more information, see:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
* New Customized Media Playback profiles for VP6 video content.
Please note that the latest version of Gabests' AVI Splitter
seems to be incompatible with this video format and will cause
division by zero errors if installed and customized media mode
is not used.
* Added customized profiles for Real Media.
* Can now associate the Real Media file extensions.
* Can now associate AAC and APE extensions.
* Can now associate the MKA (Matroska Audio) extension.
* Can now associate the VP6 (On2 VP6) extension.
* You can now specify the Width and Height of the virtual video
are when no video or folder image is present for a playing file
(Options / OSD / ID3).
* You can now load ".Trailers" files through the open dialog just
through a standard parameter in order to have them insert trailer
files prior to other specified media/dvd files.
Example:
"x:\path\to\zplayer.exe" "x:\trl\intro.trailers" "x:\vid\movie.avi"
When passed through a command line parameter, Trailer files will
always insert their specified media files before any other files
passed in a parameter.
* New "LoadMaskRandomTrailer" Trailers function allowing you to
recursively load specific random file masks as trailers, see
"default.trailers" file in any text editor for more information.
* New Graph Information dialog under the Right-Click Filter
Properties context menu. Within this dialog you can see a lot
of useful information about the currently playing graph, such as
which filters are connected, the library in which each filter is
contained, the currently loaded file within source filters, etc...
* New Setting (Options / Filter Control / Settings) *Professional ONLY*
allowing Zoom Player to open files as they are being written to
by other applications (such as DVB captures and P2P networks).
Thanks to Gabest for the idea and Mathias Rauen for help with
the implementation.
* New Setting (Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you to
enable/disable the Equalizer and PreAmp. The setting is also linked
to a button on the EQ Window.
* New Setting (Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you to
enable/disable QuickTime ActiveX support. At this point in time,
not all QuickTime files can be played by DirectShow, this setting
when enabled (enabled by default), uses the QuickTime ActiveX
control to play QuickTime files. Using the ActiveX control instead
of DirectShow means that you lose certain capabilities and stability
may be sketchy, but until such a time where there are DirectShow
decoders available for the various QuickTime codecs, there is no
other choice.
* New Setting (Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you to
to set the Equalizer Range. The default is 12db (like WinAmp 2.xx),
but by enabling this setting you can set the range to 20db.
* New Setting (Options / OSD / Navigators) that determines whether
the Source Folders for the Media Library Navigator is visible
(default on).
* New Setting (Options / OSD / Navigators) that determines whether
the "All" Category is included in the Media Library Navigator.
* New Setting (Options / Settings / Interface) allowing you to have
a media file name pop when opened.
* New Setting (Options / Settings / Playback) allowing the
Zoom Player window to be moved to the front when play is pressed.
* New Setting (Options / Settings / Playback) that allows skipping
to the next file in the play list if the file currently being played
is invalid.
* New Value (Options / Values / Other) allowing you to set the
default directory for the Open Dialog and the File Navigator.
When a path is specified, the Open Dialog and the File Navigator
will always open in the specified folder.
* New Value (Options / Values / Playback) allowing you to set the
preferred Media File Audio Track (with formats that support
multiple audio tracks).
* New Value (Options / Values / Playback) allowing you to set the
preferred Media File Subtitle Track.
* New Navigator Value (Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to
specify a margin if the navigator is set to align with one of
the screen corners.
* New "/AUDIO" Command Line Parameter allowing you to start a media
file with a specified Audio Track enabled. Usage:
"/AUDIO:[n]", where "n" is a number from 0 onwards (0 being the
first audio track).
Example:
"/AUDIO:2".
* New "/SUB" Command Line Parameter allowing you to start a media
file with a specified Subtitle Track enabled. Usage:
"/SUB:[n]", where "n" is a number from 0 onwards (0 being the
first subtitle track).
Example:
"/SUB:2".
* New "/SEEK" Command Line Parameter allowing you to start a media
file in a specified position. Usage:
"/SEEK:hh:mm:ss" where HH = Hours, MM = Minutes and SS = Seconds
Example:
"/SEEK:01:15:32"
In which playback would start at 1 hour, 15 minutes and 32 seconds.
* New "/KEYDVD" Command Line Parameter allowing you to set the
DVD Key file.
Example:
"/KEYDVD:C:\Program Files\Zoom Player\dvd.key"
* Three new "ex" functions:
exSeekAhead allows you to seek forward a specified number of seconds.
exSeekBack allows you to seek backward a specified number of seconds.
exSeekTo allows you to seek to a Specified position.
See "default.key" file for more information on using "ex" functions.
* Several new functions added to the Mouse Middle Click toggle.
* I have added support for FLIC file playback to the customized
media mode. For decoding to work, you'll need the open-sourced
filter at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
* Can associate the DTS extension and a few Customized Media Mode
DTS profiles (Source & Decoder) thrown into the mixed.
* Additional Customized Media Profiles for DTS in AVI files.
* Zoom Player now supports GTSDLL:
http://www.adv-clan.com/gts-stuff/
Changes :
+ All the navigator interfaces (with the exception of the Web URL
Navigator) are now only accessible in the Professional version
of Zoom Player. I felt this step was required as to further
differentiate between the Standard and Professional versions.
+ Made some modification to the Graph Creation code that disables
FPU exceptions. Hopefully this will bypass issues with filters
that raise these exceptions (such as the "InterVideo Audio
Processor FX" filter).
+ When using the Next/Previous Skip/Jump/Seek commands in DVD Mode,
the Microsoft DVD Navigator used to queue all these commands in
sequence and then perform them one after the other rather slowly,
in some cases, it may actually freeze. I modified DVD seeking so
that instead of actually seeking after each command, Zoom Player
will queue these commands internally and not execute them until
after about 2 seconds. Each consecutive seeking command resets
this timer, so at the end, only one seek command is being sent
to the DVD Navigator. This actually allows for faster DVD Seeking
as the DVD Navigator isn't messing up multiple seek decoding buffers
and other nasty stuff. This modified DVD seeking mode also applies
to seeking using the timeline.
+ Redesigned the Control Bar. It's now more unified and the
buttons are slightly bigger.
+ Fast Forward and Rewind in DVD Mode will now work even if you
were previously paused.
+ Pressing Enter on the right-pane of the File Navigator will
only open CD-ROM type devices and not hard drive in order to
prevent accidental issues where Zoom Player would search your
entire hard drive for media files.
+ When saving a Play List you will now be prompted with a dialog
asking you how the file path information should be saved:
1. Full Path to files
2. Relative Path to files
3. Don't save any Path information
+ I have split the keyboard file into a DVD and Media entry.
Using two keyboard files you can have the same scan keys (or
remote buttons) mapped to two different commands dependant on
DVD or Media mode.
+ The DVD Play & Stop functions have changed a bit. When opening
an IFO file off the hard disk, and then pressing Stop and Play
again, the image playing from hard disk will resume, instead of
scanning the drives checked for a DVD Disc. Pressing Stop twice
and then pressing play will search the drives as before (an OSD
message "Stop & Clear" will show on the second Stop).
+ The "exDVDChapter" function has been renamed to "exChapterTrack"
and now works for both DVD and Media modes. In DVD Mode it allows
you to key-in a two digit chapter. In Media mode it allows you to
key-in a two digit play list track number. This function is only
really useful for remote control devices.
+ New safty code that prevents the options dialog from opening
off-screen. In some cases, you could have had the options
dialog moved off screen (multi-monitor display), then the next
time you'd open it, the dialog would be invisible (off-screen).
+ New safety check that prevents more than 999 chapters to exist
on a DVD Title (per-DVD Specification). May help issue with
screwed up DVXCOPY XPRESS authoring prior to version 5.2.1.
+ The Chapter/Bookmark Editor is now resizable.
+ The order Zoom Player checks for Chapter Files has been changed.
Zoom Player will first look at the specified alternative path,
then at the local path and finally at the same location as the
media file.
+ Zoom Player now assumes that Media files that don't specify a
frame rate are playing at 29.976fps. If the actual playback
is not at this rate, it has no real significance, however assuming
this frame rate gives a more accurate seeking.
+ When the mouse hovers over the Control Bar, using the
mouse wheel will now Skip Backward/Forward, regardless
of any other mouse wheel setting.
+ Snap to Screen Edge has been renamed to "Snap to Screen/Windows"
and will now snap the Zoom Player user interface (along with the
EQ and Play List Editor) to both screen edges and to other Zoom
Player Windows (Main Interface/Equalizer/Play List).
+ Can now accept Radio stations and URLs as command line parameters.
+ The Reset Window Position function available by right-clicking
the Zoom Player Task Bar entry will now also reset the position
of the Play List and Equalizer dialogs if they somehow get
forgotten off-screen.
+ The Scene Cut Editor now works on a Millisecond accuracy rather than
a Second accuracy. This should provide for a slightly more accurate
seeking.
+ Added MainConcept MPEG Decoder profiles to the pertinent
sections on the Customized Media Playback dialog.
+ The "|..|" to go up one directory in the navigators has been
changed to "|.. Previous Directory ..|" to be more Wife Friendly.
+ In the media library there were two different type of "All"
functionality. One would be the ALL media navigator category
which would show every file on every category and the other
was the ALL category association which would mean that a
specified directory would be assigned to all categories. To
minimize confusion, I've changed the naming to "Global" instead
of "All".
+ Opening the Chapter Navigator will now highlight the current
Chapter when the Internal Zoom Player chapters are used.
+ Modified the Customized Media Mode so that it could automatically
accept source filters which are also splitter filters.
+ Modified the way Multi-Audio AVI/MKV/OGM is handled so that it
could copy with multiple WMA audio tracks.
+ The /R parameter allowing you to change the display resolution
now accepts a 5th parameter indicating which monitor you want
the new resolution set to, for Example:
"/R:(1024,768,32,85,2)" where the "2" is the second monitor.
+ When changing the resolution using the "/R" command line
parameter, the original resolution is restored when exiting
Zoom Player.
+ You can now pass the "/OpenDrive" command line parameter
to a running instance of Zoom Player.
+ If running Zoom Player for the very first time from a CD drive,
Zoom Player will no longer prompt you for the preferred CD drive,
but instead use the drive it's running from (to prevent any
pop-up dialogs from showing in case you want to use Zoom Player
for instant playback on a new system).
+ The last played items will now be moved to the bottom of the Play
History list.
+ The keyboard macro for "Source Relative Stretch" has been changed
from "H" to Ctrl+"H" to eliminate accidental activation.
+ Possible improvement to QuickTime playback.
+ The options dialog is now more spacious.
+ A "play" OSD Message is now shown when pressing play after
a rewind/fastforward in DVD Mode.
Fixes :
- Wrote some work-around code for filters that raise FPU
exception errors when they are created (Like the InterVideo
Audio Processor FX filter). These filters should now work
as they do in GraphEdit, but they may still be unstable.
- Possible crash when trying to use an unsupported color control.
- Possible crash with seamless playback and overlay mixer.
- Fixed a scanline error crash if DVD Image was disabled and
an Audio-Only file was played.
- Preferred DVD Subtitle Language should now work properly.
- Preferred DVD Audio Language should now work properly.
- When using Multiple Video Filters in a Customized Media Mode
profile and then playing a video file with subtitles would have
inserted the DirectVobSub filter in the middle of the filter
list instead of at the end.
- Opening entire directories or drives will no longer open play
lists (so that multiple entries of the same file won't be opened
at once). Opening directories may even be a bit faster now.
- The Customized Media Mode Profile for the "XVID MPEG-4 Decoder"
actually pointed by accident to FFDShow instead, fixed.
- Using the arrow keys to move the user interface window could
actually make the window disappear on a single click.
- The /F:[n] and /Z:[n] parameters were not always working properly.
- ID3 tags on unicode file names should now load properly.
- ID3 should now displays even if the setting to load the folder
images is disabled.
- Minimizing to System Tray only, should no longer steal focus
when playing new tracks.
- Playing several IFO files in the Play List will no longer stop
playback after the first IFO file.
- The Goto Navigator can no longer be scaled beyond the
size of the screen.
- The Source Relative Aspect Ratio Calculator button couldn't
be clicked.
- Mouse Cursor doesn't move offscreen while you're in fullscreen
and using some interface.
- Mouse Cursor will now re-hide when opening a new track in
media mode if an Overlay was in use.
- The File and Media Library Navigators no longer displays
hidden directories.
- Clips that report zero duration should no longer seek to the
start every second.
- The /AR command line now has range checking so you won't be
able to set non-existing aspect ratio modes.
- Exporting the settings would not export any changed settings
since the options dialog was opened.
- Changing the resolution on fullscreen should now work with
non-primary monitors.
- Can now use decimal points in the Custom AR preset lists.
- Double clicking the Play List Editor Scroll Bar won't play the
item next to the mouse cursor anymore.
- Cosmetic issue, when deleting items off the play list, the
selection bar disappeared.
- The Play History was not saving the current "Last Played" date.
--- What's new in v3.10:
New :
* New Customized Point & Click Media Playback system bypassing the
somewhat flawed DirectShow Merit System. *PRO ONLY*.
The Manual Filter section of the options dialog has been redubbed
"Filter Control" and have been split into 3 tabs. The "Customized
Media Playback" tab controls the new playback interface. Instead
of letting windows decide on its own which filters to use with
which file types, you can now define this behavior yourself in
a "rather" pain-free profile system.
The default profiles more or less mirror the Media Setup article:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
I have created multiple filter profiles for every file format that
has more than one popular decoder.
For a more in-depth explaintion of this new system, see this article:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/custommedia.shtml
* The Options Dialog can now be translated into different languages.
To export the current language settings, press on the Export button
and select "language".
To switch languages, go to Options / Values / Other and browse for
a language files. Since this is the initial release, there aren't
any active translations yet, but when there are some, they'll be
posted on the forum at:
http://forum.inmatrix.com
* New Incomplete AVI Playback support. *PRO ONLY*
(Options / Filter Control / Settings).
This Professional Only feature allows playback of incomplete AVI
files. When opening an incomplete AVI, there may be a prolonged
(1-20 seconds) delay while Zoom Player will reconstruct the header
section. Seeking does work, but it's VERY slow (as the entire media
file must be decoded from the start in order to get to the new
position).
* New Play Caching system (Options / Values / Interface) *PRO ONLY*
When enabling "Remember last media position", Zoom Player will cache
the last position played on media files and when opening the files
again, will resume from that position. You can specify the number
of days you want the files to remain in the cache.
Cache matching works by comparing the file name, date and size. If
all three match, Zoom Player will resume from the last position.
These checks are made to make sure that in the case of files that
may get overwritten on a regular basis, false matches won't be made.
As stated by the *PRO ONLY* tag, this feature is limited to the
professional version of Zoom Player.
* New Play History Interface *PRO ONLY*
This new interface uses the cached information from the Play Caching
system to display a list of all files played within the cached
duration. You can even play the files directly from this interface.
* New Customized DVD Video Renderer Mode. By Default Zoom Player used
VMR9 Windowless mode when VMR9 was picked as the video renderer. This
was done as recommended by the Microsoft documentation. Unfortunately,
there's a severe bug in this mode that prevents DVD Menus from being
accessed properly. Toward that end, I've enabled support for VMR9
Windowed compatibility mode (this is being used by the NVDVD player,
or so I'm told).
* Digital CD-Audio support using the new open-source CDDA Filter, see:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
* Basic QuickTime support. Zoom Player can now play QuickTime content
with limited functionality. Due to the process involved, it can't
be 100% compatible with all Zoom Player functions.
When used, the following features suffer:
1. ALT/Ctrl+Left Click are broken.
2. Quicktime content can actually launch your browser
automatically, this isn't something that I know how to prevent.
Also, the QuickTime components can be unstable with certain quicktime
codecs. Some of these codecs will crash if you starve the CPU. This
isn't related to Zoom Player itself.
* New Context Navigator (Shift+"X"). The context navigator is an
exact mirror of the Right-Click context menu of both the Media and
DVD Modes (depending on which one is active). This allows you to
use any feature on the context menu with an easy to navigate
interface. And... Since these context menus can be customized
(see "default.menu" file), this allows for a very powerful control
interface indeed.
* URL files are now listed on the open dialogs and within the
File and Media Library Navigators. Open running, the URL
will be opened within the Web Navigator.
* The "Export" button on the options dialog can now export the current
Zoom Player Language Strings. Once exported, you can translate the
generated language file (english.lng) and then publish it on
the Zoom Player forum for others to use.
Currently, you can only translate the Options Dialog, as that is
probably the most important interface.
* New Setting "Fix VMR9 Scaling Bug" (Options / Filter Control) which
is a fix for bugs in both the NVIDIA drivers and the Microsoft VMR9
interface. When enabled the scaling artifacts and resolution loss
(slight blurring) should be fixed. This fix may interfere with
DVD Hardware acceleration. Changing resolution with a video loaded
may break the fix so you'd have to re-load the video for the fix
to be applied again.
* New Settings to Flip the Video Horizontally and Vertically.
This only works when the VMR9 renderer is in use and accessible
through "Options / Filter Control".
* New Setting "Don't check if file exists when loading into play list",
(Options / Settings / Playback). Can be useful at certain times and
will also speed up loading of play lists.
* New Setting "Auto-Save Media Chapter files"
(Options / Settings / Playback). When enabled and media file
chapters have been set, they will be automatically saved when the
file is closed.
* New Setting "Play Next file in Directory repeats when all files
have played" (Options / Settings / Playback). This is related
to the Play Next File in Directory function and "On Play Complete"
toggle.
* New Setting "Close On New File" (Options / OSD / Navigators).
This setting was always on by default, but now you can disable it
which would prevent the File, Media Library and Play List Navigators
from closing when you open a new file or directory through them.
* New Setting "Del moves media files to recycle bin"
(Options / OSD / Navigators) which allows to disable send to recycle
bin confirmation request (files will just be removed from the play
list if disabled).
* New Setting & Value "Close on Inactivity".
(Options / OSD / Navigators) allows you to have all navigators
(except the Web Navigator) automatically closed after a specified
period of inactivity (number of seconds).
* New Color Control Setting "Only show the Active Color Bar".
(Options / Color Controls). When enabled, instead of drawing the
entire color control interface, only the active item is visible.
This clears up most of the screen space so you can see how the
colors are applied. However, this breaks proper use of the mouse,
so it's only recommended for remote devices or keyboard use.
* New DVD Setting "Auto-Disable Subtitles"
(Options / DVD / DVD Settings) allowing you to automatically
disable subtitles by default. This will not work with discs that
contain forced subtitle tracks.
* New Value "Fullscreen to Monitor" (Options / Values / Interface).
Using this function you can set fullscreen or zoom modes to go to
a specified monitor.
* New Value "Frame Capture Path" (Options / Values / Other).
When a path is entered, all Frame Captures (Screenshots) will be
saved under that path. If none is specified, the captures will be
saved to the Zoom Player directory.
* New Function "fnPLGetDuration" (Alt+"V") fills in the duration of
all recognized media files within the current Play List. This
function may interfere with standard playback if the list contains
certain file formats, so it's best called when Zoom Player is idle.
* Zoom Player now supports execution of specified file extensions
(Options / Values / Extensions) through the Media and File Navigator
interfaces. The default extensions are basically CD/DVD image
extensions as this feature can be used to mount disc images into
DaemonTools without lifting your ass off the sofa (but I'm sure you
creative folks can think of other uses). You can also select which
color is used for highlighting these files within the navigators
(Options / OSD / Navigators).
* New Customized DVD Filters:
DMO_V Movie Effector
Intervideo WinDVD Audio Processor
* New Definition File function "SetMPEG1Audio", allowing you to set
the audio channel on MPEG-1 files (stereo/left/right).
See "default.df" for more information.
* New "/MAX" command line parameter to start the main window maximized.
* New "/CDPLAY" command line parameter which will search all CD/DVD
drives and the first matching CD Audio disc found will be played
(all tracks loaded into the play list).
* New Search box on the Play List Editor
(Options / Values / Play List).
* When clicking on the icon within the association dialog, you will
now be prompted to switch the icon to the Zoom Player icon.
Selecting "no" will allow you to browse for any other icon.
* Can now associate the ".PART" extension used by eMule/eDonkey.
* Can now associate the ".MP4" extension used by MPEG-4 ISO.
* Can now associate the ".CDA" extension used by CD Audio.
* Can now associate the ".MKV" extension used by Matroska.
* You can now open and associate Windows Media Play Lists (.WPL).
This format has a weird way of storing unicode data, I have no idea
what microsoft did here, so only non-unicode files can be loaded.
* You can now specify the Play List Editor Search Box background
color (within the skin code).
* New "Default" buttons on the extension dialog in order to restore
the extension lists (that are used in open dialogs and navigators).
* The registered filter manager will now show the file name used by
filters, along with their location on the hard disk and their ClassID.
* Pressing Alt+Shift+Ctrl+"V" will pop an OSD showing the current
Zoom Player version.
* Middle Click (Or Mouse Wheel Click) on the Navigator windows is
now the equivalent of pressing Enter (opening the highlighted
file/dir and such).
* DMO Filter Properties may now be accessible through the filter
properties sub-menu (Haven't really extensively tested this).
* New Scene Cut setting "Inverse Cut". When enabled, all "Cut"
entries inverse and become "Play Only the specified time line".
* Zoom Player can now set the default program to run when a CD Audio
disc is inserted (Options / DVD / DVD Tools).
* Navigators interfaces dealing with large number of items (Play List,
Media Library, etc...) now have the UP/DOWN navigational controls
accelerated if pressed repeatedly over a short period of time.
This helps speed things along when scrolling long lists.
* The Audio Renderer under the Customized DVD mode now has a tooltip
which will allow you to see the device name if it got truncated.
* Zoom Player now checks if the current position is greater than the
duration of the entire video and then tries to update the duration.
This may work when viewing captured video in real time.
* New "Random" Play List sort command.
Changes :
+ The Video Renderer selection dialog under Filter Control has
been changed, so if you've changed the default setting (to
select VMR9 or another renderer), you will need to do so again.
+ The VMR9 and Overlay color controls have been split. They
are still controlled through the same interfaces, but each has
it's own independent values within the options dialog. The
rational behind this is that if you switch between VMR9 and
Overlay Mixer, you wouldn't want the color values to conflict.
This also means that the definition files have an additional
function "SetVMR9ColorControls" which is the VMR9 equivalent
of saving the color values (also "SaveVMR9ColorControls"
under "zplayer.zdf").
These changes require you to re-save any changes you've made
to the Default values.
+ The Play List Navigator controls have been changed. Now
pressing "LEFT" will clear the play list while pressing "RIGHT"
will open the File Navigator in a special Play List Queue mode.
In this mode, instead of opening a file/directory/drive, any
selected item will be queued into the Play List.
+ The "/F" and "/Z" parameters have been expanded to support
multi-monitor configurations. Example:
"x:\path\to\zoomplayer\zplayer.exe" /F:2
"x:\path\to\zoomplayer\zplayer.exe" /Z:3
+ You can now specify which subtitle extensions are used for
highlighting in the navigator dialogs.
(Options / Values / Extensions) These extensions are also
searched for when using Customized Media Mode to add the
DirectVobSub filter.
+ The Open Drive Dialog can now be used to open multiple
drives at once.
+ The "/OpenDrive" command line parameter has been expanded to
support opening multiple drives. Example:
"x:\path\to\zoomplayer\zplayer.exe" "/opendrive:c,e,f"
+ The "/OpenDrive" parameter should now be more fleixble.
You should now be able to do "/OpenDrive:C:\" where as in
the previous builds only "/OpenDrive:C" would work. This
should make Zoom Player work better with the Windows XP
general-media auto-run capabilities.
+ Chapter files are now saved to the "Alternative Path for
Media Chapters" (Options / Values / Other) if one is specified
instead of the default path.
+ The GoTo dialog (not navigator) can now be used to set the
Video Size (not the window size).
+ Toggling the Control Bar will now Unhide the ID3 display if it was
set to Auto-Hide (it will hide again on Auto-Hide timeout).
+ The Zoom Player Settings Export is now exported in a format that
can be used on Win9x even if the exporting was done on Win2K/XP.
+ The Resize Navigator now supports Horizontal/Vertical Resizing in
addition to the positioning controls.
+ The GoTo Navigator counter now goes scrolls into minutes/hours
instead of blocking at 59 (when moving up/down).
+ When the mouse is hidden, you now need to move it at least 4
pixels in order for it to become visible again, this is to prevent
little earthquakes from unveiling your stealthy cursor.
+ The Media File Chapter Navigator is now more Spacious.
+ The Girder Command export has been moved under the main Export
button at the bottom of the options dialog.
+ The DVD Setup Verify button can now report if DMO filters are
properly registered (or not).
+ Play List Editor Drag & Scroll now works a bit better.
+ Selected items on the Play List editor are now highlighted
in a better way (no lines between selected items).
+ Customized Media mode now has better support for embedded OGM and
Matroska subtitle tracks. I do recommend that you install the latest
version of DirectVobSub (v2.26 at this moment) for it to work properly.
+ Zoom Player can now distinguish which CD/DVD drive is inserted
so instead of checking the specified disc drive, the actual
inserted disc drive is scanned for new content (if the toggle
to do is enabled). The code to do this was requested and
pointed out by Eric Gur.
+ The Mouse Cursor hiding code has been changed once again.
Hopefully, with this new code, the cursor should remain hidden
while reappearing properly in other interfaces.
+ The Reset ZP window position function accessible through the taskbar
right-click menu or from the tray icon will now work even if the
you're currently in Fullscreen mode.
+ Little bit less Windows 9x/ME resource usage.
+ Zoom Player should load a bit faster.
Fixes :
- Fixed file association under Windows XP (file not found issue).
Re-Associating the file extensions should fix this issue.
- Fixed a few crashes with media files returning invalid durations.
(A bug in the elecard demux returns media durations for MPEG-2
transport streams of several years).
- Fixed a bug that could cause DVDs to stop by themselves on initial run.
- The Open Drive function now opens DVD Discs correctly when called
from DVD Mode.
- Media/DVD Definition files now support unicode file names.
- Media Chapter files now support unicode file names.
- Scene-Cut files now support unicode file names.
- Open Drive function wasn't 100% unicode friendly.
- Frame Capture (screenshot) now works with unicode file names
(requires VMR9 to be active).
- Unicode text wasn't showing up in the navigators if outline font
wasn't enabled.
- Running a unicode file name would not always set the right path for
the file navigator.
- The File Navigator wouldn't always open on the location of the
currently open file.
- The Mouse Cursor should no longer hide when a filter property
page is open.
- Floating point bug when DVD Image was enabled without an image
file existing and trying to play a DVD.
- Random Play wasn't working when launching external Play Lists while
Zoom Player was already running.
- Under certain conditions it was possible for the ID3 display not to
appear at all.
- Fixed a rare occurrence where the OSD could pop on the wrong monitor.
- Maximizing videos with Reize while maintaning AR would not maximize
properly.
- Fast Forwarding in Media Mode, then Rewinding would not reset the
play speed properly when the rewind was stopped.
- Zoom Player now makes sure to restore the Overlay Color values to
their initial values after closing (was causing issues with the
ATI driver on some systems).
- The Color Control interface height now respect the Navigator screen
coverage specification so that it won't exit the screen area.
- Auto-by-Extension Media Graph mode can now accept unicode file names.
- Enabling Control Bar Auto-Show when moving the mouse cursor to the
bottom of the screen should now work with multi monitor setup.
- Closing a media file may not properly cleared the chapter listing.
- Cosmetic issue where trying to play a DVD in Customized mode without
selecting an Audio Decoder would say that the Video Decoder was not
selected.
- Failing to load a media file will no longer mess up the navigator
positioning.
--- What's new in v3.00:
New :
* New default skin. The old "Brushed Silver" default skin has been
replaced with a new Silver Chrome default skin. This skin took
about 50 hours to draw and looks very well when tinted.
* Zoom Player should now work with VMR9 under DirectX-9 in
both DVD (as long as the decoder also supports it) and Media
modes. On a personal point, I feel DirectX-9 was rushed as
there are still a few issues with it... In any case, backward
support is still working, so you don't have to use VMR9 if you
don't want to.
* Support for VMR9 ProcAmp (Color Controls). These integrate into
the same control as the overlay color controls. Unlike the overlay
color controls, the ranges are different and reported by the card
itself, so it's more accurate. Also, the card reports which color
controls it supports and only these will be active. There is no
gamma support (don't know why, ask Microsoft).
Due to the different ranges, you should reset the default values
for the color control. There is also a new button on the color
control options dialog allowing you to fetch the default values
for the VMR9 color controls if a video is currently playing.
* New DVD Playback system. Instead of using a specific graph
file or gambling that windows can build it's own DVD Graph,
you can now specify which Audio/Video Decoder/Renderer
to use in any combination you want with an easy to use
interface. Maximum flexibility, minimum effort.
In addition to this interface, there's a new verification
tool that checks if the selected filters are properly
registered on your computer.
* New Media Library Category System (Optional).
By enabling (Enabled by Default) the system on the
"Options -> OSD -> Navigators" interface, the Media Library
navigator will now be divided into categories, which can be
set on the Media Library Editor (Shift+"M").
Each Directory can be assigned one of two states, either
assigned to ALL categories or assigned to a Specific category.
You can create as many categories as you desire.
When enabled, the Left/Right navigational controls will now
be used to switch between categories.
* New Video Orbiting System (Options -> Values -> Playback).
Video Orbiting allows you to specify a video position movement
range in order to prevent screen burns on movies that don't
cover the entire screen area.
* New Shell Integration feature (Options -> Association) allowing
you to right click directories and associated files and select
to either Play or Enqueue them. When playing/queuing Directories,
they are checked for DVD Structure and would be queued/played as
a DVD if such a structure exists.
* The association dialog now allows you to manually select the
icons of associated file extensions.
* Implemented support for Windows Media High-Definition Audio playback
and Speaker Setup Selection (Options/Settings/Windows Media)
* Support for DVD Parental Control Levels (Options / DVD).
* Extensive code rewrite to support a unicode based file system
(Win2K/XP) with localized file names.
* Zoom Player now utilizes it's own Play List Format (yes, another
one). It's a very simple Unicode format which was designed for loading
speed and extendibility. The new format uses the ".ZPL" extension,
which can be associated using the File Association Options Dialog.
Large Play Lists should now load a bit faster.
* New recursive Play List opening code.
When you now open a play list file (any supported format),
it will be automatically expanded. This allows for recursive
play lists. The only caveat is ... don't create a loop (two
lists referencing each other) or basically you'll end up in
a situation where the playlists load each other ad infinitum.
* The Zoom Player registry location can now be altered by creating
a file called "zplayer.regpath" within the Zoom Player directory
and entering one line of text containing the new position.
For example: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayerDeus
By creating this file, you can have multiple versions of the
player running at once with different settings assigned to each.
(as long as each copy is being run from a different directory)
* You can now use a MediaGraph file instructing Zoom Player how
to play a specific media file even when using a MediaGraph is
disabled in the options dialog.
This is useful for specific files that require special filters
to play while not altering your default playback method.
To use this, simply create a MediaGraph file with the same base
name as the media file you are trying to play and using the
MediaGraph extension.
For Example:
"My Video.avi"
"My Video.MediaGraph"
For more information on building MediaGraph files, open
"example_avi.mediagraph" within the MediaGraph directory in
any text editor.
* New example MediaGraph file for use with the Elecard MPEG-2
decoders. I use it with the feature above for really corrupted
MPEG-2 files which only the Elecard decoders seem capable of
playing.
* New Function "fnBringToFront" allowing you to force the Player
window to the front. The assign keyboard macro is Alt+"0", but
really, it can't be used (since the window doesn't have focus),
but it can be assigned to remote devices such as Girder, which
is the whole point.
* New Functions "fnZoom50", "fnZoom400" and "fnZoom800". These
functions are mapped to the Alt+"1", Alt+"4" and Alt+"5" keys
and allow you to set the Zoom Player window to 50%, 400% and
800% of the source video size (100% and 200% already existed
in previous versions if you were wondering).
* New "fnPLMax" function allowing you to maximize the Play List
window (as long as it's not docked to the main window).
* New Web URL Navigator. The Web URL Navigator allows you to
assign a web address, Text or HTML file to a specific DVD or
Media file.
Media Files:
Create a URL file with the same base name as your media file,
but with the ".URL" extension.
DVD Discs:
Create a URL file by the name of "disc.url" in the local
DVD-Bookmarks directory (within the Zoom Player directory)
each previously loaded disc should have a directory if the
last position or disc definition data were saved.
The URL files are standard windows URL files, structure is
very simple. Create a text file that contains the following
information:
URL=http://www.tomysite.com/mypage.html
or, for local HTML files:
URL=file:///c:/my local info/mydata.html
(Yes, the slashes are correct in both numbers and direction,
this is how windows stores paths in URL files)
You can also use the Dynamic "<FileName>" tag like this:
URL=http://www.scriptpage.com/process.php?<FileName>
Any spaces in the filename are automatically converted to the
"_" underscore character as HTML urls do not allow for spaces.
If you open web pages that contain pop-ups, there's not much
I can do, you may be able to install pop-up prevention software
to combat those. Or simply don't assign cheesy sites.
When the Web URL Navigator is open, you can use the arrow
keys to scroll the pages and press Enter to close it.
Furthermore, instead of creating a URL file, you can create an
HTML or Text file. The following extensions are valid:
".HTML" + ".HTM" + ".TXT" + ".NFO".
* You can now use Higher Fast Forward values in Media Mode if
you have the ReClock filter installed. You get get the ReClock
filter at : http://ogo.nerim.net/reclockfilter/
or at : http://www.doom9.org
* You can now load ".GRF" GraphEdit files as standard media files.
* You can now use ".GRF" GraphEdit files as DVD Graph files by
putting them in the DVDGraph directory. However, using GraphEdit
Graph files, you can't register the used filters using the
register button, nor will you get a detailed error listing if one
of the filters refused to connect properly. Using this method,
you would not be able to use Extended VMR9 capabilities.
* New Default Definition File Value (Options -> Values -> Other),
allowing you to specify a definition file that is to be loaded
if the DVD/Media being loaded doesn't have a definition file
of it's own.
* The List Based Navigators are now more easy to navigate using the
mouse. Not too intuative as they were designed for TV-Display and
not the Monitor.
* New Scene Cut feature allowing you to "End" Playback (and proceed
to the next file on the Play List). This works for both Media and
DVD. With DVD this allows you to play multiple DVDs in sequence.
For safety reasons (to prevent infinite loops), the last Stop
Position on a DVD isn't saved if the playback was stopped by an
End Playback Scene Cut event.
* The Arrow keys Toggle has been split into Left/Right and Up/Down
toggles, each can be assigned a different set of functions and more
functions can now be assigned to the arrow keys.
* New Function ("H" on keyboard) to Enable/Disable Source Relative
Stretch. This is useful if you're switching a lot between a monitor
and a non 4:3 display device such as a Projector or a TV.
* You can now save general-purpose Skin Tinting Profiles. These
are accessible through the Skin Selection dialog. I've even made
a few default profiles.
* New Animate Buttons setting (Skin Selector Dialog). When enabled,
button states are transitioned transparently.
* New "TintSource" skinning function. This function allows you
to RGB tint the source image as the skin loads so that you can
modify parts of the image to create diverse color schemes for
your skin without actually modifying the source image yourself
for each skin.
* New "cTransColor" skinning variable allowing you to create
color-keyed transparent Control Bars.
* New "cBarRightMargin" skinning variable allowing you to set
the right margin of the control bar so that you can better
draw it to interconnect with button graphics.
* New "AniSpeed" parameter for creating buttons. This parameter
allows you to specify the animation speed of buttons when the
"Animate Buttons" setting is enabled on the Skin Selector.
* New "<cBarFullWidth>" skinning constant allowing you to get
the full width of the Control Bar, including the area used for
the Buttons and Right Margin.
* New "<Clock>" Skinning Constant for displaying the Current Time.
* New "<Date>" Skinning Constant for displaying the Current Date.
* New "<PlayListItems>" skinning constant allowing you to display
the number of items currently loaded within the Play List.
* New "<PlayListTotal>" skinning constant allowing you to display
the total duration of the items currently loaded within the Play List.
* Now "<PLWinWidth>", "<PLWinHeight>", "<PLWinHalfWidth>" and
"<PLWinHalfHeight>" skinning constant allowing you to position
items within the Play List window.
* New Setting (Options -> OSD -> Navigators) allowing you to have
Zoom Player check each media file if it has an accompanying subtitle
file and highlight it accordingly. This applies to the Media Library,
File and Play List Navigator interfaces.
* New Setting (Options -> OSD -> Navigators) allowing you to reposition
the navigators.
* New Setting (Options -> OSD -> Navigators) allowing you to disable
file extensions from showing up on the File, Media Library and
Play List Navigators.
* New Seting (Options -> Values) allowing you to Screen Snap the Main
Window and the Play List Editor.
* New Setting on the Play List Editor allowing you to set playback
to loop on the currently playing item.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Playback) allowing you to
have Zoom Player pre-buffer the next video file 10 seconds
before it starts playing. This Seamless Playback setting
can cut the time it takes Zoom Player to switch between
media tracks. There are a few limitations:
1. Doesn't work for Random Play at the moment.
2. For it to work with MPEG-2 files (VOB/SVCD) you must use
the VMR9 renderer (this is a limitation of the MPEG-2
decoders that won't work if there is a running overlay
surface already, since the VMR9 doesn't use an overlay
surface, it doesn't suffer from this).
You can enable the VMR9 renderer at Options->Manual Filter.
Note: DirectX-9 is required for the VMR9 to work.
3. It may not work well with custom media graphs.
4. The code is experimental, some display card drivers or
other system components may not like it.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Playback) allowing you to have
the Media Definition file saved in the Zoom Player Media-Data
directory (Within the install dir) rather than the location of the
open media file.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Interface) allowing you to
fix the user interface aspect ratio to the video's aspect ratio.
* New Setting (Options -> DVD -> Values) allowing you to maintain
audio while in fast forward or rewind. Frankly, I've tried it
with both the PowerDVD and WinDVD filters and neither is capable
of this feature. Hopefully in the future they will be.
* New Setting (Options -> Values -> Playback) allowing you to
modulate the speed the Skip/Jump/Seek functions work when used
repeatedly. If used quickly (within 1.5 seconds), each use makes
the distance moved x1/x2/x3 ... faster than the specified value.
* New Setting (Options -> Values -> Playback) allowing you to
have the currently playing Media File closed when the stop command
is issued. Useful for people who'd like to have the Media Image
pop back up.
* New Setting (Options -> Values -> Resolution) allowing you to
set the screen resolution when going into Zoom/Fullscreen modes.
You can specify Width/Height/Bits/Refresh Rate/Interlaced.
Your display driver must support the specified values.
* You can now set Zoom Player to close the open Media file when
playback ends.
* You can now set Double Click to Play / Pause. This can be
useful when using minimalistic skins with no buttons and the
single click is assigned to dragging the window.
* New Extended Function (exOpenDrive) allowing you to open the entire
content of a drive using a keyboard/button/remote device.
* New "Query Overlay" button on the Overlay Color Dialog allowing you
to check the Overlay Color capabilities and to grab the default
values of the Overlay Color (if the interface was disabled when
a video was loaded) for your specific Display Card. Useful for
setting a default value.
* Pressing "E" will now open the File Navigator, regardless of the
navigator the Enter key is set to.
* New "Search" entry on the Keyboard list so you can quickly find
a specific keyboard function.
* New "/MOUSEOFF" command line that sends the mouse cursor off-screen.
* New "/OPENDRIVE" Command Line Parameter that allows you to open
an entire drive while respecting VCD/SVCD/DVD structures.
Usage Example:
"x:\my\path\to\zoomplayer\zplayer.exe" "/opendrive:z"
* New "/QUEUE" Command Line Parameter that works when Zoom Player is
already running. When used, any specified directories will be
enqueued at the end of the Play List. When used when Zoom Player
isn't running, it works the same as the "/ADD" Command Line.
Usage Example:
"x:\my\path\to\zoomplayer\zplayer.exe" "/queue:z:\music videos\"
* The Cycle Audio Track function (Ctrl+"A") will now cycle through
MPEG-1 Audio Tracks (Left/Right/Merged). Useful for multi-language
MPEG-1 Audio discs. Code written due to incessant nagging and
research on the part of civic5zigen.
* The Cycle Audio Track function (Ctrl+"A") will now cycle through
MPEG-2/VOB Audio tracks (as long as the MPEG-2 Splitter filter is
in use).
* New "UseSystemClock" function for Graph Building scripts. This
function tells Zoom Player to create a System Clock and use it
to keep Sync. It may help with microstutter issues but may also
cause Audio Desync.
* The Information Panel ("I") now shows these additional details:
1. Video Aspect Ratio.
2. Derived Aspect Ratio.
3. Source Aspect Ratio.
* New Source Relative Stretch calculator to help you setup display for
display modes with non-standard pixel ratios. I'm not entirely sure
the math is correct at the moment, so the usefulness is in question.
* You can now have ".df" Definition Files automatically add
additional media file segments to a multi-segment media file.
Zoom Player will scan the current directory and the root
directory on every drive for the additional segments.
* You can now have ".df" Definition Files apply Audio Volume when
opening media/dvd files.
* The zplayer.zdf file now instructs Zoom Player to save audio
volume within definition files.
* Improved the function description within the "Brownish.skn" file,
hopefully each and every Zoom Player function should now be well
understood.
* You can now associate the ".TS" and ".AC3" extensions.
* You can now associate the ".AVS" (AVISynth Script Format) extension.
* You can now have the current time show up within the Timeline.
Middle click the to enable this feature.
* You can now have the remaining time show up within the Timeline.
Middle click the timeline to enable this feature.
* You can now have the source resolution show up within the Timeline.
Middle click the timeline to enable this feature.
* Pressing Ctrl+"C" on the Information Panel moves the currently
playing file name into the Clipboard.
* The Playing and Path fields on the Information Panel are now
selectable.
* New Reset button on the ID3Script section in case it somehow
got messed up and you want the original back.
* The beta version is now listed in the About box.
Changes :
+ Completely rewrote the code behind the Association system.
While the interface looks the same, I dumped the previous DDE
system which was in all honesty faster. However, it was somewhat
limiting and had some compatibility issues with certain systems.
Due to this change, you must re-associate all used extensions
with Zoom Player otherwise you may get certain pop-up errors
from the OS. Do this even if you had previously installed a
v3.00 beta!
Also, when you DeAssociation, ZP cleans better after itself.
+ The Play List Editor has been modified, you can now drag around
files using the mouse and further customize the color scheme.
+ The Play List Editor is now fully skinnable. Backward support
for older skin that didn't include code for the Play List, a
simplistic yet functional play list is made available.
+ The OSD Action Pop-Up window is now fully skinnable.
+ The Play List editor will now display the duration for some
file formats and you can sort the list by it as well.
+ The text drawn on the Navigators and Play List Editor is now
reformatted to better fit the interface. Long names will have
their vowels removed first and if room is still an issue, you
see the standard cropping.
+ The "CreateExButton" skinning function has been expanded with
a few more parameters, and can now be used to add buttons to
the Play List Editor.
+ After installing Windows Media Player 9, opening and seeking
in Windows Media Video files (".WMV" and ".ASF") within
Zoom Player is significantly faster, as the Microsoft installer
also adds a new Reader filter which FINALLY! doesn't think that
you are always trying to open a file from the internet and
doesn't try to buffer 5 seconds ahead.
+ Made some adjustment to DVD Seeking, it may be a bit faster now.
+ Play Next/Previous File in Directory is now loopable (after
playing the last file in the directory, the first file is then
played again).
+ The Custom Audio Device setting no longer applies to DVD Mode.
Using the Customized DVD Mode you can choose which Audio Renderer
is used. With standard graphs, the Audio Renderer defined in
the graph is preserved.
+ Opening a Directory through the Navigators is now "DVD Aware".
If the directory contains a VIDEO_TS.IFO file, the directory
would be opened as a DVD.
+ Using the File Navigator, pressing Enter on a Drive listed on
the right-side panel will now open the entire drive while
respecting VCD/SVCD/DVD disc structure.
+ Zoom Player now properly supports ID3v2.4 and OGGVorbis tags.
If no tags exist, the file name will be used as a Title Tag.
The script has changed somewhat so if you modified it, you'll
have to re-enter your modifications.
There are also several new tags:
<language>, <encoder>, <urllink> and <copyright>.
+ Cycling through subtitles (Ctrl+"B") using the DirectVobSub
filter will now cycle through the "Hide Subtitles" entry.
+ Play List Editor entries are now numbered.
+ When the MPEG-2 Splitter filter is used for MPEG-2 playback and
Zoom Player encounters more than one audio stream, by default
the first audio track will now played (before the MPEG-2 Splitter
filter chose a stream according to an unknown criteria).
+ You can now set the OSD to be Screen Centered.
+ The "/ADD" Command Line Parameter can now accept files and not
only directories.
+ You can now use the Delete key with the following navigators:
1. Media Library Navigator
2. File Navigator
3. Play List Navigator
When pressed you will be prompted if you want to send the file
(or directory) to the recycle bin.
+ On Play Complete toggle can now Eject the CD.
+ Changing the Skin-Tint is now done without having to reload the skin.
+ From now on the Control Bar and Timeline Text are never outlined.
The control over the outline color has been relegated to the skinner
and can be set using the "TimeLineFontShade" and
"TimeLineCBarFontShader" values.
+ Switching audio tracks will now always show an OSD Message, even if
there is only one audio track (will show the current audio track).
+ Switching DVD Angles or OGM Video Tracks will now always show an
OSD Message.
+ Switching Subtitle tracks will now always show an OSD Message. If
none is available, this will be indicated.
+ Switching between DVD and Media mode now tries to match the Video
area of both skins so it remains unchanged.
+ The ResizeBox skin function can now be used multiple times to define
more than one resize area point.
+ Slight modification to the default DVD Context Menu.
+ Unused context menu entries are now disabled.
+ When playing a DVD with no DVD-Path specified, Zoom Player will
first scan the specified DVD-Drive for a disc and only them scan
the rest of the drives.
+ The Zoom to 100% and Zoom to 200% functions are no longer hard
coded and can be assigned through a function.
+ Enhanced method of preventing Power Saving modes (monitor/system)
when the setting is enabled (Options -> Settings -> Other).
+ To prevent some user-support headaches. A clean installation
will now have the following settings enabled:
1. Force Overlay Mixer.
2. Prevent Screen Saver/PowerDowns.
+ Using the "/F" or "/Z" parameter now goes to fullscreen before
loading any files (so you don't see the user interface).
Also applies to "/M" and Minimize.
+ Right clicking the navigator interfaces now closes them.
+ Skin Script commands can now accept the , character as long as
the entire script is encompassed within "" and doesn't have
superfluous spacing. For Example, this would now work:
DrawExText(DestX=12,DestY=6,Width<WinWidth>-85,Height=15,
Align=Center,FontName=Tahoma,FontSize=12,
FontColor=E4E4E4,FontStyle=Bold,
"Text=<FileBase>, <Time>")
The lines are split only to fit the margins of this document,
in the actual script, this should be one line...
+ The DrawExText function has been expanded to allow you to shade or
outline the text using any color you want.
+ The Information dialog now shows proper playback information
even when the Overlay Mixer or VMR9 renderers are used.
+ The Overlay Color setting for "Brightness" Range has been changed
from "0 to 10000" to "-10000 to 10000".
+ When using the Skip/Jump/Seek commands, the changed time delta
is now displayed in the OSD.
+ The File Navigator will always start with the currently
playing file highlighted (if one is playing).
+ Expanded the control over the Play List color display.
+ The following settings have been moved from to the Control Bar Section
of the options dialog and are also accessible by right clicking the Control Bar
(non-timeline area), or middle clicking the Control Bar:
Auto-Show Control Bar on Mouse Movement
Auto-Show Control Bar when Mouse is moved to Bottom of Screen
Detach Control Bar from User Interface
Disable the Control Bar in Window Mode (Limit to Fullscreen/Zoom)
Position Control Bar relative to Video (Taking Aspect Ratio into consideration)
Prevent Control Bar from moving off-screen (keeps it on-screen when video is zoomed)
Center Control Bar Vertically within Video area
Skip/Jump/Seek functions Pop Control Bar
Play function Pops Control Bar in Fullscreen/Zoom modes
Pause function Pops Control Bar in Fullscreen/Zoom modes
Rewind function Pops Control Bar in Media Mode when in Fullscreen/Zoom modes
Show Play State within the Timeline area
Show Time within the Timeline area
Show Total Video Length within the Timeline area
Show Media File Name / DVD Title & Chapter within the Timeline area
Show Idle State within the Timeline area
Control Bar Align (Toggle)
+ All the Control Bar settings are now duplicated on the control bar
context menu and the control bar section within the options dialog.
+ Play List clicks react the same as toggles set to the main window.
+ Girder Exports are now a bit more descriptive.
+ Cosmetic modification of the Control Bar within the default skin.
+ Slight optimization to the Skin Drawing code.
Fixes :
- Multi Monitor Fixes:
1. Fit to Source with centering now centers on the active monitor.
2. Exiting Zoom with centering now centers on the active monitor.
3. Maximizing wouldn't maximize properly on secondary monitors.
4. Prevent OSD from moving off-screen no longer pops the OSD to
a different screen.
5. Prevent Control Bar from moving off-screen no longer pops the
Control Bar to a different screen.
- When Extended VMR mode was enabled, opening a second video file
would pop an error message (and playback would continue normally
once closed).
- Zoom Player should no longer steal focus when using an overlay
surface to play videos.
- Fixed a bug where DVD playback would not always find the DVD if
it wasn't in the specified DVD Drive.
- Zoom Player should (hopefully) react better when exiting from
Hibernate mode while playing.
- Zoom Player can now handle DVD Discs that don't contain a menu
structure and will now end playback when the disc ends.
- Support for switching OGM Audio, Subtitle and Chapters is now
more reliable and future-proof, especially with non-english
versions of windows. Better support for disabling subs as well.
- Fixed a few crashes relating to an open context menu.
- Fixed a crash when closing Zoom Player right after playing a DVD.
- Fixed a crash with the DVD Bookmark loading dialog crashing after
the 10 second timeout.
- Multiple Audio Track Media Files should now work with ReClock as
the Audio Renderer.
- Fixed "List Index Out of Bounds" error when enabling a custom
Audio Renderer without actually selecting one.
- The Internal Zoom Player screen saver could crash after a while.
- Few fixes for Large Fonts.
- Ejecting a CD should not stop playback unless you're playing
something off the ejected CD.
- Fixed a bug which caused a CD-Insert request when mapping a
removable drive (such as a CDRom) to the Media Navigator and
then ejecting it.
- When closing a video in Extended VMR mode, the video area is now
cleared properly.
- List out of bounds error when pressing right on the Media Library
Navigator when no items are listed.
- A clean installation would not apply Video Position preset #5
correctly.
- Applying Blanking values through the Blanking preset dialog would
not apply the displayed numbers correctly.
- Some Media Files (MPEG-2 files mostly), and possibly some DVDs would
not have the Overlay Colors set properly.
- Fixed a crash with Media Library when pressing INSERT on a dir-up.
- Fixed a crash when trying to load a new video with the GoTo
Navigator visible.
- Fixed Scene Cut/Jump issues with MPEG-2 media files and the
WinDVD/CineMaster decoders. The fix however created an inaccuracy
of about 1 second in the cut area.
- DirectVobSub v2.23 changed something that made it's Property
dialog unopenable. Changed the method used to open the property
dialogs and now it works fine again.
- Maximized state wasn't being saved properly when going in and out
of fullscreen.
- Fixed a few issues dealing with maximize and settings that changed
the window size when loading a new video.
- Pattern Display wasn't showing up properly in Window mode.
- Zoom Player now accepts the "File:///FileName.AVI" method of
executing media files.
- Control Bar is now hidden when a Navigator is opened.
- Fixed a Scanline out of Range bug dealing with the background
image when an image didn't exist while the setting was enabled.
- Background Media Image wasn't covering entire video area under
some conditions.
- SetDVDPath Trailer file command would be ignored under some
conditions.
- The Play List Editor window wouldn't remember it's last position.
- Enqueing an item externally (through explorer) when nothing
was playing didn't start playback.
- You can now use command line parameters to save the Window position
to a negative off-screen value.
- When taking away associations from another application, The
"keep current icon" setting should now be more reliable.
- "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Size (on load)" and
"Center User Interface when loading new Media" are now respected
when opening a new DVD Disc.
- Fixed possible conflicts between definition files and non-english
versions of windows.
- Going backward frames in DVD Mode has been disabled as DirectShow
doesn't really allow it and it was only causing weirdness.
- Few other small tweaks and fixes not really worth a mention.
--- What's new in v2.90:
New :
* Completely redesigned the default skin. The Brownish skin is still
part of the distribution so if you favor it,you can just re-select it.
* You can now Color-Tint any skin, simply open the skin selection dialog
and modify the Red/Green/Blue values with either a positive or a
negative value and click on the skin you want to load.
* You can now access a DVD's Number Pad by pressing Alt+Ctrl+"0..9" on
the keyboard (or through a remote). The only real use of this feature
is for discs with hidden content that require number pad activation
(Such as "Terminator 2:Ultimate Edition").
* New Media Library Navigator (Alt+"M") allowing you to group specified
directories (even from different drives) into one virtual listing.
Similar to the file navigator, this interface can be navigated using
the following keys (or remote-mapped alternates):
Left - Go up one Directory.
Right - Play Selected File or Directory.
Up/Down - Scroll through the List.
Insert - Play all files within the selected directory or
Play all files in a directory when a file is selected.
Enter - Enter Directory or Play Selected File.
PgUp/PgDn - Scroll a page through the List.
Home/End - Go to Beginning/End of the List.
* New Media Library Path Editor (Shift+"M") allowing you to select the
paths used by the Media Library Navigator as a Virtual Drive.
* New "/MEDIANAV" command line parameter which starts Zoom Player with
the Media Library Navigator opened.
* New Toggle (Options -> Key Toggles) allowing you to select which
Navigator to open when the Enter key is pressed while in Media Mode.
Previously you could only open the File Navigator, with this toggle
you can now choose from:
1. Disabled
2. File Navigator
3. Media Library Navigator
4. GoTo Navigator
5. Play List Navigator
6. Chapter/Bookmark Navigator
* New Toggle (Options -> Toggles) allowing you to have the Control Bar
aligned to the Tom/Bottom of the Monitor when in windowed mode.
Set to either Top or Bottom, overrides all other Control Bar position
settings.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Interface) allowing you to detach
the Control Bar from the user interface. The position of the Control
Bar in Window and Fullscreen modes are remembered independently.
Can also be accessed by middle clicking the Control Bar.
* New Registered Filter Manager Interface (Options -> Manual Filters)
allowing you to select any registered filter(s) and unregister them
quickly and easily. It further allows you to set the merit value on
each filter which determines which filter has precedence when two
filters of the same function are registered at one time (such as
two types of MPEG-2 filters). By adjusting the filters merit, you
may be able to prevent filter conflicts to some degree.
* New Setting (Options -> Manual Filters -> Extended VMR Mode).
In preparation for DirectX-9, I've implemented support for Extended VMR
modes. The VMR uses 3D hardware to accelerate video graphics.
At present it depends on the Display Driver implementation as to whether
VMR improves or degrades video quality (and yes, it can degrade it).
This mode only works under Windows XP as it's the only OS with VMR
support, but this may change with DirectX-9 (I'm not really sure).
Similar to the overlay mixer, the VMR can fix aspect ratio modes for
WMV9 and MPEG-2 content. However, unlike the Overlay Mixer it does so
without lying to the player about the actual video resolution, so
playing back SVCD content will show the actual 480x480 resolution, but
when setting the Aspect Ratio mode to "Derived" in Zoom Player, you
will see the correct aspect ratio.
At this time, there is no Overlay Color Control interface on the VMR,
so you still need to use the Overlay Mixer to access this. I am told
that DirectX-9 may change that, so we'll have to see.
* New DVD Setting (Options -> DVD -> DVD Settings) allowing you to set
the Closed Caption Background to Transparent (otherwise Opaque).
* New Audio Balance (stereo) interface. Using the Alt+Shift+"," and
Alt+Shift+"." keys you can move the Audio Balance Left to Right.
* New Open Drive Function (Shift+"D") allowing you to open every file
on the drive according to the allowed extension list (Options ->
Values -> Other). The code also checks if the drive contains a
VCD, SVCD or DVD disc and only opens the appropriate files accordingly.
* If the Tray icon is visible, hovering the mouse cursor over it will
now show the open File Name or DVD Volume.
* New Command Line Parameter allowing you to set the keyboard file,
Example: "c:\path\to\exe\zplayer.exe" "/key:c:\path\to\key\keyfile.key"
* New Skinning interface (not implemented on default skin) allowing you
to create an Audio Balance Control on the user interface. It works
similar to the Play Rate Control and implemented through the
BlanaceExData skinning function.
* New Skin Button type allowing you to have a switch the active skin.
* The CreateExButton Skinning interface has been expanded so you can
Optionally specify the position of the button down bitmap rather than
having it aligned to the right of the up bitmap.
* New "TimelineCursor" Skinning Variable allowing you to set the cursor
used for timeline seeking.
* New Skin Constant "DVDVolume" allows you to write the DVD Disc's
volume label.
* New FillMask skinning helper function for easily filling skin areas
with a mask of another bitmap (useful for backgrounds with transparent
buttons).
* OGG Audio files can be used as external audio tracks.
* New Extended Function (exDVDNumPad) allowing you to activate a DVD's
Number Pad through either the keyboard, remote or context menu command.
* Shortcut ".lnk" files are now parsed and the files they are pointing
to are now properly loaded. One use can be a DVD Archive where you
create shortcuts in one directory for the VIDEO_TS.IFO files that
reside in multiple hard drives/paths.
* When Pausing, the OSD will now show the current position.
Changes:
* VASTLY! Reduced the Windows 95/98/ME system resources used by
Zoom Player, Zoom Player now takes around 6% resources compared to
around 30% v2.80 used. This of course doesn't have any effect
on Windows 2K/XP as they don't have such a limited widget resource
bank to begin with.
* Zoom Player should load a bit faster now (not that it was slow to
load to begin with).
* The Custom Context-Menu interface has been completely revamped, there
are no more fixed items and more functions are accessible. Backward
support for the previous custom menu interface won't be supported,
however, it doesn't take more than 2 minutes to manually convert.
* The default Context-Menu for the Media, DVD and Tray interfaces has
been sorted and expanded.
* The Open Directory function is now "DVD-Aware". This means that if
you open a directory with a VIDEO_TS.IFO file in it, the directory
would be played as a DVD.
* The Association dialog now shows you which extensions are associated
and allows you to remove association.
* The File Navigator interface now uses the Open Drive button when using
the Insert key on a drive letter.
* Separated the Custom Audio Device to Media and DVD so you can decide
if it affects one or the other (or neither).
* The Next/Previous Chapter buttons now act as Next/Previous Tracks when
no chapters are defined. When Chapters are defined they will only
change tracks if you are on the last/first chapters. This allows
you to cross-chapter media files.
* New Overlay Color automated verification system that double checks if
DirectShow is returning the correct overlay color used in OSD
transparency. This is required due to bugs in such filters as the
WinDVD v4 Video Decoder which modifies the overlay color code for some
unknown reason.
* The vlLeft and vlTop skin parameters have been moved into the
VolumeExData function and should no longer be used in future skins.
* The rtLeft, rtTop parameters and RateData function has been integrated
into a new "RateExData" function for further skinning simplification.
* The skinning documentation has moved from the plasticblue to the
brownish skin as it is updated to much all the new functions.
* Several of the Red Error messages have been converted to an OSD
message, especially those involving missing a DVD disc or wrong path.
* The red error dialog now has a "Close" button on them, some people
were unaware they could be closed by pressing Escape or Clicking on
the dialog.
* The Previous/Next filter file functions have been removed, if you
plan to use a filter file, you must select it through the options
dialog.
* Screen centering functions should now center on the active monitor
and not on the virtual screen coordinates for better multi-monitor
support.
* When the Extended VMR setting is enabled (see above) under Windows XP,
the frame capture function (Alt+"F") is more accurate and captures
any file format (including MPEG-2, ASF and WMV).
* Some speed up to the ASX play list file parsing. On a P3/733 it now
takes around 40 seconds to load a 17000 entry list (verifying that
each file actually exists), down from 233 seconds with the previous
code. An improvement of over 500%.
* Improved Overlay ColorKey detection.
* The Minimize to Tray setting has been removed as it had the same
function as the Tray location selection toggle.
Fixes:
* Wrote a DirectShow workaround a bug that failed to notify the player
when exiting a Menu mode when playing from a Bookmark.
* The Next Audio Track didn't work with the new OGM DirectShow filter.
* Fixed a problem when the Override VMR setting was enabled and you
simply wouldn't see any video.
* The TransBitmapCopy function was not working properly.
* Fixed a bug that could cause crashes on non-english versions of
windows.
* Fixed a problem that would alter the DVD Background Image aspect
ratio.
* Using the new DrawExText would cause position covered by the
text not to react to mouse clicks.
* Open Filter Property Pages should no longer mess up buttons with
Hover Graphics.
* Fixed possible crashes (multiple divide by zero) with Scene Cut files.
* Clicking the mouse on the Play List Navigator could pop an error dialog.
* Fixed a few possible crashes involving versions of windows that didn't
use "." as a fraction separator.
* Certain DVD Discs (ones without the "AUDIO_TS" directory) would not have
been identified as DVD when Insert Auto-Play was enabled.
* The "CopyTransBitmap" skinning function was faulty.
* The Red Error dialog should now close properly when using a remote.
* The DVD Background Image would not always return to it's correct
aspect ratio after stopping a DVD.
--- What's new in v2.80:
* New Scene Cut Editor (Shift+"T").
The Scene Cut Editor allows you to modify the way content is played.
You can manipulate it in the following ways:
1. Cut:
Dynamically remove segments of the time line so that these segments
will cut be when encountered.
2. Jump:
Create Jump points which can jump anywhere within the time line,
including backwards, this way re-editing the chronological playback
order in any way you desire.
3. Audio Mute:
Mute the Audio for a specific duration.
4. Hide Subtitle:
DVD Only, Hide the DVD Subtitle for a specific duration.
Similar to the Chapter Editor, a file is kept for every DVD Disc
and Media File with the ".cut" extension. If such a file is
encountered it will be applied to the Disc/File.
* New Interface ("G" on the keyboard) to GoTo any position within
the timeline. The interface allows you to pick between HH:MM:SS:MS
and a specific Frame.
* New Navigator (Alt+"G" on the keyboard) allowing you to go to any
position within the timeline (HH:MM:SS interface). Full navigational
through the keyboard or a remote device.
* New Navigator (Alt+"W" on the keyboard) allowing you to navigate
through the MouseWheel functions. Only the selected MouseWheel
functions will be visible.
* New Custom Audio Device selection dialog (Options->Manual Filters).
This should work for both Media and DVD Graphs. Regardless of the
audio device selected in the DVD/Media Graph file.
* New Custom Aspect Ratio Presets (Options->Presets->Custom AR)
allowing you to have up to 10 Custom Aspect Ratio modes.
* New Overlay Color Presets (Options->Presets->Overlay Color)
allowing you to have up to 10 Custom Overlay Color settings.
* New Toggle (Options->Settings->Toggle) which lets you select where
you want Zoom Player to appear. Options are:
- Task Bar
- System Tray
- Task Bar & Tray
* New Toggle (Options->Settings->Toggle) allowing Zoom Player to be
minimized after play is complete. If the Minimize to Tray option is
enabled, then Zoom Player will be minimized to the System Tray.
* New Toggle (Options->Settings->Toggle) allowing you to select how
Zoom Player starts. Options are:
- Window Mode
- Zoom Mode
- Fullscreen Mode
- Minimized
This new toggle supersedes previous Zoom on Start setting.
* New Toggle (Options->Settings->Toggle) which determines if Zoom
Player changes Display mode when a CD or DVD is Auto Played.
Options are:
- Do Nothing
- Go to Zoom
- Go to Fullscreen
- Restore if Minimized
* New Setting (Options->Settings->Other) allowing you to have a
media image file visible in the video area when no media file
is being played. The file name Zoom Player is looking for is
either "mediaimage.bmp" or "mediaimage.jpg". By default this
setting is off.
* New Setting (Options->Manual Filter) allowing you to force the
Overlay Mixer to be loaded. This is the same as setting the
SVCD filter profile but easier to enable/disable.
* New DVD AutoAR Value (Options->DVD->AutoAR) allowing you to set
the Video Position Preset once Playback is stopped.
* New Value (Options->Values->Playback) allowing you to set the
Image Slideshow delay in seconds. This value determines the
number of seconds Zoom Player waits before moving to the next
track when playing a media file with zero duration (usually
implies a image file as audio/video always have a duration).
If a value of 0 is given, no action will take place.
* New Function (Ctrl+"Z") that allows you to Pause Playback at the
end of the currently playing file.
* New Function (Alt+"B") that allows you to add a DVD Auto-Loading
bookmark at frame zero of the currently playing title (or as close
to it as possible). There may be up to a 3 second miss-rate due to
DVD buffering.
* New Function (Alt+Shift+"0..9") allowing you to apply one of 10
Custom Aspect Ratio presets. When called, the Aspect Ratio mode
will first be changed to Custom Aspect Ratio.
* New Function (Ctrl+Shift+"0..9") allowing you to apply one of 10
Custom Overlay Color presets.
* New Ex Function "exPlayComplete" allowing you to set the PlayComplete
toggle to a specific value.
* The Mouse Wheel Options Dialog now allows you to set 5 new functions,
1. Next/Previous Media Track or DVD Chapter.
2. Next/Previous Media Chapter or DVD Bookmark.
3. Move Window/Video Up/Down.
4. Move Window/Video Left/Right.
5. Custom Functions
The custom function entry allows you to assign any standard
Zoom Player "fn" function (see "plasticblue.skn" for list) for both
the wheel up and wheel down controls.
* You can now switch the Tray Icon by right-clicking it, selecting
"Actions->Change Tray Icon" and pointing to an Icon file.
* The Play List Editor display has been reworked. Using the
"Options->Values->Play List" dialog you can now pick the colors,
font and weather icons should be visible. Icons represent which
file is currently playing.
* The Play List Editor and Navigator will now show the current path
of the highlighted file. You can Disable this behavior on the
"Options->Values->Play List" dialog.
* The Overlay Color Control Navigator "Default" function can now be
accessed through the keyboard or a remote device.
* The Information Dialog ("I" on the keyboard) will now show you
the current Width and Height of the video with respect to the
current aspect ratio.
* The Screen Capture function (Alt+"F") has been changed to work
with more files and not require any special setup. HOWEVER! due
to a bug in DirectShow, the accuracy of the capture is not 100%,
which means that it won't capture the right frame with some files.
Some formats (WMV/ASF/MPEG-2) can't be captured at all.
If you REALLY want something more accurate, use Hypersnap-DX.
* The Internal screen saver has been revamped to take a ton more
CPU power.
* External Screen Savers are now disabled on Play and not on when
going fullscreen. So as long as you're playing a video, external
screen savers should not kick in.
* The Menu customization file now allows you to enter menu values
for the System Tray Context Menu.
* The Default System Tray Context Menu has been expanded.
* New "/M" Command Line Parameter.
The "/M" parameter will instruct Zoom Player to start Minimized.
If the proper setting is enabled, Zoom Player will start minimized
on the system tray.
* New "/RAND:[0=Off/1=On]" Command Line Parameter.
Using the "/RAND" parameter you can enable/disable random play from
the command line. Possible values are:
/RAND:0 - Disable Random Play
/RAND:1 - Enable Random Play
* New "/SORT:[n]" Command Line Parameter.
Using the "/SORT:[n]" parameter you can have Zoom Player automatically
sort the play list prior to playing. "[n]" is a numerical figure
specifying the type of source. Here is a list of the possible values:
/SORT:0 - Sort by File Name
/SORT:1 - Sort by File Type (Extension)
/SORT:2 - Sort by File Date
/SORT:3 - Sort by File Size
/SORT:4 - Sort by Directory Path and File Name
* New "/PLAYNAV" Command Line Parameter.
Invoking this parameter opens the Play List Navigator on start.
* The "CreateButton" function has been replaced by "CreateExButton".
The previous function is still working through an internal translation
code for backward compatibility, but when writing new skins, the updated
function is recommended as it's slightly faster loading.
The benefits of this new function are many. First it uses a slightly
different method of assigning parameters that allow the function to
easily expand without breaking backward compatibility.
The new features supported by this new function are:
1. Access to the EX functions (see "default.key" file for list). This
allows you to set specific Aspect Ratio modes, Custom Aspect Ratio
Modes, Play Rates, Blanking Presets, and so forth.
2. Allowing you to create buttons that open the property dialog of a
specific Filter (if one exists) by passing the name or part of the
name. One button can work for multiple filters as long as they share
part of the name. You can also have the button react to multiple
different filter names. Thus covering any contingency.
3. Alpha Blended Buttons (useful for buttons which don't have a fixed
position, like screen-centered buttons. A bit CPU intensive when
resizing/redrawing the skin (relatively speaking).
4. Hover (Mouse-Over) optional graphics for the button.
See "plasticblue.skn" for the full documentation and "brownish.skn" for
multiple examples.
* The "DrawText" function has been replaced by "DrawExText".
The previous function is still working through an internal translation
code for backward compatibility, but when writing new skins, the updated
function is recommended as it's slightly faster loading.
The new features supported by this new function are:
1. Support for more dynamic constants such as <Time>, <TimeRemain>,
<Duration> which are automatically updated on-screen every second.
2. Fixed with and Height of text drawing area for clipping.
3. Word Wrapping in case text doesn't fit in specified width.
4. Text Alignment (Left, Center, Right).
The "Brownish.skn" skin file contains a few examples.
* New "CopyStretchedBitmap" Skinning function, allowing you to do copy a
bitmap using biliniar stretching. This is somewhat CPU intensive.
A Control Bar "CopyCBarStretchedBitmap" function also exists.
* New "CopyTransBitmap" Skinning function, allowing you to copy a bitmap
using a Transparency ColorKey. Every pixel that matches the specified
RGB color won't be copied over. This function can be CPU intensive
if used extensively.
A Control Bar "CopyCBarTransBitmap" function also exists.
* New "CopyMaskedBitmap" Skinning function, allowing you to copy an alpha
masked bitmap. The alpha mask is aligned to the right of the bitmap,
similar to how buttons are defined. This allows you to make translucent
bitmap copies with translucency ranges defined within the masking.
This function can be CPU intensive if used extensively.
A Control Bar "CopyCBarMaskedBitmap" function also exists.
* New "ResizeBox" Skinning function to help resize skins that have
transparent edges that hide out the resize mouse cursor.
* The "VolumeData" Skinning function has been replaced with "VolumeExData".
This new function allows you to specify the number of volume bitmaps used
to cover the volume rage and weather the Volume is calculated Horizontally
(like it currently is) or Vertically (allowing you to have vertical volume
bars).
* You can now use combinations of Alt/Ctrl/Shift when defining keyboard
functions using keyboard files, for example when using:
AddKey(Shift+Ctrl,115,fnExit)
With this key definition, pressing Shift+Ctrl+F5 would exit Zoom Player.
* You can now use combinations of Alt/Ctrl/Shift using the message
interface. See "default.key" for more information.
* The File Navigator now respects the Play List queueing settings as set
on the "Options->Settings->Playback" dialog. It also respects Random Play.
* Definition files can now be saved for Media files played off a CD, the
data is saved to the "Media-Data" directory (under the Zoom Player
directory).
* The association interface now has values for the XVID and DIVX
extensions.
* Zoom Player now contains a 48x48 icon for you XP folks with the big
icons. Also revamped the standard 32x32 icon a bit.
* The Video Presets Editor has been integrated into the Options dialog
and a few small bugs with this dialog as been fixed.
* The Video Blanking Editor has been integrated into the Options dialog.
* Fixed the Overlay Color Control interface so that sliding the mouse
up and down with the left button clicked, doesn't change the focus of
the active slider.
* The Information dialog should now appear on-top of the main user
interface even if stay-on-top is enabled.
* The Girder export now supports keyboard files that have combinations
of Alt+Ctrl+Shift assigned to a function.
* Slightly improved load time.
* Some optimization to the skin drawing and loading code.
* Wrote code to close all open filter property pages when closing a
video (to prevent possible crashes).
* Screen Saver wasn't kicking in when Media was in stop mode.
* Fixed a bug that would cause a Background image and ID3 data to
remain displayed if a playing audio file would be closed.
* Fixed possible crashes when quitting Zoom Player without first stopping
a playing DVD Disc.
--- What's new in v2.71:
* Fixed a bug where transparent skins wouldn't show transparently when
switching skins.
* Fixed a bug that would cause Zoom Player to crash if the Override VMR
setting was enabled.
* Fixed a bug that would cause Zoom Player to crash if a Transparent
skin was used under certain conditions.
* Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to crash when the DVD Trailer
feature was used.
--- What's new in v2.70:
* Some functions in this version were developed using the latest
versions of the OGG DirectShow filter (v0.9.9.1) and the DirectVobSub
DirectShow filter (v2.16). It is advised you use the latest versions
available.
* It has come to my attention that the Zoom Player crashes with the
Terratec and Game Theater cards are related to a buggy DirectShow
filter installed by these cards. For more information on how to
resolve this issue load this address in your web browser:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/faq/faq_entry0031.shtml
* The Rewind command now works in Media Mode. Since DirectShow doesn't
really support rewind in Media Mode, this function uses time-based
seeking instead. It works well with MPEG-1 files, with AVI files which
have low number of key-frames or slow seeking (MPEG-4/DivX/etc), it
will still work, but may not update the image properly as it rewinds.
I did notice that FFDShow does update the screen while DivX 5.02 will
just display frames not relative to the actual position.
When playing OGM, you must disable the "Always Search to Keyframe"
setting in the OGG Splitter or the rewind will seek to the same frame
over and over.
You can set the rewind rate at "Options->Values->Playback".
Since there is no limitation imposed by DirectShow, I've set the
maximum rewind speed to 50 (50 seconds per second).
* New setting (Options->Settings->Interface) allowing the Control Bar
to pop when Rewinding in Media Mode. The importance of this is that
some files may not properly show a video image while rewinding, so
having the video position visible while rewinding may be important.
This setting is enabled by default.
* New setting (Options->Settings->Interface) allowing the Control Bar
to pop when Pausing.
* New Value (Options->OSD->Navigators) to enlarge the navigators font
size when in fullscreen mode. This only effects navigators with
non-fixed font size such as the File Navigator.
* New Value (Options->OSD->Navigators) allowing you to select how much
of the video area will be covered by the navigators. By default
this is 75%.
* New "Double Click" Toggle (Options->Settings->Mouse Toggles) that allows
you to open the File Open dialog if no file is currently loaded.
* New "On CD / DVD Insert" toggles (Options->Settings->Toggles) allowing
you to automatically load (and play) a Media CD. All valid media files
on the CD will be loaded into the Play List (clearing any previous Play
List). Prerequisites are that the CD drive is specified (Options->Values)
and that Zoom Player is actually loaded.
VCD and SVCD discs are considered a Media CD and are only the MPEGAV (VCD)
and MPEG-2 (SVCD) directories are loaded.
* Menu Context Menu Specification interface(Options->Values->Other).
Using this interface you can specify which functions are available
within the Right-Click Context Menu.
For more information, see "default.menu" in the Zoom Player directory.
* New internal screen saver option. By default it is active after
30 minutes of inactivity.
Inactivity is defined as "not playing, no keyboard, no remote,
no mouse activity and in Fullscreen mode". A DVD Menu is considered
"not playing".
* New Definition File function allowing you to run external programs.
This can be used in both DVD and Media files and can be useful for
running such programs as PowerStrip to pre-configure your hardware
on a per-title basis.
* New Definition File function to delay processing for a specified
number of seconds. Useful when running external programs.
* New Definition File function to bring the Zoom Player window
back to the front (in case some other application stole focus).
* New DirectShow Filter Registration dialog (Options->Manual Filters),
allowing you to register/unregister DirectShow filters with ease.
Default Profiles include support for DivX 3.11, DivX 4&5, XviD,
FFDShow, Elecard MPEG-2, Microsoft MPEG-4, WinDVD, PowerDVD, CineMaster,
DirectVobSub, etc...
* New Skinning value (iTransColor) that allows you to specify an RGB
transparency color. By specifying this value part of the form will
become transparent allowing background windows to be visible through it.
This basically enables you to draw non-rectangular skins.
Transparent skins requite a bit more CPU time to redraw so they're
probably not the best for low-end systems.
* New Skinning constants allowing you to center objects within the
main user interface and within the control bar. The constants are:
<WinHalfWidth>,<WinHalfHeight>,<cBarHalfWidth> and <cBarHalfHeight>.
* New Skinning function that allows you to specify a bitmap to be
drawn at the active timeline position. You can see this in practice
in the default skin by looking at the timeline area between the
active/inactive areas, there's a slight shading in between them now.
* New Skinning functions that allow you to specify a bitmap for
the beginning and end areas of the timeine. Using this function
allows you to display a non-rectangular timeline area.
* The Transparency value of a created Button will now actually create a
non-rectangular button. This allows you to have overlapping buttons
areas which don't interfere with clicking. A good use for this feature
would be a DVD Navigational control wheel.
* Removed the following redundant skinning codes:
1. "RateVis"
Now set to Visible when RateData function is called.
2. "VolVis"
Now set to Visible when VolumeData function is called.
3. "tLineVis"
Now set to Visible if tLineColor or TimeLineFG is called.
4. "tLineBitmap"
Now set to bitmap when TimeLineFG is called.
5. "cBarTLBitmap"
Now set to bitmap when TimeLineCBarFG is called.
No actual changes in pre-existing skins is required.
* New Setting (Options->Settings->Other) to enable outlining of the
timeline display text.
* New Setting (Options->Settings->Interface) to "Remember Window State
on Exit". When enabled, the Window size is remembered. If Zoom Player
is currently in Zoom Mode, it is also remembered.
* New Setting (Options->DVD->Auto AR) allowing you to Enable/Display the
Automatic DVD Aspect Ratio. This setting can be toggled by pressing
Ctrl+"T" or by using a system message. This setting is useful if you
want to temporarily disable Automatic Aspect Ratio support without
having to enter the options dialog.
* New Value (Options->Overlay Colors) allowing you to set the
percentage the overlay color controls will be modified by when
using the keyboard/remote commands.
* New Toggle (Options->Settings->Toggles) to switch between various
functions assigned to the navigational arrow keys (when not in
a DVD Menu or a Navigator). By default the arrow keys are assigned
to reposition the video. However, you can also assign it to:
- Seek within the Timeline
- Zoom Width/Height
- Volume Control
- Tracks and Chapters
- Disabled
You can also switch between the active arrow functions by using
Ctrl+"PgUp" and Ctrl+"PgDn".
* New item on the Task Bar right-click Context Menu allowing you
to reset the window position (in case it somehow disappeared
off the screen).
* New Context Menu for the Tray Icon (when used).
* New Command line Parameter, Using the "/Trailer" parameter allows
you to set the DVD Trailer definition file. For example:
"zplayer.exe" /trailer:"z:\my config\dts.trailers"
"zplayer.exe" /trailer:""
The second example disables the use of the trailer definition file.
* New Command Line Parameter, Using the "/Blank" parameter, video
blanking will be automatically enabled when Zoom Player is started.
* The Ctrl+"B" Subtitle cycle function is now OGM compatible.
In DVD Mode it will cycle through the DVD Subtitle tracks.
In Media mode Zoom Player will first look to see if VobSub is
loaded and contains active subtitle tracks. If none are found
then OGM subtitle tracks will be used. There seem to be a bug
in VobSub that causes it to display a ghost subtitle entry on
some systems. In these cases, OGG subtitle tracks will get
precedent.
This function will also enable the Subtitle if only one was
found.
* The Shift+"B" Subtitle Disable fuction is now OGM compatible.
Any active subtitle track will be disabled once this function
is called.
* The Ctrl+"A" Audio Track cycle function is now OGM compatible.
In DVD Mode it will cycle through the DVD Audio Tracks.
In Media Mode it will first check there are more than one audio
renderers (like in the case of Multi-Audio AVI files) and switch
between them. If only one audio renderer is found, it will look
for OGG Audio Tracks and cycle through them instead.
The only problem with this now is that there's a bug in the OGG
DirectShow filter that causes it to generate two audio renderers
when an AC3 audio is encoded into the OGM file. Even so, Zoom
Player should work well in this situation.
* The Ctrl+"N" Angle cycle function is now OGM compatible.
In DVD Mode it will cycle through the DVD Angles.
In Media Mode when more than one OGG Video tracks are found,
this function will cycle through the Video tracks.
* The Next/Previous Chapter functions will now switch between
OGG chapters as long as no Zoom Player chapters are defined
for the playing file.
* The Chapter Navigator interface is now OGM compatible.
If no Zoom Player chapters exist for a specific Media file,
OGG Chapters will be navigated (if available).
* Zoom Player will now automatically determine when it can't
save a chapter file to the same directory as the media file
and in such cases, it will save the chapter files in a local
directory (within the Zoom Player directory). When loading
media files, this directory will also be checked for the
existence of a chapter file. This makes chapter support for
files on CD transparent.
* New chapter scripting command "AddChapterBySecond" allows you
to specify a chapter position in seconds rather than frames.
* New chapter scripting command "AddChapterByTime" allows you
to specify a chapter position in hours minutes and seconds
instead of frames.
* The Default DVD and Media skins have been updated with a few more
buttons (especially to support the new OGM feature-set).
* Zoom in/out is now calculated on a sub-pixel level, allowing for
more accurate video position.
* The Fit to Source function now respects the Zoom 200% status.
* The File Navigator is quite a bit faster now (especially in
directories containing a lot of files or network drives).
* Zoom to Fullscreen is now part of the Girder export group.
* Pressing [BACKSPACE] on the Play List Navigator will now clear
the play list and close the navigator.
* The Language Media context menu entry can now control multiple
IAM_StreamSelect (OGG Splitter / DirectVobSub) interfaces. I did
notice that there still is some instability between OGG, XviD (DivX
as well?), the various and complex OGG structures (lots of chapters,
subs, audio and video tracks). OGG will simply kill Zoom Player, no
message no nothing, Zoom Player will simply vanish. And note that
this isn't specific to Zoom Player, The OGG filter will also do the
same to Media Player.
* A lot of the error dialogs dealing with the main user interface
have been replaced with a special error dialog that can be closed
using a remote (by sending either the [Enter] or the [Escape]
navigational keys).
* Ejecting under Windows 95/98/ME should no longer open a dialog
informing you that the disc is in use (when playing a file on that
CD).
* Playing a file off CD, then exiting Zoom Player, ejecting the CD
and then reloading Zoom Player should no longer pop a notification
dialog asking to insert the CD.
* The File Navigator should no longer prompt you to insert the CD if
one was removed.
* The Navigators should no longer close when a new file is loaded.
* Ejecting in Media Mode should now close the playing media file.
unfortunately, There doesn't seem to be a method to identify which
CD was ejected, as such any CD ejected Media will close a media file
if it was playing off a CD.
* The "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Size" setting
now effects the window size even if the video was loaded while
in fullscreen.
* Using INSERT within the File Navigator now works properly under
Windows 95/98/ME.
* There was a one second offset error to the Mouse and Control
auto-hide delay functions.
* Vastly reduced Windows 95/98/ME system resource usage.
* Fixed a "List Index out of Bound" bug involving deleting items
off the Play List Navigator.
* The mouse cursor now hides properly when placed over the location
of the hidden Control Bar.
* The Screen Saver prevention code now works differently and should
no longer conflict with other applications.
* Fixed it so that the Chapter list would clear when a new video
is opened.
* Fixed a problem where the Overlay Color Controls were not being
applied initially on DVDs that don't contain a chapter notification
on their starting title.
* Made a few changes to the DVD Subtitle/Audio menu listing code, this
"may" fix problems non-english versions of windows.
* A few minor changes and fixes to the File Navigator.
--- What's new in v2.60:
* New File Navigator Interface (Shift+"F" or "Enter" in Media Mode).
The File Navigator Interface allows you to navigate your entire
file system using simple keystrokes which can be mapped to a
remote control device.
General:
[LEFT/RIGHT] arrows switch between Files and Drive selection.
when [LEFT] is pressed when on the left pane, the Navigator
will go up one directory.
Files:
[UP/DOWN] arrows cycles through the available files in the current
directory.
[ENTER] pick which file to play or Enter/Exit directories.
[BACKSPACE] is used as a shortcut to go UP one directory.
[INSERT] when a directory is highlighted will play the entire
directory, including sub-directories. When a file is highlighted,
the current directory+sub-directories will be played. When a
drive is highlighted (bottom of file list), the entire Drive will
be played.
Drives:
[UP/DOWN] arrows cycle through the available drives, the path
used is for the active drive is the last path visited. The
visited paths are remembered between sessions.
[ENTER] on a drive will set the file path to the drive's root
directory and set the focus to the file panel.
[INSERT] the entire drive will be played.
* New DVD Trailers Definition System that allows you to have
Random and Specific trailers play before every DVD, for more
information, see the "default.trailers" file in the Zoom Player
directory. You can specify which file is used at:
Option->DVD->DVD Tools.
* New DVD Auto-AR interface (Options -> DVD -> Auto-AR).
Using this new interface you can set the Video Position,
Blanking Position and Aspect Ratio automatically for
the three types of DVD content:
4:3 - Full Frame
16:9 - Letterbox
16:9 - Anamorphic
* OSD Customization of the Navigator Interfaces. You can now
pick the font Face, CharSet, Bold, Italics, Colors that will
be used on most of the Navigator Interfaces. I've also
consolidated the look of the interfaces so that they look
more coherent.
* New LCD Communication Interface.
While not directly controlling LCD devices, this interface
allows external programs to use certain Zoom Player playback
information for LCD display.
See online-help for more information.
* New Context Menu for the Control Bar. Accessible by right
clicking the non-Timeline area of the Control Bar or by
middle clicking the Timeline area.
Using this context menu you can access Control Bar related
settings without having to open the options dialog.
* The "Keys" interface on the Options dialog now has an additional
function. It can now export the active Zoom Player key list
(the one currently loaded) into a Girder 3.1 compatible GML file.
This should allow you to easily map remote control functions
using girder (www.girder.nl).
* New "External" entry on the Options dialog.
* You can now set the WinDVD DeInterlace and Audio Output modes.
These settings only take effect if the WinDVD filters are not
currently active (playing some video) and may not work with
the trial version of WinDVD.
* You can now set the PowerDVD DeInterlace and Audio Output modes.
These settings only take effect if the PowerDVD filters are not
currently active (playing some video) and may not work with
all versions of PowerDVD.
* Faster Folder/DVD image resize code. Not as good at downsizing
compared to the previous filtering code, but it's A LOT faster
and the image still looks very good. It also gives better
quality when enlarging the image.
* The Timeline display items (Current Position, Total Length,
File Name, etc...) are now independent so you can display
them in any combination you desire.
* New Timeline display setting allowing you to show an idle
state mode within the Timeline (enabled by default).
* The Pop-Up OSD messages are now outlined for better clarity
(can be disabled at Options->OSD->Actions).
* Faster Gradient draws (skin script).
* The Ctrl+"B" Cycle Subtitle track function will now work for
subtitles displayed using VobSub.
* The Shift+"B" Disable Subtitle function will now work for
subtitles displayed using VobSub.
* New Alt+"U" DVD Play from Start function.
When used, Zoom Player will play the DVD from the Start, bypassing
any auto-loading bookmarks/stop position.
* New "/CD:[n]" Command Line Parameter to set the Active CD/DVD drive.
Example: "zplayer.exe /CD:F" will set the Active CD/DVD to drive "F".
* New "/ADD:[path]" Command Line Parameter that adds entire paths to
the play list. For Example:
"c:\program files\zplayer\zplayer.exe" "/add:e:\my video files\"
Notice the "", if this parameter isn't encased, spaces in the given
path would be considered a different parameter.
* New "/FILENAV" Command Line Parameter which starts Zoom Player with
the File Navigator interface active.
* New keyboard/remote mapping function "exInterface" to explicitly
Toggle specific interfaces.
* New "On Play Complete" toggle that allows the next file
(alphabetically ordered) in the same directory to be played.
* New DVD Setting "Assume DVD Menu at all times". This setting will
make Zoom Player assume you're in a DVD Menu at all times forcing
the arrow keys to work only as menu navigation controls. This is
useful for problematic discs which seem to confuse DirectShow into
thinking they are not in a DVD Menu while they are in fact in one.
When this setting is enabled, you can't use the Arrow keys to
position the video in DVD Mode, however, you can still use the
Shift+Arrow keys to perform the same task.
* New Interface Setting "Move Mouse off-screen when Mouse is hidden
by inactivity". I think it's pretty self-explanatory, it just moves
the mouse cursor off-screen when it's hidden due to inactivity.
* New Playback Setting "Reset Play-Rate when Playing/Pausing Playback".
By default it's enabled and acts as previous version of Zoom Player.
However, when disabled, pausing/resuming playback will not alter the
play rate.
* New "Set as Default" button on the Overlay Colors dialog that allows
you to save the current Overlay Color settings as the default values
which are used each time you press the "Restore Default" button.
* New "Anamorphic Aspect Ratio is relative to" selection box that
allows you to define if the Anamorphic AR mode is relative to
the source aspect ratio or to the defined video dimension.
* The mouse double click can now be assigned to Toggle the Overlay
Color Control interface.
* The Media mode "Subtitle" context-menu entry has been changed
to "Language". It should now behave exactly as the Media Player
"Language" entry works, and as such should also display OGG
Audio/Video selection entries.
* As per the change above, OGG stream selection should now work.
If both OGG and VobSub are in use, OGG takes precedent. So make
sure your OGG subtitles are actually within the OGG file.
* You can now set the CD/DVD drive through the "DVD->DVD Values"
interface. This is EXACTLY the same setting as the one at
"Values & Tools->Interface", I duplicated the setting so people
could find it when looking for it in a DVD Context.
* New Value (Options->Values->Other) allowing you to specify the
base name for Folder Images. By default folder images are
either folder.jpg or folder.bmp. But by setting this value
to "cover", cover.jpg and cover.bmp will be looked for instead.
* You can now associate the M3U play list extension.
* You can now associate the OGG and OGM file extensions.
* The MP3 ID3 OSD settings have been moved to the OSD tab and will
now allow you to set the font (so it is no longer shared with the
standard OSD display).
* When saving a play list, you will now be prompted if you want
to save the full path to the file names. This is useful if
you want to save CD-Based play list which shouldn't have
the file path listed.
* You can now disable the Mouse Cursor from Auto-Hiding. Also,
the Auto-Hide setting for the Control Bar has been moved next to
the "Hide in [n] Seconds" value in order to make it more accessible.
* The Volume Increase/Decrease keys has been changed from "Home"/"End"
to Shift+"Home"/Shift+"End". I've also changed the play previous/next
files in directory keys from "PgUp"/"PgDn" to Shift+"PgUp"/Shift+"PgDn"
The idea behind these changes is that now these keys are available
for use in the navigation interfaces.
* Modified the DVD Menu detection code once again, this time it's
a hybrid between the old system and the newer system, hopefully
this should work best with most discs, especially the odd ones
with very deep menus which confuse DirectShow.
* Fixed a skin issue with the Volume and Rate bars.
* Going in and out of Fullscreen mode no longer breaks Drag&Drop
onto the Play List editor.
* Pressing Space in Checkbox lists should no longer jump to different
settings.
* Enter key now works in the Play List Editor and the Chapter/Bookmark
editor to play an Item.
* Removing items from the play list, no longer interferes with the
playback order.
* Removing the currently playing video from the Play List will
now stop playback and close the video.
* Fixed a few bugs dealing with Random Play.
* Exiting Zoom Player while in Zoom/Fullscreen mode will no longer
set the window position to the top left corner.
* Mute status is now remembered upon exiting Zoom Player.
* Opening a Directory will no longer add files that contain acceptable
extensions as part of their base names.
For example, this file name is no longer considered a valid media file:
"my.avi.list.txt".
This also applies to the Next/Previous file in dir playback option.
* Zoom Player by default would make sure that the OSD display would
always stay on-screen even when the video was zoomed. This can be
problematic for multi-monitor displays and can now be disabled:
Options->Setting->Interface->Prevent OSD from moving off-screen
* While not really designed for it, the Play List Editor should now
be easier to navigate using a remote device.
* Deleting items through the Play List Navigator now works.
* Add Directory should now work under Win9x when adding the root drive.
* Context Help should now open the associated web page rather than just
showing it's URL.
* You can now separately hide the mouse cursor and the control bar.
* Screen saver no longer remains disabled if you exit Zoom Player while
in Zoom/Fullscreen mode.
* Made a possible fix so that on multi-monitor configurations, going
to Fullscreen should not set the video resolution to the size of the
first monitor, but rather to the size of the current monitor.
* Can't see how I forgot to put this one in ... Alt+"X" will now
exit Zoom Player.
--- What's new in v2.50:
* The FAQ.TXT files has been re-written and moved online, it can be
opened by pressing the "FAQ" button on the Options dialog or by
going to:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/faq
* Restructured the Options dialog so that it is a easier to navigate
and the various settings are more logically ordered.
* Revised the DVD Menu detection code. It should be more reliable
and you should be able to see the position of video where seeking
is disabled (such as DVD Trailers).
* After some investigation it seems that the Elecard MPEG-2 decoder
package contains an MPEG-2 Demultiplexor filter that allows SVCD
playback directly off a CD or from a mounted BIN/CUE file. I
further modified the code so the "file not found" issue should
not pop for SVCD CD files.
* The left mouse button can now be assigned a different function
if the player is in DVD Mode. An additional DVD Mode-Only function
is to force menu select.
* You can now modify the OSD size so that it will be bigger while in
Zoom/Fullscreen modes (Options -> OSD).
* New DVD/MediaGraph function, The "SetFilterSync" allows you to
choose the filter which will be used for Audio/Video Synchronization.
This "MAY" help with some Audio/Video lip-sync issues, but probably
not. I'm including it here for "completeness" and for the Power
Users to experiment with.
* New Interface (Options -> Values -> MP3). Using this interface,
you can have MP3 ID3 data made visible during playback. Select
how the information is displayed, it's position on the screen and
more.
* New Feature. Right-Clicking a Play List editor item will pop-up
an information dialog containing the full file name and path.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Playback) that allows you
to control weather the Media Play Rate is reset each time a new
media file is loaded. By default the play rate is reset, but
if you disable this setting, loading a new media file, or looping
the current media file, will maintain the same play speed.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Other) to enable filtering
of the DVD/Media Folder images. With filtering enabled, the
image is filtered so it isn't as "jaggy" when stretched. This
filtering takes more CPU power (when you actually resize the form,
not when it's idle). I'm currently using a Factor scaling code
of my own design. It's pretty fast (considering it isn't ASM/MMX
optimized), but it's not as good at enlarging the image as it is
at shrinking it.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Other) to disable the drawing
of Navigator backgrounds. This should further offload some CPU
usage. I don't recommend turning off both outlining and background
as that will make the fonts hard to read.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Other) to have the currently
playing title appear in the Zoom Player Task Bar button.
* New Setting (Options -> DVD -> Settings) that allows you to have
the DVD Stop Position auto-loaded only if the disc played is the
same as the last played disc.
* New Audio Selection System (Options -> DVD -> Values) that allows
you to specify the preferred Audio track. The system is comprised
of three values.
1. The Language
2. The Audio Type (AC3/DTS/Etc...)
3. The Number of Audio Channels
When a DVD presents Zoom Player with a new list of Audio Tracks,
Zoom Player gives each track a merit according to the number of
values it matches against the user specified entries. The highest
value (4) is given to the Language, a medium value (2) is given to the
Audio Type and the lowest value (1) is given to the number of channels.
The first audio track with the highest merit points is consistently
activated throughout the disc (some discs have different audio tracks
for different sections of the disc) until the user manually specifies
a different Audio Track. At that point, the Audio Select System (Or
"ASS", hehe - I just had to put that in here) is temporarily disabled
until playback is stopped (Stop button).
* New Value (Options -> DVD -> Values) that allows you to select the
preferred Subtitle language. The first language matching the
specified subtitle language will be selected and enabled.
* New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to select which
file extensions will be used when opening directories and when using
the Open dialog (the files that will appear in the dialog).
* New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to specify a
default folder image if one is not found in the current playback
folder (for audio media files).
* New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set an
alternative path to look for Media Chapter files. If a chapter file
isn't found in the same directory as the Media file, this directory
will also be scanned (useful if you want to create chapter files for
files that are already burnt on CD).
* New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set the
Zoom Player process priority. When using a non-normal priority, you
should make sure you set the priority prior to playback.
* New Value (Options -> DVD -> Values) allowing you to set the DVD
play rate speeds. By default they are 2/4/8, but you can also
set them to 3/6/12, 4/8/16 and 5/10/20.
* New Function (Alt+"]") to cycle through the Video Presets.
* New Function (Alt+"[") to reverse cycle through the Video Presets.
* New Function (Ctrl+"]") to cycle through the Blanking Presets.
* New Function (Ctrl+"[") to reverse cycle through the Blanking Presets.
* New Function (Shift+"B") to disable DVD Subtitle (if active).
* New Function (Ctrl+"R") to turn Random (Shuffle) Play ON / OFF.
* New Function (Shift+"S") to Show/Hide the Resize Navigator.
The resize navigator is an easy to use interface that allows you
to adjust the position and size of the video on a pixel level.
This is especially useful for remote devices.
* New Definition File command (see "zplayer.zdf") to save the Custom
Aspect Ratio values into the definition file. And of course a
command (see "default.df") to set this data from Definition files.
* New Skin Scripting Constat "<ovColor>" allows you to fill parts of
the Control Bar using the Overlay Chroma Color-Key thus making it
transparent.
* Two new skin functions, "GradientRectH" and "GradientRectV" allowing
you to fill areas of the user interface with a color gradient either
vertically or horizontally. This is a bit CPU intensive, but gives
skin authors an option to create a more dynamic interface.
* Restructured how files are being loaded. By default, opening
a file through the main user interface or command line/externally
will clear the play list. You can set it so that the files will
be appended instead (Options -> Settings -> Playback). In earlier
versions, the newly loaded files would be automatically played,
from this version, the files will be queued instead and playback
won't be disturbed. Unless! you select the "Appending to Playback
plays new track" setting, in which case the new tracks will be
played as-in the previous version.
* The Override VMR buttons on the toggles tab didn't have the desired
effect. It seems that DirectShow would restore the VMR after a
while, and as such the button wasn't really doing anything.
As a solution to this issue, I replaced the button with a check box
on the Manual Filters dialog that finds the VMR filter during the
initial file playback and instantly replaces it programmatically
with the standard Video Renderer (if the check box is enabled).
* The various "Move Window" toggles have been revamped! Now when in
Window mode, they move the video, however in Fullscreen/Zoom mode,
they move the Video area! This makes it extremely quick to position
the video using the mouse.
* The Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions now loop back to Normal
Play once they've reached their max/min settings.
* Changed the language code a bit so that it may work better with
non-english versions of windows.
* You can now use the Right/Left arrows on the PlayList and
Chapter/Bookmark Navigator interfaces to jump half pages at a
time for quicker scrolling.
* You can use the mouse wheel to scroll through navigator interfaces
and the left mouse button to select.
* The Random Play can now be additionally accessed through the
Play List editor.
* The double click mouse toggle can now be used to Maximize the
user interface.
* The maximize function now resizes the user interface without covering
the task bar.
* Completely rewrote the Multi Track AVI Audio code. It should now
compatible with more Multi Track AVI files and have less "issues".
* The Timeline will now show all the text it can and crop it on the
right when there's no room (instead of hiding the fields).
* When setting Zoom Player to the On-DVD-Insert application, the
"/PLAY" parameter is also given so that Zoom Player will auto-play
and not only run.
* The "Seek to Start" command wasn't listed in the keyboard list, pressing
"T" will seek to the first frame of the Video.
* For VORBIS playback to work properly under Zoom Player, you must make
sure you have the latest Ogg DirectShow filter installed as previous
versions were highly unstable. You can find the latest version at:
http://www.doom9.org
P.S.
I'm not even sure if current versions are very stable ... a bit
early to tell.
* Going to Fullscreen doesn't break the Play List "Add Dir" button.
* You should no longer get "File not found" errors when trying to
play MPEG files from VCD/SVCD.
* The DVD Angle Cycle function should now cycle properly.
* When playing audio files with folder images active at times the
folder image would not disappear correctly.
* Using ALT-F4 to close the player while the Task Bar was hidden
didn't restore the Task Bar.
* Updated the version of the NSIS installer. Installing to non-english
versions of Windows should now create the shortcuts in the proper
"programs" sub-menu. The installer is a bit smaller too.
--- What's new in v2.40:
* New Preset dialog to control Video Blanking. Video Blanking
is the process of covering a certain video area in black in
order to hide unwanted data. This is mostly the case with
widescreen video where the actual widescreen area may contain
gray video (rather than black) which can be rather annoying.
The preset dialog allows you to define the number of pixels
to hide from the Top, Bottom, Left and Right sides of the video.
You can store up to 10 presets and easily apply them using
the Shift+"0..9" keys. To open the Blanking Presets dialog,
press Ctrl+"K".
* With the new Blanking interface, you can now toggle the blanking
ON/OFF with Alt+"K". Blanking is automatically activated if
you use one of the Blanking presets or the Blanking Navigator.
* New Blanking Navigator interface, fully controllable through
a remote, this interface allows you to easily use either the
keyboard or a remote to reposition the active Blanking area.
* The Blanking color is linked to the fullscreen background
color as set on the "Options -> Values" setting. You can
experiment with blanking by changing the color there.
Default color is Black of course.
* Blanking information is now saved by default through the
file/disc definition interface, but only if blanking is
currently active.
* The Auto-Repeat setting has been replaced with an "On Play Complete"
toggle (on the Toggles tab).
This new toggle enables you to activate one of five options once a
play list has completed playback.
1. Do Nothing (last video frame remains on-screen).
2. Auto Rewind (rewind to first frame of first video in the list).
3. Auto Replay (rewind and play the first video in the list).
4. Close Player (auto closes Zoom Player).
5. Shutdown Windows (pops a 10sec delayed system shutdown window).
Setting #3 is the default setting.
* The Auto Repeat function (Alt+"P") has been replaced with a cycle
function allowing you to cycle through all 5 options above.
* New "Custom" Aspect Ratio setting. Using this setting you can apply
any aspect ratio to the video, by default it's set to 2.35:1.
* New "On Disc Insert" toggle allowing you to Auto-Play DVDs.
For this to work properly, you must make sure that the DVD drive
is defined on the (Options -> Values) tab.
* New Value (Options -> Values) to set the percentage the audio volume
changes when increasing/decreasing the volume. The default is 4%.
This setting has no effect when using the mouse cursor to set the
volume using the volume bar.
* New option (Options -> Settings) to prevent the user interface
from moving off-screen. Disabled by default since it prevents support
for multi-monitor. This setting also makes sure that the user interface
width/height are not larger than the screen resolution.
* New option (Options -> Settings) to auto-center the user interface
when loading a new media file (only applies in window mode).
* New option (Options -> Settings) to force the "Scale Video size to it's
original size" function to respect a set aspect ratio (by default the
internal file resolution is used to size the window).
* New option (Options -> Settings) to disable the Control Bar from being
active in Window Mode (thus limiting it to Fullscreen/Zoom mode).
* Under certain older versions of windows, if the Task Bar is set
to auto-hide, it leaves a small stub at the bottom of the screen
when going to Fullscreen/Zoom mode. In order to circumvent this
issue, I included a new setting allowing you to hide/show the
Windows Task Bar when Entering/Exiting these modes (Options -> Settings).
* The Alt+"A" function besides opening the TFM Audio Filter property page
will also open the DeDynamic Audio Filter property page is if it is
in use by the active Media Graph.
* When first run, Zoom Player will now prompt you for a CD / DVD
drive to be used for Eject/Insert and for the Insert management
system (auto play and such).
* The Folder and DVD Images are now always set to their internal
aspect ratio rather than conforming to the Media Aspect ratio.
Images should no longer appear stretched. The image aspect ratio does
respect the "Source Relative Stretch" value so images should have the
correct aspect ratio even when non-square pixels are used.
* In Media mode,Folder images are now only set to shrink if they
are larger than the available display area. When the display
area is larger than the folder image, the image will be
screen-centered. Optionally you can set the image to be enlarged
to fit the display area (Options -> Settings). This only applies
to Media Folder Images, The DVD Image is always set to match the
display area.
* Using a DVD Background image should no longer break OSD transparency.
* DVD Background image now respects non 4:3 aspect ratios.
* When the main user interface is minimized to the System Tray
(not standard minimize), playback is paused.
* The Play List, Bookmark/Chapter Navigator interfaces are now
snazzier, making for an easier selection of items.
* Slight modifications to the Context Menu.
* Included a few more Control Bar buttons.
* New Discrete DVD/Media mode function, accessible through the
Ex-Functions, see "default.key" file for more information.
* Certain DVD Discs (in my case Toy Story 2) had a problem where
they would issue an event saying they are entering a new title,
but would refuse to load a bookmark at this point, basically
breaking the Auto-Bookmark system for these discs. As a
work-around, I changed the code that auto-loads a bookmark.
The code now it tries to load the bookmark 3 times, once per
second after entering the initial title. This seems to be
working great with Toy Story 2.
* Wrote a work-around for certain DVD Decoders not supporting
OSD transparency. Hopefully OSD transparency will work for
everything now.
* Wrote a work-around for the Zoom Player DDE server. If you now
send a file play request through DDE (pressing enter in explorer),
multiple files can be played (selecting several files in explorer
and pressing enter). The assumption is, if you send more than
1 DDE request every 2.5 seconds, it's part of the same request
and only the first file will be played while the remaining files
will be added to the play list. The actual order of playback
depends on how windows sends the DDE commands, which isn't always
in the order you'd expect it.
* Folder Images no longer require the DVD Image to enabled in
order to work properly.
* The Control Bar will now auto-hide if you are in Fullscreen/Zoom
mode and no Media/DVD is loaded.
* The DVD Image should no longer pop up even if it was disabled.
* Cosmetic bug, previous Media Chapter function was showing wrong
OSD chapter name (but seeking to the correct position).
* Cosmetic, Text used in navigator interfaces is now outlined
in black so it contrasts better against bright backgrounds.
Outlining takes more CPU power, so you can disable the outlining
if you find it takes too much CPU power (Options -> Settings).
* Few Cosmetic bugs fixed in the Play List editor.
* Changed the Folder/DVD Image search order, JPG images are looked
for first and then BMP images.
* Modified the 0..9 keys and all their ALT/CTRL/SHIFT states so that
they are no longer hard coded and instead are assigned through the
keyboard files and as such allowing you to use the 0..9 keys for
other functions if required.
* CD-Insert should now work on Win95/98/ME.
* Fixed a few bugs with Random Play.
* Fixed a few possible incompatibilities with non English operating
systems. However for the fix to work, you must first uninstall
any previous version (the important bit is removing the Zoom Player
registry entries at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayer).
* Fixed a problem with certain AVI files that would not replay
correctly. Usually AVI files that were chopped or reconstructed.
* Multiple Instances should now be working properly.
* Stay-On-Top should now be remembered even if Zoom Player is started
in Fullscreen/Zoom modes.
* Media files with "," in their file name can now be loaded successfully
using Media Graph files.
--- What's new in v2.30:
* New interface for manually creating Media Graphs according to
Media Extension. Now you have three options.
1. Let DirectShow decide on the filters automatically (default).
2. Insert certain filters in the graph and then let DirectShow
complete the graph on it's own.
3. Build the graph manually according to the extension of the
media file, and if a graph doesn't exist for that media file,
fallback to option #1.
* New OSD DVD Chapter changer. It's supported through the
keyboard/message services and I posted an example in the
"default.key" file. This should allow easy chapter switching
through Remote Devices.
* New Bookmark(DVD)/Chapter(Media) Navigator OSD. Using this new
interface you can easily pick a bookmark using a remote control.
You can access it using the Alt+"N" keyboard macro or through
the windows message service.
* New Play List Navigator OSD. Using this new interface you can
easily select a play list item using a remote in fullscreen mode.
You can access it using the Shift+"N" keyboard macro or through
the windows message service.
* The Overlay Color Controls can now be controlled through the
keyboard and remotely by using the Arrow keys. Works exactly the
same as DVD menus where the up and down arrows move between the
five settings, the left and right arrows increase and decrease
the setting value and the enter key closes the interface.
* The DVD AutoLoad confirmation dialog can now be controlled through
a remote properly.
* Support for a default DVD Menu language. You can pretty much pick
any language and if it is supported by the DVD, it will be used.
* Support for DVD background image (when playback is stopped), simply
put a BMP/JPG image by the base name "dvdimage" in the Zoom Player
directory and that image will appear when in DVD Mode. The DVD image
position respects the video positioning and aspect ratio. A sample
image is provided.
This setting is enabled by default and can be disabled under the
"Options -> DVD Settings" dialog.
* Support for Audio Background image. Simply place a BMP/JPG "folder"
file (example: "folder.jpg") in the playback directory, and it will
be loaded when an Audio file is played from that Directory. Make
sure that the image is in an 4:3 aspect ratio or it will appear
stretched.
This setting is enabled by default and can be disabled under the
"Options -> Settings" dialog.
* New setting to disable CD/DVD AutoPlay while Zoom Player is running.
This is useful for DVDs that contain the PC-Friendly software which
tends to run automatically. By enabling this setting you can disable
PC-Friendly from popping.
* You can now Title the Preset values through the preset dialog. This
is also reflected when applying a preset and in the Save as Preset
context-menu.
* Added a Toggle to Override the VMR Renderer. The VMR renderer is
a new Windows XP Video-Renderer filter which is ON by default and
which BREAKS backward compatibility for certain functions.
By overriding it, backward compatibility is restored.
* Modified the Randomize algorithm. Now it will play the entire play
randomly and then re-shuffle the order and play again.
* The Next / Previous track buttons will load a random track if random
play is enabled.
* Improved Keyboard Macro interface that supports extended keyboard
commands such as applying Aspect Ratio and Saving/Applying Presets.
* The "Show File Name on Time Line" now doubles as "Show Title and
Chapter" in DVD mode.
* New function and keyboard macro ("B" Key) to add the current DVD
position as an Auto-Load bookmark.
* New function and keyboard macro ("T" Key) to seek the video to it's
starting position.
* The DVD Disc Definition file is no longer Auto-Loaded when the
Auto-Save option is enabled. There is now a second option to
Auto-Load. This is useful if you want to manually save the
definition file and still have it auto-loaded when a disc is
played.
* Switching between DVD and Media modes no longer exists fullscreen
mode.
* You can now have the Resume form last DVD position dialog auto-close
within 10 seconds.
* The Installer now gives you the option to "Start in DVD Mode by Default"
This is for all the people who were confused by the mode Switch.
* The Options dialog position is now remembered.
* New DVDGraph function to Indirectly connect filters.
* New function to return from a previous DVD Sub-Menu. If the
DVD is already at the Top menu, then playback will resume. You
can access this function using the Ctrl+"'" key. This function
doesn't seem to be working with all DVD Decoders be aware.
* Several new mouse click toggle functions when used in combination
with the Alt and Ctrl keys.
* In Media mode, when you enabled the setting to have the file name
visible on the time line. The file name extension will no longer
be displayed.
* New skinning constant to display the file name without an extension.
* A clearer message should now be shown informing the user that
Direct-X v8 or newer is required for DVD playback when an older
version is in used.
* Fixed a memory corruption bug that caused weird error messages
to pop every once in a while.
* Modified the Context Menu so that it pops on the left side of the
click-area. This should make the sub-menus more accessible.
* Using the drive's eject button should now stop the movie gracefully.
(may not work with non-IDE drives).
* When the Multiple Instances setting is disabled, you should no longer
be able to run the player more than once (unlike previously which just
meant that the player would intercept new requests for files to be
played).
* The unpause button/function can now be used to exit FF/SM/RW modes.
* Scaling down the window using the +/- keys will no longer make the
window drift to the lower right side once it's at it's smallest
dimensions.
* Cosmetic Bug. When switching Mouse Wheel function through the
options dialog, the context menu wouldn't be updated, however the
selected function was active.
* Cosmetic Bug. Updating the Mouse Wheel function list wasn't being
done in real time.
* A few other Cosmetic fixes.
--- What's new in v2.21:
* Fixed a bug where DVD discs with no volume label wouldn't play
properly.
* If the "Auto-Load Bookmark" DVD Setting was enabled without the
"Auto-Save position on Stop" being enabled, trying to Auto-Load
a bookmark would throw an error.
--- What's new in v2.20:
* Completely redesigned the Default Media and DVD skins. From this
version, the Default skin is now "Future Brownish". The previous
Default skin, now dubbed "Blue Plastic" is still available if
anyone feels the need to use it.
* A new system for manually constructing DVD Graphs. This is for
advanced users only! You can enable it on the DVD Options tab
and control it through the zplayer.dvdgraph file.
* Instead of relying on DirectX to work properly, you can now have
Zoom Player use manual settings to build a DVD graph for you.
I have included several presets for popular players which you
can select through the "Options->DVD Setup" dialog. This interface
can also automatically search and register/unregister the appropriate
filters for you.
* You can now have the last DVD play position automatically saved
when playback is stopped or the player closed. When trying to
play the same disc again, you will be prompted if you desire
to resume playback at the last position. If an auto-load bookmark
was specified, you will be given a choice at which position to
resume. This dialog is disabled by default, but can be enabled
through the "Options->DVD Options" dialog.
* You should now be able to use DVD IFO files in play lists. Although
once the DVD IFO file is loaded, you will no longer be able to use
the rest of the play list. This is useful if you to make a play list
with an intro video before the DVD is launched.
* The volume control now allows for up to 50 different settings using
either the keyboard or the user interface (compared to 8 setting
in previous versions).
* A new graphical on-screen interface for setting the Overlay Color
Controls. You can access it either through the Right-Click context
menu, or by pressing Shift+"O".
* New function and keyboard macro to Apply the Overlay Color control
setting (F12). And to Reset the Overlay Color control (F11).
* In some cases, the Overlay Color Control setting may be lost due to
driver issues. In such cases you may want to enable the
"Brute-Force Overlay Color Controls every second" setting which can
be found under "Options->DVD Settings". This only applies to DVD
playback.
* New functions to Increase/Decrease all the Overlay Color Controls
(Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Saturation). These are also
keyboard mapped to F5 -> F9 with Alt/Ctrl controlling weather the
value is increased/decreased. You can also choose weather these
functions pop the Overlay Control interface.
* You can now save the Overlay Color Control settings to a
definition file. This is saved by default. If you want to disable
this information from saving, see the zplayer.zdf file.
* New DVD Disc Definition File. It's similar to the File Definition
file used for Media files. It has a constant name ("disc.df") and
it resides in the disc's bookmark directory. This setting is disabled
by default and you have to enable it in the "Options->DVD Options"
dialog. By default the Overlay Color Controls, the Aspect Ratio
and the Video Positions are saved. However, like the standard
definition files used for Media content, you can also set it
to save registry data, which may be useful for a per-disc decoder
filter data for each movie. For more information, open the
"zplayer.zdf" file in any text editor.
* The "Save Definition File" macro now works for DVD Discs (although
not really required since it can be auto-saved on stop).
* You can now decide if the Right-Click Context Menu appears in
either one or two (default) columns. This is accessible through
the "Options->Toggles" dialog. Please note that at one column, you
need to be at least at 1024x768 in order to have it fit the screen,
otherwise you'll be forced to scroll.
* A new system for external control of the player through Window
messages, see "keys.txt" for more details.
* You can now Drag & Drop whole directories onto the player or
play list.
* In DVD Mode, the Rate Bar now works as Rewind/Fast Forward instead
of Slow Motion/Fast Forward.
* You can now assign the Mouse Wheel to control the Play Rate.
In Media Mode it controls Slow Motion/Fast Forward and in
DVD mode, it controls Rewind/Fast Forward.
* You can now assign the Mouse Wheel to Frame Advance/Rewind.
* While this could have been done through a command line, some of
you have requested that you could start Zoom Player directly in
Zoom Mode. This can now be done on the "Options->Settings" dialog.
* You can now force the control bar to remain on-screen even when
the video is scaled beyond the screen boundaries.
* You can no longer move the OSD off-screen by zooming the video.
* New "Unpause" or "Discrete Play" function/macro ("U" on keyboard).
It acts the same as the standard Play function except that it
only plays and never pauses the video.
* The Next/Previous chapter functions now display the chapter
name on the OSD in Media mode.
* The Next/Previous chapter functions now display the chapter
number on the OSD in DVD mode.
* You can now disable PopUp hints from showing on GUI Buttons.
* Added support for Transparent User-Interface Buttons in the
skinning script.
* You can now assign PopUp hints to Control Bar buttons through
the skinning script. This is optional of course.
* Script commands can now take "()" chars as string values.
* The Maximize button when used in Window mode now acts more
like the standard Windows Maximized function.
* New functions and keyboard macros to cover the rest of the
DVD Menu selection (Subtitle,Audio,Chapter,Angle).
* New keyboard macro for the Eject function, The "/" char.
* Added a "Context Help" button to the Options dialog which
should make it easier to locate information pertaining to
the various options settings.
* The overlay color controls are now applied every chapter
for DVD output. Hopefully this will assure they are applied
consistently throughout the movie.
* When the overlay mixer filter is enabled through a filters
file, SVCD Aspect Ratio should now work properly even with
decoder filters which in the past didn't cooperate.
* Bookmarks directory for hard disk play now get their directory
name from the directory name above the VIDEO_TS structure.
If the VIDEO_TS directory structure resides in the root directory
within the drive, then the drive's volume label will be used.
* The Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions were broken.
* Fixed a small memory leak when adding new directories to a
play list.
* Fixed a possible stability bug when the default skin was used.
* Chapter frame numbers no longer have to have leading zeros
in order to be sorted in order.
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--- What's new in v2.12:
* New interface to control the Overlay Color Controls. I've only
tested this on an ATI Radeon card. Not all cards support this
interface! For it to even work, you must either load a DVD, or
make sure that the Overlay Mixer Renderer is enabled in the
"zplayer.filters" file. The Information dialog (press "I" with
video playing) lets you know the current setting.
* "IRE 0" setting for the overlay controls. This setting is supposed
to assure optimum color settings for the display card (which means
that you should adjust the Monitor/TV/Projector around this setting).
This setting was designed for the Radeon series of cards and may give
inappropriate results on other cards.
* You can now rename DVD Bookmarks from within the Bookmark editor.
* You can now select which bookmark is Auto-Loaded on play rather
than having the first book mark loaded. The selection is done
through the Bookmark editor. You can also do this manually by
adding "AutoLoad." to the file name of a previous bookmark.
Make sure only to have this "tag" on file per directory.
* As requested, an Eject button. You can eject more than just
CDs, basically any removable media. You can specify which
drive to eject on the Options->Values dialog.
* Added an SVCD filters file. This files basically set the
video renderer to the Overlay Mixer so that you can control
the Aspect Ratio of SVCD files.
* You can now have the Control Bar appear when the mouse is moved
to the bottom of the screen. (Except when it is moved to the
bottom-right pixel of the screen, as not to conflict with the
option that moves the mouse there when going fullscreen).
* New Command line Parameter to switch screen resolution:
Usage : /R:(Width,Height,ColorBits,RefreshRate)
Example : /R:(640,480,16,100)
No validity verification is done, so be careful not to set
a mode your screen doesn't support.
* New pattern mode, pressing Shift+"P" cycles through the various
pattern modes.
* Expanded the "zplayer.zdf" examples to cover all the video
relevant settings used by DivX 3.11 and DivX 4.xx
* You can now set a negative value to the Control Bar Y-Offset.
* Few more skinned Control Bar buttons.
* The "M2V" extension is now looked for when opening files/dirs.
* I disabled Manual Filter loading by default.
* Since the arrow keys are used to navigate DVD Menus when a
DVD is played and a menu is active, you can now use
Shift+"Arrows" in order to position the video area regardless
of the current DVD position.
* When the Aspect Ratio Source Relative Stretch is enabled,
it will no longer effect the "Fit to Window" setting, as that
simply didn't make any sense.
* Changed the method DVD filters are being registered. However,
in my limited experience, I couldn't get DVD decoder filters to
manually load. There might be some design flaw in the DVD graph
building system which prevents this from working.
* The Next/Prev Chapter macros now work with the updated
chapter format.
* Add Directory interface doesn't get disabled when going to
fullscreen mode anymore.
* Changing the background color while in fullscreen mode will
now change the color instantly.
--- What's new in v2.10:
* Revamped the installer configuration. It now gives you more
options and creates more shortcuts to important files.
* Zoom Player should now work on older operating systems, even
on NT4. However, some of it's functionality may suffer if you
use older versions of DirectX which lack the interfaces required
by some of the newer functions.
* Added a system to manually insert specified filters into the
Filter Graph. This should allow for all sort of interesting
effects. By default the "zplayer.filters" filter file is loaded.
* New Manual Filter File selector within the options dialog. You
can use it to determine which filters are assigned to the next
loaded media file. You can also disable the Manual filters
interface through this dialog.
* New Manual Filter File keyboard macros to switch between files,
Alt+"PgDn" switches to the next filter file.
Alt+"PgUp" switches to the previous filter file.
* Since filters can now be inserted manually, I have reintroduced
the Frame Capture function. For it to work, you must insert a
Sample Grabber filter, to save you the work, I already set it
up in the "default.filters" file, all you need to do is uncomment
the "LoadFilter" line. Frame Capture is turned off by default so
that it won't disable the overlay support and slow down decoding,
you should only use it when you want to take frame captures.
* You can now load an additional external audio track. Enable
this feature in the options dialog and then simply name
the audio track with the same name as the video you are
loading, with either the ".MP3" or ".WAV" extension.
* This is a bit complex so read carefully. I have written a
system that allows you to dynamically save specified information
about media files which can be automatically restored the next
time you open the file.
This system is comprised of two parts. The first part is defined
in a file called "zplayer.zdf" within the Zoom Player directory.
This file contains definition as to what information should be
saved about the currently opened file.
The second part is the actual Definition File (".DF" extension),
there is a sample definition file called "default.df" which
explains the structure used by the file.
Furthermore, I have added a keyboard macro to save the specified
information for the currently open file. You can use it by
pressing Ctrl+"D".
Once pressed a file will be created with the same name as the
currently opened file, but with the ".DF" extension. The file
will contain all the data specified in the "default.zdf" file.
I have intentionally disabled this entire system by default.
If you want to active it, you must do it through the
Options->Settings interface. Furthermore, since this system
can also import and export registry entries (so you can save
Codec-specific data [such as DivX brightness]), I have also
made it so you must specify that you want the registry data
to be loaded (for additional security ...).
* Definition files can be loaded as if they were a standard file,
this allows you to make a specific definition file and plant
it in a play list so it effects the settings of every file
played after it.
* Revamped the Chapter Editor for Media files. The format now
supports a name for each title. Backward support has been
maintained for the older format.
* You can now select the DirectVobSub subtitle track through
the right-click context menu. This also gives you access
to an option that vertically flips the screen through the
DirectVobSub filter.
* You can now automatically disable closed captions when opening
a DVD (if the DVD allows it).
* DVD Access to all menu types through the right click context menu.
* The left mouse button can now optionally be used to move the
window when dragging the video area (Thanks to theSelkie for
supplying me with the undocumented code to do this).
* You can now move the window using the arrow keys as long as
you're not zoomed. You can specify the number of pixels moved
in the options dialog (Keyboard Window Move).
* New Ultra Minimalist skin. It's basically just a 3-Pixel border
around the video with no GUI controls at all. I recommended
setting the left mouse button to move the user interface, otherwise
you'll be forced to move the window using the keyboard.
* New keyboard commands (and associated functions) for changing
the play rate (play rate bar).
Alt+"Home" increases Play Rate.
Alt+"End" decreases Play Rate.
* New keyboard command for opening an entire directory, pressing
Alt+"D" will let you select a directory to load.
All sub-directories will also be searched for playable files.
* You can now resize the main user interface using any of the
window borders.
* Switching skins through the skin selector will now screen-center
the window.
* The Filter list will now display ALL filters. Only filters with
property dialogs are enabled (well, duh).
* The Keypad numbers can now be used again for setting presets
(numlock must be on).
* Overlay color key should be retrieved directly off hardware
in Windows XP now (when the filters file is set to use the
uncrippled Video Renderer, which it is by default).
* When exiting Zoom mode, the window size will now return to the
same size it was prior to entering Zoom mode.
* You can now enable/disable the "Places" bar on the open/save dialogs.
* You can set the Play List and Presets windows not to screen center
when appearing and going to fullscreen mode. This is useful for
multi-monitor support.
* The play list window position is now saved in case you have it
set not to dock or screen center.
* The currently playing item is now highlighted within
the play list.
* By default the play list is cleared when you open files or
directories from the main user interface. You can now disable
this and instead have the files appended to the play list.
* The Play List is no longer automatically sorted. Multiple
files will be added to the end of the list and sorted
alphabetically according to their directory.
* You can now select multiple entries within the Play List and
move them around or remove them with a single click.
* The Play List "Add Dir" function will now recursively add all
directories under the selected directory.
* The Play List will now stay on top of main window and position
itself properly in Zoom mode, even when the docking setting is
enabled.
* For some reason, I have seemed to overlook a keyboard macro for
accessing the Play List. So now you can open the play list
window by pressing Alt+"L".
* I also forget a keyboard macro for opening the chapter editor,
You can now open the chapter editor by pressing Shift+"C".
* File association is handled slightly differently which may
fix any previous issues.
* Fixed a rare bug in which slowly loading clips (huffyuv codec)
would load, close and load again when run through an association.
This basically caused a slight blink at the start of playback,
this was a rather cosmetic bug.
* If you had the video positioned outside the visible screen area
and loaded a new video, the new video wouldn't position properly
until you resized it.
* When Auto-Size user interface was used, opening a new clip may
not have resized the video properly.
* If minimized to the system tray, zoom player should no longer
pop any other tray icons by accident when it's restored.
Also updated the icon graphics.
* Fixed a lot of cosmetic bugs when Zoom Player is run for the
very first time on a clean system.
* Keyboard macros now work when Zoom Player is run on a clean
system for the very first time.
* The "/PR" command line parameter wasn't functioning correctly.
* Hopefully fixed some issues when windows was set to Large Fonts.
* Optimized some of the skin math code.
--- What's new in v2.00:
* Due to new features, Direct-X v8 or newer is now mandatory.
* Implementation of DVD Playback controls, including a DVD specific
right-click menu, all the various DVD controls, etc...
* New "DVD.TXT" file. Highly recommended reading if you plan to
use Zoom Player for DVD Playback.
* New "FAQ.TXT" file containing Frequently asked questions (and
their answers).
* Support for a dedicated DVD mode, where the Play button plays a
disc. You can switch between Media mode and DVD mode by pressing
"F10".
* DVD Mode now has a separate skin. Which means, you can assign
a different skin to either the DVD Mode or the Media Mode. The
moment a mode is switched, the corresponding skin is loaded
automatically.
* When in DVD Menu mode, the keyboard Arrow keys will function
as menu item directional selectors instead of moving the
video position.
* When in DVD Menu mode, the Enter key will select the currently
highlighted menu item.
* New DVD bookmarks support. The design is quite nice if I do
say so myself. When you add a bookmark (through the editor),
it will create a unique directory for the DVD being played under
the Zoom Player directory. The directory name is comprised of
the Disc's volume label and a unique 64bit serial number. Each
actual bookmark is a file within this directory.
And what's really nice about it, is that once you create a
bookmark, you can go there anytime, even during menus, which
can come in handy.
If you remove all bookmarks from a DVD, it's directory will be
automatically removed.
* You can have Zoom Player automatically load the first bookmark
when a disc is played.
* Radical change to the Control Bar button system. You now can
basically assign any of the scripted button functions to the
Control Bar as long as there is an associated graphic
specification within the skin script. The default skins comes
with some additional button selection compared to the previous
version, but any skin author can easily enable any of the other
functions.
This change also effects the DVD Mode, basically there are two
set of active Control Bar buttons, one for media mode and one
for DVD mode. The DVD Mode buttons also include a Rewind and
Root Menu functions.
Another benefit is that the buttons are queued in the order
the skin specifies, so buttons can appear in any order deemed
logical by the skin author.
And lastly on this feature, it sort of cripples support for
older skin as it no longer uses the BarFileName bitmap. All
the skin graphic data is now concentrated in one bitmap file.
* New customized keyboard layout. You can now specify a keyboard
file that can use any of the functions supplied through the skin
interface and map it to a keyboard key. I supplied a sample
keyboard file that contains the default keyboard specification
for Zoom Player. So take a look at "default.key" for more
information.
* New "Derived" Aspect Ratio setting. This setting is the setting
reported by the file as the correct aspect ratio to display it.
Please note that this may required DirectX 8.1 to work properly!
When I initially tried implementing this in DirectX 8a it only
gave the correct aspect ratio for MPEG-1 files and basically
threw out bogus numbers for AVI files.
* I have removed the "Source Relative" aspect ratio mode and
replaced it with an assigned setting so that you can have
the Relative Stretch effect all aspect ratio modes.
This should allow you to set all aspect ratio modes with
correct aspect ratio on non 4:3 display modes such as 720x480.
* Source relative percentage entry can now have a negative value.
* 4 more positions for the On-Screen-Display. You can now
center the OSD on the top, bottom, left or right sides of
the screen.
* You can now set the number of seconds the On-Screen-Display
remains visible.
* The volume control OSD display is now shown in percentage.
* Disabling the Screen Saver will also disable the monitor
power-down.
* New command line parameter, "/DVD" makes sure Zoom Player
load in DVD mode, regardless of the mode it was exited at.
* New command line parameter, "/MEDIA" makes sure Zoom Player
load in MEDIA mode, regardless of the mode it was exited at.
* New command line parameter, "/PLAY". If in DVD Mode, Zoom
Player will try to play the DVD, if in Media Mode, it will
play if there are files in the playlist. If a file is
passed through the command line interface, this parameter
is ignored.
* New command line parameters (ignored if /F or /Z is used):
/X:[n] - Force GUI Window X-Position
/Y:[n] - Force GUI Window Y-Position
/W:[n] - Force GUI Window Width
/H:[n] - Force GUI Window Height
* New command line parameters:
/VX:[n] - Set Video Window X-Offset (in zoom mode)
/VY:[n] - Set Video Window Y-Offset (in zoom mode)
/VW:[n] - Set Video Window Width (in zoom mode)
/VH:[n] - Set Video Window Height (in zoom mode)
* Re-Enabled the Stay-On-Top feature. You can enable it through
the right click Media menu, or by pressing ALT+"T".
There are some restrictions though. When StayOnTop is enabled,
it automatically disables the OSD and ControlBar support. This
was due to window's inability to properly handle Z-Order correctly.
This shouldn't be too annoying as the ControlBar and OSD do work
when Zoomed, as StayOnTop is temporarily disabled when entering
Zoom Mode.
* Internal support for the TFM Audio Filter. You can now access
it's property dialog by press ALT+"A". You still need to get
and install it for this feature to work, the filter's home page
is "http://www.tfm.ro".
I've also included a scripted button feature for this if someone
want to design a skin with this in mind.
* Instead of having the Control Bar width defined by the video
width and a specified margin, you can now have the Control Bar
width fixed to a specified size while in Zoom Mode. This is
useful if you intend to scale the video size beyond the screen
width.
* New toggle support for the left mouse button. It can either
be set to "Play / Pause" (default), or it can pop the context
menu. And it can even be disabled completely.
* You can now used Shift+"R" to cycle backwards through the
aspect ratio modes.
* New key, Ctrl+"A" will cycle through a DVD / Media Audio Tracks
* New key, Ctrl+"B" will cycle through a DVD Subtitles
* New key, Ctrl+"N" will cycle through a DVD Angles
* New key, Ctrl+"C" will turn ON/OFF a DVD's Closed Caption
* You can now associate the DVD "IFO" extension.
* You can now set the DVD Auto-Run on insert program through the
DVD Options dialog (can be set to Zoom Player or any other
program for that matter).
* Using the "`" Fit To source key will now screen-center the video.
* The Fullscreen and Maximize functions will now alter the active
preset, which means that you can go fullscreen and then resize
the video window from that resolution.
* Zoom Player can now accept file masks through the command line
interface. Example: "zplayer.exe *.avi".
* You can now set the overlay so that it will cover the entire
specified window size, not just size relative to the aspect
ratio. This may be useful with certain subtitle filters.
* You can now switch skins even when in Zoom mode.
* Instead of the time Jump being a 4*Skip, you can now manually
specify the number of seconds to skip. Default being 20.
* New Time Seek function, Similar to Skip or Jump. Basically
giving you a third timeline mobility feature. Default value
is 60 seconds and can be accessed using the Ctrl+"," and
Ctrl+"." keys or through a Skin Script generated button.
* You can now select a custom icon when associating the player.
* The overlay color key is now retrieved through DirectShow rather
than the previous hack I used to get it earlier. This means that
the OSD transparency should work 100% of the time now (as long
as an overlay is active).
* In another WinXP oddity, using WinXP and DirectX v8.1 (the version
that comes pre-installed on WinXP), doesn't seem to give DirectShow
access to the overlay color key used for OSD transparency! It
also seems that the renderer filter has been modified and it now
gives a lot less details on it's property dialog! In any case,
to combat this silliness, I've implemented a fail-safe mechanism
that if the transparency color key isn't delivered directly by
DirectShow, Zoom Player will try to grab it off the screen as it
did in v1.81.
* Fixed a few weird WinXP bugs, such as the oversized default
play list window.
* If the middle mouse button was used to toggle the Mouse Wheel
function, the active function wasn't being highlighted properly
in the right-click menu.
* Fixed a case bug in the "DrawText" skin function.
* Fixed a bug where a selected skin was removed and the player
would then load as a black square. Now the default skin is
used if an older skin is no longer found.
* Fixed a bug that would throw an "invalid floating point" error
if you tried to switch a track before the previous track was
even loaded.
* Fixed a bug that would throw an "invalid floating point" error
if you tried to seek in a video before it was actually loaded.
* Few cosmetic fixes.
--- What's new in v1.81:
* Disabled the frame capture feature as it was disabling the
overlay and slowing playback.
--- What's new in v1.80:
* Support for two or more selectable audio streams. The default
DirectSound device is always the initially played audio, but
you can now using the right-click menu, you can select any other
DirectSound streams.
* You can now have the mouse cursor moved automatically to the bottom
right corner of the screen when going into Fullscreen/Zoom mode.
This is useful as windows tend to pop the mouse cursor every
once in a while.
* Restructured the Information dialog. This new dialog gives
dynamic information about frames dropped in the renderer and
the actual playback FPS as achieved by the video renderer.
* Using the Ctrl+"C" combo you can now take screen captures if the
decoder filter allows it (DivX and MPEG-1 seem to work fine, WinDVD's
MPEG-2 filter does not allow it).
The screen captures will be saved in BMP format in sequential order.
If previous screen captures exist, they will not be overwritten and
instead the sequence will resume from the last captured frame.
You can also add this feature as a button through the skinning script.
* The DivX dialog function will now open the OpenDivX dialog as well.
* Play List is no longer remembered by default (some people found
it annoying), you can re-enable this feature through the options.
This should also help with CD-Based playback (when the zoom
player executable is on the actual CD).
* The presets dialog will now appear screen-centered when docking
is disabled.
* OSD is now positioned relative to the displayed video area
rather than the defined window size. This can be disabled
on the "Options -> Setting" tab.
* Disabled some useless OSD messages such as the pause/play when opening
a file with auto-play enabled and all messages in between a Play List
next file load.
* ESC is now smarter. Pressing ESC will first try to close any open
dialogs, if none are open, it will try exiting Fullscreen/Zoom mode.
If the GUI is in a Window state, it will check to see if exit
by ESC is allowed and if it'll exit the player.
* New "Mute" ON/OFF function, accessible by pressing Ctrl+"M".
Can also be made into a button by through the skinning functions.
* You can now specify a case alternation in the DrawText skin function.
* New <FileTitle> skin script variable that gives the loaded
file name without the path.
* Enabling Multiple Instances will no longer cause the Zoom Player
registry settings to be partially reset.
* There was a bug in the rate control skinning that caused it to flip
out if it's width wasn't the same as the volume control. Fixed.
* The Player does a directory check when it first loads. If the
previous directory no longer exists, it will not give a prompt
anymore. This was especially noticeable if the previous directory
was on a CD-ROM.
--- What's new in v1.70:
* Skinnable Rate Slider on GUI with 7 speed settings.
* Skinnable Volume Slider on GUI.
* Volume level is now saved and remembered across videos.
* You can now position the Control Bar relative to the Video rather
than relative to the specified window position.
* You can now access the customized mousewheel functions through
the right-click menu.
* The preset selection dialog is now accessible through the
right-click menu.
* Skip and Jump should now work with files that report the
wrong frame rate (such as MPEG-2/VOB files played using the
WinDVD filter).
* While not really an audio player, Zoom Player should now be
able to associate and play various audio formats such as
MP3, WAV, WMA, etc...
* You can now load .M3U play lists.
* Play list window now has a file counter.
* Associated files now pass a long file name to the player.
* Association should now work even when Media Player 7+ previously
associated the same extensions.
* You can optionally have the Zoom Player Icon appear on
associated extensions.
* You can now associate the .DAT format through the association tab.
* New skinnable button function "Auto-Repeat" enable/disable.
* You can now enable/disable Auto-Repeat by pressing Alt+"P".
* Fixed a bug where auto-play wouldn't kick in when a play list
completed playing and you tried opening a file.
* Disabled GUI Window scaling using the Zoom functions, it caused
instability.
* If scaling the video size to a very very small size, you can still
enlarge it back with the zoom functions now.
* Made a few fixes so that the Player won't flip out when it's being
run directly off a CD (as in "no ability to write the default.asx
file to it's home dir").
* Pressing ALT+"2" will Zoom the user interface to 100%,
Pressing ALT+"3" will Zoom the user interface to 200%.
This setting is remembered and will effect opened files
if the "Auto-Size interface to fit video" setting is enabled.
* The playing item will now be highlighted in the play list.
* You can now minimize Zoom Player to the system tray.
* You can now disable font smoothing (anti-aliasing) from being used
within the OSD.
* If there is only one video in the play list, auto-repeat of that
track will be far faster.
* If you removed all the mouse wheel functions it would cause the
player to crash badly on load.
--- What's new in v1.61:
* Made the mouse wheel a lot more useful. You can now turn on/off
which functions are associated with the mouse wheel, which
currently includes the following:
1. Zoom Width,Height
2. Zoom Width
3. Zoom Height
4. Time Skip
5. Time Jump
6. Volume
* Added the Zoom Axis selector to the right-click menu.
* You can now have the player play videos randomly. Mainly useful
for music videos. The random generator tries to make sure that
no video will repeat itself until at least half the videos have
already played. So, if for example you have 30 videos in the
play list, a video will not repeat until at least 15 different
videos have played.
* You can now enable multiple instances (running zoom player more
than once through file association). Please note that most newer
sound card will mix the audio of all running applications and
playing 2 videos at once may sound a bit jumbled.
* You can optionally disable the screen saver when going to
zoom/fullscreen mode.
* Fixed a bug that would crash the player if you scaled the video
area to a tiny square and toggled the control bar.
--- What's new in v1.60:
* Extensive new skinning system, complete with dynamic button
generation for nearly every function. Two skins are supplied,
the new "Default" skin (which is there only to document the
entire feature-set used to create a skin) and a new
minimalistic skin, which is ... well very minimalistic.
* New skin selection dialog, can be opened by pressing "N".
* When exiting, the current play list will be saved to
"default.asx" within the same directory as zoom player.
If default.asx exists in this directory when loading
zoom player, it will be loaded automatically (as long
as a different play list wasn't specified).
* All "playback" is now done through the play list. Opening
a file will open it to the play list. This is similar to
the way WinAmp handles play lists and playback.
* New "keys" tab on the Options dialog. This information
is actually kept in keys.txt and loaded when the options
screen is opened.
* New "what's new" tab on the Options dialog. This information
is actually kept in whatsnew.txt and loaded when the options
screen is opened.
* The "Skip Frames" feature has changed to "Skip Seconds".
This was done due to that fact that several filters seem
to "lie" about their frame rate and it would seem that
this function was not having an effect. This setting
will now default to "5" (seconds), so if you want a
different value make sure you set it.
* New AB-Repeat function. Used by pressing the Alt+"R" key.
Pressing once starts the function, pressing again sets the
end position and the section in between will be played over
and over until the key is pressed for the third time.
Accuracy of the repeat is about 250ms and actual repeat
rate depends on the seek speed of the played format.
* The Window-Docking settings are now remembered.
* If the Play List docking is disabled, when appearing,
it will always appear in the screen center.
* You can now disable ESC from quitting the player.
* You can now disable the middle mouse button.
* You can now have Zoom Player center the GUI within the
screen when exiting Zoom mode.
* The BGColor setting has been moved into the Options menu.
* The window position settings have been moved into the
preset dialog.
* Using the "/F" or "/Z" parameters should switch faster now,
without displaying the GUI first.
* You can now use the "/Q" parameter to Quit the player once
playback is complete (either single video, or play list).
* You can have Zoom Player quit once playback is complete
when associating it with file extensions.
* You can now use the "/AR:[n]" command line parameter to set
an aspect ratio at run time.
Example: "zplayer.exe /AR:0 myvideo.avi"
Value can currently be 0-5, where 0 is the first Aspect Ratio
setting (fit to window) and 5 is the last Aspect Ration setting
(Source Relative Stretch).
* You can now use the "/PR:[n]" command line parameter to set
a preset at run time.
Example: "zplayer.exe /PR:3 myvideo.avi"
Value can range from 0-9 and will set the preset accordingly.
* You can now have the playing file name appear on the time line.
* The OSD font can now appear in italics and bold.
* File name and Total Time will now be dynamically removed from
the time line if there is no space to draw them.
* The mouse cursor should hide in fullscreen even if the cursor
isn't on the video area.
* Rearranged some of the keys:
"{" and "}" will now go to the previous and next chapters.
"[" and "]" will now go to the previous and next tracks.
"<" and ">" will now go to the previous and next frame (new feature).
"," and "." will now skip backward and forward.
* F1 will open the keys help dialog.
* Ctrl+"O" will now open the options dialog.
* Ctrl+"P" will now open the presets dialog.
* Combined the "M" and Ctrl+"M" keys. One works while in
fullscreen while the other works when windowed.
* The "+" and "-" zoom keys now work even when in Window mode.
* New cursor for timeline seeking.
--- What's new in v1.51:
* New Relative Stretch aspect ratio in which you can specify the
relative stretch of the image. Useful when viewing in non 4:3
TV Modes (such as 720x480).
* Added an option to set the file association to start Zoom Player
in either the normal Window mode, or in the Zoom or Fullscreen
modes.
* New toggle setting that allows you to control which Axis the
"+" and "-" keys effect (width / height).
* Pressing ALT+"Z" will cycle through the Zoom Axis toggle.
* Pressing "D" should now pop the interface on more MPEG-4
decoding filters (including SMR).
* Made a fix to the detection of the overlay color key.
* You can now disable the mouse wheel.
* Small fix to window video positioning.
--- What's new in v1.50:
* New integrated time line for windowed mode, should allow for
more visible buttons in this mode without sacrificing the
time line resolution.
* Added an option to disable sorting on the play list and two
button to shuffle around the playback order.
* New Anamorphic Aspect Ratio mode. Works with 4:3 image sources.
(which means it won't work with VCD. But then again, VCD
doesn't have the resolution that requires anamorphic display).
* Added an option to force height-only adjustment on Aspect Ratio
in Zoom mode, this is useful with anamorphic video that has the
black bars encoded into the video.
* Added an option to make the background of the OSD messages
transparent. This only works properly with overlay surfaces
and takes about 3 seconds to initialize once you start playing
the video.
* Can now scale the user interface on the bottom and right and not
only in the bottom right corner.
* Having the Control Bar pop when skipping/jumping is now optional.
* The Control Bar no longer pops when skipping in window mode.
* Pressing ALT+"O" will enable/disable on-screen display.
* Pressing ALT+"S" will open the VobSub property dialog
(if the filter is in use).
* Pressing ALT+"+/-" will scale only the video Height.
* Pressing CTRL+"+/-" will scale only the video Width.
* Pressing CTRL+"F" will now fast forward at half the speed
specified in the options dialog (half as fast).
* Pressing CTRL+"L" will now slow motion at half the speed
specified in the options dialog (half as slow).
* Pressing CTRL+"M" in windowed mode will maximize the GUI
to encompass the entire screen.
* The "I" key informational dialog no longer pauses playback
and provides some more information about the playing video.
--- What's new in v1.41:
* Made a few more fixes to support fractional Fast-forward and
Slow-motion speeds with non-english versions of windows.
* It was possible for playback to stop at the end of a track
without proceeding to play the next track automatically.
* New option to auto-repeat playback at the end of a clip.
If playing from a play list, then the auto-repeat will only
repeat playback at the end of the play list.
--- What's new in v1.40:
* Entire back-end switched from the Media Player component to
DirectShow. This took hours upon hours of digging through obscure
microsoft documentation, samples and delphi reference. Hopefully it
didn't introduce too many bugs.
* Due to the new DirectShow interface, there is a spanking new
right-click menu.
* Due to the new DirectShow interface, you can now access the
property dialog of any DirectShow filter used in rendering the
file (basically useful for accessing the DivX control panel).
This is accessible through the right-click menu.
* Due to the new DirectShow interface, you can now set the
playback aspect ratio. You can cycle through the four
aspect ratio modes by pressing the "R" key, or through
the right-click interface. The four modes are:
1. Fit to Window (basically manual aspect ratio).
2. Source Video
3. Fullscreen 4:3
4. Widescreen 16:9
With these settings you should be able to play anamorphic
AVI/MPEG files! (not to mention fixing the aspect ratio
on MPEG-1 files once and for all).
* On Screen Display support for probably more features than
I care to list, including all the logical ones and others
such as visible window size when resizing the window using
then Alt-Arrow keys.
* Sorting support for the Play List Editor, supported sorting modes:
1. by Name
2. by Type
3. by Date
4. by Size
5. by Directory
* You can now toggle the space key functionability to be either
the default toggle for the Control Bar, or to the more traditional
Play/Pause setting.
* You can now use Alt+[Space] to toggle the control bar.
* Volume support using the Home/End keys.
* Slightly restructured the interface buttons.
* Added a Play and Stop buttons to the main interface.
* Added an option to use the "," char in the fast forward and
slow motion fields. This should help people with non-english
versions of windows to enter fractional numbers (maybe).
* If Play is clicked and you are in fast-forward or slow-motion modes
playback will continue and the play rate will be returned to a
normal rate. If play rate is normal, playback will pause.
This seems far more logical.
* Pressing Ctrl+"S" when playing off a play list will stop the video
to the first track in the play list.
* You can now use Ctrl+(0..9) to store the current zoom settings in
any of the 10 presets.
* Pressing the "C" key will save the current position to the
chapter editor (same as pressing the "Add Current" button).
* Pressing the Alt+"C" key save the chapter list to disk
(same as pressing the save button on the chapter editor).
* Pressing the "D" key with a DivX movie loaded will pop the DivX
property dialog.
* The key list has gotten so big, It's now only kept on the help
pages. Pressing the Keys Help button will open the web page.
* Pressing on the Control Bar preset button when not in a Zoom mode
will now open the normal preset dialog and not the one used in
Zoom mode.
* Fixed the slowness in MPEG-1 seeking. This was in fact some
sort of bad-design on microsoft's part, it was caused when
seeking in frame mode (vs. time mode) in DirectX-8, something
that worked just fine in DirectX-7. Go figure... In any case
I've used some translation code to get over this issue.
* Removed the support for the non-floating control bar, frankly,
it was something that should have never went in.
--- What's new in v1.32:
* Integrated Chapter Editor with frame-accurate seeking support.
Makes creation of chapter files completely automated.
* Using the file open dialog you can now select multiple files.
When multiple files are selected, they are loaded into the play list
and play starts automatically..
* Using the Play List Add Files button you can now select and add
multiple files.
* Play List window is now resizable (size is remembered).
* You can now disable the docking of the Play List and Presets windows.
* New Parameter "/F" which goes to directly fullscreen when running.
* Fixed a bug in the play list which could cause certain files
in a play list not to be loaded.
* Fixed a bug that caused a movie to be loaded twice if opened through
a DDE command (you've probably noticed this as the movie blinking for
a second before starting to play).
--- What's new in v1.30:
* Zoom Player can now resize it's non-fullscreen area to
display the video area in it's original size as long as
the video area is bigger than the minimum video area
size (which is 320x240).
You can activate this feature in the options dialog.
* New button to resize the video area to it's source size.
When not in fullscreen mode, this button will also resize
the user interface.
* New Button for going to and from Fullscreen mode.
* New Slow-Motion button.
* New buttons and keyboard macros for Next and Previous chapter.
This used to be controlled through the Next and Previous track
buttons, but it may have caused conflicts with play list, so
a separate button was required.
* New entries on the options dialog to manually set the speed
of the fast forward and slow motion. Notice that Fast forward
is limited due to a built in limitation of the decoder, nothing
I can actually change.
* Modified the behavior of fullscreen mode. Now pressing the
full screen button (or keyboard macro) will go to fullscreen.
If the screen is zoomed but not fullscreen, then pressing the
button will maximize the display.
* You can now manually scale the user interface by dragging the
bottom right corner.
* Fixed a bug in the Play List where movies may not load in
the correct order.
* The Play List has a smarter ASX parser now.
* Fixed a time jump problem when pressing the Zoom or Maximize
buttons.
* Drag & Drop support for the Play List. Any files drop on the
Play List will be added.
* Drag & Drop support for the Player. Any files drop on the
Player will be automatically loaded into the Play List and
playback will start immediately.
* You can now Zoom in and out when in zoom mode using the
mouse wheel. Or optionally you can skip forward and backwards.
* You can now select if the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel
click) will toggle the Control Bar ON/OFF or instead switch
the toggle on the mouse wheel function so you can use it for
both it's functions.
* New command line parameter, "/Z" will now automatically zoom
after loading.
* Not all buttons are now visible by default (there's too many of them).
* Modified the behavior of the play button/macro. If you are
stopped or paused it will start playing, if you are playing
then it will pause without changing the play rate (preserving
the fast forward/slow motion speed), this is useful for one
button play/pause when used in remote controls.
* Made an option to center the control bar position within the
video area, this makes it's position more stable when modifying
the video size.
* You can now specify how long before the mouse and control bar
automatically disappear in zoom mode.
* Cosmetic fix, time is no longer drawn if there is no space
to draw it on the control bar.
* Cosmetic fix, time line should always be visible.
* Right-clicking the Control bar allows you to skip back/ahead
a predefined number of frames (you can define the number within
the options dialog). If you click to the left of the current
time it will skip back in time, if you click to the right of
the current time, it will skip ahead in time.
* You can frame skip using the "<" and ">" keyboard macros as well.
* Chapters information file is now included in the archive, doh!
* Added a link to the forum in the options dialog.
--- What's new in v1.20:
* Implemented support for file associations.
* Implemented a simple ASX Play List editor which can create
ASX Play Lists compatible with any media player based player.
With this new editor in place, it's no longer necessary to
keep QASX as part of the archive.
* Replaced the microsoft ASX parser to provide better support for
play lists. ASX parsing is now done by the player and the
entries are automatically loaded into the Play List.
This also fixed numerous bugs involving playback of ASX files.
* The Next and Previous track functions had their keyboard macros
changed to [.] and [,].
* The [PgDn] and [PgUp] keyboard macros will now look through
the directory of an opened file and will play the Next/Previous
file in that directory according to alphabetical order.
For example, if you opened "bonny1.mpg", pressing [PgDn] will
automatically open "bonny2.mpg" and pressing [PgUp] will return
to "bonny1.mpg". This is useful when playing multi-part movies.
* Double clicking the video area can now either pop the Control Bar
or optionally Zoom/Unzoom.
* Added an option to auto-hide the Control Bar. It's on by default,
Hides when there is no mouse activity for several seconds, but
only when the movie is playing and the mouse isn't hovering over
the control bar (to avoid accidental hiding which can be annoying).
* Added an option to auto-show the Control Bar. It's off by
default, The Control Bar reappears when the mouse is moved over
the video area.
* Added an option to display the current time position within the
played video on the Control Bar.
* Fixed a bug where chapter files wouldn't load if the video file
was executed from command line (or file association).
* You can now drag the left mouse button over the seek bar in
order to seek-through the file. Most useful for file with
high-frequency key frames such as MPEG files.
* Small bug fixes.
--- What's new in v1.10:
* New Option to make the control bar floatable over the video area.
This is now the default option but can be disabled in the options
screen. This new method allows positioning of the control bar
over any part the video area
* New option to set the margins (spacing) to the left and right of
the control bar (in case it's a bit overscanned). This has been
defaulted to 10 pixels.
* New option to set the Y-Offset of the floating control bar.
This has been defaulted to 10 pixels.
* New extension to add chapters to any playable format, for more
details see the accompanying "chapter_format.txt" file.
* To help in chapter creation, pressing the [I] key will pop
an information dialog containing the current frame number.
* Can select which buttons are visible on the control bar.
* Pressing the middle mouse button will also pop the control bar.
* New buttons on the control bar:
+ Next Track (PgDn)
+ Previous Track (PgUp)
+ Maximize video area (M)
+ Open File (O)
+ Zoom preset pop-up
+ Zoom-In
+ Zoom-Out
* Pressing [M] will now go to full screen when zoomed and back when
pressed again (seemed logical).
* Going to full screen using alt+[Enter] will now go to full screen again.
* I included a small program I wrote called QuickASX which allows you
to create ASX playlists through a simple command line. Source included.
--- What's new in v1.00b2:
* Added the option to AutoPlay when a file is opened.
* Hopefully the playback window should be restored to it's correct
location when unzooming on occasions that it didn't.
* The Shrink/Enlarge keys can now be customized to scale by pixels
or percentage, and you can also change the scale size.
* Various small bugs/glitches fixed.
--- What's new in v0.99:
* Open beta test, Initial version.
Make sure you read the readme.txt file as it's very important to
know the keys and the general principle behind this player.
--- End.
