Introduction to the fullscreen navigational interfaces
Zoom Player Professional gives you access to fullscreen navigation menu system that allows you to control the player
through a 5 button system (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select {ENTER}). Using the fullscreen navigation system, you can
Convert any PC into a Home Entertainment Center.
Beyond the 5 keys which can be used through the keyboard or through a PC-Remote device. You can control the
navigation interfaces through the mouse. You can use the arrow controls in the top-right section of the navigation
interfaces or use the mouse wheel to scroll through lists, double click an entry to select it and click on the right/left
edges of the screen in order to go to the next/previous navigation interface.
By default, the ENTER key will open the last open navigation interface. However, each navigation interface can be
opened directly through the keyboard (Press F1 for a full key list), or through the right-click context menu.
Clicking Left a few times will always bring you to the Main navigation interface, allowing you to access all
other interfaces.
Pressing the Escape key or Right-Clicking with the mouse, closes the navigation interface.
File Browser
The File Browser is a smart way to navigate your file system. The initial interface will list your drives
(Hard Disks/CD/DVD/USB/etc), pressing ENTER with a drive highlighted will open the drive in its root directory.
Pressing RIGHT with a drive highlighted will open the drive in its previously navigated directory. Pressing
RIGHT while in the file listing area will bring you into the function list (allowing you to copy/move files, sort the file list, etc).
Special Keys:
INSERT, either plays the selected directory, or if a file is highlighted, it plays all the files within that directory. If
pressed in the Drive listing area, it will play the contents of the entire drive (use with caution).
DEL, will delete the currently highlighted file or directory (with confirmation).
BACKSPACE, goes go up a directory.
Media Library
The Media Library allows you to group files from different locations on your computer as one big virtual
drive divided into one or more categories. You can specify which directories to use through the Media Library Editor.
The initial interface will give you a category listing (as specified through the media library editor), pressing
ENTER on a category will open the file listing for that category at the root directory (for the category). Pressing RIGHT
on a category will bring you into the previous file list position and clicking RIGHT once more will bring you into the
function list (allowing you to copy/move files, sort the file list, etc).
Special Keys:
INSERT, either plays the selected directory, or if a file is highlighted, it plays all the files within that directory.
DEL, will delete the currently highlighted file or directory (with confirmation).
BACKSPACE, goes go up a directory.
Playlist
The Playlist allows you to easily modify the content of the current play list. Pressing RIGHT brings
you into the function list (allowing you to sort the file list, clear the play list, etc).
Special Keys:
INSERT, selects the currently highlighted entry (so you can perform functions on multiple items).
DEL, will remove the currently highlighted file from the playlist.
Play History
This navigation interface allows you to quickly browse through your play history (list of previously played files).
To function, it requires that you enable the "Remember last media position" settings in the advanced options dialog.
Chapter/Bookmark Browser
This navigation interface allows you to quickly browse through DVD bookmarks (in DVD mode) and media chapter points
(in Media mode).
Color Control
Certain graphic cards can control various aspects of the video image (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Saturation).
Using this interface, you can control each of these Image values. The limitation is, that your card must support
this interface. This interface must first be enabled (you will be prompted to enable it if it's currently off) and
that either the Overlay Mixer or Video Mixing Renderer 9 Video Rendering filters are in use.
Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to navigate between the various items, click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust values.
Using the mouse, you can directly click on the bars on the right side of the interface to set a value directly.
Equalizer
The Equalizer navigational interface allows you to adjust Equalizer and PreAmp (digital amplification) values.
Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to navigate between the various items, click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust values.
Using the mouse, you can directly click on the bars on the right side of the interface to set a value directly.
GoTo Time
The GoTo navigational interface allows you to easily go to any position using the LEFT/RIGHT key to go between the
HOUR/MINUTE/SECOND fields, UP/DOWN to modify each field and enter to seek to the newly selected position.
Station List
The Station list allows you to easily navigate through station entries (TV/Radio) added using the Station Editor,
easily accessing your favorite streaming content.
Use the UP/DOWN keys to select a station and ENTER to play.
Download Manager
The Download Manager lets you view current uTorrent/eMule downloads in progress (Once you correctly specify
the paths/passwords in the Advanced Options Dialog).
Adjust Image
The Adjust Image interface allows you to position the video in Fullscreen/Zoom modes. Using
the UP/DOWN keys you can select between X-Offset (Position from left of screen), Y-Offset (Position from top of
screen), Video Width, Video Height. Click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust each value.
Other image adjustment settings accessible through this dialog include:
Image Sharpness.
Video DeInterlacing.
Image Blanking
Image Blanking is the process of covering a certain image area in black in order to hide unwanted image content.
Mostly, this is used in cases where the widescreen video area may contain gray video (rather than black) which
can be rather annoying.
Using the UP/DOWN arrow keys you can select which area of the video to Blank out (Left, Right, Top, Bottom).
Click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust each value.
Mouse Wheel
Zoom Player support many functions which can be accessed through the Mouse Wheel. You can select which
functions are available through the "Advanced Options/Interface/Mouse/Wheel" interface.
This interface allows you to access these same functions through an on screen display. Using the
UP/DOWN keys you can scroll through the functions. ENTER activates the selected function and closes the
interface.
A further modification on this principle is to assign the middle mouse button to open this navigational
interface (Advanced Options/Interface/Mouse), and then use the mouse wheel to scroll through the entries
and click on the wheel to activate the new functionality.
Web URL
The Web URL interface allows you to associate a DVD or Media file with either a Text or URL file.
By creating a file with the same base file name as the currently playing media file, opening
the Web URL interface will display the content of the file.
For Example:
myvideo.avi
myvideo.url
Valid file extensions are "URL" for a URL file linking to a web page. "htm/html" for local
web pages and "nfo/txt" for local text files. To associate a file with DVDs, you would need
to create a file called "VIDEO_TS" with the appropriate file extension (URL/HTML/TXT/etc)
and place it in the DVD bookmark folder (when playing the DVD for the very first time,
Zoom Player will create a directory for it under the "Zoom Player\DVD-Bookmarks" directory).
Context Navigator
The Context Navigator allows you to access a user-defined function interface.
This allows you to have a customized multi-function navigation interface at your disposal. Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to
scroll through the available functions, sub-menus are highlighted a different color and you can use the LEFT/RIGHT
keys to go into/out of these sub-menus.
The context navigators for DVD and Media modes are defined in the Menu file (see english.menu in the language directory).
If you modify the menu file, make sure to assign it under "Advanced Options/System/Paths, Folders and Files".
Note:
Most navigational interfaces (not all) are limited to Zoom Player Professional.
Playing Information
Shows information on the currently playing file along with its folder image (if one exists).
Navigation Style
This interface allows you to choose between currently installed Navigation Styles.
