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"*"  = New
"+"  = Change
"-"  = Fix

What's new in Zoom Player v20 beta 5:

New :

  * New "Media Server" Media Library plugin. After specifying your media
    server credentials in Zoom Player's options dialog (Adv. Options /
    Playback / Media Server), Simply press Shift+"M" to open the media
    library category editor, select either the TV Shows or Movies category
    mode and click "Create Category".
    
    You will be presented with a choice of categories available on the
    specified media servers. Pick a category and you're done, full access
    to your Plex, Emby or Jellyfin library accessible directly from
    Zoom Player's media library.
    
    This plugin is still a work in progress and may not function
    perfectly, make sure to report any issues:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/zoomplayer

  * You can now search the Media Server browser by "All", "Movies" or
    "TV Shows" using a drop-down list next to the search field.

  * New "Play History" button on the IPTV Player window next to the
    "Play Stream" button to quickly replay the last 10 (configurable,
    see below) viewed streams.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls how many
    streams should be saved in the IPTV Player window's play history drop-
    down menu). The default value is "10" and you can set it to "0" to
    completely disable saving IPTV stream playback history.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
    to control whether the media library shows a media's duration next to the
    media's name in list view (enabled by default).

  * You can now define a Personal Rating and leave a Personal Note in the
    media library's meta-data editor. Setting a Personal Rating overrides
    the Star rating user interface display, but does not affect sorting or
    filtering by Star rating.

  * New "Sort by Personal Rating" media library sorting option.

  * New "Filter by Personal Rating" media library filtering option.

  * The Media Server browser window will now return the video resolution
    after the media's name (e.g. "My Amazing Movie [4K]"). You can customize
    the color used to display the video's resolution in the options dialog.

  * You can now set the DVD Video Renderer to MPC-VR. Please note that if
    LAV Filters is used with hardware accelerated video decoding in "D3D11"
    or "DXVA2 (native)" modes, subtitles will not be visible.

  * The Media Library's Plugin API has been enhanced to provide additional
    information to the plugin, opening  access to new features (e.g. Media
    Server plugin).

  * New feature to reset Zoom Player to default settings. Accessible from
    the advanced options dialog by clicking the "Help / Export" button.

  * You can now change the skin magnification from 100% to 400% through
    the right-click menu within the "Controls" sub-menu.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) to only
    show the time when showing the clock (Alt+Ctrl+"D" keyboard shortcut).
    By default both the Time and Date are shown.

  * New "exSkinMagnify" extended function that lets you set the skin's
    magnification values. Valid values are 1 (100%) to 8 (800%).


Change :

  + The Zoom in functions (both standard and DirectShow) now try to Zoom
    in toward the mouse cursor when triggered using the mouse wheel.

  + The Media Server browser window no longer allows you to pick which server
    to search if multiple servers are defined. From now on, performing a 
    search returns results from all the specified servers.

  + The Playlist Editor's right-click context menu has been simplified with
    some of the items moved to an "Extras" sub-menu.

  + The IPTV Player window is now using skinned right-click context menus.

  + Play history is used by many of the features, making the default value
    of storing history for 30 days no longer make sense. I have now changed
    the default value to 18262 days (approximately 50 years).

  + The mouse wheel should work better when scrolling through options in
    the advanced options dialog.

  + The Media Library Playlist plugin can now handle playlists that have
    x32 more entries compared to the previous version (over 24,000 entries).

  + The Media Library RSS plugin is now more compatible with Atom feeds.

  + The Media Library RSS plugin should be a little faster parsing feeds.


Fixes :

  - Fixed a crash when using the keyboard or remote in the confirmation
    home theater interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm
    erasing a file) to press Enter multiple times in quick succession.

  - Fixed a crash when opening the IPTV's or EPG Grid's 'customize' menus
    on a monitor with a DPI setting larger than 100%.

  - Fixed a crash when opening the play history window on a monitor with
    a DPI setting larger than 100%.

  - Setting "On Playlist Complete" to "Auto-Rewind" could have triggered
    a crash or unstable behavior under some conditions.

  - Fixed a crash when loading 4bit PNG images with transparency. This was
    especially nasty with the IPTV player window as some stream logos were
    using this format, causing the IPTV Player feature to become unstable
    (unable to close window or an outright crash).

  - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the confirmation home theater
    interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm erasing a file).

  - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the virtual keyboard interface
    (used when renaming files in the media library or trying to access a
    password protected category).

  - Fixed a bug in the open-drive feature (which is also used when auto-
    mounting ISO files) that failed to properly load virtually  mounted
    BluRay content.

  - Fixed a bug where re-opening the IPTV Player window with a previously
    selected stream highlighted didn't enable the "Play Stream" button.

  - Using the media library's Filter by Star Rating feature showed a value
    range, for example "6 - 7", but did not actually show any 7.0 entries,
    showing only up to 6.9.

  - Setting the DVD Video Renderer to MadMR did not work at all with only
    audio playing. Please note that if LAV Filters is used with hardware
    accelerated video decoding in "D3D11" or "DXVA2 (native)" modes,
    subtitles will not be visible.

  - Titles in the skinned right-click menu were not horizontally aligned.

  - The Shift+Arrow keys to accurately reposition the video image or player
    windows stopped functioning at some point and now works again.

  - The "Reset Brightness" feature when using the EVR or MadVR video renderers
    reset the brightness to "1" instead of "0".

  - Hiding IPTV Groups containing the quote character in the group's name did
    not work as intended.

  - The Media Library RSS Feed plug-in should be better at handling text
    that is not encoded in UTF8 or English (e.g. Russian).
    


What's new in Zoom Player v20 beta 4:

New :

  * In an effort to modernize Zoom Player's Home Theater look & feel, I've been
    working with Godwin on a new icon style. Simple, clean, subtle shading.
    With each beta, I'm including the latest icons, some of which are not in
    their final state.
    
    Another small tweak I made is to the Home Theater interfaces title area. It
    is now using a more standard font & color, reducing the number of different
    fonts used on-screen for a cleaner look.

    If you would like to comment on the new design, leave me a post on reddit:
    https://www.redit.com/r/zoomplayer

  * Since neither of the Subtitle components used by Zoom Player (DirectVobSub
    and xySubFilter) support VTT subtitles, I wrote code to dynamically convert
    ".VTT" files to ".SRT" files on the fly.

    The temporary ".SRT" files are saved to the windows temp folder and are
    erased as soon as the media closes. This feature only works on external
    subtitle files.

  * Added smart play profiles for Audiobooks in the ".M4B" and ".AAX" formats.

  * Added "AAX" as a default Audio file extension format. This change is not
    applied automatically to existing installation, you can apply it by
    clicking the "Default" button next to the audio extensions under "Advanced
    Options / File Format Association / File Extensions".

  * Added a button to the Media Server setup dialog (Adv. Options / Playback
    / Media Server) to apply the server's (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin) default local
    port to the specified URL.


Change :

  + If a Media Server URL is specified without an "http/https" prefix,
    "http" is now assumed by default.


Fixes :

  - When streaming media using libVLC, under some unknown condition, libVLC
    starts sending 1000's of time-changed events to Zoom Player every second,
    causing Zoom Player's user interface to freeze under the load. I wrote
    custom code to filter out all the duplicate events to work-around this
    issue.

  - The setting to go fullscreen on play was accidentally disabled in
    Zoom Player IPTV.

  - An authentication failure on a Media Server could have caused that media
    server's profile to disappear.

  - Fixed a bug in the previous beta where Zoom Player tried to automatically
    set local ports for media servers, preventing servers that work on the
    default http/https ports from connecting if you didn't specify the port.

  - Fixed TCP/IP Command & Control API message #1702 returning duplicate
    subtitle entries.



What's new in Zoom Player v20 beta 3:

New :

  * The default IPTV skin now includes new buttons to open the Home
    Theater Media Library and Media Server Browser interfaces. These
    buttons replace the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons which work on
    a technology that is not really practical with streaming content.

  * New (optional) color Hue adjustment control bar buttons, including
    Increase Hue, Decrease Hue and Reset Hue.

  * New (optional) control bar button to open the Media Server Browser.
  
  * New TCP/IP API command #3210 that returns information on whether
    the user accepted or canceled a file delete request.

  * When using the Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog
    to show information on the clicked entry, clicking the thumbnail
    shifts the image to cover the entire screen for a close up look.

  * The Media Server Browser window now includes a search feature that
    works on several levels. In the "Home" level, you can pick which
    server to search and the entire server is searched.
    
    When inside a category, only the contents of the category are searched.

    Search results are color-coded for clarity. You can customize the
    colors in the advanced options dialog (Playback / Media Server).

    Depending on the Media Server used, the returned result may differ.
    For example, when searching the entire server, Emby will return
    Movies, TV Series, Seasons and Episodes, including if the search
    term is only in the show name and not an episode's title.
    
    Plex and Jellyfin on the other hand, will only return Movies, TV
    Series and Episodes that the search term matches the entry's title.
    Episodes and Seasons that do not contain the Series name in the
    title, will not be listed.

    Plex is even worse when searching within a category, it does not such
    recursively so it's not working much better than the filtering feature.

  * The Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog now shows
    additional meta-data whenever the server returns such information:
    1. Duration
    2. Star Rating
    3. Average Bitrate (e.g. "4200kbps")
    4. Content Rating (e.g. "TV-MA").

  * You can now re-order the Media Server list (Adv. Options / Playback
    Media Server) to better control the default server entry on the Media
    Server Browser's search feature.

  * When adding a Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server)
    without specifying a port, the default local port number is used
    automatically ("32400" for Plex and "8096" for Emby or Jellyfin).

  * Two new functions added to the XBOX controller Stick controls
    (Adv. Options / Interface / XInput) to control the volume using
    and seek forward/backward a number of seconds.

  * You can now assign any Zoom Player function to the XBOX controller
    trigger buttons. The default custom values are seeking backward/forward.


Change :

  + The IPTV setup window (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) now allows
    you to set an auto-update time that includes a fractional value,
    allowing the database to be updated more than once per day.
    The minimal automatic update value is approximately 30 minutes.

  + A message explaining libVLC was not installed on your computer
    accidentally displayed when libVLC was installed but failed to
    open a file or stream.

  + You can now select and play multiple items directly from the play history
    window (Alt+"H" keyboard shortcut).

  + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to Home Theater list interfaces where
    previously the text was simply cut off.

  + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the playlist editor.

  + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the meta-data display area when playing
    audio tracks.

  + The Options window's Search feature will now start showing results only
    from the second letter searched, typing that first character returned
    a lot of results which wasn't as snappy as I wanted and there's nothing
    to search for that is one letter long, so it didn't make sense either.


Fixes :

  - The IPTV's "Force http" Xtream Codes setting did not actually force "http"
    connections if the server reported it supports "https", but doesn't
    actually have a server listening on the https port.

  - Fixed a bug that prevented some channel icons from being displayed in the
    IPTV player window.

  - Fixed a bug that prevented the IPTV player window from being closed after
    playing a stream and then closing and re-opening the IPTV player window.

  - Fixed an issue that prevented the libVLC media engine from playing media
    files containing Emoji characters.

  - Fixed an issue that under some conditions caused the media library
    thumbnail text to render incorrectly, either not utilizing the
    available space or actually drawing over the thumbnail.

  - Fixed loading ".Cue" external chapter files not loading the correct
    chapter positions.

  - The Media Library's "Playlist" plugin did not display the media's title
    when listing ".M3U" playlists.

  - Opening the options dialog now resets the IPTV player cache to make
    sure changes are updated when re-opening the IPTV player window.

  - The XBOX controller functions were not being triggered at the correct
    speed and in the case of analog input (stick, triggers), the function
    did not repeat if the stick did not move.



What's new in Zoom Player IPTV v20 beta 2:

Change :

  + The Media Server Browser window now restores its previous size & position
    when re-opening.

  + The Media Server Browser will now remember the previous browsing path
    instead of resetting to the root folder each time you open the window.

  + Right clicking an entry in the Media Server Browser now pops up an
    information window displaying the media's description and art.

  + Added "cover" to the "Background image search mask" feature which is
    used to find album art images when playing audio files. So right now
    the search mask covers both "folder" and "cover" file names (in any
    support image format).

  + New (optional) control bar button to open the IPTV Player window added
    to Zoom Player MAX.


Fixes :

  - The previous beta tried to save some debug logs to "c:\log" and probably
    failed causing slow-downs in the Media Server Browser.

What's new in Zoom Player IPTV v20 beta 1:

New :

  * New Media Server Browser feature that allows you to stream media from
    a local or remote Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server).
    
    Zoom Player currently supports the top-3 media servers:
    1. Plex
    2. Emby
    3. Jellyfin
    
    There is no limit to the number or types of servers you can add, you can
    mix and match as many servers as you want.
    
    Please note that depending on the media server type, load and connectivity,
    using libVLC to play content from a media server may offer faster seeking
    and audio/subtitle track switching.

  * New libVLC option ("Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC" or "Adv. Options /
    Playback / Media Server", this setting appears twice) to control whether
    the libVLC media engine should be used when playing content from media
    servers.

  * New Shift+"Y" keyboard shortcut to open the Media Server browsing client.


Change :

  + Re-opening the IPTV Player window should now be nearly instant.
    The only downside is that if you edit the files manually while Zoom Player
    is running, you will have to restart Zoom Player for the changes to
    take affect.

  + The default TCP/IP Control API port has been changed to 32999.

  + The default Web Server Control port has been changed to 32998.

  + I am disabling the "Display OSD through MadVR's OSD API" setting (Adv.
    Options / Playback / Video) on every install. This feature can have a 
    negative impact on the user experience, its only benefits is if you
    use MadVR in fullscreen exclusive mode, a mode that is no longer
    of much use when running Windows 10 or better.

    If you previously used this feature and would like to continue using
    it, it can be re-enabled in the options.

  + libVLC's default audio framework is now set by default to "DirectSound",
    otherwise using libVLC and changing the volume would affect the windows-
    level volume level for Zoom Player (which should always be set to 100%).


Fixes :

  - libVLC's framework selection was completely broken, selecting another
    device wouldn't work at all or would use the default audio device instead.

  - Fixed a bug in Zoom Player IPTV that partially broke translation of the
    options dialog left-pane tree view, causing some lines to remain in
    the original English.

  - Fixed a bug that caused some error message text to get truncated.

  - In some resolutions, the meta-data display for playing audio media did
    not use a round-rectangle background correctly, causing text to appear
    partially outside the background.

  - Some over-zealous code optimization broke the audio playback meta-data
    display area, showing tags for empty fields.

  - Selecting the libVLC section in the Advanced Options dialog a second time
    no longer tries to relist libVLC's audio devices, causing a slight delay.