--- What's new in Zoom Player v19.5:
* IPTV Xtream Codes support.
Zoom Player supports three different Xtream Codes modes to access the
stream playlist and EPG (electronic program guide) information. The modes
exist to offer a fallback solution in case your IPTV provider is only
offering partial support for Xtream Codes' feature-set.
1. Player API :
This is the most recent Xtream Codes API. It uses network queries to
obtain both the Stream Playlists and EPG data. TV Series and Movies are
handled separately from live streams, providing an enhanced navigation
experience.
However, the EPG information is only accessible on a per-stream level and
not as a whole, preventing the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features from
working.
2. Player API + XML (default) :
By leveraging the Player API you still benefit from the separate handling
of TV Series and Movies. With the entire EPG downloaded as a single XML
file, the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features have access to the
full program guide and can work as intended.
3. M3U + XML :
This is the most basic mode with both the EPG and the stream playlists
downloaded as single-file databases. Global Filtering and the EPG Grid
features work as intended, however TV Series and Movies are left to the
graces of your IPTV provider, which means they may be harder to access
and usually lack EPG or Meta-Data information (e.g. Bitrate).
* New IPTV Electronic Program Guide Grid. The EPG grid is an alternative
program guide view that lists the episode guide of multiple streams in
an easy to scroll and filter interface.
You can access the EPG grid by pressing the "#" button within the IPTV
window. The EPG grid does not rely on the stream list and can be used
without specifying any stream sources.
The EPG grid's look and feel can be fully customized by pressing the
menu button and choosing "Customize". You can use this same menu to
"Magnetize" the EPG Grid window to the IPTV window.
* New IPTV global episode guide filter. The new global filter works
across all streams, filtering out streams that do not contain a
program title containing the filter text.
Global filtering is very useful when searching for a particular program
or live event across all available streams.
Please note that performing the initial global search triggers a one time
stream indexing operation that may up to a few minutes on some hardware.
* Added support for H.266/VVC, AV1 and Opus detection and icons to
the media library.
* New IPTV menu button on the IPTV window. The new menu includes:
1. Only show favorites (new feature, hides all other streams).
2. Toggle Opacity (previously a button).
3. IPTV Settings (previously a button).
* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture)
that allows you to specify if screenshots should be saved in the same
folder as the video currently being played (Only applies to local
files).
* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Aspect Ratio)
to reset the aspect ratio to "Derived" when opening a new media
(disabled by default).
* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to automatically
restore the previously active video aspect ratio on replay (disabled by
default). This new feature will only work for videos that was previously
played by this version of Zoom Player (or newer) since previous versions
did not save the active aspect ratio.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to sort the Group list
by name.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Naviation / Settings)
to prevent the fullscreen playlist and streaming navigation interfaces
from closing when playing a new file.
* New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's
duration. Te default seek distance is 10% of the media's duration but
you can change this value under "Adv. Options / Playback / Controls".
By default, the two new functions are assigned to the Ctrl+Alt+"[" and
Ctrl+Alt+"]" keyboard shortcuts.
* New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's
duration when right-clicking the timeline. The default action is still
seeking in seconds, you can change this to percent under -
"Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings".
* Added settings to control which Zoom Player function is triggered when
using the mouse wheel while holding either the Alt, Ctrl or Shift keys.
The default values are:
Mouse Wheel + Alt : Seek 5 seconds backwards/forwards
Mouse Wheel + Ctrl : Seek 20 seconds backwards/forwards
Mouse Wheel + Shift : Seek 120 seconds backwards/forwards
Watch me code it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to control whether
global EPG filtering includes filtering using the program's description.
This setting can slow down filtering and is disabled by default.
* New "Copy path to clipboard" item on the playlist editor's right-click
menu. This feature allows you to copy the file or URL path of the selected
media entry in the playlist editor.
* IPTV Per-EPG Time Shift support (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) has
been added. The time shift is applied to the entire EPG.
Please note :
If you previously set a time shift on a specific stream then both time
shifts are combined.
* In cases where you list an IPTV stream supporting archive playback but
the stream does not have an Episode Guide or the Episode Guide does
not cover the full archive period specified in the playlist, Zoom Player
now creates empty entries on the EPG listing panels to enable archive
playback covering the full archive period.
* IPTV playback of streams that require authentication using user-agent
or referrer are now supported. For compatibility, Zoom Player uses the
same "#EXTVLCOPT" playlist tag as VLC. This feature requires a version
of LAV Filters newer than 0.79.2 as it was introduced by LAV Filters
in a nightly build released after v0.79.2.
* Rewrote some of the IPTV stream listing code to work much faster when
dealing with massive stream lists.
I used a test file containing an outrageous 572,527 playlist entries in a
142mb file. I managed to reduce filtering time from 24.4 seconds all the
way down to 1.3 seconds or 1877% faster compared to the previous version.
* Added an IPTV stream "filtered / count" label to the IPTV window.
* Adding an IPTV Playlist or EPG download link will now automatically
suggest a profile name based on the base URL.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that determines whether
clicking on an IPTV group snaps the group to the top of the list,
displaying the maximum number of items on-screen. Enabled by default.
* Added an "Export Playlist to M3U" feature to the playlist editor's right-
click context menu.
* Closing Zoom Player with less than 1GB of free space on the "C:" drive now
shows a warning message. Under some conditions, low disk space can corrupt
Zoom Player's settings and we don't want that.
If the message is annoying, disable it under "Adv. Options / System".
+ Some of the IPTV customization options have moved to an interactive
dialog that can be opened from the IPTV window and allows you to view
any changes you make in real time.
+ The media library now shows the media's duration in list view mode
when a duration is available.
+ Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Video Aspect Ratio section.
+ Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Mouse Wheel section.
Watch me redesign it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c
+ Redesigned the chapter/bookmark editor to make it cleaner and easier to use.
Watch me redesign it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c
+ Enhanced the IPTV playlist parsing code to be more tolerant of badly
authored playlists.
+ Optimized several parsing functions, Zoom Player should now load a
little quicker.
+ You can now edit the IPTV's Playlist/EPG URL value without having to
first remove the existing listing.
+ Unassigned (to a group) IPTV playlist entries are now listed on the
bottom and not semi-randomly (where the first unassigned entry was
spotting in the playlist).
+ Zoom Player no longer asks you if you would like to add the free IPTV
channels if you already configured your own IPTV subscription service.
+ Clicking on a playlist entry in the playlist editor window when search
is active, now removes the keyboard focus from the search box. The
search value is not reset in this case, just hidden until you click
the search box again.
+ Changed the title of the IPTV interface on the right-click context
menu from "IPTV Electronic Program Guide" to "IPTV Player".
+ Some of the IPTV window's buttons have moved under a Menu button to make
room for new features.
+ The Media Library's YouTube Playlist plugin can now be used to
"Refresh" the thumbnail and playlist name under the media library
editor's configuration page.
+ For clarity, the IPTV Window's "Play Stream" button is now disabled in
cases where streams can't be played based on the currently selected entry.
+ The scene-cut dialog now closes when closing the playing media and will
not open unless a media is playing with a duration longer than "0".
+ The "Reset user interface windows" function now applies to the IPTV
player window and EPG Grid window.
+ Refreshed the content of the keyboard help dialog (F1 keyboard shortcut)
for clarity.
+ The options dialog's Search feature now tries to screen-center the
searched feature when clicked.
+ You can now select and delete multiple media library categories in
the media library category editor using a single action.
+ You can now use the "Delete" key in the media library category editor
to delete (with confirmation) the selected categories.
+ Added a right-click menu to the media library category editor's category
list to make the features more accessible.
+ Small tweaks to the Media Library Category Editor layout to improve
the user experience.
+ Added "VTT" to the default subtitle extensions (Adv. Options / File
Format Association / File Extensions). You need to press the "Default"
button on this page to apply this change on existing installations.
+ Added the ".RA" extension to Smart Play's real audio source profile.
+ The "Reset Color settings" keyboard shortcut has been changed from
"F11" to "Ctrl+F11".
+ The "Apply Color settings" keyboard shortcut has been changed from
"F12" to "Ctrl+F12".
- Playing new media from the Playlist Editor, IPTV windows, Advanced
Playlist Control and the Station Manager should no longer cause the
main player window to appear on top for a short duration while the
media is loading.
- Incorrectly setting the Hot-Corner action in the advanced options dialog
could cause Zoom Player's settings to get partially reset.
- Due to an encoding bug, favorite IPTV stream names containing special
characters got progressively more corrupted with "&pipe", ""e", "&"
and other HTML character encoding garbage.
- Parsing "M3U" playlist containing URLs ignored the listed duration.
- Any interface SFX played while a media was loaded using the DirectShow
media engine would break volume control until a new media was loaded.
- "SOON" and "LIVE" media library YouTube entries would disappear when
pressing the "Load More" option and then closing and reopening the
media library.
- Fixed a UTF8 encoding/decoding bug that failed to decode unicode
characters greater than U+010000 in the TCP/IP control API, causing
Zoom Player to not find files with these characters in the name.
- Loading a Zoom Player chapter file (".zpchp") did not sort the chapters by
position, instead showing them by the order they were listed in the file.
Watch me fix it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c
- Fixed a bug that prevented the source video resolution from being read
when using MPC-VR as the video renderer.
Watch me fix it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c
- Fixed a bug that prevented text input on the "Folder/Poster file mask"
and "Backdrop file mask" settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen
Navigation / Customization).
- Fixed a bug where IPTV stream's time-shift offset was not being saved
correctly if the stream only had a name and not an ID.
- The media library category editor should now restore the previously
selected category when closing and re-opening the dialog.
- Using the media library's "resume playback" feature did not add the
media's title (when available) to the playlist.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to freeze on exit when a
new IPTV playlist/EPG download has finished with no disk space to
extract it.
- Pressing "Play" from the control bar when using the libVLC engine for
playback could cause the control bar to appear hidden behind the video,
preventing access until the control bar was closed and reopened.
- Fixed a small cosmetic glitch when resizing the IPTV program information
dialog.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug that caused the wrong icons to appear in the
playlist fullscreen navigation interface if safe mode was enabled.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug that didn't update the playing media's duration in
real time if the playlist had another duplicate entry listed earlier.
- The Media Library RSS feed plugin showed duplicate entries if the server
switched from "https://" URLs to "http://" URLs. This fix does not resolve
the issue if bad entries were already cached, to resolve that you have to
erase the ".rss" file from Zoom Player's "CategoryCache\RSS_Feed\" folder.
- The Media Library RSS feed plugin did not show the "Refresh" option.
- Some dialogs on the skin selection dialog were not showing translated
OK/Cancel buttons.
- When using really massive IPTV playlists that can take a few seconds to
parse or filter, Windows would detect Zoom Player's window as unresponsive
and when Zoom Player completed the action and became responsive again,
Windows would bring the main player window to the front automatically.
Now Zoom Player restores the IPTV window to the top as soon as such
long actions are complete.
- You can no longer right-click to hide your IPTV's "Favorites" from the
stream list.
- When picking a local IPTV playlist or EPG file and changing the dialog
to search for "all files", no files were shown.
- Fixed a rare case where the playlist editor was not able to read an
M3U playlist entry's title.
- You can no longer use a duplicate or empty profile name when adding or
renaming IPTV sources.
- On rare occasions using the Edge Webview2 engine to playback YouTube
content resulted in the video's duration remaining at zero, causing
Zoom Player's internal screen saver to kick-in. I wrote a fix, but
it is untested as this issue is somewhat rare, let me know if you
encounter it after this fix.
- Fixed a glitch with the default skins that caused the title text to
appear behind the minimize button in audio mode.
- Setting the Scene Cut editor to "Pause Playback" did not update the
user interface correctly.
- Using ".df" definition files to save/restore a subtitle synchronization
offset was broken in v19 when I added support for the libVLC media engine.
- Using a custom menu "Execute" feature did not work if the playing file
had space characters in the file name.
- You can no longer "favorite" the same IPTV stream more than once.
- Clicking on "Favorite" IPTV streams did not show their EPG information
or showed an EPG information from a different stream.
- Right-clicking the IPTV Stream List panel did not update the EPG listing.
- The scene-cut information was not cleared when closing the playing media.
- The scene-cut "GoTo" button was incorrectly enabled for some cut modes.
- An IPTV's program description did not show line breaks correctly in
the EPG list.
- Switching an audio or subtitle track while the Home Theater Stream
Selection interface was open did not update the listed entries to
reflect the new track selection.
- Media Library thumbnails with a title longer than the available space
to display the text were not vertically centered correctly.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v19:
* Zoom Player has integrated libVLC, the media engine used by the
VLC media player. This integration means that several new features
that were unique to VLC are now available in Zoom Player, leveraging
the reliability of VLC with Zoom Player's powerful and versatile
user interface.
In theory, Zoom Player's default choice of Microsoft's DirectShow
media engine is superior to libVLC in a lot of ways. DirectShow is
a lower-level integration, allowing me to develop unique features
that are impossible to do with libVLC. At the same time and due to
its complexity, there may be cases where libVLC can be more reliable
than DirectShow.
By default only BluRay discs play using libVLC due to libVLC's support
for playing BluRay discs with menus. However, since this is Zoom Player
you're reading about, the ultimate choice of which engine to use is up
to you!
You can enable libVLC specifically for BluRay discs, IPTV streaming,
media playback (by file extension) and open-ended streaming (by URL,
for example "youtube") under the new advanced options section (Adv.
Options / Playback / libVLC).
To use libVLC you must either install the latest version of the 32bit
VLC player or install libVLC from the install center (it does not
conflict with existing VLC installations).
Most Zoom Player features are compatible with the new media engine:
- BluRay Playback with Menus!
Enabled by default, opening a drive, folder or the "index.bdmv" file
begins BluRay playback. Menus are navigated using the standard navigation
keys (up/down/left/right Arrows + Enter keys). The same limitation that
apply to playing BluRay discs in VLC applies when using the libVLC media
engine in Zoom Player, along with any glitches.
This means that you must have Java installed for the BluRay menus to work
and that playing encrypted discs will not work by default. As for the
glitches, I encountered cases where 4K BluRay videos can freeze and
verified that the same issue happens in the original VLC player.
- Casting!
You can now use libVLC to cast the playing video to supported ChromeCast
devices. All you need to do is open "Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC" and
scan for the ChromeCast device. Any content played through the libVLC engine
will now display on the selected device. Please consider that it can take a
few seconds longer to open media files for casting.
- Aspect Ratio Controls:
Zoom Player's powerful aspect ratio controls are fully supported.
- Subtitle Display:
Other than re-positioning the subtitles on-screen, most of Zoom Player
subtitle features should work great with libVLC.
- Add Subtitle Track on Drag & Drop / Add Sub file:
You can easily add subtitle files by drag & dropping files on
Zoom Player's window or by opening a subtitle file after the
video is loaded.
- Subtitle Synchronization Adjustments:
You can adjust subtitle synchronization through the standard keyboard
macros (Alt+Ctrl+"+" and Alt+Ctrl+"-" on the keypad).
- Audio Framework Device Selection:
libVLC is pretty flexible in its audio device selection offering three
different frameworks (MMDevice, DirectSound and WaveOut). Zoom Player
makes it easy to choose the framework that works best for your PC.
- Audio Track Selection & Cycle:
Easily select and cycle between multiple audio tracks.
- Audio Synchronization Adjustments:
You can adjust audio synchronization using the standard keyboard macros
(Shift+"+" and Shift+"-" on the keypad).
- Equalizer & Pre-amp:
Please note that the values work a bit differently when compared to the
DirectShow Equalizer and the two don't sound the exactly same when
switching media engines.
- Preferred Audio Device switching (Shift+"A"):
Works like the DirectShow version, but requires you to select the audio
devices separately on the libVLC options page.
- Virtual Video Editing with BluRay Movies with Menus:
The scene cut feature that allows you to virtually edit videos should now
be compatible with BluRay titles with Menus when using libVLC. However,
this feature has not been heavily tested so please let me know on reddit
if it's not working as expected.
- Play History (position, audio track, subtitle track):
Zoom Player's play history feature which can save and restore the last
play position, active audio, subtitle tracks and more is fully compatible.
- Play Rates (fast play, slow motion):
Fast Play and Slow Motion might even work on more media formats than
supported by DirectShow, give it a try.
- Load Embedded Chapters (Bookmarks):
Using libVLC, Zoom Player can read embedded chapters or bookmarks from
both media files and BluRay titles.
- Load External Audio Tracks for playing video:
Full support for one or more external audio tracks.
- Play Next Frame:
The next frame feature is fully supported.
- Screenshots:
The screenshot keyboard macro (Alt+"F") is fully compatible with libVLC
with the exception that the screenshot file format is limited to ".png".
- SHOUTcast Radio Streaming:
While supported, using the DirectShow media engine provides a superior
experience.
* Added support for the new H.266 VVC (Versatile Video Codec) format.
LAV Filters v0.79 is required for decoding.
Please note that VCC support is experimental and not fully optimized.
To properly support VCC in resolutions above 1080p would require
hardware accelerated decoding which is not currently supported by
any current GPU or CPU (next-gen support has been announced).
* Added MPC Audio Decoder Smart Play profiles for many supported
audio Codecs.
* The playlist editor has received support for multiple playlists
that you can instantly switch between. Multiple playlists are
loaded in a background thread so even if you use massive
playlists with 1000's of items, it should not have much of an
impact Zoom Player's load and close time performance.
Press the new multi-playlist button on the playlist editor (top
left corner) to add the current playlist, a playlist from a file
or manage the multiple playlists (remove, rename, reorder).
You can see me develop this feature live here:
Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhQoJ0kkoA
Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLUuymiz_Y
* New "Cast to Device" feature on the main right-click menu and
available as a keyboard shortcut (Shift+"/") that allows you to
Cast the currently playing media to a Chromecast compatible
device. This feature does requires libVLC is installed but does
not require you to play the current media with libVLC (the
playback engines automatically switch as the media is casted).
You can see me develop this feature live here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3eDBtunqZc
* Running Zoom Player on a fresh install will now asks if you would
like to enable "Performance Mode".
Choosing "Yes" does two things:
1. Enables D3D11 hardware accelerated video decoding in LAV Filters,
a requirement for smooth 4K video playback.
2. Sets the Video Renderer to MadVR, enabling HDR video support,
high quality video scaling, hardware accelerated subtitle
rendering and smoother motion.
Both settings can be modified in the advanced options dialog:
Adv. Options / Playback / Video
* MPC-VR can now be selected as a Video Renderer for media playback. Some of
this video renderer's features are not yet supported (e.g. pixel-shaders).
But subtitles, subtitle synchronization, video rotation and Dolby Vision
do work thanks to the help of Chetan Ullal and his work on the
MPC Subtitle Helper component:
https://github.com/Chetan-Ullal/MPC-BE-SubtitleHelper/releases
* The hint pop-up that appears when hovering with the mouse
cursor over a skinned user interface button now includes the
keyboard macro used to activate the button.
* New keyboard macros to toggle libVLC playback:
Alt+"6" - Toggle libVLC IPTV playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"7" - Toggle libVLC BluRay playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"8" - Toggle libVLC Media file playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"9" - Toggle libVLC Streaming playback (enabled/disabled)
These toggles still require that you re-open the playing media
to take affect.
* The right-click menu has been extended with a new "Help" section.
The help section provides quick access to the keyboard shortcut list
and quick usage guides for most of Zoom Player's interfaces.
* The Play History dialog (Alt+"H") has gotten a face-lift, an option
whether to clear the playlist when playing from history, a button
that automatically sets the column sizes based on the current window
size and you can drag the play history window with the mouse by
clicking in any empty space.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) that allows you to hide the
"Recent" items section from the Windows taskbar button's right-click menu.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that allows you
to specify the number of seconds to seek when using the mouse wheel while
hovering over the timeline area. The default seek distance is 5 seconds.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that allows you to play
the next media file in the same folder when using the Del key to erase the
currently playing media (or using the home theater delete option).
You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) that
allows to force the OSD Actions (Play, Pause, Volume, etc) to appear on
a monitor of your choice.
You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
* New "/infojson" command line parameter that can be used to query
a running instance of Zoom Player for information. The results
are returned in the windows clipboard as a UTF8 encoded JSON string.
This feature can be used in combination with Window's Powershell to
monitor and control Zoom Player entirely through the command line,
without requiring a TCP/IP connection to access the more advanced API.
Special characters are encoding using standard JSON character encoding.
If no additional parameters are specified, all fields are returned.
To get specific results, you can use a combination of one or more of
the following:
PlayState - A number representing the current play state where
0 : Closed
1 : Stopped
2 : Paused
3 : Playing
MediaName - UTF8 string containing the playing file name or URL.
Title - UTF8 string containing the playing media's title.
Position - The playing position in seconds.
Duration - The playing duration in seconds.
PlayIndex - The current playlist play index.
Playlist - UTF8 string containing the current playlist, each media
entry is specified as a part of a JSON array.
AudTrack - The current audio track number.
SubTrack - The current subtitle track number.
Example to get the playing media name, title, duration and position:
zplayer.exe /infojson:MediaName,Title,Duration,Position
* New "Pause closes unseekable live stream (otherwise ignored)" setting
(Adv. Options / Playback / Contrls) that controls whether Zoom Player
closes a live stream when pausing or if the pause action is ignored.
Previously the hard-coded default was to close the stream, the new
(configurable) default is to ignore the pause command.
* The IPTV dialog now allows you to filter the stream list by playlist name.
You can see me code most of this feature on this live-stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjr8ExbZmM
* You can now define custom names for IPTV playlists and Electronic Program
Guide sources (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV). You can see me code this
feature on this live-stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjr8ExbZmM
* Added support for 2 more IPTV archive playback modes.
* The IPTV EPG (Electroic Program Guide) will now add EPG "No Info" entries
for missing time blocks, allowing archived playback for these time blocks.
You can see me live coding this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQldufSuJfU
* In order to clear up some screen real estate, I added a new setting
(Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that hides the EPG program end time.
This setting is enabled by default, but can be disabled to restore the
previous program listing style.
* You can now press Ctrl+"C" with an IPTV EPG program selected to copy
the program name to the Windows Clipboard.
* New button on the IPTV interface to quickly open the IPTV settings
page in the advanced options dialog.
* To support IPTV providers that require a specific user agent text to
access automated downloads, you can now set a custom User Agent for each
IPTV auto update entry (for both playlists and EPGs downloads).
* Selecting a URL based IPTV playlist or EPG entry in the options dialog,
now displays the full text in a hover-hint.
* The media library YouTube plugins can now detect Live and Upcoming
videos and display this information on the thumbnail.
* The media library YouTube plugins now filter out private videos.
* New setting on the media library's YouTube plugins (disabled by default)
to filter videos shorter than a specified number of seconds with a default
value of 62 seconds (to hide shorts).
You can see me live coding this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7V_F62j4C4
* New "Activities" search strategy option on the media library's YouTube
plugins. I was hopeful the "Activities" entry point into YouTube's DATA
v3 API would provide more reliable results, but it seems limited to
uploads in the last 2 months and some uploads will simply not show up.
* New "Configure" button next to the Video Renderer selection drop-down
list (Adv. Options / Playback / Video).
* New "Configure" button in the Advanced Options' Audio Renderer selection
dialog. Mainly useful when using the MPC Audio Renderer option.
* New "exMediaVidRender" extended function that allows you to switch the
media video renderer at any point. As an extended function, this
functionality can be accessed through the command line or TCP/IP APIs.
You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3FmIi8crI
* New "exSetAudioBalance" extended function (not assigned to any key) that
can be used to specify an exact balance percent value from "-100" (left)
to "100" (right). A value of "0" resets the balance changes.
Please note that using this function will not update the balance widget
in the user interface, only the actual audio balance on the output device.
* New "fnMPCVRinfo" Zoom Player function to toggle MPC-VR's video
rendering information overlay. The new function is assigned by
default to the Ctrl+"J" keyboard macro.
* New "1510" Zoom Player API message that is triggered when using
next/previous chapter. Returns the chapter's position in seconds.
* New label for the skin selection dialog to make it clearer that you can
scale the skin resolution by a factor of 100% - 800%.
+ The keyboard shortcuts list (F1 keyboard shortcut) is now a single
dialog which opens much faster and is no longer a part of the options
dialog which takes longer to open.
+ The media library's YouTube Playlist plugin now retrieves the playlist,
channel name and thumbnail automatically. Since the playlist image usually
reflects the last uploaded video, the plugin will use the channel's
thumbnail for the playlist instead, but you can disable this behavior
in the plugin's configuration dialog.
Previously you had to manually specify the playlist name and a generic
thumbnail was used.
You can see me live coding a portion of this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7V_F62j4C4
+ You can now configure the media library's YouTube plugins to select
the number of entries to download at one time, either 25 or 50.
25 being the default value to preserve YouTube's API quota limitations.
+ Double clicking on a media library category in the media library
category editor no longer tries to configure the category, instead
Zoom Player now opens the media library within the clicked category,
allowing the category editor dialog to be used as a navigation hack
to quickly switch between categories.
+ Trying to open the media library category editor when the dialog was
already open but obscured now brings the editor window to the top.
+ The options window's search feature does a better job at highlighting the
selected element from the search result.
+ Opening the play history dialog (Alt+"H") for the very first time now uses
reasonable initial values for the columns.
+ The default mouse wheel function on new install is now set to volume
adjustments instead of the previous default that Zoomed in/out.
+ Using Zoom Player to browse the web (for example, using the "/browse"
command line parameter) now uses Microsoft's Chromium based WebView2
browser engine and only falls back to the old Chakra engine is WebView2
is not installed (available on the install center, comes preinstalled
in Windows 11).
You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
+ The "Toggle Control Bar" right-click menu option has been re-located
to the menu's root level.
+ Using the Next/Previous Track features now ensures the newly loaded track
is visible in the playlist editor.
+ If the playing media has only one audio track, it will no longer
be listed in the Stream Selection section of the right-click menu.
+ If MadVR is selected as the Video Renderer without being installed,
Zoom Player now notifies you and falls back to the EVR renderer.
+ To support chapters (bookmarks) using the VLC Media Engine, I had to
rewrite nearly all of Zoom Player's code related to managing chapters.
Please let me know if something broke. As a bonus, you can now use
emojis and other special Unicode characters in the chapter names.
+ Media chapters with no titles will now show a "no title" title.
+ The IPTV stream list group layout (open/close) is now saved and
restored even after closing Zoom Player.
+ Made a small user experience update to the IPTV advanced options
dialog page.
You can see me reworking the UI in this video:
https://youtu.be/BvRb6spGuN8
+ The Custom Action button's hint when hovering with the mouse now lists
the assigned function and not just a general "Custom Action".
+ Cleaned up a few of the advanced options dialog pages.
+ Cleaned up some dialogs that had elements that were too close together,
especially under Windows 11.
+ If you previously used a Custom Video Renderer for media playback, you must
re-select the custom option (Adv. Options / Playback / Video).
+ The keyboard editor dialog now appears faster, resizes faster and you can
press a key combination to instantly find its current assignment or use
the search box to search by the feature description assigned to a key.
Watch me code this feature live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zav2jFDmmjs
+ The Open-Source media library YouTube plugins will notify you when
Zoom Player's YouTube API key quota has been reached.
Since YouTube is limiting API calls, you can work-around this issue by
creating a personal API key using the instructions in Zoom Player's blog:
https://www.inmatrix.com/blog/a_guide_to_creating_a_personal_youtube_api_key.shtml
+ The download tracking home theater interface keyboard macro has been
moved from Ctrl+"J" to Ctrl+"X".
+ The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) now prefixes a "~" symbol
before the frame rate (FPS) value when the frame rate is not properly
detected in the media file (can happen quite often with formats that
use variable frame rate).
+ Playing a media from the play history without clearing the playlist
now shifts the playlist track listing to make sure the newly played
item is visible.
+ The "Please upgrade" dialog now shows the current Zoom Player version.
- Fixed a freeze when trying to close the IPTV window while logos were
still being downloaded.
- Scraping TheMusicDB should work once again.
- Zoom Player's "Export Settings" function did not include 4 setting files:
1. Media Favorites (files and URLs).
2. Media Library TAGs.
3. Media Library Collections.
4. IPTV Favorites.
- When creating a media library YouTube channel with an "@" channel name
prefix, for example "https://www.youtube.com/@zptechnology", YouTube
can return multiple channels if they share the same name. The fix
now checks all the channel to make sure their customURL field matches
the name in the specified URL.
- Fixed a few cases where changing the current play position was not shown
correctly in the active playlist entry.
- When playing media of unknown video resolution, the timeline will no
longer display "0x0" if you enabled resolution display on the timeline.
- When Zoom Player's DSP filter is unable to connect to the audio renderer,
the DSP filter is now removed so Smart Play will not fail (fallback to
Microsoft's method of choosing components can be unstable), increasing
overall stability for badly authored media files.
- Fixed a bug that caused the media library background image to be overlaid
twice with a slight offset, slowing down opening a folder in the media
library a little bit and causing visual ghosting effects (was really hard
to see with the default background image).
- Trying to switch to the next audio track no longer tries to set
an audio track if there is only one track present (caused muted
audio for a second or two).
- Failing to play an IPTV stream will no longer highlight that
stream as the active stream.
- You should no longer be able to erase embedded chapter entries
(it didn't really do anything).
- A bug caused some information dialogs to show the information in
the window's title and the actual title in the windows body.
- Fixed all sorts of goofs that were possible through the chapter editor.
- The playlist's "Move to Top" and "Move to Bottom" functions did not
function well, clearing the currently playing media index and
introducing cosmetic glitches.
- Fixed a bug that caused the background image to show for a split-
second when dragging & dropping a media file on top of the player
window.
- The Play History editor and fullscreen navigation interface can now re-play
files with a path longer than 255 characters.
- The playlist entries in the IPTV stream list drop-down would get duplicated
after updated playlists were downloaded in the background.
- Pressing Alt+S to bring up the subtitle component's configuration dialog
did not show the correct window title in some cases.
- Pressing Shift+"B" to disable the subtitles caused the subtitles to remain
enabled when reloading the media, even if the setting to restore the
previous subtitle track was enabled in the advanced options dialog.
You can see me fix this code here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
- Fixed a really weird stability issue with the IPTV window that could have
caused a freeze when trying to close the window and stream logos to never
appear.
- Wrote a work-around for a bug in the MPC Audio Renderer and
MPC Audio Decoder filters where their property pages appeared
in windows that did not show all the available controls.
You can see me live fixing the issue in this video:
https://youtu.be/BvRb6spGuN8
- Under very rare conditions, the media library's highlight on the
active entry would not show for the right-most column.
- Loading an ".M3U" playlist would not always get the track's
title correctly.
- Detaching the control bar, moving it to another monitor and then hovering
with the mouse pointer over the timeline area would show the current
position indicator window on the wrong monitor.
- With the "Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting enabled,
the right-click's "Stream Selection" section would show a small cosmetic
glitch (an empty section).
- Setting the YouTube Channel media library plugin's "channel list strategy"
to "Use 'upload' playlist" did not list the videos returned by YouTube in
the correct air date order and the air date was not displayed at all.
- Using the media library category editor to add a broken link as a
YouTube playlist based category would create an "unknown" category
that didn't work. Now an error is returned in such cases.
- When an IPTV playlist contained multiple streams using the exact same
name and ID, but with a different URL or Archive Catch-up source, playing
such a stream would highlight all the streams as "playing".
- Setting the timeline to display the media's remaining time would result
in displaying odd values when streaming live content that doesn't update
the stream's duration. Now "??:??" is displayed instead.
- Fixed a glitch that showed new an IPTV EPG/Playlist are ready to refresh
message and enabling the refresh button after initiating and completing
an update download from the options dialog.
- If two IPTV channels share the same channel name and EPG entry, playing
one of the entries could later highlight the identical program entry on
another channel as playing.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the newly played playlist from entering
into view in the playlist editor window under some circumstances.
- Fixed a rare case that could have caused the skinned right-click
context menu to appear twice on screen with one of the menus
remaining stuck on screen.
- Enabling the stop button to close the playing media (local file or
stream) would not update the taskbar button hover controls.
- Even when fullscreen navigation safe mode was enabled, the Trash
icon was still visible in the playlist and file browser interfaces.
- Configuring the various media library YouTube plugins could cause
old setting to appear when trying to configure two different YouTube
plugins (e.g. "Channel" and "Trending") within the same session.
- Fixed a few cosmetic glitches in the default Charcoal skin.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v18:
* A completely new IPTV (streaming live TV and VOD) interface (Adv. Options
/ Playback / IPTV) with support for:
1. Stream list with Channel Logo and filtering.
2. An Electronic Program Guide with live-highlighting and filtering.
3. Automated downloading of Stream Lists and EPGs (every "x" days)
in raw XML/M3U formats or in zip/gz archives.
4. Smart Stream Grouping.
5. Archive (VoD) playback support.
6. Create easily accessible "Favorite" channels.
7. Time-shift the EPG to ensure it matches your current time zone.
8. Set a reminder to view programs directly from the EPG.
9. Set a reminder to automatically play a program's stream
right before it airs.
10. A "Safe Mode" to prevent kids from altering favorites, hiding
groups or time-shifting the EPG.
11. Hiding unwanted Groups.
12. Hiding old EPG entries.
13. Merging channel information from multiple EPG files.
14. Extracting a Chanel's logo from either the M3U playlist or XML EPG.
15. Matching M3U channel with EPG information based on both ID and Name.
Any many settings to customize how IPTV dialog looks and behaves:
01. Full customization of colors and font sizes used to display the
Stream List and Electronic Program Guide.
02. Disable Stream Grouping (show every stream in one list).
03. Selecting the number of program description lines to show in the EPG.
04. Selecting the Stream List logo size.
05. Increasing the Stream List font size along with logo size.
06. Alphabetically sort the Stream List.
07. A button to toggle the EPG display on/off.
08. A button to toggle IPTV window transparency on/off.
09. A setting to keep the IPTV window on-top while in fullscreen mode.
10. A setting to control the size ratio between the Stream list and EPG.
And much more ...
You can open the IPTV interface using the "Ctrl+G" keyboard macro or
through the right-click menu, under the "Open Interface" sub-menu.
* Opening the IPTV interface for the first time now offers you the option
to automatically download free, child-friendly, publicly available IPTV
channels from around the world through the Free-TV project:
https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV
* New "Custom Action" button on the main window (near the top-left) that
allows you to set any standard Zoom Player function to the button.
By default this button opens the new IPTV interface.
* This feature has been requested by many. The ability to scale
Zoom Player's skinned windows to make them easier to use on
4K and 8K displays:
New Setting (Adv. Options / System) that allows you to resize
the current windowed skin by 200-800%. Please note that this
setting may not work well with some older Zoom Player skins.
* You can now easily multiply Zoom Player's windowed skin resolution
from the skin selection dialog (press "N" to open) to better match
Zoom Player's skin to your monitor's resolution.
* New Wakeup on LAN feature (Adv. Options / System) that allows you to
turn on PCs. This feature is extremely useful when using NAS (Network
Attached Storage) devices as your source for the media and you only
want to turn them on when using Zoom Player.
With this new feature, you can specify multiple MAC addresses to wake
several PCs and you can trigger the wake-up action with a choice of
conditions such as:
1. When starting Zoom Player
2. When opening the Media Library
3. When opening the File Navigator
If there are other use-cases where you would want Zoom Player to
wake-up remote PCs, let me know.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that allows you to assign a
function to the new "Custom Action" button.
* New setting (enabled by default) to automatically hide the control bar
when clicking the video area, making it much easier to quickly hide
the control bar.
* You can now edit the last play time and date directly from the media
library meta-data editor.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area)
that allows you to control whether the timeline displays the current
playlist track number.
You can also toggle this setting through the control bar menu by
right-clicking the timeline with nothing playing (or middle-clicking
if something is playing).
* Two new settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that allow you to override the poster image and backdrop
for Movies and TV show categories.
The backdrop setting is an easy override, just place a "backdrop.jpg" or
"fanart.jpg" in the same folder and Zoom Player will use it automatically.
Updating a movie poster image requires you enable the "Do not use scraped
image as thumbnail / backdrop" setting for each of the media library's TV
or Movie categories, otherwise the poster image will still use the scraped
image (due to image-caching maintaining a copy of the old image) and then
re-scrape the movie folder.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to prevent embedded
playlists (playlist files within playlist files) from loading when
Zoom Player loads a playlist. This setting is enabled by default as
embedded playlist can lead to unfortunate infinite-loops cases and
other stability problems.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to control whether text that
has no room to display fully starts scrolling. Currently this only
applies to the main window's title text.
* The Advanced Playlist Control interface is now accessible through the
right-click menu under the "Open Interface" section.
* On a clean install, Zoom Player now multiplies the skin resolution
based on your screen's resolution. 200% for 4K skins and 400% for
8K screens.
+ Redesigned the media library category editor layout. Hopefully it's
clearer and easier to work with.
+ The playlist editor's search feature has been enhanced to support
repeated search. Simply press Enter to cycle between all entries that
contain the searched term.
+ Zoom Player's title text now scrolls if there is no room to show
the entire text (can be disabled in the options).
+ Playing media from the Advanced Playlist Control now ensures the newly
played item is visible in the Playlist Editor.
+ The Station Manager window now has an "X" in the corner to close the
window (previously you had to click the "close" button).
+ Pressing ESC with the player window in focus now closes the IPTV
interface window.
+ Pressing ESC now closes the "Patterns" interface instead of having
to cycle through every pattern.
- Trying to play a video with an external audio track, for example:
"myvideo.mkv" and "myvideo.mp3" in the same folder with the "Load External
Audio tracks" setting enabled, resulted in a lot of instability.
I rewrote the whole interface and now it's much more stable. Please note
that this feature also requires Zoom Player's DSP filter to be enabled
(Adv. Options / Playback / Audio - Enable Internal DSP Filter).
- Filtering the media library by Genre stopped working.
- Using unicode characters in the ISO Auto-Mount command would not save
the path properly after restarting Zoom Player.
- The Advanced Options "System Sounds" and "Audio" sections did not scroll
smoothly when using the scroll bar.
- In the media library's category editor, specifying a category name
containing unicode characters would not highlight the entry in
the category list after clicking.
- Media Title containing certain unicode characters (e.g. emoji) did
not show when loading some playlist formats (m3u, asx, b4s, wpl).
- The Media Libary's category editor's "Playlist" category option did
not display categories correctly if they had certain unicode characters
in the name (e.g. Emojis).
- Loading M3U playlists containing links to other M3U playlists, no
longer tries to insert the embedded playlists as part of the loaded
playlists, which can cause many unforeseen issues.
- Loading some M3U playlists in the playlist editor did not always show
the media's title.
- Under some conditions, the "Add Folder to Category" and "Remove Folder"
buttons in the media library category editor were enabled for Plugin
based categories which would have allowed you to mess up these categories
if you were not careful.
- When adding a new plugin based Media Library category, you can no
longer add duplicate entries even after renaming the category.
- In the media library category editor, you could press the "Remove Folder"
button when selecting the "Folders:" entry instead of an actual folder.
- Right clicking a history entry and selecting "copy" in the playback
history interface returned a jumble result when copying links.
- Trying to use Ctrl+V to paste a search term into the playlist editor's
search field would result in "????" when trying to paste unicode
characters or emoji.
- Playing an entry from the Advanced Playlist Control interface no longer
loses the entry's selection.
- The Playlist Editor's search box did not support unicode characters.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to freeze when trying to
play YouTube URLs containing a space character after the URL.
- The Playlist Editor's "Load Playlist" feature accidentally listed media
files instead of playlists by default.
- The Folder Browser dialog should no longer appear partially off-screen or
hidden by the task bar.
- Under some conditions, the play history fullscreen navigation interface
could show a value of "00:00:-1" for the last play position.
- When using a non-default font, the play history fullscreen navigation
interface's last play position could mess with the alignment of the
file/url.
- IPTV Logo caching from EPG files did not work properly for some entries
based solely on channel name.
- Playing too many broken URLs or files is sequence could have resulted in
play history entries being generated even though nothing was played.
- Reduced the chances of showing IPTV EPG information for the wrong channel
when using badly crafted playlist or EPG sources.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.2:
* The Media Library category editor has been redesigned for clarity
and ease of use.
* The Media Library category editor can now be used to select and
re-order multiple categories in one click, making it much easier
and faster to re-order categories.
* The Media Library category editor has been extended with a
"Move top" and "Move bottom" buttons to more easily arrange
your category listing.
* New "Sort by Runtime" media library feature. In TV categories it
sorts by the number of episodes in a folder and in Movie categories
it sorts by the Movie's specified Runtime (not the media's duration
which may include additional content such as credits).
* New "Resume Playback" media library feature that's accessible from
the media library's functions page and the media library's mini-menu
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View).
Resume playback looks for the first unwatched media in the folder
and then resumes playback from that media.
If no media from the folder has been previously played, it will play
the first media in the folder (in alphabetical order by Title or
File name).
If the last played media in the folder is over the "Consider media
as watched" percentage threshold, the next media will play in
alphabetical order by title (if previously scraped), otherwise by
file name.
* New "Filter by Star Rating" media library feature.
Filtering by Star Rating allows you to filter TV and Movie categories
based on the media's Star Rating.
You can easily customize each media's star rating to your own personal
value using the integrated metadata editor, accessible by right-clicking
a media's thumbnail or through the media library's functions page.
* New "Filter by Content Rating" media library feature.
Filtering by Content Rating allows you to filter TV and Movie categories
based on the MPAA rating assigned to the TV Show or Movie, for example
"PG-13" or "TV-MA".
* New "Hide Mouse Cursor in Windowed mode" setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Mouse / Setting) that allows the mouse cursor to auto-hide
even when playing in a window (disabled by default).
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings)
that adds a delay before connecting the Audio Renderer.
This delay can help avoid audio connection errors when dealing
with external Receiver/Amp that require a few seconds to initialize their audio
interface after changing video resolution or refresh rate.
* Added support for new YouTube URL format when adding YouTube channels
as media library categories:
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/@CowboyKentRollins
* Support for a new YouTube LIVE URL structure, usually used
when sharing a video the YouTube mobible app.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/live/L5QXreqOrTA?feature=share
* Double-clicking a TV show thumbnail in the media library's TV Jukebox
mode will now play the episode.
* New "Edit Last Played" option added to the windowed play
history's right-click menu, allowing you to manually edit the
"Last Played" field without actually playing the media.
* You can now reorder the Available Tags and Collections in the
media library's cached metadata editor.
+ Zoom Player no longer requires "freeimage.dll" to load. The library
which is used to display the ".WEBP" image format is now loaded
dynamically as-needed, saving a bit of RAM while allowing Zoom Player
to start slightly faster.
- The media library's unplayed media counter will now adjust the background
box size if the unwatched media counter is 3 digits or more.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the media library's right/left bump actions
from working after a PC was not reset for over a month.
- Some information was not displayed correctly in the media library for
YouTube channels containing the "|" character in their channel name,
video names or video description.
- Fixed a bug causing ".df" definition files not to save properly when playing
from shared network paths (e.g. "\\my_server\shared_folder\media.mkv").
- Wrote a work-around for a bug in Media Portal's TS File Reader filter
to prevent Zoom Player from freezing on re-play.
The bug prevents ZP from seeking to 0 and re-playing by returning
invalid media position values, requiring the media to be fully reloaded.
- Under some conditions, the media library's filter function would not
highlight any of the available filtering options and would draw the
scrollbar widget in the wrong position.
- Under some conditions, the media library's filter function would not
bring the active filtering mode into view.
- Fixed an issue in the Media Library filtering function that
would allow entries with a similar enough Collection/Tag to
the active filter to be listed.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.1:
* New "Display unwatched counter on TV Show category folders" setting
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumbnail Cust.)
that counts the number of unwatched episodes in "TV Show" categories
and displays the count in a corner on the folder's thumbnail.
* Full customization for the TV Show unwatched counter:
1. Size (relative to thumbnail)
2. Margins (relative to Size)
3. Font Color
4. Background Color
* New "Display thumbnail season progression bar" setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumbnail Cust.) that shows a
season progression bar (similar to the last play position bar) in
TV Show category based on the number of watched/unwatched episodes
in a folder.
* New "Reset" option in each individual media library filtering mode
(Genre, Tag and Collection).
* Two new Pixel Shader scripts you can use with MadVR as the video
renderer to flip the video both horizontally and vertically.
+ Filtering the media library will now reset the selected entry to the
first item, unless the "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on
entering a folder" setting is enabled, in which case the last viewed
file or folder is selected automatically.
+ If you previously used a download tracking plugin, you must now
re-enable it. Plugins were previously enabled by default which
could have caused delays when exiting Zoom Player.
+ Having ZP set to automatically show the media library when opening
will no longer show the media library if a media was set to load
using the command line.
+ Zoom Player will no longer display the default background image if
a media is set to load via command line, removing the slight flicker
of the image and slightly speeding up load time.
- Setting Zoom Player to pre-load fullscreen navigation graphics while
trying to play a media from command line could cause ZP to freeze.
- When taking a screenshot of the playing video (Alt+F), the generated
filename included a wrong position value (just the file name, the
image was taken from the correct position).
- The "Stop function closes streaming media (instead of just stopping)"
setting was accidentally applied to every playing media and not only
live streams.
- Fixed a bug that would break URL links in the active playlist when
closing and then re-opening Zoom Player.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17:
* New metadata editor accessible by right-clicking TV and Movie entries in
the media library (also available through the functions page and as a
mini-menu option). The metadata editor allows you to replace thumbnails
and backdrops along with editing the Title, Sort Title, Release date,
Rating, Overview, Genre, Tags and Collections.
* New media library filtering by Genre, Tags and Collections. Accessible
through the functions menu or by clicking the new "funnel shape" filter
icon in the path area. Your filtering choice is remembered on a
per-category basis and is stored across sessions
(even after exiting Zoom Player).
* New "Sort by Release Date" media library sort option (Only works on
scraped media [TV & Movies]).
* New "Sort by Play Date" media library sort option to sort your categories
by the most recently played files (or folders containing files that have
been played).
* New "Sort by Sort Title" media library sort option (Only works on
scraped media [TV & Movies]). This sorting mode allows you to use the
meta-data editor to specify an "invisible" custom title that Zoom Player
will use for sorting while still displaying the original title.
When no sorting title is specified, Zoom Player automatically uses the
media's title (if one exists) or file name.
* New "Sort by Star Rating" media library sort option (Only works on
scraped media [TV & Movies]). Initially populated with scraped data,
you can adjust the Movie/TV Show's star rating using the metadata editor.
* The media library mini-menu has been extended with two new functions you
can select : "Filter list" and "Edit metadata".
* The mouse's backward and forward button can now be assigned custom
functionality when a navigation interface is visible.
* New ".ISO" drive mounting and playback settings to help automate the
process of mounting ISO images and playing their content. An external
mounting tool (such as Virtual CloneDrive) is required.
Accessible under "Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions."
Please note that with this change, it is no longer possible to extract and
play ISO files as if they were archives.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the web engine used
to render the YouTube IFRAME player, either the old Edge Chakra engine
or the newer (and much better quality) Edge Chromium.
Please note that that Edge Chromium requires the WebView2 component
installed. WebView2 comes pre-installed in Windows 11 and is an
optional download for Windows 10.
The WebView2 component is available for download directly from
Microsoft or using Zoom Player's install center application.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether filtering lists in the media library can use multiple
parameters (e.g. "Genre" and "Tag") at the same time.
* YouTube kids URLs should now work with the IFRAME player.
* Added support for YouTube Shorts URL parsing and playback, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5TTNpKFy_10
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically hide
the Playlist editor when entering fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) that limits
the "next subtitle" feature to specified languages.
For example to limit the subtitle tracks to Spanish, English and
Directory Commentary, you only need to specify "spa;eng;dir" and
any subtitle track not containing these values will by skipped when
switching to the next subtitle track.
* New "9:16" thumbnail aspect ratio option for media library thumbnails
suitable to vertical videos.
* The ".WEBP" image format is now supported when using the internal image
decoder.
* New feature that replaces the TV Jukebox thumbnail for the currently
playing media with the currently displayed image. This feature is
limited to "TV Shows" media library categories and can be triggered
through the Alt+Ctrl+"F" keyboard macro and the "fnCaptureScrapedImage"
function.
* New "Edit Metadata" option in the media library's functions page for TV
and Movie categories.
* New configuration option for TheMovieDB scraping plugin that allows you
to select the poster/backdrop/still image sizes.
* New Smart Play profile for the Apple ProRes codecs.
* New "exSetAudioSync" extended function that allows you to set a positive
or negative millisecond accurate audio synchronization offset.
+ YouTube media library plugins no longer return a star rating or dislike
count since YouTube removed public dislike data.
+ The "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing
video content" setting is now ignored for live streams with no duration
specified as it just caused the stream to close.
+ Disabled the Startup sound if a media was already in the process
of loading.
+ The Media Library's function page is now more dynamic, removing entries
that may not be useful in some contexts (e.g. using plugins).
+ TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now download movie poster images at full
resolution (previously limited to 500x750px). This change means you will
see sharper looking posters on 4K displays. This fix requires that you
re-scrape movies to download the higher resolution poster images.
+ To prevent longer copy times, when using the Media Library's
Cut/Copy/Paste functionality, Performing a "Paste" operation
in the root virtual folder of a category containing multiple folders,
ZP will now try to paste the file(s) to a folder on the same drive when
possible and only use the folder of the currently highlighted entry if
no folders in the pasted category are on the same drive.
+ In combination with the new ISO mounting feature, ISO files are now always
visible in media library video categories.
+ The YouTube IFRAME player's preferred video quality setting has been
removed as YouTube depreciated this feature.
- The YouTube IFRAME player did not function properly in regions using
the "," character as a decimal separator.
- Play history features such as "resume playback" and "previous play position
on thumbnails" did not function on files with over 128 characters.
- Playing files with over 128 characters in their name created duplicate play
history entries.
- Pressing "Stop" twice to perform a Stop/Resume action did not work
when using the YouTube IFRAME player.
- When customizing the media library to use full height in combination
with the category display set to list mode, using the Up/Down arrows
at the Start/End of the category list would not roll-over to the
Start/End of the list correctly.
- When the setting to show file extensions in the navigation
interfaces was disabled, URLs appeared cropped in the play
history fullscreen navigation interface.
- Opening a subtitle file for a playing video when using MadVR
as the video renderer could cause the video to appear in
a new window.
- Fixed a bug in TV jukebox mode that prevented some file meta-data
from displaying when the file name contained Unicode characters.
- Seeking Ahead/Back on YouTube streams using the IFRAME player would
reset the play position to 0 if the windows decimal separator was
set to something other than ".".
- Restoring last play position for YouTube videos played using the IFRAME
player did not function currently on some PCs with a slower internet
connection.
- Displaying the current video resolution on the timeline while using
the YouTube IFRAME playback engine displayed a fixed value instead
of the value returned by the YouTube IFRAME engine.
- The "Open Media Library" button on the Media Library category editor
did not function if the category mode was set to view all (prism).
- YouTube channels containing the "&" character in the name would not
show the correct channel name under some conditions.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug in the play history dialog that would show the
current position with a negative value.
- Edits to the playlist using the playlist editor should now be
reflected in the advanced playlist control interface.
- The playing information fullscreen navigation interface was not
updating in real time and didn't update at all when playing
new SHOUTcast content.
- The "Open Drive" feature broke down for multiple use cases, including
using Zoom Player to auto-play a drive.
- The Media Library's "mark as seen:archive" option will now close the
currently playing media if it's being archived.
- Under some conditions, pressing the ESC/Menu keys to close the right-click
context menu would break some keyboard functionality.
- You could actually click on media library path icons even when they were
invisible in the category list.
- When viewing the media library's categories page, you could click
above/below the scroll-bar area and it would still affect the scroll
position.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.5:
* Introducing Charcoal, Zoom Player's new default skin!
Charcoal includes the same layout and functionality as the
previous Onyx default skin but uses more subtle shading and
cleaner elements to better fit with Windows 10's look and feel.
The onyx skin is still included with Zoom Player, you can switch
by opening the skin selection dialog using the "N" keyboard macro
or through the right-click menu.
* New interface Sound-FX system that triggers sounds when certain
actions are triggered (Adv. Options / Interface / Sounds) :
1. Zoom Player Startup.
2. Navigation motion (left/right/up/down).
3. Navigation actions (enter/back/esc).
4. Seeking (forward/backward/tracks).
5. Edge-Bump (media library).
You can pick the volume level and the output sound device and limit
some of the sounds if a video is currently playing or when using the
mouse to perform actions.
* The media library can now display a media file's approximate
bitrate (e.g. 9.2 Mpbs). You will need to re-scrape old media
to see this update.
* It is now possible to play videos from Twitch.tv.
* New "Confirm when resuming playback from previous position" setting
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to
request confirmation before resuming playback from the last saved
position when playing media from a TV or Movie media library category.
Please note, this setting is on by default and requires play history
enabled to function.
* New "Mark as Seen" media library feature accessible through the
functions menu (toggle the cogwheel, or right-arrow in list mode).
When marking media or entire folders as seen, you will be prompted
to "Mark as seen now" or "Mark as seen archive". Depending on your
choice the marked entries will appear at the start or end of your
play history.
* New "Select all Unseen" media library feature that selects every
media or folder containing media that was seen (listed in your
play history).
* New "Select all Seen" media library feature that selects every
media or folder containing media that is not listed in your
play history.
* You can now perform subtitle searches on movie folders, Zoom Player
will automatically use the first video file within the folder to find
matching subtitle tracks.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Settings) that controls whether the Media Library's media scraping
indicator and counter are visible within the path area.
* New "Thumbnail icon size" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Fullscreen
Navigation / Customization) that controls the icon sizes in thumbnail
view mode.
* New "Prevent mouse actions from moving or resizing the main window"
setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size" that blocks the
mouse from being able to resize or move the main player window.
* New "Skip requesting confirmation to erase file" setting (Adv. Options /
Interface) used to skip the confirmation request dialog when erasing
the playing media to the recycle bin.
* New "Do not use scraped image as thumbnail" media library category setting.
When enabled, Zoom Player ignores any thumbnail downloaded using a
scraping plugin and depending on other category settings, Zoom Player will
try to extract a thumbnail from the video file itself.
* New "Do not use MediaInfo.dll to extract file metadata" media library
category setting. When enabled, Zoom Player will not try to use
MediaInfo.dll to extract metadata from files such as file format, codec,
audio channels, etc. This can speed up scraping operation, but it also
means the metadata displayed in the media library will be limited.
* New "exPLSortOrder" extended function capable of choosing the playlist
sorting order (ascending, descending). A value of "0" sets ascending
and a value of "1" sets descending. Please note that this function
doesn't actually sort the list.
* New "exPLSort" extended function to sort the current playlist.
Possible values are:
0 : Sort by Name
1 : Sort by File Type (file extension)
2 : Sort by File Date
3 : Sort by File Size
4 : Sort by File Path (folder)
5 : Sort by Media Duration (in seconds)
6 : Sort Randomly (random order)
* New "exPLRemoveItem" extended function that allows you to directly
remove a playlist item. Please note that the first playlist item
has an index of "0" and not "1".
+ A major redesign of the media library's scraping operation.
Scraping of new content should no longer block thumbnail and
meta-data updates for previously scraped content.
The redesign should make Zoom Player feel more responsive.
+ Rewrote the audio TAG/ID3 scraping code for enhanced efficiency
and reliability.
+ When reaching the top/bottom position in the media library's thumbnail
view, Zoom Player now tries to maintain the current column when the
top/bottom bump bar is triggered twice to perform a scroll to top/bottom
action.
+ Improved support for long paths (over 250 characters) in the media library
and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces (especially over network
shared paths).
+ The file meta-data edit window's title now features only the file
name and not the full path.
+ The media library's YouTube Playlist plugin is now more flexible
when parsing YouTube playlist URL structures. YouTube uses
multiple URL structures to present playlists and now the plugin
should support all of them.
+ The "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
and "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width"
settings now apply to the path area and not only to the media area.
+ The minimum number of media library category columns has been changed
from 3 to 2.
+ The "erase playing media" and "fullscreen navigation erase" dialogs
now display the media's title alongside the file name.
+ Double-clicking the media library's category entries in list-view mode
now performs an "Enter" navigation action instead of "Right".
+ Replaced the "Right arrow" icon with an "Enter" icon on the mini
color control interface.
- Fixed a hidden crash that destabilized Zoom Player when closing
the media library while the thumb view was in the process of
smooth scrolling.
- You can no longer open the windowed go to time/chapter editor if
no media is currently playing.
- YouTube has a bug in it's API that can cause duplicate entries to
show when loading more entries. Previously in such cases,
Zoom Player didn't show a thumbnail for a duplicate entry, at
least this bug is fixed, can't do much about YouTube's API bugs.
- The media library's scraping counter did not update if you
exited the folder currently scraping until some action updated
the screen.
- Stopped the Create Ringtone function from attempting to work with
network streams (it never worked with URLs, but still allowed you
to select the position and fill in details into the save dialog).
- Fixed a rare case where the media library would not respond to
input correctly when playing a movie and then exiting to the main
navigation interface and then returning back to the media library.
- With the "opening media library always selects the playing media" setting
enabled, renaming a file or creating a new folder could change the active
path.
- Fixed high-DPI issues with unskinned confirmation dialogs.
- Fixed an erroneous OSD notification when using the media library's
mini-menu to add a category "refresh" or "append" entries to the playlist.
- Fixed an issue that caused the media library to freeze if there were
missing bitmap files in the navigation skin folder.
- While in fullscreen mode, clicking on the playlist editor or equalizer
windows when positioned over a hot-corner would activate the hot-corner
action.
- Opening a streaming YouTube URL using DirectShow would not show the
video's title in the play history until after the video was closed.
- Showing the control bar for the very first time showed a black rectangle
in the top left corner of the screen for a split second.
- Fixed a crash in the Media Library's playlist category plugin when parsing
certain ".m3u" playlists.
- When using the media library's refresh button on a plugin based category,
it accidentally cleared the media's titles.
- The advanced option dialog audio visualization configuration options were
completely broken.
- The "fnRestart" and "fnRestartWithParam" functions restarted Zoom Player
without first saving settings, which caused the restarted copy to revert
some settings.
- Playing a network shared file from command line would miss an external
subtitle file in the same folder and no subtitles were shown.
- With the "Disable the Control Bar in Window Mode" setting enabled,
exiting fullscreen briefly showed the control bar.
- When Two movie folders shared a similar base name (e.g. "Men in Black"
and "Men in Black 2"), the wrong progress bar position would show
for the first folder.
- Fixed a cosmetic glitch in the media scanner that caused paths to
draw over icons.
- Setting the image slideshow duration for loaded images to "0" would
show an incorrect "remaining time" value on the timeline.
- Fixed a few small memory leaks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16:
First a couple of notices :
! This version includes many enhancements throughout the fullscreen
navigation interface. If you previously purchased Zoom Player's
4K navigation skin pack and have not received links to download the
updated version by email,
contact Booga (https://reddit.com/user/Boogafreak), my helpful
support person with a DM and he'll take care of you.
Please include the purchase ID number in your request to speed up
the process.
! If you do not own the more expensive lifetime serial number or activation
key, and you've purchased Zoom Player within the last 12 months, you are
eligible to receive a free upgrade to v16!
We have already sent you an email with new serial, but if for some reason
you did not receive it (after checking spam and other folders),
please contact Booga (https://reddit.com/user/Boogafreak).
And now for the good stuff:
* Optimized drawing of media library category thumbnails, up-to 43% faster.
* Optimized drawing of media library media thumbnails, up-to 38% faster.
* Optimized the time it takes to open the media library, in some cases
up-to 50% faster.
* Optimized loading of the playcache file by up-to 17%, which should help
Zoom Player open faster when storing play history over a long duration.
* Rewrote scroll update polling to improve smoothness when scrolling within
the media library's thumbnail view.
* Due to a bug fix (see below) and optimizations to the code, Zoom Player
should close a little bit faster.
* Media library folder based categories are now sorted on a per-folder
basis. When entering a folder for the first time, it will always start
sorted by name, but any change to the sorting mode will now persist
without affecting other folders in the category.
* The media library category editor has been restructured. New categories
are no longer automatically sorted in alphabetical order and instead
always added to the bottom of the category list. New "Move up" and
"Move down" buttons now allow you to manually re-order categories.
* The media library category editor can now be set to show "All"
categories to allow sorting across category types.
* You can now sort the media library in Random order.
* You can now sort the media library by "Remaining Play Time" based on a
percentage of the media's remaining play remaining.
* New "Preferred audio device cycle list" (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio)
that allows you to select your preferred audio renderers and quickly
switch between them".
* New Shift+"A" keyboard macro that switches between audio rendering devices
on the Preferred audio device cycle list".
* TheMovieDB.org's media scraper is now capable of scraping U.S.
Movie (G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17) and TV (TV-Y/TV-Y7/TV-G/TV-PG/TV-14/TV-MA)
content rating. The content rating appears as an icon next to the
other codec/format icons appearing in jukebox mode.
You will need to re-scrape your media in order to see content rating
on previously scraped media.
* TheMovieDB.org's media scraper's configuration can now be set to
scrape for "no language" content.
* When going up to the base folder in the file browsing fullscreen
navigation interface, there is now a "Return to path list" option
to make navigation more intuitive.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to hide the media library's meta-data and category
filter sections, using the extra space to display more media.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) that controls whether
erasing files to the recycle bin also removes their record from the
play history.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that uses the fullscreen navigation
UI to confirm when deleting the currently playing file.
* New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization)
"Show play position bar on list icons with the this color" setting
(disabled by default)
* New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
"Show Previously Played counter in path area" setting that displays the
number of yet to be played media within the current media library folder
next to the folder's path (disabled by default).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to control whether opening the media library should always try to show
the currently playing file. With this setting disabled, the currently
playing file would only show once each time a file is played and the
media library is opened.
* New YouTube Playlist media library plugin which allows you to easily
import YouTube playlists as Zoom Player media library categories.
* New network keep-alive feature (Adv. Options / Playback Files & Paths)
that instructs Zoom Player to access the specified paths to make sure a
network share does not disconnect for inactivity.
* You can now refresh a media library category with a new "Refresh" button
to update the display if the folder content was changed in the background.
* The "Start player in" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size)
has been split to provide a more granular control of how the player should
start. Please note that this change required resetting this setting to
it's default value.
* When going up to the base folder in a media library file list view, there
is now a "Return to categories" option to make navigation more intuitive.
* Zoom Player's Event Ghost plugin has been updated to support all the
latest Zoom Player functions:
http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3498&p=55891#p55891
* The navigation skinning engine has been enhanced to add more granular
support for the path area's icons.
* Pressing the media library's refresh button will also refresh the scraped
images, reflecting any manual changes to poster images.
+ The "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" setting now
works better when used in combination with the "Nav-Enter on media library
category list opens the category at the root folder" setting.
+ When both "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" and
"Nav-Enter on media library category list opens the category at the root
folder" settings are enabled, entering a category will highlight the
folder containing the last played file.
+ Erasing files/folders from the media library will now erase their scraped
meta-data/thumbnail cache from the "MediaCache" folder.
+ Using the "/LASTNAV" and "/MAINNAV" command line parameters no longer
switches the user interface to fullscreen automatically, you must now
add the "/F" parameter to maintain the same functionality.
+ Clicking the media library's "<" button now respects the "Nav-Left goes
up a folder before entering the Drive/Category list" setting.
+ The "Show system library folders in the Media Library Navigator" setting
has been removed and replaced by a new button in the media library category
editor that lets you add the windows library folders with a single click.
With this change, you are now able to easily customize the windows
library folders.
+ The play history's "Erase" entries has been renamed to "Remove from Play
History" to make it clearer the files themselves are not touched.
+ Switching to the 'system' sub-menu in the main fullscreen navigation
interface will now switch the title from 'main' to 'system'.
+ When completing playback of a media, the play history dialog and
fullscreen navigation interfaces will no longer show a zero position or
no position at all and will instead show the media's duration to signify
the media has been played all the way through.
+ You can now use the Home/End keys within the media library fullscreen
navigation interface's category filter section to access the top/bottom
of the category list.
+ Removing the currently playing media from play history will now close
the playing media.
+ The fullscreen information navigation interface now splits long
information into multiple lines.
+ For clarity, the media library's "Select / Unselect" and multiple
selection functions have been split into two separate entries.
+ Opus audio duration is now retrieved when used with an ".ogg" container.
+ Opus audio duration is now retrieved by default when adding ".opus" files
to the playlist. For existing Zoom Player users, to enable this feature
you must click the "default" button next to the "Auto-Get Duration"
section of the Advanced Options' "File Extension" page.
+ APE audio duration is now retrieved by default when adding ".ape" files
to the playlist. For existing Zoom Player users, to enable this feature
you must click the "default" button next to the "Auto-Get Duration"
section of the Advanced Options' "File Extension" page.
- The caching mechanism for media library category thumbnail caching was
mostly broken, not actually caching most of the thumbnails. With this
fix, subsequently browsing the category list should be much snappier.
- Scraping meta-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file
didn't support IMDB IDs longer than 7 digits.
- Scraping meta-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file
with an IMDB URL didn't write the IMDB id into the meta-data cache.
- The RSS feed media library plugin wont show duplicate entries if the server
moves from http:// to https:// links. However, old entries that were
already downloaded before this fix may remain as duplicates.
- Enabling 'Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width'
caused cosmetic issues in the equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
- Restoring after minimizing the user interface from fullscreen mode, no
longer restores the user interface to windowed mode instead of fullscreen.
- Fixed a freeze when playing JPEG files with malformed exif headers.
- Renaming files/folder in the media library no longer causes the play
position to be forgotten and the media no longer requires a re-scrape
operation.
- The YouTube Channel media library plugin now support YouTube channels that
use a slightly different URL structure.
For example "https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFighterAndTheKid/videos".
It will not work 100% of the time as google didn't release an API call
to translate custom channel names to a channel ID required to get a 100%
reliable result. For more information, see:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/174903934
- The YouTube Media Library plugins did not take into account time-zone
and daylight saving differences when displaying a video's publish time.
- Clicking the 'show volume bar' button on the control bar showed
the volume bar in a slightly-off position.
- The Adjust Image fullscreen navigation interface did not list the
active Aspect Ratio correctly.
- The fullscreen information navigation interface did not display in the
correct width under some conditions.
- The full path displayed in the play history fullscreen navigation
interface is now correctly truncated to more clearly display long
file names.
- Disabling the "Flash active thumbnail on navigation actions" setting,
prevented the media library thumbnail view from updating when resizing
the screen and until a navigation action was triggered.
- Network paths specified in the 'File Browser "Network / Disk" mapping'
setting no longer allow you to 'folder-up' once reaching the specified
base path.
- Disabling the "Flash active thumbnail on navigation actions" setting,
at times prevented the media library thumbnail view from updating when
entering categories.
- Switching to audio mode with calibration patterns visible didn't hide
the patterns, messing up the UI.
- When opening the media library's functions page in an empty category, a
cosmetic glitch showing a "-2 B" size would appear in the file size area.
- Fixed a few cosmetic issues with residue text remaining on-screen after
existing the media library's function menu.
- When the current monitor used a high-DPI setting, the icon on confirmation
/warning/information dialogs appeared cropped.
- Skin tinting did not affect confirmation/warning/information dialogs.
- The play position bar in the media library's TV jukebox mode was not
properly integrated when the thumbnail frame used round corners like
in the Sunset skin.
- The file browser fullscreen navigation interface suffered some issues when
working with empty drives/root folders.
- Fixed multiple issues when trying to erase network shared folders from
within the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface:
1. Currently playing file did not close.
2. File was not removed from play history.
- The main fullscreen navigation interface's 'system' sub-menu did not show
relevant icons, only showing the system icon.
- The Advanced Options dialog's "Help / Export" button's pop-up menu did not
draw correctly on high-DPI displays.
- The playlist's "Open item folder", "Save playing file" and
"Rename/Move file" features did not work with network paths.
- Deleting all play history entries could leave some entries listed in the
dialog until the dialog was closed and reopened.
- Trying to show a fullscreen navigation interface while Zoom Player is
minimized now restores Zoom Player's window.
- The Play History and Play History fullscreen navigation interfaces
will now display the play position for the currently playing file
correctly.
- Creating folder using the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface
failed when used under a network path.
- Under some conditions, Zoom Player's media cache folder containing
scraped metadata and images (thumbnails, posters, backdrops) would
prune every time you tried closing Zoom Player, instead of once
per week.
- Fixed several glitches related to the media library's mini-menu accessible
through a long mouse click on a thumbnail.
- Clicking the 'back' button in the media library's movie poster view and
then using the keyboard to move the active thumb left would exist the
category entirely.
- The main fullscreen navigation interface's system menu used a different
brightness value compared to the home menu.
- Under some conditions, using the options dialog to customize the media
library while a media was loaded would switch the category/path.
- You could not erase the currently playing media file from within Zoom
Player if the media was loaded from an external source (e.g. explorer)
over a network shared path.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.5:
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls whether a progress position bar appears on the bottom of
thumbnails instead of the current position time.
* New "Play position bar Position and Color" settings (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) allowing you to select where
the position bar appears in thumb view mode, the options are:
1. Bottom of thumbnail
2. Top of text area
3. Bottom of text area
* New "Show TV series name when scraping TV episodes in JukeBox mode"
setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls the percentage of a media you need to see before it is marked
with the "seen" overlay (eye icon).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that controls whether playback
should be paused when exiting fullscreen using the ESC key.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that allow you
to customize the right-click on timeline seek distance.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls
whether the control bar should hide automatically if the mouse cursor
is currently hovering above the control bar (enabled by default).
Previously the control bar would never hide if the mouse cursor hovered
above it, now you are in control.
* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct
Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles
when adding files to the playlist.
Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and
is not suited for very large playlists.
* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct
Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles
based on the parent folder of the playing media (usually applies to movies)
when adding files to the playlist.
Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and
is not suited for very large playlists.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that control whether the current play position is drawn on movie folders.
* When the current position bar is enabled, it is now drawn on movie
posters in jukebox mode.
Please note, this feature will only work properly if there is only one
video file within the movie's folder. If the movie is split across
multiple files, the bar's position may show an incorrect value.
* The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now displays the path to the
currently highlighted playlist entry on the bottom of the screen.
* When using the correct folder structure for the Movie scraping
(folder named for the movie+year and one video file within), the
last play position will now appear on the movie's folder thumbnail.
* New "Disable automated cache clean-up" setting (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that prevents the automated
clean-up of the thumbnail cache.
While cleaning the cache is a once per week operation, when using a
large cache size, it can take up to a minute to clear the cache when
using a mechanical HDD drive (on an SSD drive it takes 1-2 seconds).
* The play history window now includes a last play position column.
* The play history window now includes the last play time along with
the play date.
* The play history window's right-click menu can now be used to remove
selected entries.
* New entry in the play history's right-click menu to try obtaining titles
for the selected entries using meta-data scraped through the media library.
* The YouTube Media Library plugin now includes an option to set
your own YouTube API Key.
To get your own key, all you need is a google account and
filling in a few forms:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application
By using your own API key, you can gain analytics insights from google.
* Double clicking a category in the category editor dialog now opens
the category's configuration dialog.
* New "fnRestart" function to restart Zoom Player.
* New "fnRestartWithParams" function to restart Zoom Player with the same
command line parameters it was executed with.
+ In previous version, the seen icon (eye) would show on a media library
thumbnail if that media has been played previously.
Now the seen icon is only displayed when at least 95% of the media has
been seen (you can customize this value).
+ When playing a media file all the way through to the end, it's position
will now display as fully played instead of no position at all.
This does not affect playback, playing the media file will start at the
beginning.
+ Zoom Player should close much faster when closing the player while a
download plugin was refreshing content.
+ The RSS media library plugin can now display more than 5000 entries, it can
now display any number of entries fitting under 10mb of RAM.
+ The play history window can now be used to select multiple entries.
+ Ctrl+"A" now works to select every item in the play history window.
+ You can now enter empty (folder based) media library categories in order
to perform file operations (copy/paste) instead of Zoom Player displaying
a "The Category is Empty" message.
+ When using the AB-Repeat feature, the on-screen markers now hide after
setting the repeat end position, no longer obscuring parts of the video.
+ Added support for new YouTube channel URL structures that
included '/c/' instead of '/user/' or '/channel'.
+ Due to a YouTube licensing requirement, OSD messages will no longer
appear when playing YouTube content.
- Fixed a bug that triggered a re-scrape of media information whenever
daylight saving was enabled/disabled.
- Fixed an issue that caused the wrong track to play when opening a media
file from explorer (or other external process) if the option to clear
the playlist was not enabled.
- Using the Advanced Playlist Control to sort items would not work as
intended if two items with the same file name were present in the playlist
using different titles.
- The OpenSubtitles.org subtitle search plugin did not save non-English
characters in the username correctly.
- The YouTube plugin now correctly displays the video's publish date after
YouTube changed the date format May/2020.
- Fixed a rare crash when resizing the media library window in thumbnail
view mode.
- Fixed a bug that prevented maximizing to fullscreen if the "Prevent
exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting was enabled in some cases.
- When using the same media library category name for two different category
content types (e.g. TV & Movies), re-opening the media library after playing
content from one of the categories could result in the wrong category showing.
- A bug in the DVD auto-loading bookmarks code caused bookmarks to be ignored.
- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not maintain
the folder's date, causing it to be re-scraped and any custom artwork to
be ignored.
- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not update
the media history play cache, causing the last play position to
disappear.
- The Guard Dog feature was incorrectly activated when exiting sleep mode.
- With the "Use Media Title if Available" setting disabled, the media title
could still become visible in the main window's title area under some
conditions.
- Fixed an issue that slowed down loading large playlists when
drag & dropping the playlists into Zoom Player.
- Fixed an issue where the media library's "refresh" entry could become
selected for file operations (copy/paste).
- The media library's category editor's "Open Media Library" button did
not open the media library with the selected category highlighted if
the category was not listed due to a category filter. Now the category
filter is reset to ensure the correct category is highlighted.
- Updated the user-agent ZP uses when downloading data from web servers
as some servers were blocking ZP thinking it was an older browser.
- The YouTube media library plugins did not save the "Maximum thumbnail-
resolution (720p, more bandwidth)" setting.
- The control bar's timeline seek preview image is now hidden instantly when
closing the control bar.
- Opening certain dialogs (e.g. the "Media library category editor") when
Zoom Player's window was close to a screen edge would open the dialog
partially off-screen.
- When enabling the "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to
full width" or "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width"
settings, some of the main navigation interface's icons did not appear.
- The GuardDog feature could have automatically executed if it took
Zoom Player too long to close.
- At times, a media library scraped backdrop image would remain in use
after re-opening the media library in category listing.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15:
* Live YouTube stream support using the latest version of the
3DYD YouTube source and LAV Filters.
* New YouTube channel listing strategy (not enabled by default)
which you can now enable through the Media Library category
editor.
The new strategy works by listing videos in a channel's "Uploads"
playlist. The downside to this strategy is that some videos
may not be ordered by Publish date. For this reason, 50 videos
are requested instead of the usual 25 and these videos are then
sorted by the plugin instead of just listing them as-is. The upside
is that you get longer descriptions for the videos.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) to control whether
the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls should process DTS/Dolby audio
(and their sub-formats such as DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos, E-EAC, etc).
By default, these formats are not processed as they are intended
for decoding by an external receiver over S/PDIF or BitStreaming.
However if you decode these formats on your PC, disabling this
setting will allow the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls to function.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / System" (disabled by default) to allow the
Command & Control API to remotely control the PC's mouse cursor.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that lets you
specify the number of milliseconds Zoom Player should wait after
closing a streaming media before resuming operations.
* New setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that
controls whether playback should be paused before trying to capture
a video frame. Please note that it's possible that some video
renderers may not be able to capture a frame if the media is playing.
* New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to enable listing
live streams. To playback live YouTube streams you must use the
IFRAME player or use D3D YouTube Source filter v2 or newer.
* New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to use the maximum
thumbnail resolution YouTube provides (now disabled by default).
In previous versions getting the maximum resolution thumbnail was
the default behavior, however there are rare instances where the
maximum resolution and extra bandwidth are merited.
Additionally, there is a YouTube bug that lists a URL for the
maximum resolution thumbnail without the file actually being
available, so this change works around this issue.
* The media library can now display a format icon for the new
AV1, DTS:X and Dolby Atmos audio/video codecs.
* The Play History fullscreen navigation interface now lists the
last play time (not just the date), the last play position and
the full path to the currently highlighted entry.
* The Favorite media fullscreen navigation interface now shows the
full path to the highlighted entry.
* New "Go" button on the station editor to make search practical
without access to a keyboard.
* New "Close on Play" checkbox on the Advanced Playlist Control dialog
to control whether the dialog remains open or closed after playing a
new media from the dialog.
* New Smart Play profile for the "ADTS" streaming audio wrapper format.
* New Smart Play profile for the ".DSF" file format.
* New Smart Play profile for the "DSD" (Direct Stream Digital) codec.
* Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded:
1. New command to open a streaming URL.
2. New command to Get & Set the current playlist
sorting order (Ascending/Descending).
3. New command to sort the playlist (by name, size, date, etc).
* Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded with support
for remotely controlling the PC's mouse cursor. For additional
security, this capability requires you to enable the new
"Allow remote mouse control" setting.
* New "/SHOWOSD:[Text]" command line parameter used to show a pop-up
OSD on an already running instance of Zoom Player.
+ Ctrl+"V" now works in the playlist editor's search box.
+ The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface has been enhanced to
work more intuitively and with less clicking required to reach
the desired time.
+ The Media Library category editor has been restructured to make it
easier to use when working with many categories.
+ Changed how information (text/icons) are aligned on the right side of
fullscreen navigation interfaces so the information does not shift around
when the selected line is changed.
+ Tweaked the list based fullscreen navigation interfaces to squeeze out
a little more horizontal space.
+ The Torrents download plugin has been updated to support qBitTorrent
API v2, requiring qBitTorrent v4.2 or newer, please upgrade.
+ You can now drag the meta-data edit window more easily by dragging
from anywhere in the windows.
+ Newly created YouTube media library categories will no longer show
a video icon overlay by default (as all content from YouTube is
video).
+ YouTube changed their text encoding scheme which caused Zoom Player
to show the encoding of certain characters instead of the actual
characters.
+ Trying to open a navigation interface while in audio mode simply
didn't do anything, now Zoom Player will automatically switch to
media mode and show the navigation interface.
+ Trying to seek backward/forward on a live stream with no duration
will no longer show an OSD message as if a seek was performed.
+ TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now scrape movies that do not contain
a poster image.
+ The fullscreen navigation information interface no longer closes
automatically when opening a new media file.
+ When safe mode is enabled, instead of completely hiding the main
navigation interface's "System" sub-menu, now only the "Exit Zoom Player"
entry is hidden.
+ The Next/Previous frame functions are now ignored when playing
audio-only content (there was no real use for it and it caused weird
behavior with some decoders).
+ Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline no longer pops up a
"00:00" position hint when playing a live stream with no duration.
+ To prevent instability, if Zoom Player's options dialog is open,
all API/Keyboard processing (for the main window) are now disabled.
+ Using the "fnTitleToClipboard" function with no media playing will
now try to get the title from the currently highlighted playlist
entry.
+ The "Close Navigator when opening a new file" setting now applies
to the streaming fullscreen navigation interface. Previously it
would always close the interface regardless of the setting.
+ Opening a streaming URL now closes the fullscreen navigation interface.
+ Extended the Command & Control API message 1870 to support passing
a title along with the URL to stream.
+ When playing an MP3 with ID3v2 TAGs that contain multiple images, now
the first embedded image is displayed instead of the last.
+ Right clicking a track in the playlist editor will now select the
track less than 2 other tracks are currently selected.
- Rewrote the entire system that handles the currently selected audio
device. Previously, if you were to disconnect an audio device
(e.g. a BlueTooth headset), Zoom Player would switch to the default
audio device, but when the the audio device was reconnected,
Zoom Player would continue to use the default device instead of the
previously selected device.
Now Zoom Player always tries to use the previously selected device
and only temporarily switches to the default device if the selected
device is not currently available.
- A major bug that was introduced in v13.5 prevented the Equalizer and
Pre-Amp controls from functioning when decoding audio using a filter
that outputs the WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE" structure (Which LAV Audio
Decoder uses for most audio formats it decodes).
- Fix for a possible freeze when opening the media library.
- The default 16:10 skin was showing a 1px clear line to the right of
the movie poster in jukebox mode.
- Streaming audio with non-English characters encoded in the stream's
meta-data would sometimes display the wrong characters.
- Fixed an issue where pressing next track in a playlist containing an
executable file would not stop playing the previous media track after
executing the playlist entry, which also caused a cosmetic glitch in
the playlist editor.
- Furiously Clicking the mouse's right button to open the context menu
while a track was loading caused multiple context menus to appear on
screen and could even lead to a crash in some cases.
- Under some rare conditions, Mouse Gesture actions could trigger without
the left mouse button being held down.
- Unchecking "Limit 'Hot Corners' to fullscreen mode" caused issues trying
to move the player windows in Audio Mode.
- Pressing DEL to erase the currently playing media will no longer prompt
you to delete to recycle bin if the playing media is a URL.
- Stopped the two settings that control automatic switching between Audio
and Media mode from working while the player is in fullscreen mode:
Auto Switch to Audio Mode when a Media File does not contain a Video Stream
Auto Switch to Media Mode when a Media File contains a Video Stream
- Deleting the active entry in the playlist editor (orange highlight when
using the default onyx skin), did not reset the active entry if that
track wasn't currently playing.
- Using the "fnPLEditMetaData" function (for example using the command line
"/func:fnPLEditMetaData" parameter) several times would cause multiple
windows to appear.
- The internal screen saver no longer activates if a track is currently
in the process of loading or if an error dialog is currently visible.
- Using the Advanced Playlist Control to move items to the top or
bottom while a media was playing messed up the playlist active item
display as well as the ID3/TAG on-screen information.
- When the media library displayed a movie with no poster in JukeBox
mode, the poster area showed random junk.
- Trying to switch to Audio or DVD modes while a media was in the
process of loading triggered a crash.
- Trying to close the Playlist editor while a track was in the process
of loading triggered a crash.
- Deleting the currently playing file did not remove the file from the
current playlist.
- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen
on the "Favorites" navigation interface.
- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the
stream selection navigation interface.
- It's no longer possible to erase files in safe mode from within the media
library mini-menu.
- Enabling "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
or "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width" settings
would break the visual integrity of the information fullscreen navigation
interface (and the Main navigation interface if it was used in list mode).
- The Media Library's "Run Application" plug-in did not run applications
correctly if some command line parameters were used.
- Fixed a freeze when using the MPC Audio Renderer combined with the
"Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting.
- Fixed an issue where certain characters used in a media library's
category path could corrupt the category list or prevent the afflicted
category from functioning correctly.
- Under some condition, the previously played media title would appear
in the timeline area and invalid entries were being added to the
play history.
- Erasing entries from the favorite media list did not actually save the
list your drive. Unless a new entry was added (which did save the list),
restarting Zoom Player would restore the erased entries.
- The sub-folder selection within the media scanner fullscreen
navigation interface would draw outside the defined line boundaries.
- The media scanner no longer allows you to add folders to plugin
based categories (which are not folder based).
- The "Refresh" button on the media library category configuration
dialog was accidentally left enabled for folder based categories.
Clicking it would trigger a "list index out of bounds" error.
- Playing a media through the Advanced Playlist Control dialog and then
trying to close the dialog before the media finished loading would
cause a non-fatal crash.
- Removing entries from the playlist editor did not always select the
current remaining track.
- Rewind, Fast Forward and Slow Motion are now disabled when playing
live streams with no duration (these functions were interfering
with playback).
- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen
on the "Favorites" navigation interface.
- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the
stream selection navigation interface.
- The chapter selection pop-up OSD appeared in the wrong screen position.
- In the playlist editor, clicking the blank area under the playlist
entries would select the last entry without clearing the currently
selected entry.
- Manually editing a Zoom Player ".CHP" chapter file using an external
text editor could have triggered a freeze when trying to load the
associated media file.
- Changing the internal screen saver's slideshow path did not take
affect until the next player restart if the screen saver was
previously active (changing the folder didn't clear the cache).
- Streaming audio-only YouTube with visualizations would not always
enable the ZP DSP Filter, causing synchronization issues between
the audio and visualization.
- Pressing the next-track button with the next tracks being a series of
executable files would execute all files at once instead of just the
first executable and pausing.
- Trying to close the Install Center during an install could have
resulted in a crash.
- The "Trash" icon no longer shows up at the bottom of the media library
fullscreen navigation mode when Safe Mode is enabled.
- Since they were causing playback issues, the Fast Play, Slow Motion,
Half Speed Fast-Play, Half Speed Slow Motion and Increase/Decrease
Play Rate functions are no longer accessible when playing a live
stream with no duration.
- Using Shift+Delete to delete the currently selected playlist entries
did not work properly if one of the selected entries was the currently
playing media.
- When Zoom Player was minimized to the taskbar, instructing Zoom Player
to switch to fullscreen mode did not work as intended.
- Trying to play a URL straight from the windows clipboard will no longer
try playing if the clipboard does not actually contain a URL.
- Opening the previously open navigation interface did not work when the
previous navigation interface was the 'Favorites'.
- Going back from the favorites fullscreen navigation interface to the
main interface highlighted the playlist icon instead of the favorites
icon.
- Using the play history fullscreen navigation with safe mode enabled
would trigger a crash or cosmetic glitches when trying to access
the functions page.
- Assigning functions that auto-execute when a secondary screen is attached
or detached did not execute under some conditions.
- Some functions called from command line using the "/func" or "/exfunc"
parameters could have run before Zoom Player finished loading, triggering
unexpected behavior.
- You can no longer try to erase the "refresh" and "more" (plus) entries
in the media library.
- The "Scrapers file name blacklist:" label disappeared under
"Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View".
- TheMovieDB scraper plugin can now display information on multiple
directors of one movie instead of just the first director.
- In very rare cases where a corrupt media file was played and the
"Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played"
setting was enabled, if the next entry in the playlist was an
executable, the user interface would think the previous item
was still playing, leaving the player window in a sort of
in-between state that didn't show some text.
- The delete icon was visible in the download manager fullscreen
navigation while safe mode was enabled.
- The playlist editor's right-click menu's "Add Streaming URL" feature
caused a visual glitch where the highlighted playlist entry was not
the one actually playing.
- Pressing the Enter key on the playlist editor right after running
the player would play the first track instead of the last played track.
- Under some rare conditions, the play history dialog could show duplicate
entries of the same media.
- When playing certain live feeds, right-clicking the timeline could
wrongfully show a "Seeking 0 seconds" OSD.
- Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline will no longer show
the timeline position or a preview image if the playing media has
no duration (e.g. when viewing a jpeg image).
- Some UTF8 encoded ".txt" files did not display anything when viewed.
- Loading ".wpl" playlists that contain URLs did not load the URL
entries correctly.
- Using the Advanced Playlist Control's "Move to Bottom" function caused
issues if the currently playing media was moved.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5:
* Extended video streaming support for the following web sites:
Facebook (facebook.com)
Vimeo (vimeo.com)
Dailymotion (dailymotion.com)
VK (vk.com)
LiveLeak (liveleak.com)
Break.com (break.com)
Veoh (veoh.com)
eBaum's World (ebaumsworld.com)
VKMag.com (vkmag.com)
Team Four Star (teamfourstar.com)
GodTube (godtube.com)
StreetFire.net (streetfire.net)
Daily HaHa (dailyhaha.com)
TCMag.com (tcmag.com)
Bofunk (bofunk.com)
Some sites (e.g. facebook) may require you to enable the extended analysis
mode for the 3DYD filter through the Zoom Player Install Center.
* Automatic fullscreen navigation skin switching based on the display's
aspect ratio.
For example, by specifying a 16:10 and selected a Zoom Player navigation
skin designed for 16:10 displays.
(e.g. https://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/nav/default1610.shtml)
Note:
Skin switching is currently only triggered when opening a navigation
interface.
* TheMovieDB.org media library scraping plugin has been enhanced and can
now return non-english meta-data (texts and images).
* The playlist editor (when using the default Onyx skin or the bundled
Alba skin) now draws alternating line highlights making the playlist
easier to track visually.
* The playlist editor's right-click menu now features Colorize actions
that let you easily color-code track(s) text and background colors.
The color information is automatically saved and restored when using
Zoom Player's default ZPL format playlists.
* New "PlayListData/Background2" skin script parameter that specifies
the alternating playlist editor line highlight color.
* New "Thumb rendering threads" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of CPU threads
used to render the thumbview display.
Previously, this setting was hard-coded to use 2 threads, but now you
can specify any value from "Auto" to "16".
Auto mode uses either 2 or 3 threads depending on your PC, but
performance can be improved further with additional threads on systems
containing many cores or high bandwidth RAM.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that automatically tries to use
the YouTube IFRAME player if DirectShow playback of a YouTube stream
fails.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls):
"Next / Previous Track" plays the next/prev media in the same folder if
playlist contains 1 file.
This function behind this setting was previously always enabled.
This setting remains enabled by default, but from now you can disable
this behavior from the advanced options dialog.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio when
enabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to
force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width.
Unlike the "full width" setting, this setting will make the navigation
list area take the display device's maximum resolution, which can cause
some cosmetic issues (like the thumbnail highlight getting cropped).
* New "Support folders as playlist entries" Setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Playlist). This setting was previously hardcoded and
is still enabled by default to support advanced playlist functionality.
However, supporting folders as playlist entries triggers a spun-down HDD
drive to spin back up when a playlist is loaded. With this new setting
disabled, you can now prevent drives from accidentally spinning up.
* The advanced playlist control (accessible through the playlist editor
or by pressing "J") now shows the number of items remaining in the
playlist as the search filters the playlist.
* New "Refresh" option (Media Library Category Editor / Configure Category)
for YouTube channels and RSS Streams that refreshes the channel's Name &
Thumbnail.
* New "exVidMoveHorz" and "exVidMoveVert" extended functions that move
the video area (fullscreen) or player window (when not in fullscreen)
horizontally and vertically.
Command line usage example:
zplayer.exe /exfunc:exvidmovehorz,-200 /exfunc:exvidmovevert,-100
* New "fnToggleOverlayCover" function to toggle the "Video covers entire
display area" setting on and off.
+ Optimized the Media Library's thumbnail drawing code, increasing update
speed and smoothness.
+ The Maximum number of scraping threads used by the media library has
increased from 8 to 16.
+ The advanced playlist control's filter search was searching the
entire playlist on each letter pressed, this caused a sluggish
user experience when dealing with very larger playlists (over
30,000 entries).
To enhance the user experience, the search action is now only
performed 350-400ms after the last key-stroke, ensuring that
the user interface does not stall while typing.
+ When a media library scraped movie did not contain a backdrop image,
the default background image is now used instead of a black screen.
+ Zoom Player now does a better job at extracting album art images from
media files if the JPEG image contains junk in front of the actual image.
+ The Install Center now includes two configuration profiles for the
3DYD YouTube Source filter that enable HD/4K streaming.
+ Visualization are now supported when the 3DYD YouTube Source filter is
set to "audio only" output.
+ The Command & Control API now notifies when subtitles are enabled/
disabled when using the "fnToggleSub" and "fnDisableDVDsub" functions.
+ Updated the PNG and zLib libraries to newer versions.
- TheAudioDB.com scraper plugin is now functional again after the API used
by the site moved to encrypted communication (https), breaking backward
compatibility.
- TheAudioDB.com media library scraper can now better handle artist names
containing the "-" character, for example "Alt-J - This Is All Yours"
will now properly scrape.
- Starting Zoom Player with the "Do not check if a file exists when adding
to the playlist" setting enabled no longer triggers spun-down HDD drives
to spin-up.
- The GuardDog feature tried to restart Zoom Player if Zoom Player's
load time was taking too long (due to HDD drive spin-ups or a network
drive reconnection), from now the guard dog feature will only start
functioning once Zoom Player has finished loading.
- When viewing the media library's TV/Movie in JukeBox mode, the backdrop
images was not scaled and cropped properly on non-16:9 displays
(e.g. 1920x1200 monitor) leaving black bars instead of filling with
the backdrop.
- Kinetic scrolling in the media library did not work well using a mouse
cursor, stopping when attempting to scroll multiple times while the
kinetic movement was still in mid process.
- Fixed a possible TheMovieDB.org scraper freeze (could have caused
slow-downs on exit or more rarely, a player freeze) when used in
combination with the "Scrape using media derived title (instead
of file name)" category setting.
- The Media Library's Jukebox mode would not enable if the only file in
the folder was a playlist.
- Fixed a case where a media library scraped movie not containing a
backdrop image showed a backdrop from another movie.
- When the "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" category
setting was enabled, under some conditions, the media's thumbnail would not
display after closing and reopening the media library.
- Playing media that contained certain special characters in the media's
title caused multiple unplayable entries to appear in the play history.
- If a media title contained a 'line feed' or 'return' characters, it would
corrupt the play history.
- With the "Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size - Auto-Size User
Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled,
playing audio files with folder/album art could cause Zoom Player's main
window to display partially off-screen.
- The latest version of mediainfo DLL changed how it extracts cover art
for audio files, breaking Zoom Player support for displaying the album
art with some audio formats (mainly M4A).
- Better album art image extraction from audio files with ID3v2 TAGs when
the image header included some junk data.
- When opening a media file by double-clicking from explorer (or other
file managers), the currently playing track wouldn't highlight correctly
and show the playing position in the playlist editor.
- Using the "Stop" function while a JPEG/PNG image was loading, combined
with a setting that closes the playing media when using the "Stop"
function, caused the image to remain on screen under some conditions.
- Double-clicking an entry on the skin selection dialog could sometimes
trigger an access violation error.
- When opening the playlist editor, under some conditions the bottom
entries would not show up until the playlist screen was refreshed
by a click or scroll.
- The "&" character wasn't showing up in the playlist editor.
- Pressing under the last item in the playlist editor did not
visually select the last item in the list. Then if you pressed
the "Enter" key, it would start playing the last item in the
playlist which was a bit confusing without the visual cue of
a selected entry.
- Fixed a crash when trying to play a video file with too many
external audio tracks. External audio tracks are now limited
to a maximum of 10 tracks.
- When the "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
setting was enabled in combination with the "Use dynamically visible
scroll bar" setting, the thumbnail would not highlight correctly.
- Zoom Player will no longer try running MediaInfo.dll when playing a URL,
removing the 'unknown error' message from the play information dialogs.
- Using the "^" character in a file name to force the media library
scraper to ignore any text after this character did not work properly
in some cases.
- The "Mute audio during forward and backward seeks" setting was muting
audio when attempting to seek forward/backward in a live stream even
in cases where seeking was not possible.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.4:
* Initial support for the AV1 video compression format:
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1), is an open, royalty-free video coding format
designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It is being
developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium
of firms from the semiconductor industry, video on demand providers,
and web browser developers, founded in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
The AV1 codec should eventually provide a 20% superior image
quality/bitrate compared to HEVC (H.265).
* New "Run Application" media library plugin that lets you run applications
and scripts directly from a media library category thumbnail.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface), Station manager should stay on
top of other application when switching to fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback), Load .URL files as streaming media
(otherwise load as web page).
* New (Adv. Options / Playback) "On play complete" option to execute an
application or script as soon as the playlist completes playing.
+ Media library meta-data scraping had issues with long file paths and
URLs (over 200 characaters, depending on Zoom Player's installation
path) due to an early design decision to make the cached entries easy
to identify using their file names and URL addresses.
However, to this day, windows does not support paths longer than 255
characters correctly. As a work-around, if a long file name or url is
processed, the cache mechanism now uses a short hash instead
of the full file name or url.
+ Enhanced support for RSS feed thumbnails. More thumbnails should show
up when adding RSS feeds as media library categories (including more
category thumbnail for feeds that support them).
+ If an RSS Feed has multiple entries with the same publish date, the
entries will now be second-level sorted by URL.
+ The number of RSS entries cached by the media library plugin has been
raised from 2000 to 5000.
+ Two Sonique visualization resolution settings have changed from an
aspect ratio of 4:3 to 16:9 :
320x240 -> 320x180
640x480 -> 640x360
This change may not be reflected in the drop-down list if you are
not using an updated language pack, but this is just cosmetic, the
new resolutions are set according to the numbers above.
+ Enhanced the SHOUTcast station sorting.
+ When downloading playlists, Zoom Player now uses the windows temp
folder instead of the 'my documents'.
+ When playing archive files (zip/rar), the archive is now extracted to
the windows temp folder instead of 'my documents'.
+ Meta-data returned when playing streaming audio is now trimmed to remove
superfluous spaces before/after the returned text.
- A race condition caused the scrape manager thread not to signal it is
terminating correctly, causing Zoom Player to freeze on exit.
- The media library playlist plugin now supports playlist URLs longer than
255 characters long.
- RSS feeds containing a special unicode line-break character in the
description would trigger a freeze when opening the RSS media library
category a second time.
- Enabling the "Share Play History at a custom path" setting and not
specifying a trailing "\" in the folder name would cause the play
history to be saved incorrectly.
- The "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played"
setting would skip tracks if the unplayable media was the last playlist
entry.
- Opening a playlist from the file-open dialog would not always preserve
the active playlist entry as specified in the playlist file.
- Some unicode characters did not show up correctly in the playlist editor
and music OSD if the selected font did not support the characters.
Now a different windows text-rendering function is used, one that takes
unsupported character from a system-default font.
- When including an executable entry in the playlist, playback did not
progress to the next track correctly and would cause the wrong title
to appear in the playlist editor.
- Playing an audio file with visualization could cause the right click menu
to show multiple "close navigator" entries when right-clicking on a
fullscreen navigation interface.
- The SHOUTcast station browser would show duplicate entries after opening
the dialog multiple times on different days.
- When playing SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, playing the next track would
cause the previously playing title to overwrite the new track's title
in the playlist editor.
- Opening a streaming URL from clipboard (Alt+Ctrl+"U") failed to work if
the URL was a playlist.
- Pressing the "Play (add to playlist)" button while a navigation interface
was visible and the "Stop closes the navigation interfaces" setting was
enabled prevented playback of the station from starting.
- Parsing ".CUE" files failed when the an entry contained the word "TRACK"
in either the performer or title tags.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.3:
* You can now perform sorting (by Listeners, Name, BitRate & Format)
in the SHOUTcast station browser dialog.
+ When the up/down arrow keys are assigned to next/previous chapter
or track, the up/down keys were not set logically, now pressing
down will go to the next track/chapter and pressing up will
go to the previous track/chapter.
+ Opening a YouTube channel with no internet connection now shows
a refresh option instead of a message that the category is empty.
+ Using the 'Open subtitle file' to add a subtitle to the currently
playing media now initializes the file selection dialog to open in
the playing media's folder.
+ The stream selection fullscreen navigation interface will no longer
automatically close when switching between tracks.
+ You can now open the stream selection fullscreen navigation interface
even if no media is currently playing.
- Due to a language file that was not updated in version 14.2,
the titles on navigation interfaces showed the wrong title.
- Pressing the "Load More" button in media library categories with
a plugin capable of showing multiple pages (e.g. YouTube) would
cause the "refresh" option to disappear if there were no more
media to list.
- The RSS feed media library plugin was not showing the correct
publishing dates for some RSS feed (e.g. YouTube RSS).
- Trying to load a playlist through the Open URL (Shift+"U")
dialog failed with an error message.
- The media library playlist plugin did not function properly
under some conditions, reporting an empty category.
- The media library playlist plugin did not use a clean category
name when a playlist URL was used instead of an actual file.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2:
* New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface.
Any media can be added to the favorites list through the media library or
file browsing navigational interfaces.
Please note that this change required resetting the "Navigation
interfaces on main navigator" feature to it's default value
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation).
* When using the "Open URL" function, a new "Clear playlist" checkbox is now
available (previously the playlist was always cleared).
* With LAV Filters v0.71, a D3D11 hardware decoding mode has been added.
You can instruct LAV to use this mode automatically by setting the option
under "Adv. Options / Playback / Video".
+ The "Play History database may be corrupted" message will no longer
appear unless the play history file is actually corrupted.
+ You can now set the "Retain Media Playback History for" value to
99999 days (~2738 years), up from the original 9999 days (~27 years),
just in case one of you finds immortality and wished to use
Zoom Player forever.
+ The torrents plugin should now shutdown a little faster if Zoom Player
closes while the plugin was fetching an updated file list.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the previously active audio track from being
restored when re-playing a video with multiple audio tracks.
- Opening a playlist from navigation interfaces loaded the playlist
but did not automatically start playing it.
- The fullscreen navigation's text Anti-Aliasing setting was being
reset after restarting the player.
- Bug Fixes.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1:
* Automatic support for native Windows 7-10 media library folder structure
(previously only the more basic Windows XP-Vista library structure
was supported).
* New setting (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions" to
instruct Zoom Player to process ".m3u8" playlists.
This setting is disabled by default as it can cause conflicts with services
that require DirectShow filters to process this type of playlist format.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
File Tracker) to specify the download tracking plugins refresh rate.
This value only affects the media library and file browsing navigation
interfaces, the download tracking navigation interface refreshes at
a higher rate automatically.
Please note that using a low number (under 10 seconds) may impact
performance when tracking large file lists (over 10,000 entries).
* New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it
from passing file entries to Zoom Player that do not actually exist on
the disk drive. This setting is off by default but can increase
performance when dealing with a large number of torrents that were
only partially downloaded.
* New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it
from passing file entries to Zoom Player that are marked as "do not
download". This setting is off by default.
Enabling this setting can reduce some computations and speed up the
listing process but at the same time it prevents you from later
changing the download priority on these files.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to enable
Zoom Player's DSP filter only for visualizations.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to set an
initial audio re-synchronization value for visualizations (Zoom Player's
DSP filter is required for this setting to function).
* The last play position is now drawn over the thumbnail in TV Jukebox mode.
+ Windows 10 creators edition changed how fonts are rendered by enabling
clear-type rendering at higher resolutions. Clear-type is a lot slower
to draw and at resolutions above 1080p causes severe performance
degradation in Zoom Player's fullscreen navigation interfaces.
Previously, to solve this issue, you could set Zoom Player to override
windows' font rendering. From this version, the setting is enabled by
default (you can still change it manually under "Adv. Options / Interface
/ Fullscreen Navigation / Customization").
+ Zoom Player's default window size for the onyx skin was changed to
present a default video size of 960x540 (up from the previous 604x340) and
for the alba skin, the default video size was changed to 1280x720.
+ You can now press the escape key to cancel a 'play all files in folder'
feature mid-action. Accidentally playing an entire drive could have
caused Zoom Player to appear unresponsive.
+ You can now press any navigation key to cancel a 'play all files in folder'
feature mid-action.
+ The download plugins synchronization has been completely rewritten, and
should no longer cause any user interface slow-downs.
+ The torrents plugin has been greatly optimized, working much faster with
large file lists.
+ The download fullscreen navigation interface should scroll much smoothly
when dealing with a large number of files.
+ The YouTube (Channel/Search/Trending), Playlist and RSS Feed media library
plugins have been optimized for greater performance.
+ Optimized core string handling routines, improving script parsing
(e.g. Skin parsing) and other areas.
+ Media Library plugin result entries now display the media's title instead
of the file name or URL in list mode (previously the title only showed
in thumbnail mode).
+ A 'processing, please hold ...' message now appear when it takes
Zoom Player longer to close due to background tasks (media scraping,
download plugin sync) still being active.
+ Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode while the media library is
opened should be cleaner and faster (less visual junk in the transition).
- Opening the media library, especially on 4K displays showed a low
resolution image of the media library for a split second before
displaying the full resolution version.
The double-draw event caused both the described visual glitch as well as
a performance penality.
- Resizing the Zoom Player window while the media library was visible
in thumbnail mode could cause the thumbnails to display in the wrong
size.
- Selecting a custom Audio Renderer for audio visualizations did not
work well (the wrong audio renderer was used at times).
- Loading a text file would not display the file name in the title area.
- Using the Stop function to close the playing media did not work if
the playing media was a text file.
- Fixed a scraping bug where the ".nfo" file detection algorithm would fail
with files/folders names containing unicode characters.
- Fixed a possible crash that would trigger sometimes on an initial run
after a fresh install.
- Fixed a crash when playing a live video stream using MadVR as the video
renderer and trying to use the pause button on the control bar.
- Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation
interfaces will no longer freeze for two seconds if the Torrents download
plugin is enabled and qBittorrent isn't running.
- Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation
interfaces will no longer freeze for long periods if qBittorrent
is seeding many torrents.
- The media library should no longer freeze for a few seconds when
retrieving large file lists from qBittorrent using the Torrents plugin.
- The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) did not show up when playing
in fullscreen on a secondary monitor.
- The torrents download plugin was not recognizing a file's download
priority correctly after the latest qBittorrent release.
- The torrents download plugin was listing files returned by qBittorrent
but no longer existing on the disk drive in the root folder instead of
their (no longer existing) path.
- The currently selected playlist editor entries would lose their selection
if a playlist update was triggered after the listed media's duration has
been scraped.
- Trying to play a streaming media URL that contained trailing spaces would
fail. Trailing spaces are now trimmed (you can still use encoded space
characters in the URL).
- The Lock-UI (user interface) feature used to prevent accidental clicks
did not block some click and double-click actions.
- The Dolby Digital Plus audio format was not being displayed with an icon
on the TV and Movie jukebox screens.
- The play position tool-tip was sometimes displayed in the wrong screen
position on multi-monitor displays.
- MIDI audio playback should be more reliable.
- The media library's playlist plugin no longer shows an invalid duration
value if the playlist entry has no duration.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14:
* New Download & Tracking plugin API has been developed.
The API specifies which file extensions or URL sub-string matches to
pass to the Download & Tracking API instead of trying to play.
This information is specified under:
Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions : Download
The API can be used create a plugin that integrate with 3rd party
download software or directly download the content itself.
The tracking portion of the API shows the currently download state
and whether there's a good chance the download is currently playable.
This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and
download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* The download tracking navigation interface has been enhanced with the
ability to predict when you can begin playing a media file while it is
still downloading.
When using the new Torrents plugin, the prediction is based on the number
of torrent pieces that have successfully downloaded from the beginning and
end of the media file.
By default this is 2% from the beginning of the file and 1% from the end.
The Torrents plugin requires qBittorrent version 4 or newer to work.
qBittorrent is now available to download through the Install Center.
A quick slideshow demonstrating how to use the Torrents plugin:
https://www.facebook.com/zoomplayer/videos/1475689062513061/
We are building a library and possibly a seed-box to show case public-
domain and creative commons videos. If you would like to expose your video
to Zoom Player's user base, please contact us at:
https://inmatrix.com/email/business.shtml
* Download tracking plugins can be enabled, disabled and configured through
a new interface under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
File Tracker".
* New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign
any playlist as a media library category.
* The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used
to select the Audio Rendering device (audio output), making it easy to
switch between different output modes (switching audio between rooms,
speaker setups, headphone output, etc).
* The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used
to select the Video Rendering device, making it easy to test out
different rendering qualities or in cases where a particular video
may not play correctly in your preferred video renderer.
* New "Facebook" smart play profile for playing facebook video URLs
using the 3DYD directshow filter.
* New "Vimeo" smart play profile for playing viemo video URLs using
the 3DYD directshow filter.
* New "Daily Motion" smart play profile for playing Daily Motion
video URLs using the 3DYD directshow filter.
* New "Streaming Services" smart play profile supporting streaming
videos from:
- bofunk.com
- break.com
- ebaumsworld.com
- godtube.com
- liveleak.com
- tcmag.com
- teamfourstar.com
- veoh.com
- vk.com
- vkmag.com
- yourepeat.com
* New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to prevent files or
URLs from being saved to the play history. All you need to do is
specify a partial string, for example "\some folder name\" or
"someurl.org".
* New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to hide files or
URLs from being displayed in the play history dialogs while
still remember the last playback position, volume, subtitle track,
etc. All you need to do is specify a partial string, for example
"\some folder name\" or "someurl.org".
* New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to disable seeking
controls when playing files or URLs containing a specified path or text.
* New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to
override the audio renderer when playing with visualization.
This allows you to use the "DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer" to support a
volume fading effect on Start/End/Play/Stop/Seek only when playing with
visualizations. This is similar to how WinAmp fades audio between tracks.
Download the DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer here:
(http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=14)
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) to display
all navigation interfaces on a secondary monitor.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls
whether Zoom Player switches to the next/previous track when using
next/previous chapter function on a media that does not contain chapters.
This setting is enabled by default.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that can
force playback to delay for a specified number of milliseconds after
finishing to play a track with audio visualizations.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that
specifies the visualization rendering frame rate, by default 30fps.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that reloads a live stream if the
stream disconnects unexpectedly.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically play
the next media in the playlist after deleting the currently playing
media. This setting is disabled by default.
* New "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)"
media library category setting used to scrape online for content
based on the media's title (instead of the file name).
* New "Do not display the media's position/duration on top of thumbnails"
media library category setting to prevent the current play position and
the media's duration from appearing on top of thumbnails.
* New "Do not display a media format (audio/video/picture) icon on top of
thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the drawing of a
media format indicator icon from appearing on top of thumbnails.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / On Screen Display) that controls the OSD
clock position.
* You can now create and save chapter points (bookmarks) for streaming URLs.
* When taking screenshots of the playing video (Alt+F keyboard macro),
the current play position is now saved as part of the file name.
* The fullscreen information navigation interface now includes media format
information extracted using the MediaInfo.dll plugin.
* New (optional) control bar button to open/hide the fullscreen stream
selection navigation interface.
* New "exSetAudTrack" extended function that sets the current audio track.
* New "exSetSubTrack" extended function that sets the current subtitle track.
+ The media library "TheMovieDB" plugin's Movie/TV detection accuracy has
increased by cropping out more undesired key-words from file/folder names,
using a fuzzy search algorithm to better detect non-exact movie names
matches and preferring a release year with a partial name match to an
exact name match with a mismatched release date.
+ The internal image decoder (JPEG/GIF/PNG/BMP) is now capable of
downloading and displaying images directly from web servers
(e.g. a playlist full of image URLs).
+ Using the "open streaming link" or "open streaming link from keyboard"
functions will now relay downloadable URLs to any matching download plugin
(for example .torrent/magnet links) without affecting the current playback.
+ The media library 'RSS Feed' plugin now caps the maximum cached entries
to 2000 and the description length to 3500 characters. Otherwise, over
time the RSS plugin data would become too large and would stop displaying.
+ The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now draws a playing icon
next to the currently playing track.
+ The YouTube Search and Trending media library plugins will now use a
search/trending thumbnail when creating new categories.
This change does not apply to previously created categories.
The new images can be manually assigned using the category configuration
dialog.
By default the new images are located here using Windows 32bit:
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Search.jpg"
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Trending.jpg"
And here using Windows 64bit:
"c:\Program Files\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Search.jpg"
"c:\Program Files\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Trending.jpg"
+ The new version update notification will now include a condensed highlight
list of what changed in the latest version (will only appear in the next
version released after this one).
+ The "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video
file within the folder instead of the folder name" media library
category setting now works better in TV Jukebox mode by scraping
only for the show name, no longer scraping season/episode numbers
from the file name.
+ Pruning the play history (using the button) no longer erases URL entries,
only local files that were erased from the disk drive.
+ The thumbnail and meta-data cache folder is now cleared once
a week instead of on every exit, improving the time it takes
Zoom Player to close.
+ Many of the main navigation icons were polished to give the default
navigation theme a more consistent look.
+ The "unknown" icon has been updated to better suit the UX design.
+ The media library plugin API can now accept local-file thumbnails
when creating new categories.
- Fixed a major issue with random play that would cause it to stop working
after the entire playlist has been finished playing one time.
- Installing an audio device or a custom audio renderer filter would
change the selected audio renderer for DVDs and WMP ActiveX playback.
- Fixed a crash when trying to open a URL from the clipboard when the
clipboard contained junk text.
- Using local settings files while running multiple Zoom Player instances
from different folders prevented changed settings from being saved.
- Zoom Player didn't look for subtitles in the XySubFilter's
paths definition, causing subtitles not to load when they
were not in the same folder as the video.
- Playing a media from the windows explorer (or other 3rd party software)
would show an "are you sure?" prompt by accident.
- Fixed a crash when trying to load a malformed play history cache file.
- The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of
sync, triggering a new components update notification to appear
within 2 weeks after running the Instal Center.
- Registry entries were not being saved/loaded properly when running
Zoom Player in Windows Vista compatibility mode (and possibly other
compatibility modes). This of course lead to instability.
- When enabling the "Seek to key-frames when using LAV Video decoder
(faster, less accurate seeking)" setting, some file handles were not
properly closed, preventing the playing media from being erased
until Zoom Player was closed.
- The key-mapping editor's search feature did not work.
- Fixed a freeze triggered by the media library's 'RSS Feed' plugin on
certain RSS feeds that used an ASCII #13 as a line break.
- When playing a SHOUTcast stream, the playlist editor cleared the
selected entry every second.
- Smart Play's "Configure File Source" dialog did not set a default
value for the "Use with" field when a non-english language pack was
used.
- The "stay on top" setting would stop functioning when exiting fullscreen
mode with the playlist editor visible.
- The Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not
have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
- The controlbar's volume pop-up slider did not appear in the correct
position under some circumstances.
- Fixed a glitch where TAG display for a local file playback would show
"???" instead of international characters.
- Fixed an issue where audio visualization wouldn't render in the correct
resolution when changing the visualization display size.
- Wrong duration displayed in the playlist when using Windows Media Player's
ActiveX control to play streaming media.
- Double-clicking a station list entry to begin playback while the
media library was opened could trigger a playback of whatever was
highlighted in the media library instead of the station list entry.
- Hiding the "Media Scanner" and "Remove Category Folder(s)" from the media
library's category listing would break keyboard quick search from working
on the last category listed.
- In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay
would be twice as long as the specified value.
- Playback of ASX playlists did not work.
- With some language packs, the text for the station manager's left
column would cut-off.
- Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the
non-debug version.
- The Double-Click function did not work when clicking audio
visualizations.
- The default value for the new "Navigation on Monitor" setting was
accidentally set to as fullscreen on a the first monitor instead of
the current monitor (within the window or fullscreen).
- Fixed a crash when trying to close the media library just as it was
being opened.
- Fixed a bug in the smart play source filter "new profile" dialog which
caused the "use with the following URLs" entries to be lost when pressing
smart play's auto-configure button.
- The OSD clock is now closed when the options dialog is open as it
caused other windowed opened through the options dialog to hide
behind the options dialog window.
- Fixed a few small memory leaks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v13.7.1:
+ Adding chapters using the chapter editor will now instantly
show the chapter's position in the timeline (if timeline display
is enabled).
- Fixed a bug in countries with a comma decimal symbol where the
media library thumbnails text height and spacing got truncated.
For example:
A thumbnail's Text Height of "1.95%" resulted in an actual text
height of "1%".
- Loading ".PLS/.XSPF" playlists where the first item in the playlist
did not play (e.g. "server down") would trigger an infinite loop
and Zoom Player froze.
- The inactive navigation txt-lines background was not being drawn.
- The "I" key will again close the information dialog if it is visible.
- The media library category sorting order and last folder position
could get reset under some conditions due to insufficient registry
memory allocation.
- Setting the control bar to appear with a fixed width while in
fullscreen did not show the control bar in the right position (or at
all) on secondary monitors.
- Setting the control bar to appear at the top or bottom of the screen
did not show the control bar in the right position (or at all) on
secondary monitors.
- The media library category editor did not show the currently enabled
scraping mode, thumbnail aspect ratio and thumbnail columns when
a language pack was installed.
- The playlist editor line-spacing did not work well with every font.
- Slight adjustment to the media library's thumbnail text drawing to
better account for fonts with less-uniform character heights.
- It was possible for a new components/filters notification to trigger
without new components being available. It was triggered due to
a new version of Zoom Player being available on the install center.
Since player updates has its own notification, this message is redundant.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v13.7:
* The Media Library's settings page has been expanded to configure the
layout of each category and the category list itself without ever
exiting the fullscreen navigation interface.
The following customization options are now available,
Per-Category:
1. Aspect Ratio
2. Text-Box lines
3. Text height
4. Horizontal spacing
5. Vertical spacing
Globally:
1. Categories columns
2. Categories Text-Box lines
3. Categories Text height
4. Text margins
* The default fullscreen navigation skin has been tweaked a bit and now
includes a new variant with larger fonts for the visually impaired and
small displays.
* Support for automatically scaling of un-skinned dialogs based on the
monitor's DPI setting. This should help greatly on 4K or higher
resolution screens (disabled by default, see "override scaling of
un-skinned dialogs" below).
For 4K/8K skinned interfaces, there are several options at
the Inmatrix.com shop.
* Support for high DPI scaling of Windows standard dialogs (Open/Save file,
folder browser, font selector, color selector, etc).
* YouTube subtitles are now supported when playing using DirectShow.
* The YouTube plugin has been tweaked to include the channel name in a more
prominent position.
* The bottom-meta data for regular media now includes a field for the format
(file extension, e.g. MP4/MP3/etc).
* The equalizer full screen navigation interface has been polished to
include translucent equalizer bars.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that specifies the number of columns drawn for the
media library's category list thumbnails.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that specifies the text height used for drawing the
media library's category list thumbnail text.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that specifies the number of text lines drawn for the
media library's category list thumbnails.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that specifies the margin area around the media library's
thumbnail text.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System) to override scaling of un-skinned
dialogs by using a custom value (Automatic/100%/125%/150%/200%/300%/400%).
This manual control further enhances usability for the visually impaired,
regardless of screen resolution.
* Support for qBitTorrent v3.3.13 new security enhancements. For older
versions of Zoom Player, you must use qBitTorrent v3.3.12 to continue
tracking your downloads.
* Media Titles are now properly extracted and displayed with M4V/MP4 files.
* Audio Visualization will now work for streaming audio stations if they
are defined as "Radio" stations through the station manager.
* New Smart Play setting to control which DirectShow filter is used to
stream SHOUTcast and ICEcast streams.
* New Smart Play profile setting that determines if Zoom Player should
use a profile if the input is a file name, URL or both.
* New Smart Play "MP3 (streaming)" profile used to specify which filter
should be used with streaming MP3 files (by default LAV Source).
* When playing live SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, the on screen display
now updates with the currently playing track name.
* The internal screen saver now displays the playing media's current play
position.
* New "fnTitleToClipboard" function to copy the currently playing media's
title to the clipboard.
* New "fnToggleSub" function to toggle subtitles on and off.
* New "fnMediaSrcToClipboard" function that copies the playing media
file or URL directly from the playing DirectShow source filter to
the Windows clipboard.
* New "fnWMPActiveX" function to enable/disable Windows media content
streaming using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control.
* New "exWMPActiveX" extended function to directly set whether Windows media
content streaming will use Windows Media Player's ActiveX control.
0 = Disabled
1 = Enabled
+ A cooperation with TheAudioDB.com resulted in an improved album-name
identification algorithm (used for scraping Album meta-data and
cover art within the Media Library).
+ The media library's thumbnail font size configuration was calculated in
a poorly conceived manner that made it difficult to change a thumbnail's
font size and line numbers while maintaining consistency across different
thumbnail aspect ratios.
This has led to a complete rewrite of the text rendering code and new
defaults being applied which may affect your previous thumbnail layout
settings.
+ Switching between categories should update the thumbnails a bit quicker
(~300ms) if they were previously memory cached.
+ Adding a station to the station manager now automatically highlights
the newly created station.
+ LAV Source is now used by default for SHOUTcast type streams.
+ When using LAV Source to stream SHOUTcast/ICEcast content, the playing
track's now is now properly displayed in the title and timeline areas.
+ Opening a ".PLS" playlist containing URLs is now assumed to contain
SHOUTcast streaming audio stations.
+ The Options dialog search window still appeared too small on
very high resolution screens, will now show more result lines.
+ Slightly tweaked the SHOUTcast station browser dialog to increase space
for translated texts.
- Fixed a crash when listing some RSS streams in the media library.
- Fixed a list index out of bounds error when starting in HTPC mode.
- The Windows media library categories are now properly presented with
Zoom Player's default Audio/Video/Picture layouts.
- Fixed a "category is empty" message when trying to list RSS streams with
very long descriptions.
- Playing ICEcast ".xspf" streams did not work with some servers.
- Deleting a media library category using the media library "remove
category" feature left some cache files behind when clicking the
trash can icon (pressing enter or double-clicking did not trigger
this issue).
- An "new components update on the install center" notification was
accidentally triggered by Install Center update entries for Zoom Player
itself (which has a separate update notification), resulting in a
double notification.
- The Mouse Wheel, Navigation Style, Information, Main, Stream Selection,
Media Scanner and Play History were showing the wrong number of text
lines which caused the list to appear slightly off-center.
- Pressing the "Auto-Scan System" button on the Audio Visualization
Adv. Options dialog page would trigger a crash with some Sonique
plugins preventing the scan from functioning. Now the crashing
plugin is skipped.
- Adding too many audio visualization plugins would cause the plugin
list to reset once Zoom Player was restarted.
- Disabling Smart Play by specifying a file extension to ignore would also
break Smart Play for URLs or files that did not contain a file extension.
- Adding a station using either the Station Manager's SHOUTcast station
browser or using the fullscreen station navigation interface did not
work if a non-english language pack was in use.
- In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, the "Previous
Folder" function worked on the root level even though there was
no folder above it, resulting in an empty screen display.
- In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, navigating
left from the functions page would go up a folder instead of
returning to the station list.
- When setting the thumbnail text to appear above the thumbnail, the
media library's category thumbnail display would improperly position
the thumbnail under the text.
- The media library category cache did not function properly, leading
to a slight performance hit when initially opening the media library.
- The Graph Information dialog did not display unicode text correctly.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the background of the media library's
category thumbnails which would appear with some skins or
thumbnail configurations.
- Using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play an audio
stream could have resulted in some UI functions not working
correctly.
- Fixed a few crashes when zpresampler.dll was not found.
- Cosmetic fixes to various dialogs.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v13.5:
* The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a
clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail
area to squeeze in more pixels.
* The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area
behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's
script and advanced options customization settings.
* Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated
with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of
streaming radio stations.
Unlike previous versions where Zoom Player used a static database which
over time included more and more dead stations, the SHOUTcast directory
is now downloaded in real time, ensuring that every station should be
operational.
* Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams,
enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
* A major performance issue was triggered by the Windows 10 Creators Edition
update. In the update, Microsoft forced ClearType font anti-aliasing at
larger font sizes. This lead to a massive navigation performance slow-downs
on QHD (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160) screens.
Click here for more information
As a work-around, Zoom Player introduced a new setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that lets controls
the font anti-aliasing mode used to render the fullscreen navigation text.
* The Media Library's RSS feed plugin now caches previous entries that
may no longer reside on the RSS feed and shows you cached entries
even if the RSS feed server is temporarily down.
* New "fnPLEraseFiles" function assigned to the Shift+"Delete"
keyboard macro. When used it erases all selected files in the
playlist to the window's Recycle Bin (with confirmation prompt).
* New "fnOpenStreamInBrowser" function that opens the currently
playing stream in a web browser (might be helpful for YouTube links).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to
seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the
accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME
Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream
1080p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when
playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing
file's extension in the window title (default off).
* The Media Library plugin API has been extended with per-category
storage path (e.g. RSS feed caching) and a new function which is
called when a category using the plugin is deleted (for cleanup
purposes).
* New function to activate the internal screen saver. This means that you
can now hook user interface actions (like a hot-corner click) with
activating the screen saver.
* New function to copy the currently playing media's Path/URL to the
windows clipboard.
* You can now define web pages as "stations" in the station editor to have
the web page opened inside Zoom Player's integrated web browser.
* New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each
fullscreen navigation interface.
+ The integrated keyboard mapping editor has been rewritten to better
support high-DPI displays. As a bonus, the dialog is now resizable
as well.
+ The integrated keyboard mapping editor now shows a 'code' column
which signifies a keyboard scan-code or other code used to identify
an interface index.
+ Optimized fullscreen navigation lists line-drawing code by about 10%
in cases where the skin didn't specify a background for
unselected/empty lines.
+ The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read.
The text's background is now using a different effect which should
make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails.
+ The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface
has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces'
user experience.
+ The main fullscreen navigation interface's click logic has been changed
to make it behave the same as the media library's thumb-click logic.
+ The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from
Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow
YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video
streaming quality options dialog.
+ Error dialog are now limited in size to 94% of the Zoom Player
interface width.
+ The Zoom Player news feed that's accessible through the options dialog
has been simplified and will hopefully eliminate the javascript error
some users have been experiencing when trying to view the news feed.
- The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
- A missing DLL prevented the Pixel Shaders from being compiled and used
to post-process a video image.
- When loading .ZPL playlist files, playback did not resume from the
the last file played in the playlist under some conditions.
- The kinetic scrolling feature did not work in the media library's
category list.
- The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface was not updating
the screen when scrolling by holding the down/up keys for a long
period.
- If the monitor's DPI setting was set to a really high value (when
used in 4K monitors), it would cause the options dialog's search
window to appear really small, hiding the search result area.
- Fixed a possible conflict between Zoom Player's internal DSP filter
and bit-streaming DTS-HD and possibly other multi-channel audio formats.
- The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
- The scroll wheel did not function correctly in some of the advanced
options dialog's scroll boxes.
- Playing a new track from the fullscreen playlist navigation interface
no longer pops the playlist editor to the top.
- Fixed a bug in the Media Library plugin API that prevented unicode
(non-english) language searches from working using the YouTube search
plugin.
- The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
- The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access
the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
- Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would
take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being
read before actually entering the category.
- Under some conditions, the media libary's scrollbar widget did not
appear on the categories page.
- Navigating the fullscreen file browsing interface's subtitle search result
page with the keyboard did not scroll the results when reaching the bottom
of the screen.
- The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
- Opening a ".URL" file and then opening a media file resulted in the web
page remaining on screen while the media played in the background.
- The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:\Log"
and silently failing each time.
- Aggressively hiding the mouse cursor has been disabled when
HTML/YouTube/Flash interactivity modes are enabled as it prevented
the mouse cursor from being restored on motion.
- Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not scroll
down to the searched category thumbnail.
- Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not work
at all unless you previously entered a category.
- Using higher level scan-code keys (like Volume keys on certain keyboards)
in fullscreen navigation interfaces that support quick search using
the keyboard would trigger a quick-search lock that caused the
interfaces to not respond properly.
- The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
- The RSS Feed media library plugin would show duplicate entries on
some RSS feeds.
- Fixed a small cosmetical glitch that caused the scrollbar background
area in the media library category to be drawn twice in slightly
different vertical positions.
- Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v13:
* New media library plugin system allowing 3rd party developers
to create media library categories based on content meta-data
provided by the plugin.
* To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plugin
system, an open-source project has been created to implement a
'YouTube channel', 'YouTube Search' and 'YouTube Trends' media
library category plugins.
- YouTube Channels:
After specifying a YouTube channel's URL, the plugin automatically
downloads the channel's category image, retrieves the channel's
name and sets up the default category settings and layout best
suited to display a YouTube channel.
- YouTube Searches:
Simply specify a search term and the plugin will return results
based on relevance (as determined by YouTube).
- YouTube Trends:
Select a country and the plugin displays the available trending
categories as determined by YouTube for that country.
Choose from the trending category list or simply select 'everything'.
- Using the plugins:
The new plugins are accessible through the Media Library category
editor (Shift+"M") as entries on a new drop-down list that is
located right next to the "Create Category" button.
The source code for the YouTube media library category plugins
can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-YouTube-Channel-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-Player
Please contribute!
* To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plugin
system, an open-source project has been created to implement a
'RSS Feed' category plugin.
Any media specified in the RSS feed URL will be listed in the
media library category.
The source code for the 'RSS Feed' media library category plugin
can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-RSS-feed-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-Player
* New subtitle download plugin system allowing 3rd party developers
to create plugins that download subtitles for your media library
collection.
* To demonstrate the capabilities of the new subtitle download plugin
system, an open-source project has been created to implement an
'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin.
The new plugin is accessible on the newly re-designed Advanced
Options dialog's "Subtitle" page (Playback / Video / Subtitles).
Note:
OpenSubtitles.org limits anonymous downloads by IP, use
the configuration dialog to specify a user name and password to
bypass any anonymous login limits (registration is free and
passwords are saved as MD5 hashes not as clear text).
The code for the 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin can
be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-OpenSubtitles.org-API-support-for-Zoom-Player
* New YouTube IFRAME (web based) player support, providing official YouTube
playback. All YouTube URLs automatically use the new IFRAME player interface.
You can disable the IFRAME player support in the options to force Zoom Player
to use DirectShow for playback (Adv. Options / Playback > Use YouTube IFRAME
video player to play YouTube content).
* New media library scraper that uses TheAudioDB.com's API to download
album art and meta-data for audio files.
If you previously created music categories, you will need to use the
category editor to configure the category to use the scraper and then
re-scrape the category.
New categories will automatically use TheAudioDB scraper.
The source code for the TheAudioDB.com scraper can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-theaudiodb.com-Zoom-Player-media-scraping-plug-in
* The Zoom Player Install Center has been enhanced to support installation
of new versions of Zoom Player without having to use the downloader tool
(this will only apply for updates post v13 release).
* The internal audio scraper now uses MediaInfo extract ID3/TAG information
and display it in the media library's bottom information area.
You will need to re-scrape your audio files for the new content to appear.
* New Alt+"/" keyboard macro to search for subtitles based on the currently
playing video.
You can access this function using the right-click context menu under the
new "Download" sub-menu.
* New function to download subtitle file(s) for any selected video file.
The new function is accessible using the right-click context menu under the
new "Download" sub-menu.
* You can now assign extended functions and execute external programs
using the Hot Corner feature. Sadly, this enhancement forced the
reset of the previously assigned Hot Corner functions.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play) that allows you
to select the default filter used when streaming "http/https" URLs not
covered by a Smart Play profile.
The default option is now "LAV Splitter Source", but you can also choose
"File Source (URL)" or "Let DirectShow decide".
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that switches the media library's thumbnail view
category list aspect ratio between Album Art (1:1) or Widescreen (16:9).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that can disable the new
"Please Wait" / "Loading" pop-up window that appears for long
lasting operations (e.g. opening a network stream for playback).
* New Media Library option for the "Start Player in" setting.
(Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
* New Setting (Media Library category editor / Configure Category) that
specifies if scraper errors should appear in the meta-data overview
display. The debug information was always enabled in previous versions
and will now be disabled by default.
* New "Loop Current Track" setting on the playlist fullscreen navigation
interface's function menu.
* New "On Playback Complete" setting on the playlist fullscreen navigation
interface's function menu.
* New smart play profile for media files encoded with the DNxHD codec.
* New "Please Wait" / "Loading" window that pops-up when there are operations
that are taking a long time (like fetching a YouTube channel's video list).
* New Alt+Shift+"U" keyboard macro to play a streaming URL directly from
the clipboard. For example, right-click and "copy link location" on a
youtube video and then press Alt+Shift+"U" in Zoom Player to start
playing the video.
This open streaming link function is also available in Zoom Player's
right-click context menu under the 'Open' sub-menu.
* Media titles are now used instead of the File name/URL on the system tray
hint and on the windows taskbar button.
* The play history now saves media titles, making play history clearer,
especially with network streams and media library plugins.
* New skin script code to control the media library's bottom meta-data's
font and font style of each meta-data element.
* Placing a "zplayer_skipfolder.txt" file in a folder will prevent this
folder and any folders within it from being listed in the media scanner.
+ The fullscreen navigation icons are now loaded on demand instead of all
in advanced, reducing memory usage and cutting down the initial startup
time by approximately 33%.
+ The default navigation interface has been reduced in size by 15%, improving
Zoom Player's initial fullscreen navigation interfaces start time on
PCs with slower HDD/Flash drives.
+ TheMovieDB's scraper initialization code has been cleaned up so
Zoom Player should start quicker, especially if there are network
connection issues.
+ The play history search feature is now a bit more flexible by ignoring
certain spacing characters (".","-" and "_").
For example, In previous versions searching for "a series" would fail to
make a match if the file name was "a.series.of.unfortunate.events".
+ The playlist fullscreen navigation interface's function menu entries have
been re-ordered.
+ The Alba's skin timeline design has been visually enhanced.
+ Pressing the "Open Media Library" button on the media library
category editor now opens the media library with the current
edited category selected.
+ The play history dialog will now display the recently played items
first in the list.
+ The play history dialog should now open significantly faster
(nearly instantly), especially with a play history database of
over 10,000 entries.
+ You can now use the HOME/END/PGUP/PGDN keys in the Media Library's
thumbnail mini-menu to quickly access one of the four mini-menu actions.
+ The DVD Bookmark editor generates more descriptive bookmark names
and includes the text specified next to the "Add Chapter" button.
+ The DVD Bookmark fullscreen navigation interface will now let you
seek to a DVD Chapter. A new icon is displayed next to each entry
to signify if it's a DVD Chapter or a Saved bookmark.
+ The time display on thumbnails used to show videos with a duration
of under 10 minutes as "09:30", this have now changed to show "9:30",
saving a bit more of the thumbnail area.
+ When opening the media library, the last played position for the
currently playing media is now updated straight away (previously
it would update when the playing media was closed).
+ The station list dialog now remembers and restores the scroll offset
within the station list, restoring the dialog to it's last display
position each time.
+ As an extra security measure, the "DefaultSettings.exe" tool that helps
you reset Zoom Player to its default setting now asks for confirmation
before starting.
+ To prevent accidental clicks, the eject disc drive keyboard macro has been
changed from "/" to Ctrl+"/".
+ The media library category editor dialog doesn't reset the category
type each time the dialog is closed.
+ The Quick Search function on the Media Library and File Browsing
fullscreen navigation interfaces now tries to use media titles instead
of file names/urls when titles exist.
+ Searching the media library using the keyboard will now search the
media title instead of the file name (if a media title exists).
+ To prevent the media library opening in a confusing category, after
editing the media library category list, opening the media library
will always open in the category list (instead of cases where it
previously opened in the media list).
+ Updated MediaInfo to the latest version at release time.
- Fixed a case where multi-threaded DLL flag wasn't enabled which triggered
random crashes and cause ZP to freeze on exist at times.
- The Movie Database (TheMovieDB.org) scraper stopped downloading thumbnails
due to a change in API handling of user agents.
- Renaming a media library category will no longer forget the category's
last position and sort mode in the media library.
- If two media library categories of different type (e.g. Audio vs Video)
shared the same category name, it could trigger unexpected media library
behavior.
- Certain characters in a media library's category name could have
triggered parsing errors which would result in a category's settings
being set to unwanted values.
- Re-ordering the playlist by selecting and dragging entries with the
mouse cursor didn't work properly if the same file appeared more
than once in the playlist (all same file name entries were accidentally
selected and moved).
- When Zooming to 4:3 on a 16:9 video, using the function, exiting
Zoom Player did not restore the previous non-zoomed position, which
could cause incorrect zoom value if trying to use the function again.
- Pressing the "Windows" keyboard key would trigger a quick search action
and block certain key/mouse inputs from working.
- Shifting/Zooming the video screen position while in fullscreen would
break the Hot Corners feature.
- Duration for audio files was not being displayed on their thumbnail.
- Fixed a very rare case where opening a media file could trigger
a freeze if the background thread that grabs the media's duration
was active.
- The trial-ended message in Zoom Player MAX could trigger an eventual
crash if left open for a long period.
- Play history should now restore position for URL streams.
- Fixed an issue where playing a SHOUTcast/ICEcast streaming station
and then restarting Zoom Player would not allow you to resume playing
the previous station from the playlist.
- The media library's category list would use the wrong aspect ratio
thumbnail in some cases where the active category was password
protected.
- Switching the Media Library's category filter mode would reload the
active category's content. Now the content is only read when entering
the category, speeding up the category filter switch.
- Fixed an issue where the media library's path would not show
any text at all.
- Accessing the media library's category screen could at times
trigger an unnecessary reload of the category's content.
- Fixed a stack-overflow crash when trying to open a playlist that
contained the playlist's file name as an entry (creating a loop).
I would like to thank Sultan Albalawi for the report:
https://www.exploit-db.com/author/?a=8741
- Using the "Open Webpage" function did not work for secure HTTP
(links starting with "https://").
- Switching the Zoom Player language pack to a non-english language
could have caused the favorite station list to be wiped.
- The word "PreAmp" was hard coded into Zoom Player instead of using
the translated text when using a non-english language pack.
- Open the equalizer without ever opening the playlist editor could
trigger a weird state where the equalizer always initially show
up docked under the main window.
- Using the backspace key after using the media library's movie
jukebox mode's file view now returns to jukebox movie view instead
of thumbnail view.
- Adding media entries to the playlist using the media library's
function menu did not add the media's title (only the file name/URL).
- The playlist editor's "Add streaming URL" button did not use the
newer open URL dialog.
- Opening the fullscreen chapter/bookmark navigation interface
did not pause playback when the setting to do so was enabled.
- Ejecting a drive/device while playing a stream would cause the
stream playback to stop.
- When the media library is opened and the previously opened folder
no longer exists, the media library will try to go up the folder
tree to the first parent folder that exists.
- Trying to take a screenshot from a live stream or a media file with a very
long file name did not work.
- Fixed an issue when OSD messages would not appear if the
"Use Exclusive Fullscreen with VMR9 Renderless mode (use with care)"
setting was enabled in some cases.
This same bug caused screen-refresh issues with some of the fullscreen
navigation pages under some conditions.
- Setting "On Play Complete" to "Auto-Rewind" did not work with non-
DirectShow playback (playback would loop instead of pausing on the
first frame).
- Using the quote (") character in a media library category name would cause
the category name to get cropped.
- Media Library categories containg the "&" character in their name did not
list correctly in the category editor, showing up as "_" instead of "&".
- Fixed a category rename bug that allowed you to merge categories by
renaming to an existing category name.
- Fixed a category create bug that allowed you to merge categories by
creating a category with an existing category name.
- When the media library's dynamic scrollbar was disabled, it still triggered
unnecessary screen updates.
- When the media library updated the clock, it would not clear the background
behind the path area, causing small cosmetic glitches.
- Can now stream from URLs containing space characters as part of the URL.
- Opening a ".url" pointing to a web page ignored the
"HTML Interactivity" setting.
- Pressing "update" on the "Audio Device Filter Manager" dialog with
nothing selected/entered would trigger a crash.
- Wrote a work-around for M3U UTF8 encoded playlists that were not properly
marked as UTF8 using a BOM.
- Fixed a cosmetic glitch where file names on the playlist fullscreen
navigation interface's function menu could overlay the action icon.
- Fixed a few small memory leaks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v12.7:
* New Zoom Player settings Export/Import feature that saves all of
Zoom Player's settings, profiles and configuration files to a
single ZIP archive and can later on restore Zoom Player's
settings from within Zoom Player itself (making it compatible
with the Windows Store version of Zoom Player).
Both settings are accessible through Zoom Player's advanced options
dialog by pressing the "Help / Export" button.
The following settings are supported by the export feature:
1. Activation Key file.
2. Options dialog settings.
3. Smart Play profiles.
5. Skin color tinting profiles.
6. Equalizer presets.
7. Media library categories.
8. Play history cache.
9. Playback scheduler schedule.
10. Streaming station manager entries.
11. Custom right-click context menu script file.
12. Custom Media/DVD background images.
13. Custom Media/DVD keyboard mapping files.
* The smart play source filter configuration dialog now allows you to
specify a partial URL instead (or in combination) with file extensions,
allowing you to setup custom filters based on the site's URL.
This allows using such filters as the "3DYD YouTube Source" to stream
youtube content directly (https://ys.3dyd.com/).
* Two new category types have been introduced "TV Shows" and "Movies".
Zoom Player tries to automatically assign previous categories to
these new types based on the 'scrape content mode' previously
assigned to the category.
* The media library filter icons that appear under the category
list are now accessible using the keyboard by pressing the up or down
arrow keys on the first/last category entry.
Once activated, you can use the left/right arrow keys to switch
between the filtering modes.
* The playlist editor and the playlist fullscreen navigation interface now
show the current play position next to the actively playing track.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to switch the category layout between list and thumbnail
view modes.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Thumb View) that controls how the thumbnail memory cache encodes
the images.
The default value is to store as JPEG images which uses the least
amount of RAM. But for higher performance, especially on lower
end CPUs, switching to RAW 24bit or 32bit will improve performance.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation
'Media Scanner' is displayed.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation
'Remove category folder(s)' is displayed.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to prevent Zoom Player
from trying to parse ".PLS" files and instead lets directshow choose
a filter to parse the files. This improves SHOUTcast streaming
reliability. If you use .PLS files as SHOUTcast stations outside the
station manager, you will need to enable this setting.
* New "/MediaFilter:[Number]" command line parameter to set the media
library's filter mode.
Valid values are:
0 = ALL
1 = Movies
2 = TV Shows
3 = Videos
4 = Audio
5 = Pictures
6 = Executables
* The media library's filter mode is now saved/restored when re-opening
Zoom Player.
* With the "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is
played (otherwise show error)" setting enabled, you can now press the
Stop button to stop from continuing to the next Playlist item.
* The station manager has been enhanced with an integrated search box.
* New "fnPlayingToClipboard" function that copies the currently playing
media file/URL to the clipboard.
+ Zoom Player should start between 10%-300% faster, especially if there
are many items in the play history.
+ Optimized the default fullscreen navigation skin to require less resize
operations improving load/open time and taking up to 20% less RAM.
+ Optimized the file name hashing algorithm which should improve
performance in several areas.
+ When fullscreen navigation 'Safe Mode' is enabled, the media library's
'Media Scanner' and 'Remove category folder(s)' are no longer displayed.
+ Disabling the "Show media content specific to the media library's
category type" setting now shows all media files in a category
(previously it would show the content based on the category filter).
+ The selected entry on the station manager is now restored when re-opening
the interface.
+ The station manager now lets you specify a "SHOUTcast" station type.
Any station set as SHOUTcast are now opened as SHOUTcast streams
even if the "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no
file ext. is specified in the URL (link)" setting is disabled.
+ SHOUTcast stations added from station browser or the fullscreen
navigation station list are now automatically marked as SHOUTcast.
+ The Station Browser dialog entries no longer resets each time the
dialog is closed and reopened.
+ The Add station dialog (station manager) remembers the last station mode
(TV/Radio/SHOUTcast) used.
+ The default media library folder scraping blacklist has been cleaned up.
+ The "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no file ext. is
specified in the URL (link)" advanced options setting is now disabled
by default and reset to default on initial run. This setting may be
removed entirely in future versions as it conflicts with streaming
video and is no longer necessary when playing shoutcast streams
through the station manager or fullscreen navigation interface.
+ The playing track on the fullscreen playlist navigation interface
has changed from green to blue.
- Removing every entry from the "Scrapers folder name blacklist" or
"Scrapers file name blacklist" would crash and freeze Zoom Player.
- Resizing the media library window could trigger a crash or show an
improperly-sized thumbnail.
- Fixed several memory leaks.
- Fixed a freeze when trying to open the media library before the scraping
DLL finished initializing.
- Fixed several cases of "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to
use the media library with no thumbnail selected.
- Switching media library filter mode would reset several values changed
since opening the media library (e.g. sorting).
- Opening a new media file while the media information dialog was visible
did not update to the new media's date and file size.
- Fixed a small memory leak when re-scraping modified media library folders.
- The mouse scroll wheel did not work within the media information window
while in fullscreen mode.
- The integrated keyboard-mapping editor did not show the correct key-value
for multimedia keys (play/stop/etc), which prevented assigning new
functions to multimedia keys.
- Using the station manager's "Play (Add to Playlist)" button would not
actually start playing the new station.
- In Windows 10 with the "Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen /
Zoom mode" enabled and Zoom Player set to start in fullscreen mode,
Zoom Player appeared as a blank black box.
- The timeline thumbnail preview appeared in the wrong position on some
multi-monitor setups.
- The windows task bar icon was not correctly updated with the specified
task list after restarting Zoom Player.
- Fixed a crash when trying to close Zoom Player while Zoom Player was in
the process of opening a media file or URL.
- Fixed a crash when trying to play over a 1000 non-existant files or
non-responding URLs.
- Trying to switch stations through the station manager while the
previous station did not complete loading could have triggered
unforeseen issues.
- Trying to close Zoom Player while a track was loading could have
caused instability in certain cases.
- When using the media library category filter and then loading a media
file that's currently in a filtered-out category, Zoom Player will
now switch the category filter to match the playing file and then
show the file highlighted when opening the media library.
- If you enabled the video resolution display on the timeline, it should
now display even when playing live streams.
- Error messages should no longer appear partially offscreen if the
message's content is wider than the resolution of the screen.
- The play history no longer lists duplicate entries for URL streams.
- Zoom Player failed to identify "https://" and "rtmp://" URLs with no
duration as live streams, which could trigger a freeze when trying
to seek.
- Panning a Zoomed video with the mouse would trigger the mouse's
click-event (by default play/pause) after letting go of the mouse
button.
- The station manager dialog was showing character tags instead of
the actual characters (e.g. "&" instead of "&").
- The station manager wasn't updating the station list display after
editing a station.
- With "Show OSD filename when opening a new file" enabled, failing
to play would show a blank OSD message.
- The error dialog wouldn't show "&" characters correctly.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v12.6:
* New Advanced Options page that controls Zoom Player's behavior when
a monitor is attached or detached, when Windows 10's tablet mode
is enabled or disabled and when a 2 in 1 laptop's screen is
docked or undocked.
Each of these mode changes can be assigned a different set of actions
and custom functions, even if the mode changed while Zoom Player was
not running (optional).
* New "Switch to TV JukeBox list view without having the parent folder
scraped first" media library category setting. This setting is enabled
by default on new categories and I recommend manually enabling this
setting on your pre-existing TV JukeBox categories.
* The last play position is now displayed on media library thumbnails for
audio and video files next to the media's duration (only works with
newly played media).
* New "/CBar" command line parameter to automatically show the control bar
when starting Zoom Player.
* The playing media's Title (if one exists) is now displayed in
Zoom Player's playing item text and in the timeline area if showing
file names in the timeline is enabled.
* The skin installation process has become simpler with the addition of
a new "Install Skin" button on the skin selection dialog.
* Zoom Player can now extract Album art and meta-data from ".M4A" and
possibly other audio formats.
* The open URL dialog now remembers the last visited URL and keeps a history
of the last 10 URLs.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Thumb View) to specify the number of threads to use while scraping.
If your operating system drive ("C:") is mechanical, it may require
lowering the thread count to "1" to prevent the user interface from
being overly affected by the disk writes.
* New "Darken thumbnail background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter
that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail.
* New "Darken thumbnail text background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter
that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail's text.
* The ".pls" playlist format is now supported for non-shoutcast streams
and files with additional support for displaying file/stream titles.
* New right-click "Copy" menu that copies the options search dialog's
selected entry into the windows clipboard.
* New "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video file
within the folder instead of the folder name" media library category
setting.
* You can now instruct the media library TheMovieDB.org's scraper to
ignore part of a file or folder name by using the "^" character,
for example "Moonrise Kingdom^(1.85)" would ignore the "(1.85)"
portion of the file/folder name, allowing you to add special
tags to the file/folder name without breaking scraping.
* New "ThumbActiveHighlightMode" skin script variable that controls whether
the media library's thumbnail highlight is drawn with the aspect ratio of
the thumbnail or as a fixed-size frame around the thumbnail as well as
new modes to draw a tiled highlight overlay.
+ TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has been enhanced with ".nfo" hinting
for TV content and improved naming convention detection.
+ The media library's "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping
using metadata scrapers fails" category setting is now automatically
disabled when JukeBox mode is active.
+ The entry for opening the Media Library on the right-click context menu
has moved out of the 'navigate' sub-menu and toward the top of the menu.
+ The "deinterlace" toggle has been removed from the right-click context
menu. It is still accessible by keyboard macro (Ctrl+Shift+D).
+ The "Stream Windows Media content using Windows Media Player ActiveX
control" setting is now disabled by default. If you previously relied
on this setting, you will need to re-enable it in the advanced options
dialog.
+ The media library's category configuration "Darken thumbnail background"
setting has been depreciated in favor of the new options dialog setting.
- Closing Zoom Player using the Alt+F4 key would trigger a crash under
some circumstances.
- Fixed a possible freeze when using MadVR and switching in and out of
fullscreen while a timeline preview thumbnail/position hint was visible.
- The media library's thumbnail memory cache was cleared when switching
between categories if new category used a different thumbnail resolution.
- Double clicking a media library unselected and partially visible
thumbnail would not trigger the play/mini-menu action.
- Fixed a visual glitch in the media library's bottom meta-data area when
scrolling and the active thumbnail scrolls off screen.
- Switching video renderer should no longer affect restoring the last
play position (only works with newly played media).
- The "Auto-Play next file in the playlist" setting did not work
as intended and at times did play the next file even when disabled.
- Random play would not include randomly playing newly added playlist
tracks until at least half the original playlist tracks were played.
- Some JPEG images with either embedded as Album art or with a mislabeled
file extension were not properly recognized as valid JPEG images and
were not used/shown.
- Depending on the function assigned to the left mouse button, clicking
a hot-corner may activate both the hot-corner functionality and the
functionality assigned to the left mouse button (instead of only
triggering the hot corner action).
- Closing Zoom Player while the playlist was retrieving the duration of
media files prevented Zoom Player from closing properly.
- Pressing on the "disabled" subtitle entry when it was already
selected incorrectly displayed an "Unknown error" message.
- TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has did not properly detect
movies and tv shows containing the "-" character as part of
their name.
- The Time/Date display area in the fullscreen navigation virtual keyboard
would re-draw over and over instead of just once when showing and when
the time/date changed.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v12.5:
* The media library's TV JukeBox mode is now fully functional.
With jukebox mode enabled in a TV video category, a new list view
mode is used to display meta-data (overview, rating, duration, etc)
and a thumbnail ("still image" from an online database or a screenshot
extracted from the video itself) on the right side of the screen when
entering a folder containing media files.
For best performance, use the proper TV JukeBox mode folder structure:
Show Name\Season [Number]\MediaFiles
For example:
Game of Thrones\Season 1\Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.mp4
Game of Thrones\Season 1\Game.of.Thrones.S01E02.mp4
etc...
* New Media Icons display in the media library information area at the
bottom of the screen and in the Movie Jukebox presentation mode.
Media icons display the Format (AVI/Matroska/etc...), Video Codec
(H.264/HECV/etc...), Video Resolution (1080p/UHD 4K/etc...),
Audio Codec (DTS/AAC/etc...), Audio Channels (2.0/5.1/7.1/etc...).
Media icons are detected during the scraping process, to display the
icons you must re-scrape the content of your media library. This
is done the Media Library Category Editor (Shift+"M") or through
the media library's function page's 'scraping' menu.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to display Media Icons in the media library information area and in
movie jukebox presentation mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Thumb View) that specifies whether thumbnail display should used
a dynamically visible scroll bar (suitable for tablets and touch
devices) or a fixed scroll bar (suitable for PC and Mouse input).
* The "Navigation Scrollbar Size" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) has four new possible values:
1. Dynamic Smallest
2. Dynamic Small
3. Dynamic Large
4. Dynamic Max
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to force the navigation list or thumb view display
to full width.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to override the skin-script's font effect (used in lists)
that now include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting
that only let you force an "outline" effect).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
to override the skin-script's font effect (used in thumbnails) that now
include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting that only
let you force an "outline" effect).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) allowing you to
assign keyboard functionality to the "Insert" key when fullscreen
navigation is not in use.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area)
to show thumbnail previews even if the playing media does not report
key-frame. Note that allowing media with no key frame reporting to
display thumbnails over the timeline can take much longer.
* New Setting (Media Library Category Editor / Configure) to
re-scrape a folder's thumbnail if the folder's "modified"
time-stamp changes.
* The advanced playlist control has become more powerful with integrated
sorting that does not affect the main playlist until items are moved.
* The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) has been
restructured and expanded to include the media's file size and date
as well as full information on the file from MediaInfoLib (MediaInfo DLL).
* Zoom Player is now listed as a Windows "AutoPlay" option for Music,
Videos and Pictures.
* The Mini color control fullscreen navigation interface will now display
the name (brightness/saturation/etc...) and not only an icon.
* Scraped poster/backdrop/still images are now downloaded concurrently
using multiple threads to speed up the online scraping process.
* The mouse's "back" and "forward" buttons now act as "back" and "enter"
when used in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New function and keyboard macro (Alt+Ctrl+"T") to toggle the TAG
display when playing audio files.
* New "Copy to Clipboard" button on the playing media information dialog
that copies the content of the "format" box into the clipboard.
* New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the
fullscreen navigation list font.
* New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the
fullscreen navigation thumbnail font.
+ For additional security, password protected media library categories
no longer show path information on the category list screen.
+ The media library scrape icon and count now reflect the scrape queue and
processing threads and not only the queue, giving a more accurate picture
of the background scraping process.
+ The default keyboard mapping for the numbers pad has changed to make
the same button functions trigger regardless of the num-lock state.
This means the configured functionality for the arrows and insert
keys will function even if the num-lock key is enabled.
+ The advanced options dialog's 'Keyboard' page has been restructured
for enhanced clarity and the addition of more features.
+ Optimized media library disk access by improving meta-data caching.
+ Changed the default text background color in audio playback (when a
folder image is not used) to a much darker gray.
+ The fullscreen navigation clock text is no longer affected by the text
effect/outline setting.
- The virtual keyboard did not accept physical keyboard input if the
"Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation
interfaces" setting was disabled.
- It was impossible to use the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface without
a mouse. Now a new "Apply" button makes the interface usable again.
- Media files or folder flagged never to be scraped were scraped
again under some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug that caused the media duration to disappear from a media
library thumbnail.
- Selecting several files and choosing to flag them for re-scraping would
not clear the selected file count at the top-right section of the media
library interface.
- The fullscreen navigation scroll acceleration (when holding or fast
clicking the up/down buttons) now resets itself as the list loops,
preventing a crazy level of acceleration that may make the list
appear to freeze.
- The thumbnail view's "drag to scroll" was triggered after 1 pixel of
movement, making selecting a thumbnail with a single click fail
if the mouse cursor moved a bit during the click.
- Clicking a media or folder in the media library's thumb view mode and
then trying to click the close or back buttons would not work on the
first click (requiring a second click).
- The text labels on the virtual keyboard keys is now more uniform in size.
- Clicking a media library thumbnail and then trying to click the "back"
or "close" icons would fail on the first click (and work on the second).
- In the FREE version, the screen saver would over-tax the CPU (the
streamers were always used and it was impossible to turn off).
- The Advanced playlist control, Chapter editor, Scheduler, Scene-Cut,
Skin selector and Play history dialogs would not save their last
window size and position if you closed the player without first
closing the dialog.
- Clear the search box text of the advanced playlist control using the
"DEL" key would also remove any selected entries from the playlist.
- The "Hide all control bar buttons" setting stopped saving in v12.1.
- Switching directly to the Play History fullscreen navigation interface
using a keyboard or other macro from another fullscreen navigation
interface would not update the title area.
- The internal screen saver would still activate even after calling
functions when using the TCP/IP command & control API.
- Folders marked not to be scraped were still being scraped if no online
database scrapers were specified for the media library category.
- Setting the left mouse button to open the context menu didn't work.
- ".CUE" chapter files indexing a single audio file longer than
99.9 minutes would have failed to load.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v12.1:
* Kinetic scrolling has been rewritten from scratch, it should now be
a lot more responsive and accurate, especially when used on lower-end
PCs and Tablets.
The kinetic acceleration/deceleration speed settings have also been
tweaked and are now more reasonable.
* Zoom Player FREE now provides a trial period for using most of
Zoom Player MAX's features (e.g. fullscreen navigation interfaces,
play history, audio visualizations, playback scheduler and more!).
* You can now assign custom functions to XInput (e.g. XBOX controller)
left and right thumb stick clicks. By default the left and right
thumb clicks do nothing.
* The two left media library mini-menu entries are now fully customizable.
* Three new functions added to the media library mini-menu:
1. Add to playlist
2. Open the function menu
3. Play / Enter
* Changing some of the setting on the media library category editor's
"Category Configuration" dialog now prompts you to flag the content
of the category for re-scraping.
* New media library category setting to completely disable the
category from scraping for metadata.
* The "Re-scraping" media library function page has been renamed "Scraping"
and contains a new setting to flag selected files and folders not to be
scraped.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System), allowing you to choose the Zoom
Player task bar icon (either current, version 11 or old school icon).
Note: This setting will have no effect if the windows taskbar is set
to combine buttons.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically show
the playlist editor when exiting fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Control Bar) to disable seeking when
using the mouse wheel over the control bar (and use the
default mouse-wheel functionality instead).
* Three new extended functions:
exSeekAheadPercent : Seek Ahead (percent of duration)
exSeekBackPercent : Seek Back (percent of duration)
exSeekToPercent : Seek To (percent of duration)
* The fullscreen navigation scrollbar source image can now be any
resolution, adding skinning support for sharp 4K resolution scroll bars.
* The control bar's fixed position close and volume slider buttons have
received mouse-hover visual cues.
+ The notification to upgrade an old license is no longer shown every time
Zoom Player is launched. It will show up every few days instead.
+ When notified of a new version release, a special message will now show
up to notify you that your current license may be too old to use with
the new version.
+ Clicking/Touching an unselected thumbnail in the media library now
selects the thumbnail and displays any related meta-data instead
of automatically starting playback.
+ You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll through the entirety of the
media library's fullscreen navigation mini-menu.
+ Mouse wheel scrolling in the media library now scrolls the list instead
of scrolling by changing the active thumbnail.
+ The playlist editor and equalizer dialogs now restore automatically
after exiting fullscreen exclusive mode when MadVR is used as the
video renderer.
+ The media scraping error list is now auto-saved more often to prevent
system failures from losing information.
+ Content images used in Zoom Player FREE now come in full 1080p
HD resolution (Zoom Player MAX already included the higher
resolution images).
+ Some sections of the options dialog now more clearly turn to
a "disabled" state when a parent setting that enables the
functionality is turned off.
+ The XInput advanced options dialog section has been restructured.
- Pressing Smart Play's "Auto Configure" button on the basic options dialog
would trigger a crash under some conditions.
- Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error when
pressing enter on an entry in the playlist fullscreen navigation
interface.
- Fixed a "List index out of bounds" error that triggered by bad
audio visualization configuration.
- Clicking the media library's thumb area did not always play the
clicked thumbnail (it would play the media in the thumbnail above it).
- Under some conditions, opening the media library would use a
thumbnail aspect ratio from a different category.
- Dragging to scroll the media library's thumbnail area did not work
in the entire thumbnail area.
- Clicking the left mouse button on a media library thumbnail and holding
for a few seconds to activate the mini-menu caused the next mouse click
to be ignored in some areas of the screen (like going back to the category
menu).
- Fixed a small cosmetic issue with the ring tone generator dialog.
- People who have purchased the Zoom Player lifetime license were
accidentally shown an upgrade notice in some cases.
- The media library bottom category-type filtering icons were accessible
using the mouse even when they were not visible.
- Fixed a possible rare freeze in cases where the media library navigation
dialog was opened at the exact same time one of the file tracker threads
(emule/utorrent/qbittorrent) was trying to synchronize.
- Using the mouse wheel in combination with kinetic scrolling in the
media library fullscreen interface would result in chaos.
- When the media library's thumb view left/right bump actions were disabled,
thus allowing you to use the left/right keys to scroll through thumb rows,
the scroll bar did not appear when the active thumb jumped up/down a row.
- Zoom Player should close much faster now.
- Opening the media library's function menu would wipe clean the meta-data
display area.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v12:
* The media library has a new metadata-scraping capability that
automatically downloads Movie and TV show posters, backdrops,
still images and displays them in a JukeBox mode.
This is a major feature, Here is a full guide explaining the best methods
to ensure your media library collection is scraped correctly:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
* The default fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned up and
polished. If you have previously used a non-default navigation skin,
you will need to re-apply the skin through the skin selection dialog.
* Within the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface, the area
below the file list/thumbnail view that previously showed the filter
category icons is now replaced with metadata and file information.
The category filter icon are still accessible on the category
selection page.
* New Zoom Player icon on the taskbar and desktop.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to specify whether Zoom Player
should use the enhanced (Windows Vista+) open file dialog.
This setting is enabled by default.
The older open dialog has issues with high DPI monitor setting, causing
some of the icon to appear extremely small.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to add Extended Controls (Delete Media and Functions Menu) to the path
area of the media library, playlist and file browsing fullscreen
navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that prevents the "Previous Folder" entry from being added to the
media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) to use a video
frame from the media file as thumbnail if the meta data scrapers fail.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
whether the thumbnail's background is darkened or not.
The default value for this setting is determined by the category type.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
the number of text lines to display under each thumbnail.
Depending on the media file's name length, the file name will be
word-wrapped across multiple lines.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that enables
JukeBox mode, where the movie poster, backdrop images and metadata
are scraped from an online database (TheMovieDB.org) and then displayed
as a full-screen presentation when opening a folder.
For more information, see:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
whether folders with thumbnails should display the folder icon in
the background or only the thumbnail.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that determines
whether the metadata derived title or file name is drawn on thumbnails.
* New folder scraping blacklist (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen
Navigation / Thumb View), enabling you to prevent scraping of folders.
The main use of this new feature is to prevent "sample" and
"subs" folder from being scraped, especially when downloading movie
posters from TheMovieDB.org or other online databases.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / BluRay) to let DirectShow
filters handle BluRay parsing. This setting is enabled by default
and allows 3rd party filters (such as LAV filters) to parse the
BluRay structure and decide on the best title selection.
* New media library scraping indicator to make the scraping process
clearer by displaying the number of media files waiting to be scraped.
* New media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
designed to better display poster aspect ratio (1:1.5) thumbnails.
* When creating a new media library video category, a new dialog prompts
for the type of video category, either "Videos", "TV shows" or "Movies".
The category type is then use to control the category initial
configuration and layout.
* On a fresh install, the Play History dialog's column width are now
automatically spaced to better cover the grid's width.
* New skin script variables that control the position and height of the
thumbnail drawing area (previously it was set to the file-list height),
allowing the thumbnail grid to better utilize the available screen space.
* The media library category editor now remembers the last selected tab
and category mode when re-opening the dialog.
* Clearing the playlist through the playlist editor now prompts you
to confirm you want the playlist cleared.
+ The media library category editor (use Shift+"M" or access using the
right click menu) has been redesigned for enhanced simplicity and user
experience.
+ The thumbnail layout setup (Media Library Editor / Configure Category)
has been rewritten. Instead of manually specifying the thumbnail
width and height or using the built-in calculator to do so, you can now
directly select the thumbnail's aspect ratio and number of columns to
display along with a new horizontal spacing layout option.
When changing the thumbnail's aspect ratio, you are now given the option
to reset the category settings to a new default based on the selected
aspect ratio.
+ The clear media cache button has moved from the options dialog to the
media library category editor dialog (Shift+"M").
+ The "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping using
metadata scrapers fails" setting has been moved to the category editor's
"Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category
instead of global for all categories.
+ The "Create folder thumbnails from first media file within the folder
(if scraping is disabled or fails)" setting has been moved to the category
editor's "Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category
instead of global for all categories.
+ The thumbnail view's thumbnail memory cache now syncs cached thumbnails
directly with the main thread without waiting for other scraping threads,
ensuring memory cached thumbnails show up faster while scraping for new
content.
+ The subtitle overlay icon, displayed over a thumbnail in the media library
has been enhanced for extra clarity (the sub-bits are now highlighted
in yellow).
+ The media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
has been enhanced to give extra space to the thumbnail image.
+ When the 'Treat the "Play" function as "Open Media" or "Enter"' setting
is enabled, using the "Play" function on a folder within the file browsing
or media library fullscreen navigation interfaces will now play the
content of the entire folder instead of just entering the folder.
+ Setting thumbnail mode's left/right bump action to 'do nothing' will
now move the selected entry up/down a row instead of doing nothing.
+ Installing a new skin now prompts you to apply the skin to all skin
modes (Media/DVD/Audio/Navigation) supported by the newly installed
skin. Previously, you were only prompted to open the skin selection
dialog.
+ Opening a new file through file association (for example, opening a media
file through explorer) now closes the media library and file browsing
fullscreen navigation interfaces before playback starts.
+ Input boxes and error/warning/confirmation/information dialogs are no
longer skinned when triggered from a non-skinned dialog for both
consistency and to prevent issues with monitor DPI values not matching
the current skin's resolution.
+ Zoom Player now tries to automatically reduce the font size in the options
dialog to ensure certain elements fit inside the dialog regardless of
windows font or DPI settings.
+ The Playlist and Equalizer dialogs are now automatically closed
when entering fullscreen while using MadVR with "Fullscreen Exclusive Mode"
enabled if either dialog is opened on the playback monitor.
- Fixed several high DPI layout issues, especially evident when using
a high DPI value (300%) used by 4K monitors/TV sets.
Thank you Adam Howarth for the in-depth 4K testing.
- The "LAV Hardware Acceleration" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video)
was not applied correctly, forcing the LAV Video Decoder filter to drop
back to software decoding.
- Trying to create a new folder through the media library while in thumbnail
view mode could trigger a "list index out of bounds" crash.
- Extended functions that can use a negative value parameter (like
"exFastForward") did not work when a negative value was used.
- The background image no longer flashes when opening media files through
explorer (or other applications) while Zoom Player was already playing.
- The "Chapter editor/Seek to" dialog did not scale properly with monitor
DPI adjustments.
- Entering and leaving a media library folder in thumbnail view mode
extremely quickly could result in a crash or thumbnails not appearing.
- When two or more media library categories shared the same folder paths
and the same thumbnail width but with a different thumbnail height, it
would have prevented the thumbnails from drawing in some of the
categories.
- When using the media library in thumb view mode with the media names
sorted by date, erasing a file within a folder and then going up
a folder would no longer show the highlighted folder (the folder itself
changed position as the folder date changes when files inside are
modified).
- When "Automatically restore last media position on replay" was
disabled, the "Retain Media Playback History for [x] days" setting
became inaccessible.
- The audio device list would re-list the same device multiple times
under some circumstances, possibly causing audio issues.
- Using the media library category editor's 'Configure Category'
dialog to edit a category's settings would reset the category's
password protection.
- Switching to some video renderers in the options dialog when
running under Windows 10 would incorrectly notify you that your
version of Direct-X is too old.
- The title area in the bundled fullscreen navigation skins did not properly
account for the width of Time display when using 12H AM/PM format.
- The "Multi-Part file loader" automatic match mode did not always
load multi-part GoPro sequences into the playlist correctly.
- Smart Play's "Auto-Configure" option could improperly set a partially
unregistered profile comprising of multiple filters if the unregistered
filter was sandwiched between two registered filters.
- Zoom Player should now terminate properly even if there are scraper
threads busy or stalled.
- The "Select category type" dialog would not always draw properly
and you could not use the keyboard to navigate to the "OK" button.
- Fixed small cosmetic glitch in the "Registered Filter Manager" dialog,
where a text area was overlayed by an edit box.
- The options dialog's search box did not return values for settings
with a description over 100 characters long.
- Fixed a "Is not a valid integer value" crash when playing a DVD and
adding chapters with the "Show chapter points on the Timeline" setting
enabled.
- DVD bookmarks were listed with a cosmetic glitch (an added ".z" at the
end of the chapter name).
- Closing Zoom Player with the Station Manager window open would not
save any changes made to the station list.
- Double-Clicking the title area to maximize Zoom Player would also
trigger a single-click action (default play/pause).
- If the options dialog was originally opened on a monitor that is now
turned off, the options dialog will appear screen-centered on the
main Zoom Player window.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v11.1:
* New Direct3D Pixel Shader image processing script support when using MadVR
as the Video Renderer (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Pixel Shaders).
Pixel shaders are script text files with the ".HLSL" file extension that
can be compiled in real-time by the GPU (display card) to perform various
image processing effects.
The options page allows you to specify pixel shader presets, the first
8 of which can be activated directly by using a keyboard/remote control
macro (by default Alt+Shift+"F1..F8").
The current pre-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by
pressing Alt+Shift+"F9".
The current post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by
pressing Alt+Shift+"F10".
Both Pre and Post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled at
once by pressing Alt+Shift+"F11".
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to treat the "Play" function as if it was "Open Media" or a click on Enter
when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible (bypassing the mini-menu
in the media library's thumbview mode). Enabled by default.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to use the "Stop" function to close any currently visible fullscreen
navigation interface. Enabled by default.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether folders are marked as seen if they contain a
previously played media file. By default, this setting is disabled.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Thumb View) to create additional thumbnail scraping threads when current
threads time out while parsing a video. This can happen with
partially downloaded media files.
The upside is that scraping will not pause when problematic files
are encountered.
The downside is that by creating additional threads, CPU usage may
rise during the scraping operation and slow down screen updates,
making the user interface a bit more sluggish.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files) to disable the
multi-part file loader when opening or adding multiple files.
This setting is enabled by default.
* New "Previous Navigation" option for the "Start player in:" setting
(Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) that opens Zoom Player
fullscreen and directly in the previously used navigation interface.
* New "/LASTNAV" command line parameter to open Zoom Player fullscreen and
directly in the previously used navigation interface.
* The WTV format is now associable with Zoom Player. You may need to click
the "Default" button in the advanced options dialog under "File Format
Association / File Extensions -> Video.
Once clicked, WTV format files will start listing within the media library
and other video-format specific features.
* You can now use the "Time" seek box in the chapter editor ("g" keyboard
macro) to seek to a percentage of the video, for example, specifying a
value of "8%" seeks to 8 percent from the start of the video.
* Added support for WMV files with the GoToMeeting codec.
+ The video rotate feature (Shift+"R") now uses a new MadVR feature that
no longer crops part of the image while rotating. The latest version of
MadVR is now required to perform video rotation.
+ Optimized Zoom Player's load time by about 10-30%.
+ The fullscreen navigation interface's on-screen clock should now respect
the 24h/12h AM/PM system setting.
+ Some of the options dialog elements have been spread out to enhance
clarity of use.
+ The configuration wizard allowing you to select between PC, HTPC and
Tablet modes now sets Zoom Player to open in the previously used
fullscreen navigation interface instead of the main navigation interface.
+ You can now set a value of "0" to OSD Visibility
(Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions).
+ Code optimization should improve skin loading time and other
code elements.
+ You can now dismiss the internal screen saver by clicking with the
mouse "left/right/X" buttons or using the mouse wheel.
+ The "/LastNAV", "/MainNAV" command line parameters and the "Start Player
in" setting when set to "Previous Navigation" or "Main Navigation" no
longer open the last navigation interface when a file name is passed
in the command line, instead only switching to fullscreen mode.
- Scrolling with the mouse wheel no longer generates a double action
when used in Windows 10 or earlier versions of windows with a custom
mouse utility that sends scroll events to inactive windows.
- When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor's
'configure category' button would cause an access violation.
- Disabling the "Show File Extensions (playlist, file and media library
navigators)" setting would corrupt the play history when opening the
play history fullscreen navigation interface.
- When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor would
not automatically show the 'video' category by default.
- Pressing enter on the playlist editor to play the selected file maintains
the keyboard focus on the playlist (previously, the keyboard focus would
move to the main window, preventing using the keyboard again to play
the next file).
- When using MadVR as the video renderer with the "Auto-Size User Interface
to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled caused
the player window to resize and screen-center when opening certain media
formats (MOV, WebP and other formats may have been affected).
This fix requires the latest version of MadVR, otherwise support for
black-bar crop detection by MadVR will cease working.
- The Media Library fullscreen navigation interface did not respect the
"Show File Extensions" setting in thumbnail view mode.
- The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library
fullscreen navigation interface was not clearing the background between
screen updates, causing the path area to become unreadable and the current
scroll position to become unclear.
- The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library
fullscreen navigation interface did not use the current font size.
- Folders containing previously viewed media were highlighted even if
the "Highlight previously viewed files" setting was disabled.
- The options dialog's search feature did not find searches for radio group
listed elements (lists with bullet-point selection).
- Pressing the TAG display script's "Default" button when using a language
pack could show a corrupt script (??? characters appearing instead of
the script text).
- The "Center user interface on initial load" setting did not work as
intended when opening the player by double clicking on a media file
in an external program (e.g. explorer) while the "Auto-Size User
Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)" setting enabled.
- The "DVD Settings" advanced options dialog page was not searchable through
the options dialog's search feature.
- Using Alt+PgDn and Alt+PgUp to move items in the playlist up or down the
list did not work if the keyboard focus was on the playlist window.
- The internal screen saver would still display even when moving the mouse
cursor over the timeline or control bar areas.
- The multi-part file loader did not detect the last file in a series if
the file names were comprised completely of numbers, for example:
01.mp3
02.mp3
03.mp3
04.mp3 <- would not add automatically.
- The qBittorrent file tracker did not show the download progress of some
torrents with nested folders.
- Pressing Alt+"V" to fetch the playlist media entries duration would not
work the first time (had to press twice).
- Re-ordering playlist entries in the playlist editor using the
Alt+"PgUp/PgDn" keyboard macros or by dragging using the mouse cursor
caused the moved entry to auto-select when playback started.
- The internal screen saver would not always appear on secondary monitors.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v11:
* New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen
navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!
You can specify which media library category should display in thumb
view mode using the Media Library category editor or through the
"functions / settings" page in the fullscreen media library navigation
interface.
Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for
information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within
the media library.
Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control
brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry",
"Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".
Bumping the first or last thumb rows using a keyboard or remote control
shows a momentary glow effect to signify navigation has reached the start
or end of the thumbnail display. Pressing up or down once again using
the keyboard or remote control scrolls to the other end of the thumbnail
display.
Holding down on a thumbnail (with the mouse button or by touch) or
Pressing Enter with a keyboard or remote control brings up a mini-menu
with options to "play the media file", "erase the media file", "open the
full function menu" and "go back to the category list". The mini-menu
automatically times out after 3 seconds or you can close it manually
by pressing left on the left side. The two functions on the right side of
the mini-menu ("erase media file" and "go back to the category list") are
customizable through the advanced options dialog.
To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control,
you can press "Left" on the first entry. By default, bumping left will
go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show
the category list.
* New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all
the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view user
experience.
* The media library category editor has gained a new category configuration
dialog used to enable thumbnail view mode, control the thumbnail layout
for the category and lock the category with a password.
* The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Settings" page
can now be used to switch between list view and thumbnail view as well
as control whether thumbs are scaled or cropped to fit within the
thumbnail area.
* The default Onyx skin and the bundled AlbaHD skins have been enhanced
with clean mouse-hover animation effects for all buttons on the main user
interface, the playlist editor and the equalizer window.
* The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used
to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set
a custom background pattern.
* You can now password protect a media library category to prevent
children from accessing prohibited content directly from the media
library fullscreen navigation interface.
* Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating
ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points
as well as the duration of the highlighted range.
* New 4K resolution version of the Alba skin control bar, now accessible
through the skin selection dialog (press "N" or access through the
right-click menu).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether the media library lists content that matches
a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.
The new default is to only show content based on the media library
category type. To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to Automatically select the last viewed file/folder when entering a folder.
This setting requires play history's "save last play time" setting enabled
to function.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that
determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a
portion of the timeline
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to
remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to
remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to invert the text view's colors.
The new text file viewing default is Black background with white text.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to
use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for
the image itself. Enabled by default.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that enables using the navigation "Enter" key action on a media library
category list to open the category at the root folder.
This was the previous default behavior, which have now been disabled.
Pressing enter with this setting disabled, opens the category in its
previous position.
* Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering
over with the mouse cursor.
* Zoom Player now supports MadVR's automatic black-bar video detection
and window size changes when the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain
Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting is enabled.
* The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect
and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files.
Thanks Dimitar Pankov.
* The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player
is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.
* The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images,
does not support animating GIF files).
* New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's
ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.
* New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation
interfaces to clarify usage experience.
+ All media library categories have been automatically converted to
thumbnail view mode. You can restore each category to list view mode
using the media library category editor (Shift+"M") or through the
settings page on the media library fullscreen navigation interface.
Dependant on the content type (Audio/Video/Picture/Executable),
a default thumbnail aspect ratio and column count is applied.
+ Modified how Zoom Player loads, shaving about 900ms off the load time,
which on the development system accounts for a 36% faster load time.
+ Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.
+ The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces
to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main
fullscreen navigation interface.
+ The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen
navigation interface.
+ The "Media Scanner" and "Remove folder(s) from categories" entries in
the fullscreen media library's category list, now display
a message indicating these interfaces are not available when navigation
"safe mode" is enabled.
+ The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Filter List" page
has been renamed to a now more expanded "Settings" page.
+ The checkboxes on the Media Library's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and
"Settings" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
+ The checkboxes on the File Browsers's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and
"Filter List" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
+ Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably,
to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.
- When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode,
the description could appear as "???" when using a non-english
language pack.
- The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight
previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously
viewed files' was enabled.
- Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping
a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration
when using a different navigation key.
For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast
down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by
more than one item.
- The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not
updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release.
- Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the
maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
- Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the
player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window
state and non-maximized window size.
- Using functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the
dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the
user interface to become unresponsive.
- Fixed a few small memory leaks.
- With the "Nav-Left goes up a directory before entering the
Drive/Category list" setting enabled, clicking the "<" icon in
the media library triggered a "folder up" action instead of
returning to the category list.
- Fixed a crash when trying to close the player with certain fullscreen
navigation interfaces open and uTorrent/qBittorrent/eMule file tracking
was enabled.
- The "Screen-Center Playlist when switching to Fullscreen / Zoom mode"
setting did not actually screen-center the playlist editor.
- Trying to set file association with UAC enabled under Windows 7 would
erroneously show a 'this feature is not supported by the FREE/PRO
version' dialog.
- Pressing the "5" key on the keypad with num-lock disabled would
interfere with fullscreen navigation's 'quick search' functionality
and regular keyboard navigation until ESC was pressed.
- Fixed a few possible crashes when closing Zoom Player.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v10:
* New pre-configuration wizard!
The wizard opens automatically on a fresh installation or can be
manually triggered by using the Alt+Shift+F12 keyboard macro.
The wizard lets you automatically configure Zoom Player based on the
playback PC device profile:
1. PC
This is the default configuration used in previous versions of
Zoom Player.
2. HTPC (Home Theater PC)
When choosing the HTPC profile, the following settings are adjusted:
A. Buttons added to the Control Bar:
* Subtitle Cycling.
* Open the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface.
* Maximize video to fullscreen.
B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar:
* Fullscreen on/off toggle.
C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures'.
D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing
fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button
and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the
main fullscreen navigation interface open.
3. Tablet
When choosing the Tablet profile, the following settings are adjusted:
A. Buttons added to the Control Bar:
* Seeking controls
* Lock user interface function
* Maximize video to fullscreen.
B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar:
* Fullscreen on/off toggle.
* Open File
C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures'
with the static mouse click set to toggle the Control Bar on/off.
D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing
fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button
and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the
main fullscreen navigation interface open.
F. Zoom Player prompts for the tablet screen's physical size.
Zoom Player uses the screen size information to adjust the following
settings to ensure they work well with touch input:
* Fullscreen navigation scroll bar size.
* Control Bar size.
* Hot-Corner click-region size.
* Color Control UI size.
G. The control bar auto-hides after 15 seconds instead of 3.
H. The number of lines displayed in the fullscreen navigation
interfaces is reduced, making line selection easier.
I. Do not show timeline position when hovering with the mouse over the
timeline since tablets do not use mouse as input device by default.
J. Disable quick searching using the keyboard.
K. Set LAV Video hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Native
L. Hide button hints (no mouse to hover with).
* New "Media Scanner" fullscreen navigation interface (Ctrl+Shift+"M").
The Media Scanner scans the PC's drives, searching for media content
(audio/video/images) and presenting a clear list featuring the content
of each folder identified to contain media.
Each media folder can be browsed, added to existing media library
categories or used as a base for a new media library category.
With the new Media Scanner, you no longer have to leave the fullscreen
navigation interface to setup the media library.
* New "Stream Selection" fullscreen navigation interface (Shift+"E").
The stream selection navigation interface allows you to easy select
which of the playing media's Audio and Subtitle streams to enable.
* New "Mini Color Control" fullscreen navigation interface that by default
replaces the old color control fullscreen navigation interface.
The new minified version uses as little screen-space as possible to
ensure color changes are clearly seen as they are being applied.
* New "Control Bar" button on the skin selection dialog, introducing
a new class of skinning specifically for the control bar, allowing you
to pick custom control bar designs, regardless of the currently used
skin.
By default, Zoom Player ships with 5 custom control bars:
1. Onyx Very Small
2. Onyx Small
3. Onyx Medium
4. Onyx Large
5. Onyx Very Large
* Zoom Player is now "Large Address Aware". This means that Zoom Player
and filters in use by Zoom Player can now allocate more than 2GB of RAM.
Large Address Aware is required when playing 4K video content through
MadVR using a very large frame buffer.
* New "Media Scanner" entry on the media library fullscreen navigation
category list giving easy access the new media scanner fullscreen
navigation interface.
* New "Remove folder(s) from categories" function on the media library
fullscreen navigation category list enabling easy removal of folders
from existing media library categories.
* New "Hot Corner" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings)
that triggers customizable functions when the mouse (or finger with
touch input devices) clicks on one of the screen's corners while in
fullscreen mode.
By default the functions are:
Top-Left corner : Main fullscreen navigation interface
Top-Right corner : Playlist fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Left corner : File browsing fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Right corner : Media library fullscreen navigation interface
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) to limit
"Hot Corner" feature to fullscreen mode (enabled by default).
* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) to set which
function is triggered when using the 4th (Forward) and 5th (Backward)
buttons on the mouse.
By default the forward and backward buttons are set to perform
a medium distance seek, but any Zoom Player function can be assigned
to the buttons using the 'Custom' option.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to control
LAV Video Decoder's hardware acceleration.
By default, Zoom Player now sets the hardware acceleration to
DXVA2 Copyback (which falls back to software mode if it is
not supported by the hardware/drivers) in tablet mode and
"Use LAV's setting" on PCs and HTPCs.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether clicking the right/left screen edges navigates to
the left/right.
This behavior was previously enabled and hard coded, it is now optional
and disabled by default.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) that
switches between the old color control navigation style and the new
mini-color control navigation style.
The current navigation skin must support the mini-color control
navigation mode for the setting to have an affect.
* A few great looking background patterns for the customizable dark/light
fullscreen navigation interfaces are now included with the installer.
The browse button next to the "Override navigation background image"
setting now opens the new patterns folder by default.
* The advanced playlist control can now be searched with either an
"OR" or an "AND" type Boolean search when using multiple words.
* New "Lock user interface" control bar button.
When enabled, the mouse and keyboard interfaces are disabled until
the top-left corner of the screen is quickly clicked 3 times or the
space bar is quickly pressed 3 times.
* New "/MainNav" command line parameter that starts the player with the
main navigation interface visible and fullscreen.
* New "Main Navigator" setting for the "Start Player in" feature
(Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
* New Text Viewer font size settings for both ASCII and ANSI (used to
display art in NFO files) under "Adv. Options / Interface / On
Screen Display".
* New "exLAVHWAccel" extended function that specifies the type of
video hardware acceleration used by the LAV Video Decoder filter.
Values:
0 = Use LAV's setting
1 = None (software decoding)
2 = NVIDIA CUVID
3 = Intel½ QuickSync
4 = DXVA2 (copy-back)
5 = DXVA2 (native)
Extended functions can be mapped to keyboard events to make switching
between different hardware acceleration modes more accessible.
* New smart play profile to support decoding of Apple's ProRes format.
* Media can now be played directly from the fullscreen download manager
navigation interface.
* New API message #1935 to add a file to the playlist and automatically
start playing it.
+ Zoom Player should load faster, especially on a fresh install or when
upgrading to a new version.
+ Rewrote the entire fullscreen navigation mouse click/touch code to
prevent clicking and double clicking outside list boundaries selecting
the first/last list entry.
+ The Image Adjust, Image Blanking, Equalizer and Color Control navigation
interfaces are now much more reactive when quickly clicking the mouse or
touch input devices.
+ The GoTo Time fullscreen navigation interface is now much more
touch-intuitive with +/- icons under the Hours/Minutes/Seconds
fields to quickly change the values without having to use the
more cumbersome directional arrows interface.
+ The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface no longer displays the
volume label of network drives as it caused massive slow downs if the
network drive was disconnected.
+ The fullscreen navigation interfaces' close button now only reacts when
the mouse button is released or when the finger is moved off the touch
surface. The change makes the interface more intuitive when used with
touch interfaces.
+ Double clicking on the fullscreen media library category or file
browsing drive list now opens the last position instead of the first
item in the list.
+ When hovering with the mouse over the main fullscreen navigation
interface's grid, the active entry is now set to the item selected
instead of just highlighted, making use of a keyboard+mouse setup
more intuitive.
+ The order of the navigation interfaces has been changed along with the
default navigation interfaces listed in the main navigation interface.
You can still choose which navigation interfaces to list through the
advanced options dialog.
+ The on-screen clock is now hidden when a fullscreen navigation interface
is visible.
+ The default value for "Navigation Scroll Mode" is now set to
"Middle Centered".
+ The icon in the path area was removed from several fullscreen navigation
interfaces.
+ The path text was changed to be more subtle in several fullscreen
navigation interfaces.
+ Played items in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation
interfaces are made easier to spot by changing played media's icon to
25% transparency (compared to 50% in previous versions).
+ Several actions, (for example trying to open a category in the media
library that contained no files) would not show any visual cue to
indicate why no action took place.
These action will now Pop-up an OSD message to indicate the cause.
+ When opening the options dialog for the very first time, it will now
open centered within the active monitor (previously it would open
centered on the main UI window).
- Due to a bug, the scheduler interface became impossible to enable even
when using the MAX version.
- The "Check for updates" setting was broken and may have notified of new
components on the install center even though they may have not been any.
- Closing a fullscreen navigation interface by clicking/touching the "X"
area located at the top-right corner of the screen could accidentally
trigger a "right" navigation function, which by default is to seek forward
20 seconds.
- Long-presses on buttons now work when used with a touch screen (instead of
the default windows behavior of a long-press being used to right-click).
- Double-click action will not trigger accidentally when trying to quickly
select/unselect entries in the Playlist, Media Library and File Browsing
fullscreen navigation interfaces.
- The selected file(s) attribute in the Media Library, Playlist and File
Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces would not clear after performing
several actions (Cut, Paste, Add to Playlist, Remove from Playlist and
Clear Playlist).
- Fixed a memory leak when using the main navigation interface in grid mode.
- Certain mouse actions and features did not perform well when the text
viewer was used.
- When playing a file using the file browsing fullscreen navigation
interface, opening the interface will now mark the file as seen without
requiring you to exit and re-enter the folder.
- Scrolling quickly through the "image adjust" and "image blanking"
fullscreen navigation interfaces could cause values to change using a
multiplier instead of accurately one at a time.
- In the FREE and PRO versions, the chapter points on the timeline could
not be disabled.
- Pressing Backspace before typing anything else in a fullscreen navigation
interface that had QuickSearch enabled could cause the dialog to appear
frozen until other characters were entered.
- Using the "End" key to go to the end of the line when using the
fullscreen keyboard navigation interface would go one character after
the line's end.
- If the "Auto-Show the Control Bar on Mouse Movement" setting was enabled
and the "Limit Control Bar Auto-Show to Fullscreen / Zoom mode" was
disabled, it took two clicks to close the control bar.
- Using the CommAPI #1930 message to add files to the playlist now
automatically translates "/" characters to "\" if the path is local,
fixing cosmetic issues in the playlist.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.5.0:
* The main fullscreen navigation interface index is now drawn
using an icon grid array instead of a list, making it much more
touch/mouse friendly.
* There is now a dedicated close button for all fullscreen navigation
interfaces, making them more suitable for usage with touch devices.
* New text-file viewer, opening any of the following text extensions
uses the new viewer: csv, css, ini, json, log, nfo, txt, xml, yaml.
Files with the 'nfo' extension will open using the Terminal font
at a fixed size of "9" to preserve the ASCII art.
While the text-file viewer is in use, the UP/DOWN navigation keys
and the mouse scroll wheel are used to scroll through the file
instead of their usually assigned function.
* You can now rename files directly from the playlist fullscreen
navigation interface's function menu.
* The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface is now more usable
with a mouse or touch input :
1. You can now click to select the Hour/Minute/Seconds fields.
2. Clicking the current position pastes the current position
to the Hour/Minute/Seconds entry fields
3. The arrow controls are larger and more accessible.
* A clickable "Trash" icon is now displayed next to the erase entry
on fullscreen navigation interfaces' function menu.
* New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to override a skin's icon grid array viewing mode
for the main fullscreen navigation interface index.
* New setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that overrides the mouse
scroll wheel and UP/DOWN navigation keys functions when the HTML
or Text file viewers are in use. Instead of the assigned functions
the mouse wheel and UP/DOWN keys are used to scroll through the
HTML/Text content.
* New setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles" that
determines whether the XySubFilter high resolution subtitle renderer
is used (MadVR set as the video renderer is also a requirement
for XySubFilter to work).
* New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Settings" that determines if text files are listed in the media
library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
This setting can also be accessed through the media library and
file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces' function menu.
* New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization" specifying that the selected custom background
image should be treated as a pattern and tiled instead of stretched.
* New setting "Adv. Options / Playback" that determines whether text
files are added to the playlist when opening an entire drive or folder.
* You can now select "Text & HTML" from the open dialog's drop-down
format list.
* New control bar buttons that opens the 'Main' and 'Media Library'
fullscreen navigation interface.
* New button on the Install Center's options dialog to open the
cache folder in explorer.
* You can now click an arrow icon on the media library, file browsing
and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces' quick search function
to reach the selected entry with one click.
* New skin-script code to better position the 'GoTo Time' fullscreen
navigation interface's "current" and "seek-to" position texts.
* New Smart Play profile for opening local ".NSV" media files.
Improved NSV streaming should appear in a future version.
+ The default configuration has been improved to better account for new
and updated features.
+ The 'Navigation Scrollbar Size' setting can now be set to
"Dynamic Mode" which changes the scrollbar's size dynamically
based on the interface's width, restoring the previous default
scrollbar behavior.
+ "Dynamic mode" is the new default 'Navigation Scrollbar Size',
restoring the scrollbar size to v9.3 values.
+ When the HTML viewer is in use, the UP/DOWN navigation keys and
the mouse scroll wheel are now used to scroll through the web page
instead of their usually assigned function.
+ The icon next to the 'Play all files in this Directory' and
'Randomly Play all files in this Directory' has been changed from
a checkbox to a play icon.
+ The notification about bad sub-types in a smart play profile will
no longer appear by default. These messages will now only appear
if the 'Show Smart Play graph creation errors' setting is enabled.
+ The default panning rate when using an XInput (XBOX 360/ONE)
controller has been slowed a bit.
+ A few of the fullscreen navigation icons were tweaked for clarity
and enhanced visuals.
+ Some of the icons on the bundled Customizable Background fullscreen
navigation skin have been made semi-translucent in sections to better
integrate with the background image.
+ The GoTo time fullscreen navigation dialog now always opens on the
"Seconds" field (previously it would on the "Hours" field).
+ Improved keyboard time to seek input when using the GoTo time
fullscreen navigation interface.
+ Added more space between some buttons in fullscreen navigation
interfaces (Equalizer, Image Adjust, Color Control, Image Blanking).
+ The Image Adjust fullscreen navigation interface layout has been
optimized for additional clarity.
+ The Mouse wheel function fullscreen navigation interface has been
optimized for additional clarity and enhanced touch input.
- Disabled the "Press & Hold" windows touch-input feature on the
fullscreen navigation interfaces. The "Press & Hold" feature
adds a delayed response to touch events, which interfered with
smooth operation on tablet devices.
- Enabling a file tracker feature while the download manager
fullscreen navigation interface was already visible could
cause a crash.
- Trying to play streaming audio without the DC-Bass component
installed would trigger a crash.
- Trying to play a station listed under the favorites section
would trigger a crash.
- Adding a station to the favorite station list would not save
the new favorite item after restarting the player.
- Long Path text in the media library and file browsing fullscreen
interfaces would cause the text to overlay the selected item count
and icon.
- Renaming a file in the media library or file browsing fullscreen
navigation interfaces would cause the some of the playlist navigation
interface icons to appear in the wrong size.
- Renaming a file using one of the fullscreen navigation interfaces
would not rename the playlist entry for that file.
- Clicking in an empty space under or above a file entry's icon in
the playlist, media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation
interfaces no longer selects the last entry in the list.
- Clicking in an empty space under or above an entry in all
fullscreen navigation interface would wrongly interpret the
click as if it was on the first or last entry in the list,
leading to accidental actions.
- Switching to fullscreen with the Zoom Player window in a maximized
state would lose the window's maximized state upon exiting fullscreen
mode.
- Hovering with the mouse cursor over a timeline area containing
a chapter/bookmark would cause the hint window containing the
bookmark name and position to flicker if the hint window would
appear on the edge of the active screen.
- Setting the mouse's middle-click (mouse wheel click) to reset
DirectShow Zooming, instead of resetting, the maximum zoom
value was applied.
- Opening a folder through several means (drag & drop for example)
would not always respect the "Opening a drive or directory includes
opening image files" setting.
- Rotating the screen/tablet now hides the date & time display from
the navigation interfaces (previously they would overlap due to
the lack of space).
- Category names would overlap the right-side icons in the fullscreen
media library navigation interface.
- Clicking the left/right edges of a fullscreen navigation interface
to navigate left/right now works again.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.4.1:
* Clicking the selected item count checkbox in the playlist, file browsing
and media library fullscreen navigation interfaces now acts as a shortcut
to the extended file selection page.
* New scenecut editor "Pause Playback" entry type.
* Introduced stricter sub-type format checking to prevent errors.
+ Auto-Showing the control bar when the mouse cursor is moved to the
top or bottom of the screen (selectable in the options) now triggers
when the mouse cursor is up to 4 pixels away from the top/bottom
instead of the just the top/bottom pixel.
- Trying to play all files in a directory did not ignore unknown
file extensions, adding them to the playlist instead.
- With the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio"
setting enabled, triggering an action OSD (like "Pause") would cause
the window to auto-resize.
- A bad sub-type in the H.264 video decoder smart play profile could
have caused issues under certain conditions.
- Selecting "all matching multi-part files" from fullscreen navigation
interfaces could select non-file entries such as "Previous Directory"
and others.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.4:
* New feature to load DirectShow filters directly from a DLL even if the
filter is not registered/installed on the system (Adv. Options / Playback
/ Smart Play / Info & DLL Paths).
The external DLL paths are searched when Zoom Player tries to create a
filter that is not registered with the operating system.
Note:
+ All paths are relative to Zoom Player's EXE's folder.
+ Some filters may require registry entries to work.
* New "<" icon next to a fullscreen navigation interface's icon/title to
provide a clear visual indicator that clicking the location navigates
to the previous navigation page.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to set the scrollbar's width.
* New clickable icons for "Play all files in this directory" and
"Randomly Play all files in this directory".
* New "Play" icon next to playable entries in multiple fullscreen
navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc).
* You can now select MadVR as the Windows Media DRM playback
video renderer.
+ Large playlist load time has been optimized by up to 200%.
+ You can now single-click previous directory icon to go to the previous
directory.
+ New "Unknown" icon now used with unknown file types in file listing
fullscreen navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc).
+ When loading a playlist comprised of multiple playlists, each with a sort
method specified in the playlist, the playlists will now be individually
sorted and appended instead of the final playlist being sorted.
+ The fullscreen navigation scrollbar width is no longer dependant on the
width of the dialog as that didn't make sense rotating displays (such as
tablets). The scroll bar width is now fixed size.
+ The icon used to access the fullscreen navigation interface's functions
page has been modified to more clearly indicate the action taken by
clicking the icon.
+ On the fullscreen navigation function pages of the media library and
file browsing interfaces, on the "Add to Playlist" entry, the icon has
been changed from a right arrow to a playlist icon to better indicate
that clicking the icon opens the playlist navigation interface.
+ The playlist icon has been replaced with a new, polished design.
- The "Create Contact Sheet" feature got completely broken in v9.3.
- The fullscreen navigation interfaces did not resize when rotating the
screen orientation.
- When playing a media with external audio track files, the used filters
may not have been released properly from memory, causing all sorts of
possible issues (for example, MadVR would not release it's overlay,
covering the video area when playing audio files afterwards).
- The fullscreen playlist navigation interface's font did not adjust in
size to match the "Navigation Line Count" setting and was not perfectly
centered within each line.
- The Alt+"S" keyboard macro that opens the subtitle configuration page
did not work if the "XySubFilter" subtitle renderer filter was used.
- When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display preview
thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the thumbnails would
always appear below the timeline, even when there was space above it.
- When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display
preview thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the
thumbnails would initially appear on the secondary until the mouse
was moved at least 1 pixel over the timeline.
- The previous fullscreen navigation customization settings were not restored
if the options dialog was closed using the "Cancel" button.
- Resizing the fullscreen station navigation interface width could cause the
station name to overlap the station format and bitrate text fields.
- The Install Center would list an update as available even if a newer
version was already installed if the update's build number was higher than
the currently installed version's build number, for example:
v9.3.0.102 would appear newer than v9.4.0.3
- The "DefaultSettings.exe" file did not reset the Steam Edition's settings.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.3.0:
* Support for registering the GXF, MXF media exchange formats
file extensions.
* New Smart Play profiles for GFX, MXF, Motion JPEG2000 and DVCPro
formats.
* Clicking on the fullscreen navigation interfaces title area now
navigates to the previous interface (like using the navigate "left"
function).
* The current navigation icon is now drawn next to the fullscreen
navigation interface's title.
* Clicking the "Main" fullscreen navigation interface now toggles
back and forth between the function page and the navigation interface
selection index.
* The playlist, file browsing and media library fullscreen navigation
interfaces display item and selected item counts on the right-side
of the path section.
* New "Main" entry on the main fullscreen navigation interface functions
page that returns to the main navigation interface selection index.
* The fullscreen virtual-keyboard navigation interface's text box can
now be clicked to move the text-caret to the clicked position in the
text.
* The fullscreen navigation skinning code has been enhanced to control
whether navigation arrows are displayed on each navigator interface.
* The fullscreen navigation skinning code has been enhanced to allow
specifying a specific file for each navigation icon. Navigation icon
sizes are no longer fixed at 160x160 pixels (source resolution).
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to pre-load navigation graphics, improving load time at the cost of
additional memory usage.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to prevent the navigation icon from being displayed
next to the title text.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) to prevent the navigation title from being displayed.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
File Tracker) that tracks and displays download progress in the media
library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces when using
the qBittorrent BitTorrent download client:
http://www.qbittorrent.org/
* New skin-script code specifying the fullscreen navigation interfaces'
icon position and scale next to the title text.
+ Several fullscreen navigation customization features have been moved
from other pages to the new customization page on the advanced options
dialog.
+ Several fullscreen navigation widget have been polished to better
fit the navigation style.
+ Multiple fullscreen navigation skin files can now reside in the same
folder, allowing graphical element re-use for a smaller distribution.
+ All settings on the fullscreen navigation customization options dialog
page are now updated in real time, making it much simpler to customize
the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
+ Using the fullscreen navigation's navigation skin selection interface
now updates the navigation skin as soon as you highlight a skin entry.
+ Detaching the control bar now overrides all other control bar
positional settings.
+ Adding files/folders to the playlist using the media library or file
browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces now reports the number of files
actually added to the playlist.
+ The Advanced playlist control now works 200% faster by pre-allocating
some RAM (10mb ram for a playlist with 40,000 entries).
- Image rotation was completely broken (did nothing) in v9.2.
- Fixed a vulnerability when loading specially crafted ".BMP" files.
- The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) will no longer appear
partially off-screen when the playback window is positioned at a screen
corner.
- When applying file extension association, the confirmation dialog
appeared in the wrong screen position.
- Adding a streaming URL using the playlist editor would clear the entire
playlist instead of appending the URL to the end of the playlist.
- Hardened the language-pack parsing code to better handle several
types of translation errors.
- The "DefaultSettings.exe" application that resets Zoom Player's settings
to their default values did not work with the Steam Edition of Zoom Player.
- Fixed several issues related to conflicts between assigned double-click
and single-click mouse functions, like the inability to exit fullscreen
mode when double-click is set to switch to "Fullscreen on/off" and single
click set to "Move Video / Window".
- The "ESC" key no longer closes the keyboard editor's key mapping dialog,
allowing the "ESC" key to be mapped.
- Loading playlists with embedded media-duration information skips
the media-duration scanner's background operation from trying to get
the media's duration from the media file itself.
- The advanced playlist control dialog would take twice as long to open
if the 'Search' was set to "Starting with...". Only noticable on massive
playlists.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.2.0:
* XBOX controller sticks can now be used to Pan & Scan directshow
zoomed video.
* New "Speed" parameter assignable to XBOX controller stick and trigger
functions specifies the number of operations per second to perform,
customizing motion accuracy for each function.
* The mouse left-click button can now be assigned to Pan & Scan directshow
zoomed video.
* When the mouse left-click button is set to "Mouse Gestures", a new
function can be assigned to a static click, by default the function
is Play/Pause.
* The DirectShow Zooming & Panning features now apply to the internal image
viewer (JPEG/PNG/BMP) as well.
* The internal image viewer (JPEG/PNG/BMP) now supports image rotation by 90
degree increments using the Shift+"R" keyboard macro.
* Video streaming over http is now supported when using the
"Open->Streaming link" feature from the right-click context menu.
* New virtual meta-data editing accessible through the playlist editor's
right-click context menu or for the currently playing media using the
Ctrl+Shift+"T" keyboard macro.
The virtual editor saves the meta-data in Zoom Player's ZPL playlist
format without modifying the meta-data within media files themselves.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that
specifies whether http media streaming builds a video or audio graph
when the specified URL does not contain a file extension (for example
"http://my.ip.com").
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to auto-sort playlists
on load (excluding the default playlist used when restarting the player).
* The right-arrow appearing on multiple fullscreen navigation interfaces
is now clickable and equivalent of using the right arrow key keyboard
macro.
* New button and right-click context menu entry on the playlist editor to
add streaming URLs (e.g. "http://www.somesite.org/folder/channel1.ts").
+ The chapter-points graphical elements in the bundled Onyx and Alba skins
is now better color-coded to make it easier to see behind text.
+ The auto-part loader now ignores space characters when trying to decide
if the next file in the directory should be automatically inserted
into the playlist.
+ Added a warning to reload the playing media when enabling "Show time
seek position over Timeline" setting with "Show position preview
thumbnail" previously enabled.
+ Added a warning to reload the playing media when enabling the "Display
OSD through MadVR's OSD API (preserves fullscreen exclusive mode)"
setting.
+ The options dialog is now slightly wider to better account for the width
required to display the entire settings tree.
+ When playing a live stream, pausing now stops the graph instead of being
completely disabled.
+ The multi-part file loader will no longer try to find multiple parts when
the file loaded is a playlist.
+ The play history fullscreen navigation interface now has a small arrow
on the active line signifying access to additional functionality.
- The ZPL playlist parsing code ignored meta-data such as the title if the
playlist entry was a URL (link).
- Fixed multiple issues with M3U playlist parsing, including parsing of
UTF8 encoding and meta-data parsing of titles for streaming links.
- Mouse gestures could conflict with the mouse left-click combined with
holding the Alt or Ctrl key functions.
- With the "Auto-Save Media Chapter files (".ZPCHP" files)" setting enabled,
chapter files were not being saved automatically under some circumstances.
- A few JPEG orientation modes were not displaying in the correct
orientation.
- Setting the "Screen-Align the Control Bar to" setting to "Top" or "Bottom"
caused MadVR to drop out of fullscreen exclusive mode every time the
control bar was shown.
- With the "Screen-Align the Control Bar to" setting set to "Top" or
"Bottom", the control bar would align within the video in fullscreen
mode instead of the top/bottom positions.
- With EVR set as the video renderer, the first time a media was loaded
caused a momentary glitch in the skin (black box appearing behind the
skin's button).
- The PreAmp equalizer slider would get reset when the audio was muted
if the "Link volume up/down functions to PreAmp volume..." setting
was enabled.
- Adding a web page to the playlist and then saving and loading the playlist
or just restarting the player would cause the playlist entry to be
played as a media file (and failing) instead of opening as a web page.
- The extended fullscreen navigation interface would show "???" instead of
displaying unicode language-specific texts.
- Fixed a typo in one of the function descriptions.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.1.0:
* The left mouse click can now be set to "Mouse Gestures".
* You can now assign 4 mouse gestures (up/down/left/right) when gesturing
with the mouse cursor while holding down the left mouse button or by
swiping a finger on touch displays a forth of the way across the screen.
By default the assigned functions are:
Left : Medium seek backward
Right : Medium seek forward
Up : Previous Track
Down : Next Track
All gestures can be assigned a custom function in the MAX version.
* xySubFilter support for full resolution subtitle rendering when playing
lower resolution video content.
MadVR must be used as the video renderer for xySubFilter to function.
Please note that the current version of xySubFilter may break ffdshow
subtitle rendering if the xySubFilter filter is registered.
* The XInput (XBOX360 and compatible controllers) interface can now assign
Zoom-in and Zoom-out functions to the left and right Trigger buttons.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area)
that displays chapter points on the timeline. When the mouse hovers over
a chapter point, a pop-up shows the chapter name.
This feature requires a skin that includes additional chapter-point
graphical elements. The Onyx and Alba skins include this support.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver) to always disable the
windows screen saver and monitor powerdown while Zoom Player is running.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enables the
Mouse's middle click (wheel click) to reset DirectShow Zooming.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enable the
Mouse's left click combined with holding either the Alt or Ctrl keys
to pan the DirectShow Zoomed video (panning is currently limited to
the EVR video renderer).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse Wheel) that allows the
DirectShow Zoom In/Out functions to be assigned to the mouse wheel.
* New extended "exDirectShowZoom" function used to specify a zoom-in
factor when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike standard
Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed mode.
* New "fnDSZoomIn" and "fnDSZoomOut" functions that Zoom into and out
of the video area when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike
standard Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed
mode.
* New Comm API message #1705 notifying of a subtitle stream change.
* New Comm API message #1605 notifying of an audio stream change.
* New "TimelineChapters" and "TimelineCBarChapters" skin scripting
functions used to specify coordinates for the timeline chapter marks.
+ Comm API message #1702 (get subtitle stream names), only worked
in DVD mode. It now works for media mode subtitle steams as well.
+ The 'Current Position' is now horizontally centered in the chapter editor.
+ The font size used when creating contact sheets was too small, making the
text unreadable when creating lower resolution contract sheet images.
+ Restored subtitle compatibility with the latest version of ffdshow.
Using the ffdshow subtitle rendering option should now work.
- Playing media files with both embedded and external subtitle tracks
with the embedded subtitle tracks set as both not-default and not-forced,
the next subtitle track function would require several tries to properly
show the correct subtitle track and at times, the OSD pop-up may have shown
the wrong active subtitle track name.
- Adding a chapter point to a media file would list the new chapter
in the wrong order within the chapter editor.
- Removing chapters using the chapter editor did not prompt to
erase the chapter files when all chapters were removed, causing
the chapters to re-appear after re-loading the media.
- Using the next/previous chapter buttons would pop an action OSD
containing character encoding instead of the actual character.
For example "&comma" instead of ",".
- The 'Show OSD filename when opening a new file' setting stopped working.
- Detaching the Control Bar when using MadVR as the video renderer
would cause the control bar to appear twice under certain circumstances.
- Setting the control bar to appear at the top/bottom of the screen
instead of the video area would not work when using MadVR as the
video renderer.
- Disabling the "Auto Play" setting broke the "Automatically restore the
last media position on replay" feature.
- With "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)"
and "Limit Auto-Size to User Interface Height" settings enabled, playing
a video while fullscreen and then exiting fullscreen would have resulted
in a window the same size as the source video's full resolution instead of
only adjusting the height to compensate for the aspect ratio.
- Searching for some buttons using the options dialog's search feature
would prevent the searched buttons from being clicked until the search
dialog was closed first.
- Enabling the 'Always start with media subtitles hidden' setting would
cause a 'Play' OSD to pop-up when playing a media file containing
subtitles.
- The current time and date did not appear on any fullscreen navigation
interface based on the virtual keyboard (Rename, New Folder, etc).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.0.2:
Changes :
+ Pressing Alt+"A" to open the Audio decoder configuration page when no
media is loaded, now tries to show the LAV Audio decoder instead of
ffdshow's audio decoder. If LAV Filters are not installed the ffdshow
audio decoder will open instead.
Fixes :
- Fixed a small cosmetic glitch when maximizing the audio skin
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.0.1:
New :
* When maximizing the Video or Playlist windows, the curved window corners
are now transformed into a solid frame, preventing accidental clicks on
background applications. This applies to both the Onyx (default) and
AlbaHD skins.
* New Skin API command block "ifmaximized" and "endmaximized" used to
draw an additional skinning layer when the playlist or video windows
are maximized.
Changes :
+ The keyboard macro list (F1 to show) is now cleaner and easier to read.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v9:
New :
* Support for XInput (XBOX360 and compatible) controllers:
1. Each button can be assigned a Zoom Player functions.
2. The DPAD can be used for fullscreen navigation.
3. The thumb sticks are assigned special functions that change
in strength based on the pressure applied to the stick.
This feature is limited to the Steam Edition of Zoom Player.
* New thumbnail preview when hovering over the timeline (MAX only).
Thumbnail preview currently works only on media formats that report
key frame position.
Enable under:
Adv. Options / Control Bar / Timeline Area
* Extensive changes to the Smart Play profiles, enabling newer, better
codecs for many profiles. Please report any issues playing a format
that previously used to play.
* New "Automatically restore the previously active subtitle track on replay"
Play History setting.
* New "Automatically restore the previously active audio track on replay"
Play History setting.
* The slate navigation interface has been tweaked and now displays the
current time & date.
* A 'New Folder' function has been added to the Media Library and file
Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New rename function accessible either through the playlist's right-click
menu or using the Alt+Shift+"M" to rename the currently playing file.
* The fullscreen navigation interface now display an integrated clock (date,
time and day).
* New Smart Play profiles for H.265 (HEVC) and VP9.
* The Microsoft Windows TV '.WTV' file extension is now supported by
Smart Play using the 'MPEG2 Program' Smart Play profile.
* New "GIF" smart play profile to better support animated GIF playback.
* New Alt+Shift+"O" keyboard macro used to enable/disable MadVR's
'Smooth Motion' feature.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video" that controls whether
MadVR's smooth motion feature is enabled, disabled or MadVR default.
* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls
mouse cursor visibility for all dialogs in both fullscreen and windowed
mode (useful when only using a remote control or keyboard).
* New video rotation function (fnVideoRotate), assigned to the Shift+"R"
keyboard macro that uses MadVR along with Pixel Shader scripts to rotate
the video image. Each use turns the video 90 degrees clockwise.
This feature requires using MadVR as the video renderer and using a
display card capable of at least Pixel Shader model 2 (supported by
most display hardware purchased in recent years).
* New Function "fnMadVRSmootMo" that enables/disables MadVR's smooth motion
feature.
* New Extended Function "exStayOnTop" used to set StayOnTop mode.
* New "exSlideshow" extended function used to specify the slideshow delay
(wait period) between two images.
* New "exFastFoward" and "exRewind" extended functions, used to set a
custom fast forward or rewind rate on the fly by assigning the new
functions to a button or interface hardware (keyboard/remote/etc).
* New "exSlowMotion" extended function, used to set a slow motion rate
on the fly by assigning the new functions to a button or interface
hardware (keyboard/remote/etc).
* The playlist editor's sort menu can now sort by ascending or
descending order.
* The contact sheet settings are now saved.
* New "/FMax" command line parameter that starts with the Player set to
fullscreen across all connected monitors.
* New skin script code used to display the time & date within fullscreen
navigation interfaces, for more information see:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/navskin.shtml
* New Comm API message #0110, returning the current system time in
multiple time formats.
* New Comm API message #0120, used to request the monitor layout.
* New Comm API message #0130, used to request available audio devices.
* New Comm API message #0132, used to set the active audio device.
* New Comm API message #0134, used to request the active audio device.
* New Comm API message #0142, used to set the active video renderer.
* New Comm API message #0144, used to request the active video renderer.
* New Comm API message #0150, used to enable or disable mouse cursor
visibility for all dialogs in both fullscreen and windowed mode.
* New Comm API message #6040, returning the current playlist with
path relative to the share path specified using the /SharePath
command line parameter.
* New Comm API message #6105, used to enable/disable the scheduler.
* New Comm API message #2310, used to adjust the audio volume level.
Changes :
+ The file association for Windows 8 now opens the Windows file
association interface as Microsoft completely locked down any external
changes to file association starting with Windows 8.
+ In previous versions, trying to play a DVD would initially open
a dialog to choose the audio/video decoders to use for DVD playback.
Now, If installed, LAV Filters are used as the default
audio/video decoders.
So now, on a fresh install, you only need to switch to DVD mode and
hit play.
+ The Shift+"R" keyboard macro has been changed from "reverse aspect ratio"
cycle to "video rotation".
+ The play next media file in the same directory feature no longer tries to
open playlist files which could be abused and cause the feature to play
media files outside the original playing folder.
+ Incomplete AVI files can now be played using LAV Filters as the source
filter, making the 'Gabest AVI Splitter' filter obsolete (and no longer
available for download through the install center).
+ The Shift+"A" and Alt+"A" keyboard macros for opening the audio decoding
filter configuration dialog have been merged into the Alt+"A" macro.
+ The active/inactive buttons on skinned dialogs are now clearer.
+ The "Still Image" smart play profile is no longer used for GIF images.
+ The "Open Item Directory" entry on the playlist editor's right click menu
now opens an explorer window with the file highlighted.
Previously, only the directory would open.
+ The load-playlist button on the playlist editor will now open in the
"default media open path" folder if one is specified.
+ Updated the HuffYUV Smart Play profile to support HuffYUV files created
using ffmpeg/ffdshow encoder.
+ Comm API message #6010 now returns the number of files verified to exist
on the system.
Fixes :
- Windows 8.1 multi-monitor DPI is now supported, the Zoom Player user
interface will maintain its correct size and sharpness regardless of
the monitor's DPI setting.
- Disabling the windows screen saver and monitor powerdown now only works
while in fullscreen as intended (previously, the powerdown was completely
disabled while Zoom Player was running).
- Trying to shutdown windows while Zoom Player is playing a media file could
cause Zoom Player to close improperly.
- Fixed glitch that caused the FPU accuracy to drop, causing sorting
issues with files having a time difference of less than a minute.
- Opening a DVD Menu using LAV filters may cause the menu not to refresh
properly.
- Under some condition, DVD Fast Forward and Rewind could cause the displayed
subtitle to remain fixed on-screen.
- Some settings on the 'Adv. Options / Playback / Video' were accidentally
showing a dialog stating a different version of Zoom Player was required.
- Some Play History settings were not being grayed out in the options
dialog when they should have been.
- When the multi part file loader feature is set to 'Automatic Match',
playing a file with a name comprised only of numbers that converts to
a very high value, triggered a crash.
- Trying to use the "Random play a file with the same extension from the
playing directory" or "Random play a media file from the playing directory"
functions would result in an instant access violation error.
- Using Zoom Player's playlist format to specify the "SR=6" (sort Randomly)
tag would result in a corrupted playlist.
- Delayed DVD seeking was always active when seeking backwards, even when
the "Delayed DVD seeking" setting was disabled.
- After the operating system has been up for more than 25 days, the mouse
double-click functions in the fullscreen navigation interface would
cease working.
- Double-clicking the 'previous directory' icon in the media library and
file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces could automatically select
a file or folder in the parent directory.
- The "SPACE" button on the virtual keyboard did not work when the text
carrot was at the end of the line.
- Trying to seek in a DVD that was authored to disable seeking in certain
title will now show an OSD pop-up message informing that this is the case.
- Clicking too quickly on the virtual keyboard keys would type in the same
character twice.
- The Smart Play profile for OPUS audio is now using the LAV Audio Decoder
by default as the DC-Bass decoder did not properly support all OPUS files.
- DVD that contain disc titles with invalid file name characters now properly
save any disc-specific information (such as resume from last position).
- Going up a folder from the fullscreen station navigation function interface
would not work correctly and could lead to a crash.
- Opening a web page will now cover the entire display area, ignoring
aspect ratio settings.
- Worked around a uTorrent bug that prevented download percentage
from appearing in media navigation fullscreen interfaces for certain
file names.
- When the "Save Position" checkbox is unticked in the Skins Selection
window, while using the "F6" skin mode, clicking the "Switch to Standard
User Interface" button did not retain the user interface when switching.
- In F6 mode, clicking the "Switch to Standard User Interface" button
doesn't retain the size of the interface when switching has been fixed.
- A minor visual glitch in the Audio skin's bottom right buttons down state
has been corrected.
- Fixed a crash when closing the player with the 'Show time seek position
over timeline' setting enabled.
- The volume skin widget did not support unicode (non-english) characters.
- Fixed two vulnerabilities identified by researcher 'Kaveh Ghaemmaghami'
and brought to our attention by 'Secunia Research' related to malformed
BMP files.
- Using the playlist editor to sort by file size would not work when the
"Don't check if a file exists when adding a file to the Playlist (faster
loading)" setting was enabled.
Trying to sort by file size will now notify you of this issue.
- A single frame shift would occur when pausing video with the EVR/VMR
video renderers.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v8.6 :
New :
* The default fullscreen navigation style has been replaced with the new
"Slate" design. A lot of work was invested in making the new design much
more visually polished than the previous "Drapes" design.
* New Slate style background images for the DVD and Media modes.
* Support for MadVR Color Controls.
* The color control, adjust image and the image blanking fullscreen
navigation interfaces now uses the more intuitive input mode previously
demonstrated in the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
* Clicking on media file icons within the file browsing, media library
and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces now selects and unselects
the clicked entry.
* New Media Scheduler interface, accessible through the right-click
context menu or by clicking Alt+Ctrl+"S".
The scheduler lets you set times & dates for specific media or entire
playlists to begin and stop playing automatically.
* The internal JPEG decoder is now based on GDI+ requiring "gdiplus.dll"
installed on your system. The "gdiplus.dll" file comes pre-installed
with Windows XP onwards and is available for download for Windows 98/ME
systems.
As a bonus, Zoom Player can now display JPEG image files encoded with the
CYMK color-space (used in printing).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing
you to select the navigation scrolling mode when using the keyboard or
remote devices.
Always Centered:
This is the default from v8.5 and earlier.
When scrolling, the selected item always remains in the screen-center.
Middle Centered:
When scrolling, the selected item remains in the screen-center except
for the top and bottom of the list.
Windows Default:
When scrolling, the selected item can reach the bottom or top of the
screen before any scrolling is performed.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) that controls whether
the right-click context menu is skinned or if Windows should draw the
context menu.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) that controls the
number of seconds to seek back when restoring media position on replay.
For example, when playing a media file to position "1:10:12", setting
the seek back value to "2" seconds, replaying the same media file
resumes playback at position "1:10:10".
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) that specifies the
Audio re-synchronization step accuracy in ms. Previously, the value
was hard coded to 25ms.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) that specifies the
Initial Audio re-synchronization offset value. This means that
every media with decoded audio will start playing with the specified
audio re-synchronization offset value.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that determines
whether clicking the next/previous track buttons (or functions) while
in Fast Forward or Rewind mode performs a forward/backward seek action
instead of next/previous track.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls
whether using the "Stop" function causes Zoom Player close the graph
(the new default) or just stop the graph (previous default).
* When using a custom right-click menu script, you can now pass the
currently playing file name and path to an external application, for
example "MediaInfo".
* New "exScheduler" function, allowing you to enable or disable the
scheduler.
* New "exPlaylistMode" function used to specify the
'On Playlist Complete' mode.
* New "exPartLoader" function used to specify the
'Multi-Part file loader' mode.
* Two new functions (Alt+Shift+"T" and Alt+Shift+"R") for increasing and
decreasing the Derived aspect ratio width.
* The keyboard arrows can now be assigned two new functions:
1. Zoom In/Out (previous Zoom option was only based on Axis)
2. Long Seek forward/backward.
The default values for the arrow functions have been reset, If you have
previously set a non-default value to the arrow keys, make sure to
re-apply your settings.
* New Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
* New "Select Audio", "Select Video" and "Uncheck Selected" buttons on the
basic options dialog's file association page.
* New Skin Script variables that specifies the GoTo fullscreen navigation
interface's text size and position.
* It is now possible to create a non-square scroll widget for the
fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New "HoverColor" navigation skin script parameter that specifies the
font color used for the currently highlighted line in the fullscreen
navigation interfaces.
* New "WindowWidth" and "WindowHeight" fullscreen navigation skin
parameters that specify the relative width and height of the
adjust image and image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in
file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in
the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association /
File Extensions).
* The fullscreen background color (set under "Interface / Display") is
now used to fill the black-bar area in video renderers that support it:
1. Standard Overlay
2. Overlay Mixer
3. Haali Video Renderer
4. MadVR
* New Zoom Player API Command (#6020) that saves a remotely created playlist
to a local file.
All paths are relative to the 'Share Path' parameter specified using
the "/SharePath" command line.
* New Zoom Player API Command (#6030) that sends a specified local playlist
file (only when using the parameter).
All paths are relative to the 'Share Path' parameter specified using
the "/SharePath" command line.
* Two new Zoom Player API Events (#6100 and #6101) that trigger when a
scheduled entry is about to begin playing and when that entry ends
playback.
* New Zoom Player API Command (#6110) that returns an event with same
number indicating the current Scheduler state (Disabled/Inactive/Active).
* New Zoom Player API Command (#6120) that returns an event with same
number listing the current schedule list. The format is identical to
the local "zplayer.schedule" file, except using the "|" character to
separate schedule entries.
* New Zoom Player API Command (#6130) that specifies a new schedule list.
The new list overwrites the currently active schedule.
This command returns an event with same number, listing the number of
schedule entries received.
Changes :
+ The 'Adjust Image' and 'Image Blanking' fullscreen navigation interfaces
are now placed in a better default on-screen position.
You can restore the previous position by modifying the 'Screen Position'
and 'Navigation Side Margins' values under:
Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation
+ The Internet Radio Station database has been cleaned up and the
fullscreen station navigation interface has been enhanced to
highlight the audio format and bitrate of each station.
A small side-effect of the station database clean-up is
stations you may have previously set as favorites may no
longer exist.
+ The 'Multi-Part file loader' Automatic mode now supports image formats
and requires less character matches to identify parts.
In addition, file names comprised of only numbers are now auto-loaded
with no requirement of a minimum number of characters to make a match.
For example, opening "1.mp3" would automatically open "2.mp3", "3.mp3"
and so forth.
Multi-Digit numbered file names such as "0001.mp3" and "0002.mp3" are
supported as well.
+ The Create Contact Sheet feature is now much faster and more reliable.
+ The code used to get a media's duration and properties has been enhanced.
+ Smart Play now strips ".part" and ".!ut" file extension when evaluating
which source filter to use. This change should improve playback stability
of incomplete downloading media files (eMule, Firefox and others may use
the ".part" file extension, ".!ut" is used by uTorrent).
+ The keyboard fullscreen navigation interface used in such features
as the "rename" function now uses a clearer distinction between
the actively selected button and the "shift" states.
+ When overriding the playlist colors, the entry number is now colored
using the 'Playlist font color' value instead of remaining in a fixed
color.
+ The "Auto-Hide the Control Bar while paused" setting has changed to
"Auto-Hide the Control Bar while stopped or paused".
+ The Source filter name now appears under the 'Filter Properties' sub-menu.
+ You can now move error dialogs using the mouse cursor.
And the error dialogs can not appear partially offscreen anymore.
+ Several options dialog entries have been updated to reflect third
party technology changes, for example MadVR now supports color control.
+ The options page's information dialogs now appear in list format
with a scroll-bar instead of trying to fit all the text into one
big dialog.
+ API message #6010 will now return a code once processing has finished.
Fixes :
- The FREE version was not supposed to support Audio Visualizations,
but a bug allowed you to enable support which resulted in a
'list index out of bounds' error.
- An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading
a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
We would like to thank security researcher 'Debasish Mandal' for
notifying us of the exploit.
- The fullscreen navigation skin loading code now falls back to the
default navigation style if the previously selected navigation skin
file no longer exists.
- The "Player should stay on top of other applications when switching to
Audio Mode" setting caused a crash when exiting Zoom Player in Audio mode
and then launching Zoom Player with an audio file. Another glitch with
this setting caused the Equalizer and Playlist editor dialogs to appear
corrupted on initial load.
- Looping videos in EVR no longer blink black between loops.
- Fixed a crash when Zooming to a resolution over 8192x8192. 8192x8192
is now the maximum zoom-in resolution.
- Fixed a crash when using an invalid parameter value in a custom
context menu file.
- Fixed a potential crash when closing Zoom Player under certain
circumstances.
- Fixed an bug that could wipe the play history cache under certain
rare circumstances.
- The subtitle selection dialog would erroneously show the currently
visible subtitle as "Disabled" even though subtitles were showing
under certain circumstances.
- The uTorrent file tracking feature that lets you see the download
progress of torrent files in the file browser and media library
fullscreen navigation interfaces did not display the download
progress if uTorrent appended the '.!ut' file extension while
downloading.
- Under some circumstances, saving a playlist would have caused the path
prompt window to appear behind the main Zoom Player window, making it
appear as if Zoom Player is frozen.
- The skinned context-menu would show sub-menus off-screen under certain
spacing conditions.
- Fixed a 'Focus' error dialog that would trigger when opening a
skinned right-click context menu and then the window that was
hidden. For example, opening the Control Bar's context menu and
then having the control bar automatically disappear while the
context menu remained visible, followed by pressing escape to
close the context menu.
- In some cases, streaming radio stations would incorrectly open
using the Windows Media Player's ActiveX component instead of
using DirectShow, leading to bad performance and at times
GUI corruption.
- Fixed issues playing Icecast URLs from the Xiph database.
- Saving playlists with relative or no path now saves the active
playlist entry with a relative or no path (previously the entire
path was saved for the active playlist entry).
- Using the options dialog's search function with a non-English
language pack would display some of the section names as garbled text.
- When using the function selection dialog's search function, pressing
ENTER would not loop to the top of the list when repeating the search.
- Pressing "ALT" while using the skinned right-click context menu now
closes the menu (similar to standard windows context menus).
- The "Remember Window State on Exit (fullscreen / width / height)"
setting did not save/restore the window's Maximized state and position.
- The "Center user interface when exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" did
not take affect when using the F2 keyboard macro to exit fullscreen mode
directly into audio mode.
- When using MadVR as the video renderer and overriding the pop-up action
OSD to disable skinning and enabling the transparent background option,
the pop-up action OSD's background did not become transparent.
- When using MadVR to render OSD elements and having the action OSD
set to "Don't Skin the OSD Background" and "Transparent Background" and
if the background color was set to black, the pop-up OSD would not appear
(MadVR doesn't allow 'black' to be used as a background color).
- When using MadVR with automatic subtitle stream selection enabled, in
some cases, playback would pause at the beginning of the media instead
of playing the media straight away.
- Chapter content embedded in media files would appear truncated if
the chapter's title contained a quote character.
- Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
- The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique
visualization plugins.
- The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to
it's default settings under some circumstances.
- Running "DefaultSettings.exe" would wipe the registry key that
provides the Zoom Player uninstaller with the location of the data
directory, preventing a clean uninstall.
This issue is now resolved by re-creating the registry key on the
next Zoom Player run (previously the key was only created during
the installation process).
- If the "Override the active skin's Action OSD display" was unchecked and
the "Transparent Background" setting was checked, the Skinned OSD actions
would lose transparency.
- When the "Override the active skin's Action OSD display", "Don't Skin the
OSD Background" and "Transparent Background" settings were enabled while
the "Outline Font" setting was disabled, the pop-up OSD messages would
appear with a font outline using the background color if Anti-Aliased
windows fonts (cleartype) were enabled.
- While in fullscreen, Zooming out to the point where the video area
becomes very small truncated the pop-up OSD actions.
- With the "Save Position" checkbox enabled on the skin selection dialog,
the maximized window state did not properly save the original window
size and position after exiting Zoom Player.
- The scroll bar did not work on the Main fullscreen navigation interface's
"Function" page.
- The Playlist fullscreen navigation interface's "Search" page was not
accepting any mouse input.
- The scroll bar did not work on the "Adjust Image" fullscreen navigation
interface's "Aspect Ratio" page.
- The Command & Control API message #5130 used to execute navigation
functions did not work as planned when an anti-repeat rate was enabled
and possibly in other circumstances.
- Using Zoom Player on a monitor with a negative virtual position value
caused some dialogs not to center properly.
- Uninstall now removes the 'zpshlext.dll' file from the installation
directory when running under a 32bit version of windows.
- Some of the language packs had a glitch that caused Zoom Player to
start with an access violation and then appear as an empty black box.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v8.5
New :
* The Onyx (default) skin has undergone a modernization process,
making the icons clearer, sharper and everything a little more
intuitive.
* Introducing the 'Alba HD' skin.
A clean elegant white design for higher resolution screens,
Alba HD is 25% higher resolution than Default while retaining
all the functionality.
Alba HD replaces the Fusion skin, still available for download
through the Zoom Player Skin Gallery:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/skins/
* Confirmation dialogs are now skinned by default with new skin script
parameters that control their appearance.
* Under Windows 7 (or newer), the Taskbar thumbnail, which appears
when hovering with the mouse cursor over the Zoom Player task bar
button now features 4 functions:
1. Mute
2. Previous Chapter/Track
3. Play / Pause
4. Next Chapter/Track
* The Install center can now install language packs.
* The Install Center now remembers the 'Silent Installer' and
'Automatic Configuration' checkbox values after restarting.
* The Install Center is now fully translatable into multiple languages.
You must download an updated language pack to see your language.
For more information, read 'how to translate.txt' in Zoom Player's
'Language' folder.
* The OPUS Audio format is now fully supported.
Existing users may want to click on the 'Default' button next to the audio
file extensions under:
Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions
* The LAV Video decoder can now be selected as a DVD video decoder.
LAV's DVD support is still experimental.
* LAV Filters are now used in many more Smart Play profiles.
* A new Theora Video sub-type has been added to the Smart Play profile.
* The PowerDVD 12 video decoder is now supported for DVD decoding.
* Zoom Player now supports the Open-Source DVD Navigation filter:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dslibdvdnav/
* When selecting items in the fullscreen navigation interface, for additional
clarity, an icon is now used to mark the selected entry.
* The Play History cache (used to store last media position and
display the play history) has been rewritten from scratch,
performance has been greatly improved.
* New Short,Medium,Long seeking buttons option on the Control Bar when
using the default skin.
* New Settings "Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations" that
control whether visualization displays when playing audio or video media.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" used to override the
Play History cache file save path.
By specifying a shared network path, media can be pause on one computer
and playback resumed on a second computer.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" to automatically save
the play history cache on pause.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files" that controls
whether archive files are automatically extracted and played when opening
an entire drive or folder.
In previous versions, opening and playing of archive files was always on
and could cause stability or accidentally unforseen consequences
(long extraction times).
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings"
that when enabled, add a 'Randomly Play all files in this directory' entry
to the Media Library and File Browsing navigation interfaces.
When used, the function adds all the files in the current directory to the
play list and then sorts the playlist randomly before beginning playback,
making it very useful when playing music.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings"
that overrides the "Open File" dialog, accessible through the main user
interface, the right-click context menu and by pressing the "O" key with
the fullscreen file navigation interface.
* New "Very Long Seek" Backward and Forward functions using the
Ctrl+Shift+"," and Ctrl+Shift+"." keyboard macros.
By default the seek action is 10 minutes. This value is adjustable
through the Advanced Options dialog under the [Playback / Controls]
sub-menu.
* New Function "fnMainContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu
used by the main user interface.
* New Function "fnPLContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu
used by the playlist editor user interface.
* New Function "fnResetBalance" that resets the Audio Left/Right balance
to the center.
* New function "fnResetPlayRate" that resets the Play Rate to normal speed.
* A new warning dialog now pops-up when trying to enable certain conflicting
settings in the options dialog.
* The Playlist editor's scroll bar background is now skinnable.
For more information, visit the skinning tutorial:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml
* The Playlist editor's search-box font and background are now skinnable.
For more information, visit the skinning tutorial:
https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml
* The Playlist editor's scroll bar widget is now skinnable with an
Alpha (translucency) bitmap, as used by the modernized default onyx skin.
* The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has been enhanced to support
a disabled button state image.
* The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds
finer button animation smoothness control.
* The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds
auto-repeat capabilities with a custom repeat rate value.
* New fullscreen navigation skin-scripting parameter to set the playlist's
active playing track color, when it is the selected entry.
* When running "Zoom Player FREE" with a Zoom Player PRO or MAX activation
key installed, a notification dialog asking you to install the version
matching the key now appears.
Changes :
+ The Playlist editor's scroll widget now moves smoothly.
+ The Auto-Update feature no longer notifies you of new components on
the Install Center if the new components are not automatically enabled.
In the previous version, an update to a language pack would display a
'new component' notification window.
+ If you previously used a Zoom Player trial version and the evaluation
period ended, Installation the latest version lets you re-evaluate
Zoom Player for another 30 days.
+ The uTorrent and eMule download percentage in the fullscreen navigation
interfaces has been changed to a more suitable color and is now aligned
to the left of the file name.
+ The mouse wheel's Increase/Decrease play rate function now works in
10% increments.
+ The Extended menu fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned,
removing functionality that exists in other navigation interfaces and
adding better structuring to the stream selection options.
+ The 'Opening a drive or directory includes opening image files' setting
is now disabled by default (applies to old and new installations).
You can re-enable the feature in the options dialog.
+ The Equalizer preset editor has been redesigned.
+ The Red error message dialogs are now skinned with an improved layout.
+ The function list dialog's search function has been enhanced for clarity.
+ Auto-Update notification now issues a notification that a new final
version has been released if you are currently running a beta version.
+ The Playlist editor's search box now uses the Advanced Playlist Control's
search method ('starting with' or 'containing' text).
Previously, all searches were based on 'starting with' text.
+ The default change value for the volume up/down functions is now "4%",
replacing the previous "5%" default.
+ Changing the play rate using the play rate bar now pops an OSD listing
the play speed.
+ Smoother Audio Track folder image updates when using the 'PgUp/PgDn' keyboard
macros to play the 'previous/next' audio track in a directory.
+ Right-clicking the fixed clock display now hides it.
+ Version display is now more consistent with web (8.1.x vs. 8.1x).
API version structure remains the same for backward compatibility.
+ The keyboard editor no longer shows scan code character value for
MultiMedia keys (since multimedia keys are not mapped to characters).
+ A few optimizations to the skin parsing code.
+ With the new Play History caching optimizations, the Advanced Options
[Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - Highlight previously
viewed files] is now fast enough to work with large (1000's of files)
directories on modern hardware.
+ Smart Play now strips the '.!ut' file extension when evaluating which
source filter to use. This change should improve playback stability of
incomplete media files downloaded with uTorrent.
Fixes :
- When using Windows 7 with a non-default Font DPI value (125%/150%),
Windows incorrectly scaled the user interfaces, causing the interfaces
to appear blurred and preventing Zoom Player from covering the windows
task bar in fullscreen mode.
- Fixed several memory leaks, especially when loading skins or
expanding/contracting skin elements.
- The Random Play feature wasn't as random as it should have been.
Zoom Player now tries not to repeat the same track until at least 50%
the number of items in the playlist have played.
- The playlist editor's items were not vertically centered inside their box,
this was especially evident when using large playlist fonts.
- When using MadVR as the video renderer, Zoom Player now exits
fullscreen exclusive at the end of each track, increasing MadVR
stability (no more fullscreen freezes between tracks on some
systems).
- Several bug-fixes to the FFDShow and VobSub's Subtitle rendering filter's
subtitle track cycling.
- Multiple bugs fixed in the subtitle track selection dialog, including:
Active subtitle track was not always detected.
A 'disabled' subtitle track entry was not always present.
- When using 'automatic subtitle stream selection' with multiple
'text match' values, the last matching text was used instead
of the first matching.
- The current media's Scene-Cut list would get wiped clear when switching
skins or expanding/contracting skin elements.
- The wrong folder image was used when playing audio media.
The first image in the folder was used instead of the
'Background image search mask' value specified in the adv. options.
- The 'Open Drive' and 'Add Directory' functions would accidentally add
non-media files if their file extension was a sub-set of a proper media
file extension.
- Fixed a bug introduced in v8.1.5 that listed all file sizes as "0 bytes"
in the play history.
- The 'Open Drive' dialog did not allow you to select the first drive in
the list.
- Opening a folder from the playlist editor ignored the setting that
controlled whether image files are loaded and always included images.
- The Scene Cut 'Mute Audio' feature is now more accurate, especially when
seeking into an area marked as muted.
- Fixed a skin color-tinting bug in skins that did not contain fully
skinned dialogs (Playlist, Equalizer, etc).
- Fixed several crashes that occurred when playing an audio file while in
fullscreen and then resizing the folder image down to a postage stamp size.
- Fixed a crash in the Chapter editor when playing a media file with
embedded chapters containing a negative time frame.
- The Play History databases will no longer corrupt if you see a message
saying 'Zoom Player has failed integrity check'.
- When the "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing
video content" was enabled, playback didn't pause if the Zoom Player
task-bar button was hidden.
- Certain ripped DVDs with a modified VIDEO_TS.IFO file would play and
stop in an infinite loop.
- Fixed a small crash that caused a 'ding' sound to be heard just as Zoom
Player was closing when 'On Playlist Complete' was set to 'Close Player'.
- The user interface maximized window state was lost when minimizing with
Zoom Player only showing in the System Tray.
- Pressing Alt+Enter after clicking an item in the playlist editor caused
that item to play instead of going fullscreen.
- The Smart Play profile for the 'VP7' video format accidentally included
an ffdshow entry (ffdshow doesn't decode VP7 video).
- When a text formatting error occurs due to a translation error in
a language pack, it is now caught instead of displaying an unclear
message and a possible crash.
- Trying to use the '/config', '/datapath', '/multinst' and '/winname'
command line parameters in Zoom Player FREE or PRO would crash the
player instead of showing a notification screen that these command
lines require Zoom Player MAX.
- When opening a media file from a network path, hovering with the mouse
cursor over the task bar button or system tray icon would show the file
name with full network path when only the file name should have displayed.
- A few text elements in the Open Directory and Open Drive dialogs were
not translatable.
- Setting a custom mouse/keyboard function that opened the Volume Bar
would crash with an 'out of system resources' error.
- The 'Disabled' subtitle track was not initially selected when no
subtitles were visible by default.
- When maximizing the player window and then minimizing the player window
to the taskbar, the maximized window state and the previous window
size were lost.
- The "Fix window movement glitches" setting that was used to work-around
a window glitch that caused the player window to jump when trying to
move the player window by clicking on the video area is now disabled
by default (even for users who previously had this feature enabled).
An alternative fix is now in place that should hopefully resolve the
jumping window issue without having to enable this setting.
- The Options dialog search function results prevented certain buttons
from being accessible while the search results were visible.
- The Options dialog search function now supports unicode text.
- The options dialog's Help button's context menu now supports
unicode text.
- A Zoom Player tab would briefly appear on the desktop when running
Zoom Player with a windows shell other than 'explorer.exe'.
- The #1601 API message returning the number of audio tracks for the
playing media returned the wrong number at times.
- Under certain conditions, the 'filter properties' sub-menu would
list filters with a '#2' suffix even though there was only one
instance of the filter in the graph.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v8.1.6
- Fix for v8.1.5 that prevents the erroneous 'trial period is over'
message in Zoom Player FREE.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v8.1.5
Legend :
"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :
* New installer option to "Associate with Media Formats", disabled by default.
When enabled, Zoom Player automatically associates itself with every
media file extension on the "Options / File Format Association" page.
Once associated, opening/clicking the file extension (".AVI" for example)
in explorer and other shell programs prompts Zoom Player to execute and
play the selected media file.
* The install center can now list optional items without automatically
selecting the item for installation.
* The default Onyx skin's title area has been refined.
* You can now directly configure the LAV Audio, Video and Splitter filters
through the "Adv. Options / System / Filter Management" dialog.
* A 'Play in Slowmotion' button has been added to the Control Bar.
* The Tray icon right-click menu has been added two functions:
1. Next Chapter/Track.
2. Previous Chapter/Track.
* New "ZPEXEIcon" icon library you can apply through the "File Format
Association" page under "Adv. Options".
The icon library applies the Zoom Player executable icon to all file
extensions (replacing the labeled format extensions badges).
Changes :
+ The player window's video area no longer blanks black when playing
multiple JPEG images in succession even when the file are not part
of the playlist (playing the next directory file for example).
+ Smart Play's 'Source Filter' configuration dialog makes it clearer
that selecting a profile that works as both a source and a splitter,
overrides smart play's 'Splitter' profile for the media file extension.
You can only split a media format once ...
+ Smart Play profiles tweaked to increase stability.
+ The custom key file settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) now
accept relative file paths.
+ The play history cache file verification system was overly sensitive,
causing it to notify you the file may be corrupted even when it wasn't.
+ If "Adv. Option / Interface - 'On Media / DVD Play'" was set to
'Zoom mode' or 'Fullscreen mode' and the player window was minimized,
the player window was restored and set to fullscreen each time a new
media was loaded. Now this action only takes place if the player window
is not minimized.
Fixes :
- Fixed switching to fullscreen on a secondary monitor with Windows XP,
which stopped working in version 8.
- Fixed several small bugs related to how Zoom Player is minimized and
restored.
- JPEG images with EXIF rotation mode "6" were not rotated correctly.
- The '"Derived" mode Automatically Adjusts Aspect Ratio for badly encoded
content' setting did not adjust for dynamically changing aspect ratios.
This was especially bad with MadVR which throws a Aspect Ratio change
event every time.
- ID3 v2.2 tags with embedded images were not parsed correctly, causing
the embedded image not to display.
- Using the "zplayer.regpath" file did not apply the new data path.
More information @ https://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/multicopy.shtml
- Pop-up OSD messages would not appear if MadVR OSD services was used
with a fullscreen navigation interface visible.
- MadVR now show the first frame in the video when pressing stop.
- The Pop-Up OSD (Play/Pause/etc) would stick on-screen when using MadVR
as the video renderer and tabbing away from Zoom Player.
- If 'On Playlist Complete' is set to 'Do Nothing' and MadVR is used as
the video renderer, the fullscreen OSD interface would stop updating when
the video finished playing.
- Playing MP3 files with embedded album art created by Samsung Kies
could crash the player (Kies is creating invalid ID3v2 tags).
- The default "MPEG2 Program" video decoder Smart Play profile has been
changed from DScaler to LAV as DScaler did not support dynamic aspect
ratio changes with the EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer).
- DirectShow filters with stored filter data bigger than 4096 bytes
would not appear in the 'Registered Filter Manager' dialog (LAV Video
for example).
- When deleting a station from the station manager, the station name
would not appear in the delete confirmation dialog.
- Due to conflict with Real Player, the RealMedia decoder pack is no
longer included in the Install Center and the RealMedia Smart Play
profiles have been modified to use LAV in its place.
- Fixed a cosmetical glitch in the options dialog search results.
--- What's new in v8.1.1:
Legend :
"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :
* The Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface usage framework
has changed. The new design is simpler and easier than ever:
Simply scroll up/down to reach a setting you would like to modify.
Notice the Plus/Minus icons on the right hand side.
The active icon is opaque and the inactive icon is transparent.
Moving right/left switches the active state between addition and
subtraction whilst Enter performs the action.
New reset and enabled/disabled icons are displayed next to their
corresponding action for additional clarity.
* The fusion skin's control bar now supports brightness, contrast and
saturation adjustments.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the
player's user interface is restored when loading new content while
the player is minimized.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the
player interface is brought on top of all other windows when
switching to fullscreen.
In previous versions, this feature was always enabled, but since it
can cause conflicts with MadVR and there's no real benefit keeping
this feature enabled for everyone. It is now disabled by default.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play" that when enabled,
all graph creation error messages are saved to a log file.
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Control" that specifies that the
Frame Advance code uses an alternative method of seeking.
The default method is using DirectShow's "IVideoFrameStep" interface,
The alternative method is by guesstimating the frame and performing
a direct seek (the same method always used by the previous frame function).
* New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video" that controls whether
The Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) should permit dyanmic aspect ratio
changes (usually triggered by clips captures from live TV where the
content can switch from 4:3 to 16:9 dynamically).
In v8.0, the default value was disabled (Dynmaic AR changes disabled).
In v8.1, the default value was enabled (Dynmaic AR changes enabled).
* The last play position is now saved automatically when the internal
screen saver becomes active.
Changes :
+ The navigation icons are now scaled "on-demand" and the result is cached
to improve performance. Some of the fullscreen navigation interfaces may
open a bit faster thanks to this enhancement.
+ The right-click "Stream Selection sub-menu now lists audio tracks even
if there is only one track available.
+ The information dialog's ("I" keyboard macro) format section now clearly
labels the source, splitter, audio and video decoders used.
+ Scene-cut files saved for read-only media now use both the file name and
date in order to distinguish between two media files of the same name, an
increasing issue when playing blu-ray disc images.
Fixes :
- The update message notifying you of a new Zoom Player version or new
updates on the install center could appear behind the user interface if
the user interface was set to 'Stay On Top'.
- Saving scene-cut files for read-only media other than DVDs was broken.
- External subtitle files with unicode file names were not listed with
their proper name (either an empty line would be listed or '????'
would appear instead of the actual subtitle file name.
- When using FFDShow as the subtitle renderer and playing a media file
with external audio track, the external audio tracks would get listed
as subtitle track by ffdshow, breaking the 'cycle subtitle track'
feature.
- Closing the navigation interfaces automatically after a specified
number of seconds would cause the navigation interfaces to close even
if remote control commands were received.
- When the "Playing new content moves the player window to the top" setting
was enabled with MadVR as the video renderer, pressing play/pause caused
MadVR to lose exclusive mode for a split second.
- Switching to Audio Mode now hides the clock display.
- Changing the volume level through the Equalizer fullscreen navigation
interface did not always update the skin volume widget.
- Changing the volume level through the player user interface while the
Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface was visible did not update
the equalizer navigation volume values.
- Drag & Scroll was broken in the Equalizer preset list.
- Fixed a crash when trying to close Zoom Player if the clock display and
screen saver were active at the same time.
- The information dialog's ("I" keyboard macro) format section did not
include the splitter used for the playing media.
- Running the Install Center with no internet connection would show
three error messages instead of one.
- Message dialogs could appear with the mouse cursor hidden, making it
more difficult to dismiss them.
- When using a language file, the default LIRC function type
wasn't selected.
- Cosmetical glitches in the options dialog search function.
--- What's new in v8.10:
Legend :
"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :
* The default Onyx skin has been enhanced:
1. Contrast, Brightness and Saturation are now adjustable through the
expandable toolbar.
2. The expandable toolbar is now accessible through a button
on the user interface instead of pressing F5 or F9 using the keyboard.
3. The volume, balance, play rate and equalizer bars have been redesigned.
4. Less framing around buttons.
* The F4-F9 skin modes used by the Default Onyx skin have changed,
the new modes are:
F4 : Default mode.
F5 : Smaller user interface.
F6 : Minimal user interface.
F7 : No user interface.
F8 : Show/Hide Top Bar.
F9 : Show/Hide Bottom Bar.
* The Audio and Subtitle stream selection interface has been rewritten.
The new 'Stream Selection' right-click sub-menu groups all streams into
clearly labeled 'Audio' and 'Subtitle' groups.
* The back-end for the Audio track cycle function (Ctrl+"A") used to
switch between multiple audio tracks has been rewritten. Audio tracks
from internal and external sources are now switched seamlessly.
* The back-end for the Subtitle stream cycle function (Ctrl+"B") used to
switch between multiple subtitle steams has been rewritten. Subtitle
streams from embedded and external sources are now switched seamlessly.
* Zoom Player now has integrated LIRC support. LIRC transmits and receives
remote control signals. This allows computer control using almost any
remote control.
See:
http://winlirc.sf.net for the Windows port by Jim Paris & Ian Curtis.
http://www.lirc.org for the original project.
Using the LIRC section of the options dialog, you can directly assign
remote control buttons to Zoom Player Standard, Extended and Navigation
functions.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface), that controls how to display the
right-click "Stream Selection" sub-menu. With "Show all filters in Stream
Selection sub-menu" enabled, all filters exposing a stream select interface
are displayed in a sub-menu, cleaning up the dialog. With this setting
disabled, only detected Subtitle, Audio and Video streams from known
sources are listed.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar), that prevents the
Control Bar and Timeline context menu from opening. Useful if you have
kids and you don't want a control bar setting changed by accident.
* Two new "On Playlist Complete" modes (Adv. Options / Playback) :
1. Random play a media file from the playing directory.
2. Random play a file with the same extension from the playing directory.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that resets
the Subtitle Renderer's filter subtitle synchronization value, ensuring
that the default value is restored when opening a new media after manually
adjusting subtitle synchronization. Enabled by default.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that forces
automatic stream selection to work only with external subtitle files.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that specifies
whether to enable the first embedded or external subtitle stream if
no automatic stream selection match is found (or if the auto stream
selection is disabled).
* New "/CONNECTTCP:[address or IP]:[port]" command line parameter.
By default, The TCP/IP interface works as a server by waiting for 3rd party
applications to connect to Zoom Player.
With the "/CONNECTTCP" parameter, Zoom Player initiates the connection
itself with a local or remote server right as it launches. A server must be
listening on the specified address and port for a connection from Zoom Player.
Example:
"c:\program files\zplayer\zplayer.exe" /CONNECTTCP:127.0.0.1:4770
* New extended function "exSkinMode", which activates the F4-F9 skin modes.
* Five new functions "fnResetBright", "fnResetContrast", "fnResetGamma",
"fnResetHue" and "fnResetSatur" that reset the Brightness, Contrast, Gamma
Hue and Saturation to their default values.
* The skin script code has been extended with "StartAndGroup" and "EndAndGroup"
blocks that allow skin script authors to limit sections of the script to
specific combination of active groups.
* When connecting to the TCP/IP control interface, Zoom Player automatically
issues a "3000" notification message if an error dialog was visible prior
to establishing the TCP/IP connection.
* Zoom Player now notifies you of known buggy filters when running a new
version of Zoom Player for the first time.
* New Smart Play profile for embedded Apple Lossless Audio (ALAC).
* New Comm API message #1090, used to get the current timeline text,
including the current position and any other value specified in
the options dialog under "Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar /
Timeline Area".
Changes :
+ The F4-F9 keys no longer modify skin groups, but rather activate Skin
modes which are programmable directly from the skin script, providing
greater flexibility and control to skin designers.
+ When using the default onyx skin in F6 or F7 mode, a smaller control bar
is now used.
+ The Zoom Player Install Center now notifies to close any active media
playback software.
Fixes :
- Dynamic aspect ratio changes are now supported when using EVR as the
video renderer.
- Running on Windows 7 with the windows shell set to an application other
than "explorer.exe" would cause Zoom Player to crash.
- With "Aggressively Hide Mouse Cursor" (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse /
Settings) enabled, the mouse cursor no longer re-appears when opening
a fullscreen navigation interface.
- The "/SKINDVD" command line parameter used to set the DVD skin actually
set the audio mode skin by accident.
- The Video icon was being shown for Blu-Ray movie index files instead of
the Blu-Ray icon.
- ID3v2 unicode tags are now supported automatically without specifying
a country code.
- Fixed ID3v2 URL tags that are marked as Unicode but in actuality are ASCII.
- Auto-Save media chapters (".ZPCHP" files) was automatically creating
chapter files when playing media files with embedded chapters (such as
matroska ".MKV" files). Now, the chapter files are created only if
you edit the chapters.
- The option to disable natural language sorting is fixed.
- Maintaining fast-play between playlist items is fixed.
- Fixed a few small cosmetic glitches.
- Pop-up OSD messages are now truncated to fit the video display area.
- Pressing F11 to reset color control values while the color control
fullscreen navigation interface was visible, did not update the
color control navigation interface.
- Selecting the Microsoft image source no longer notifies you that the
filter is unregistered. Note that the microsoft image source filter
is limited to 2000x2000 resolution, so it's not recommended for anything
other than animated GIF files.
--- What's new in v8.00:
Legend :
"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :
* Support for Windows 7 (or newer) task bar progress button. Using the new
Taskbar settings interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar),
you can enable a progress bar that shows either the current media play
position or your position within the playlist.
* Support for Windows 7 (or newer) Task lists. Using the new Taskbar tasks
interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar), you can assign any
standard Zoom Player function to the Task Bar button.
* Support for Windows Vista (or newer) mouse wheel left/right Tilt
(Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Mouse Wheel).
You can choose between using the mouse wheel tilt for left/right
navigation in menus or assign a Zoom Player function to the right
and left tilt motions.
* Support for Windows Vista (or newer) AutoPlay handlers, allowing
you to select Zoom Player from the Windows Control Panel AutoPlay
configuration dialog. Supported auto play handlers include CD, VCD,
SVCD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
* The default media center navigation skin has been refreshed with a more
eye-pleasing colorset. You can download the old skin here:
https://skins.inmatrix.com
* New virtual-keyboard navigation interface. Used for renaming files
through the media library and file browsing navigation interfaces.
The virtual-keyboard layout is fully scripted and supports
native (unicode) language input.
* New Out of Process Automation interface API that allows you to
control Zoom Player through the COM inter-process interface.
A sample application will be posted on the web site and forum.
* You can now search the Options dialog to quickly bring up settings you
need changed.
* The fullscreen Station navigation interface has been redesigned.
All previous stations have been moved into a "Favorites" category.
Beyond your favorites, you can now browse through radio genres
and play stations directly.
* The Station List Media Center interface now has a "Go To top of list"
function.
* You can now search the Station Browser dialog.
* Zoom Player can now load ".xspf" IceCast streaming radio playlists.
You can now tune-in directly by clicking on an icecast station entry.
IceCast Station Directory:
http://dir.xiph.org/index.php
* You can now associate the ".xspf" IceCast streaming radio file extension.
* The ".BDMV" BluRay Movie extension can now be associated with Zoom Player.
* The BINK media format used by many games is now supported by Smart Play and
the ".BIK" extension can be associated with Zoom Player.
* Updated Smart Play profiles and file association option for the
"3gp2, 3gpp, m2t, mp2v, mp4v, mpe, mpv2 and tts" video file extensions.
* Updated Smart Play profiles and file association option for the
"adt, adts, aif, aifc, aiff, au, midi, mid, rmi, mp2 and snd" audio
file extensions.
* The "Filter List" section of the Media Library and File Browsing
fullscreen navigation interface now includes an option to show
"All Files".
* The Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interface's
sort function now displays a checkbox to clearly indicate the active
sorting mode.
* The Fullscreen Playlist navigation interface now draws the media duration
when available.
* The Media Library Category editor has been redesigned for greater
simplicity and clarity and is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer
requiring mouse access.
* The Skin selection dialog has been redesigned for greater simplicity
and clarity and is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer requiring
mouse access.
* The GoTo time/Chapter editor dialog is now fully keyboard accessible,
no longer requiring mouse access.
* The play history dialog is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer
requiring mouse access.
* The play history dialog has been slightly tweaked for clarity.
* The Chapter editor dialog has been redesigned for clarity and ease of use.
* The Scene-Cut Editor dialog has been redesigned for clarity and ease of use.
* The Scene-Cut Editor dialog is now fully keyboard accessible.
* The Station Editor dialog is now fully keyboard accessible.
* The Station Browser dialog is now fully keyboard accessible.
* The Smart Play configuration dialogs were redesigned for clarity and are
now fully keyboard accessible.
* The Playing Information dialog (Keyboard Macro "I") has been cleaned up
and the formats section text can now be copied to the clipboard.
* With uTorrent v3 installed, you can now track download progress in the
media library and file browsing navigation interfaces for torrents
downloaded into a non-default directory.
* The LAV Splitter is now supported for AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, OGG, OGM and
MPEG2 Transport Streams. Please take note that if the LAV Splitter is
installed.
* EXTINF (Duration/Title) data in M3U playlists is now supported.
* Zoom Player can now extract chapter information when using LAV Splitter.
While mainly used by Matroska (MKV) files, all format is supported as
long as LAV Splitter exposes the chapter interface.
* You can now use the Ctrl+"A" macro to cycle through the available audio
channels when using the LAV Splitter.
* PowerDVD 10 profile and DVD Navigator added to "Adv. Options / Playback
/ DVD".
* New "VP8" profile added to the Smart Play options dialog.
VP8 is used by the WebM format and can be decoded using FFDShow and
the MPC Video Decoder (FFDShow may need configuration to enable
VP8 support).
* New "TSFileSource" MPEG2 Transport Stream Smart Play profile.
Please note that the "TSFileSource" filter is not compatible with
Zoom Player's default MPEG2 Transport splitter. To ensure
compatibility, switch the MPEG2 Transport splitter to the microsoft
profile.
* New "TWOS Audio" profile added to the Smart Play options dialog.
Requires LAV Audio Decoder.
* New "Dolby TrueHD" profile Smart Play profile.
* New ADPCM audio decoder Smart Play profile.
* New Nellymoser audio decoder Smart Play profile.
* New "E-AC3" Smart Play profile.
* FRAPS (FPS1) videos can now be played. You may need to enable FRAPS/FPS1
support in FFDShow's codec configuration dialog to enable decoding.
* New MadVR H.264, VC1 and MPEG2 decoding smart play profiles.
Requires MadVR 0.69 or newer with the decoding options enabled.
* You can now select FFDShow DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding
for H.264 and VC1.
There are a lot of restrictions when using DXVA. Not all video renderers
are supported, subtitles wont display, etc... The minimum hardware
requirement is NVIDIA 8xxx series cards or ATI 4xxx series cards.
For more information, visit the ffdshow development thread over
at the doom9 forums : http://forum.doom9.org
* MediaPortal's TS File Reader filter is now supported by Smart Play.
* A new sub-type used by the AAC format is now supported by Smart Play.
* The installer now includes an icon library for the most popular file
formats supported by Zoom Player. On initial install, the new
icons are applied automatically.
* The RingTone creation dialog has been improved:
1. You can manually modify the Start/Stop positions.
2. You can seek to the start/stop positions.
3. You can seek in the player and use the current media position
as the start/stop positions.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that controls whether Zoom Player
uses Natural or Alphabetical sorting.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to password protect
the options dialog. For additional security, the password is kept in an
encrypted form.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that prevents the Zoom Player
user interface from opening on a disabled (turned-off) monitor. Enabled
by default, the main user interface is moved to the primary monitor
when running Zoom Player on a disabled monitor.
* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) allowing you to set
a keyboard/remote anti-repeat rate separately for navigation functions
(up/down/left/right/etc) and general functions (play/pause/etc).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) forcing a more
aggressive Mouse Cursor hiding code. The mouse cursor should no longer pop-up
even when background applications steal focus from the player.
This setting is enabled by default. If it causes problems with your mouse
cursor hiding too much, it can be disabled.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) controlling how
the clock function displays the time & date.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) that
extends the visibility of OSD Action Pop-ups (Play/Pause/etc) by 38ms per
character. This allows the OSD to remain visible when longer text is
displayed (e.g. when renaming files).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Tags /
Paths & Script) allowing you to enable/disable the aspect ratio for
the default folder image. This is useful when the default folder image
is an abstract picture (as the included default image is).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing
you to override a navigation skin's font outline setting.
Disabling the navigation interfaces font-outline can speed up
interactivity on lower end systems.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether the system 'Pictures, Music and Video' library
folders are listed in the media library navigation interface
(enabled by default).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
controlling whether the line background for empty text lines is drawn.
This setting is enabled by default. If you would like to return to the
previous look, you can uncheck this setting.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
allowing you to prevent access to the main navigation interface from all
other navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
allowing you to completely prevent access to the navigation interfaces
function sub-menus.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that controls whether
the playlist editor displays item numbers next to each entry in the playlist.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that controls whether
the playlist editor displays the media duration (length).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) allowing to
prevent exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) that determines
whether the 'Keyboard Video Window Move' function works by percentage
of the screen size or in pixels.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that Auto-Rotate JPEG images
according to embedded EXIF data when using the internal image decoder.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that
determines whether Zoom Player auto-configures the Smart Play profiles
when it first detects a new version of Zoom Player is installed.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) allowing
you to choose whether Zoom Player or Windows selects the Audio/Video
renderers when a file extension is selected for Smart Play exclusion.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Blu-Ray) allowing you to
add secondary Blu-Ray movie tracks (based on their duration) to the
playlist automatically (by default, 21minutes or longer).
Newly added tracks are sorted by duration, longest track listed first.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / DVD / DVD Settings) allowing you
to control the way the player seeks in DVD mode. Since DVD seeking
can be slow, by default Delayed seeking is used so the actual seek
is performed only after 1-2 seconds, allowing you to drag the timeline
without actually seeking until you let go of the mouse cursor.
However, if you would like the seeking to be instantaneous, you can
now disable the delayed seek.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that determines whether
Zoom Player resume function (pressing Stop twice) should resume playback
or only restore the previous media position and remain paused.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) allowing you to specify
the maximum play rate (used with the "fnIncRateEx" and "fnDecRateEx"
functions) and the play rate step value (default 10%).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that mutes the audio for
two seconds when using the seek forward and seek backward functions (to
prevent garbled audio as the video is seeked frequently).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that instructs
Zoom Player to close itself if the stop button/function is called.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) which enables a fix when
moving the player window from video area causing the window to jump to
an unexpected position.
Affects only Windows VISTA (or newer) when the video renderer is set to
'Haali Video Renderer', 'MadVR', 'VMR7' or 'VMR9'.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) that controls whether
Zoom Player should use MadVR's API to display the Control bar,
pop-up OSD (play/pause/etc), Screen Blanking and Clock.
By enabling this setting, Fullscreen Exclusive mode is preserved when
displaying these OSD elements.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to enable
MadVR's seek-bar. By default the MadVR seekbar is disabled as its
functionality duplicates Zoom Player's Control Bar.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) allowing you to
auto-save the play history after playing each media file.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions)
allowing you to only show or use the first part in a Multi-Part
RAR archive.
For example "myarchive.part1.rar" will display while "myarchive.part2.rar"
and "myarchive.part999.rar" wont display.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System) allowing you to change the windows font
used in most Zoom Player dialogs.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Goard Dog) enabling the
Guard Dog feature to re-use the command line parameters Zoom Player was
launched with.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver) allowing you to
optionally set the number of second the player should remain in screen
saver mode before automatically exiting the player.
* The "Background image base name" value (Adv. Options / Interface /
On Screen Display / Audio Images & Tags / Paths & Script" now accepts
masks. For example, you can use a value of "folder*" which will have
Zoom Player search for JPG/PNG/BMP folder images that start with "folder",
i.e. "folder_view.jpg".
* The Zoom Player news feed page is now accessible through the options dialog,
presenting you with the latest Zoom Player news and updates.
* Blu-Ray subtitles are now supported when using FFDShow or the latest version
of DirectVobSub as the subtitle renderer.
* The activate chapter is now auto-highlighted when opening the chapter/bookmark
fullscreen navigation interface.
* New function "fnZoomInLevel" which cycles through 4 Zoom-in levels (16.6%,
33.3%, 50% and 100%). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+'Z'.
* New function "fnIncRateEx" which increases the play rate by a user specified
value (10% by default). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+'.'.
* New function "fnDecRateEx" which decreases the play rate by a user specified
value (10% by default). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+','.
* New function "fnResetWindows" which resets the user interface windows to
their default location. This function is accessible by right-clicking
the Zoom Player task-bar button.
* New function "fnSkinSelectNav" which opens the Fullscreen navigation skin
selection navigation interface (switch fullscreen navigation skin style).
* You can now play and associate Blu-Ray decrypted ".mpls" Playlist files.
This means that multi-part Blu-Ray movies (a Blu-Ray movie composed of
several ".M2TS" media files) can now be played as one seamless media.
* You can now associate the ".WebM" and ".WebA" HTML5 video extensions.
* The Fullscreen Playlist navigation interface now highlights the currently
playing media files.
* New navigation skin scripts variable "ActiveColor", used to highlight the
currently playing media file.
* The Skin Script "CreateExButton" function can now execute external
files and open URLs in your browser.
* New Skin Script "InstallFont" command which allows you to use font files
in your skin without having to register them with Windows first.
* New navigation skin script variables controlling the virtual keyboard
text colors:
KeyActive = Active state of the virtual keyboard interface
KeyInactive = Inactive state of the virtual keyboard interface
KeyEditActive = Active state of the virtual keyboard edit box
KeyEditInactive = Inactive state of the virtual keyboard edit box
KeyKeyActive = Active key virtual keyboard interface
For more information, see the default "Drapes.nav" script file in the
Zoom Player 'skin' folder.
* New navigation skin scripts variable "KeyEditOutline" controlling whether
the virtual keyboard text edit is outlined.
* New navigation skin scripts variables controling the layout of the
virtual keyboard interface:
KeyXOfs = Key-List X-Offset (Percent of Interface Width)
KeyYOfs = Key-List Y-Offset (Percent of Interface Height)
KeyHeight = Key-List Height (Percent of Interface Height)
KeyWidth = Key-List Width (Percent of Interface Width)
KeyPHeight = Height of path/filename area
KeyPWidth = Path Width (Percent of Interface Width)
KeyPXOfs = Path X-Offset (Percent of Interface Width)
KeyPYOfs = Path Y-Offset (Percent of Interface Height)
* New navigation skin scripts variables "ProgressActive", "SizeColor",
"SizeActive" used to specify the color states when displaying file
sizes and progress states.
* New navigation skin scripts variables "CursorActive" and "CursorInactive"
used to specify the brightness adjustment value for the fullscreen
virtual keyboard navigator cursor.
* The WebServer Remote API now accepts a new "&play=[filename]" command,
allowing you to open files (and URLs) directly from the web browser.
* Media duration for "M2TS,MKA,MKV,MOV,MP4" files is now detected
automatically, to enable, click on the "Default" button at:
Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions / Auto-Get Duration
* The screen saver date/time display and currently playing media display
layouts have been redesigned for better clarity. These changes also
fix the issue where the currently playing media display would alter
the font size depending on the length of the playing media name.
* Three new internal screen saver modes "Sinus Plasma", a Power Saving
version of "Sinus Plasma" (lower brightness) and a Power Saving
version of "Plasma Cloud".
* New "Open Subtitle File" option accessible through the right-click
context menu under the "Open" sub-menu.
* New "/SkinMedia", "/SkinAudio" and "/SkinDVD" command line parameters that
let you specify which skin should load directly from the command line.
Please note that this parameter must be called first (before "/Media",
"/DVD" or "/AudBar").
* New "/SharePath:[Path]" command line parameter.
This Parameter sets the initial media sharing path.
The share path value allows external applications to instruct Zoom Player
to list and play media from the shared path folder from a remote location,
using Zoom Player's TCP/IP API.
* Pressing the Ctrl+"A" keyboard macro with the playlist editor in focus
will now select all items in the list.
* Single-clicking an item in the playlist editor with items previously
selected will now clear the current selection and re-select only the
clicked item.
* Holding the "Shift" key in combination with the UP/DOWN arrow keys in
the playlist editor will now select the items above/below the current
selection without clearing the previously selected item(s).
* Holding the "Shift" key in combination with the PGUP/PGDN/Home/End keys
in the playlist editor will now select the items above/below the current
selection without clearing the previously selected item(s).
* The minimalistic skin modes (F6/F7 keyboard macros) for default Onyx skin
now switch the playlist layout to a minimalistic design.
* New "Filter Properties" button on the Smart Play Source and Splitter
configuration dialogs, allowing you to configure the selected filter
(if the filter allows it).
* The "Automatically check for player updates" setting now checks the
Install Center for codec/filter updates and notifies you if new/updated
components have been found.
* New Comm API message #6000, used to browse the shared
directories specified using the "/SharePath" command line parameter.
* New Comm API message #6010, used to add shared media files to the playlist.
* New Comm API message #1920, used to notify that the playlist has
been cleared.
* New Comm API message #2670, used to set the monitor used in fullscreen mode.
* New Comm API message #0100, used to Ping the player to check that it's
still responsive.
* New Comm API message #1852 which instructs the currently playing
media to close.
* New Comm API message #2650 which enables you to position the player window.
* Embedded Windows Bitmap (.BMP) format album art TAG is now supported.
* The configuration path (registry or file based) and the current data directory
are now listed on the Options Dialog's 'About' page.
Changes :
+ We are no longer using an EXE compressor, which means that the Zoom Player
EXE files will be larger, but you wont get any false-positive virus warnings.
+ The Install Center has been redesigned for greater simplicity and clarity.
+ When running Window XP (or newer), Zoom Player now uses a Natural Sorting
algorithm rather than the default ASCII Sorting.
For example, using ASCII sorting, files would be listed as:
1.avi
10.avi
2.avi
3.avi
With Natural sorting, the same files would be listed as:
1.avi
2.avi
3.avi
10.avi
+ The default navigation skin no longer uses font-outline. The design doesn't
really require it and the performance benefits merit the change.
You now have the option to override the navigation interface's font-outline
in case you're not satisfied with the change.
+ The Local setting file saving procedure has been hardened to make it more
resilient to system crashes.
+ The Play History saving procedure has been hardened to make it more
resilient to system crashes.
+ You will now be prompted to restore the Play History database from a backup
if Zoom Player detects that the database may be corrupted (due to a system
crash).
+ The Action Pop-up OSD auto-hide is now more accurate (250ms vs
the previous 1000ms).
+ The Fusion skin's control bar now contains a close button and a few other
minor changes.
+ Matroska (MKV) chapters read using the MPC Matroska splitter are now
automatically converted to ZP chapters. Enabling chapter tracking and
chapter edit to an external chapter file (override internal chapters).
+ The "Show Date and Time" (Alt+Ctrl+"D") clock function has been modified
so that it displays or hides the clock instead of just popping the clock
through the standard OSD messages for a few seconds.
The clock display is transparent, allowing you to see behind the
text and in Windows Vista and newer, the text is slightly translucent.
+ When the "Auto-Play media file when opened" is disabled, the first
video frame is now displayed.
+ The "Clear History" (Adv. Options / Playback / History) now erases the
play history file.
+ Tuning in to a radio station directly from the SHOUTcast.com web site
is now possible. All you need to do is select the "TUNE IN" option.
You may be promoted to play through the browser
or through the player, make sure to select the player.
Your browser may prompt you for the application to open the playlist,
make sure to select Zoom Player.
+ Improved Blu-Ray main movie detection with some titles.
+ Added a new H.264 sub-type for CoreAVC 2.5.1 compatibility.
+ MadVR support for non-fullscreen images while in fullscreen exclusive mode
(zoom in/out, panning, etc).
+ Selecting MadVR as the video renderer automatically enables the
"Overlay covers entire video area" setting.
+ You can now right-click play history entries to copy them into the
system clipboard.
+ When opening an MMS stream, the buffering percentage value
is now displayed.
+ When the 4:3/16:9 Zoom compensation or one of the Zoom-in levels are
enabled, playing new media content displays an OSD notification letting
you know that Zoom mode is enabled (this notification will not show if
you specifically set a viewing region that is not fullscreen).
+ If the "Pause playback when opening file browsing interfaces with a
video playing" setting is enabled, opening the play history navigation
interface now pauses the video.
+ The "View" section of the media library and file browser navigation
interfaces has been renamed to "Filter List".
+ The default process priority given to Zoom Player is now set to
"Above Normal" by default when running under Windows 2000 or newer.
Previous users of Zoom Player should note that their previous
value for this setting has been reset to the new default.
+ When clicking on an extension's icon in the Options Dialog's file
association section or clicking the "Apply Icon to Selected Extensions"
button, now applies an extension-specific icon taken from the default
icon library that ships with Zoom Player.
+ The Re-Synch Audio Ahead/Back now works in 25ms increments rather than
the 10ms used previously.
+ The default volume control change value is now 5%, up from the previous 3%.
+ The default Zoom In/Out value is now 10%, up from the previous 1%.
+ The default 'Keyboard Video Window Move' value has changed to 5%,
up from the previous 4 pixels.
+ The "fnVidLeft", "fnVidRight", "fnVidUp", "fnVidDown" functions now
use the 'Keyboard Video Window Move' value while in fullscreen.
Previously, these functions only moved by 1 pixel.
+ On first showing, the Playlist Editor dialog and the Equalizer dialog
appear in a docked position rather than in the top left corner of the
screen.
+ The "Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist - Use Media Title if available"
setting will now display the media title (if available) in the fullscreen
playlist navigation interface.
+ The default values for the internal screen saver have been changed
and the screen saver is now enabled by default after 30 minutes of
idle activity.
+ Updated Media Center navigation icons.
+ The Internal screen saver mode setting has been reset.
+ The default visible buttons on the control bar have been changed.
+ The default values for the Arrow keys have been changed:
Te LEFT/RIGHT keys are used to seek 20 seconds backward/forward.
The UP key opens the Media Library navigation interface.
The DOWN key opens the Playlist navigation interface.
The previous defaults can be restored through the Advanced Options dialog.
+ The default fullscreen navigation interfaces appearing in the main (root)
navigation interface have been changed.
+ The Equalizer Magnetize state is now enabled by default.
+ The Equalizer Magnetize state now positions the equalizer interface
centered to the bottom or top of the main user interface (depending on
space). Previously, the equalizer interface was aligned to the left
edge of the main user interface.
+ The "Pause playback when opening file browsing interfaces with a video
playing" setting is now enabled by default.
+ The "Use Media Title if Available" Playlist setting is now
enabled by default.
+ The Station Browser dialog can now be translated to other languages.
+ Now that the "Goto Time" dialog and the "Chapter/Bookmark editor" were
combined into one interface. Using the GoTo time function opens the
dialog with the keyboard focus on the Time entry box and the Chapter
editor function opens the dialog with the keyboard focus on the
Chapter Name entry box.
+ The "Context Menu" fullscreen navigation interface has been renamed
"Extended Menu".
+ The Extended Menu fullscreen navigation interface has been brought
in line with the rest of the navigation interfaces and now displays
icons instead of ASCII characters to represent folders/active state.
+ The Next/Previous chapter functions will now update the fullscreen
chapter navigation interface if it's currently visible.
+ The guard-dog function now forces Zoom Player to close if it detects a
freeze during shutdown.
+ The Zoom-In/Zoom-Out (+/- keypad keys) functions when used in windowed
mode now snaps the player window back into the monitor's work area if the
zoom function partially moves the player window off-screen.
+ Zoom Player no longer lists the ".DAT" extension for file association.
This extension was used by VCD discs, which are no longer popular.
Combined with the fact that the ".DAT" extension is somewhat generic
and used by other applications for DATA storage, it was decided that
removing this extension would increase stability.
+ You can delete the Install Center cache by clicking on the Install Center
"Options" button.
+ Pressing "D" to open the Video Decoder configuration dialog now opens
FFDShow's Video Decoder configuration dialog if no media is playing.
+ Pressing Alt+"A" to open the Audio Decoder configuration dialog now opens
FFDShow's Audio Decoder configuration dialog if no media is playing.
+ The Advanced Option's "Show fullscreen Color Controls when values are
changed through the keyboard macros" setting has been moved to
"Playback / Video / Colors".
+ The Advanced Option's "Audio Tags (ID3)" has been renamed to
"Audio Images & Tags".
+ The Advanced Option's "Enlarge folder image to fit Video Area, otherwise
Center and Shrink only" setting has been moved to "Interface / On Screen
Display / Audio Images & Tags".
+ The Advanced Option's "Load folder image file" setting has been renamed
to "Load external folder image file" and moved to "Interface / On Screen
Display / Audio Images & Tags".
+ The "Guard Dog" settings were moved to the "Adv. Options / System /
Guard Dog & Events" section.
+ The "Draw Folder (Background) Image under "Adv. Options / Interface /
On Screen Display / Audio Images & Tags" setting has been renamed to
"Draw embedded background image". In addition, a fix was made so
that disabling this setting, no longer disables folder images from
loading.
+ The Zoom In/Out functions will now display the video display resolution
in a pop-up window.
+ All references to "Skip, Jump, Seek" functions have been replaced with
"Short Seek, Medium Seek, Long Seek".
+ Some of the options dialog entries have been rephrased for clarity.
+ The default window size is now slightly bigger to account for the
overall increase in resolution of entry level monitors sold today.
+ Automatically restoring media volume levels from history is now disabled
by default. You can re-enable these settings through the advanced
options dialog.
+ Comm API change to message #1100. Instead of listing whatever the
timeline display is showing, it now always shows [Position / Duration].
For example:
00:00:12 / 01:02:35
You can request an #1100 message output by sending an #1100 message
with a parameter value of "2".
+ Comm API change to message #3000. Each line of the returned value is now
separated by the "|" character rather than a new line (CRLF) which would
complicate parsing.
+ The "exInterface" extended function can now discretely enable/disable
the pop-up OSD messages.
+ The color-tinting skin values have been reduced to a more reasonable
-160..160 range.
+ The PlayListData's skinning function "FontSpace" variable is now
calculated automatically. Any value supplied by the skin is ignored.
+ The Smart Play configuration dialogs now prompt you to update a modified
profile when clicking on a different profile in the list or clicking the
OK button to close the configuration dialog.
+ The "Show Smart Play graph creation errors" will now include the
smart play profile name as part of the error message.
+ Blanking is now disabled when closing the playing media.
+ Blanking is now hidden and restored when opening and closing fullscreen
navigation interfaces.
+ Pressing ESC now closes any open navigation interfaces prior to restoring
blanked secondary monitors when pressing the ESC key multiple times.
+ The "Show currently playing title on the Task Bar button and the Tray Icon",
"Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen / Zoom mode" and
"Show "Places" in Open / Save Dialogs" settings have moved from
"Adv. Options / System" to "Adv. Options / Interface".
+ The "Show Time Seek Position Over Timeline" setting has moved from
"Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions" to
"Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area".
+ The "File Browser 'Network / Disk' mapping" interface has moved under
"Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Paths"
+ The "Start Player in" setting has moved from "Adv. Options / Interface" to
"Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size".
+ The "System Overview" and "Missing Formats" options dialog sections have
been removed as the Install Center provides more accurate information.
Fixes :
- The installer used administrator privileges to write the profile files
(Smart Play, Equalizer, Skin tint), preventing the player from modifying
the profiles when running with UAC enabled (user privileges).
The new installer fixes this issue on existing systems.
You can to erase the old "virtualstore" files under:
"C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Zoom Player"
- Depending on your version of windows and if UAC is enabled, the file
association options dialog would show incorrect information (wrong
icon, or indicate that Zoom Player was associated with the extension
even if it wasn't).
- Exporting Zoom Player's setting from the options dialog, would fail if
UAC is enabled.
- The Zoom Player Install Center auto-configuration did not work on systems
with UAC enabled or limited account access.
- The Install Center now identifies 3rd party 64bit installations (e.g. 7-zip).
Thanks Gleb Egorych, Midiboy.
- CD Audio Playback was broken when used in Windows 7.
- There was a problem with Windows 7 hiding the Zoom Player tray icon
even when setting the icon to always show. This was caused by the
tool-tip for the icon containing the playing file name, which differs
greatly between multiple files. To fix this issue, 'Zoom Player' is
now displayed before the playing file name.
- Opening files from the command line would cause the file path to be modified
to uppercase, breaking playback from Linux based NAS devices.
- Fixed compatibility with uTorrent v3.
- Fixed the following visual glitches when a high DPI system font is used:
1. The options dialog "File Association" icons did not display correctly.
2. The "Add Filter" dialog's legend section did not draw correctly.
3. Some text was truncated in the options dialog.
4. The station manager station list items were partially cropped.
5. The skin selector skin list items were partially cropped.
6. The Install Center items were partially cropped.
7. The Smart Play Source, Splitter and Decoder configuration dialogs
cropped some of the displayed entries.
8. The Smart Play filter blacklist cropped some of the displayed entries.
9. The Options dialog archive playback extension list cropped some of the
displayed entries.
10. The registered filter manager dialog was improperly sized to the point
where buttons could overlap.
- When setting a large font for the playlist editor or setting a higher
Font DPI value for windows as whole, the playlist fonts would become
truncated at the bottom.
- The "Switch resolution on Fullscreen" setting did not perform as expected.
- Trying to open a ".lnk" ShortCut file that pointed to a folder would show
an error message instead of opening the folder's content.
- When using MadVR fullscreen exclusive mode in combination with auto-changing
monitor resolution on fullscreen, exiting fullscreen did not restore the
original monitor's resolution. Thanks Hawke.
- Dragging the player window by clicking "Ctrl + Left mouse button" (or
other configured setting) within the video area was broken in Windows
Vista and Windows 7 when certain video renderer were used (VMR7/VMR9/
Haali/MadVR). Now there's a workaround in place that ensures the window
is dragged to the correct location (with minor flickering at times).
- The "Adv. Options / Interface / Display - Enlarge folder image to fit
video area" setting now performs as expected.
- The ID3/TAG display used the character set (used to convert ANSI to
Unicode) defined by the Navigation font instead of the ID3/TAG font.
- When the "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution" setting
is enabled, opening a media file with an image resolution larger than the
current screen, now limits the image resolution to the screen's resolution.
If the new resolution causes the player window to resize itself beyond
the screen's resolution, the player window will be pulled back into the
screen automatically.
- The "/OpenDrive" command line parameter did not detect Blu-Ray drives
properly.
- The "Prefer HD content as the main movie if the track duration is
longer than (minutes)" Blu-Ray setting didn't compare the track time
correctly.
- The fullscreen monitor (Adv. Options / System) value would get reset
if the selected monitor was no longer available (the monitor was off).
The value is now preserved and if the monitor is not available,
the player will go fullscreen on the primary monitor.
- When playing DVR-MS files, the "Stop" function didn't seek to the
beginning of the media file.
- Pressing "R" to cycle through the aspect ratio modes no longer
resizes the player window if "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain
Video Aspect Ratio" is enabled. If you try to move or resize the
window after setting the Aspect Ratio, it will snap into shape.
- The right-click Open URL feature is now better adapted to opening
SHOUTcast radio stations using the following format:
http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=[number]
- If Smart Play was disabled, Zoom Player would not use the selected
Audio Renderer if the "MPC Audio Renderer" was installed and not chosen.
- When using the "Disable Smart Play for files with the following extensions"
feature, the selected Audio and Video renderers weren't used, but rather
windows (DirectShow) selected its own renderers. Now, you can select
if you want Zoom Player or Windows to select the renderers (see above).
- Trying to play a DVD's "VIDEO_TS.IFO" file in media mode would not
remove the background image before starting to play the DVD.
- You can now seek, pause and play streaming MMS content.
- The "CUE" chapter parsing code has been rewritten.
It now parses unicode/ascii charsets correctly and loads meta-data
information (Perfomer/Genre/etc). Thanks Orf.
- The Open-URL dialog was limited to 255 characters.
- The Play History stored the played files in lower case instead of their
original case.
- The Stop/Resume function didn't work if stop was pressed in the first 3
seconds of playback.
- The next/previous chapter and track functions can now continue
to the next file in the directory when a file fails to load.
- When a custom video renderer does not support the "IBasicVideo2"
interface, the Derived aspect ratio value is taken from the
source video aspect ratio.
- The "xvid" profile is no longer used to verify that SmartPlay
is properly configured.
- When using FFDShow as the Subtitle renderer, subtitles are now
ordered alphabetically.
- Fixed a crash when using the FFDShow Subtitle renderer.
- Fixed a crash when trying to play MP3/FLAC/APE audio files with an
embedded "BMP" album art image.
- Unchecking the "Enable TAG display" setting would hide the entire display,
including the background image rather than just the TAG display.
- When disabling "Draw Text Background" for Audio TAG display, the bottom
line (usually the "YEAR" field) would get cropped out.
- Fixed a complete freeze when playing audio files containing corrupt
ID3 tags.
- Folder image base names did not recognize the use of paths. Thanks Orf.
- Unchecking "Save last play time and date" from "Adv. Options /
Playback / History" would cause Zoom Player to forget any new items
played the next time Zoom Player was restarted.
- Clicking the "Switch to Basic Mode" or "Switch to Advanced Mode" Options
dialog buttons lost any modified settings.
- The "Automatically restore volume level on replay with video files" setting
was not remembered after a Zoom Player restart.
- Choosing to hide the Zoom Player task bar icon would fail (the icon would
reappear) under certain circumstances.
- The GuardDog feature no longer restart Zoom Player if the internal screen
saver is active.
- Fixed a memory leak when trying to open corrupted JPEG/PNG images or
JPEG images in the CYMK print format (which is not supported).
- Fixed a list index out of bounds crash when Random Play was enabled and
the "On Playlist Complete" setting was not set to "Auto Replay".
- Fixed an "Out of Resources" crash when trying to set the Zoom
resolution to a extremely high value (over 16384x16384, which is
now the limit).
- Fixed a very old bug where opening a media file through non-media library
interfaces would prevent the fullscreen media library navigation interface
from automatically displaying the currently playing media (if the media's
path resides within a media library category).
- When using the Media Library or File Browsing fullscreen navigation
interfaces, using the "Add to Playlist" function no longer adds
media files that are not selected if the "Auto-Part Loader" function
is enabled.
- When playing audio media, the player now uses folder or embedded images
as the pseudo video resolution for functions that require it (such as
auto-sizing the user interface to fit the source video resolution).
- Auto-Correction of video aspect ratio is no longer applied when viewing
stand alone, folder and embedded images.
- Switching between audio and media modes after playing an audio file would
show remnants of the TAG display in the GUI window if the audio file was
closed.
- An LPCM sub-type was accidently listed under the AC3 audio decoder profile.
- The Smart Play configuration dialogs now selects the first profile from the
list when erasing a profile so the previously erased profile's filters do
not remain active.
- Switching Stay On Top on/off followed by pressing the "Enter" key would
reload the currently playing media instead of the action assigned to the
"Enter" key.
- You can now play URLs from the Play History dialog.
- You can now play URLs from the command line if Zoom Player is
currently running.
- There is no longer a limit of 255 character when trying to open a URL
or file from the command line while Zoom Player is currently running.
- When first loading, the keyboard focus is now set to the main player
user interface rather than secondary interfaces (Playlist editor,
Equalizer).
- When the "On Playlist Complete" setting is set to close Zoom Player
or shutdown the computer, the action is no longer performed if the
options dialog is open.
- When the "Auto-Play next file in the playlist" setting was disabled,
pressing Play when reaching the end of a media file would not perform
the "On Playlist Complete" event.
- When the "Move the Playlist Editor display to follow the currently
playing media file" setting was enabled, the playlist tried to change
position and follow a new item even if the new item was already visible.
- When setting the screen saver mode to "Image SlideShow", re-opening
the options dialog would disable the Image Directory browse button.
- When switching between different screen saver modes, the mode switch
would not work well if you didn't restart the player.
- When a language or custom context menu script used unicode characters
for sub-menus, the root menu name was not properly identified and sub-menu
items did not show up.
- When using a language pack, some translated window titles using unicode
characters would appear as "????"
- Using the "Del" keyboard macro to delete the currently playing media
now removes the entry from the file browsing navigation interface cache.
- Deleting the default "Drapes" navigation skin, will now allow you to
select other navigation skins when listed as the first entry in the
skin selection dialog.
- Loading image files with the internal image decoder, depending on the
image's apsect ratio, could display in the wrong aspect ratio if the
"Auto-Fix Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content" setting was enabled.
- The A-B Repeat and RingTone creation timeline highlights were not updated
properly on the Control Bar's timeline.
- Ejecting certain drive types would cause Zoom Player to stop the currently
playing media even if the media was not on the ejected drive.
- The "Open the Options Dialog on the active monitor" setting wasn't being
applied to the Basic Options dialog.
- When using FFDShow as the Subtitle renderer while using a video
decoder other than FFDShow, combining this setup with Haali Video Renderer,
would result in a pin connection error.
- The 'forcibly hide the windows taskbar in fullscreen mode' setting will
now hide the Start Orb (button) in Windows VISTA and Windows 7.
- Skins with no hint value for the Volume/Balance/Play Rate bars showed
unrelated hint text.
- Skins with no playlist skinned would show the default onyx skin for
the playlist interface with broken button transparency (red borders).
- Selecting a skin or applying a skin tint from the skin selection dialog
no longer causes the player window to pop over and obscure the skin selection
dialog.
- Installing a Skin file would ask you to open the Skin selection dialog
even if it was already open.
- Fixed the "FolderImage" skin script code function that got broken in v7.
- When sorting by Size in the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen
navigation interfaces, the "Play all files in this Directory" entry
was listed before the "Previous Directory" entry.
- With "Stay on Top" enabled along with "Screen-Align the Control Bar to"
set to either Top or Bottom of the screen, the control bar would lose
it's on-top status and would disappear if you clicked the video area
or if a new media loaded.
- Performing a legacy install (where all installed files are placed in a
single folder) no longer warns you of a problematic installation if
UAC (User Account Control) is enabled and you installed under a
directory other than the "Program Files" directory.
As well as the above, the warning dialog now contains an additional
checkbox to dismiss it from showing on future runs.
- The 'forcibly hide the windows taskbar in fullscreen mode' setting will
now hide the Start Orb (button) in Windows VISTA and Windows 7.
- The Adjust Image (formally "image resize") and Image Blanking fullscreen
navigation interfaces were incorrectly affected by the "Navigation Line Count"
setting.
- The "Click here to search list" text in the playlist editor could overlap
the scroll widget if the playlist editor font was large enough.
- Fixed a rare 'List index out of bounds' error when deleting items from
the playlist.
- The main application window should now appear in Flip3D under
Windows Vista and Windows 7.
- Deleting a media library category, would erase other categories if their
name was very similar (example "movies" and "movies2").
- The "Custom Mouse Wheel Down" function was not being saved.
- The Screen Saver and clock function accidentally labeled 'October'
as 'Saturday'.
- With "Adv. Options / On Screen Display / Actions - Show Time Position Over
Timeline" enabled, pressing Alt+F4 would close the position window rather
than the player window.
- Opening a display pattern (Shift+"P"), no longer stops the playing
video before closing it. This ensures the previous play position is
saved correctly.
- Fixed crashes related to corrupt language files.
- Using the Station Edit button would not display the edited station
type correctly (would always show 'Radio').
- The "Null" filter no longer appears as Unregistered.
- TCP/IP API Message #1810 (Request Play List), did not implement a separator
character between each media entry, making it harder to parse.
Now each entry is separated by the ">" character.
- TCP/IP API Message #1811 (Playlist items changed) was not being
triggered on every playlist change.
- Changing the navigation keyboard layout could cause a crash when closing
the skin selection dialog through the keyboard. Thanks Gleb Egorych.
- When Smart Play is disabled, the Zoom Player DSP filter is no longer
part of the graph if no audio streams are detected.
- The red error dialog messages were limited to 255 characters.
- Loading external icon definition files did not apply the icons to
all file extensions in some cases.
- Cleaned up some of the ffdshow profile/filter names.
--- What's new in v7.00:
New :
* Zoom Player can detect a Blu-Ray disc structure, parse the Blu-Ray
playlist and automatically load the longest video in the playlist
(which is assumed to be the main movie). Thanks Christophe.
This feature can be accessed through several ways:
1. Switching to DVD Mode and pressing Play.
2. Opening the Drive (through the right-click menu).
3. Opening the BluRay folder.
4. Opening the "index.bdmv" file, which is now listed
in the various file browsing dialogs.
This feature is limited to Zoom Player Home MAX.
* Zoom Player now notifies you of new versions automatically
(can be disabled under "Adv. Options / System").
* The Audio TAG display system has been rewritten and includes the
following new features:
1. Enhanced scripting of displayed data.
2. Text Background with customizable translucency levels.
3. Additional text color for additional clarity.
4. Selectable background color.
* New Mini-WebServer support (Adv. Options / System), allowing you to
control Zoom Player through any web browser. The Mini-WebServer is
fully HTML scriptable.
* Zoom Player can now control FFDShow's DeInterlacing setting, allowing
you to Enable/Disable deinterlacing support from the keyboard
(ctrl+shift+"D"), right-click context menu and the fullscreen navigation
interface (through the Adjust Image interface).
Make sure to use the latest version of ffdshow (at least beta 6)
for this to function.
* Zoom Player can now control FFDShow's Sharpen setting, allowing
you to Enable/Disable sharpen support from the keyboard
(ctrl+shift+"S") and fullscreen navigation interface (through the
Adjust Image interface).
* Support for MadVR Video Rendering technology.
* Support for FLAC Vorbis Audio TAGs, including display of embedded
image (as folder image, PNG/JPEG formats supported).
* Support for ID3v2 embedded image display (mostly in MP3 files)
(displayed as folder image, PNG/JPEG formats supported).
* Support for APE TAG embedded folder image (PNG and JPEG image formats
are supported).
* New Fullscreen Information Navigation interface, showing you information
on the currently playing media (Name, Resolution, TAGs, Folder Image
etc...). This interface uses the new TAG display script system to display
more advanced information.
* If a fullscreen navigation interface is visible, right-clicking it will
show a "Close Navigator" option.
* New position value for the TAG display allowing you to set it
to "Animate".
* Support for the new QuickTime v7 ActiveX control.
The new QuickTime control seems better and has better stability.
QuickTime v6 (and older) ActiveX control is no longer supported.
By default, the ActiveX control is not used for playback, but rather
DirectShow is used (as it's more responsive and supports more features),
ActiveX mode is for compatibility with QuickTime content that may not
play properly through DirectShow.
You can enable ActiveX support for QuickTime under:
Adv. Options / Playback
* You can now use the Microsoft Windows Media Player ActiveX control
to stream Windows Media content (mms://, rtsp:// and
http://www.website/stream.asx type links). Using the ActiveX control
means you'll be losing any advanced DirectShow based features (such as
color-controls and video renderer selection) but bypassing any
microsoft bugs in their DirectShow bridge to Windows Media Streaming
(such as streams suddenly stopping of their own).
This feature is enabled by default, you can disable it under :
Adv. Options / Playback / Windows Media
* The resize fullscreen navigation interface now allows you to directly
set the current Aspect Ratio as well as see the aspect ratio values for
all Aspect Ratio modes.
* Right-Clicking the Equalizer's bars will now reset each bar
clicked to its default value.
* Hovering the mouse cursor over an Equalizer bar now shows
its exact value.
* The equalizer fullscreen navigation interface now allows you to set
the volume level.
* Pressing Left on the Main Navigation interface now brings you into a
system function menu allowing you to close the navigation interface,
start the screen saver, blank secondary screens or close the player
entirely. This menu is not accessible if you are using Safe Mode
navigation.
* You can now choose from three screen saver modes:
1. Plasma Cloud CGI.
2. Image Slideshow
3. Blank power-saving ode.
* You can now select if the Internal Screen Saver covers the entire
monitor or only the active video area.
* You can now specify the slideshow value for the internal screen saver.
The Default value is 15 seconds (previously it was once per minute).
* You can now select a transition effect for the internal screen saver.
* The play history fullscreen navigation interface now allows you to
play back web addresses (mms streams for example) and such links
are now identified by the URL icon.
* You can now Right-Click the volume bar to the left/right of the current
volume level to increase/decrease the volume in small steps instead of
directly setting the volume level with the mouse cursor position (which
is done with the left mouse click).
* New "Save Playing file as ..." Function accessible through the Playlist
right-click context menu or by using the Alt+Shift+"S" keyboard macro.
When used, a save dialog will pop-up allowing you to save the currently
playing media file to a new location on your computer.
* New Function (Alt+Shift+"Z") which compensates for badly encoded
widescreen (16:9) content that is encoded in fullscreen (4:3) format
by Zooming 33% into the Video (and returning to the previous video
position when called a second time).
This function will also view widescreen (16:9) content as fullscreen on
fullscreen (4:3) Monitors/TVs by Zooming in and cropping the left/right
sides of the video.
* New Function (Ctrl+"E") allowing you to create Ring Tones by selecting
a start and a stop position in many supported audio/video formats and
extract the selected section in MP3/ACC formats supported by most mobile
phones.
This feature requires the FFMPEG components installed on your system
(which is available through the Install Center application).
* New Function (Alt+Shift+"W") to activate the White Wash screen-burn
repair directly instead of accessing the function through the patterns
function.
* All Subtitle settings have moved to "Adv. Options / Playback / Video /
Subtitles".
* Opening a subtitle file with a media playing will try to display the
subtitles within the playing media.
* The file-open dialog now has a "Subtitles" filtering category.
* You can now select the preferred subtitle renderer filter. Options are
1. DirectVobSub, also known as "VSFilter" (default).
2. FFDShow.
When selecting FFDShow, Zoom Player will try to use the FFDShow video
decoder filter to render the subtitles. If the FFDShow video decoder
is not used, the FFDShow subtitle renderer filter will be used instead.
Please note that this feature requires FFDShow build 2998 or newer to
function and wont work on versions of Windows older than Windows 2000.
Previous FFDShow builds had a bug that limited subtitle functionality.
* The "Remember the last Media Position" setting has now been overhauled
into its own separate "History" sub-section under the "Playback" section
within the advanced options dialog.
* The "Remember the last Media Position" setting has been split in two,
with a setting for "Retain Media Playback History" and a setting for
"Automatically restore last media position on replay". This gives more
flexibility as to which aspects of playback should be restored when
replaying a media file.
* The Play History fullscreen navigation interface implements a new
function interface (accessible by clicking right). The functions are:
1. Erase
Completely erase the selected item.
2. Hide
Hide the selected item, but keep media information
to maintain functionality (Last media position, volume).
3. Go to top of list
Moves the focus to the top of the history list.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to select the
active player mode (Previous/Media/DVD/Audio) that Zoom Player should
start in.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to set the player
to stay on top of other applications when switching to audio mode (and
restoring a normal window state after returning to media mode).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar), allowing you to
auto-hide the control bar after the specified number of seconds even
when playback is paused.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) affecting
the "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution".
When enabled, only the user interface height is adjusted.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Tags)
allowing you to choose whether the Folder (Background) image is drawn.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing
you to set the navigation scroll acceleration speed. After some tweaking,
the default value has been sped up to "Very Fast" scrolling. The previous
default value was "Average".
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing
you to set the navigation scroll acceleration reset time in MS.
The new default value is 300ms, in v6 the fixed value was 500ms.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing
you to specify if keyboard searches are matched against the start of the
line or any position in the line.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation)
allowing you to set the keyboard input timeout (a value in MS
indicating how much time should pass before the search query
is reset).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
controlling whether subtitle files are listed in the Media Libary and File
Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Settings) allowing keyboard input to be used for Quickly Searching
in many of the navigation interfaces. This setting is enabled
by default.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) allowing you to change
the functionality of the mouse right-click button. You can choose
between Disabled, Context Menu (default) and a Custom function.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to control
whether loading entire directories also loads image files
(Used by Open Directory function, Play all files in this directory
navigation function and when opening archives).
Does not have an affect on Media Library image categories.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to choose whether
to interact with QuickTime content or treat it as a media file.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback - On Playlist Complete) allowing
you to play the next file in the directory with the same file extension.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play) which determines
if Zoom Player falls back to DirectShow graph creation mode if
Smart Play fails to create a media file graphic.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable
Zoom Player control over FFDShow's video Sharpening values.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable
Zoom Player control over FFDShow's video DeInterlacing values.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable
VMR7's mixing mode (can fix VMR7 issues with some hardware).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Color Control) allowing
you to instruct Zoom Player to try use FFDShow as the preferred
color control interface (overriding any hardware supported controls).
Please note that this feature requires FFDShow to be used as either
the Video Decoder or as a Post Processing filter.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) allowing
you to select whether Zoom Player disables FFDShow subtitle rendering
when DirectVobSub is used as the Preferred Subtitle Renderer.
By default, FFDShow subtitle renderer is disabled when using
DirectVobSub.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) allowing
you to specify the subtitle synchronization adjustment value used
by the subtitle synchronization functions.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Colors) which allows you
to select whether FFDShow should be used for software color control.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / BluRay) allowing you to specify
when a detected BluRay playlist containing HD content of a specified
duration will be detected as the main movie over an SD (DVD quality)
of longer duration.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / DVD / DVD Settings) that
determines whether Zoom Player searches only CD devices
(CD/DVD/BluRay/etc...) or all drives for content when pressing play
in DVD Mode. Default is to only scan CD devices, but if you
map network-shares as drives, you may want to turn this setting off.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) allowing you to link
the 'Volume Up'/'Volume Down' functions to the Equalizer PreAmp
function so when the volume level reaches 100% and you continue
using the 'Volume Up' function, the Equalizer PreAmp value is
increased. Clicking volume down will first reduce the PreAmp value
and when the PreAmp value reaches its previous level, the volume level
is reduced. Setting the volume level through other means, will reset
the PreAmp value to its previous level.
PreAmp is a digital amplifier function which can reduce audio quality
if the audio recording volume is normal, but can be very useful if
the original recording volume is low.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether
the last play time and date is saved for the playing media. If disabled,
the play date is not saved and the playing item will not be listed in
the play history and play history navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether
the audio volume should be restored to its the previous level when
replaying the media file.
With this setting enabled, the audio volume level is retained
for every media file played within the Playback History retention
period (default is 30 days).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether
the audio volume should be restored to its the previous level when
replaying audio-only files.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / System / Events) allowing you to execute
an external program when Zoom Player is starting and closing
(with an option to wait for the starting program to close).
Usage Example:
Set a custom monitor resolution using an external command line tool and
then set the resolution back when Zoom Player closes.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files) allowing you to
hide the archive extraction window (the external program executed to
extract the archive).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
allowing you to display file sizes.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
allowing you to pause the video when opening a navigation interface while
a video file is playing (audio playback is unaffected by this setting).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
controlling whether right-clicking the navigation interface closes it.
This was the previous default behavior, but the new default action is to
display the context menu. Enable this setting to restore the previous
default behavior.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
controlling whether the new Fullscreen Information navigation control
routes keyboard input to the player (using the keyboard arrow keys to
control the player rather than the fullscreen interface).
* New "/DATAPATH:[PATH]" command line parameter which can be used to
specify an alternative path to any user-changeable configuration
files used by Zoom Player, including:
1. "MediaAutoGraph" directory (Controls which decoders are used)
2. "DVD-Bookmarks" directory (DVD Bookmarks and Last Position data)
3. "zplayer.playcache" (Play History and Last Media Position)
4. "zplayer.library" (Media Library paths)
5. "zplayer.radio" (Streaming Station list)
6. "zplayer.eq" (The Audio Equalizer values)
7. "default.zpl" (The last active Playlist)
Usage:
/DATAPATH:Z:\ZP_DATA\
When using this parameter, it's vitally important that at the very
least, the "MediaAutoGraph" directory exists in the Data Path,
otherwise, playback may fail.
* New "/DEINT:[0/1]" command line parameter to enable/disable
DeInterlacing.
Usage:
/DEINT:0 - DeInterlacing disabled.
/DEINT:1 - DeInterlacing enabled.
DeInterlacing requires the use of FFDShow as either the Video
Decoder or as a Post-Processing filter.
* New "/CLOCK:[n]" command line parameter that allows you to set the
media synchronization timer for DirectShow playback.
Usage:
/CLOCK:0 - Default (same as not using the parameter at all)
/CLOCK:1 - Disables Synchronization entirely
/CLOCK:2 - Sets Synchronization to the System Timer
* New "/WinName" command line parameter allowing you to set the
Zoom Player Window Name.
For example:
zplayer.exe "/winname:ZoomPlayer2"
* The Playlist Fullscreen navigation interface now allow you to
enable/disable the Random Play state.
* New File Association and Smart Play profiles for the MOD/TOD/MTS
camcorder file extensions.
(MOD = MPEG2 Program, TOD/MTS = MPEG2 Transport Stream).
Sadly, when JVC, Panasonic and Canon came up with the ".MOD" file
extension, they didn't take into account its existing use as
an Audio Tracker format. Due to this, ".MOD" extension is no longer
associated with the MOD Audio Tracker format. You can change this
default behavior by modifying Zoom Player's Smart Play profiles.
* Playback support for the AMR audio format and file association of the
".AMR" extension.
* Playback support for the VP7 video format and file association of the
".VP7" extension.
* Playback support for the Theora video format and file association of
the ".OGV" extension.
* Playback support for the AIFF audio format and file association of the
".AIFF" extension.
* Playback support for the MPEG2 Transport Stream media format and file
association of the ".M2TS" extension.
* Playback support for LPCM audio in M2TS files.
* Smart Play profile support for the latest DivX filters:
MPEG4.ASP (DIVX)
MPEG4.AVC (H.264)
AAC Audio
MKV Splitter
* Support for the Gabest MPEG2 Splitter audio stream switching using
the keyboard macro Ctrl+"A".
* New Open Web Page function (Ctrl+"W") accessible from the right-click
context menu, allowing you to open web pages in Zoom Player.
* New "Prune History" button (Adv. Options / Playback) which erases any
play history entries that are no longer pointing to an existing file.
* New "VolumeWindow" Skin Script code, allowing you skin the
new pop-up volume bar associated with the "fnVolumeWindow"
function.
* New "" dynamic script variable that is used to display
the current position in a playlist.
* New "" dynamic script variable that stores the currently
playing media file path.
* Some of the fullscreen navigation interfaces have a new right-arrow
on the active line indicating additional functionality when clicking
right.
* Zoom Player now uses uTorrent's WebUI Token authentication for
an additional security layer.
* The Station fullscreen navigation interface now indicates if a station
is a TV or Radio station.
* The Station fullscreen navigation interface now remembers the last
selected station when exiting the player.
* The Media Library and File Browsing Fullscreen Navigation interfaces
now support sorting by file size.
* The File Browser, Media Library and Playlist fullscreen navigation
interfaces "Select" function has been expanded to allow selecting
"Select all matching multi-part files", "All Audio", "All Pictures",
"All Video" and "All matching the currently highlighted file Type"
(file extension).
* The File Browser and Media Library fullscreen navigation interfaces
can now access a "View" function which brings up a selection of
files/information to view in the file list:
1. File Size
2. File Extension
3. Subtitle files
4. Archive files
* Pressing Right with the "Add to Playlist" function highlighted in the
File Browser or Media Library fullscreen navigation interfaces will
now take you to the Playlist navigation. Pressing left from the
playlist navigator will take you back to the original navigation
interface (either file browser or media library).
* New "Go to top of list" fullscreen navigation function (Applies to
the Playlist, File Browser and Media Library interfaces).
* The default skin's Control Bar now includes a pop-up volume window,
allowing you to more accurately and easily set the volume levels
while fullscreen.
* Support for UTF8 encoded skin files (which can include UTF8 encoded
text for button hints and other skin text elements).
* The Folder image base name (Adv. Options / System & Files /
Paths, Folders & Files) can now accept multiple values for the
base name separated by the "|" character. For example, setting
the Folder image base name to "folder|album" would cover image
files starting with "folder" and "album", such as:
Folder.jpg
Album.png
* Zoom Player will now save FFDShow's color control values in
Zoom Player's media definition files (".df" file extension).
* New Menu script command allowing you to execute external programs
through the right-click context menu. See "English.Menu" in the
"Language" Zoom Player directory for more information.
* New "1100" CommAPI command which enables/disables timeline updates.
Changes :
+ The default video renderer has been changed to VMR9 Windowless
for Windows XP and EVR for Windows 7/Vista.
+ Scroll Acceleration is now active system-wide in all fullscreen
navigation interfaces (where appropriate), making navigation
faster and easier using remote devices and keyboards.
+ The media library fullscreen navigation interface now remembers
the sorting order for each category independently.
+ The DirectShow filter registration options dialog feature
(Adv. Options / System / Filter Management) has been rewritten
to support configuration of popular DirectShow filters directly
from the options dialog. Older unused filter profiles were
removed and new updated profiles have been added.
+ You can now used Keyboard input with the GoTo navigation dialog
to directly set the GoTo time. This requires that Keyboard Input
for navigation be enabled.
+ Improved Screen Saver image selection randomness. No image will
appear twice until all images were displayed first, even after
the screen saver restarts.
+ Pressing PgDn/PgUp to play the next/previous media file in the
same directory now works even after erasing the currently playing
file, making it much easier to browse through a media or image
collection to erase unwanted files.
+ Using the Next/Previous playlist track with random play enabled
and only one file in the playlist no longer plays the same file
again, but rather plays the next file in the directory.
+ The Advanced Options "Fullscreen Navigation" pages have been moved
under the "Interface" section (previously it was within the "On Screen
Display" section).
+ By default, the Media Library Filter Selection fullscreen navigation page
will no longer appear when pressing Left on the Media Library category
page (user-selectable through the options dialog).
+ The "Windows Media Video" Smart Play profile has been split into two
distinct profiles:
1. Windows Media Video (used in WMV files)
2. VC1 (used in BluRay discs)
+ For clarity, the "Auto Segment Load" feature has been renamed
"Multi Part file loader".
+ For clarity, the Multi Part file loader's "Segment Script" setting has
been renamed "Name Masking" .
+ The "Multi Part file loader" feature has been disabled by default due to
user confusion over files being added to the playlist automatically.
You can re-enable this feature through the options dialog.
+ Pressing the ESC key with a fullscreen navigation interface enabled and
secondary monitors are blanked will now remove the blanking first
(In previous versions, the navigation interface was closed first).
+ Pressing the ESC key in the options dialog is now treated as if the
Cancel button is clicked.
+ Frame Capture (Alt+"F") now works with the EVR video renderer.
+ Starting the screen saver from the main fullscreen navigation
interface no longer pauses if an audio file is being played
(only pause on video file).
+ To maintain backward compatibility, the Zoom Player chapter
(bookmark) file extension has changed from ".chp" to ".zpchp".
Zoom Player will still look for the ".chp" file when the newer
format file doesn't exist.
+ The Color Control interface (Adv. Options / Playback / Video /
Color Control) has been rewritten and now supports FFDShow as a mode
of color control.
Zoom Player will first try to use Hardware Color Control (Overlay Mixer,
VMR9 and EVR). But if a certain function isn't supported, it will try
using FFDShow to supplement the functionality.
For example, neither EVR or VMR9 support Gamma controls, when these
video renderers are in-use, Zoom Player will try using FFDShow to control
the Gamma while the other color control remain hardware based.
Please note that FFDShow must be used as a decoder or post-processor for
this modified feature to work.
+ Using Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1 should improve the open file
dialog responsiveness.
+ The Media Library path editor has been further streamlined for simplicity.
+ All browsing for directory dialogs now allow you to specify a path
through an edit box, making it easier to specify direct IP network paths.
+ When detaching the Control Bar, it now snaps to other interfaces such
as the Video Window, Equalizer and Playlist Editor.
+ Opening the Main Navigation interface should now be faster, especially
on multi-core CPUs.
+ The internal screen saver is now capped at 50fps.
+ Previously, when enabling text display for the internal screen saver,
you had both the time and playing information displayed. You can now
choose to display each individually.
+ The Station Editor interface has been redesigned for simplicity.
+ The Advanced Playlist Control interface has been redesigned to be
more intuitive.
+ Random Play now remembers the random order of play so that you can
go to a previous random track in the same order as it was played.
+ Support for more Flash Video and VP6 sub-types.
+ The Media Last Position database (used in play history and restoring
the last position of a played media file) is now automatically saved
every 30 minutes and a backup file is kept in case something goes
wrong (previously it would only save when exiting the player, which
could cause position data to be lost in cases where the computer or
player crashed).
+ The Play History interface has been restructured to make it a bit
easier to use.
+ The Search function within the play history dialog now filters
the item list and only shows items that match the search value.
+ The "Adv. Options / System & Files / Paths, Folders & Files" page has
been divided into more logical areas:
1. Adv. Options / Playback / Path & Files.
2. Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Fullscreen Navigation / Paths.
3. Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Audio Tags / Paths & Script.
+ The Frame Capture (screenshot) feature has been moved to:
Adv. Options / System & Files / Screen Saver & Capture
+ Drives with no volume name no longer display empty brackets in the
fullscreen file browsing navigation interface.
+ Playing a single file with random play enabled no longer plays that
file in a loop if the "On Playlist Complete" setting is set to do
something else.
+ The Volume Up/Down keyboard macros have been changed from Shift+"Home"
and Shift+"End" to "+","=" (volume up) and "-" (volume down).
The Previously associated Video Zoom-In/Zoom-Out functions are still
accessible through the keypad "+" and "-" keys.
This should make it easier to control volume, especially on
netbook/laptop type devices which don't have access to the keypad
without using a special function button.
+ The active playlist is now automatically saved every 15 minutes
(to prevent data lose in case windows crashes).
+ The "5000" CommAPI command used for seeking in time can now accept
a fractional value indicating MS. For example, "122.500" will seek
to 2 minutes,2 seconds and 500 ms.
+ The "Image Resize" fullscreen navigation interface has been renamed
to "Adjust Image".
+ The "/Sort" command line parameter now works even if Zoom Player is
already running.
+ The "File Extensions" Adv. Options Menu has been moved under the "File
Format Association" menu (was previously under the system menu).
Fixes :
- Fixed a video stuttering issue when using certain video renderers
with Aero Desktop Composition enabled (Windows 7/Vista).
- An "ACCESS VIOLATION 00000000 READ ADDRESS 00000000" error when using
the advanced playlist control has been fixed.
- Closing multiple player instances at once with Zoom Player set to save
its setting to a local file could cause the settings file to corrupt.
- A bug in the ID3v1 parser caused playlists containing audio files
with ID3v1 tags not to save/load properly if the ID3v1 TAG contained
in the audio file was semi-corrupt.
- Opening the options dialog through a skin button while a new audio file
starts playing and the skin automatically changes to audio mode would
cause a "not enough timers" crash.
- The "Default media open path" (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen
Navigation / Paths) used by the standard open dialog and the file
browsing fullscreen navigation interface can now accept network paths.
For network paths to work with the file navigator, you must add the
path under as an "Additional File Nav path" (Adv. Options /
Interface / Fullscreen Navigation).
- Chapters are now time based rather than frame based as different
components (filters/renderers) would report different frame rates
for the same media file, causing chapter files created with one
set of filters playing invalid when using a different set of filters.
- Adding/Removing audio devices (such as a Skype Phone which acts as
a speaker device), will no longer change the audio device settings
Zoom Player uses. If you insert a new audio device while Zoom Player
is already running, opening the options dialog or restarting the player
is required.
- Zoom Player no longer requires "wmvcore.dll" on the system to run.
(it may be required for WMV playback, depending on your setup).
- The Adjust Image fullscreen navigation interface lost the H-SIZE/V-SIZE
values. They are now back.
- Fixed a crash when trying to open a DVD title over a network path.
- Fixed a rare crash when trying to show the Control Panel while the
media library navigation interface is opening.
- The eMule File Tracker did not work with files between 2 and 4gb.
- The uTorrent File Tracker did not work if the Torrent folder and
the torrent file name used the same name.
- The FFDShow Subtitle Renderer would sometimes display subtitles
from previously played videos.
- Using the previous chapter function with only one chapter would go to
the previous track rather than seeking to the first chapter.
- When enabling "Close on Inactivity" for the fullscreen navigation
interfaces, Opening a navigation interface through the SendMessage
WinAPI command would have caused the dialog to time-out and close
instantly.
- Selecting files in the file Browser and Media Library fullscreen
navigation interface and adding them to the playlist now adds them
in the correct sorting order and doesn't re-sort the original list.
- Fixed a bug introduced in v7 RC1 which caused a "list index out of
bounds" error when Random Play was enabled while only having one file
in the playlist.
- Using the Quick Search function on the File Browser and Media Library
fullscreen navigation interfaces with a directory containing a low
number of files would previously show a blank screen.
- The "Play all files in this directory" navigation function would not
appear if there was only one directory listed. Applies to both the
media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
- Using the Quick Search function in a directory containing 1000's of
files could cause the file names to be cut short.
- You can no longer set image-blanking values greater than the video size.
- Pressing Enter after closing the options dialog could cause a play
command to be issued (instead of the assigned function).
- The internal screen saver will no longer activate when the White Wash
pattern is in use.
- If "On Playlist Compelete" was set to "Do Nothing" and the video
renderer was set as EVR, reaching a media's end would result in the
video disappearing.
- The Filter Profiles list (Adv. Option / System / Filter Management)
would not list any filters when doing a Standard install.
- Transparent buttons on the control bar would lose their transparency
region under certain conditions.
- Fixed a memory leak when playing web (HTML) files.
- Fixed a few rare occurrences of Floating Point errors.
- The "Export Settings" function would not properly save some unicode paths.
- The Skin Tint profiles did not support unicode names.
- Fixed a division by zero error in the Download Navigator when downloading
0bytes sized files from uTorrent or eMule.
- Fixed a memory leak in the Download Navigator.
- The Zoom Player Install Center application could show a newer version
of an installed component as requiring an update.
- Having track information (Duration/TAGs/etc...) loaded in the background
would not properly read non-english character sets.
- Sorting randomly didn't maintain the playing index which could cause
the wrong TAG information to be displayed.
- When playing a media file from the fullscreen navigation interfaces,
Zoom Player will now hide the default background image beforehand
so there's a smoother transition into the video.
- Associating a file extension (".avi" for example) through the open-with
Windows Explorer dialog under vista would disable Zoom Player's ability
to associate the file extension.
- Doing a Standard (non-legacy) Zoom Player install with UAC disabled
would sometimes break file association (usually due to a bad install).
- M3U playlists with directory-relative file paths would not always load.
- Trying to register Zoom Player automatically by double-clicking the
registration file would fail if the evaluation period has ended.
- Loading or Dropping a subtitle file no longer reloads the file to
display the subtitles if the subtitle rendering filter is already
in the graph.
- Cycling through Subtitle tracks in ".MKV" files containing no internal
subtitles with one external subtitle file, didn't work.
- You can now associate shortcut files (".lnk") with Zoom Player DVD
external program execute events (On PAL/NTSC DVD detected and
On DVD Stop events).
- An access violation crash could occur if you have the stop function
set to closing the playing media (instead of seek to start),
move the previously played file to a different directory,
try playing it again (and fail since the file is no longer there)
and then try playing a DVD.
- If you had the "Hide extension for known file types" enabled in
Explorer's folder view options dialog, Zoom Player's open dialog
would not list the correct files.
- The "/Sort" command line parameter did not function if no files were
specified as part of the command line.
- The Open Dialog did not list CD Audio files when the media type was set
to CD-Audio.
- The Open Dialog did not list the DVD file (VIDEO_TS.IFO) when setting
the media type to "Video".
- The file browser fullscreen navigation interface did not list download
percentage for eMule/uTorrent downloads under some conditions even when
correctly configured.
- When enabling "Continue to the next item on the playlist when an invalid
file is played", the next playing file could display an incorrect aspect
ratio and may even not load if the next file was the last in the playlist.
- When drag & dropping files to the playlist editor, the currently playing
file would not highlight correctly and going to the next/previous
track (file) may load the wrong one.
- When drag & dropping files to a specific spot in the playlist editor,
the files would appear in reverse order.
- The file association options dialog page would show incorrect icons
if you were using Windows Vista with UAC enabled.
- Newer version of the Flash ActiveX component are now detected. Previously
flash playback would work, but the player would list it as missing.
- The "Open Directory" function should now work properly with network paths.
- The ".3G2" extension was missing from the default video extension list.
- Having the control bar auto-hide when the mouse cursor is moved away didn't
work properly on secondary monitors.
- If the internal screen saver was active in combination with the Guard Dog
feature (Adv. Options / System), the Guard Dog would misidentify the
player as unresponsive and close it.
- The internal screen saver would not activate if the secondary monitors
were blanked out.
- The internal screen saver no longer shows or moves the mouse cursor.
- The internal screen saver did not respect the aspect ratio of images
displayed when the Source Relative Stretch (Pixel Aspect Ratio)
feature was enabled.
- With the internal screen saver's streamer function disabled, the
transition effects got broken.
- The internal screen saver would take CPU power even if the streamers
were disabled. It now takes a lot less CPU power (only during
transitions).
- The "1950" CommAPI command used for removing items from the playlist did
not properly adjust the currently playing item index when an item was
removed. In addition, it would not close the currently playing file if
it was removed.
- You can now paste (Ctrl+V) into the Chapter editor's "Go To time" and
"Go To Frame" dialogs.
--- 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:https://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:
https://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:
https://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:
https://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.
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