Legend :
"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
--- What's new in Zoom Player v18 beta 5:
New :
* You can now select IPTV streams as favorites and they automatically
show up under a "Favorites" group at the start of the stream list.
You can right click a favorite stream to re-arrange or sort your
favorites list or simply remove the stream from the favorites section.
* You can now hide IPTV groups from being listed by right-clicking the
group and selecting "Hide Group" or through the options dialog.
* Right-clicking an IPTV EPG entry will now show the program's description
and allow you to set a notification to remind you that the program is
about to start as well as specify that you want to automatically switch
to the program's stream in due time.
Notifications are remembered even if you close and re-open Zoom Player,
but they will not activate if Zoom Player is not running.
* New Hidden IPTV Group controls (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV).
* 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).
* The Advanced Playlist Control interface is now accessible through the
right-click menu under the "Open Interface" section.
Change :
+ Optimized EPG parsing, improving load time by 5-15%.
+ 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.
+ The Station Manager window now has an "X" in the corner to close the
window (previously you had to click the "close" button).
Fixes :
- 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).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v18 beta 4:
New :
* The IPTV auto-updating EPG and Stream List downloads can now handle
".zip" and ".gz" archive URLs (e.g. "https://website.com/epg.zip").
* New Filter EPG feature on the IPTV interface.
* New IPTV setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls the
EPG font size.
* New IPTV setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to control whether
the EPG filter checks program description or only the program's title.
* 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.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that allows you to assign a
function to the new "Custom Action" button.
Fixes :
- The IPTV interface should feel a bit smoother (less flickering).
- 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).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v18 beta 3:
New :
* The IPTV interface now supports automatically downloading stream lists
and electronic program guide URLs every specified number of days.
* IPTV Stream icons are now downloaded automatically.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) allowing you to control the
Stream's icon size.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) allowing you to control
whether the Stream's text is resized along with the icon size.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to ignore grouping and just
display the entire stream list.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to customize the IPTV
interface with your own color scheme.
Change :
+ If an IPTV stream list contains mixed information with some streams
lacking a group specification, all such streams will now show under
an "Unspecified" group. If only one or no groups are specified,
grouping is disabled automatically.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v18 beta 2:
New :
* A completely new IPTV (streaming live TV and VOD) interface (Adv. Options
/ Playback / IPTV) with support for EPG (Electronic Program Guide),
Channel Grouping and many customization options.
Some features (icons, automated EPG/M3U downloads, etc) are still a work
in progress and are not part of this beta.
* 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.5 beta 1:
New :
* 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.2 release candidate 1:
New :
* 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).
Fixes :
- 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.
- Fixed a "Plugin ERROR #80004005" when trying to add a YouTube channel
to the media library category editor if the channel's URL contained
the "@" character, e.g. "https://www.youtube.com/@WeMightBeDrunkPod"
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.2 beta 3:
New :
* 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
* 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.2 beta 2:
New :
* 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).
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.2 beta 1:
New :
* 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.
* Added support for new YouTube URL format when adding YouTube channels
as media library categories:
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/@CowboyKentRollins
* Double-clicking a TV show thumbnail in the media library's TV Jukebox
mode will now play the episode.
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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").
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.1 beta 2:
New :
* 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.
Change :
+ 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17.1 beta 1:
New :
* 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
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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 release candidate 2:
New :
* New "Sort by Star Rating" media library sort option (Only works on
scraped media [TV & Movies]). You can adjust the Movie/TV Show's
star rating using the metadata editor.
Fixes :
- There was a bug in v17 RC1 that caused play history to break when
playing streaming content and possibly in other cases.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17 release candidate 1:
New :
* The mouse's backward and forward button can now be assigned custom
functionality when a navigation interface is visible.
* YouTube kids URLs should now work with the IFRAME player.
* New "Sort by Release Date" media library sort option (Only works on
scraped media [TV & Movies]).
* 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. When no sorting title is specified, Zoom Player
automatically uses the media'a title (if one exists) or file name.
* 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.
* New "9:16" thumbnail aspect ratio option for media library thumbnails
suitable to vertical videos.
* New configuration option for TheMovieDB scraping plugin that allows you
to select the poster/backdrop/still image sizes.
* New "Edit Metadata" option in the media library's functions page for TV
and Movie categories.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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 v17 beta 4:
New :
* New metadata editor accessible by right-clicking TV or Movie entries in
the media library. The metadata editor allows you to replace thumbnails
and backdrops along with editing the Title, Release date, 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. Filtering is remembered on a per-category basis
and is stored across sessions (even after exiting Zoom Player).
* The media library mini-menu has been extended with two new functions you
can select : "Filter list" and "Edit metadata".
Fixes :
- Under some conditions, pressing the ESC/Menu keys to close the right-click
context menu would break some keyboard functionality.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v17 beta 3:
New :
* 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 "exSetAudioSync" extended function that allows you to set a positive
or negative millisecond accurate audio synchronization offset.
* Added support for YouTube Shorts URL parsing and playback, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5TTNpKFy_10
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.6 beta 2:
New :
* 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 Assocation / File Extensions."
Please note that with this change, it is no longer possible to extract and
play ISO files as if they were archives.
* 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 Media Library feature to sort categories by Play Date. When enabled
the most recently played files (or folders containing files that have
been played) will be listed first.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically hide
the Playlist editor when entering fullscreen mode.
Change :
+ 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.
+ ISO files are now always visible in media library video categories.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.6 beta 1:
Fixes :
- Bug fixes
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.5 release candidate 1:
New :
* New Smart Play profile for the Apple ProRes codecs.
* 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.
Change :
+ The YouTube IFRAME player's preferred video quality setting has been
removed as YouTube depreciated this feature.
Fixes :
- The YouTube IFRAME player did not function properly in regions using
the "," character as a decimal separator.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.5 release candidate 1:
New :
* 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 shipping with Zoom Player, you can switch
back by opening the skin selection dialog using the "N" keyboard
macro or through the right-click menu.
* It is now possible to play videos from Twitch.tv.
* 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 the
play history list.
* New "Select all Unseen" media library feature that selects every
media or folder containing content that exists in the play history.
* New "Select all Seen" media library feature that selects every
media or folder containing content that does not exist in the
play history.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Settings) that controls whether the Media Library's media scraping
indicator is visible within the path area.
Change :
+ 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.
This change should help Zoom Player feel more responsive.
+ Rewrote the audio TAG/ID3 scraping code for enhanced efficiency
and reliability.
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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
exit the folder the current scraping operations were working on
until the screen was updated.
- 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 there media library would not respond to
input correctly when playing a movie then exiting to the main
navigation interface and then back to the media library.
- Fixed a few small memory leaks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.1 beta 3:
New :
* The navigation Sound FX are now applied to every navigation interface.
Change :
+ Replaced the "Right arrow" icon with an "Enter" icon on the mini
color control interface.
Fixes :
- 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 timeline "remaining time" value.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.1 beta 2:
New :
* 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.
Change :
+ The erase playing media and fullscreen navigation erase dialogs will
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".
Fixes :
- With the "Disable the Control Bar in Window Mode" setting enabled,
exiting fullscreen would briefly show 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16.1 beta 1:
New :
* New interface Sound-FX system that triggers sounds when certain
actions are taken (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 playing or when using the mouse.
* The media library can now display a media file's approximate bitrate
(e.g. 9.2 Mpbs). You will need to re-scrape media to see this update.
* You can now search for subtitles on movie folders, Zoom Player will
use the first video file within the folder to find matching subtitle
tracks.
* New "Thumbnail icon size" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Fullscreen
Navigation / Customization) that controls the thumbnail media icon size
for media/icons that do not have a thumbnail image.
* New "Prevent mouse actions from moving or resizing the main window"
setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size" that blocks the
mouse from resizing or moving the main player window.
* New "Skip requesting confirmation to erase file" setting (Adv. Options /
Interface) to remove the confirmation request 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 will ignore any thumbnail downloaded using a
scraping plugin and depending on other category settings, Zoom Player will
try extracting a thumbnail from the video 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.
* New "exPLSortOrder" extended function capable of choosing the sorting
order (ascending, descending). A value of "0" sets ascending and "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 item in the playlist
is actually "0" and not "1".
Change :
+ 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 minimum number of media library category columns has been changed
from 3 to 2.
Fixes :
- 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 option dialog's 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16 release candidate 2:
New :
* 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.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that uses the fullscreen navigation
UI to confirm when deleting the currently playing file.
* 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.
* 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.
Change :
+ 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.
+ 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 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'.
+ Removing the currently playing media from play history will now close
the playing media.
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16 release candidate 1:
New :
* 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.
* Pressing the media library's refresh button will also refresh the scraped
images, reflecting any manual changes to poster images.
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16 beta 4:
New :
* 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.
* 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 YouTube Playlist media library plugin which allows you to easily
import YouTube playlists as Zoom Player media library categories.
* 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 navigation skinning engine has been enhanced to add more granular
support for the path area's icon size and position.
Change :
+ The fullscreen information navigation interface now splits long
information into multiple lines.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.6 beta 3:
New :
* The media library category editor can now be set to show "All"
categories to allow sorting across category types.
Fixes :
- Clicking the 'show volume bar' button on the control bar showed
the volume bar in a slightly-off position.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.6 beta 2:
New :
* 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.
* 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".
* 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.
* Zoom Player's Event Ghost plugin has been updated to support all the
latest Zoom Player functions:
https://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3498&p=55891#p55891
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.6 beta 1:
New :
* 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.
Change :
+ Erasing files/folders from the media library will now erase their scraped
meta-data/thumbnail cache from the "MediaCache" folder.
Fixes :
- 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 https:// 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.5 release candidate 4:
New :
* 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 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.
* New "fnRestart" function to restart Zoom Player.
* New "fnRestartWithParams" function to restart Zoom Player with the same
command line parameters it was executed with.
Change :
+ 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.
+ Ctrl+"A" now works to select every item in the play history window.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.5 release candidate 3:
New :
* The play history window now includes a last play position column.
* The play history window's right-click menu can now be used to remove
selected entries.
* The play history window now includes the last play time along with
the play date.
* 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.
Change :
+ The play history window can now be used to select multiple entries.
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.1 release candidate 2:
New :
* The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now displays the path to the
currently highlighted playlist entry on the bottom of the screen.
Change :
+ Added support for new YouTube channel URL structures that
included '/c/' instead of '/user/' or '/channel'.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.1 release candidate 1:
New :
* 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 "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).
* Double clicking a category in the category editor dialog will now open
the category's configuration dialog.
Change :
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ Due to a YouTube licensing requirement, OSD messages will no longer
appear when playing YouTube content.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.1 beta 2:
New :
* 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.
* 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.
Change :
+ You can now select the thumbnail progress bar size.
Fixes :
- Fixed a bug that triggered a re-scrape of media information whenever
daylight saving was enabled/disabled.
- Fixed a bug that prevented maximizing to fullscreen if the "Prevent
exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting was enabled in some cases.
- The YouTube plugin now correctly displays the video's publish date after
YouTube changed the date format May/2020.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15.1 beta 1:
New :
* 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 (does not apply to Movie
JukeBox mode or folders since theys may be comprised of multiple media
files).
* 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.
* 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.
Change :
+ 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).
+ The media library thumbnail view has been slightly optimized, especially
when using Windows Default anti-aliasing.
Fixes :
- 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.
- Fixed a rare crash when resizing the media library window in thumbnail
view mode.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 release candidate 3:
New :
* New "Go" button on the station editor to make search practical
without access to a keyboard.
* 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 / 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.
Change :
+ The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface has been enhanced to
work more intuitively and with less clicking required to reach
the desired time.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ Ctrl+"V" now works in the playlist editor's search box.
+ You can now use the Space character to activate buttons on the skinned
confirmation dialog (previously only the Enter key would work).
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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).
- Streaming audio with non-English characters encoded in the stream's
meta-data would sometimes display the wrong characters.
- Trying to open the last used fullscreen navigation interface did
not work if the player was in audio mode. Now the window automatically
switches back to media mode and shows the navigation interface.
- 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.
- 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 v15 release candidate 2:
New :
* 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.
Change :
+ To prevent instability, if Zoom Player's options dialog is open,
all API/Keyboard processing (for the main window) are now disabled.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 release candidate 1:
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- Rewind, Fast Forward and Slow Motion are now disabled when playing
live streams with no duration (these functions were interfering
with playback).
- Fixed a freeze when using the MPC Audio Renderer combined with the
"Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting.
- The DVD Audio Renderer setting was not being saved due to a bug
introduced in the previous beta.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 10:
Change :
+ Forgot to include the updated TheMovieDB scraper plugin in the
previous beta.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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.
- A bug introduced in a recent beta prevented Zoom Player from automatically
switching between DVD and Media modes.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 9:
Change :
+ TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now scrape movies that do not contain
a poster image.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 8:
New :
* New Setting "Adv. Options / System" (disabled by default) to allow the
Command & Control API to remotely control the PC's mouse cursor.
* 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 7:
New :
* 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).
Change :
+ 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).
Fixes :
- 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 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 6:
New :
+ Newly created YouTube media library categories will no longer show
a video icon overlay by default (as all content from YouTube is
video).
+ The fullscreen navigation information interface no longer closes
automatically when opening a new media file.
Fixes :
- 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.
- Accidentally forgot to include the DSF/DSD smart play profiles with
the previous beta.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 5:
New :
* New Smart Play profile for the ".DSF" file format.
* New Smart Play profile for the "DSD" (Direct Stream Digital) codec.
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 4:
New :
* 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 "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.
Change :
+ Enhanced detection for Dolby Atmos tracks.
+ Changed the 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 naviation interfaces to squeeze out
a little more horizontal space.
Fixes :
- The sub-folder selection within the media scanner fullscreen
navigation interface would draw outside the defined line boundries.
- The media scanner no longer allows you to add folders to plugin
based categories (which are not folder based).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v15 beta 3:
New :
* 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.
* The media library can now display a format icon for the new
AV1, DTS:X and Dolby Atmos audio/video codecs.
* Support for the ADTS audio wrapper format.
* New "/SHOWOSD:[Text]" command line parameter used to show a pop-up
OSD on an already running instance of Zoom Player.
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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.
- Trying to close the Install Center during an install could have
resulted in a crash.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.6 beta 2:
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.6 beta 1:
Change :
+ The Media Library category editor has been restructured to make it
easier to use when working with many categories.
Fixes :
- Deleting the currently playing file did not remove the file from the
current playlist.
- 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.
- Removing entries from the playlist editor did not always select the
current remaining track.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 6:
New :
* 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.
* New "Refresh" option (Media Library Category Editor / Configure Category)
for YouTube channels and RSS Streams that refreshes the channel's Name &
Thumbnail.
Change :
+ Entering a media library TV JukeBox folder that contains no media files
will no longer switch to thumbnail view for the empty folder, instead
remaining in file list mode.
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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 cause the media library
scraper to ignore any text after this character did not work 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 seeking was not possible.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 5:
New :
* 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 "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.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio when
enabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.
* New "fnToggleOverlayCover" function to toggle the "Video covers entire
display area" setting on and off.
Change :
+ 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.
+ When a media library scraped movie did not contain a backdrop image,
the default background image is now used instead of a black screen.
+ Updated the PNG and zLib libraries to newer versions.
Fixes :
- 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 would try 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).
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 4:
Fixes :
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 3:
New :
* TheMovieDB.org media library scraping plugin has been enhanced and can
now return non-english meta-data (texts and images).
Change :
+ The Install Center now includes two configuration profiles for the
3DYD YouTube Source filter that enable HD/4K streaming.
+ Visualization are now enabled when the 3DYD YouTube Source filter is set
to "audio only" output.
Fixes :
- TheAudioDB.com scraper plugin is now functional after the API used by
the site moved to encrypted communication (https), breaking backward
compatibility.
- If a media title contained a 'line feed' or 'return' characters, it would
corrupt the play history.
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 2:
New :
* 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 Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that automatically tries to use
the YouTube IFRAME player if DirectShow playback of a YouTube stream
fails.
* The advanced playlist control (accessible through the playlist editor
or by pressing "J") now show the number of items remaining in the
playlist as the search filters down the list.
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- Using the "Stop" function while a media was loading combined with
a non-default setting that closes the playing media when using the
"Stop" function and when display a JPEG/PNG image could cause the
image to remain on screen.
- 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 maxiumum of 10 tracks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.5 beta 1:
New :
* 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 / Fullscreen Navigation) 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).
Change :
+ 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 Command & Control API now notifies when subtitles are enabled/
disabled when using the "fnToggleSub" and "fnDisableDVDsub" functions.
Fixes :
- 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.
- Playing media that contained certain special characters in the media's
title caused multiple unplayable entries to appear in 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.4 beta 2:
New :
* 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).
Change :
+ 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.
+ When download playlists Zoom Player now uses the windows temp folder
instead of the 'my documents'.
Fixes :
- A race condition caused the scrape manager thread to not signal it is
terminating correctly, causing Zoom Player to freeze on exit.
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.4 beta 1:
Change :
+ 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.
+ The number of RSS entries cached by the media library plugin has been
raised from 2000 to 5000.
Fixes :
- 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 media library playlist plugin now supports playlist URLs longer than
255 characters long.
- 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.
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 4:
Change :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 3:
New :
* 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".
Change :
+ The "Play History database may be corrupted" message will no longer
appear unless the play history file is actually corrupted.
Fixes :
- Fixed a bug that prevented the previously active audio track from being
restored when re-playing a video with multiple audio tracks.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 2:
New :
* 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).
Change :
+ The torrents plugin should now shutdown a little faster if Zoom Player
closes while the plugin was fetching an updated file list.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 release candidate 3:
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 release candidate 2:
New :
* 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).
Change :
+ 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).
Fixes :
- Fixed a bug introduced in a previous beta that caused a mess when trying
to move items in the playlist.
- Scrolling down in the download tracking fullscreen navigation interface
then exiting and re-opening the interface caused an empty list to show
instead of the previous list.
- 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 v14.1 release candidate 1:
New :
* 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).
Change :
+ 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 / System").
+ Further optimized the download plugin code to the point where a data
refresh on the download navigation interface should no longer cause
any UI lag whatsoever.
Fixes :
- 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.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 beta 3:
New :
* Automatic support for native Windows 7-10 media library folder structure
(previously only the more basic Windows XP-Vista library structure
was supported).
Change :
+ 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 any navigation key to cancel a 'play all files in folder'
feature mid-action.
Fixes :
- Fixed a possible crash that would trigger sometimes on an initial run
after a fresh install.
- A function optimized in beta 2 had a bug which caused the visualization
plugin list to reset (no plugins listed).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 beta 2:
New :
* 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 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.
* The last play position is now drawn over the thumbnail in TV Jukebox mode.
Change :
+ 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.
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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).
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 beta 1:
Change :
+ 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.
+ Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode while the media library is
opened should be cleaner and faster (less visual junk in the transition).
Fixes :
- Fixed a scraping bug where the ".nfo" file detection algorithm would fail
with files/folders names containing unicode characters.
- 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 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 Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:
https://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml
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