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 Legend :

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

What's new in Zoom Player v21 beta 1:

New :

  * Introducing : Modern UI

    Zoom Player's user interface has remained more or less the same over
    many years and now it's finally time for a fresh new look.

    Gone is the skinned user interface, replaced by a simple frame.
    Hovering with the mouse cursor (or pressing the Ctrl+"Space" keyboard
    shortcut) now brings up a new Control Overlay, a semi-transparent user
    interface that appears over the video area.

    I tried to setup the default control overlay layout similar to the
    previous skinned layout to make the transition to a new interface as
    seamless as possible, but at the same time maintained the option to
    easily revert the user interface to the old design.

    Since the control overlay replaces both the skin and the control bar,
    some of the default settings related to the control bar have been
    reset in favor of control overlay features. If these changes are not
    suited to your setup, you can easily return to using the control bar
    instead.

    While designing the new Control Overlay interface, I took your feedback
    on Zoom Player's reddit forum and made sure the Control Overlay is the
    most customizable media interface ever created.
    
    You can customize nearly everything:
    + Button selection across 4 different button zones.
    + Button sizes for each button zone.
    + Text fonts, colors, sizes and transparency.
    + Volume and Timeline color, size and transparency.
    + Element visibility (button zones, volume bar, widgets, etc).
    + Lots and lots of settings to manage the Control Overlay behavior.
    
    The Control Overlay feature can be customized through the advanced
    options dialog under "Interface / Control Overlay".

  * The default skin modes have been updated. You can access the new modes
    from the right-click context menu or using these keyboard shortcuts:

    F3 = No user interface at all, just a floating video window.
    F4 = The new default, just a thin frame around the video area.
    F5 = Slightly larger frame with a title area and system buttons.
    F6 = Charcoal UI using small buttons.
    F7 = Full Charcoal UI (the previous default).
    F8 = Show bottom bar with more buttons.
    F9 = Show bottom bar with more buttons.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse (enabled by default).

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse even when Zoom Player
    is not the active application. This feature is not perfect and can cause
    a cosmetic issue where the overlay appears in between Zoom Player's video
    window and a window from another application.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's bottom
    in fullscreen mode.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's top
    in fullscreen mode.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when performing a forward/backward seek action.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when pausing.
    
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    show the Control Overlay when using fast forward or rewind.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    hide the Control Overlay when idle (3 seconds by default).

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically
    hide the Control Overlay when clicking the video area.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that prevents
    the first mouse click on the video area from triggering the assigned
    functions if Zoom Player was not the active application. This setting
    is enabled by default to allow you to switch to Zoom Player's window
    now that the user interface is embedded within the video area.

    This setting only ignores the first click in the video area. If you click
    the control overlay or other Zoom Player windows, the action is triggered
    as expected.

  * You can now show/hide the Control Overlay using the Ctrl+"Space"
    keyboard shortcut.

  * New "Control Overlay" entry adding to the right-click context menu.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that disables
    Zoom Player from activating any function assigned to a mouse click when
    Zoom Player's video area is clicked when Zoom Player is not the active
    application, allowing you to switch to Zoom Player without activating
    any mouse button assigned function by accident.

    This new setting is enabled by default, otherwise switching to Zoom
    Player using the modern UI could trigger undesired actions.

  * In the previous version, I've added a feature that when you Zoom in
    using the mouse wheel, it zooms toward the mouse cursor. I have since
    listened to your feedback and made this feature optional. You can
    now turn it off under "Advanced Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings".

  * New "Create Shortcut" IPTV context-menu option that creates a shortcut
    file for the stream you've right-clicked, allowing you to launch
    Zoom Player directly into the stream.

  * You can now add and stream Xtream Codes TV Shows from IPTV favorites.
    If you previously added a TV Show as favorite, you have to recreate
    the TV Show favorite for this to work.

  * New "/referrer:[url]" command line parameter that specifies a referrer
    header when opening a URL from the command line, for example:
    zplayer.exe "/referrer:https://website.com" "https://website.com/v.m3u8"

  * New "/useragent:[text]" command line parameter that specifies a user-
    agent header when opening a URL from the command line, for example:
    zplayer.exe "/useragent:SpecialCode" "https://website.com/v.m3u8"

  * New "/exaudio:[media]" command line parameter that manually specifies
    an external audio file/URL for the currently playing media, for example:
    zplayer.exe "http://website.com/steam/video.mp4"
      "/exaudio:http://website.com/stream/audio.mp3"


Change :

  + Since the new Overlay Control conflicts with the Hot Corner feature,
    Hot Corners have been disabled by default. If you previously used the
    Hot Corners feature, you can re-enable it in the advanced options
    (make sure to disable the Control Overlay).

  + Maximizing the video window now pops-up any visible Zoom Player windows
    such as the Playlist Editor, Equalizer, Media Server Browser, IPTV Player,
    etc.

  + The default value for the "Show the Mouse Cursor (pixels)" setting (that
    also determines the number of pixels the mouse should move to show the
    new Control Overlay interface) has been changed from 2 pixels to 16.
    If you've previously set another value, you will need to set it again.

  + The default function assigned to the space key is now "Play / Pause",
    replacing the previous default of showing/hiding the control bar.
    If you wish to return to the previous default, you can do so from
    the advanced options dialog under (Interface / Keyboard).

  + The user interface button hints are now showing the function names
    from the translations in combination with any hint text from the skin.
    This change will help with translations since the text that is currently
    embedded in the skin script is not accessible.

    The downside is that using non-default skins may show a double-hint.

  + Scrolling through the play history window should be smoother now.

  + The Control Bar menu entry has been moved under the "Controls" sub-menu.


Fixes :

  - The Media Server Browser and Media Library Media Server plugins failed to
    show any episode listing for Jellyfin servers.

  - Opening a media from the play history window and then as the media was
    being loaded quickly reopening the play history window would trigger
    a crash.

  - Eliminated a bit of flickering (two updates) in the IPTV window's stream
    list panel when re-opening the window.

  - Clicking the "Media Info" radio button on the information window got
    broken and didn't show any information.

  - Switching between multiple-playlists now properly stops the currently
    playing media.

  - When using MadVR or MPC-VR as the video renderer with the no-UI skin
    mode (F3 keyboard shortcut), you can now resize the video from the
    edges and not only from the corners.

  - Hopefully fixed cases where Chinese/Japanese time and date display
    would show invalid characters.

  - Adding IPTV Xtream Codes movie to the favorites did not show the
    movie's description when clicked in the favorites section.