Chapters and DVD Bookmarks

Custom Chapters

Zoom Player supports custom media chapters, allowing you can create a chapter points for the playing media that you can seek to using the Previous/Next chapter buttons.

Creating Custom Chapters

Creating chapters is relatively straightforward. Open the media, seek to a position, optionally specify a chapter name and finally press the "Add" button to add the current position into the chapter list.

Pressing the "Save" button saves the chapter list in a file with the same name as the open video file, but using the ".chp" extension. For streaming and read-only, the chapter file is saved in Zoom Player's ProgramData folder.

By default, chapter files are loaded automatically the next time you load the media.

DVD Bookmarks

The chapter editor is also used for DVD Bookmarks, however the file structure is a bit different. For each DVD disc you add bookmarks (not referred to as Chapters as the DVD Format has its own Chapter system), a folder will be created under Zoom Player's ProgramDAta folder. The folder name consists of the disc's volume label and a unique 64bit disc identifier. Each bookmark is a file within the disc-specific folder.

Saving DVD Bookmarks

You do not need to save DVD bookmarks, this is done transparently by Zoom Player. If all bookmarks are erased, the disc's folder will be removed automatically (as long as there aren't any other setting file in it).

The Chapter file format (non-DVD)

A text file with the exact same name as the media you are playing, with the ".chp" extension. For example, if you are playing a file called "hardlife.mp4", create a text file called "hardlife.chp".

You can use any text editor to create this file. If you don't have any, you can use Notepad (part of windows).

The format is very simple, all you need to do is use one of the following structures:
AddChapter(FrameNumber,ChapterTitle)
AddChapterBySecond(PositionInSecond,ChapterTitle)
AddChapterByTime(Hour,Minutes,Seconds,ChapterTitle)

Any line within the chapter file beginning with "#" is considered a comment and is ignored.

Example:

# This is a Zoom Player chapter file.
#
# Chapter 1:
AddChapter(0,"Start of Video")
# Chapter 2:
AddChapterBySecond(1800,"The Chase")
# Chapter 3:
AddChapterByTime(1,25,12,"End Credits")
# and so forth ...

Verify that the chapters are entered correctly, entering a lower figure on a higher chapter number may confuse the player.