| FREE | MAX/STEAM | Feature Description |
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| - | ✔ | Media Library JukeBox mode meta-data scraping for Movie/TV/Music posters, backdrops, still images, title, description, genre, cast and more! |
| - | ✔ | Media Library YouTube (Channels/Searches/Trends) integration. |
| - | ✔ | Media Library RSS feed reader. |
| - | ✔ | Media Library icons displaying the media format, video codec, video resolution, audio codec and audio channels. |
| - | ✔ | Download subtitles through 'OpenSubtitles.org'. |
| - | ✔ | Use XBOX 360 and compatible controllers as remote control with custom, user-assigned functionality. |
| - | ✔ | Customizable actions when clicking 'Hot' screen corners (function/extended function/execute app). |
| - | ✔ | Blu-Ray Decrypted Main-Movie Playback (with subtitles). |
| - | ✔ | Automation user-selected action when connecting/disconnecting an additional monitor. |
| - | ✔ | Automation user-selected action when detaching/attaching a "2 in 1" laptop's display. |
| - | ✔ | Automation user-selected action when switching between tablet and mouse modes (win10). |
| - | ✔ | Thumbnail preview when hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline. |
| - | ✔ | Fullscreen media center navigation Password protected categories. |
| - | ✔ | Customizable Mouse Gestures. |
| - | ✔ | Display chapters/bookmarks position directly on the timeline. |
| - | ✔ | Media Scheduler with remote TCP/IP network based programming support. |
| - | ✔ | Automatically restore the previously active subtitle track on replay. |
| - | ✔ | Automatically restore the previously active audio track on replay. |
| - | ✔ | Use Direct3D PixelShaders to enhance videos with macros to easily switch between shader script presets. |
| - | ✔ | Use DirectShow filters directly from DLLs (without registering with OS). |
| - | ✔ | Remotely create and manage playlists without affecting current playback. |
| - | ✔ | Create Mobile-Phone RingTones from playing media. |
| - | ✔ | GuardDog (Auto-Restart if the player locks up). |
| - | ✔ | Scene-Cut Interface (Dynamic, Virtual Audio/Video editing). |
| - | ✔ | Video Wall (Span Videos across multiple monitors using the EVR Renderer). |
| - | ✔ | Non-Linear 16:9/4:3 video scaling using EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer). |
| - | ✔ | Support for Local Configuration file (easily run different configurations/instances on the same PC). |
| - | ✔ | Video Orbiting (Prevents screen-burns). |
| - | ✔ | Auto-Execute external programs Running/Closing the player. |
| - | ✔ | Extended Command Lines "/x", "/y", "/w", "/h", "/nCols", "/nRows", "/Col", "/Row". |
| - | ✔ | Extended Command Lines "/browse", "/func", "/exfunc", "/config", "/multinst", "/seek". |
| - | ✔ | Extended Command Lines "/datapath", "/winname", "/connecttcp", "/sharepath". |
| - | ✔ | HTML Interactivity. |
| - | ✔ | Flash Interactivity. |
| - | ✔ | QuickTime Interactivity. |
| - | ✔ | Copy current play position to the clipboard. |
| - | ✔ | Fullscreen media center navigation interface with easy to use controls for both Home Theater PCs (HTPC) and Tablets (or other touch devices). |
| - | ✔ | Fullscreen media center navigation thumbnail view with kinetic smooth scrolling and customizable content-based layout. |
| - | ✔ | Advanced Smart Play controls (Create your own Smart Play profiles, select & configure custom decoders for each media format). |
| - | ✔ | Fullscreen media center navigation Safe Mode (hide dangerous functions from inexperienced users). |
| - | ✔ | Fullscreen media center navigation custom background images. |
| - | ✔ | Real-Time manual audio re-synchronization with optional initial synchronization value. |
| - | ✔ | Communication & Control API (TCP/IP, WinAPI's SendMessage or COM), supported by many 3rd party applications. |
| - | ✔ | Windows Media (WMV/WMA) DRM Support. |
| - | ✔ | Playlist Power Manager (enhanced search/playlist manipulation). |
| - | ✔ | Control Zoom Player through a Web Interface (web remote). |
| - | ✔ | Audio Visualizations (Sonique, Windows Media Player plugin support). |
| - | ✔ | Mouse Wheel Tilt (left/right) support with selectable functions (Windows VISTA or newer). |
| - | ✔ | Custom mouse click & scroll functions. |
| - | ✔ | Password protected options dialog, preventing other people using the computer from modifying your configuration. |
| - | ✔ | Blank Secondary Monitors (when switching to fullscreen or by calling a function). |
| - | ✔ | Automatic Audio and Subtitle media file stream selection. |
| - | ✔ | Play History (Remember Date, Audio/Subtitle Track, Restore previous playback position and more). |
| - | ✔ | Automatically restore volume level on replay with video files. |
| - | ✔ | Automatically restore volume level on replay with audio files. |
| - | ✔ | Share play history on a network path to resume playback from different machines. |
| - | ✔ | Lock the On Screen Display to a region of the screen. |
| - | ✔ | Auto-Execute external programs when a PAL/NTSC DVD disc is detected (prior to playing) and when the DVD playback is stopped. |
| - | ✔ | Map network paths into the File Browsing Media Center navigation interface. |
| - | ✔ | DVD Password Protected Parental Control. |
| - | ✔ | DVD Trailers interface allowing you to play trailers prior to starting the movie. |
| - | ✔ | Automatic Aspect Ratio, Video Size and Blanking depending on the DVD type (Fullscreen, Letterbox or Anamorphic). |
| - | ✔ | Reload & Replay media files as they are being saved. |
| - | ✔ | Closed Captions Support in Media Files. |
| - | ✔ | Use any DirectShow filter as a custom Video Renderer. |
| - | ✔ | Customize the functions assigned to keyboard navigation (up/down/left/right/enter & space keys). |
| - | ✔ | Override the playlist editor's font with custom fonts. |
| - | ✔ | Pattern Calibration System with White Wash Anti Burn-in mode. |
| - | ✔ | Enhanced Screen Saver controls (Computer generated backgrounds, image slideshows and power saving modes). |
| - | ✔ | Integrated eMule/uTorrent/qBittorrent file tracker (track download progress within the fullscreen navigation interfaces). |
| - | ✔ | Customize the background image visible when nothing is playing. |
| - | ✔ | Customize the background image used when playing audio when no folder image exists. |
| - | ✔ | Add custom functions to the Task-Bar right-click menu (Windows 7 or better). |
| - | ✔ | Extended Command Lines "/lockfs", "/tcp". |
| - | ✔ | Create Contact Sheet (Thumbnail index). |
| - | ✔ | Multiple Customizable Context Menus with extensive support for both DVD and Media modes. |
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| ✔ | ✔ | No bloat, intuitive interface with a user-friendly design. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Skins for every resolution, including 4K screens. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Install Center application, capable of detecting and securely installing up-to-date decoders, missing system components and language packs to improve stability and versatility. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Support for legacy and cutting-edge Video Rendering technologies (Overlay, VMR7, VMR9, EVR, Haali, MadVR). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Windows 7 (or better) Task-Bar position coloring. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Windows 7 (or better) controls on the preview thumbnail (Mute, Play/Pause, Next/Previous Track). |
| ✔ | ✔ | 10-Band Equalizer with Digital PreAmp and Presets. |
| ✔ | ✔ | DVD Playback from Disc, Hard Drive or network connection. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Quickly jump between multiple saved positions using media Chapters (or DVD Bookmarks). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Go-To Interface to quickly and accurately seek into any position within a media file. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Automatically Extract & Play Archived (zip/rar/7z/etc) content. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Video Post-Processing (DeInterlacing, Sharpening, etc). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Play incomplete AVI files. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Play files locked by third party programs. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Powerful, category based Media Library interface. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Automatically play multi-part media files, including GoPro sequences. |
| ✔ | ✔ | AB-Repeat (Repeat a section of the playing media in a loop). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Choose from Multiple DVD Audio & Video decoders for improved compatibility and reliability. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Smart DVD Bookmarking tool, including auto-loading bookmarks. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Auto-Remember DVD position per-disc (each DVD's position saved separately). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Multiple DVD play speeds with adjustable speed values. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Preferred DVD language selection (Audio, Video, Subtitle and DVD Menus). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Auto-Save definition file per-disc (remember Aspect Ratio Video Position, Color Values, etc). |
| ✔ | ✔ | External DVD Subtitle Support (Use subtitles from an external file). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Temporarily disable Auto-Play to prevent other programs from popping up when a DVD disc is inserted. |
| ✔ | ✔ | DVD, Media, Audio and Media Center navigation skins. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Advanced media format support (multiple language tracks, subtitles and chaptering in AVI, OGM, MKV and more). |
| ✔ | ✔ | High resolution subtitle rendering on low resolution video using xySubFilter and MadVR. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Integration with Windows VISTA's Media Library folders (auto-mapped to Zoom Player's media library). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Start player window locked to Fullscreen mode (Hide the fact that your computer is your media center back-end). |
| ✔ | ✔ | DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding with H.264 and VC1 video formats. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Integrated image viewer (JPG/PNG/BMP) with Zoom, Panning and image-rotation functionality. |
| ✔ | ✔ | High Quality Icon library containing extension-specific system icons (used when the Player is associated with a file format). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Mouse Gestures. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Automatically load and display embedded/external background images when playing audio files (APE/FLAC/ID3/etc). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Fullscreen Virtual Keyboard (used for renaming files from the fullscreen interfaces and elsewhere where appropriate). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Extensive Playlist support ZPL/B4S/M3U/WPL (including native Unicode and UTF8 file names). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Smart Play support (Faster loading files, no decoder conflicts and smoother playback on less powerful computers). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Microsoft 'MMS' Audio/Video Streaming. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Multi-Format video streaming of media files or live streams over HTTP. |
| ✔ | ✔ | SHOUTcast Radio streaming |
| ✔ | ✔ | Definition system which saves and restores information on the playing media (Aspect Ratio/Color Values/etc). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Easy access to popular filter interfaces such as XVID/H.264 dialogs, DirectVobSub language selection, etc. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Fast Play support for most media formats (as long as your CPU can handle the extra load). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Fast Forward and Rewind support with all media formats. |
| ✔ | ✔ | User-Specified accelerated list scrolling speed (for large playlists and other content). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Quick 'starting with' or 'containing' keyboard searches of large lists. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Enhanced 'On Playlist Complete' setting, allowing control over what actions are taken when playback ends. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Auto-Aspect ratio compensation for badly encoded 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (fullscreen) content |
| ✔ | ✔ | Manual-Aspect ratio adjustment |
| ✔ | ✔ | ID3, APE, FLAC and WMA Tag information visualization. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Virtual meta-data editor for both Audio and Video media files. |
| ✔ | ✔ | 4 Level Zoom-In Toggle (16.6%, 13.3%, 50%, 100%). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Windows Media Format 9 High Resolution Multi-Channel Audio Rendering. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Auto-Play Media CD/USB/External drives. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Bicubic, smooth scaled image slideshows. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Easily associate any file format, including an icon navigation interface that allows you to easily decide which icon is used. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Play random trailers before or after your Movies. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Multilingual (Translated into multiple languages) with Unicode 16bit Character support. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Basic and Advanced options dialog, making Zoom Player easy for new users while giving ultimate flexibility to power users. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Mute audio while seeking. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Automatic Skin-Mode Switching depending on type of content played (DVD/Media/Audio). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Dynamic skinning engine with full support for color-tinting. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Powerful Aspect Ratio controls, including support for non square pixels (Pixel Aspect Ratio), manual Fit-To-Specified-Area Aspect Ratio, Anamorphic Aspect Ratio and even a Custom user-specified ratio. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Easy control of Video Size and Positioning while in fullscreen, allowing you to position the video anywhere and at any size on screen. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Fully keyboard mapped features and dialogs, covering every function used by the player (useful with Remote Control, keyboard devices and HTPC systems). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Programmable keyboard editor, including support for chaining multiple functions to one key and Global Hot-Keys (keys that work even when the player is not focused). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Advanced mouse controls with customizable functions, including a wide array of mouse-wheel supported features (extremely useful with HTPC systems). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Custom Video Position, Aspect Ratios, Color Control and Image Blanking presets. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Dynamic Control Bar, providing easy navigation while in full screen mode, complete with user-selected on-bar functions. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Detachable Control Bar, allowing you to easily control player functionality from a secondary monitor. |
| ✔ | ✔ | 4xSpeed seeking (short/medium/long/very long) with customizable speeds for quickly seeking forward/backward within the playing media. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Extensive command line support. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Override the system-default Audio Output device and assign output to any other audio device on the system. |
| ✔ | ✔ | User specified registry location, supporting multiple running copies of the player using different configuration profiles. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Web URL Navigation system, allowing you to associate DVD and Media files with a URL or local information file. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Fully Multi-Monitor compliant with powerful multi-monitor features. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Multiple Skin-Modes within a single skin (default/small/minmalistic/frame-only/etc). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Docking user interface elements to Window Borders and Advanced Magnetic Docking capabilities. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Translucent user interface (Requires Windows Vista or newer with the Aero interface enabled). |
| ✔ | ✔ | DVB Support using DCoder's DC-DVB filter, including tuning and time shifting. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Change screen resolution when going into fullscreen and restore when leaving fullscreen. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Screenshot support in JPG, PNG and BMP formats. |
| ✔ | ✔ | LIRC Remote Control support. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Shortcut File Parsing for easy redirection of DVD and Media content from a centralized location. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Blanking feature used to cover up non-black area of encoded Video (useful when playing widescreen DVDs or badly encoded media files). |
| ✔ | ✔ | Girder Command file export for maximum control through a remote device and System Automation. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Full support for GraphEdit ".GRF" files. |
| ✔ | ✔ | Backward (Windows 98) and Forward compatible with all versions of windows running on Intel processors. |
