March 13th, 2013· Some of the language packs had a glitch that caused Zoom Player to start with an access violation and then appear as an empty black box.
March 13th, 2013New :
· The default fullscreen navigation style has been replaced with the new "Slate" design. A lot of work was invested in making the new design much
· more visually polished than the previous "Drapes" design.
· New Slate style background images for the DVD and Media modes.
· Support for MadVR Color Controls.
· The color control, adjust image and the image blanking fullscreen
· navigation interfaces now uses the more intuitive input mode previously
· demonstrated in the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
· Clicking on media file icons within the file browsing, media library and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces now selects and unselects
· the clicked entry.
· New Media Scheduler interface, accessible through the right-click context menu or by clicking Alt+Ctrl+"S".
· The scheduler lets you set times & dates for specific media or entire playlists to begin and stop playing automatically.
· The internal JPEG decoder is now based on GDI+ requiring "gdiplus.dll"
· installed on your system. The "gdiplus.dll" file comes pre-installed with Windows XP onwards and is available for download for Windows 98/ME
· systems.
· As a bonus, Zoom Player can now display JPEG image files encoded with the
· CYMK color-space (used in printing).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to select the navigation scrolling mode when using the keyboard or remote devices.
Always Centered:
· This is the default from v8.5 and earlier.
· When scrolling, the selected item always remains in the screen-center.
Middle Centered:
· When scrolling, the selected item remains in the screen-center except for the top and bottom of the list.
Windows Default:
· When scrolling, the selected item can reach the bottom or top of the screen before any scrolling is performed.
· New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) that controls whether the right-click context menu is skinned or if Windows should draw the context menu.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) that controls the number of seconds to seek back when restoring media position on replay.
· For example, when playing a media file to position "1:10:12", setting the seek back value to "2" seconds, replaying the same media file resumes playback at position "1:10:10".
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) that specifies the Audio re-synchronization step accuracy in ms. Previously, the value
· was hard coded to 25ms.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) that specifies the
· Initial Audio re-synchronization offset value. This means that every media with decoded audio will start playing with the specified audio re-synchronization offset value.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that determines whether clicking the next/previous track buttons (or functions) while in Fast Forward or Rewind mode performs a forward/backward seek action instead of next/previous track.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls whether using the "Stop" function causes Zoom Player close the graph (the new default) or just stop the graph (previous default).
· When using a custom right-click menu script, you can now pass the currently playing file name and path to an external application, for example "MediaInfo".
· New "exScheduler" function, allowing you to enable or disable the scheduler.
· New "exPlaylistMode" function used to specify the 'On Playlist Complete' mode.
· New "exPartLoader" function used to specify the 'Multi-Part file loader' mode.
· Two new functions (Alt+Shift+"T" and Alt+Shift+"R") for increasing and decreasing the Derived aspect ratio width.
The keyboard arrows can now be assigned two new functions:
· Zoom In/Out (previous Zoom option was only based on Axis)
· Long Seek forward/backward.
· The default values for the arrow functions have been reset, If you have
· previously set a non-default value to the arrow keys, make sure to re-apply your settings.
· New Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
· New "Select Audio", "Select Video" and "Uncheck Selected" buttons on the
· basic options dialog's file association page.
· New Skin Script variables that specifies the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface's text size and position.
· It is now possible to create a non-square scroll widget for the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "HoverColor" navigation skin script parameter that specifies the font color used for the currently highlighted line in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "WindowWidth" and "WindowHeight" fullscreen navigation skin parameters that specify the relative width and height of the adjust image and image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions) to enable it.
The fullscreen background color (set under "Interface / Display") is now used to fill the black-bar area in video renderers that support it:
· Standard Overlay
· Overlay Mixer
· Haali Video Renderer
· MadVR
· New Zoom Player API Command (#6020) that saves a remotely created playlist to a local file.
· All paths are relative to the 'Share Path' parameter specified using the "/SharePath" command line.
· New Zoom Player API Command (#6030) that sends a specified local
· playlist file.
· All paths are relative to the 'Share Path' parameter specified using the "/SharePath" command line.
· Two new Zoom Player API Events (#6100 and #6101) that trigger when a
· scheduled entry is about to begin playing and when the entry ends playback.
· New Zoom Player API Command (#6110) that returns an event with same
· number indicating the current Scheduler state (Disabled/Inactive/Active).
· New Zoom Player API Command (#6120) that returns an event with same
· number listing the current schedule list. The format is identical to the local "zplayer.schedule" file, except using the "|" character to separate schedule entries.
· New Zoom Player API Command (#6130) that specifies a new schedule list.
· The new list overwrites the currently active schedule.
· This command returns an event with same number, listing the number of
· schedule entries received.
Changes :
· The 'Adjust Image' and 'Image Blanking' fullscreen navigation interfaces
· are now placed in a better default on-screen position.
You can restore the previous position by modifying the 'Screen Position' and 'Navigation Side Margins' values under:
· Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation
· The Internet Radio Station database has been cleaned up and the
· fullscreen station navigation interface has been enhanced to highlight the audio format and bitrate of each station.
· A small side-effect of the station database clean-up is stations you may have previously set as favorites may no longer exist.
· The 'Multi-Part file loader' Automatic mode now supports image formats
· and requires less character matches to identify parts.
· In addition, file names comprised of only numbers are now auto-loaded
· with no requirement of a minimum number of characters to make a match.
· For example, opening "1.mp3" would automatically open "2.mp3", "3.mp3"
· and so forth.
· Multi-Digit numbered file names such as "0001.mp3" and "0002.mp3" are
· supported as well.
· The Create Contact Sheet feature is now much faster and more reliable.
· The code used to get a media's duration and properties has been enhanced.
· Smart Play now strips ".part" and ".!ut" file extension when evaluating
· which source filter to use. This change should improve playback stability
· of incomplete downloading media files (eMule, Firefox and others may use
· the ".part" file extension, ".!ut" is used by uTorrent).
· The keyboard fullscreen navigation interface used in such features as the "rename" function now uses a clearer distinction between the actively selected button and the "shift" states.
· When overriding the playlist colors, the entry number is now colored using the 'Playlist font color' value instead of remaining in a fixed color.
· The "Auto-Hide the Control Bar while paused" setting has changed to
· "Auto-Hide the Control Bar while stopped or paused".
· The Source filter name now appears under the 'Filter Properties' sub-menu.
· You can now move error dialogs using the mouse cursor.
· And the error dialogs can not appear partially offscreen anymore.
· Several options dialog entries have been updated to reflect third
· party technology changes, for example MadVR now supports color control.
· The options page's information dialogs now appear in list format with a scroll-bar instead of trying to fit all the text into one big dialog.
· API message #6010 will now return a code once processing has finished.
Fixes :
· The FREE version was not supposed to support Audio Visualizations,
· but a bug allowed you to enable support which resulted in a 'list index out of bounds' error.
· An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading
· a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
· We would like to thank security researcher 'Debasish Mandal' for
· notifying us of the exploit.
· The fullscreen navigation skin loading code now falls back to the default navigation style if the previously selected navigation skin file no longer exists.
· The "Player should stay on top of other applications when switching to Audio Mode" setting caused a crash when exiting Zoom Player in Audio mode and then launching Zoom Player with an audio file. Another glitch with this setting caused the Equalizer and Playlist editor dialogs to appear corrupted on initial load.
· Looping videos in EVR no longer blink black between loops.
· Fixed a crash when Zooming to a resolution over 8192x8192. 8192x8192 is now the maximum zoom-in resolution.
· Fixed a crash when using an invalid parameter value in a custom context menu file.
· Fixed a potential crash when closing Zoom Player under certain circumstances.
· Fixed an bug that could wipe the play history cache under certain rare circumstances.
· The subtitle selection dialog would erroneously show the currently visible subtitle as "Disabled" even though subtitles were showing under certain circumstances.
· The uTorrent file tracking feature that lets you see the download progress of torrent files in the file browser and media library fullscreen navigation interfaces did not display the download progress if uTorrent appended the '.!ut' file extension while downloading.
· Under some circumstances, saving a playlist would have caused the path prompt window to appear behind the main Zoom Player window, making it
· appear as if Zoom Player is frozen.
· The skinned context-menu would show sub-menus off-screen under certain spacing conditions.
· Fixed a 'Focus' error dialog that would trigger when opening a skinned right-click context menu and then the window that was hidden. For example, opening the Control Bar's context menu and then having the control bar automatically disappear while the context menu remained visible, followed by pressing escape to close the context menu.
· In some cases, streaming radio stations would incorrectly open using the Windows Media Player's ActiveX component instead of using DirectShow, leading to bad performance and at times GUI corruption.
· Fixed issues playing Icecast URLs from the Xiph database.
· Saving playlists with relative or no path now saves the active playlist entry with a relative or no path (previously the entire path was saved for the active playlist entry).
· Using the options dialog's search function with a non-English language pack would display some of the section names as garbled text.
· When using the function selection dialog's search function, pressing ENTER would not loop to the top of the list when repeating the search.
· Pressing "ALT" while using the skinned right-click context menu now closes the menu (similar to standard windows context menus).
· The "Remember Window State on Exit (fullscreen / width / height)" setting did not save/restore the window's Maximized state and position.
· The "Center user interface when exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" did not take affect when using the F2 keyboard macro to exit fullscreen mode directly into audio mode.
· When using MadVR as the video renderer and overriding the pop-up action OSD to disable skinning and enabling the transparent background option,
· the pop-up action OSD's background did not become transparent.
· When using MadVR to render OSD elements and having the action OSD set to "Don't Skin the OSD Background" and "Transparent Background" and if the background color was set to black, the pop-up OSD would not appear (MadVR doesn't allow 'black' to be used as a background color).
· When using MadVR with automatic subtitle stream selection enabled, in some cases, playback would pause at the beginning of the media instead
· of playing the media straight away.
· Chapter content embedded in media files would appear truncated if the chapter's title contained a quote character.
· Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
· The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique
· visualization plugins.
· The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to its default settings under some circumstances.
· Running "DefaultSettings.exe" would wipe the registry key that provides the Zoom Player uninstaller with the location of the data directory, preventing a clean uninstall.
· This issue is now resolved by re-creating the registry key on the next Zoom Player run (previously the key was only created during the installation process).
· If the "Override the active skin's Action OSD display" was unchecked and the "Transparent Background" setting was checked, the Skinned OSD actions would lose transparency.
· When the "Override the active skin's Action OSD display", "Don't Skin the
· OSD Background" and "Transparent Background" settings were enabled while
· the "Outline Font" setting was disabled, the pop-up OSD messages would appear with a font outline using the background color if Anti-Aliased windows fonts (cleartype) were enabled.
· While in fullscreen, Zooming out to the point where the video area becomes very small truncated the pop-up OSD actions.
· With the "Save Position" checkbox enabled on the skin selection dialog, the maximized window state did not properly save the original window size and position after exiting Zoom Player.
· The scroll bar did not work on the Main fullscreen navigation interface's "Function" page.
· The Playlist fullscreen navigation interface's "Search" page was not accepting any mouse input.
· The scroll bar did not work on the "Adjust Image" fullscreen navigation interface's "Aspect Ratio" page.
· The Command & Control API message #5130 used to execute navigation
· functions did not work as planned when an anti-repeat rate was enabled and possibly in other circumstances.
· Using Zoom Player on a monitor with a negative virtual position value caused some dialogs not to center properly.
· Uninstall now removes the 'zpshlext.dll' file from the installation directory when running under a 32bit version of windows.
January 3rd, 2013· New Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
· The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions).
· An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
· Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
· The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique visualization plugins.
· The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to it's default settings under some circumstances.
December 18th, 2012· When using a custom right-click menu script, you can now pass the currently playing file name and path to an external application, for example "MediaInfo".
· Fixed a crash when using an invalid parameter value into a custom context menu file
December 13th, 2012· The default values for the arrow functions have been reset, If you have previously set a non-default value to the arrow keys, make sure to re-apply your settings.
· New Skin Script variables that specify the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface's text size and position.
· Two new functions (Alt+Shift+"T" and Alt+Shift+"R") for increasing and decreasing the Derived aspect ratio width.
· The Command & Control API message #5130 used to execute navigation functions did not work as planned when anti-repeat rate was enabled and possibly in other circumstances.
· Fixed an icon-cache bug that kept displaying old cached icons even after switching to a new fullscreen navigation style.
The keyboard arrows can now be assigned two new functions:
· Zoom In/Out (previous Zoom option was only based on Axis)
· Long Seek forward/backward.
December 3rd, 2012New:
· The default fullscreen navigation style has been replaced with the new "Slate" design. A lot of work was invested in making the new design much more visually polished than the previous "Drapes" design.
· New Slate style background images for the DVD and Media modes.
· Support for MadVR Color Controls.
· The color control, adjust image and the image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces now uses the more intuitive input mode previously demonstrated in the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
· Clicking on media file icons within the file browsing, media library and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces now selects and unselects the clicked entry.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to select the navigation scrolling mode when using the keyboard or remote devices. Always Centered: This is the default from v8.5 and earlier. When scrolling, the selected item always remains in the screen-center. Middle Centered: When scrolling, the selected item remains in the screen-center except for the top and bottom of the list. Windows Default: When scrolling, the selected item can reach the bottom or top of the screen before any scrolling is performed.
· New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) that controls whether the right-click context menu is skinned or if Windows should draw the context menu.
· New Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
· New "Select Audio", "Select Video" and "Uncheck Selected" buttons on the basic options dialog's file association page.
· New "HoverColor" navigation skin script parameter that specifies the font color used for the currently highlighted line in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "WindowWidth" and "WindowHeight" fullscreen navigation skin parameters that specify the relative width and height of the adjust image and image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions).
Changes:
· The 'Adjust Image' and 'Image Blanking' fullscreen navigation interfaces are now placed in a better default on-screen position. You can restore the previous position by modifying the 'Screen Position' and 'Navigation Side Margins' values under: Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation
· The Create Contact Sheet feature is now much faster and more reliable.
· The code used to get a media's duration and properties has been enhanced.
· Smart Play now strips the '.part' file extension when evaluating which source filter to use. This change should improve playback stability of incomplete downloading media files (eMule, Firefox and others may use the '.part' file extension).
· The keyboard fullscreen navigation interface used in such features as the "rename" function now uses a clearer distinction between the actively selected button and the "shift" states.
Fixes:
· The FREE version was not supposed to support Audio Visualizations, but a bug allowed you to enable support which resulted in a 'list index out of bounds' error.
· The uTorrent file tracking feature that lets you see the download rogress of torrent files in the file browser and media library fullscreen navigation interfaces did not display the download progress if uTorrent appended the '.!ut' file extension while downloading.
· The skinned context-menu would show sub-menus off-screen under certain spacing conditions.
· Pressing "ALT" while using the skinned right-click context menu now closes the menu (similar to standard windows context menus).
· The "Remember Window State on Exit (fullscreen / width / height)" setting did not save/restore the window's Maximized state and position.
· The "Center user interface when exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" did not take affect when using the F2 keyboard macro to exit fullscreen mode directly into audio mode.
· When using MadVR as the video renderer and overriding the pop-up action OSD to disable skinning and enabling the transparent background option, the pop-up action OSD's background did not become transparent.
· Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
· The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique visualization plugins.
· The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to its default settings under some circumstances.
· If the "Override the active skin's Action OSD display" was unchecked and the "Transparent Background" setting was checked, the Skinned OSD actions would lose transparency.
· The scroll bar did not work on the Main fullscreen navigation interface's "Function" page.
· The Playlist fullscreen navigation interface's "Search" page was not accepting any mouse input.
· The scroll bar did not work on the "Adjust Image" fullscreen navigation interface's "Aspect Ratio" page.
November 12th, 2012· The color control, adjust image and the image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces now uses the more intuitive input mode previously demonstrated in the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
· Clicking on media file icons within the file browsing, media library and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces now selects and unselects the clicked entry.
· New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) that controls whether the right-click context menu is skinned or if Windows should draw the context menu.
· The Create Contact Sheet feature is now much faster and more reliable.
· The uTorrent file tracking feature that lets you see the download progress of torrent files in the file browser and media library fullscreen navigation interfaces did not display the download progress if uTorrent appended the '.!ut' file extension while downloading.
· Pressing "ALT" while using the skinned right-click context menu now closes the menu (similar to standard windows context menus).
October 26th, 2012New :
· The Onyx (default) skin has undergone a modernization process, making the icons clearer, sharper and everything a little more intuitive.
· Introducing the 'Alba HD' skin.
· A clean elegant white design for higher resolution screens,
· Alba HD is 25% higher resolution than Default while retaining all the functionality.
Alba HD replaces the Fusion skin, still available for download through the Zoom Player Skin Gallery:
· Confirmation dialogs are now skinned by default with new skin script parameters that control their appearance.
· Under Windows 7 (or newer), the Taskbar thumbnail, which appears
· when hovering with the mouse cursor over the Zoom Player task bar
button now features 4 functions:
· 1. Mute
· 2. Previous Chapter/Track
· 3. Play / Pause
· 4. Next Chapter/Track
· The Install center can now install language packs.
· The Install Center now remembers the 'Silent Installer' and
· Automatic Configuration' checkbox values after restarting.
· The Install Center is now fully translatable into multiple languages.
· You must download an updated language pack to see your language.
· For more information, read 'how to translate.txt' in Zoom Player's
· Language' folder.
· The OPUS Audio format is now fully supported.
· Existing users may want to click on the 'Default' button next to the audio
file extensions under:
· Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions
· The LAV Video decoder can now be selected as a DVD video decoder.
· LAV's DVD support is still experimental.
· LAV Filters are now used in many more Smart Play profiles.
· A new Theora Video sub-type has been added to the Smart Play profile.
· The PowerDVD 12 video decoder is now supported for DVD decoding.
· Zoom Player now supports the Open-Source DVD Navigation filter
· When selecting items in the fullscreen navigation interface, for additional
· clarity, an icon is now used to mark the selected entry.
· The Play History cache (used to store last media position and display the play history) has been rewritten from scratch, performance has been greatly improved.
· New Short,Medium,Long seeking buttons option on the Control Bar when
· using the default skin.
· New Settings "Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations" that control whether visualization displays when playing audio or video media. New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" used to override the Play History cache file save path.
· By specifying a shared network path, media can be pause on one computer
· and playback resumed on a second computer.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" to automatically save the play history cache on pause.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files" that controls whether archive files are automatically extracted and played when opening an entire drive or folder.
· In previous versions, opening and playing of archive files was always on and could cause stability or accidentally unforseen consequences
· long extraction times).
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings"
· that when enabled, add a 'Randomly Play all files in this directory' entry to the Media Library and File Browsing navigation interfaces.
· When used, the function adds all the files in the current directory to the play list and then sorts the playlist randomly before beginning playback, making it very useful when playing music.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings" that overrides the "Open File" dialog, accessible through the main user interface, the right-click context menu and by pressing the "O" key with the fullscreen file navigation interface.
· New "Very Long Seek" Backward and Forward functions using the Ctrl+Shift+"," and Ctrl+Shift+"." keyboard macros.
· By default the seek action is 10 minutes. This value is adjustable through the Advanced Options dialog under the [Playback / Controls] sub-menu.
· New Function "fnMainContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu
· used by the main user interface.
· New Function "fnPLContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu
· used by the playlist editor user interface.
· New Function "fnResetBalance" that resets the Audio Left/Right balance to the center.
· New function "fnResetPlayRate" that resets the Play Rate to normal speed.
· A new warning dialog now pops-up when trying to enable certain conflicting
· settings in the options dialog.
· The Playlist editor's scroll bar background is now skinnable.
· The Playlist editor's search-box font and background are now skinnable.
· The Playlist editor's scroll bar widget is now skinnable with an Alpha (translucency) bitmap, as used by the modernized default onyx skin.
· The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has been enhanced to support a disabled button state image.
· The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds finer button animation smoothness control.
· The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds auto-repeat capabilities with a custom repeat rate value.
· New fullscreen navigation skin-scripting parameter to set the playlist's active playing track color, when it is the selected entry.
· When running "Zoom Player FREE" with a Zoom Player PRO or MAX activation key installed, a notification dialog asking you to install the version
· matching the key now appears.
Changes :
· The Playlist editor's scroll widget now moves smoothly.
· The Auto-Update feature no longer notifies you of new components on the Install Center if the new components are not automatically enabled.
· In the previous version, an update to a language pack would display a new component' notification window.
· If you previously used a Zoom Player trial version and the evaluation period ended, Installation the latest version lets you re-evaluate Zoom Player for another 30 days.
· The uTorrent and eMule download percentage in the fullscreen navigation
· interfaces has been changed to a more suitable color and is now aligned to the left of the file name.
· The mouse wheel's Increase/Decrease play rate function now works in 10% increments.
· The Extended menu fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned, removing functionality that exists in other navigation interfaces and
· adding better structuring to the stream selection options.
· The 'Opening a drive or directory includes opening image files' setting is now disabled by default (applies to old and new installations).
· You can re-enable the feature in the options dialog.
· The Equalizer preset editor has been redesigned.
· The Red error message dialogs are now skinned with an improved layout.
· The function list dialog's search function has been enhanced for clarity.
· Auto-Update notification now issues a notification that a new final version has been released if you are currently running a beta version.
· The Playlist editor's search box now uses the Advanced Playlist Control's search method ('starting with' or 'containing' text).
· Previously, all searches were based on 'starting with' text.
· The default change value for the volume up/down functions is now "4%",
· replacing the previous "5%" default.
· Changing the play rate using the play rate bar now pops an OSD listing the play speed.
· Smoother Audio Track folder image updates when using the 'PgUp/PgDn' keyboard macros to play the 'previous/next' audio track in a directory.
· Right-clicking the fixed clock display now hides it.
· Version display is now more consistent with web (8.1.x vs. 8.1x).
· API version structure remains the same for backward compatibility.
· The keyboard editor no longer shows scan code character value for MultiMedia keys (since multimedia keys are not mapped to characters).
· A few optimizations to the skin parsing code.
· With the new Play History caching optimizations, the Advanced Options
· Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - Highlight previously [viewed files] is now fast enough to work with large (1000's of files) directories on modern hardware.
· Smart Play now strips the '.!ut' file extension when evaluating which source filter to use. This change should improve playback stability of incomplete media files downloaded with uTorrent.
Fixes :
· When using Windows 7 with a non-default Font DPI value (125%/150%),
· Windows incorrectly scaled the user interfaces, causing the interfaces to appear blurred and preventing Zoom Player from covering the windows task bar in fullscreen mode.
· Fixed several memory leaks, especially when loading skins or expanding/contracting skin elements.
· The Random Play feature wasn't as random as it should have been.
· Zoom Player now tries not to repeat the same track until at least 50% the number of items in the playlist have played.
· The playlist editor's items were not vertically centered inside their box, this was especially evident when using large playlist fonts.
· When using MadVR as the video renderer, Zoom Player now exits fullscreen exclusive at the end of each track, increasing MadVR stability (no more fullscreen freezes between tracks on some systems).
· Several bug-fixes to the FFDShow and VobSub's Subtitle rendering filter's subtitle track cycling.
Multiple bugs fixed in the subtitle track selection dialog, including:
· Active subtitle track was not always detected.
· A 'disabled' subtitle track entry was not always present.
· When using 'automatic subtitle stream selection' with multiple text match' values, the last matching text was used instead of the first matching.
· The current media's Scene-Cut list would get wiped clear when switching skins or expanding/contracting skin elements.
· The wrong folder image was used when playing audio media.
· The first image in the folder was used instead of the
· Background image search mask' value specified in the adv. options.
· The 'Open Drive' and 'Add Directory' functions would accidentally add non-media files if their file extension was a sub-set of a proper media file extension.
· Fixed a bug introduced in v8.1.5 that listed all file sizes as "0 bytes" in the play history.
· The 'Open Drive' dialog did not allow you to select the first drive in the list.
· Opening a folder from the playlist editor ignored the setting that
· controlled whether image files are loaded and always included images.
· The Scene Cut 'Mute Audio' feature is now more accurate, especially when seeking into an area marked as muted.
· Fixed a skin color-tinting bug in skins that did not contain fully skinned dialogs (Playlist, Equalizer, etc).
· Fixed several crashes that occurred when playing an audio file while in fullscreen and then resizing the folder image down to a postage stamp size.
· Fixed a crash in the Chapter editor when playing a media file with
· embedded chapters containing a negative time frame.
· The Play History databases will no longer corrupt if you see a message saying 'Zoom Player has failed integrity check'.
· When the "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing video content" was enabled, playback didn't pause if the Zoom Player
· task-bar button was hidden.
· Certain ripped DVDs with a modified VIDEO_TS.IFO file would play and
· stop in an infinite loop.
· Fixed a small crash that caused a 'ding' sound to be heard just as Zoom
· Player was closing when 'On Playlist Complete' was set to 'Close Player'.
· The user interface maximized window state was lost when minimizing with
· Zoom Player only showing in the System Tray.
· Pressing Alt+Enter after clicking an item in the playlist editor caused that item to play instead of going fullscreen.
· The Smart Play profile for the 'VP7' video format accidentally included an ffdshow entry (ffdshow doesn't decode VP7 video).
· When a text formatting error occurs due to a translation error in a language pack, it is now caught instead of displaying an unclear
· message and a possible crash.
· Trying to use the '/config', '/datapath', '/multinst' and '/winname'
· command line parameters in Zoom Player FREE or PRO would crash the player instead of showing a notification screen that these command lines require Zoom Player MAX.
· When opening a media file from a network path, hovering with the mouse cursor over the task bar button or system tray icon would show the file name with full network path when only the file name should have displayed.
· A few text elements in the Open Directory and Open Drive dialogs were not translatable.
· Setting a custom mouse/keyboard function that opened the Volume Bar would crash with an 'out of system resources' error.
· The 'Disabled' subtitle track was not initially selected when no subtitles were visible by default.
· When maximizing the player window and then minimizing the player window
· to the taskbar, the maximized window state and the previous window size were lost.
· The "Fix window movement glitches" setting that was used to work-around
· a window glitch that caused the player window to jump when trying to move the player window by clicking on the video area is now disabled by default (even for users who previously had this feature enabled).
· An alternative fix is now in place that should hopefully resolve the jumping window issue without having to enable this setting.
· The Options dialog search function results prevented certain buttons from being accessible while the search results were visible.
· The Options dialog search function now supports unicode text.
· The options dialog's Help button's context menu now supports unicode text.
· A Zoom Player tab would briefly appear on the desktop when running
· Zoom Player with a windows shell other than 'explorer.exe'.
· The #1601 API message returning the number of audio tracks for the
· playing media returned the wrong number at times.
· Under certain conditions, the 'filter properties' sub-menu would list filters with a '#2' suffix even though there was only one instance of the filter in the graph.
June 5th, 2012New :
· The Onyx (default) skin has undergone a modernization process, making the icons clearer, sharper and everything a little more intuitive.
· Under Windows 7 (or newer), the Taskbar thumbnail, which appears when hovering with the mouse cursor over the Zoom Player task bar button now features 4 functions -
· Mute
· Previous Chapter/Track
· Play / Pause
· Next Chapter/Track
· The Install center can now install language packs.
· The Install Center now remembers the 'Silent Installer' and 'Automatic Configuration' checkbox values after restarting.
· The Play History cache (used to store last media position and display the play history) has been rewritten from scratch, performance has been greatly improved.
· New "Very Long Seek" Backward and Forward functions using the Ctrl+Shift+"," and Ctrl+Shift+"." keyboard macros.
· By default the seek action is 10 minutes. This value is adjustable through the Advanced Options dialog under the [Playback / Controls] sub-menu.
· The Playlist editor's scroll bar background is now skinnable.
· The Playlist editor's search-box font and background are now skinnable.
· The Playlist editor's scroll bar widget is now skinnable with an Alpha (translucency) bitmap, as used by the modernized default onyx skin.
Changes :
· The Playlist editor's scroll widget now moves smoothly.
· Version display is now more consistent with web (8.1.x vs. 8.1x). API version structure remains the same for backward compatibility.
· The keyboard editor no longer shows scan code character value for MultiMedia keys (since multimedia keys are not mapped to characters).
· A few optimizations to the skin parsing code.
· With the new Play History caching optimizations, the Advanced Options [Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - Highlight previously viewed files] is now fast enough to work with large directories on modern hardware.
Fixes:
· Fixed a bug introduced in v8.1.5 that listed all file sizes as "0 bytes" in the play history.
· When maximizing the player window and then minimizing the player window to the taskbar, the maximized window state and the previous window size were lost.
· The "Fix window movement glitches" setting that was used to work-around a window glitch that caused the player window to jump when trying to move the player window by clicking on the video area is now disabled by default (even for users who previously had this feature enabled).
· An alternative fix is now in place that should hopefully resolve the jumping window issue without having to enable this setting.
· The Options dialog search function results prevented certain buttons from being accessible while the search results were visible.
· The Options dialog search function now supports unicode text.
· The options dialog's Help button's context menu now supports unicode text.
· A Zoom Player tab would briefly appear on the desktop when running Zoom Player with a windows shell other than 'explorer.exe'.
· The #1601 API message returning the number of audio tracks for the playing media returned the wrong number at times.
· Under certain conditions, the 'filter properties' sub-menu would list filters with a '#2' suffix even though there was only one instance of the filter in the graph.
April 18th, 2012New :
· New installer option to "Associate with Media Formats", disabled by default. When enabled, Zoom Player automatically associates itself with every media file extension on the "Options / File Format Association" page.
· Once associated, opening/clicking the file extension (".AVI" for example) in explorer and other shell programs prompts Zoom Player to execute and play the selected media file.
· The install center can now list optional items without automatically selecting the item for installation.
· The default Onyx skin's title area has been refined.
· You can now directly configure the LAV Audio, Video and Splitter filters through the "Adv. Options / System / Filter Management" dialog.
· A 'Play in Slowmotion' button has been added to the Control Bar.
The Tray icon right-click menu has been added two functions:
· Next Chapter/Track.
· Previous Chapter/Track.
· New "ZPEXEIcon" icon library you can apply through the "File Format Association" page under "Adv. Options".
· The icon library applies the Zoom Player executable icon to all file extensions (replacing the labeled format extensions badges).
Changes :
· The player window's video area no longer blanks black when playing multiple JPEG images in succession even when the file are not part of the playlist (playing the next directory file for example).
· Smart Play's 'Source Filter' configuration dialog makes it clearer that selecting a profile that works as both a source and a splitter, overrides smart play's 'Splitter' profile for the media file extension. You can only split a media format once ...
· Smart Play profiles tweaked to increase stability.
· The custom key file settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) now accept relative file paths.
· The play history cache file verification system was overly sensitive, causing it to notify you the file may be corrupted even when it wasn't.
· If "Adv. Option / Interface - 'On Media / DVD Play'" was set to 'Zoom mode' or 'Fullscreen mode' and the player window was minimized, the player window was restored and set to fullscreen each time a new media was loaded. Now this action only takes place if the player window is not minimized.
Fixes :
· Fixed switching to fullscreen on a secondary monitor with Windows XP, which stopped working in version 8.
· Fixed several small bugs related to how Zoom Player is minimized and restored.
· JPEG images with EXIF rotation mode "6" were not rotated correctly.
· The '"Derived" mode Automatically Adjusts Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content' setting did not adjust for dynamically changing aspect ratios. This was especially bad with MadVR which throws a Aspect Ratio change event every time.
· ID3 v2.2 tags with embedded images were not parsed correctly, causing the embedded image not to display.
· Using the "zplayer.regpath" file did not apply the new data path.
· Pop-up OSD messages would not appear if MadVR OSD services was used with a fullscreen navigation interface visible.
· MadVR now show the first frame in the video when pressing stop.
· The Pop-Up OSD (Play/Pause/etc) would stick on-screen when using MadVR as the video renderer and tabbing away from Zoom Player.
· If 'On Playlist Complete' is set to 'Do Nothing' and MadVR is used as the video renderer, the fullscreen OSD interface would stop updating when the video finished playing.
· Playing MP3 files with embedded album art created by Samsung Kies could crash the player (Kies is creating invalid ID3v2 tags).
· The default "MPEG2 Program" video decoder Smart Play profile has been changed from DScaler to LAV as DScaler did not support dynamic aspect ratio changes with the EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer).
· DirectShow filters with stored filter data bigger than 4096 bytes would not appear in the 'Registered Filter Manager' dialog (LAV Video for example).
· When deleting a station from the station manager, the station name would not appear in the delete confirmation dialog.
· Due to conflict with Real Player, the RealMedia decoder pack is no longer included in the Install Center and the RealMedia Smart Play profiles have been modified to use LAV in its place.
· Fixed a cosmetical glitch in the options dialog search results.
February 13th, 2012New :
The Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface usage framework has changed. The new design is simpler and easier than ever:
· Simply scroll up/down to reach a setting you would like to modify.
· Notice the Plus/Minus icons on the right hand side.
· The active icon is opaque and the inactive icon is transparent.
· Moving right/left switches the active state between addition and subtraction whilst Enter performs the action.
· New reset and enabled/disabled icons are displayed next to their corresponding action for additional clarity.
· The fusion skin's control bar now supports brightness, contrast and saturation adjustments.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the player's user interface is restored when loading new content while the player is minimized.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the player interface is brought on top of all other windows when switching to fullscreen.
· In previous versions, this feature was always enabled, but since it can cause conflicts with MadVR and there's no real benefit keeping this feature enabled for everyone. It is now disabled by default.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play" that when enabled, all graph creation error messages are saved to a log file.
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Control" that specifies that the Frame Advance code uses an alternative method of seeking.
· The default method is using DirectShow's "IVideoFrameStep" interface
· The alternative method is by guesstimating the frame and performing a direct seek (the same method always used by the previous frame function).
· New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video" that controls whether The Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) should permit dyanmic aspect ratio changes (usually triggered by clips captures from live TV where the content can switch from 4:3 to 16:9 dynamically).
· In v8.0, the default value was disabled (Dynmaic AR changes disabled).
· In v8.1, the default value was enabled (Dynmaic AR changes enabled).
· The last play position is now saved automatically when the internal screen saver becomes active.
Changes:
· The navigation icons are now scaled "on-demand" and the result is cached to improve performance. Some of the fullscreen navigation interfaces may open a bit faster thanks to this enhancement.
· The right-click "Stream Selection sub-menu now lists audio tracks even if there is only one track available.
· The information dialog's ("I" keyboard macro) format section now clearly labels the source, splitter, audio and video decoders used.
· Scene-cut files saved for read-only media now use both the file name and date in order to distinguish between two media files of the same name, an increasing issue when playing blu-ray disc images.
Fixes:
· The update message notifying you of a new Zoom Player version or new updates on the install center could appear behind the user interface if the user interface was set to 'Stay On Top'.
· Saving scene-cut files for read-only media other than DVDs was broken.
· External subtitle files with unicode file names were not listed with their proper name (either an empty line would be listed or '????' would appear instead of the actual subtitle file name.
· When using FFDShow as the subtitle renderer and playing a media file with external audio track, the external audio tracks would get listed as subtitle track by ffdshow, breaking the 'cycle subtitle track' feature.
· Closing the navigation interfaces automatically after a specified number of seconds would cause the navigation interfaces to close even if remote control commands were received.
· When the "Playing new content moves the player window to the top" setting was enabled with MadVR as the video renderer, pressing play/pause caused
· MadVR to lose exclusive mode for a split second.
· Switching to Audio Mode now hides the clock display.
· Changing the volume level through the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface did not always update the skin volume widget.
· Changing the volume level through the player user interface while the Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface was visible did not update the equalizer navigation volume values.
· Drag & Scroll was broken in the Equalizer preset list.
· Fixed a crash when trying to close Zoom Player if the clock display and screen saver were active at the same time.
· The information dialog's ("I" keyboard macro) format section did not include the splitter used for the playing media.
· Running the Install Center with no internet connection would show three error messages instead of one.
· Message dialogs could appear with the mouse cursor hidden, making it more difficult to dismiss them.
· When using a language file, the default LIRC function type wasn't selected.
· Cosmetical glitches in the options dialog search function.
January 6th, 2012New:
The default Onyx skin has been enhanced:
· Contrast, Brightness and Saturation are now adjustable through the
· expandable toolbar.
· The expandable toolbar is now accessible through a button
· on the user interface instead of pressing F5 or F9 using the keyboard.
· The volume, balance, play rate and equalizer bars have been redesigned.
· Less framing around buttons.
· The F4-F9 skin modes used by the Default Onyx skin have changed,
the new modes are:
· F4 : Default mode.
· F5 : Smaller user interface.
· F6 : Minimal user interface.
· F7 : No user interface.
· F8 : Show/Hide Top Bar.
· F9 : Show/Hide Bottom Bar.
· The Audio and Subtitle stream selection interface has been rewritten. The new 'Stream Selection' right-click sub-menu groups all streams into
· clearly labeled 'Audio' and 'Subtitle' groups.
· The back-end for the Audio track cycle function (Ctrl+"A") used to switch between multiple audio tracks has been rewritten. Audio tracks from internal and external sources are now switched seamlessly.
· The back-end for the Subtitle stream cycle function (Ctrl+"B") used to switch between multiple subtitle steams has been rewritten. Subtitle streams from embedded and external sources are now switched seamlessly.
· Zoom Player now has integrated LIRC support. LIRC transmits and receives
· remote control signals. This allows computer control using almost any remote control.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface), that controls how to display the
· right-click "Stream Selection" sub-menu. With "Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" enabled, all filters exposing a stream select interface
· are displayed in a sub-menu, cleaning up the dialog. With this setting disabled, only detected Subtitle, Audio and Video streams from known sources are listed.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar), that prevents the Control Bar and Timeline context menu from opening. Useful if you have kids and you don't want a control bar setting changed by accident.
Two new "On Playlist Complete" modes (Adv. Options / Playback) :
· 1. Random play a media file from the playing directory.
· 2. Random play a file with the same extension from the playing directory.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that resets the Subtitle Renderer's filter subtitle synchronization value, ensuring that the default value is restored when opening a new media after manually adjusting subtitle synchronization. Enabled by default.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that forces automatic stream selection to work only with external subtitle files.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles), that specifies whether to enable the first embedded or external subtitle stream if no automatic stream selection match is found (or if the auto stream selection is disabled).
· New "/CONNECTTCP:[address or IP]:[port]" command line parameter. By default, The TCP/IP interface works as a server by waiting for 3rd party
· applications to connect to Zoom Player. With the "/CONNECTTCP" parameter, Zoom Player initiates the connection itself with a local or remote server right as it launches. A server must be listening on the specified address and port for a connection from Zoom Player.
· New extended function "exSkinMode", which activates the F4-F9 skin modes.
· Five new functions "fnResetBright", "fnResetContrast", "fnResetGamma",
· "fnResetHue" and "fnResetSatur" that reset the Brightness, Contrast, Gamma
· Hue and Saturation to their default values.
· The skin script code has been extended with "StartAndGroup" and "EndAndGroup" blocks that allow skin script authors to limit sections of the script to specific combination of active groups.
· When connecting to the TCP/IP control interface, Zoom Player automatically issues a "3000" notification message if an error dialog was visible prior
· to establishing the TCP/IP connection.
· Zoom Player now notifies you of known buggy filters when running a new version of Zoom Player for the first time.
· New Smart Play profile for embedded Apple Lossless Audio (ALAC).
· New Comm API message #1090, used to get the current timeline text, including the current position and any other value specified in
· the options dialog under "Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area".
Changes:
· The F4-F9 keys no longer modify skin groups, but rather activate Skin
· modes which are programmable directly from the skin script, providing greater flexibility and control to skin designers.
· When using the default onyx skin in F6 or F7 mode, a smaller control bar
· is now used.
· The Zoom Player Install Center now notifies to close any active media playback software.
Fixes:
· Dynamic aspect ratio changes are now supported when using EVR as the
· video renderer.
· Running on Windows 7 with the windows shell set to an application other
· than "explorer.exe" would cause Zoom Player to crash.
· With "Aggressively Hide Mouse Cursor" (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse /
· Settings) enabled, the mouse cursor no longer re-appears when opening
· a fullscreen navigation interface.
· The "/SKINDVD" command line parameter used to set the DVD skin actually
· set the audio mode skin by accident.
· The Video icon was being shown for Blu-Ray movie index files instead of the Blu-Ray icon.
· ID3v2 unicode tags are now supported automatically without specifying a country code.
· Fixed ID3v2 URL tags that are marked as Unicode but in actuality are ASCII.
· Auto-Save media chapters (".ZPCHP" files) was automatically creating
· chapter files when playing media files with embedded chapters (such as
· matroska ".MKV" files). Now, the chapter files are created only if you edit the chapters.
· The option to disable natural language sorting is fixed.
· Maintaining fast-play between playlist items is fixed.
· Fixed a few small cosmetic glitches.
· Pop-up OSD messages are now truncated to fit the video display area.
· Pressing F11 to reset color control values while the color control fullscreen navigation interface was visible, did not update the color control navigation interface.
· Selecting the Microsoft image source no longer notifies you that the filter is unregistered. Note that the microsoft image source filter is limited to 2000x2000 resolution, so it's not recommended for anything other than animated GIF files.
March 18th, 2011New:
· Support for Windows 7 (or newer) task bar progress button. Using the new Taskbar settings interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar), you can enable a progress bar that shows either the current media play position or your position within the playlist.
· Support for Windows 7 (or newer) Task lists. Using the new Taskbar tasks interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar), you can assign any standard Zoom Player function to the Task Bar button.
· Support for Windows Vista (or newer) mouse wheel left/right Tilt (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Mouse Wheel). You can choose between using the mouse wheel tilt for left/right navigation in menus or assign a Zoom Player function to the right and left tilt motions.
· Support for Windows Vista (or newer) AutoPlay handlers, allowing you to select Zoom Player from the Windows Control Panel AutoPlay configuration dialog. Supported auto play handlers include CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
· New virtual-keyboard navigation interface. Used for renaming files through the media library and file browsing navigation interfaces. The virtual-keyboard layout is fully scriptable and supports native (unicode) language input.
· New Out of Process Automation interface API that allows you to control Zoom Player through the COM inter-process interface. A sample application will be posted on the web site and forum.
· The fullscreen Station navigation interface has been redesigned. All previous stations have been moved into a "Favorites" category. Beyond your favorites, you can now browse through radio genres downloaded from the internet and play stations directly.
· The "Filter List" section of the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interface now includes an option to show "All Files".
· The Media Library Category editor has been redesigned for greater simplicity and clarity and is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer requiring mouse access.
· The Skin selection dialog has been redesigned for greater simplicity and clarity and is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer requiring mouse access. * The GoTo time/Chapter editor dialog is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer requiring mouse access.
· The play history dialog is now fully keyboard accessible, no longer requiring mouse access.
· You can now select FFDShow DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding for H.264 and VC1.
· There are a lot of restrictions when using DXVA. Not all video renderers are supported, subtitles wont display, etc... The minimum hardware requirement is NVIDIA 8xxx series cards or ATI 4xxx series cards. For more information, visit the ffdshow development thread over at the doom9 forums : http://forum.doom9.org
· The installer now includes an icon library for the most popular file formats supported by Zoom Player. On initial install, the new icons are applied automatically.
· The RingTone creation dialog has been improved: 1. You can manually modify the Start/Stop positions. 2. You can seek to the start/stop positions. 3. You can seek in the player and use the current media position as the start/stop positions.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to password protect the options dialog. For additional security, the password is kept in an encrypted form.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that prevents the Zoom Player user interface from opening on a disabled (turned-off) monitor. Enabled by default, the main user interface is moved to the primary monitor when running Zoom Player on a disabled monitor. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) forcing a more aggressive Mouse Cursor hiding code. The mouse cursor should no longer pop-up even when background applications steal focus from the player. This setting is enabled by default. If it causes problems with your mouse cursor hiding too much, it can be disabled. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Tags / Paths & Script) allowing you to enable/disable the aspect ratio for the default folder image. This is useful when the default folder image is an abstract picture (as the included default image is). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the system 'Pictures, Music and Video' library folders are listed in the media library navigation interface (enabled by default).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to prevent access to the main navigation interface from all other navigation interfaces. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to completely prevent access to the navigation interfaces function sub-menus.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) allowing to prevent exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play) allowing you to choose whether Zoom Player or Windows selects the Audio/Video renderers when a file extension is selected for Smart Play exclusion.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Blu-Ray) allowing you to add secondary Blu-Ray movie tracks (based on their duration) to the playlist automatically (by default, 21minutes or longer). Newly added tracks are sorted by duration, longest track listed first.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / DVD / DVD Settings) allowing you to control the way the player seeks in DVD mode. Since DVD seeking can be slow, by default Delayed seeking is used so the actual seek is performed only after 1-2 seconds, allowing you to drag the timeline without actually seeking until you let go of the mouse cursor. However, if you would like the seeking to be instantaneous, you can now disable the delayed seek. * New Settings (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) allowing you to specify the maximum play rate (used with the "fnIncRateEx" and "fnDecRateEx" functions) and the play rate step value (default 10%).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that mutes the audio for two seconds when using the seek forward and seek backward functions (to prevent garbled audio as the video is seeked frequently).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that instructs Zoom Player to close itself if the stop button/function is called. * New Setting (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions) allowing you to only show or use the first part in a Multi-Part RAR archive. For example "myarchive.part1.rar" will display while "myarchive.part2.rar" and "myarchive.part999.rar" wont display.
· The Zoom Player facebook page is now accessible through the options dialog, allowing you to view the latest Zoom Player news and updates. * Blu-Ray subtitles are now supported when using FFDShow as the subtitle renderer.
· New function "fnZoomInLevel" which cycles through 4 Zoom-in levels (16.6%, 33.3%, 50% and 100%). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+'Z'.
· New function "fnIncRateEx" which increases the play rate by a user specified value (10% by default). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+'.'.
· New function "fnDecRateEx" which decreases the play rate by a user specified value (10% by default). The keyboard macro is Alt+Ctrl+','. * New function "fnResetWindows" which resets the user interface windows to their default location. This function is accessible by right-clicking the Zoom Player task-bar button.
· You can now play and associate Blu-Ray decrypted ".mpls" Playlist files. This means that multi-part Blu-Ray movies (a Blu-Ray movie composed of several ".M2TS" media files) can now be played as one seamless media.
· The Skin Script "CreateExButton" function can now execute external files and open URLs in your browser. * New Skin Script "InstallFont" command which allows you to use font files in your skin without having to register them with Windows first. * New navigation skin script variable "PathHeightKey" allowing you to set the height of the keyboard entry box in the virtual keyboard navigation interface. * New navigation skin script variables controlling the virtual keyboard text colors: KeyActive = Active state of the virtual keyboard interface KeyInactive = Inactive state of the virtual keyboard interface KeyEditActive = Active state of the virtual keyboard edit box KeyEditInactive = Inactive state of the virtual keyboard edit box KeyKeyActive = Active key virtual keyboard interface For more information, see the default "Drapes.nav" script file in the Zoom Player 'skin' folder.
· The WebServer Remote API now accepts a new "&play=[filename]" command, allowing you to open files (and URLs) directly from the web browser. * Media duration for "M2TS,MKA,MKV,MOV,MP4" files is now detected automatically, to enable, click on the "Default" button at: Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions / Auto-Get Duration * The screen saver date/time display and currently playing media display layouts have been redesigned for better clarity. These changes also fix the issue where the currently playing media display would alter the font size depending on the length of the playing media name.
· Three new internal screen saver modes "Sinus Plasma", a Power Saving version of "Sinus Plasma" (lower brightness) and a Power Saving version of "Plasma Cloud". * New "Open Subtitle File" option accessible through the right-click context menu under the "Open" sub-menu.
· New "/SkinMedia", "/SkinAudio" and "/SkinDVD" command line parameters that let you specify which skin should load directly from the command line. Please note that this parameter must be called first (before "/Media", "/DVD" or "/AudBar"). * Pressing the Ctrl+"A" keyboard macro with the playlist editor in focus will now select all items in the list. * Single-clicking an item in the playlist editor with items previously selected will now clear the current selection and re-select only the clicked item. * Holding the "Shift" key in combination with the UP/DOWN arrow keys in the playlist editor will now select the items above/below the current selection without clearing the previously selected item(s). * Holding the "Shift" key in combination with the PGUP/PGDN/Home/End keys in the playlist editor will now select the items above/below the current selection without clearing the previously selected item(s). * The minimalistic skin modes (F6/F7 keyboard macros) for default Onyx skin now switch the playlist layout to a minimalistic design.
· New "Filter Properties" button on the Smart Play Source and Splitter configuration dialogs, allowing you to configure the selected filter (if the filter allows it).
· The "Automatically check for player updates" setting now checks the Install Center for codec/filter updates and notifies you if new/updated components have been found. * New Comm API message #1852 which instructs the currently playing media to close. * New Comm API message #2650 which enables you to position the player window.
· Embedded Windows Bitmap (.BMP) format album art is now supported.
Changes:
· We are no longer using an EXE compressor, which means that the Zoom Player EXE files will be larger, but you wont get any false-positive virus warnings.
· The Install Center has been redesigned for greater simplicity and clarity. + The "Show Date and Time" (Alt+Ctrl+"D") clock function has been modified so that it displays or hides the clock instead of just popping the clock through the standard OSD messages for a few seconds. The clock display is transparent, allowing you to see behind the text and in Windows Vista and newer, the text is slightly translucent. + When the "Auto-Play media file when opened" is disabled, the first video frame is now displayed. + The "Clear History" (Adv. Options / Playback / History) now erases the play history file. + Browsing the SHOUTcast station directory has been disabled as AOL (Owner of the SHOUTcast directory) no longer allows free access to the directory and makes draconian demands for this access. + Tuning in to a radio station directly from the SHOUTcast.com web site is now possible. All you need to do is select the "TUNE IN" option. You may be promoted to play through the browser or through the player, make sure to select the player. Your browser may prompt you for the application to open the playlist, make sure to select Zoom Player.
· Improved Blu-Ray main movie detection with some titles.
· You can now right-click play history entries to copy them into the system clipboard. + When opening an MMS stream, the buffering percentage value is now displayed.
· When the 4:3/16:9 Zoom compensation or one of the Zoom-in levels are enabled, playing new media content displays an OSD notification letting you know that Zoom mode is enabled (this notification will not show if you specifically set a viewing region that is not fullscreen). + If the "Pause playback when opening file browsing interfaces with a video playing" setting is enabled, opening the play history navigation interface now pauses the video.
· The "View" section of the media library and file browser navigation interfaces has been renamed to "Filter List". + The default process priority given to Zoom Player is now set to "Above Normal" by default when running under Windows 2000 or newer. Previous users of Zoom Player should note that their previous value for this setting has been reset to the new default.
· When clicking on an extension's icon in the Options Dialog's file association section or clicking the "Apply Icon to Selected Extensions" button, now applies an extension-specific icon taken from the default icon library that ships with Zoom Player.
· On first showing, the Playlist Editor dialog and the Equalizer dialog appear in a docked position rather than in the top left corner of the screen. + The default values for the internal screen saver have been changed and the screen saver is now enabled by default after 30 minutes of idle activity.
· The Internal screen saver mode setting has been reset. + The default visible buttons on the control bar have been changed. + The default values for the Arrow keys have been changed: Te LEFT/RIGHT keys are used to seek 20 seconds backward/forward. The UP key opens the Media Library navigation interface. The DOWN key opens the Playlist navigation interface.
· The previous defaults can be restored through the Advanced Options dialog.
· The default fullscreen navigation interfaces appearing in the main (root) navigation interface have been changed.
· The Equalizer Magnetize state is now enabled by default. + The Equalizer Magnetize state now positions the equalizer interface centered to the bottom or top of the main user interface (depending on space). Previously, the equalizer interface was aligned to the left edge of the main user interface. + The "Pause playback when opening file browsing interfaces with a video playing" setting is now enabled by default. + The "Use Media Title if Available" Playlist setting is now enabled by default. + Pressing "D" to open the Video Decoder configuration dialog now opens FFDShow's Video Decoder configuration dialog if no media is playing.
· Pressing Alt+"A" to open the Audio Decoder configuration dialog now opens FFDShow's Audio Decoder configuration dialog if no media is playing.
· The Advanced Option's "Show fullscreen Color Controls when values are changed through the keyboard macros" setting has been moved to "Playback / Video / Colors".
· The Advanced Option's "Audio Tags (ID3)" has been renamed to "Audio Images & Tags".
· The Advanced Option's "Enlarge folder image to fit Video Area, otherwise Center and Shrink only" setting has been moved to "Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Images & Tags".
· The Advanced Option's "Load folder image file" setting has been renamed to "Load external folder image file" and moved to "Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Images & Tags". + The "Draw Folder (Background) Image under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Audio Images & Tags" setting has been renamed to "Draw embedded background image". In addition, a fix was made so that disabling this setting, no longer disables folder images from loading.
· The Zoom In/Out functions will now display the video display resolution in a pop-up window. + All references to "Skip, Jump, Seek" functions have been replaced with "Short Seek, Medium Seek, Long Seek". + Some of the options dialog entries have been rephrased for clarity. + The default window size is now slightly bigger to account for the overall increase in resolution of entry level monitors sold today.
· Automatically restoring media volume levels from history is now disabled by default. You can re-enable these settings through the advanced options dialog.
Fixes:
· Depending on your version of windows and if UAC is enabled, the file association options dialog would show incorrect information (wrong icon, or indicate that Zoom Player was associated with the extension even if it wasn't). - CD Audio Playback was broken when used in Windows 7.
· There was a problem with Windows 7 hiding the Zoom Player tray icon even when setting the icon to always show. This was caused by the tool-tip for the icon containing the playing file name, which differs greatly between multiple files. To fix this issue, 'Zoom Player' is now displayed before the playing file name.
· Dragging the player window by clicking "Ctrl + Left mouse button" (or other configured setting) within the video area was broken in Windows Vista and Windows 7 when certain video renderer were used (VMR7/VMR9/ Haali/MadVR). Now there's a workaround in place that ensures the window is dragged to the correct location (with minor flickering at times). - The "Adv. Options / Interface / Display - Enlarge folder image to fit video area" setting now performs as expected.
· The "/OpenDrive" command line parameter did not detect Blu-Ray drives properly. - The "Prefer HD content as the main movie if the track duration is longer than (minutes)" Blu-Ray setting didn't compare the track time correctly. - The fullscreen monitor (Adv. Options / System) value would get reset if the selected monitor was no longer available (the monitor was off). The value is now preserved and if the monitor is not available, the player will go fullscreen on the primary monitor.
· When playing DVR-MS files, the "Stop" function didn't seek to the beginning of the media file.
· Pressing "R" to cycle through the aspect ratio modes no longer resizes the player window if "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio" is enabled. If you try to move or resize the window after setting the Aspect Ratio, it will snap into shape. - The right-click Open URL feature is now better adapted to opening SHOUTcast radio stations using the following format: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=[number]
· If Smart Play was disabled, Zoom Player would not use the selected Audio Renderer if the "MPC Audio Renderer" was installed and not chosen.
· When using the "Disable Smart Play for files with the following extensions" feature, the selected Audio and Video renderers weren't used, but rather windows (DirectShow) selected its own renderers. Now, you can select if you want Zoom Player or Windows to select the renderers (see above).
· Trying to play a DVD's "VIDEO_TS.IFO" file in media mode would not remove the background image before starting to play the DVD.
· You can now seek, pause and play streaming MMS content. - The Open-URL dialog was limited to 255 characters.
· The next/previous chapter and track functions can now continue to the next file in the directory when a file fails to load.
· When a custom video renderer does not support the "IBasicVideo2" interface, the Derived aspect ratio value is taken from the source video aspect ratio. - The "xvid" profile is no longer used to verify that SmartPlay is properly configured. - When using FFDShow as the Subtitle renderer, subtitles are now ordered alphabetically.
· Fixed a crash when using the FFDShow Subtitle renderer.
· Fixed a crash when trying to play MP3/FLAC/APE audio files with an embedded "BMP" album art image.
· Fixed a list index out of bounds crash when Random Play was enabled and the "On Playlist Complete" setting was not set to "Auto Replay".
· Fixed an "Out of Resources" crash when trying to set the Zoom resolution to a extremely high value (over 16384x16384, which is now the limit). - When playing audio media, the player now uses folder or embedded images as the pseudo video resolution for functions that require it (such as auto-sizing the user interface to fit the source video resolution).
· Auto-Correction of video aspect ratio is no longer applied when viewing stand alone, folder and embedded images. - Switching between audio and media modes after playing an audio file would show remnants of the TAG display in the GUI window if the audio file was closed.
· Switching Stay On Top on/off followed by pressing the "Enter" key would reload the currently playing media instead of the action assigned to the "Enter" key.
· You can now play URLs from the Play History dialog.
· You can now play URLs from the command line if Zoom Player is currently running.
· There is no longer a limit of 255 character when trying to open a URL or file from the command line while Zoom Player is currently running. - When first loading, the keyboard focus is now set to the main player user interface rather than secondary interfaces (Playlist editor, Equalizer).
· When the "On Playlist Complete" setting is set to close Zoom Player or shutdown the computer, the action is no longer performed if the options dialog is open. - When the "Auto-Play next file in the playlist" setting was disabled, pressing Play when reaching the end of a media file would not perform the "On Playlist Complete" event.
· When the "Move the Playlist Editor display to follow the currently playing media file" setting was enabled, the playlist tried to change position and follow a new item even if the new item was already visible. - When setting the screen saver mode to "Image SlideShow", re-opening the options dialog would disable the Image Directory browse button. - When switching between different screen saver modes, the mode switch would not work well if you didn't restart the player. - When a language or custom context menu script used unicode characters for sub-menus, the root menu name was not properly identified and sub-menu items did not show up. - When using a language pack, some translated window titles using unicode characters would appear as "????"
· Using the "Del" keyboard macro to delete the currently playing media now removes the entry from the file browsing navigation interface cache. - Deleting the default "Drapes" navigation skin, will now allow you to select other navigation skins when listed as the first entry in the skin selection dialog.
· Loading image files with the internal image decoder, depending on the image's apsect ratio, could display in the wrong aspect ratio if the "Auto-Fix Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content" setting was enabled. - The A-B Repeat and RingTone creation timeline highlights were not updated properly on the Control Bar's timeline. - Ejecting certain drive types would cause Zoom Player to stop the currently playing media even if the media was not on the ejected drive. - The "Open the Options Dialog on the active monitor" setting wasn't being applied to the Basic Options dialog. - When using FFDShow as the Subtitle renderer while using a video decoder other than FFDShow, combining this setup with Haali Video Renderer, would result in a pin connection error.
· Skins with no hint value for the Volume/Balance/Play Rate bars showed unrelated hint text.
· Skins with no playlist skinned would show the default onyx skin for the playlist interface with broken button transparency (red borders). - Selecting a skin or applying a skin tint from the skin selection dialog no longer causes the player window to pop over and obscure the skin selection dialog.
· Installing a Skin file would ask you to open the Skin selection dialog even if it was already open.
· Fixed the "FolderImage" skin script code function that got broken in v7. - When sorting by Size in the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces, the "Play all files in this Directory" entry was listed before the "Previous Directory" entry.
· With "Stay on Top" enabled along with "Screen-Align the Control Bar to" set to either Top or Bottom of the screen, the control bar would lose it's on-top status and would disappear if you clicked the video area or if a new media loaded.
· Performing a legacy install (where all installed files are placed in a single folder) no longer warns you of a problematic installation if UAC (User Account Control) is enabled and you installed under a directory other than the "Program Files" directory. As well as the above, the warning dialog now contains an additional checkbox to dismiss it from showing on future runs. - The main application window should now appear in Flip3D under Windows Vista and Windows 7. - With "Adv. Options / On Screen Display / Actions - Show Time Position Over Timeline" enabled, pressing Alt+F4 would close the position window rather than the player window.
June 10th, 2010· Support for Windows 7 (or newer) task bar progress button. Using the new
· Taskbar settings interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar), you can enable a progress bar that shows either the current media play position or your position within the playlist.
· Support for Windows 7 (or newer) Task lists. Using the new Taskbar tasks interface (Adv. Options / Interface / Task Bar), you can assign any standard Zoom Player function to the Task Bar button.
· Support for Windows Vista (or newer) mouse wheel left/right Tilt (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Mouse Wheel).
· You can choose between using the mouse wheel tilt for left/right navigation in menus or assign a Zoom Player function to the right and left tilt motions.
· Support for Windows Vista (or newer) AutoPlay handlers, allowing you to select Zoom Player from the Windows Control Panel AutoPlay configuration dialog. Supported auto play hanlders include CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
· The fullscreen Station navigation interface has been redesigned. All previous stations have been moved into a "Favorites" category. Beyond your favorites, you can now browse through dynamically radio genres downloaded from the internet and play stations directly.
· The Top SHOUTcast station interface has been redesigned for ease of use and now allows you to add more stations.
· You can now select FFDShow DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding for H.264 and VC1.
· There are a lot of restrictions when using DXVA. Not all video renderers may function, subtitles wont display, etc... The minimum hardware requirement is NVIDIA 8xxx series cards or ATI 4xxx series cards. For more information, visit the ffdshow development thread over at the doom9 forums : http://forum.doom9.org
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to password protect the options dialog. For additional security, the password is kept in an encrypted form.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that prevents the Zoom Player user interface from opening on a disabled (turned-off) monitor. Enabled by default, the main user interface is moved to the primary monitor when running Zoom Player on a disabled monitor.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) forcing a more aggressive Mouse Cursor hiding code. The mouse cursor should no longer pop-up even when background applications steal focus from the player.
· This setting is enabled by default. If it causes problems with your mouse cursor hiding too much, it can be disabled.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to prevent access to the main navigation interface from all other navigation interfaces.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to completely prevent access to the navigation interfaces function sub-menus.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) allowing to prevent exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Blu-Ray) allowing you to add secondary Blu-Ray movie tracks (based on their duration) to the playlist automatically (by default, 21minutes or longer).
· New function "fnResetWindows" which resets the user interface windows to their default location. This function is accessible by right-clicking the Zoom Player task-bar button.
· You can now play and associate Blu-Ray decrypted ".mpls" Playlist files. This means that multi-part Blu-Ray movies (a Blu-Ray movie composed of
· several ".M2TS" media files) can now be played as one seamless media.
November 17th, 2009· Support for APE TAG embedded folder image (PNG and JPEG image formats are supported).
· If a fullscreen navigation interface is visible, right-clicking it will show a "Close Navigator" option.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback - On Playlist Complete) allowing you to play the next file in the directory with the same file extension.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / BluRay) allowing you to specify when a detected BluRay playlist containing HD content of a specified duration will be detected as the main movie over an SD (DVD quality) of longer duration.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) allowing you to specify the subtitle synchronization adjustment value used by the subtitle synchronization functions.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar), allowing you to auto-hide the control bar after the specified number of seconds even when playback is paused.
· Fixed a video stuttering issue when using certain video renderers with Aero Desktop Composition enabled (Windows 7/Vista).
· An "ACCESS VIOLATION 00000000 READ ADDRESS 00000000" error when using the advanced playlist control has been fixed.
· Using the previous chapter function with only one chapter would go to the previous track rather than seeking to the first chapter.
· When enabling "Close on Inactivity" for the fullscreen navigation interfaces, Opening a navigation interface through the SendMessage WinAPI command would have caused the dialog to time-out and close instantly.
November 8th, 2009· Zoom Player can detect a Blu-Ray disc structure, parse the Blu-Ray playlist and automatically load the longest video in the playlist (which is assumed to be the main movie).Thanks Christophe.
· This feature can be accessed through several ways: 1. Switching to DVD Mode and pressing Play. 2. Opening the Drive (through the right-click menu). 3. Opening the BluRay folder. 4. Opening the "index.bdmv" file, which is now listedin the various file browsing dialogs.
· This feature is limited to Zoom Player Home MAX.
· The default skin's Control Bar now includes a pop-up volume window, allowing you to more accurately and easily set the volume levels while fullscreen.
· The "Remember the last Media Position" setting has now been overhauled into its own separate "History" sub-section under the "Playback" section within the advanced options dialog.
· The "Remember the last Media Position" setting has been split in two, with a setting for "Retain Media Playback History" and a setting for "Automatically restore last media position on replay". This gives more flexibility as to which aspects of playback should be restored when replaying a media file.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether the last play time and date is saved for the playing media.If disabled, the play date is not saved and the playing item will not be listed in the play history and play history navigation interfaces.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether the audio volume should be restored to its the previous level when replaying the media file.
· With this setting enabled, the audio volume level is retained for every media file played within the Playback History retention period (default is 30 days).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) which controls whether the audio volume should be restored to its the previous level when replaying audio-only files.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable Zoom Player control over FFDShow's video Sharpening values.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable Zoom Player control over FFDShow's video DeInterlacing values.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to disable VMR7's mixing mode (can fix VMR7 issues with some hardware).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) allowing you to link the 'Volume Up'/'Volume Down' functions to the Equalizer PreAmp function so when the volume level reaches 100% and you continue using the 'Volume Up' function, the Equalizer PreAmp value is increased.Clicking volume down will first reduce the PreAmp value and when the PreAmp value reaches its previous level, the volume level is reduced.Setting the volume level through other means, will reset the PreAmp value to its previous level.
· PreAmp is a digital amplifier function which can reduce audio quality if the audio recording volume is normal, but can be very useful if the original recording volume is low.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to set the player to stay on top of other applications when switching to audio mode (and restoring a normal window state after returning to media mode).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) affecting the "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution". When enabled, only the user interface height is adjusted.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to set the navigation scroll acceleration speed.After some tweaking, the default value has been sped up to "Very Fast" scrolling.The previous default value was "Average".
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to set the navigation scroll acceleration reset time in MS. The new default value is 300ms, in v6 the fixed value was 500ms.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing keyboard input to be used for Quickly Searching in many of the navigation interfaces.This setting is enabled by default.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to specify if keyboard searches are matched against the start of the line or any position in the line.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to set the keyboard input timeout (a value in MS indicating how much time should pass before the search query is reset).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / DVD / DVD Settings) that determines whether Zoom Player searches only CD devices (CD/DVD/BluRay/etc...) or all drives for content when pressing play in DVD Mode.Default is to only scan CD devices, but if you map network-shares as drives, you may want to turn this setting off.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) allowing you to select whether Zoom Player disables FFDShow subtitle rendering when DirectVobSub is used as the Preferred Subtitle Renderer. By default, FFDShow subtitle renderer is disabled when using DirectVobSub.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Colors) which allows you to select whether FFDShow should be used for software color control.
· New Function (Alt+Shift+"Z") which compensates for badly encoded widescreen (16:9) content that is encoded in fullscreen (4:3) format by Zooming 33% into the Video (and returning to the previous video position when called a second time).
· This function will also view widescreen (16:9) content as fullscreen on fullscreen (4:3) Monitors/TVs by Zooming in and cropping the left/right sides of the video.
· New Function (Ctrl+"E") allowing you to create Ring Tones by selecting a start and a stop position in many supported audio/video formats and extract the selected section in MP3/ACC formats supported by most mobile phones.
· This feature requires the FFMPEG components installed on your system (which is available through the Install Center application).
· New Function (Alt+Shift+"W") to activate the White Wash screen-burn repair directly instead of accessing the function through the patterns function.
· The File Browser, Media Library and Playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces "Select" function has been expanded to allow selecting "Select all matching multi-part files", "All Audio", "All Pictures", "All Video" and "All matching the currently highlighted file Type" (file extension).
· The File Browser and Media Library fullscreen navigation interfaces can now access a "View" function which brings up a selection of files/information to view in the file list: 1. File Size 2. File Extension 3. Subtitle files 4. Archive files
· Pressing Right with the "Add to Playlist" function highlighted in the File Browser or Media Library fullscreen navigation interfaces will now take you to the Playlist navigation.Pressing left from the playlist navigator will take you back to the original navigation interface (either file browser or media library).
· New "Go to top of list" fullscreen navigation function (Applies to the Playlist, File Browser and Media Library interfaces).
· The Advanced Playlist Control interface has been redesigned to be more intuitive.
· The Play History fullscreen navigation interface implements a new function interface (accessible by clicking right).The functions are: 1. EraseCompletely erase the selected item. 2. HideHide the selected item, but keep media informationto maintain functionality (Last media position, volume). 3. Go to top of listMoves the focus to the top of the history list.
· Right-Clicking the Equalizer's bars will now reset each bar clicked to its default value.
· Hovering the mouse cursor over an Equalizer bar now shows its exact value.
· New "/WinName" command line parameter allowing you to set the Zoom Player Window Name.
· For example: zplayer.exe "/winname:ZoomPlayer2"
· New File Association and Smart Play profiles for the MOD/TOD/MTS camcorder file extensions. (MOD = MPEG2 Program, TOD/MTS = MPEG2 Transport Stream).
· Sadly, when JVC, Panasonic and Canon came up with the ".MOD" file extension, they didn't take into account its existing use as an Audio Tracker format.Due to this, ".MOD" extension is no longer associated with the MOD Audio Tracker format.You can change this default behavior by modifying Zoom Player's Smart Play profiles.
· Zoom Player will now save FFDShow's color control values in Zoom Player's media definition files (".df" file extension).
· New "VolumeWindow" Skin Script code, allowing you skin the new pop-up volume bar associated with the "fnVolumeWindow" function.
· Smart Play profile support for the latest DivX filters: MPEG4.ASP (DIVX/XVID) MPEG4.AVC (H.264) AAC Audio MKV Splitter
· You can now choose from three screen saver modes: 1. Plasma Cloud CGI. 2. Image Slideshow 3. Blank power-saving ode.
· The default video renderer has been changed to VMR9 Windowless for Windows XP and EVR for Windows 7/Vista.
· Scroll Acceleration is now active system-wide in all fullscreen navigation interfaces (where appropriate), making navigation faster and easier using remote devices and keyboards.
· The media library fullscreen navigation interface now remembers the sorting order for each category independently.
· The DirectShow filter registration options dialog feature (Adv. Options / System / Filter Management) has been rewritten to support configuration of popular DirectShow filters directly from the options dialog.Older unused filter profiles were removed and new updated profiles have been added.
· You can now used Keyboard input with the GoTo navigation dialog to directly set the GoTo time.This requires that Keyboard Input for navigation be enabled.
· Improved Screen Saver image selection randomness.No image will appear twice until all images were displayed first, even after the screen saver restarts.
· Pressing PgDn/PgUp to play the next/previous media file in the same directory now works even after erasing the currently playing file, making it much easier to browse through a media or image collection to erase unwanted files.
· Using the Next/Previous playlist track with random play enabled and only one file in the playlist no longer plays the same file again, but rather plays the next file in the directory.
· The Advanced Options "Fullscreen Navigation" pages have been moved under the "Interface" section (previously it was within the "On Screen Display" section).
· By default, the Media Library Filter Selection fullscreen navigation page will no longer appear when pressing Left on the Media Library category page (user-selectable through the options dialog).
· The "Windows Media Video" Smart Play profile has been split into two distinct profiles: 1. Windows Media Video (used in WMV files) 2. VC1 (used in BluRay discs)
· For clarity, the "Auto Segment Load" feature has been renamed "Multi Part file loader".
· For clarity, the Multi Part file loader's "Segment Script" setting has been renamed "Name Masking" .
· The "Multi Part file loader" feature has been disabled by default due to user confusion over files being added to the playlist automatically. You can re-enable this feature through the options dialog.
· Pressing the ESC key with a fullscreen navigation interface enabled and secondary monitors are blanked will now remove the blanking first (In previous versions, the navigation interface was closed first).
· Pressing the ESC key in the options dialog is now treated as if the Cancel button is clicked.
· Frame Capture (Alt+"F") now works with the EVR video renderer.
· Starting the screen saver from the main fullscreen navigation interface no longer pauses if an audio file is being played (only pause on video file).
· To maintain backward compatibility, the Zoom Player chapter (bookmark) file extension has changed from ".chp" to ".zpchp". Zoom Player will still look for the ".chp" file when the newer format file doesn't exist.
· Closing multiple player instances at once with Zoom Player set to save its setting to a local file could cause the settings file to corrupt.
· A bug in the ID3v1 parser caused playlists containing audio files with ID3v1 tags not to save/load properly if the ID3v1 TAG contained in the audio file was semi-corrupt.
· Opening the options dialog through a skin button while a new audio file starts playing and the skin automatically changes to audio mode would cause a "not enough timers" crash.
· The "Default media open path" (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Paths) used by the standard open dialog and the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface can now accept network paths. For network paths to work with the file navigator, you must add the path under as an "Additional File Nav path" (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation).
· Chapters are now time based rather than frame based as different components (filters/renderers) would report different frame rates for the same media file, causing chapter files created with one set of filters playing invalid when using a different set of filters.
· Adding/Removing audio devices (such as a Skype Phone which acts as a speaker device), will no longer change the audio device settings Zoom Player uses.If you insert a new audio device while Zoom Player is already running, opening the options dialog or restarting the player is required.
· Zoom Player no longer requires "wmvcore.dll" on the system to run. (it may be required for WMV playback, depending on your setup).
· The Adjust Image fullscreen navigation interface lost the H-SIZE/V-SIZE values.They are now back.
· Fixed a crash when trying to open a DVD title over a network path.
· Fixed a rare crash when trying to show the Control Panel while the media library navigation interface is opening.
· The eMule File Tracker did not work with files between 2 and 4gb.
· The uTorrent File Tracker did not work if the Torrent folder and the torrent file name used the same name.
· The FFDShow Subtitle Renderer would sometimes display subtitles from previously played videos.
· Selecting files in the file Browser and Media Library fullscreen navigation interface and adding them to the playlist now adds them in the correct sorting order and doesn't re-sort the original list.
· Fixed a bug introduced in v7 RC1 which caused a "list index out of bounds" error when Random Play was enabled while only having one file in the playlist.
· Using the Quick Search function on the File Browser and Media Library fullscreen navigation interfaces with a directory containing a low number of files would previously show a blank screen.
· The "Play all files in this directory" navigation function would not appear if there was only one directory listed.Applies to both the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· Using the Quick Search function in a directory containing 1000's of files could cause the file names to be cut short.
· You can no longer set image-blanking values greater than the video size.
· Pressing Enter after closing the options dialog could cause a play command to be issued (instead of the assigned function).
· The internal screen saver will no longer activate when the White Wash pattern is in use.
· If "On Playlist Compelete" was set to "Do Nothing" and the video renderer was set as EVR, reaching a media's end would result in the video disappearing.
· The Filter Profiles list (Adv. Option / System / Filter Management) would not list any filters when doing a Standard install.
· Transparent buttons on the control bar would lose their transparency region under certain conditions.
July 6th, 2009· Enhanced Audio TAG Support & Display
· Mini Web-Server remote control
· Enhanced Image Post Processing (Sharpening, DeInterlacing, etc...)
· Enhanced QuickTime v7 support
· Improved MMS/RTSP streaming
· Enhanced Subtitle display flexibility
August 13th, 2007· Zoom Player can now communicate with uTorrent's Web UI interface in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on this page for additional information.
· Zoom Player can now keep track with eMule's temporary files directory in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on this page for additional information.
· New "Download Manager" navigation interface (Ctrl "J"), allowing you to get an overview of your currently downloading files (compatible with eMule and uTorrent).
· The Scene Cut editor has been simplified and enhanced. The Scene cut editor no longer requires you to click on the save button, saving is done automatically now. A new edit button allows you to edit entries without having to remove an old entry first. Lastly, the scene cut interface layout has been updated to make it simpler to use.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Video / Aspect Ratio) instructing Zoom Player "Derived" Aspect Ratio mode to Automatically Adjust (fix) the Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content. This would convert 4:3 content encoded as 720x480 to display as 720x540, 720x576 to 768x576, 352x240 to 352x264, 352x288 to 384x288, etc... Badly encoded 16:9 content is also adjusted in a similar fashion. This setting also fixes small aspect ratio inaccuracies caused by a requirement made by video encoders for the video pixel width or height to be dividable by 16 (or 8 or 4).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to skip the "Library Filter Mode" page. With this setting enabled, navigating left on the media library category list will go straight to the Main navigation menu.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to disable the delete key from erasing the currently playing file.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Paths) allowing you to select the Frame Capture (screenshot) format. BMP, PNG and JPEG are supported.
· The Zoom Player function selection dialog is now split into three categories: Content, Interface and Control. The function list is also sorted, making functions easier to find.
· New "IconScale" parmeter for the "ListData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to set the size of list line icons relative to the size of the line height.
· New "ProgressColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation Skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used when displaying download progress within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathExtraColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the extra path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathExtraOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the path extra text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "ConfirmColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
· New "ConfirmOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
· New Vista specific feature allowing you to make the entire Zoom Player window semi-transparent. This also requires that you use a video renderer that would work (Haali's/VMR9/EVR) and that VISTA Aero is enabled. To use: Alt Ctrl F4 = Fully visible window / Alt Ctrl F5 = 80% visiblity / Alt Ctrl F6 = 60% visiblity / Alt Ctrl F7 = 40% visiblity. You can also specify exact transparency values using the new "exTransWin" extended function.
· New "exTransWin" extended function, allowing you to specify a transparency value (1-255) for the Zoom Player window. This function requires Windows VISTA with Aero enabled.
· The default Audio mode skin now has a wider volume bar and includes a new button that opens the statio manager.
· The Control Bar and OSD Pop-ups are now accessible even when the player window is set to "Stay on Top".
· Pressing stop twice was set to resume playback from the position prior to the stop function being called. This wasn't too clear so now a "Resume" OSD message pops up.
· Newly supported file extensions: M4B, HDMOV.
· The Navigation interfaces should work slightly faster, especially in situations where more complex navigation skins are used (skins with large transparency effects).
· The skin selection interface behavior has been changed slightly. In order to apply a custom tint, you must now click the Apply Tint button.
· The skin selection interface is now sorted alphabetically.
· The Frame Capture Alt "F" (screenshot) function should now work in all video renderers except Overlay Mixer, VMR9 Renderless (VMR9 Windowed and Windowles should work) and EVR.
· Function descriptions have changed to make them easier to Read, Understand and Search.
· The Girder Exported commands are now sorted and split into categories, making it easier to program remote devices and home automation systems.
· Mouse left click while holding the Alt key now zooms in 10% instead of 50% (which wasn't as useful).
· Ctrl "C" now enables/disables closed captioning when used by media files (it was previously limited to DVDs).
· With some file formats, the playlist would not update the total playlist duration properly.
· Enabling the "Show Time Seek Position Over Timeline" feature would cause the Zoom Player window to become the top-most window if the mouse cursor hovered over the timeline.
· Trying to open the Options dialog with the main window set to "Stay on Top" and Zoom Player set to only show an icon on the tray area would cause the options dialog to appear behind the main window.
· Monitor Powerdown will no longer be disabled when playing in windowed mode (Powerdown will only be disabled when fullscreen).
· Detaching the control bar would not snap its position to the previously saved detached position under some conditions.
· Trying to play streaming content while in DVD Mode would not switch to media mode automatically and then fail to play.
· The Context Navigator did not use the scripting parameters assigned to it correctly.
· The Contact Sheet creation form didn't allow you to select the contact sheet color values.
· Some navigation interface titles could not be translated into other languages.
· The "exSetMode" function would not switch modes properly under some conditions.
· Switching between Media/DVD/Audio mode could result in an Audio mode skin loaded in DVD mode.
· The "Scrollbar Highlight" color for forced Playlist colors was not being saved properly.
· If the internal screen saver got activated with the open file dialog already open, it could cause Zoom Player to become non-responsive.
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