Zoom Player MAX Changelog

What's new in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 6

Apr 13, 2024

New :
Added support for the new H.266 VVC (Versatile Video Codec) format. LAV Filters v0.79 is required for decoding.
Please note that VCC support is experimental and not fully optimized. To properly support VCC in resolutions above 1080p would require hardware accelerated decoding which is not currently supported by any GPU or CPU.
Added Equalizer and Pre-Amp support for the libVLC media engine, please note that the values work a bit differently when compared to the DirectShow Equalizer values.
Preferred Audio Device switching (Shift+"A") now works with libVLC. You can define you preferred devices in the advanced options dialog's libVLC section.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that allows you to play the next media file in the same folder when using the Del key to erase the currently playing media (or using the home theater delete option). You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) that allows to force the OSD Actions (Play, Pause, Volume, etc) to appear on a monitor of your choice. You can see me code this feature here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
To support IPTV providers that require a specific user agent text to access automated downloads, you can now set a custom User Agent for each IPTV auto update entry (for both playlists and EPGs downloads).
New "Configure" button next to the Video Renderer selection drop-down list (Adv. Options / Playback / Video).
New "exMediaVidRender" extended function that allows you to switch the media video renderer at any point. As an extended function, this functionality can be accessed through the command line or TCP/IP APIs. You can see me code this feature here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3FmIi8crI
Selecting a URL based IPTV playlist or EPG entry in the options dialog, now displays the full text in a hover-hint.
Change :
+ Using Zoom Player to browse the web (for example, using the "/browse" command line parameter) now uses Microsoft's Chromium based WebView2 browser engine and only falls back to the old Chakra engine is WebView2 is not installed (available on the install center, comes preinstalled in Windows 11). You can see me code this feature here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
Fixes :
The Play History editor and fullscreen navigation interface can now re-play files with a path longer than 255 characters.
The playlist entries in the IPTV stream list drop-down would get duplicated after updated playlists were downloaded in the background.
Pressing Alt+S to bring up the subtitle component's configuration dialog did not show the correct window title in some cases.
Pressing Shift+"B" to disable the subtitles caused the subtitles to remain enabled when reloading the media, even if the setting to restore the previous subtitle track was enabled in the advanced options dialog. You can see me fix this code here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2QS5gd4VU
Fixed a really weird stability issue with the IPTV window that could have caused a freeze when trying to close the window and stream logos to never appear.
Detaching the control bar, moving it to another monitor and then hovering with the mouse pointer over the timeline area would show the current position indicator window on the wrong monitor.
With the "Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting enabled, the right-click's "Stream Selection" section would show a small cosmetic glitch (an empty section).
Setting the YouTube Channel media library plugin's "channel list strategy" to "Use 'upload' playlist" did not list the videos returned by YouTube in the correct air date order and the air date was not displayed at all.

New in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 5 (Mar 14, 2024)

New in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 4 (Feb 23, 2024)

New in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 3 (Feb 12, 2024)

New in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 2 (Feb 12, 2024)

New:
Running Zoom Player on a fresh install will now asks if you would like to enable "Performance Mode".
Choosing "Yes" does two things:
Enables D3D11 hardware accelerated video decoding in LAV Filters, a requirement for smooth 4K video playback.
Sets the Video Renderer to MadVR, enabling HDR video support, high quality video scaling, hardware accelerated subtitle rendering and smoother motion. Both settings can be modified in the advanced options dialog: Adv. Options / Playback / Video
A new "Help" section has been added to the right-click menu. The new help section can quickly bring up the keyboard shortcut list or quick usage guides for many of Zoom Player's popular interfaces.
New keyboard macros to toggle libVLC playback:
Alt+"6" - Toggle libVLC IPTV playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"7" - Toggle libVLC BluRay playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"8" - Toggle libVLC Media file playback (enabled/disabled)
Alt+"9" - Toggle libVLC Streaming playback (enabled/disabled)
These toggles still require that you re-open the playing media to take affect.
The right-click menu has been extended with a new "Help" section.
The help section provides quick access to the keyboard shortcut list and quick usage guides for most of Zoom Player's interfaces.
The Play History dialog (Alt+"H") has gotten a face-lift, an option whether to clear the playlist when playing from history, a button that automatically sets the column sizes based on the current window size and you can drag the play history window with the mouse by clicking in any empty space.
New "/infojson" command line parameter that can be used to query a running instance of Zoom Player for information. The results are returned in the windows clipboard as a UTF8 encoded JSON string. This feature can be used in combination with Window's Powershell to monitor and control Zoom Player entirely through the command line,
without requiring a TCP/IP connection to access the more advanced API.
Special characters are encoding using standard JSON character encoding. If no additional parameters are specified, all fields are returned. To get specific results, you can use a combination of one or more of the following:
PlayState - A number representing the current play state where
0 : Closed
1 : Stopped
2 : Paused
3 : Playing
MediaName - UTF8 string containing the playing file name or URL.
Title - UTF8 string containing the playing media's title.
Position - The playing position in seconds.
Duration - The playing duration in seconds.
PlayIndex - The current playlist play index.
Playlist - UTF8 string containing the current playlist, each media
entry is specified as a part of a JSON array.
AudTrack - The current audio track number.
SubTrack - The current subtitle track number.
Example to get the playing media name, title, duration and position: zplayer.exe /infojson:MediaName,Title,Duration,Position
Change:
The keyboard shortcuts list (F1 keyboard shortcut) is now a single dialog which opens much faster and is no longer a part of the options dialog which takes longer to open.
The "Toggle Control Bar" right-click menu option has been re-located to the menu's root level.
If the playing media has only one audio track, it will no longer be listed in the Stream Selection section of the right-click menu.
If MadVR is selected as the Video Renderer without being installed Zoom Player now notifies you and falls back to the EVR renderer.
Fixes:
A bug caused some information dialogs to show the information in the window's title and the actual title in the windows body.
Fixed several libVLC related bugs, if you're still seeing issues, please let me know on Zoom Player's Community

New in Zoom Player MAX 19.0.0 Beta 1 (Jan 10, 2024)

Zoom Player has integrated libVLC, the media engine used by the VLC media player. This integrating means that several new features that were unique to VLC are now available in Zoom Player, leveraging the reliability of VLC with Zoom Player's powerful and customizable user interface.
In theory, Zoom Player's default choice of Microsoft's DirectShow media engine is superior to libVLC in a lot of ways. DirectShow is a lower-level, allowing me to develop unique features that are impossible to do with libVLC. At the same time and due to it's complexity, there may be cases where libVLC can be more reliable than DirectShow.
By default only BluRay discs play using libVLC due to libVLC's support for playing BluRay discs with menus. However, since this is Zoom Player you're reading about, the ultimate choice of which engine to use is up to you!
You can enable libVLC specifically for BluRay discs, IPTV streaming, media playback (by file extension) and open-ended streaming (by URL, for example "youtube") under the new advanced options section (Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC).
To use libVLC you must either install the latest version of the 32bit VLC player or install libVLC from the install center (it does not conflict with existing VLC installations).
Most Zoom Player features are compatible with the new media engine: BluRay Playback with Menus! Enabled by default, opening a drive, folder or the "index.bdmv" file begins BluRay playback. Menus are navigated using the standard navigation keys (up/down/left/right Arrows + Enter keys). The same limitation that apply to playing BluRay discs in VLC applies when using the libVLC media engine in Zoom Player, along with any glitches. This means that you must have Java installed for the BluRay menus to work and that playing encrypted discs will not work by default. As for the glitches, I encountered cases where 4K BluRay videos can freeze and verified that the same issue happens in the original VLC player.
Aspect Ratio Controls:
Zoom Player's powerful aspect ratio controls are fully supported.
Subtitle Display:
Other than re-positioning the subtitles on-screen, most of Zoom Player subtitle features should work great with libVLC.
Add Subtitle Track on Drag & Drop / Add Sub file:
You can easily add subtitle files by drag & dropping files on Zoom Player's window or by opening a subtitle file after the video is loaded.
Subtitle Synchronization Adjustments:
You can adjust subtitle synchronization through the standard keyboard macros (Alt+Ctrl+"+" and Alt+Ctrl+"-" on the keypad).
Color Controls:
Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue color controls are available.
Audio Framework Device Selection:
libVLC is pretty flexible in it's audio device selection offering three different frameworks (MMDevice, DirectSound and WaveOut). Zoom Player makes it easy to choose the framework that works best for your PC.
Audio Track Selection & Cycle:
Easily select and cycle between multiple audio tracks.
Audio Synchronization Adjustments:
You can adjust audio synchronization using the standard keyboard macros Shift+"+" and Shift+"-" on the keypad).
Virtual Video Editing with BluRay Movies with Menus:
The scene cut feature that allows you to virtually edit videos should now be compatible with BluRay titles with Menus when using libVLC. However, this feature has not been heavily tested so please let me know on reddit if it's not working as expected.
Play History (position, audio track, subtitle track):
Zoom Player's play history feature which can save and restore the last play position, active audio, subtitle tracks and more is fully compatible.
Play Rates (fast play, slow motion):
Fast Play and Slow Motion might even work on more media formats than supported by DirectShow, give it a try.
Load Embedded Chapters (Bookmarks):
Using libVLC, Zoom Player can read embedded chapters or bookmarks from both media files and BluRay titles.
Load External Audio Tracks for playing video:
Full support for one or more external audio tracks.
Play Next Frame:
The next frame feature is fully supported.
Screenshot:
The screenshot keyboard macro (Alt+"F") is fully compatible with libVLC with the exception that the screenshot file format is limited to ".png".
And since this is just a beta, there's more to come!
New "Pause closes unseekable live stream (otherwise ignored)" setting that controls if Zoom Player closes a live stream when pausing or if the pause is ignored.
Previously the hard-coded default was to close the stream, the new configurable) default is to ignore the pause command.
New button on the IPTV interface to quickly open the IPTV settings page in the advanced options dialog.
Change :
To support chapters (bookmarks) using the VLC Media Engine, I had to rewrite nearly all of Zoom Player's code related to managing chapters.
Please let me know if something broke. As a bonus, you can now use emojis and other special Unicode characters in the chapter names.
Media chapters with no titles will now show a "no title" title.
The IPTV stream list group layout (open/close) is now saved and restored even after closing Zoom Player.
The Custom Action button's hint when hovering with the mouse now lists the assigned function and not just a general "Custom Action".
Cleaned up a few of the advanced options dialog pages.
Fixes :
Trying to switch to the next audio track no longer tries to set an audio track if there is only one track present (caused muted audio for a second or two).
Failing to play an IPTV stream will no longer highlight that stream as the active stream.
You should no longer be able to erase embedded chapter entries it didn't really do anything).
Fixed all sorts of goofs that were possible through the chapter editor.

New in Zoom Player MAX 18.0.0 (Dec 20, 2023)

A completely new IPTV (streaming live TV and VOD) interface (AdvOptions / Playback / IPTV) with support for:
Stream list with Channel Logo and filtering.
An Electronic Program Guide with live-highlighting and filtering.
Automated downloading of Stream Lists and EPGs (every "x" days)
in raw XML/M3U formats or in zip/gz archives.
Smart Stream Grouping.
Archive (VoD) playback support.
Create easily accessible "Favorite" channels.
Time-shift the EPG to ensure it matches your current time zone.
Set a reminder to view programs directly from the EPG.
Set a reminder to automatically play a program's stream right before it airs.
A "Safe Mode" to prevent kids from altering favorites, hiding groups or time-shifting the EPG
Hiding unwanted Groups.
Hiding old EPG entries.
Merging channel information from multiple EPG files.
Extracting a Chanel's logo from either the M3U playlist or XML EPG.
Matching M3U channel with EPG information based on both ID and Name.
Any many settings to customize how IPTV dialog looks and behaves:
Full customization of colors and font sizes used to display the Stream List and Electronic Program Guide.
Disable Stream Grouping (show every stream in one list).
Selecting the number of program description lines to show in the EPG.
Selecting the Stream List logo size.
Increasing the Stream List font size along with logo size.
Alphabetically sort the Stream List.
A button to toggle the EPG display on/off.
A button to toggle IPTV window transparency on/off.
A setting to keep the IPTV window on-top while in fullscreen mode.
A setting to control the size ratio between the Stream list and EPG.
You can open the IPTV interface using the "Ctrl+G" keyboard macro or through the right-click menu, under the "Open Interface" sub-menu.
Opening the IPTV interface for the first time now offers you the option to automatically download free, child-friendly, publicly available IPTV channels from around the world through the Free-TV project: https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV
New "Custom Action" button on the main window (near the top-left) that allows you to set any standard Zoom Player function to the button.
By default this button opens the new IPTV interface.
This feature has been requested by manyThe ability to scale Zoom Player's skinned windows to make them easier to use on
K and 8K displays:
New Setting (AdvOptions / System) that allows you to resize the current windowed skin by 200-800%Please note that this
setting may not work well with some older Zoom Player skins.
You can now easily multiply Zoom Player's windowed skin resolution from the skin selection dialog (press "N" to open) to better match Zoom Player's skin to your monitor's resolution.
New Wakeup on LAN feature (AdvOptions / System) that allows you to turn on PCsThis feature is extremely useful when using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices as your source for the media and you only want to turn them on when using Zoom Player.
With this new feature, you can specify multiple MAC addresses to wake several PCs and you can trigger the wake-up action with a choice of conditions such as:
When starting Zoom Player
When opening the Media Library
When opening the File Navigator
If there are other use-cases where you would want Zoom Player to wake-up remote PCs, let me know.
New Setting (AdvOptions / Interface) that allows you to assign a function to the new "Custom Action" button.
New setting (enabled by default) to automatically hide the control bar when clicking the video area, making it much easier to quickly hide the control bar.
You can now edit the last play time and date directly from the media library meta-data editor.
New Setting (AdvOptions / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that allows you to control whether the timeline displays the current playlist track number.
You can also toggle this setting through the control bar menu by right-clicking the timeline with nothing playing (or middle-clicking if something is playing).
Two new settings (AdvOptions / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that allow you to override the poster image and backdrop for Movies and TV show categories.
The backdrop setting is an easy override, just place a "backdrop.jpg" or "fanart.jpg" in the same folder and Zoom Player will use it automatically.
Updating a movie poster image requires you enable the "Do not use scraped image as thumbnail / backdrop" setting for each of the media library's TV or Movie categories, otherwise the poster image will still use the scraped image (due to image-caching maintaining a copy of the old image) and then re-scrape the movie folder.
New Setting (AdvOptions / Interface / Playlist) to prevent embedded playlists (playlist files within playlist files) from loading when Zoom Player loads a playlistThis setting is enabled by default as embedded playlist can lead to unfortunate infinite-loops cases and other stability problems.
New Setting (AdvOptions / Interface) to control whether text that has no room to display fully starts scrollingCurrently this only applies to the main window's title text.
The Advanced Playlist Control interface is now accessible through the right-click menu under the "Open Interface" section.
On a clean install, Zoom Player now multiplies the skin resolution based on your screen's resolution200% for 4K skins and 400% for 8K screens.
+ Redesigned the media library category editor layoutHopefully it's clearer and easier to work with.
+ The playlist editor's search feature has been enhanced to support repeated searchSimply press Enter to cycle between all entries that contain the searched term.
+ Zoom Player's title text now scrolls if there is no room to show the entire text (can be disabled in the options).
+ Playing media from the Advanced Playlist Control now ensures the newly played item is visible in the Playlist Editor.
+ The Station Manager window now has an "X" in the corner to close the window (previously you had to click the "close" button).
+ Pressing ESC with the player window in focus now closes the IPTV interface window.
+ Pressing ESC now closes the "Patterns" interface instead of having to cycle through every pattern.
Trying to play a video with an external audio track, for example: "myvideo.mkv" and "myvideo.mp3" in the same folder with the "Load External Audio tracks" setting enabled, resulted in a lot of instability.
I rewrote the whole interface and now it's much more stablePlease note that this feature also requires Zoom Player's DSP filter to be enabled (AdvOptions / Playback / Audio - Enable Internal DSP Filter).
Filtering the media library by Genre stopped working.
Using unicode characters in the ISO Auto-Mount command would not save the path properly after restarting Zoom Player.
The Advanced Options "System Sounds" and "Audio" sections did not scroll smoothly when using the scroll bar.
In the media library's category editor, specifying a category name containing unicode characters would not highlight the entry in the category list after clicking.
Media Title containing certain unicode characters (e.gemoji) did not show when loading some playlist formats (m3u, asx, b4s, wpl).
The Media Libary's category editor's "Playlist" category option did not display categories correctly if they had certain unicode characters in the name (e.gEmojis).
Loading M3U playlists containing links to other M3U playlists, no longer tries to insert the embedded playlists as part of the loaded playlists, which can cause many unforeseen issues.
Loading some M3U playlists in the playlist editor did not always show the media's title.
Under some conditions, the "Add Folder to Category" and "Remove Folder" buttons in the media library category editor were enabled for Plugin based categories which would have allowed you to mess up these categories if you were not careful.
When adding a new plugin based Media Library category, you can no longer add duplicate entries even after renaming the category.
In the media library category editor, you could press the "Remove Folder" button when selecting the "Folders:" entry instead of an actual folder.
Right clicking a history entry and selecting "copy" in the playback history interface returned a jumble result when copying links.
Trying to use Ctrl+V to paste a search term into the playlist editor's search field would result in "????" when trying to paste unicode characters or emoji.
Playing an entry from the Advanced Playlist Control interface no longer loses the entry's selection.
The Playlist Editor's search box did not support unicode characters.
Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to freeze when trying to play YouTube URLs containing a space character after the URL.
The Playlist Editor's "Load Playlist" feature accidentally listed media files instead of playlists by default.
The Folder Browser dialog should no longer appear partially off-screen or hidden by the task bar.
Under some conditions, the play history fullscreen navigation interface could show a value of "00:00:-1" for the last play position.
When using a non-default font, the play history fullscreen navigation interface's last play position could mess with the alignment of the file/url.
IPTV Logo caching from EPG files did not work properly for some entries based solely on channel name.
Playing too many broken URLs or files is sequence could have resulted in play history entries being generated even though nothing was played.
Reduced the chances of showing IPTV EPG information for the wrong channel when using badly crafted playlist or EPG sources.

New in Zoom Player MAX 18.0.0 Beta 5 (Oct 4, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 18.0.0 Beta 4 (Sep 27, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 18.0.0 Beta 3 (Sep 20, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.5.0 Beta 1 (Aug 31, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.2.0 (Jul 12, 2023)

The Media Library category editor has been redesigned for clarity and ease of use
The Media Library category editor can now be used to select and re-order multiple categories in one click, making it much easier and faster to re-order categories
The Media Library category editor has been extended with a "Move top" and "Move bottom" buttons to more easily arrange your category listing
New "Sort by Runtime" media library feature. In TV categories it sorts by the number of episodes in a folder and in Movie categories it sorts by the Movie's specified Runtime (not the media's duration which may include additional content such as credits)
New "Resume Playback" media library feature that's accessible from the media library's functions page and the media library's mini-menu
Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
Resume playback looks for the first unwatched media in the folder and then resumes playback from that media
If no media from the folder has been previously played, it will play the first media in the folder (in alphabetical order by Title or File name)
If the last played media in the folder is over the "Consider media as watched" percentage threshold, the next media will play in alphabetical order by title (if previously scraped), otherwise by file name
New "Filter by Star Rating" media library feature
Filtering by Star Rating allows you to filter TV and Movie categories based on the media's Star Rating
You can easily customize each media's star rating to your own personal value using the integrated metadata editor, accessible by right-clicking a media's thumbnail or through the media library's functions page
New "Filter by Content Rating" media library feature
Filtering by Content Rating allows you to filter TV and Movie categories based on the MPAA rating assigned to the TV Show or Movie, for example "PG-13" or "TV-MA"
New "Hide Mouse Cursor in Windowed mode" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Setting) that allows the mouse cursor to auto-hide even when playing in a window (disabled by default)
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that adds a delay before connecting the Audio Renderer
This delay can help avoid audio connection errors when dealing with external Receiver/Amp that require a few seconds to initialize their audio interface after changing video resolution or refresh rate
Added support for new YouTube URL format when adding YouTube channels as media library categories
Support for a new YouTube LIVE URL structure, usually used when sharing a video the YouTube mobible app
Double-clicking a TV show thumbnail in the media library's TV Jukebox mode will now play the episode
New "Edit Last Played" option added to the windowed play history's right-click menu, allowing you to manually edit the "Last Played" field without actually playing the media
You can now reorder the Available Tags and Collections in the media library's cached metadata editor
Zoom Player no longer requires "freeimage.dll" to load. The library which is used to display the ".WEBP" image format is now loaded dynamically as-needed, saving a bit of RAM while allowing Zoom Player to start slightly faster
The media library's unplayed media counter will now adjust the background box size if the unwatched media counter is 3 digits or more
Fixed a bug that prevented the media library's right/left bump actions from working after a PC was not reset for over a month
Some information was not displayed correctly in the media library for YouTube channels containing the "|" character in their channel name video names or video description
Fixed a bug causing ".df" definition files not to save properly when playing from shared network paths (e.g. "\my_servershared_foldermedia.mkv")
Wrote a work-around for a bug in Media Portal's TS File Reader filter to prevent Zoom Player from freezing on re-play
The bug prevents ZP from seeking to 0 and re-playing by returning invalid media position values, requiring the media to be fully reloaded
Under some conditions, the media library's filter function would not highlight any of the available filtering options and would draw the scrollbar widget in the wrong position
Under some conditions, the media library's filter function would not bring the active filtering mode into view
Fixed an issue in the Media Library filtering function that would allow entries with a similar enough Collection/Tag to the active filter to be listed

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.2.0 RC 1 (Jun 21, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.2.0 Beta 3 (Apr 27, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.2.0 Beta 2 (Apr 11, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.2.0 Beta 1 (Mar 15, 2023)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.1.0 (Nov 9, 2022)

New "Display unwatched counter on TV Show category folders" setting
Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumbnail Cust.) that counts the number of unwatched episodes in "TV Show" categories and displays the count in a corner on the folder's thumbnail.
Full customization for the TV Show unwatched counter:
1. Size (relative to thumbnail)
2. Margins (relative to Size)
3. Font Color
4. Background Color
New "Display thumbnail season progression bar" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumbnail Cust.) that shows a season progression bar (similar to the last play position bar) in
TV Show category based on the number of watched/unwatched episodes in a folder.
New "Reset" option in each individual media library filtering mode Genre, Tag and Collection).
Two new Pixel Shader scripts you can use with MadVR as the video renderer to flip the video both horizontally and vertically.
Filtering the media library will now reset the selected entry to the first item, unless the "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on
entering a folder" setting is enabled, in which case the last viewed file or folder is selected automatically.
If you previously used a download tracking plugin, you must now re-enable it. Plugins were previously enabled by default which could have caused delays when exiting Zoom Player.
Having ZP set to automatically show the media library when opening will no longer show the media library if a media was set to load using the command line.
Zoom Player will no longer display the default background image if a media is set to load via command line, removing the slight flicker of the image and slightly speeding up load time.
Setting Zoom Player to pre-load fullscreen navigation graphics while trying to play a media from command line could cause ZP to freeze.
When taking a screenshot of the playing video (Alt+F), the generated filename included a wrong position value (just the file name, the image was taken from the correct position).
The "Stop function closes streaming media (instead of just stopping)" setting was accidentally applied to every playing media and not only live streams.
Fixed a bug that would break URL links in the active playlist when closing and then re-opening Zoom Player.

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.1 Beta 2 (Sep 26, 2022)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.1 Beta 1 (Sep 26, 2022)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17 Build 1700 (Jun 24, 2022)

New metadata editor accessible by right-clicking TV and Movie entries in the media library (also available through the functions page and as a mini-menu option). The metadata editor allows you to replace thumbnails and backdrops along with editing the Title, Sort Title, Release date, Rating, Overview, Genre, Tags and Collections.
New media library filtering by Genre, Tags and Collections. Accessible through the functions menu or by clicking the new "funnel shape" filter icon in the path area. Your filtering choice is remembered on a per-category basis and is stored across sessions even after exiting Zoom Player).
New "Sort by Release Date" media library sort option (Only works on scraped media [TV & Movies]).
New "Sort by Play Date" media library sort option to sort your categories by the most recently played files (or folders containing files that have been played).
New "Sort by Sort Title" media library sort option (Only works on scraped media [TV & Movies]). This sorting mode allows you to use the meta-data editor to specify an "invisible" custom title that Zoom Player will use for sorting while still displaying the original title.
When no sorting title is specified, Zoom Player automatically uses the media's title (if one exists) or file name.
New "Sort by Star Rating" media library sort option (Only works on scraped media [TV & Movies]). Initially populated with scraped data, you can adjust the Movie/TV Show's star rating using the metadata editor.
The media library mini-menu has been extended with two new functions you can select : "Filter list" and "Edit metadata".
The mouse's backward and forward button can now be assigned custom functionality when a navigation interface is visible.
New ".ISO" drive mounting and playback settings to help automate the process of mounting ISO images and playing their content. An external mounting tool (such as Virtual CloneDrive) is required.
Accessible under "Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions." Please note that with this change, it is no longer possible to extract and play ISO files as if they were archives.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the web engine used to render the YouTube IFRAME player, either the old Edge Chakra engine or the newer (and much better quality) Edge Chromium. Please note that that Edge Chromium requires the WebView2 component installed. WebView2 comes pre-installed in Windows 11 and is an optional download for Windows 10.
The WebView2 component is available for download directly from Microsoft or using Zoom Player's install center application.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether filtering lists in the media library can use multiple parameters (e.g. "Genre" and "Tag") at the same time.
YouTube kids URLs should now work with the IFRAME player.
Added support for YouTube Shorts URL parsing and playback
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically hide the Playlist editor when entering fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) that limits the "next subtitle" feature to specified languages. For example to limit the subtitle tracks to Spanish, English and Directory Commentary, you only need to specify "spa;eng;dir" and any subtitle track not containing these values will by skipped when switching to the next subtitle track.
New "9:16" thumbnail aspect ratio option for media library thumbnails suitable to vertical videos.
The ".WEBP" image format is now supported when using the internal image decoder.
New feature that replaces the TV Jukebox thumbnail for the currently playing media with the currently displayed image. This feature is limited to "TV Shows" media library categories and can be triggered through the Alt+Ctrl+"F" keyboard macro and the "fnCaptureScrapedImage" function.
New "Edit Metadata" option in the media library's functions page for TV and Movie categories.
New configuration option for TheMovieDB scraping plugin that allows you to select the poster/backdrop/still image sizes.
New Smart Play profile for the Apple ProRes codecs.
New "exSetAudioSync" extended function that allows you to set a positive or negative millisecond accurate audio synchronization offset.
YouTube media library plugins no longer return a star rating or dislike count since YouTube removed public dislike data.
The "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing video content" setting is now ignored for live streams with no duration specified as it just caused the stream to close.
Disabled the Startup sound if a media was already in the process of loading.
The Media Library's function page is now more dynamic, removing entries that may not be useful in some contexts (e.g. using plugins).
TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now download movie poster images at full resolution (previously limited to 500x750px). This change means you will see sharper looking posters on 4K displays. This fix requires that you re-scrape movies to download the higher resolution poster images.
To prevent longer copy times, when using the Media Library's Cut/Copy/Paste functionality, Performing a "Paste" operation in the root virtual folder of a category containing multiple folders,
ZP will now try to paste the file(s) to a folder on the same drive when possible and only use the folder of the currently highlighted entry if no folders in the pasted category are on the same drive.
In combination with the new ISO mounting feature, ISO files are now always visible in media library video categories.
The YouTube IFRAME player's preferred video quality setting has been removed as YouTube depreciated this feature.
The YouTube IFRAME player did not function properly in regions using the "," character as a decimal separator.
Play history features such as "resume playback" and "previous play position on thumbnails" did not function on files with over 128 characters.
Playing files with over 128 characters in their name created duplicate play history entries.
Pressing "Stop" twice to perform a Stop/Resume action did not work when using the YouTube IFRAME player.
When customizing the media library to use full height in combination with the category display set to list mode, using the Up/Down arrows at the Start/End of the category list would not roll-over to the
Start/End of the list correctly.
When the setting to show file extensions in the navigation interfaces was disabled, URLs appeared cropped in the play history fullscreen navigation interface.
Opening a subtitle file for a playing video when using MadVR as the video renderer could cause the video to appear in a new window.
Fixed a bug in TV jukebox mode that prevented some file meta-data from displaying when the file name contained Unicode characters.
Seeking Ahead/Back on YouTube streams using the IFRAME player would reset the play position to 0 if the windows decimal separator was set to something other than ".".
Restoring last play position for YouTube videos played using the IFRAME player did not function currently on some PCs with a slower internet connection.
Displaying the current video resolution on the timeline while using the YouTube IFRAME playback engine displayed a fixed value instead of the value returned by the YouTube IFRAME engine.
The "Open Media Library" button on the Media Library category editor did not function if the category mode was set to view all (prism).
YouTube channels containing the "&" character in the name would not show the correct channel name under some conditions.
Fixed a cosmetic bug in the play history dialog that would show the current position with a negative value.
Edits to the playlist using the playlist editor should now be reflected in the advanced playlist control interface.
The playing information fullscreen navigation interface was not updating in real time and didn't update at all when playing new SHOUTcast content.
The "Open Drive" feature broke down for multiple use cases, including using Zoom Player to auto-play a drive.
The Media Library's "mark as seen:archive" option will now close the currently playing media if it's being archived.
Under some conditions, pressing the ESC/Menu keys to close the right-click context menu would break some keyboard functionality.
You could actually click on media library path icons even when they were invisible in the category list.
When viewing the media library's categories page, you could click above/below the scroll-bar area and it would still affect the scroll position.

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.00 RC 1 (Jun 15, 2022)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.00 Beta 4 (May 30, 2022)

New in Zoom Player MAX 17.00 Beta 3 (Apr 10, 2022)

New:
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles) that limits the "next subtitle" feature to specified languages.
For example to limit the subtitle tracks to Spanish, English and Directory Commentary, you only need to specify "spa;eng;dir" andany subtitle track not containing these values will by skipped whenswitching to the next subtitle track.
New "exSetAudioSync" extended function that allows you to set a positive or negative millisecond accurate audio synchronization offset.
Added support for YouTube Shorts URL parsing and playback, for example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5TTNpKFy_10
Change :
YouTube media library plugins no longer return a star rating or dislike count since YouTube removed public dislike data.
The "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing video content" setting is now ignored for live streams with no duration specified as it just caused the stream to close.
Disabled the Startup sound if a media was already in the process of loading.
The Media Library's function page is now more dynamic, removing entries that may not be useful in some contexts (e.g. using plugins).
TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now download movie poster images at full resolution (previously limited to 500x750px). This change means you will see sharper looking posters on 4K displays. This fix requires that you re-scrape movies to download the higher resolution poster images.
Fixes :
Seeking Ahead/Back on YouTube streams using the IFRAME player would reset the play position to 0 if the windows decimal separator was set to something other than ".".
Restoring last play position for YouTube videos played using the IFRAME player did not function currently on some PCs with a slower internet connection.
Displaying the current video resolution on the timeline while using the YouTube IFRAME playback engine displayed a fixed value instead of the value returned by the YouTube IFRAME engine.
The "Open Media Library" button on the Media Library category editor did not function if the category mode was set to view all (prism).
YouTube channels containing the "&" character in the name would not show the correct channel name under some conditions.
Fixed a cosmetic bug in the play history dialog that would show the current position with a negative value.
Edits to the playlist using the playlist editor should now be reflected in the advanced playlist control interface.
The playing information fullscreen navigation interface was not updating in real time and didn't update at all when playing new SHOUTcast content.
The "Open Drive" feature broke down for multiple use cases, including using Zoom Player to auto-play a drive.
The Media Library's "mark as seen:archive" option will now close the currently playing media if it's being archived.

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.60 Beta 2 (Jan 27, 2022)

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.60 Beta 1 (Nov 29, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.5 Build 1650 (Oct 6, 2021)

Fixes/Enhancements:
Support custom test definitions specified by a configuration file. A custom test definition consists of an existing test algorithm, specific test pattern, cache settings, and number of iterations. Custom test definitions are enabled by specifying the TESTCFGFILE parameter (Pro Edition only)
Fixed incorrectly formatted XML Status/TestResult files sent to PXE/TFTP server (Site Edition only)
Fixed incorrect reporting of error endianess for 128-bit test
Fixed bug in displaying/logging ECC error chanIntroducing Charcoal, Zoom Player's new default skin!
Charcoal includes the same layout and functionality as the previous Onyx default skin but uses more subtle shading and cleaner elements to better fit with Windows 10's look and feel.
The onyx skin is still included with Zoom Player, you can switch by opening the skin selection dialog using the "N" keyboard macroor through the right-click menu.
New interface Sound-FX system that triggers sounds when certain actions are triggered (Adv. Options / Interface / Sounds) :
Zoom Player Startup.
Navigation motion (left/right/up/down).
Navigation actions (enter/back/esc).
Seeking (forward/backward/tracks).
Edge-Bump (media library).
You can pick the volume level and the output sound device and limit some of the sounds if a video is currently playing or when using the mouse to perform actions.
The media library can now display a media file's approximate bitrate (e.g. 9.2 Mpbs). You will need to re-scrape old media to see this update.
It is now possible to play videos from Twitch.tv.
New "Confirm when resuming playback from previous position" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to request confirmation before resuming playback from the last saved position when playing media from a TV or Movie media library category.
Please note, this setting is on by default and requires play historyenabled to function.
New "Mark as Seen" media library feature accessible through the functions menu (toggle the cogwheel, or right-arrow in list mode). When marking media or entire folders as seen, you will be prompted to "Mark as seen now" or "Mark as seen archive". Depending on your choice the marked entries will appear at the start or end of your play history.
New "Select all Unseen" media library feature that selects every media or folder containing media that was seen (listed in your play history).
New "Select all Seen" media library feature that selects every media or folder containing media that is not listed in your play history.
You can now perform subtitle searches on movie folders, Zoom Player will automatically use the first video file within the folder to find matching subtitle tracks.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the Media Library's media scraping indicator and counter are visible within the path area.
New "Thumbnail icon size" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that controls the icon sizes in thumbnail view mode.
New "Prevent mouse actions from moving or resizing the main window" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size" that blocks the mouse from being able to resize or move the main player window.
New "Skip requesting confirmation to erase file" setting (Adv. Options / Interface) used to skip the confirmation request dialog when erasing the playing media to the recycle bin.
New "Do not use scraped image as thumbnail" media library category setting. When enabled, Zoom Player ignores any thumbnail downloaded using a scraping plugin and depending on other category settings, Zoom Player will try to extract a thumbnail from the video file itself.
New "Do not use MediaInfo.dll to extract file metadata" media library category setting. When enabled, Zoom Player will not try to use MediaInfo.dll to extract metadata from files such as file format, codec, audio channels, etc. This can speed up scraping operation, but it also means the metadata displayed in the media library will be limited.
New "exPLSortOrder" extended function capable of choosing the playlist sorting order (ascending, descending). A value of "0" sets ascending and a value of "1" sets descending. Please note that this function doesn't actually sort the list.
New "exPLSort" extended function to sort the current playlist.
Possible values are:
0 : Sort by Name
1 : Sort by File Type (file extension)
2 : Sort by File Date
3 : Sort by File Size
4 : Sort by File Path (folder)
5 : Sort by Media Duration (in seconds)
6 : Sort Randomly (random order)
New "exPLRemoveItem" extended function that allows you to directly remove a playlist item. Please note that the first playlist item has an index of "0" and not "1".
A major redesign of the media library's scraping operation. Scraping of new content should no longer block thumbnail and meta-data updates for previously scraped content. The redesign should make Zoom Player feel more responsive.
Rewrote the audio TAG/ID3 scraping code for enhanced efficiency and reliability.
When reaching the top/bottom position in the media library's thumbnail view, Zoom Player now tries to maintain the current column when the top/bottom bump bar is triggered twice to perform a scroll to top/bottom action.
Improved support for long paths (over 250 characters) in the media libraryand file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces (especially over network shared paths).
The file meta-data edit window's title now features only the file name and not the full path.
The media library's YouTube Playlist plugin is now more flexible when parsing YouTube playlist URL structures. YouTube uses
multiple URL structures to present playlists and now the plugin should support all of them.
The "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width" and "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width" settings now apply to the path area and not only to the media area.
The minimum number of media library category columns has been changed from 3 to 2.
The "erase playing media" and "fullscreen navigation erase" dialogs now display the media's title alongside the file name.
Double-clicking the media library's category entries in list-view mode now performs an "Enter" navigation action instead of "Right".
Replaced the "Right arrow" icon with an "Enter" icon on the mini color control interface.
Fixed a hidden crash that destabilized Zoom Player when closing the media library while the thumb view was in the process of
smooth scrolling.
You can no longer open the windowed go to time/chapter editor if no media is currently playing.
YouTube has a bug in it's API that can cause duplicate entries to show when loading more entries. Previously in such cases,
Zoom Player didn't show a thumbnail for a duplicate entry, at least this bug is fixed, can't do much about YouTube's API bugs.
The media library's scraping counter did not update if you exited the folder currently scraping until some action updated the screen.
Stopped the Create Ringtone function from attempting to work with network streams (it never worked with URLs, but still allowed you to select the position and fill in details into the save dialog).
Fixed a rare case where the media library would not respond to input correctly when playing a movie and then exiting to the main navigation interface and then returning back to the media library.
With the "opening media library always selects the playing media" setting enabled, renaming a file or creating a new folder could change the active path.
Fixed high-DPI issues with unskinned confirmation dialogs.
Fixed an erroneous OSD notification when using the media library's mini-menu to add a category "refresh" or "append" entries to the playlist.
Fixed an issue that caused the media library to freeze if there were missing bitmap files in the navigation skin folder.
While in fullscreen mode, clicking on the playlist editor or equalizer windows when positioned over a hot-corner would activate the hot-corner action.
Opening a streaming YouTube URL using DirectShow would not show the video's title in the play history until after the video was closed.
Showing the control bar for the very first time showed a black rectangle in the top left corner of the screen for a split second.
Fixed a crash in the Media Library's playlist category plugin when parsing certain ".m3u" playlists.
When using the media library's refresh button on a plugin based category, it accidentally cleared the media's titles.
The advanced option dialog audio visualization configuration options were completely broken.
The "fnRestart" and "fnRestartWithParam" functions restarted Zoom Player without first saving settings, which caused the restarted copy to revert some settings.
Playing a network shared file from command line would miss an external subtitle file in the same folder and no subtitles were shown.
With the "Disable the Control Bar in Window Mode" setting enabled, exiting fullscreen briefly showed the control bar.
When Two movie folders shared a similar base name (e.g. "Men in Black" and "Men in Black 2"), the wrong progress bar position would show for the first folder.
Fixed a cosmetic glitch in the media scanner that caused paths to draw over icons.
Setting the image slideshow duration for loaded images to "0" would show an incorrect "remaining time" value on the timeline.
Fixed a few small memory leaks.
nel/slot number
Fixed report/log files not being saved correctly for non-standard USB flash drive installs
Improved responsiveness of pattern string updated on screen
Display row hammer warning, if applicable, in test completion popup message
Fixed ECC error reporting on AMD Ryzen chipsets to include channel/slot information
Fixed ECC error reporting on AMD Ryzen chipsets with 8 memory channels
Improved robustness of ECC error reporting for Intel Atom C2000 chipsets
Fixed retrieval of DDR4 SPD bytes on Intel Alder Lake chipsets
Added support for parsing DDR3 Module Manufacturer’s Specific Data
Updated blacklist with additional Surface Pro models with display issues

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.5 RC 2 Build 5 (Sep 20, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.5 RC 1 Build 4 (Sep 14, 2021)

New:
Introducing Charcoal, Zoom Player's new default skin. Charcoal includes the same layout and functionality as the previous Onyx default skin but uses more subtle shading and cleaner elements to better fit with Windows 10's look and feel.
The onyx skin is still shipping with Zoom Player, you can switch back by opening the skin selection dialog using the "N" keyboard macro or through the right-click menu.
It is now possible to play videos from Twitch.tv.
New "Mark as Seen" media library feature accessible through the functions menu (toggle the cogwheel, or right-arrow in list mode). When marking media or entire folders as seen, you will be prompted to "Mark as seen now" or "Mark as seen archive". Depending on your choice the marked entries will appear at the start or end of the play history list.
New "Select all Unseen" media library feature that selects every media or folder containing content that exists in the play history.
New "Select all Seen" media library feature that selects every media or folder containing content that does not exist in the play history.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the Media Library's media scraping indicator is visible within the path area.
Change:
A major redesign of the media library's scraping operation. Scraping of new content should no longer block thumbnail and meta-data updates for previously scraped content. This change should help Zoom Player feel more responsive.
Rewrote the audio TAG/ID3 scraping code for enhanced efficiency and reliability.
The file meta-data edit window's title now features only the file name and not the full path.
The media library's YouTube Playlist plugin is now more flexible when parsing YouTube playlist URL structures. YouTube uses multiple URL structures to present playlists and now the plugin should support all of them.
The "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width" and "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width" settings now apply to the path area and not only to the media area.
Fixes:
Fixed a hidden crash that destabilized Zoom Player when closing the media library while the thumb view was in the process of smooth scrolling.
You can no longer open the windowed go to time/chapter editor if no media is currently playing.
YouTube has a bug in it's API that can cause duplicate entries to show when loading more entries. Previously in such cases, Zoom Player didn't show a thumbnail for a duplicate entry, at least this bug is fixed, can't do much about YouTube's API bugs.
The media library's scraping counter did not update if you exit the folder the current scraping operations were working on until the screen was updated.
Stopped the Create Ringtone function from attempting to work with network streams (it never worked with URLs, but still allowed you to select the position and fill in details into the save dialog).
Fixed a rare case where there media library would not respond to input correctly when playing a movie then exiting to the main navigation interface and then back to the media library.
Fixed a few small memory leaks.

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.1 Beta 3 Build 3 (Aug 4, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.1 Beta 2 Build 2 (Jul 27, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 16.1 Beta 1 Build 1600 (Jun 21, 2021)

New:
New interface Sound-FX system that triggers sounds when certain actions are taken (Adv. Options / Interface / Sounds). You can pick the volume level and the output sound device and limit some of the sounds if a video is playing or when using the mouse.
The media library can now display a media file's approximate bitrate (e.g. 9.2 Mpbs). You will need to re-scrape media to see this update.
You can now search for subtitles on movie folders, Zoom Player will use the first video file within the folder to find matching subtitle tracks.
New "Thumbnail icon size" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that controls the thumbnail media icon size for media/icons that do not have a thumbnail image.
New "Prevent mouse actions from moving or resizing the main window" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size" that blocks the mouse from resizing or moving the main player window.
New "Skip requesting confirmation to erase file" setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to remove the confirmation request when erasing the playing media to the recycle bin.
New "Do not use scraped image as thumbnail" media library category setting. When enabled, Zoom Player will ignore any thumbnail downloaded using a scraping plugin and depending on other category settings, Zoom Player will try extracting a thumbnail from the video itself.
New "Do not use MediaInfo.dll to extract file metadata" media library category setting. When enabled, Zoom Player will not try to use MediaInfo.dll to extract metadata from files such as file format, codec, audio channels, etc.
New "exPLSortOrder" extended function capable of choosing the sorting order (ascending, descending). A value of "0" sets ascending and "1" sets descending. Please note that this function doesn't actually sort the list.
New "exPLSort" extended function to sort the current playlist.
New "exPLRemoveItem" extended function that allows you to directly remove a playlist item. Please note that the first item in the playlist is actually "0" and not "1".
Change:
When reaching the top/bottom position in the media library's thumbnail view, Zoom Player now tries to maintain the current column when the top/bottom bump bar is triggered twice to perform a scroll to top/bottom action.
Improved support for long paths (over 250 characters) in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces (especially over network shared paths).
The minimum number of media library category columns has been changed from 3 to 2.
Fixes:
With the "opening media library always selects the playing media" setting enabled, renaming a file or creating a new folder could change the active path.
Fixed high-DPI issues with unskinned confirmation dialogs.
Fixed an erroneous OSD notification when using the media library's mini-menu to add a category "refresh" or "append" entries to the playlist.
Fixed an issue that caused the media library to freeze if there were missing bitmap files in the navigation skin folder.
While in fullscreen mode, clicking on the playlist editor or equalizer windows when positioned over a hot-corner would activate the hot-corner action.
Opening a streaming YouTube URL using DirectShow would not show the video's title in the play history until after the video was closed.
Showing the control bar for the very first time showed a black rectangle in the top left corner of the screen for a split second.
Fixed a crash in the Media Library's playlist category plugin when parsing certain ".m3u" playlists.
When using the media library's refresh button on a plugin based category, it accidentally cleared the media's titles.
The option dialog's audio visualization configuration options were completely broken.
The "fnRestart" and "fnRestartWithParam" functions restarted Zoom Player without first saving settings, which caused the restarted copy to revert some settings.
Playing a network shared file from command line would miss an external subtitle file in the same folder and no subtitles were shown.

New in Zoom Player MAX 16 RC 2 Build 5 (Apr 27, 2021)

New:
Optimized drawing of media library category thumbnails, up-to 43% faster.
Optimized drawing of media library media thumbnails, up-to 38% faster.
Optimized the time it takes to open the media library, in some cases up-to 50% faster.
Optimized loading of the playcache file by up-to 17%, which should help Zoom Player open faster when storing play history over a long duration.
Rewrote scroll update polling to improve smoothness when scrolling within the media library's thumbnail view.
Due to a bug fix (see below) and optimizations to the code, Zoom Player should close a little bit faster.
Media library folder based categories are now sorted on a per-folder basis. When entering a folder for the first time, it will always start sorted by name, but any change to the sorting mode will now persist without affecting other folders in the category.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that uses the fullscreen navigation UI to confirm when deleting the currently playing file.
You can now sort the media library in Random order.
You can now sort the media library by "Remaining Play Time" based on a percentage of the media's remaining play remaining.
When going up to the base folder in the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, there is now a "Return to path list" option to make navigation more intuitive.
Change:
The "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" setting now works better when used in combination with the "Nav-Enter on media library category list opens the category at the root folder" setting.
When both "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" and "Nav-Enter on media library category list opens the category at the root folder" settings are enabled, entering a category will highlight the folder containing the last played file.
APE audio duration is now retrieved by default when adding ".ape" files to the playlist. For existing Zoom Player users, to enable this feature you must click the "default" button next to the "Auto-Get Duration" section of the Advanced Options' "File Extension" page.
The play history's "Erase" entries has been renamed to "Remove from Play History" to make it clearer the files themselves are not touched.
Switching to the 'system' sub-menu in the main fullscreen navigation interface will now switch the title from 'main' to 'system'.
Removing the currently playing media from play history will now close the playing media.
When completing playback of a media, the play history dialog and fullscreen navigation interfaces will no longer show a zero position or no position at all and will instead show the media's duration to signify the media has been played all the way through.
You can now use the Home/End keys within the media library fullscreen navigation interface's category filter section to access the top/bottom of the category list.
Fixes:
When the current monitor used a high-DPI setting, the icon on confirmation/warning/information dialogs appeared cropped.
Skin tinting did not affect confirmation/warning/information dialogs.
The play position bar in the media library's TV jukebox mode was not properly integrated when the thumbnail frame used round corners like in the Sunset skin.
The file browser fullscreen navigation interface suffered some issues when working with empty drives/root folders.
Fixed multiple issues when trying to erase network shared folders from within the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface -
Currently playing file did not close.
File was not removed from play history.
The main fullscreen navigation interface's 'system' sub-menu did not show relevant icons, only showing the system icon.
The Advanced Options dialog's "Help / Export" button's pop-up menu did not draw correctly on high-DPI displays.
The playlist's "Open item folder", "Save playing file" and "Rename/Move file" features did not work with network paths.
Deleting all play history entries could leave some entries listed in the dialog until the dialog was closed and reopened.
Trying to show a fullscreen navigation interface while Zoom Player is minimized now restores Zoom Player's window.
The Play History and Play History fullscreen navigation interfaces will now display the play position for the currently playing file correctly.
Creating folder using the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface failed when used under a network path.
Under some conditions, Zoom Player's media cache folder containing scraped metadata and images (thumbnails, posters, backdrops) would prune every time you tried closing Zoom Player, instead of once per week.

New in Zoom Player MAX 16 RC 1 Build 5 (Mar 16, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.6 Build 4 Beta 4 (Mar 1, 2021)

New:
TheMovieDB.org's media scraper is now capable of scraping U.S Movie (G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17) and TV (TV-Y/TV-Y7/TV-G/TV-PG/TV-14/TV-MA) content rating. The content rating appears as an icon next to the other codec/format icons appearing in jukebox mode
You will need to re-scrape your media in order to see content rating on previously scraped media
TheMovieDB.org's media scraper's configuration can now be set to scrape for "no language" content
New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) "Show play position bar on list icons with the this color" setting disabled by default)
New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) "Show Previously Played counter in path area" setting that displays the number of yet to be played media within the current media library folder next to the folder's path (disabled by default)
New YouTube Playlist media library plugin which allows you to easily import YouTube playlists as Zoom Player media library categories
You can now refresh a media library category with a new "Refresh" button to update the display if the folder content was changed in the background
The navigation skinning engine has been enhanced to add more granular support for the path area's icon size and position
Change:
The fullscreen information navigation interface now splits long information into multiple lines
Fixes:
The caching mechanism for media library category thumbnail caching was mostly broken, not actually caching most of the thumbnails. With this fix, subsequently browsing the category list should be much snappier
Renaming files/folder in the media library no longer causes the play position to be forgotten and the media no longer requires a re-scrape operation
The YouTube Channel media library plugin now support YouTube channels that use a slightly different URL structure. For example "https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFighterAndTheKid/videos". It will not work 100% of the time as google didn't release an API call to translate custom channel names to a channel ID required to get a 100% reliable result.
The YouTube Media Library plugins did not take into account time-zone and daylight saving differences when displaying a video's publish time
The Adjust Image fullscreen navigation interface did not list the active Aspect Ratio correctly
The fullscreen information navigation interface did not display in the correct width under some conditions
The full path displayed in the play history fullscreen navigation interface is now correctly truncated to more clearly display long file names

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.6 Build 3 Beta 3 (Feb 3, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.6 Build 2 Beta 2 (Jan 21, 2021)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.6 Build 1 Beta 1 (Nov 25, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.50 RC4 (Aug 31, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.50 RC3 (Aug 26, 2020)

New:
The play history window now includes a last play position column.
The play history window's right-click menu can now be used to remove selected entries.
The play history window now includes the last play time along with the play date.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that allow you to customize the right-click on timeline seek distance.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls whether the control bar should hide automatically if the mouse cursor is currently hovering above the control bar (enabled by default). Previously the control bar would never hide if the mouse cursor hovered above it, now you are in control.
Change:
The play history window can now be used to select multiple entries.
You can now enter empty (folder based) media library categories in order to perform file operations (copy/paste) instead of Zoom Player displaying a "The Category is Empty" message.
Fixes:
Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not maintain the folder's date, causing it to be re-scraped and any custom artwork to be ignored.
Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not update the media history play cache, causing the last play position to disappear.
The Guard Dog feature was incorrectly activated when exiting sleep mode.
With the "Use Media Title if Available" setting disabled, the media title could still become visible in the main window's title area under some conditions.
Fixed an issue that slowed down loading large playlists when drag & dropping the playlists into Zoom Player.
Fixed an issue where the media library's "refresh" entry could become selected for file operations (copy/paste).
The media library's category editor's "Open Media Library" button did not open the media library with the selected category highlighted if the category was not listed due to a category filter. Now the category filter is reset to ensure the correct category is highlighted.
Updated the user-agent ZP uses when downloading data from web servers as some servers were blocking ZP thinking it was an older browser.

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.10 RC2 (Aug 12, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.10 RC1 (Jun 22, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.10 Beta 2 (May 18, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.10 Beta 1 (Mar 31, 2020)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15.00 Build 1600 (Feb 11, 2020)

Live YouTube stream support using the latest version of the 3DYD YouTube source and LAV Filters.
New YouTube channel listing strategy (not enabled by default)which you can now enable through the Media Library category editor.
The new strategy works by listing videos in a channel's "Uploads"playlist. The downside to this strategy is that some videos may not be ordered by Publish date. For this reason, 50 videos are requested instead of the usual 25 and these videos are then sorted by the plugin instead of just listing them as-is. The upsideis that you get longer descriptions for the videos.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) to control whether the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls should process DTS/Dolby audio (and their sub-formats such as DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos, E-EAC, etc).
By default, these formats are not processed as they are intended for decoding by an external receiver over S/PDIF or BitStreaming.
However if you decode these formats on your PC, disabling thissetting will allow the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls to function.
New Setting "Adv. Options / System" (disabled by default) to allow theCommand & Control API to remotely control the PC's mouse cursor.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that lets you specify the number of milliseconds Zoom Player should wait after closing a streaming media before resuming operations.
New setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that controls whether playback should be paused before trying to capture a video frame. Please note that it's possible that some video renderers may not be able to capture a frame if the media is playing.
New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to enable listing live streams. To playback live YouTube streams you must use the IFRAME player or use D3D YouTube Source filter v2 or newer.
New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to use the maximum thumbnail resolution YouTube provides (now disabled by default).
In previous versions getting the maximum resolution thumbnail was the default behavior, however there are rare instances where the maximum resolution and extra bandwidth are merited.
Additionally, there is a YouTube bug that lists a URL for the maximum resolution thumbnail without the file actually being available, so this change works around this issue.
The media library can now display a format icon for the new AV1, DTSX and Dolby Atmos audio/video codecs.
The Play History fullscreen navigation interface now lists the last play time (not just the date), the last play position and the full path to the currently highlighted entry.
The Favorite media fullscreen navigation interface now shows the full path to the highlighted entry.
New "Go" button on the station editor to make search practical without access to a keyboard.
New "Close on Play" checkbox on the Advanced Playlist Control dialog to control whether the dialog remains open or closed after playing a new media from the dialog.
New Smart Play profile for the "ADTS" streaming audio wrapper format.
New Smart Play profile for the ".DSF" file format.
New Smart Play profile for the "DSD" (Direct Stream Digital) codec.
Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded
. New command to open a streaming URL.
. New command to Get & Set the current playlist
sorting order (Ascending/Descending).
. New command to sort the playlist (by name, size, date, etc).
Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded with support for remotely controlling the PC's mouse cursor. For additional security, this capability requires you to enable the new "Allow remote mouse control" setting.
New "/SHOWOSD[Text]" command line parameter used to show a pop-up OSD on an already running instance of Zoom Player.
+ Ctrl+"V" now works in the playlist editor's search box.
+ The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface has been enhanced to work more intuitively and with less clicking required to reach the desired time.
+ The Media Library category editor has been restructured to make it easier to use when working with many categories
+ Changed how information (text/icons) are aligned on the right side of fullscreen navigation interfaces so the information does not shift around when the selected line is changed.
+ Tweaked the list based fullscreen navigation interfaces to squeeze out a little more horizontal space.
+ The Torrents download plugin has been updated to support qBitTorrent API v2, requiring qBitTorrent v4.2 or newer, please upgrade.
+ You can now drag the meta-data edit window more easily by dragging from anywhere in the windows.
+ Newly created YouTube media library categories will no longer show a video icon overlay by default (as all content from YouTube is video).
+ YouTube changed their text encoding scheme which caused Zoom Player to show the encoding of certain characters instead of the actual characters.
+ Trying to open a navigation interface while in audio mode simply didn't do anything, now Zoom Player will automatically switch to media mode and show the navigation interface.
+ Trying to seek backward/forward on a live stream with no duration will no longer show an OSD message as if a seek was performed.
+ TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now scrape movies that do not contain a poster image.
+ The fullscreen navigation information interface no longer closes automatically when opening a new media file.
+ When safe mode is enabled, instead of completely hiding the main navigation interface's "System" sub-menu, now only the "Exit Zoom Player" entry is hidden.
+ The Next/Previous frame functions are now ignored when playing audio-only content (there was no real use for it and it caused weird behavior with some decoders).
+ Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline no longer pops up a "0000" position hint when playing a live stream with no duration.
+ To prevent instability, if Zoom Player's options dialog is open, all API/Keyboard processing (for the main window) are now disabled.
+ Using the "fnTitleToClipboard" function with no media playing will now try to get the title from the currently highlighted playlist
entry.
+ The "Close Navigator when opening a new file" setting now applies to the streaming fullscreen navigation interface. Previously it would always close the interface regardless of the setting.
+ Opening a streaming URL now closes the fullscreen navigation interface.
+ Extended the Command & Control API message 1870 to support passing a title along with the URL to stream.
+ When playing an MP3 with ID3v2 TAGs that contain multiple images, now the first embedded image is displayed instead of the last.
+ Right clicking a track in the playlist editor will now select the track less than 2 other tracks are currently selected.
Rewrote the entire system that handles the currently selected audio device. Previously, if you were to disconnect an audio device (e.g. a BlueTooth headset), Zoom Player would switch to the default audio device, but when the the audio device was reconnected, Zoom Player would continue to use the default device instead of the previously selected device.
Now Zoom Player always tries to use the previously selected device and only temporarily switches to the default device if the selected device is not currently available.
A major bug that was introduced in v13.5 prevented the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls from functioning when decoding audio using a filter that outputs the WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE" structure (Which LAV Audio Decoder uses for most audio formats it decodes).
Fix for a possible freeze when opening the media library.
The default 1610 skin was showing a 1px clear line to the right of the movie poster in jukebox mode.
Streaming audio with non-English characters encoded in the stream's meta-data would sometimes display the wrong characters.
Fixed an issue where pressing next track in a playlist containing an executable file would not stop playing the previous media track after executing the playlist entry, which also caused a cosmetic glitch in the playlist editor.
Furiously Clicking the mouse's right button to open the context menu while a track was loading caused multiple context menus to appear on screen and could even lead to a crash in some cases.
Under some rare conditions, Mouse Gesture actions could trigger without the left mouse button being held down.
Unchecking "Limit 'Hot Corners' to fullscreen mode" caused issues trying to move the player windows in Audio Mode.
Pressing DEL to erase the currently playing media will no longer prompt you to delete to recycle bin if the playing media is a URL.
Stopped the two settings that control automatic switching between Audio and Media mode from working while the player is in fullscreen mode Auto Switch to Audio Mode when a Media File does not contain a Video Stream Auto Switch to Media Mode when a Media File contains a Video Stream
Deleting the active entry in the playlist editor (orange highlight when using the default onyx skin), did not reset the active entry if that track wasn't currently playing.
Using the "fnPLEditMetaData" function (for example using the command line "/funcfnPLEditMetaData" parameter) several times would cause multiple windows to appear.
The internal screen saver no longer activates if a track is currently in the process of loading or if an error dialog is currently visible.
Using the Advanced Playlist Control to move items to the top or bottom while a media was playing messed up the playlist active item display as well as the ID3/TAG on-screen information.
When the media library displayed a movie with no poster in JukeBox mode, the poster area showed random junk.
Trying to switch to Audio or DVD modes while a media was in the process of loading triggered a crash.
Trying to close the Playlist editor while a track was in the process of loading triggered a crash.
Deleting the currently playing file did not remove the file from the current playlist.
Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen on the "Favorites" navigation interface.
Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the stream selection navigation interface.
It's no longer possible to erase files in safe mode from within the media library mini-menu.
Enabling "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width" or "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width" settings would break the visual integrity of the information fullscreen navigation interface (and the Main navigation interface if it was used in list mode).
The Media Library's "Run Application" plug-in did not run applications correctly if some command line parameters were used.
Fixed a freeze when using the MPC Audio Renderer combined with the "Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting.
Fixed an issue where certain characters used in a media library's category path could corrupt the category list or prevent the afflicted category from functioning correctly.
Under some condition, the previously played media title would appear in the timeline area and invalid entries were being added to the play history.
Erasing entries from the favorite media list did not actually save the list your drive. Unless a new entry was added (which did save the list), restarting Zoom Player would restore the erased entries.
The sub-folder selection within the media scanner fullscreen navigation interface would draw outside the defined line boundaries.
The media scanner no longer allows you to add folders to plugin based categories (which are not folder based).
The "Refresh" button on the media library category configuration dialog was accidentally left enabled for folder based categories. Clicking it would trigger a "list index out of bounds" error.
Playing a media through the Advanced Playlist Control dialog and then trying to close the dialog before the media finished loading would cause a non-fatal crash.
Removing entries from the playlist editor did not always select the current remaining track.
Rewind, Fast Forward and Slow Motion are now disabled when playing live streams with no duration (these functions were interfering with playback).
Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen on the "Favorites" navigation interface.
Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the stream selection navigation interface.
The chapter selection pop-up OSD appeared in the wrong screen position.
In the playlist editor, clicking the blank area under the playlist entries would select the last entry without clearing the currently
selected entry.
Manually editing a Zoom Player ".CHP" chapter file using an external text editor could have triggered a freeze when trying to load the associated media file.
Changing the internal screen saver's slideshow path did not take affect until the next player restart if the screen saver was previously active (changing the folder didn't clear the cache).
Streaming audio-only YouTube with visualizations would not always enable the ZP DSP Filter, causing synchronization issues between the audio and visualization.
Pressing the next-track button with the next tracks being a series of executable files would execute all files at once instead of just the first executable and pausing.
Trying to close the Install Center during an install could have resulted in a crash.
The "Trash" icon no longer shows up at the bottom of the media library fullscreen navigation mode when Safe Mode is enabled.
Since they were causing playback issues, the Fast Play, Slow Motion, Half Speed Fast-Play, Half Speed Slow Motion and Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions are no longer accessible when playing a live stream with no duration.
Using Shift+Delete to delete the currently selected playlist entries did not work properly if one of the selected entries was the currently playing media.
When Zoom Player was minimized to the taskbar, instructing Zoom Player to switch to fullscreen mode did not work as intended.
Trying to play a URL straight from the windows clipboard will no longer try playing if the clipboard does not actually contain a URL.
Opening the previously open navigation interface did not work when the previous navigation interface was the 'Favorites'.
Going back from the favorites fullscreen navigation interface to the main interface highlighted the playlist icon instead of the favorites icon.
Using the play history fullscreen navigation with safe mode enabled would trigger a crash or cosmetic glitches when trying to access the functions page.
Assigning functions that auto-execute when a secondary screen is attached or detached did not execute under some conditions.
Some functions called from command line using the "/func" or "/exfunc" parameters could have run before Zoom Player finished loading, triggering unexpected behavior.
You can no longer try to erase the "refresh" and "more" (plus) entries in the media library.
The "Scrapers file name blacklist" label disappeared under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View".
TheMovieDB scraper plugin can now display information on multiple directors of one movie instead of just the first director.
In very rare cases where a corrupt media file was played and the "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played" setting was enabled, if the next entry in the playlist was an executable, the user interface would think the previous item was still playing, leaving the player window in a sort of in-between state that didn't show some text.
The delete icon was visible in the download manager fullscreen navigation while safe mode was enabled.
The playlist editor's right-click menu's "Add Streaming URL" feature caused a visual glitch where the highlighted playlist entry was not the one actually playing.
Pressing the Enter key on the playlist editor right after running the player would play the first track instead of the last played track.
Under some rare conditions, the play history dialog could show duplicate entries of the same media.
When playing certain live feeds, right-clicking the timeline could wrongfully show a "Seeking 0 seconds" OSD.
Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline will no longer show the timeline position or a preview image if the playing media has no duration (e.g. when viewing a jpeg image).
Some UTF8 encoded ".txt" files did not display anything when viewed.
Loading ".wpl" playlists that contain URLs did not load the URL entries correctly.
Using the Advanced Playlist Control's "Move to Bottom" function caused issues if the currently playing media was moved.

New in Zoom Player MAX 15 Build RC3 (Jan 20, 2020)

New :
New "Go" button on the station editor to make search practical without access to a keyboard.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) to control whether the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls should process DTS/Dolby audio and their sub-formats such as DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos, E-EAC, etc). By default, these formats are not processed as they are intended for decoding by an external receiver over S/PDIF or BitStreaming. However if you decode these formats on your PC, disabling this setting will allow the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls to function.
New setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that controls whether playback should be paused before trying to capture a video frame. Please note that it's possible that some video renderers may not be able to capture a frame if the media is playing.
New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to enable listing live streams. To playback live YouTube streams you must use the IFRAME player or use D3D YouTube Source filter v2 or newer.
New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to use the maximum thumbnail resolution YouTube provides (now disabled by default).
In previous versions getting the maximum resolution thumbnail was the default behavior, however there are rare instances where the maximum resolution and extra bandwidth are merited.
Additionally, there is a YouTube bug that lists a URL for the maximum resolution thumbnail without the file actually being available, so this change works around this issue.
Change :
The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface has been enhanced to work more intuitively and with less clicking required to reach the desired time.
The Torrents download plugin has been updated to support qBitTorrent API v2, requiring qBitTorrent v4.2 or newer, please upgrade.
You can now drag the meta-data edit window more easily by dragging from anywhere in the windows.
Using the "fnTitleToClipboard" function with no media playing will now try to get the title from the currently highlighted playlist entry.
The "Close Navigator when opening a new file" setting now applies to the streaming fullscreen navigation interface. Previously it would always close the interface regardless of the setting.
Ctrl+"V" now works in the playlist editor's search box.
You can now use the Space character to activate buttons on the skinned confirmation dialog (previously only the Enter key would work).
Opening a streaming URL now closes the fullscreen navigation interface.
Extended the Command & Control API message 1870 to support passing a title along with the URL to stream.
When playing an MP3 with ID3v2 TAGs that contain multiple images, now the first embedded image is displayed instead of the last.
Right clicking a track in the playlist editor will now select the track less than 2 other tracks are currently selected.
Fixes :
A major bug that was introduced in v13.5 prevented the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls from functioning when decoding audio using a filter that outputs the WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE" structure (Which LAV Audio Decoder uses for most audio formats it decodes).
Streaming audio with non-English characters encoded in the stream's meta-data would sometimes display the wrong characters.
Trying to open the last used fullscreen navigation interface did not work if the player was in audio mode. Now the window automatically switches back to media mode and shows the navigation interface.
The "Trash" icon no longer shows up at the bottom of the media library fullscreen navigation mode when Safe Mode is enabled.
Since they were causing playback issues, the Fast Play, Slow Motion, Half Speed Fast-Play, Half Speed Slow Motion and Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions are no longer accessible when playing a live stream with no duration.
Using Shift+Delete to delete the currently selected playlist entries did not work properly if one of the selected entries was the currently playing media.
When Zoom Player was minimized to the taskbar, instructing Zoom Player to switch to fullscreen mode did not work as intended.
Trying to play a URL straight from the windows clipboard will no longer try playing if the clipboard does not actually contain a URL.
Opening the previously open navigation interface did not work when the previous navigation interface was the 'Favorites'.
Going back from the favorites fullscreen navigation interface to the main interface highlighted the playlist icon instead of the favorites icon.
Using the play history fullscreen navigation with safe mode enabled would trigger a crash or cosmetic glitches when trying to access the functions page.
Assigning functions that auto-execute when a secondary screen is attached or detached did not execute under some conditions.
Some functions called from command line using the "/func" or "/exfunc" parameters could have run before Zoom Player finished loading, triggering unexpected behavior.
You can no longer try to erase the "refresh" and "more" (plus) entries in the media library.
The "Scrapers file name blacklist:" label disappeared under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View".
TheMovieDB scraper plugin can now display information on multiple directors of one movie instead of just the first director.
The delete icon was visible in the download manager fullscreen navigation while safe mode was enabled.
The playlist editor's right-click menu's "Add Streaming URL" feature caused a visual glitch where the highlighted playlist entry was not the one actually playing.
Pressing the Enter key on the playlist editor right after running the player would play the first track instead of the last played track.
Under some rare conditions, the play history dialog could show duplicate entries of the same media.
When playing certain live feeds, right-clicking the timeline could wrongfully show a "Seeking 0 seconds" OSD.
Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline will no longer show the timeline position or a preview image if the playing media has no duration (e.g. when viewing a jpeg image).
Some UTF8 encoded ".txt" files did not display anything when viewed.
Loading ".wpl" playlists that contain URLs did not load the URL entries correctly.
Using the Advanced Playlist Control's "Move to Bottom" function caused issues if the currently playing media was moved.

New in Zoom Player MAX 15 Build 2 Beta 5 (Apr 11, 2019)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15 Beta 4 (Apr 8, 2019)

New in Zoom Player MAX 15 Beta 3 (Apr 5, 2019)

New :
Live YouTube stream support using the latest version of the 3DYD YouTube source and LAV Filters.
New YouTube channel listing strategy (not enabled by default) which you can now enable through the Media Library category editor.
The new strategy works by listing videos in a channel's "Uploads" playlist. The downside to this strategy is that some videos may not be ordered by Publish date. For this reason, 50 videos are requested instead of the usual 25 and these videos are then sorted by the plugin instead of just listing them as-is. The upside is that you get longer descriptions for the videos.
The media library can now display a format icon for the new AV1, DTS:X and Dolby Atmos audio/video codecs.
Support for the ADTS audio wrapper format.
New "/SHOWOSD:[Text]" command line parameter used to show a pop-up OSD on an already running instance of Zoom Player.
Change :
YouTube changed their text encoding scheme which caused Zoom Player to show the encoding of certain characters instead of the actual characters.
Trying to open a navigation interface while in audio mode simply didn't do anything, now Zoom Player will automatically switch to media mode and show the navigation interface.
Trying to seek backward/forward on a live stream with no duration will no longer show an OSD message as if a seek was performed.
Fixes :
The "Refresh" button on the media library category configuration dialog was accidentally left enabled for folder based categories.
Clicking it would trigger a "list index out of bounds" error.
Manually editing a Zoom Player ".CHP" chapter file using an external text editor could have triggered a freeze when trying to load the associated media file.
Changing the internal screen saver's slideshow path did not take affect until the next player restart if the screen saver was previously active (changing the folder didn't clear the cache).
Streaming audio-only YouTube with visualizations would not always enable the ZP DSP Filter, causing synchronization issues between the audio and visualization.
Trying to close the Install Center during an install could have resulted in a crash.

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.6 Beta 2 (Mar 5, 2019)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.6 Build 1460 Beta 1 (Feb 13, 2019)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.5 Beta 6 (Jan 8, 2019)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.5 Beta 5 (Dec 26, 2018)

New :
New "Thumb rendering threads" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of CPU threads
used to render the thumbview display.
Previously, this setting was hard-coded to use 2 threads, but now you
can specify any value from "Auto" to "16".
Auto mode uses either 2 or 3 threads depending on your PC, but
performance can be improved further with additional threads on systems
containing many cores or high bandwidth RAM.
New "Support folders as playlist entries" Setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Playlist). This setting was previously hardcoded and
is still enabled by default to support advanced playlist functionality.
However, supporting folders as playlist entries triggers a spun-down HDD
drive to spin back up when a playlist is loaded. With this new setting
disabled, you can now prevent drives from accidentally spinning up.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio when
enabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.
New "fnToggleOverlayCover" function to toggle the "Video covers entire
display area" setting on and off.
Change :
Optimized the Media Library's thumbnail drawing code, increasing update
speed and smoothness.
The Maximum number of scraping threads used by the media library has
increased from 8 to 16.
When a media library scraped movie did not contain a backdrop image,
the default background image is now used instead of a black screen.
Updated the PNG and zLib libraries to newer versions.
Fixes :
Starting Zoom Player with the "Do not check if a file exists when adding
to the playlist" setting enabled no longer triggers spun-down HDD drives
to spin-up.
The GuardDog feature would try to restart Zoom Player if Zoom Player's
load time was taking too long (due to HDD drive spin-ups or a network
drive reconnection).
The Media Library's Jukebox mode would not enable if the only file in
the folder was a playlist.
Fixed a case where a media library scraped movie not containing a
backdrop image showed a backdrop from another movie.

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.5 Beta 3 (Dec 13, 2018)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.2 Build 1420 (Jul 10, 2018)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.3 Beta 2 Build 3 (Jun 4, 2018)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.2 Beta 2 Build 1 (May 28, 2018)

New in Zoom Player MAX 14.1 Build 1410 (Feb 1, 2018)

Automatic support for native Windows 7-10 media library folder structure previously only the more basic Windows XP-Vista library structure was supported).
New setting (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions" to instruct Zoom Player to process ".m3u8" playlists.
This setting is disabled by default as it can cause conflicts with services that require DirectShow filters to process this type of playlist format.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker) to specify the download tracking plugins refresh rate. This value only affects the media library and file browsing navigation interfaces, the download tracking navigation interface refreshes at a higher rate automatically.
Please note that using a low number (under 10 seconds) may impact performance when tracking large file lists (over 10,000 entries).
New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it from passing file entries to Zoom Player that do not actually exist on the disk drive. This setting is off by default but can increase performance when dealing with a large number of torrents that were only partially downloaded.
New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it from passing file entries to Zoom Player that are marked as "do not download". This setting is off by default.
Enabling this setting can reduce some computations and speed up the listing process but at the same time it prevents you from later changing the download priority on these files.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to enable Zoom Player's DSP filter only for visualizations.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to set an initial audio re-synchronization value for visualizations (Zoom Player's DSP filter is required for this setting to function).
The last play position is now drawn over the thumbnail in TV Jukebox mode.
Windows 10 creators edition changed how fonts are rendered by enabling clear-type rendering at higher resolutions. Clear-type is a lot slower to draw and at resolutions above 1080p causes severe performance degradation in Zoom Player's fullscreen navigation interfaces.
Previously, to solve this issue, you could set Zoom Player to override windows' font rendering. From this version, the setting is enabled by default (you can still change it manually under "Adv. Options / Interface Fullscreen Navigation / Customization").
Zoom Player's default window size for the onyx skin was changed to present a default video size of 960x540 (up from the previous 604x340) and for the alba skin, the default video size was changed to 1280x720.
You can now press the escape key to cancel a 'play all files in folder' feature mid-action. Accidentally playing an entire drive could have caused Zoom Player to appear unresponsive.
You can now press any navigation key to cancel a 'play all files in folder' feature mid-action.
The download plugins synchronization has been completely rewritten, and should no longer cause any user interface slow-downs.
The torrents plugin has been greatly optimized, working much faster with large file lists.
The download fullscreen navigation interface should scroll much smoothly when dealing with a large number of files.
The YouTube (Channel/Search/Trending), Playlist and RSS Feed media library plugins have been optimized for greater performance.
Optimized core string handling routines, improving script parsing e.g. Skin parsing) and other areas.
Media Library plugin result entries now display the media's title instead of the file name or URL in list mode (previously the title only showed in thumbnail mode).
A 'processing, please hold ...' message now appear when it takes Zoom Player longer to close due to background tasks (media scraping, download plugin sync) still being active.
Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode while the media library is opened should be cleaner and faster (less visual junk in the transition).
Opening the media library, especially on 4K displays showed a low resolution image of the media library for a split second before displaying the full resolution version.
The double-draw event caused both the described visual glitch as well as a performance penality.
Resizing the Zoom Player window while the media library was visible in thumbnail mode could cause the thumbnails to display in the wrong size.
Selecting a custom Audio Renderer for audio visualizations did not work well (the wrong audio renderer was used at times).
Loading a text file would not display the file name in the title area.
Using the Stop function to close the playing media did not work if the playing media was a text file.
Fixed a scraping bug where the ".nfo" file detection algorithm would fail with files/folders names containing unicode characters.
Fixed a possible crash that would trigger sometimes on an initial run after a fresh install.
Fixed a crash when playing a live video stream using MadVR as the video renderer and trying to use the pause button on the control bar.
Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation interfaces will no longer freeze for two seconds if the Torrents download plugin is enabled and qBittorrent isn't running.
Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation interfaces will no longer freeze for long periods if qBittorrent is seeding many torrents.
The media library should no longer freeze for a few seconds when retrieving large file lists from qBittorrent using the Torrents plugin.
The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) did not show up when playing in fullscreen on a secondary monitor.
The torrents download plugin was not recognizing a file's download priority correctly after the latest qBittorrent release.
The torrents download plugin was listing files returned by qBittorrent but no longer existing on the disk drive in the root folder instead of their (no longer existing) path.
The currently selected playlist editor entries would lose their selection if a playlist update was triggered after the listed media's duration has been scraped.
Trying to play a streaming media URL that contained trailing spaces would fail. Trailing spaces are now trimmed (you can still use encoded space characters in the URL).
The Lock-UI (user interface) feature used to prevent accidental clicks did not block some click and double-click actions.
The Dolby Digital Plus audio format was not being displayed with an icon on the TV and Movie jukebox screens.
The play position tool-tip was sometimes displayed in the wrong screen position on multi-monitor displays. MIDI audio playback should be more reliable.
The media library's playlist plugin no longer shows an invalid duration value if the playlist entry has no duration.

New in Zoom Player MAX 14 Build 1400 (Nov 29, 2017)

New Download & Tracking plugin API has been developed.
The API specifies which file extensions or URL sub-string matches to pass to the Download & Tracking API instead of trying to play.
This information is specified under: Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions : Download
The API can be used create a plugin that integrate with 3rd party download software or directly download the content itself.
The tracking portion of the API shows the currently download state and whether there's a good chance the download is currently playable. This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
The download tracking navigation interface has been enhanced with the ability to predict when you can begin playing a media file while it is still downloading.
When using the new Torrents plugin, the prediction is based on the number of torrent pieces that have successfully downloaded from the beginning and end of the media file.
By default this is 2% from the beginning of the file and 1% from the end.
The Torrents plugin requires qBittorrent version 4 or newer to work. qBittorrent is now available to download through the Install Center.
A quick slideshow demonstrating how to use the Torrents plugin: https://www.facebook.com/zoomplayer/videos/1475689062513061/
We are building a library and possibly a seed-box to show case public-domain and creative commons videos. If you would like to expose your video to Zoom Player's user base, please contact us at: https://inmatrix.com/email/business.shtml
Download tracking plugins can be enabled, disabled and configured through a new interface under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker".
New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign any playlist as a media library category.
The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used to select the Audio Rendering device (audio output), making it easy to switch between different output modes (switching audio between rooms, speaker setups, headphone output, etc).
The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used to select the Video Rendering device, making it easy to test out different rendering qualities or in cases where a particular video may not play correctly in your preferred video renderer.
New "Facebook" smart play profile for playing facebook video URLs using the 3DYD directshow filter.
New "Vimeo" smart play profile for playing viemo video URLs using the 3DYD directshow filter.
New "Daily Motion" smart play profile for playing Daily Motion video URLs using the 3DYD directshow filter.
New "Streaming Services" smart play profile supporting streaming videos from:
Bofunk.com
Break.com
Ebaumsworld.com
Godtube.com
Liveleak.com
Tcmag.com
Teamfourstar.com
Veoh.com
Vk.com
Vkmag.com
Yourepeat.com
New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to prevent files or URLs from being saved to the play history. All you need to do is specify a partial string, for example "some folder name" or "someurl.org".
New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to hide files or URLs from being displayed in the play history dialogs while still remember the last playback position, volume, subtitle track, etc. All you need to do is specify a partial string, for example "some folder name" or "someurl.org".
New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to disable seeking controls when playing files or URLs containing a specified path or text.
New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to override the audio renderer when playing with visualization.
This allows you to use the "DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer" to support a volume fading effect on Start/End/Play/Stop/Seek only when playing with visualizations. This is similar to how WinAmp fades audio between tracks.
Download the DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer here: (http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=14)
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) to display all navigation interfaces on a secondary monitor.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls whether Zoom Player switches to the next/previous track when using next/previous chapter function on a media that does not contain chapters. This setting is enabled by default.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that can force playback to delay for a specified number of milliseconds after finishing to play a track with audio visualizations.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that specifies the visualization rendering frame rate, by default 30fps.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that reloads a live stream if the stream disconnects unexpectedly.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically play the next media in the playlist after deleting the currently playing media. This setting is disabled by default.
New "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" media library category setting used to scrape online for content based on the media's title (instead of the file name).
New "Do not display the media's position/duration on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the current play position and the media's duration from appearing on top of thumbnails.
New "Do not display a media format (audio/video/picture) icon on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the drawing of a media format indicator icon from appearing on top of thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / On Screen Display) that controls the OSD clock position.
You can now create and save chapter points (bookmarks) for streaming URLs.
When taking screenshots of the playing video (Alt+F keyboard macro), the current play position is now saved as part of the file name.
The fullscreen information navigation interface now includes media format information extracted using the MediaInfo.dll plugin.
New (optional) control bar button to open/hide the fullscreen stream selection navigation interface.
New "exSetAudTrack" extended function that sets the current audio track.
New "exSetSubTrack" extended function that sets the current subtitle track.
The media library "TheMovieDB" plugin's Movie/TV detection accuracy has increased by cropping out more undesired key-words from file/folder names, using a fuzzy search algorithm to better detect non-exact movie names matches and preferring a release year with a partial name match to an exact name match with a mismatched release date.
The internal image decoder (JPEG/GIF/PNG/BMP) is now capable of downloading and displaying images directly from web servers (e.g. a playlist full of image URLs).
Using the "open streaming link" or "open streaming link from keyboard" functions will now relay downloadable URLs to any matching download plugin (for example .torrent/magnet links) without affecting the current playback.
The media library 'RSS Feed' plugin now caps the maximum cached entries to 2000 and the description length to 3500 characters. Otherwise, over time the RSS plugin data would become too large and would stop displaying.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now draws a playing icon next to the currently playing track.
The YouTube Search and Trending media library plugins will now use a search/trending thumbnail when creating new categories. This change does not apply to previously created categories. The new images can be manually assigned using the category configuration dialog. By default the new images are located here using Windows 64bit: "c:Program Files (x86)Zoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Search.jpg" "c:Program Files (x86)Zoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Trending.jpg" And here using Windows 32bit: "c:Program FilesZoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Search.jpg" "c:Program FilesZoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Trending.jpg"
The new version update notification will now include a condensed highlight list of what changed in the latest version (will only appear in the next version released after this one).
The "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video file within the folder instead of the folder name" media library category setting now works better in TV Jukebox mode by scraping only for the show name, no longer scraping season/episode numbers from the file name.
Pruning the play history (using the button) no longer erases URL entries, only local files that were erased from the disk drive.
The thumbnail and meta-data cache folder is now cleared once a week instead of on every exit, improving the time it takes Zoom Player to close.
Many of the main navigation icons were polished to give the default navigation theme a more consistent look.
The "unknown" icon has been updated to better suit the UX design.
The media library plugin API can now accept local-file thumbnails when creating new categories.
Fixed a major issue with random play that would cause it to stop working after the entire playlist has been finished playing one time.
Installing an audio device or a custom audio renderer filter would change the selected audio renderer for DVDs and WMP ActiveX playback.
Fixed a crash when trying to open a URL from the clipboard when the clipboard contained junk text.
Using local settings files while running multiple Zoom Player instances from different folders prevented changed settings from being saved.
Zoom Player didn't look for subtitles in the XySubFilter's paths definition, causing subtitles not to load when they were not in the same folder as the video.
Playing a media from the windows explorer (or other 3rd party software) would show an "are you sure?" prompt by accident.
Fixed a crash when trying to load a malformed play history cache file.
The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of sync, triggering a new components update notification to appear within 2 weeks after running the Instal Center.
Registry entries were not being saved/loaded properly when running Zoom Player in Windows Vista compatibility mode (and possibly other compatibility modes). This of course lead to instability.
When enabling the "Seek to key-frames when using LAV Video decoder (faster, less accurate seeking)" setting, some file handles were not properly closed, preventing the playing media from being erased until Zoom Player was closed.
The key-mapping editor's search feature did not work.
Fixed a freeze triggered by the media library's 'RSS Feed' plugin on certain RSS feeds that used an ASCII #13 as a line break.
When playing a SHOUTcast stream, the playlist editor cleared the selected entry every second.
Smart Play's "Configure File Source" dialog did not set a default value for the "Use with" field when a non-english language pack was used.
The "stay on top" setting would stop functioning when exiting fullscreen mode with the playlist editor visible.
The Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
The controlbar's volume pop-up slider did not appear in the correct position under some circumstances.
Fixed a glitch where TAG display for a local file playback would show "???" instead of international characters.
Fixed an issue where audio visualization wouldn't render in the correct resolution when changing the visualization display size.
Wrong duration displayed in the playlist when using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control to play streaming media.
Double-clicking a station list entry to begin playback while the media library was opened could trigger a playback of whatever was highlighted in the media library instead of the station list entry.
Hiding the "Media Scanner" and "Remove Category Folder(s)" from the media library's category listing would break keyboard quick search from working on the last category listed.
In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay would be twice as long as the specified value.
Playback of ASX playlists did not work.
With some language packs, the text for the station manager's left column would cut-off.
Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the non-debug version.
The Double-Click function did not work when clicking audio visualizations.
The default value for the new "Navigation on Monitor" setting was accidentally set to as fullscreen on a the first monitor instead of the current monitor (within the window or fullscreen).
Fixed a crash when trying to close the media library just as it was being opened.
Fixed a bug in the smart play source filter "new profile" dialog which caused the "use with the following URLs" entries to be lost when pressing smart play's auto-configure button.
The OSD clock is now closed when the options dialog is open as it caused other windowed opened through the options dialog to hide behind the options dialog window.
Fixed a few small memory leaks.

New in Zoom Player MAX 14 Beta 1 Build 1 (Aug 17, 2017)

NEW:
New Download & Tracking plugin API has been developed:
The API specifies which file extensions or url sub-string matches to pass to the Download & Tracking API instead of trying to play. This information is specified under: Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions : Download
The API can be used create a plugin that integrate with 3rd party download software or directly download the content itself.
The tracking portion of the API shows the currently download state and whether there's a good chance the download is currently playbable.
This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New Torrent download plugin:
The torrent download plugin uses the Download & Tracking API to pass torrent URLs and magnetic links directly to the open-source qBitTorrent project.
Once a torrent is added to qBitTorrent, you can track the download state of each file in the torrent using the download tracking fullscreen navigation interface
New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign any playlist as a media library category.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls whether Zoom Player switches to the next/previous track when using next/previous chapter function on a media that does not contain chapters. This setting is enabled by default.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that can force playback to delay for a specified number of milliseconds after finishing to play a track with audio visualizations.
New "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" media library category setting used to scrape online for content based on the media's title (instead of the file name).
New "Do not display the media's position/duration on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the current play position and the media's duration from appearing on top of thumbnails.
New "Do not display a media format (audio/video/picture) icon on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the drawing of a media format indicator icon from appearing on top of thumbnails
CHANGES:
The media library 'RSS Feed' plugin now caps the maximum cached entries to 2000 and the description length to 3500 characters. Otherwise, over time the RSS plugin data would become too large and would stop displaying.
FIXES:
Zoom Player didn't look for subtitles in the XySubFilter's paths definition, causing subtitles not to load when they were not in the same folder as the video.
The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of synch, triggering a new components update notification to appear within 2 weeks after runing the Instal Center.
When enabling the "Seek to key-frames when using LAV Video decoder faster, less accurate seeking)" setting, some file handles were not properly closed, preventing the playing media from being erased until Zoom Player was closed.
The key-mapping editor's search feature did not work.
Fixed a freeze triggered by the media library's 'RSS Feed' plugin on certain RSS feeds that used an ascii #13 as a line break.
When playing a SHOUTcast stream, the playlist editor cleared the selected entry every second.
Smart Play's "Configure File Source" dialog did not set a default value for the "Use with" field when a non-english language pack was used.
The Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
Double-clicking a station list entry to begin playback while the media library was opened could trigger a playback of whatever was highlighted in the media library instead of the station list entry.
In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay would be twice as long as the specified value.
Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the non-debug version.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.7.1 Build 1371 (Jul 20, 2017)

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.7 Build 1370 (Jul 5, 2017)

The Media Library's settings page has been expanded to configure the layout of each category and the category list itself without ever exiting the fullscreen navigation interface. The following customization options are now available:
Per-Category:
Aspect Ratio
Text-Box lines
Text height
Horizontal spacing
Vertical spacing
Globally:
Categories columns
Categories Text-Box lines
Categories Text height
Text margins
Changes:
The default fullscreen navigation skin has been tweaked a bit and now includes a new variant with larger fonts for the visually impaired and small displays.
Support for automatically scaling of un-skinned dialogs based on the monitor's DPI setting. This should help greatly on 4K or higher resolution screens (disabled by default, see "override scaling of un-skinned dialogs" below). For 4K/8K skinned interfaces, there are several options at the Inmatrix.com shop.
Support for high DPI scaling of Windows standard dialogs (Open/Save file, folder browser, font selector, color selector, etc).
YouTube subtitles are now supported when playing using DirectShow.
The YouTube plugin has been tweaked to include the channel name in a more prominent position.
The bottom-meta data for regular media now includes a field for the format (file extension, e.g. MP4/MP3/etc).
The equalizer full screen navigation interface has been polished to include translucent equalizer bars.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of columns drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the text height used for drawing the media library's category list thumbnail text.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of text lines drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the margin area around the media library's thumbnail text.
New Setting (Adv. Options / System) to override scaling of un-skinned dialogs by using a custom value (Automatic/100%/125%/150%/200%/300%/400%). This manual control further enhances usability for the visually impaired, regardless of screen resolution.
Support for qBitTorrent v3.3.13 new security enhancements. For older versions of Zoom Player, you must use qBitTorrent v3.3.12 to continue tracking your downloads.
Media Titles are now properly extracted and displayed with M4V/MP4 files.
Audio Visualization will now work for streaming audio stations if they are defined as "Radio" stations through the station manager.
New Smart Play setting to control which DirectShow filter is used to stream SHOUTcast and ICEcast streams.
New Smart Play profile setting that determines if Zoom Player should use a profile if the input is a file name, URL or both. * New Smart Play "MP3 (streaming)" profile used to specify which filter should be used with streaming MP3 files (by default LAV Source).
When playing live SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, the on screen display now updates with the currently playing track name.
The internal screen saver now displays the playing media's current play position.
New "fnTitleToClipboard" function to copy the currently playing media's title to the clipboard.
New "fnToggleSub" function to toggle subtitles on and off.
New "fnMediaSrcToClipboard" function that copies the playing media file or URL directly from the playing DirectShow source filter to the Windows clipboard.
New "fnWMPActiveX" function to enable/disable Windows media content streaming using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control.
New "exWMPActiveX" extended function to directly set whether Windows media content streaming will use Windows Media Player's ActiveX control. 0 = Disabled 1 =
Enabled
A cooperation with TheAudioDB.com resulted in an improved album-name identification algorithm (used for scraping Album meta-data and cover art within the Media Library).
The media library's thumbnail font size configuration was calculated in a poorly conceived manner that made it difficult to change a thumbnail's font size and line numbers while maintaining consistency across different thumbnail aspect ratios. This has led to a complete rewrite of the text rendering code and new defaults being applied which may affect your previous thumbnail layout settings.
Switching between categories should update the thumbnails a bit quicker (~300ms) if they were previously memory cached.
Adding a station to the station manager now automatically highlights the newly created station.
LAV Source is now used by default for SHOUTcast type streams.
When using LAV Source to stream SHOUTcast/ICEcast content, the playing track's now is now properly displayed in the title and timeline areas.
Opening a ".PLS" playlist containing URLs is now assumed to contain SHOUTcast streaming audio stations.
The Options dialog search window still appeared too small on very high resolution screens, will now show more result lines.
Slightly tweaked the SHOUTcast station browser dialog to increase space for translated texts.
Fixed a crash when listing some RSS streams in the media library.
Fixed a list index out of bounds error when starting in HTPC mode. - The Windows media library categories are now properly presented with Zoom Player's default Audio/Video/Picture layouts.
Fixed a "category is empty" message when trying to list RSS streams with very long descriptions.
Playing ICEcast ".xspf" streams did not work with some servers.
Deleting a media library category using the media library "remove category" feature left some cache files behind when clicking the trash can icon (pressing enter or double-clicking did not trigger this issue).
An "new components update on the install center" notification was accidentally triggered by Install Center update entries for Zoom Player itself (which has a separate update notification), resulting in a double notification.
The Mouse Wheel, Navigation Style, Information, Main, Stream Selection, Media Scanner and Play History were showing the wrong number of text lines which caused the list to appear slightly off-center.
Pressing the "Auto-Scan System" button on the Audio Visualization Adv. Options dialog page would trigger a crash with some Sonique plugins preventing the scan from functioning. Now the crashing plugin is skipped.
Adding too many audio visualization plugins would cause the plugin list to reset once Zoom Player was restarted.
Disabling Smart Play by specifying a file extension to ignore would also break Smart Play for URLs or files that did not contain a file extension.
Adding a station using either the Station Manager's SHOUTcast station browser or using the fullscreen station navigation interface did not work if a non-english language pack was in use.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, the "Previous Folder" function worked on the root level even though there was no folder above it, resulting in an empty screen display.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, navigating left from the functions page would go up a folder instead of returning to the station list.
When setting the thumbnail text to appear above the thumbnail, the media library's category thumbnail display would improperly position the thumbnail under the text.
The media library category cache did not function properly, leading to a slight performance hit when initially opening the media library.
The Graph Information dialog did not display unicode text correctly.
Fixed a cosmetic issue with the background of the media library's category thumbnails which would appear with some skins or thumbnail configurations.
Using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play an audio stream could have resulted in some UI functions not working correctly.
Fixed a few crashes when zpresampler.dll was not found.
Cosmetic fixes to various dialogs.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.7 Build 6 RC 3 (Jun 29, 2017)

New:
The Media Library's settings page has been expanded to configure the layout of each category and the category list itself without ever exiting the fullscreen navigation interface.
The following customization options are now available, Per-Category:
1. Aspect Ratio
2. Text-Box lines
3. Text height
4. Horizontal spacing
5. Vertical spacing
Globally:
1. Categories columns
2. Categories Text-Box lines
3. Categories Text height
4. Text margins
The default fullscreen navigation skin has been tweaked a bit and now includes a new variant with larger fonts for the visually impaired and small displays.
Support for automatically scaling of un-skinned dialogs based on the monitor's DPI setting. This should help greatly on 4K or higher resolution screens (disabled by default, see "override scaling of un-skinned dialogs" below).
For 4K/8K skinned interfaces, there are several options at the Inmatrix.com shop.
Support for high DPI scaling of Windows standard dialogs (Open/Save file, folder browser, font selector, color selector, etc).
YouTube subtitles are now supported when playing using DirectShow.
The YouTube plugin has been tweaked to include the channel name in a more prominent position.
The bottom-meta data for regular media now includes a field for the format file extension, e.g. MP4/MP3/etc).
The equalizer full screen navigation interface has been polished to include translucent equalizer bars.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of columns drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the text height used for drawing the media library's category list thumbnail text.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of text lines drawn for the
media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the margin area around the media library's thumbnail text.
New Setting (Adv. Options / System) to override scaling of un-skinned dialogs by using a custom value (Automatic/100%/125%/150%/200%/300%/400%). This manual control further enhanches usability for the visually impaired, regardless of screen resolution.
Support for qBitTorrent v3.3.13 new security enhancements. For older versions of Zoom Player, you must use qBitTorrent v3.3.12 to continue tracking your downloads.
Media Titles are now properly extracted and displayed with M4V/MP4 files.
Audio Visualization will now work for streaming audio stations if they are defined as "Radio" stations through the station manager.
New Smart Play setting to control which DirectShow filter is used to stream SHOUTcast and ICEcast streams.
New Smart Play profile setting that determines if Zoom Player should use a profile if the input is a file name, URL or both.
New Smart Play "MP3 (streaming)" profile used to specify which filter should be used with streaming MP3 files (by default LAV Source).
When playing live SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, the on screen display now updates with the currently playing track name.
The internal screen saver now displays the playing media's current play position.
New "fnTitleToClipboard" function to copy the currently playing media's title to the clipboard.
New "fnToggleSub" function to toggle subtitles on and off.
New "fnMediaSrcToClipboard" function that copies the playing media file or URL directly from the playing DirectShow source filter to the Windows clipboard.
New "fnWMPActiveX" function to enable/disable Windows media content streaming using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control.
New "exWMPActiveX" extended function to directly set whether Windows media content streaming will use Windows Media Player's ActiveX control. 0 = Disabled/ 1 = Enabled
Changes:
A cooperation with TheAudioDB.com resulted in an improved album-name identification algorithm (used for scraping Album meta-data and cover art within the Media Library).
The media library's thumbnail font size configuration was calculated in a poorly conceived manner that made it difficult to change a thumbnail's font size and line numbers while maintaining consistency across different thumbnail aspect ratios.
This has led to a complete rewrite of the text rendering code and new defaults being applied which may affect your previous thumbnail layout settings.
Switching between categories should update the thumbnails a bit quicker 300ms) if they were previously memory cached.
Adding a station to the station manager now automatically highlights the newly created station.
LAV Source is now used by default for SHOUTcast type streams.
When using LAV Source to stream SHOUTcast/ICEcast content, the playing track's now is now properly displayed in the title and timeline areas.
Opening a ".PLS" playlist containing URLs is now assumed to contain SHOUTcast streaming audio stations.
The Options dialog search window still appeared too small on very high resolution screens, will now show more result lines.
Slightly tweaked the SHOUTcast station browser dialog to increase space for translated texts.
Fixes:
Fixed a crash when listing some RSS streams in the media library.
Fixed a list index out of bounds error when starting in HTPC mode.
The Windows media library categories are now properly presented with
Zoom Player's default Audio/Video/Picture layouts.
Fixed a "category is empty" message when trying to list RSS streams with very long descriptions.
Playing ICEcast ".xspf" streams did not work with some servers.
Deleting a media library cateogry using the media library "remove category" feature left some cache files behind when clicking the
trash can icon (pressing enter or double-clicking did not trigger this issue).
An "new components update on the install center" notification was accidentally triggered by Install Center update entries for Zoom Player itself (which has a separate update notification), resulting in a double notification.
The Mouse Wheel, Navigation Style, Information, Main, Stream Selection, Media Scanner and Play History were showing the wrong number of text lines which caused the list to appear slightly off-center.
Pressing the "Auto-Scan System" button on the Audio Visualization
Adv. Options dialog page would trigger a crash with some Sonique plugins preventing the scan from functioning. Now the crashing plugin is skipped.
Adding too many audio visualization plugins would cause the plugin list to reset once Zoom Player was restarted.
Disabling Smart Play by specifying a file extension to ignore would also break Smart Play for URLs or files that did not contain a file extension.
Adding a station using either the Station Manager's SHOUTcast station browser or using the fullscreen station navigation interface did not work if a non-english language pack was in use.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, the "Previous Folder" function worked on the root level even though there was no folder above it, resulting in an empty screen display.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, navigating left from the functions page would go up a folder instead of returning to the station list.
When setting the thumbnail text to appear above the thumbnail, the media library's category thumbnail display would improperly position the thumbnail under the text.
The media library category cache did not function properly, leading to a slight performance hit when initially opening the media library.
The Graph Information dialog did not display unicode text correctly.
Fixed a few crashs when zpresampler.dll was not found.
Cosmetic fixes to various dialogs.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.7 Build 2 Beta 2 (Jun 11, 2017)

NEW:
The Media Library's settings page has been expanded to configure the layout of each category and the category list itself without ever exiting the fullscreen navigation interface. The following customization options are now available, Per-Category: 1. Aspect Ratio 2. Text-Box lines 3. Text height 4. Horizontal spacing 5. Vertical spacing Globally: 1. Categories columns 2. Categories Text-Box lines 3. Categories Text height 4. Text margins
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of columns drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of text lines drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the margin area around the media library's thumbnail text.
The internal screen saver now displays the playing media's current play position.
CHANGES:
The media library's thumbnail font size configuration was calculated in a poorly conceived manner that made it difficult to change a thumbnail's font size and line numbers while maintaining consistency across different thumbnail aspect ratios. This has led to a complete rewrite of the text rendering code and new defaults being applied which may affect your previous thumbnail layout settings.
Switching between categories should update the thumbnails a bit quicker (~300ms) if they were previously memory cached.
Slightly tweaked the SHOUTcast station browser dialog to increase space for translated texts.
Adding a station to the station manager now automatically highlights the newly created station.
FIXES:
Pressing the "Auto-Scan System" button on the Audio Visualization Adv. Options dialog page would trigger a crash with some Sonique plugins preventing the scan from functioning. Now the crashing plugin is skipped.
Adding too many audio visualization plugins would cause the plugin list to reset once Zoom Player was restarted.
Adding a station using either the Station Manager's SHOUTcast station browser or using the fullscreen station navigation interface did not work if a non-english language pack was in use.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, the "Previous Folder" function worked on the root level even though there was no folder above it, resulting in an empty screen display.
In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, navigating left from the functions page would go up a folder instead of returning to the station list.
When setting the thumbnail text to appear above the thumbnail, the media library's category thumbnail display would improperly position the thumbnail under the text.
The media library category cache did not function properly, leading to a slight performance hit when initially opening the media library.
The Graph Information dialog did not display unicode text correctly.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.5 Build 1350 (May 17, 2017)

The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail area to squeeze in more pixels.
The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's script and advanced options customization settings.
Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
Unlike previous versions where Zoom Player used a static database which over time included more and more dead stations, the SHOUTcast directory is now downloaded in real time, ensuring that every station should be operational.
Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams,
enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
A major performance issue was triggered by the Windows 10 Creators Edition update. In the update, Microsoft forced ClearType font anti-aliasing at larger font sizes. This lead to a massive navigation performance slow-downs on QHD (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160) screens.
More information:
As a work-around, Zoom Player introduced a new setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that lets controls the font anti-aliasing mode used to render the fullscreen navigation text.
The Media Library's RSS feed plugin now caches previous entries that may no longer reside on the RSS feed and shows you cached entries even if the RSS feed server is temporarily down.
New "fnPLEraseFiles" function assigned to the Shift+"Delete" keyboard macro. Wgeb used it erases all selected files in the playlist to the window's Recycle Bin (with confirmation prompt).
New "fnOpenStreamInBrowser" function that opens the currently playing stream in a web browser (might be helpful for YouTube links).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
The Media Library plugin API has been extended with per-category storage path (e.g. RSS feed caching) and a new function which is called when a category using the plugin is deleted (for cleanup purposes).
New function to activate the internal screen saver. This means that youcan now hook user interface actions (like a hot-corner click) with activating the screen saver.
New function to copy the currently playing media's Path/URL to the windows clipboard.
You can now define web pages as "stations" in the station editor to have the web page opened inside Zoom Player's integrated web browser.
New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each fullscreen navigation interface.
The integrated keyboard mapping editor has been rewritten to better support high-DPI displays. As a bonus, the dialog is now resizable as well.
The integrated keyboard mapping editor now shows a 'code' column which signifies a keyboard scan-code or other code used to identify an interface index.
Optimized fullscreen navigation lists line-drawing code by about 10% in cases where the skin didn't specify a background for unselected/empty lines.
The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read.
The text's background is now using a different effect which should make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails.
The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces' user experience.
The main fullscreen navigation interface's click logic has been changed to make it behave the same as the media library's thumb-click logic.
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Error dialog are now limited in size to 94% of the Zoom Player interface width.
The Zoom Player news feed that's accessible through the options dialog has been simplified and will hopefully eliminate the javascript error some users have been experiencing when trying to view the news feed.
The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
A missing DLL prevented the Pixel Shaders from being compiled and used to post-process a video image.
When loading .ZPL playlist files, playback did not resume from the the last file played in the playlist under some conditions.
The kinetic scrolling feature did not work in the media library's category list.
The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface was not updating the screen when scrolling by holding the down/up keys for a long period.
If the monitor's DPI setting was set to a really high value (when used in 4K monitors), it would cause the options dialog's search window to appear really small, hiding the search result area.
Fixed a possible conflict between Zoom Player's internal DSP filter and bit-streaming DTS-HD and possibly other multi-channel audio formats.
The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
The scroll wheel did not function correctly in some of the advanced options dialog's scroll boxes.
Playing a new track from the fullscreen playlist navigation interface no longer pops the playlist editor to the top.
Fixed a bug in the Media Library plugin API that prevented unicode (non-english) language searches from working using the YouTube search plugin.
The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
Under some conditions, the media libary's scrollbar widget did not appear on the categories page.
Navigating the fullscreen file browsing interface's subtitle search result page with the keyboard did not scroll the results when reaching the bottom of the screen.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
Opening a ".URL" file and then opening a media file resulted in the web page remaining on screen while the media played in the background.
The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
Aggressively hiding the mouse cursor has been disabled when HTML/YouTube/Flash interactivity modes are enabled as it prevented the mouse cursor from being restored on motion.
Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not scroll down to the searched category thumbnail.
Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not work at all unless you previously entered a category.
Using higher level scan-code keys (like Volume keys on certain keyboards) in fullscreen navigation interfaces that support quick search using the keyboard would trigger a quick-search lock that caused the interfaces to not respond properly.
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
The RSS Feed media library plugin would show duplicate entries on some RSS feeds.
Fixed a small cosmetical glitch that caused the scrollbar background area in the media library category to be drawn twice in slightly different vertical positions.
Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.1 Build 1 Beta 3 (Apr 20, 2017)

New:
Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams, enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME
Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream 1080p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each fullscreen navigation interface.
Changes :
The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read.
The text's background is now using a different effect which should make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails.
The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces' user experience.
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Fixes:
The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.1 Build 1 Beta 2 (Apr 18, 2017)

New:
The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail area to squeeze in a few more pixels.
The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's script and advanced options customization settings.
Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
Unlike previous versions where Zoom Player used a static database which over time included more and more dead stations, the SHOUTcast directory is now downloaded in real time, ensuring that every station should be operational.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
Changes:
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow
YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Fixes:
The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.1 Build 1 Beta 1 (Apr 10, 2017)

New in Zoom Player MAX 13.0 Build 5 Beta 5 (Feb 5, 2017)

NEW:
New media library plugin system allowing 3rd party developers to create media library categories based on content meta-data provided by the plugin.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plugin system, an open-source project has been created to implement a 'YouTube channel', 'YouTube Search' and 'YouTube Trends' media library category plugins.
YouTube Channels:
After specifying a YouTube channel's URL, the plugin automatically downloads the channel's category image, retrieves the channel's name and sets up the default category settings and layout best suited to display a YouTube channel.
YouTube Searches:
Simply specify a search term and the plugin will return results based on relevance (as determined by YouTube).
YouTube Trends:
Select a country and the plugin displays the available trending categories as determined by YouTube for that country.
Choose from the trending category list or simply select 'everything'.
Using the plugins:
The new plugins are accessible through the Media Library category editor (Shift+"M") as entries on a new drop-down list that is located right next to the "Create Category" button.
The source code for the YouTube media library category plugins can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-YouTube-Channel-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-
Player:
New subtitle download plugin system allowing 3rd party developers to create plugins that download subtitles for your media library collection.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the new subtitle download plugin system, an open-source project has been created to implement an 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin.
The new plugin is accessible on the newly re-designed Advanced Options dialog's "Subtitle" page (Playback / Video / Subtitles).
Note:
OpenSubtitles.org limits anonymous downloads by IP, use the configuration dialog to specify a user name and password to bypass any anonymous login limits (registration is free and passwords are saved as MD5 hashes not as clear text).
The code for the 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-OpenSubtitles.org-API-support-for-Zoom-Player
New YouTube IFRAME (web based) player support, providing official YouTube
playback. All YouTube URLs automatically use the new IFRAME player interface.
You can disable the IFRAME player support in the options to force Zoom Player to use DirectShow for playback (Adv. Options / Playback > Use YouTube IFRAME video player to play YouTube content).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play) that allows you to select the default filter used when streaming "http/https" URLs not covered by a Smart Play profile.
The default option is now "LAV Splitter Source", but you can also choose "File Source (URL)" or "Let DirectShow decide".
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that switches the media library's thumbnail view category list aspect ratio between Album Art (1:1) or Widescreen (16:9).
New Media Library option for the "Start Player in" setting.
(Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
New smart play profile for media files encoded with the DNxHD codec.
New "Please Wait" window that pops when there are operations that are taking a long time (like fetching a YouTube channel's video list).
Media titles are now used instead of the File name/URL on the system tray hint and on the windows taskbar button.
The play history now saves media titles, making play history clearer, especially with network streams and media library plugins.
New skin script code to control the media library's bottom meta-data's font and font style of each meta-data element.
CHANGES:
The fullscreen navigation icons are now loaded on demand instead of all in advanced, reducing memory usage and cutting down the initial startup time by approximately 33%.
The default navigation interface has been reduced in size by 15%, improving Zoom Player's initial fullscreen navigation interfaces start time on PCs with slower HDD/Flash drives.
Pressing the "Open Media Library" button on the media library category editor now opens the media library with the current
edited category selected.
The play history dialog will now display the recently played items first in the list.
The play history dialog should now open significantly faster (nearly instantly), especially with a play history database of over 10,000 entries.
The time display on thumbnails used to show videos with a duration of under 10 minutes as "09:30", this have now changed to show "9:30", saving a bit more of the thumbnail area.
When opening the media library, the last played position for the currently playing media is now updated straight away (previously it would update when the playing media was closed).
The Open URL function now tries to identify a URL in the windows clipboard. If a valid URL is detected, it automatically filled into the open url dialog, otherwise the last opened URL is shown by default. The station list dialog now remembers and restores the scroll offset
within the station list, restoring the dialog to it's last display position each time.
Updated MediaInfo to v0.7.92.1.
FIXES:
Shifting/Zooming the video screen position while in fullscreen would break the Hot Corners feature.
Fixed a very rare case where opening a media file could trigger a freeze if the background thread that grabs the media's duration was active.
Play history should now restore position for URL streams.
Fixed an issue where playing a SHOUTcast/ICEcast streaming station and then restarting Zoom Player would not allow you to resume playing the previous station from the playlist.
The media library's category list would use the wrong aspect ratio thumbnail in some cases where the active category was password protected.
Switching the Media Library's category filter mode would reload the active category's content. Now the content is only read when entering the category, speeding up the category filter switch.
Fixed an issue where the media library's path would not show any text at all.
Accessing the media library's category screen could at times trigger an unnecessary reload of the category's content.
Fixed a stack-overflow crash when trying to open a playlist that contained the playlist's file name as an entry (creating a loop).
I would like to thank Sultan Albalawi for the report:
https://www.exploit-db.com/author/?a=8741
Using the "Open Webpage" function did not work for secure HTTP (links starting with "https://").
Switching the Zoom Player language pack to a non-english language could have caused the favorite station list to be wiped.
The word "PreAmp" was hard coded into Zoom Player instead of using the translated text when using a non-english language pack.
Open the equalizer without ever opening the playlist editor could trigger a weird state where the equalizer always initially show up docked under the main window.
Using the backspace key after using the media library's movie jukebox mode's file view now returns to jukebox movie view instead of thumbnail view.
Adding media entries to the playlist using the media library's function menu did not add the media's title (only the file name/URL).
The playlist editor's "Add streaming URL" button did not use the newer open URL dialog.
Opening the fullscreen chapter/bookmark navigation interface did not pause playback when the setting to do so was enabled.
Ejecting a drive/device while playing a stream would cause the stream playback to stop.
When the media library is opened and the previously opened folder no longer exists, the media library will try to go up the folder tree to the first parent folder that exists.
Fixed an issue when OSD messages would not appear if the "Use Exclusive Fullscreen with VMR9 Renderless mode (use with care)" setting was enabled in some cases.
This same bug caused screen-refresh issues with some of the fullscreen navigation pages under some conditions.
When the media library's dynamic scrollbar was disabled, it still triggered unnecessary screen updates.
When the media library updated the clock, it would not clear the background behind the path area, causing small cosmetic glitches.
Wrote a work-around for M3U UTF8 encoded playlists that were not properly marked as UTF8 using a BOM.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.7 Build 1270 (Nov 30, 2016)

New Zoom Player settings Export/Import feature that saves all of Zoom Player's settings, profiles and configuration files to a single ZIP archive and can later on restore Zoom Player's settings from within Zoom Player itself (making it compatible with the Windows Store version of Zoom Player).
Both settings are accessible through Zoom Player's advanced options dialog by pressing the "Help / Export" button.
The following settings are supported by the export feature:
Activation Key file
Options dialog settings
Smart Play profiles
Skin color tinting profiles
Equalizer presets
Media library categories
Play history cache
Playback scheduler schedule
Streaming station manager entries
Custom right-click context menu script file
Custom Media/DVD background images
Custom Media/DVD keyboard mapping files
The smart play source filter configuration dialog now allows you to specify a partial URL instead (or in combination) with file extensions, allowing you to setup custom filters based on the site's URL. This allows using such filters as the "3DYD YouTube Source" to stream youtube content directly (https://ys.3dyd.com/).
Two new category types have been introduced "TV Shows" and "Movies". Zoom Player tries to automatically assign previous categories to these new types based on the 'scrape content mode' previously assigned to the category.
The media library filter icons that appear under the category list are now accessible using the keyboard by pressing the up or down arrow keys on the first/last category entry. Once activated, you can use the left/right arrow keys to switch between the filtering modes.
The playlist editor and the playlist fullscreen navigation interface now show the current play position next to the actively playing track.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to switch the category layout between list and thumbnail view modes.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that controls how the thumbnail memory cache encodes the images.
The default value is to store as JPEG images which uses the least amount of RAM. But for higher performance, especially on lower end CPUs, switching to RAW 24bit or 32bit will improve performance.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation Media Scanner' is displayed.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation
Remove category folder(s)' is displayed.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to prevent Zoom Player from trying to parse ".PLS" files and instead lets directshow choose a filter to parse the files. This improves SHOUTcast streaming reliability. If you use .PLS files as SHOUTcast stations outside the station manager, you will need to enable this setting
New "/MediaFilter:[Number]" command line parameter to set the media library's filter mode. Valid values are:
0 = ALL
1 = Movies
2 = TV Shows
3 = Videos
4 = Audio
5 = Pictures
6 = Executables
The media library's filter mode is now saved/restored when re-opening Zoom Player.
With the "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played (otherwise show error)" setting enabled, you can now press the Stop button to stop from continuing to the next Playlist item.
The station manager has been enhanced with an integrated search box.
New "fnPlayingToClipboard" function that copies the currently playing media file/URL to the clipboard.
Zoom Player should start between 10%-300% faster, especially if there are many items in the play history.
Optimized the default fullscreen navigation skin to require less resize operations improving load/open time and taking up to 20% less RAM.
Optimized the file name hashing algorithm which should improve performance in several areas.
When fullscreen navigation 'Safe Mode' is enabled, the media library's Media Scanner' and 'Remove category folder(s)' are no longer displayed.
Disabling the "Show media content specific to the media library's category type" setting now shows all media files in a category previously it would show the content based on the category filter).
The selected entry on the station manager is now restored when re-opening the interface.
The station manager now lets you specify a "SHOUTcast" station type.
Any station set as SHOUTcast are now opened as SHOUTcast streams even if the "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no file ext. is specified in the URL (link)" setting is disabled.
SHOUTcast stations added from station browser or the fullscreen navigation station list are now automatically marked as SHOUTcast.
The Station Browser dialog entries no longer resets each time the dialog is closed and reopened.
The Add station dialog (station manager) remembers the last station mode TV/Radio/SHOUTcast) used.
The default media library folder scraping blacklist has been cleaned up.
The "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no file ext. is specified in the URL (link)" advanced options setting is now disabled by default and reset to default on initial run. This setting may be removed entirely in future versions as it conflicts with streaming video and is no longer necessary when playing shoutcast streams through the station manager or fullscreen navigation interface.
The playing track on the fullscreen playlist navigation interface has changed from green to blue.
Removing every entry from the "Scrapers folder name blacklist" or "Scrapers file name blacklist" would crash and freeze Zoom Player.
Resizing the media library window could trigger a crash or show an improperly-sized thumbnail.
Fixed several memory leaks
Fixed a freeze when trying to open the media library before the scraping DLL finished initializing
Fixed several cases of "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to use the media library with no thumbnail selected
Switching media library filter mode would reset several values changed since opening the media library (e.g. sorting)
Opening a new media file while the media information dialog was visible did not update to the new media's date and file size
Fixed a small memory leak when re-scraping modified media library folders
The mouse scroll wheel did not work within the media information window while in fullscreen mode
The integrated keyboard-mapping editor did not show the correct key-value for multimedia keys (play/stop/etc), which prevented assigning new functions to multimedia keys
Using the station manager's "Play (Add to Playlist)" button would not actually start playing the new station
In Windows 10 with the "Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen / Zoom mode" enabled and Zoom Player set to start in fullscreen mode Zoom Player appeared as a blank black box
The timeline thumbnail preview appeared in the wrong position on some multi-monitor setups
The windows task bar icon was not correctly updated with the specified task list after restarting Zoom Player
Fixed a crash when trying to close Zoom Player while Zoom Player was in the process of opening a media file or URL
Fixed a crash when trying to play over a 1000 non-existant files or non-responding URLs
Trying to switch stations through the station manager while the previous station did not complete loading could have triggered unforeseen issues
Trying to close Zoom Player while a track was loading could have caused instability in certain cases.
When using the media library category filter and then loading a media file that's currently in a filtered-out category, Zoom Player will now switch the category filter to match the playing file and then show the file highlighted when opening the media library.
If you enabled the video resolution display on the timeline, it should now display even when playing live streams.
Error messages should no longer appear partially offscreen if the message's content is wider than the resolution of the screen.
The play history no longer lists duplicate entries for URL streams.
Zoom Player failed to identify "https://" and "rtmp://" URLs with no duration as live streams, which could trigger a freeze when trying to seek.
Panning a Zoomed video with the mouse would trigger the mouse's click-event (by default play/pause) after letting go of the mouse button.
The station manager dialog was showing character tags instead of the actual characters (e.g. "&" instead of "&").
The station manager wasn't updating the station list display after editing a station.
With "Show OSD filename when opening a new file" enabled, failing to play would show a blank OSD message.
The error dialog wouldn't show "&" characters correctly.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.7 Build 1 Beta 1 (Nov 9, 2016)

NEW:
Two new category types have been introduced "TV Shows" and "Movies".
Zoom Player tries to automatically assign previous categories to these new types based on the 'scrape content mode' previously assigned to the category.
The media library filter icons that appear under the category list are now accessible using the keyboard by pressing the up or down arrow keys on the first/last category entry.
Once activated, you can use the left/right arrow keys to switch between the filtering modes.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to switch the category layout between list and thumbnail view modes.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that controls how the thumbnail memory cache encodes the images.
The default value is to store as JPEG images which uses the least amount of RAM. But for higher performance, especially on lower end CPUs, switching to RAW 24bit or 32bit will improve performance.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation 'Media Scanner' is displayed.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation
'Remove category folder(s)' is displayed.
New "/MediaFilter:[Number]" command line parameter to set the media library's filter mode.
The media library's filter mode is now saved/restored when re-opening Zoom Player.
CHANGES:
When fullscreen navigation 'Safe Mode' is enabled, the media library's 'Media Scanner' and 'Remove category folder(s)' are no longer displayed.
Disabling the "Show media content specific to the media library's category type" setting now shows all media files in a category (previously it would show the content based on the category filter).
Optimized the default fullscreen navigation skin to require less resize operations improving load/open time and taking up to 20% less RAM.
Optimized the file name hashing algorithm which should improve performance in several areas.
FIXES:
Removing every entry from the "Scrapers folder name blacklist" or "Scrapers file name blacklist" would crash and freeze Zoom Player.
Resizing the media library window could trigger a crash or show an improperly-sized thumbnail.
Fixed several memory leaks.
Fixed a freeze when trying to open the media library before the scraping DLL finished initializing.
Fixed several cases of "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to use the media library with no thumbnail selected.
Switching media library filter mode would reset several values changed since opening the media library (e.g. sorting).
Opening a new media file while the media information dialog was visible did not update to the new media's date and file size.
Fixed a small memory leak when re-scraping modified media library folders.
The mouse scroll wheel did not work within the media information window while in fullscreen mode.
The integrated keyboard-mapping editor did not show the correct key-value for multimedia keys (play/stop/etc), which prevented assigning new functions to multimedia keys.
Using the station manager's "Play (Add to Playlist)" button would not actually start playing the new station.
In Windows 10 with the "Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen /
Zoom mode" enabled and Zoom Player set to start in fullscreen mode,
Zoom Player appeared as a blank black box.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.6 Build 1260 (Oct 24, 2016)

New Advanced Options page that controls Zoom Player's behavior when a monitor is attached or detached, when Windows 10's tablet mode is enabled or disabled and when a 2 in 1 laptop's screen is docked or undocked. Each of these mode changes can be assigned a different set of actions and custom functions, even if the mode changed while Zoom Player was not running (optional).
New "Switch to TV JukeBox list view without having the parent folder scraped first" media library category setting. This setting is enabled by default on new categories and I recommend manually enabling this setting on your pre-existing TV JukeBox categories.
The last play position is now displayed on media library thumbnails for audio and video files next to the media's duration (only works with newly played media).
New "/CBar" command line parameter to automatically show the control bar when starting Zoom Player.
The playing media's Title (if one exists) is now displayed in Zoom Player's playing item text and in the timeline area if showing file names in the timeline is enabled.
The skin installation process has become simpler with the addition of a new "Install Skin" button on the skin selection dialog.
Zoom Player can now extract Album art and meta-data from ".M4A" and possibly other audio formats.
The open URL dialog now remembers the last visited URL and keeps a history of the last 10 URLs.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of threads to use while scraping. If your operating system drive ("C:") is mechanical, it may require lowering the thread count to "1" to prevent the user interface from being overly affected by the disk writes.
New "Darken thumbnail background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail.
New "Darken thumbnail text background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail's text.
The ".pls" playlist format is now supported for non-shoutcast streams and files with additional support for displaying file/stream titles.
New right-click "Copy" menu that copies the options search dialog's selected entry into the windows clipboard.
New "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video file within the folder instead of the folder name" media library category setting.
You can now instruct the media library TheMovieDB.org's scraper to ignore part of a file or folder name by using the "^" character, for example "Moonrise Kingdom^(1.85)" would ignore the "(1.85)" portion of the file/folder name, allowing you to add special tags to the file/folder name without breaking scraping.
New "ThumbActiveHighlightMode" skin script variable that controls whether the media library's thumbnail highlight is drawn with the aspect ratio of the thumbnail or as a fixed-size frame around the thumbnail as well as new modes to draw a tiled highlight overlay.
TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has been enhanced with ".nfo" hinting for TV content and improved naming convention detection.
The media library's "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping using metadata scrapers fails" category setting is now automatically disabled when JukeBox mode is active.
The entry for opening the Media Library on the right-click context menu has moved out of the 'navigate' sub-menu and toward the top of the menu.
The "deinterlace" toggle has been removed from the right-click context menu. It is still accessible by keyboard macro (Ctrl+Shift+D).
The "Stream Windows Media content using Windows Media Player ActiveX control" setting is now disabled by default. If you previously relied on this setting, you will need to re-enable it in the advanced options dialog.
The media library's category configuration "Darken thumbnail background" setting has been depreciated in favor of the new options dialog setting.
Closing Zoom Player using the Alt+F4 key would trigger a crash under some circumstances.
Fixed a possible freeze when using MadVR and switching in and out of fullscreen while a timeline preview thumbnail/position hint was visible.
The media library's thumbnail memory cache was cleared when switching between categories if new category used a different thumbnail resolution.
Double clicking a media library unselected and partially visible thumbnail would not trigger the play/mini-menu action.
Fixed a visual glitch in the media library's bottom meta-data area when scrolling and the active thumbnail scrolls off screen.
Switching video renderer should no longer affect restoring the last play position (only works with newly played media).
The "Auto-Play next file in the playlist" setting did not work as intended and at times did play the next file even when disabled.
Random play would not include randomly playing newly added playlist tracks until at least half the original playlist tracks were played.
Some JPEG images with either embedded as Album art or with a mislabeled file extension were not properly recognized as valid JPEG images and were not used/shown.
Depending on the function assigned to the left mouse button, clicking a hot-corner may activate both the hot-corner functionality and the functionality assigned to the left mouse button (instead of only triggering the hot corner action).
Closing Zoom Player while the playlist was retrieving the duration of media files prevented Zoom Player from closing properly.
Pressing on the "disabled" subtitle entry when it was already selected incorrectly displayed an "Unknown error" message.
TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has did not properly detect movies and tv shows containing the "-" character as part of their name.
The Time/Date display area in the fullscreen navigation virtual keyboard would re-draw over and over instead of just once when showing and when the time/date changed.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.5 Build 1250 (Aug 29, 2016)

The media library's TV JukeBox mode is now fully functional.
With jukebox mode enabled in a TV video category, a new list view mode is used to display meta-data (overview, rating, duration, etc) and a thumbnail ("still image" from an online database or a screenshot extracted from the video itself) on the right side of the screen when entering a folder containing media files.
For best performance, use the proper TV JukeBox mode folder structure: Show NameSeason [Number]MediaFiles For example: Game of ThronesSeason 1Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.mp4 Game of ThronesSeason 1Game.of.Thrones.S01E02.mp4 etc...
New Media Icons display in the media library information area at the bottom of the screen and in the Movie Jukebox presentation mode.
Media icons display the Format (AVI/Matroska/etc...), Video Codec (H.264/HECV/etc...), Video Resolution (1080p/UHD 4K/etc...), Audio Codec (DTS/AAC/etc...), Audio Channels (2.0/5.1/7.1/etc...).
Media icons are detected during the scraping process, to display the icons you must re-scrape the content of your media library. This is done the Media Library Category Editor (Shift+"M") or through the media library's function page's 'scraping' menu.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to display Media Icons in the media library information area and in movie jukebox presentation mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that specifies whether thumbnail display should used a dynamically visible scroll bar (suitable for tablets and touch devices) or a fixed scroll bar (suitable for PC and Mouse input).
The "Navigation Scrollbar Size" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) has four new possible values: 1. Dynamic Smallest 2. Dynamic Small 3. Dynamic Large 4. Dynamic Max
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to override the skin-script's font effect (used in lists) that now include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting that only let you force an "outline" effect).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override the skin-script's font effect (used in thumbnails) that now include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting that only let you force an "outline" effect).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) allowing you to assign keyboard functionality to the "Insert" key when fullscreen navigation is not in use.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) to show thumbnail previews even if the playing media does not report key-frame. Note that allowing media with no key frame reporting to display thumbnails over the timeline can take much longer.
New Setting (Media Library Category Editor / Configure) to re-scrape a folder's thumbnail if the folder's "modified" time-stamp changes.
The advanced playlist control has become more powerful with integrated sorting that does not affect the main playlist until items are moved.
The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) has been restructured and expanded to include the media's file size and date as well as full information on the file from MediaInfoLib (MediaInfo DLL).
Zoom Player is now listed as a Windows "AutoPlay" option for Music, Videos and Pictures.
The Mini color control fullscreen navigation interface will now display the name (brightness/saturation/etc...) and not only an icon.
Scraped poster/backdrop/still images are now downloaded concurrently using multiple threads to speed up the online scraping process.
The mouse's "back" and "forward" buttons now act as "back" and "enter" when used in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New function and keyboard macro (Alt+Ctrl+"T") to toggle the TAG display when playing audio files.
New "Copy to Clipboard" button on the playing media information dialog that copies the content of the "format" box into the clipboard.
New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the fullscreen navigation list font.
New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the fullscreen navigation thumbnail font.
For additional security, password protected media library categories no longer show path information on the category list screen.
The media library scrape icon and count now reflect the scrape queue and processing threads and not only the queue, giving a more accurate picture of the background scraping process.
The default keyboard mapping for the numbers pad has changed to make the same button functions trigger regardless of the num-lock state.
This means the configured functionality for the arrows and insert keys will function even if the num-lock key is enabled.
The advanced options dialog's 'Keyboard' page has been restructured for enhanced clarity and the addition of more features.
Optimized media library disk access by improving meta-data caching.
Changed the default text background color in audio playback (when a folder image is not used) to a much darker gray.
The fullscreen navigation clock text is no longer affected by the text effect/outline setting.
The virtual keyboard did not accept physical keyboard input if the "Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation interfaces" setting was disabled.
It was impossible to use the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface without a mouse. Now a new "Apply" button makes the interface usable again.
Media files or folder flagged never to be scraped were scraped again under some circumstances.
Fixed a bug that caused the media duration to disappear from a media library thumbnail.
Selecting several files and choosing to flag them for re-scraping would not clear the selected file count at the top-right section of the media library interface.
The fullscreen navigation scroll acceleration (when holding or fast clicking the up/down buttons) now resets itself as the list loops, preventing a crazy level of acceleration that may make the list appear to freeze.
The thumbnail view's "drag to scroll" was triggered after 1 pixel of movement, making selecting a thumbnail with a single click fail if the mouse cursor moved a bit during the click.
Clicking a media or folder in the media library's thumb view mode and then trying to click the close or back buttons would not work on the first click (requiring a second click).
The text labels on the virtual keyboard keys is now more uniform in size.
Clicking a media library thumbnail and then trying to click the "back" or "close" icons would fail on the first click (and work on the second).
In the FREE version, the screen saver would over-tax the CPU (the streamers were always used and it was impossible to turn off).
The Advanced playlist control, Chapter editor, Scheduler, Scene-Cut, Skin selector and Play history dialogs would not save their last window size and position if you closed the player without first closing the dialog.
Clear the search box text of the advanced playlist control using the "DEL" key would also remove any selected entries from the playlist.
The "Hide all control bar buttons" setting stopped saving in v12.1.
Switching directly to the Play History fullscreen navigation interface using a keyboard or other macro from another fullscreen navigation interface would not update the title area.
The internal screen saver would still activate even after calling functions when using the TCP/IP command & control API.
Folders marked not to be scraped were still being scraped if no online database scrapers were specified for the media library category.
Setting the left mouse button to open the context menu didn't work.
".CUE" chapter files indexing a single audio file longer than 99.9 minutes would have failed to load.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.5 RC 1 (Aug 16, 2016)

The media library's TV JukeBox mode is now fully functional. With jukebox mode enabled in a TV video category, a new list view mode is used to display meta-data (overview, rating, duration, etc) and a thumbnail ("still image" from an online database or a screenshot extracted from the video itself) on the right side of the screen when entering a folder containing media files.
New Media Icons display in the media library information area at the bottom of the screen and in the Movie Jukebox presentation mode Media icons display the Format (AVI/Matroska/etc...), Video Codec H.264/HECV/etc...), Video Resolution (1080p/UHD 4K/etc...) Audio Codec (DTS/AAC/etc...), Audio Channels (2.0/5.1/7.1/etc...). Media icons are detected during the scraping process, to display the
icons you must re-scrape the content of your media library. This is done the Media Library Category Editor (Shift+"M") or through the media library's function page's 'scraping' menu.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to display Media Icons in the media library information area and in movie jukebox presentation mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that specifies whether thumbnail display should used a dynamically visible scroll bar (suitable for tablets and touch devices) or a fixed scroll bar (suitable for PC and Mouse input).
The "Navigation Scrollbar Size" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) has four new possible values:
1. Dynamic Smallest
2. Dynamic Small
3. Dynamic Large
4. Dynamic Max
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) allowing you to assign keyboard functionality to the "Insert" key when fullscreen navigation is not in use.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) to show thumbnail previews even if the playing media does not report key-frame. Note that allowing media with no key frame reporting to display thumbnails over the timeline can take much longer.
New Setting (Media Library Category Editor / Configure) to re-scrape a folder's thumbnail if the folder's "modified" time-stamp changes.
The advanced playlist control has become more powerful with integrated sorting that does not affect the main playlist until items are moved.
The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) has been restructured and expanded to include the media's file size and date as well as full information on the file from MediaInfoLib (MediaInfo DLL).
The Mini color control fullscreen navigation interface will now display the name (brightness/saturation/etc...) and not only an icon.
Scraped poster/backdrop/still images are now downloaded concurrently using multiple threads to speed up the online scraping process.
The mouse's "back" and "forward" buttons now act as "back" and "enter" when used in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New function and keyboard macro (Alt+Ctrl+"T") to toggle the TAG display when playing audio files.
New "Copy to Clipboard" button on the playing media information dialog that copies the content of the "format" box into the clipboard. For additional security, password protected media library categories no longer show path information on the category list screen.
The media library scrape icon and count now reflect the scrape queue and processing threads and not only the queue, giving a more accurate picture of the background scraping process.
The default keyboard mapping for the numbers pad has changed to make the same button functions trigger regardless of the num-lock state. This means the configured functionality for the arrows and insert keys will function even if the num-lock key is enabled.
The advanced options dialog's 'Keyboard' page has been restructured for enhanced clarity and the addition of more features.
Optimized media library disk access by improving meta-data caching.
Changed the default text background color in audio playback (when a folder image is not used) to a much darker gray.
The virtual keyboard did not accept physical keyboard input if the "Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation interfaces" setting was disabled.
Media files or folder flagged never to be scraped were scraped again under some circumstances.
Fixed a bug that caused the media duration to disappear from a media library thumbnail.
Selecting several files and choosing to flag them for re-scraping would not clear the selected file count at the top-right section of the media library interface.
The fullscreen navigation scroll acceleration (when holding or fast clicking the up/down buttons) now resets itself as the list loops, preventing a crazy level of acceleration that may make the list appear to freeze.
The thumbnail view's "drag to scroll" was triggered after 1 pixel of movement, making selecting a thumbnail with a single click fail if the mouse cursor moved a bit during the click.
Clicking a media or folder in the media library's thumb view mode and then trying to click the close or back buttons would not work on the first click (requiring a second click).
The text labels on the virtual keyboard keys is now more uniform in size. Clicking a media library thumbnail and then trying to click the "back" or "close" icons would fail on the first click (and work on the second). In the FREE version, the screen saver would over-tax the CPU (the streamers were always used and it was impossible to turn off).
The Advanced playlist control, Chapter editor, Scheduler, Scene-Cut, Skin selector and Play history dialogs would not save their last window size and position if you closed the player without first closing the dialog.
Clear the search box text of the advanced playlist control using the "DEL" key would also remove any selected entries from the playlist.
The "Hide all control bar buttons" setting stopped saving in v12.1.
Switching directly to the Play History fullscreen navigation interface using a keyboard or other macro from another fullscreen navigation interface would not update the title area.
The internal screen saver would still activate even after calling functions when using the TCP/IP command & control API.
Folders marked not to be scraped were still being scraped if no online database scrapers were specified for the media library category.
Setting the left mouse button to open the context menu didn't work.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.5 Beta 4 (Aug 10, 2016)

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.5 Beta 2 (Jul 18, 2016)

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.5 Build 1210 Beta 1 (Jul 14, 2016)

NEW:
New Media Icons display in the media library information area at the bottom of the screen and in the Movie Jukebox presentation mode.
Media icons display the Format (AVI/Matroska/etc...), Video Codec (H.264/HECV/etc...), Video Resolution (1080p/UHD 4K/etc...), Audio Codec (DTS/AAC/etc...), Audio Channels (2.0/5.1/7.1/etc...).
Media icons are detected during the scraping process, to display the icons you must re-scrape the content of your media library. This is done the Media Library Category Editor (Shift+"M") or through the media library's function page's 'scraping' menu.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to display Media Icons in the media library information area and in movie jukebox presentation mode.
The advanced playlist control has become more powerful with integrated sorting that does not affect the main playlist until items are moved.
The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) has been restructured and expanded to include the media's file size and date as well as full information on the file from MediaInfoLib (MediaInfo DLL).
New "Copy to Clipboard" button on the playing media information dialog that copies the content of the "format" box into the clipboard.
CHANGES:
For additional security, password protected media library categories no longer show path information on the category list screen.
Optimized media library disk access by improving meta-data caching.
FIXES:
The virtual keyboard did not accept physical keyboard input if the "Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation interfaces" setting was disabled.
The text labels on the virtual keyboard keys is now more uniform in size.
Clicking a media library thumbnail and then trying to click the "back" or "close" icons would fail on the first click (and work on the second).
In the FREE version, the screen saver would over-tax the CPU (the streamers were always used and it was impossible to turn off).
The Advanced playlist control, Chapter editor, Scheduler, Scene-Cut, Skin selector and Play history dialogs would not save their last window size and position if you closed the player without first closing the dialog.
Clear the search box text of the advanced playlist control using the "DEL" key would also remove any selected entries from the playlist.
The "Hide all control bar buttons" setting stopped saving in v12.1.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.1 Build 1210 (Jun 27, 2016)

Note: This setting will have no effect if the windows taskbar is set to combine buttons.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically show the playlist editor when exiting fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Control Bar) to disable seeking when using the mouse wheel over the control bar (and use the default mouse-wheel functionality instead).
Three new extended functions: exSeekAheadPercent : Seek Ahead (percent of duration) exSeekBackPercent : Seek Back (percent of duration) exSeekToPercent : Seek To (percent of duration)
The fullscreen navigation scrollbar source image can now be any resolution, adding skinning support for sharp 4K resolution scroll bars.
The control bar's fixed position close and volume slider buttons have received mouse-hover visual cues.
The notification to upgrade an old license is no longer shown every time Zoom Player is launched. It will show up every few days instead.
When notified of a new version release, a special message will now show up to notify you that your current license may be too old to use with the new version.
Clicking/Touching an unselected thumbnail in the media library now selects the thumbnail and displays any related meta-data instead of automatically starting playback.
You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll through the entirety of the media library's fullscreen navigation mini-menu.
Mouse wheel scrolling in the media library now scrolls the list instead of scrolling by changing the active thumbnail.
The playlist editor and equalizer dialogs now restore automatically after exiting fullscreen exclusive mode when MadVR is used as the video renderer.
The media scraping error list is now auto-saved more often to prevent system failures from losing information.
Content images used in Zoom Player FREE now come in full 1080p HD resolution (Zoom Player MAX already included the higher resolution images).
Some sections of the options dialog now more clearly turn to a "disabled" state when a parent setting that enables the functionality is turned off.
The XInput advanced options dialog section has been restructured.
Pressing Smart Play's "Auto Configure" button on the basic options dialog would trigger a crash under some conditions.
Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error when pressing enter on an entry in the playlist fullscreen navigation interface.
Fixed a "List index out of bounds" error that triggered by bad audio visualization configuration. - Clicking the media library's thumb area did not always play the clicked thumbnail (it would play the media in the thumbnail above it).
Under some conditions, opening the media library would use a thumbnail aspect ratio from a different category.
Dragging to scroll the media library's thumbnail area did not work in the entire thumbnail area.
Clicking the left mouse button on a media library thumbnail and holding for a few seconds to activate the mini-menu caused the next mouse click to be ignored in some areas of the screen (like going back to the category menu).
Fixed a small cosmetic issue with the ring tone generator dialog. - People who have purchased the Zoom Player lifetime license were accidentally shown an upgrade notice in some cases.
The media library bottom category-type filtering icons were accessible using the mouse even when they were not visible.
Fixed a possible rare freeze in cases where the media library navigation dialog was opened at the exact same time one of the file tracker threads (emule/utorrent/qbittorrent) was trying to synchronize.
Using the mouse wheel in combination with kinetic scrolling in the media library fullscreen interface would result in chaos.
When the media library's thumb view left/right bump actions were disabled, thus allowing you to use the left/right keys to scroll through thumb rows, the scroll bar did not appear when the active thumb jumped up/down a row.
Zoom Player should close much faster now.
Opening the media library's function menu would wipe clean the meta-data display area.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.1 Build 1 RC 2 (Jun 20, 2016)

New in Zoom Player MAX 12.1 Build 1 RC 1 (Jun 16, 2016)

New :
Changing some of the setting on the media library category editor's "Category Configuration" dialog now prompts you to flag the content of the category for re-scraping.
The fullscreen navigation scrollbar source image can now be any resolution, adding skinning support for sharp 4K resolution scroll bars.
New Setting (Adv. Options / System), allowing you to choose the Zoom Player task bar icon (either current or from version 11).
This setting will not work if the windows taskbar is set to combine buttons.
Changes : + Clicking/Touching an unselected thumbnail in the media library now selects the thumbnail and displays any related meta-data instead of automatically beginning playback.
Kinetic scrolling has been rewritten from scratch, it should now be a lot more responsive and accurate, especially when used on lower-end PCs and Tablets.
The kinetic acceleration/deceleration speed settings have also been tweaked and are now more reasonable.
Mouse wheel scrolling in the media library now scrolls the list instead of scrolling by changing the active thumbnail.
When notified of a new version release, a special message will now show up to notify you that your current license may be too old to use with the new version.
The notification to upgrade an old license is no longer shown every time Zoom Player is launched. It will show up every few days instead.
Fixes :
Clicking the media library's thumb area did not always play the clicked thumbnail it would play the media in the thumbnail above it).
Under some conditions, opening the media library would use a thumbnail aspect ratio from a different category.
Dragging to scroll the media library's thumbnail area did not work in the entire thumbnail area.
People who have purchased the Zoom Player lifetime license were accidentally shown an upgrade notice in some cases.
The media library bottom category-type filtering icons were accessible using the mouse even when they were not visible.
Fixed a possible rare freeze in cases where the media library navigation dialog was opened at the exact same time one of the file tracker threads (emule/utorrent/qbittorrent) was trying to synchronize.
Using the mouse wheel in combination with kinetic scrolling in the media library fullscreen interface would result in chaos.
When the media library's thumb view left/right bump actions were disabled, thus allowing you to use the left/right keys to scroll through thumb rows, the scroll bar did not appear when the active thumb jumped up/down a row.
Zoom Player should close much faster now.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12 Build 1200 (May 23, 2016)

The media library has a new metadata-scraping capability that automatically downloads Movie and TV show posters, backdrops, still images and displays them in a JukeBox mode.
This is a major feature, Here is a full guide explaining the best methods to ensure your media library collection is scraped correctlyhttp://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
The default fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned up and polished. If you have previously used a non-default navigation skin, you will need to re-apply the skin through the skin selection dialog.
Within the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface, the area below the file list/thumbnail view that previously showed the filter category icons is now replaced with metadata and file information.
The category filter icon are still accessible on the category selection page.
New Zoom Player icon on the taskbar and desktop.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to specify whether Zoom Player should use the enhanced (Windows Vista+) open file dialog. This setting is enabled by default.
The older open dialog has issues with high DPI monitor setting, causing some of the icon to appear extremely small.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to add Extended Controls (Delete Media and Functions Menu) to the path area of the media library, playlist and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that prevents the "Previous Folder" entry from being added to the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) to use a video frame from the media file as thumbnail if the meta data scrapers fail.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls whether the thumbnail's background is darkened or not. The default value for this setting is determined by the category type.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls the number of text lines to display under each thumbnail. Depending on the media file's name length, the file name will be word-wrapped across multiple lines.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that enables JukeBox mode, where the movie poster, backdrop images and metadata are scraped from an online database (TheMovieDB.org) and then displayed as a full-screen presentation when opening a folder. For more information, seehttp://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls whether folders with thumbnails should display the folder icon in the background or only the thumbnail.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that determines whether the metadata derived title or file name is drawn on thumbnails.
New folder scraping blacklist (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View), enabling you to prevent scraping of folders. The main use of this new feature is to prevent "sample" and "subs" folder from being scraped, especially when downloading movie posters from TheMovieDB.org or other online databases.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / BluRay) to let DirectShow filters handle BluRay parsing. This setting is enabled by default and allows 3rd party filters (such as LAV filters) to parse the BluRay structure and decide on the best title selection.
New media library scraping indicator to make the scraping process clearer by displaying the number of media files waiting to be scraped.
New media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon designed to better display poster aspect ratio (1:1.5) thumbnails.
When creating a new media library video category, a new dialog prompts for the type of video category, either "Videos", "TV shows" or "Movies". The category type is then use to control the category initial configuration and layout.
On a fresh install, the Play History dialog's column width are now automatically spaced to better cover the grid's width.
New skin script variables that control the position and height of the thumbnail drawing area (previously it was set to the file-list height), allowing the thumbnail grid to better utilize the available screen space.
The media library category editor now remembers the last selected tab and category mode when re-opening the dialog.
Clearing the playlist through the playlist editor now prompts you to confirm you want the playlist cleared.
The media library category editor (use Shift+"M" or access using the right click menu) has been redesigned for enhanced simplicity and user experience.
The thumbnail layout setup (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) has been rewritten. Instead of manually specifying the thumbnail width and height or using the built-in calculator to do so, you can now directly select the thumbnail's aspect ratio and number of columns to display along with a new horizontal spacing layout option. When changing the thumbnail's aspect ratio, you are now given the option to reset the category settings to a new default based on the selected aspect ratio.
The clear media cache button has moved from the options dialog to the media library category editor dialog (Shift+"M").
The "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping using metadata scrapers fails" setting has been moved to the category editor's "Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category instead of global for all categories.
The "Create folder thumbnails from first media file within the folder (if scraping is disabled or fails)" setting has been moved to the category editor's "Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category instead of global for all categories.
The thumbnail view's thumbnail memory cache now syncs cached thumbnails directly with the main thread without waiting for other scraping threads, ensuring memory cached thumbnails show up faster while scraping for new content.
The subtitle overlay icon, displayed over a thumbnail in the media library has been enhanced for extra clarity (the sub-bits are now highlighted in yellow).
The media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon has been enhanced to give extra space to the thumbnail image.
When the 'Treat the "Play" function as "Open Media" or "Enter"' setting is enabled, using the "Play" function on a folder within the file browsing or media library fullscreen navigation interfaces will now play the content of the entire folder instead of just entering the folder.
Setting thumbnail mode's left/right bump action to 'do nothing' will now move the selected entry up/down a row instead of doing nothing.
Installing a new skin now prompts you to apply the skin to all skin modes (Media/DVD/Audio/Navigation) supported by the newly installed skin. Previously, you were only prompted to open the skin selection dialog.
Opening a new file through file association (for example, opening a media file through explorer) now closes the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces before playback starts.
Input boxes and error/warning/confirmation/information dialogs are no longer skinned when triggered from a non-skinned dialog for both consistency and to prevent issues with monitor DPI values not matching the current skin's resolution.
Zoom Player now tries to automatically reduce the font size in the options dialog to ensure certain elements fit inside the dialog regardless of windows font or DPI settings.
The Playlist and Equalizer dialogs are now automatically closed when entering fullscreen while using MadVR with "Fullscreen Exclusive Mode" enabled if either dialog is opened on the playback monitor.
Fixed several high DPI layout issues, especially evident when using a high DPI value (300%) used by 4K monitors/TV sets. Thank you Adam Howarth for the in-depth 4K testing.
The "LAV Hardware Acceleration" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) was not applied correctly, forcing the LAV Video Decoder filter to drop back to software decoding.
Trying to create a new folder through the media library while in thumbnail view mode could trigger a "list index out of bounds" crash.
Extended functions that can use a negative value parameter (like "exFastForward") did not work when a negative value was used.
The background image no longer flashes when opening media files through explorer (or other applications) while Zoom Player was already playing.
The "Chapter editor/Seek to" dialog did not scale properly with monitor DPI adjustments.
Entering and leaving a media library folder in thumbnail view mode extremely quickly could result in a crash or thumbnails not appearing.
When two or more media library categories shared the same folder paths and the same thumbnail width but with a different thumbnail height, it would have prevented the thumbnails from drawing in some of the categories.
When using the media library in thumb view mode with the media names sorted by date, erasing a file within a folder and then going up a folder would no longer show the highlighted folder (the folder itself changed position as the folder date changes when files inside are modified).
When "Automatically restore last media position on replay" was disabled, the "Retain Media Playback History for [x] days" setting became inaccessible.
The audio device list would re-list the same device multiple times under some circumstances, possibly causing audio issues.
Using the media library category editor's 'Configure Category' dialog to edit a category's settings would reset the category's password protection.
Switching to some video renderers in the options dialog when running under Windows 10 would incorrectly notify you that your version of Direct-X is too old.
The title area in the bundled fullscreen navigation skins did not properly account for the width of Time display when using 12H AM/PM format.
The "Multi-Part file loader" automatic match mode did not always load multi-part GoPro sequences into the playlist correctly.
Smart Play's "Auto-Configure" option could improperly set a partially unregistered profile comprising of multiple filters if the unregistered filter was sandwiched between two registered filters.
Zoom Player should now terminate properly even if there are scraper threads busy or stalled.
The "Select category type" dialog would not always draw properly and you could not use the keyboard to navigate to the "OK" button. - Fixed small cosmetic glitch in the "Registered Filter Manager" dialog, where a text area was overlayed by an edit box.
The options dialog's search box did not return values for settings with a description over 100 characters long.
Fixed a "Is not a valid integer value" crash when playing a DVD and adding chapters with the "Show chapter points on the Timeline" setting enabled.
DVD bookmarks were listed with a cosmetic glitch (an added ".z" at the end of the chapter name).
Closing Zoom Player with the Station Manager window open would not save any changes made to the station list.
Double-Clicking the title area to maximize Zoom Player would also trigger a single-click action (default play/pause).
If the options dialog was originally opened on a monitor that is now turned off, the options dialog will appear screen-centered on the main Zoom Player window.

New in Zoom Player MAX 12 Beta 2 (Mar 28, 2016)

New in Zoom Player MAX 12 Beta 1 (Feb 10, 2016)

New:
The media library now has a new media-scraping capability to automatically download movie posters (TV coming soon).
This is a major feature, a full guide is included here: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
New Zoom Player icon on the taskbar and desktop.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to specify whether Zoom Player should use the enhanced (Windows Vista+) open file dialog. This setting is enabled by default.
The older open dialog has issues with high DPI monitor setting, causing some of the icon to appear extremely small.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that controls whether folder thumbnails are created from the first media file within the folder (if meta data scraping fails).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to add Extended Controls (Delete Media and Functions Menu) to the path area of the media library, playlist and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) to use a video frame from the media file as thumbnail if the meta data scrapers fail.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls whether the thumbnail's background is darkened or not. The default value for this setting is determined by the category type.
New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls the number of text lines to display under each thumbnail. Depending on the media file's name length, the file name will be word-wrapped across multiple lines.
New folder scraping blacklist, enabling you to prevent scraping of folders. The main use of this new feature is to prevent "sample" and "subs" folder from being scraped, especially when downloading movie posters from TheMovieDB.org or other online databases.
New media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon designed to better display poster aspect ratio (1:1.5) thumbnails.
On a fresh install, the Play History dialog's column width are now automatically spaced to better cover the grid's width.
Changes:
The media library category editor (use Shift+"M" or access using the right click menu) has been redesigned for enhanced simplicity and user experience.
The clear media cache button has moved from the options dialog to the media library category editor dialog (Shift+"M").
The thumbnail view's thumbnail memory cache now syncs cached thumbnails directly with the main thread without waiting for other scraping threads, ensuring memory cached thumbnails show up faster while scraping for new content.
The subtitle overlay icon, displayed over a thumbnail in the media library has been enhanced for extra clarity (the sub-bits are now highlighted in yellow).
The media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon has been enhanced to give extra space to the thumbnail image.
The media library category editor's "Category Configuration" dialog's layout calculator has been enhanced with improved better defaults for font-size consistency.
Installing a new skin now prompts you to apply the skin to all skin modes (Media/DVD/Audio/Navigation) supported by the newly installed skin. Previously, you were only prompted to open the skin selection dialog.
Opening a new file through file association (for example, opening a media file through explorer) now closes the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces before playback starts.
Input boxes and error/warning/confirmation/information dialogs are no longer skinned when triggered from a non-skinned dialog for both consistency and to prevent issues with monitor DPI values not matching the current skin's resolution.
Zoom Player now tries to automatically reduce the font size in the options dialog to ensure certain elements fit inside the dialog regardless of windows font or DPI settings.
Fixes :
Fixed several high DPI layout issues, especially evident when using a high DPI value (300%) used by 4K monitors/TV sets. Thank you Adam Howarth for the in-depth 4K testing.
The "LAV Hardware Acceleration" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) was not applied correctly, forcing the LAV Video Decoder filter to drop back to software decoding.
Extended functions that can use a negative value parameter (like "exFastForward") did not work when a negative value was used.
The background image no longer flashes when opening media files through explorer (or other applications) while Zoom Player was already playing.
The "Chapter editor/Seek to" dialog did not scale properly with monitor DPI adjustments.
Entering and leaving a media library folder in thumbnail view mode extremely quickly could result in a crash or thumbnails not appearing.
When two or more media library categories shared the same folder paths and the same thumbnail width but with a different thumbnail height, it would have prevented the thumbnails from drawing in some of the categories.
When using the media library in thumb view mode with the media names sorted by date, erasing a file within a folder and then going up a folder would no longer show the highlighted folder (the folder itself changed position as the folder date changes when files inside are modified).
The audio device list would re-list the same device multiple times under some circumstances, possibly causing audio issues.
Setting a high column number using the media library category configuration dialog's thumbnail layout calculator would result in an additional column displayed and possibly no spacing between the columns.
Using the media library category editor's 'Configure Category' dialog to edit a category's settings would reset the category's password protection.
Switching to some video renderers in the options dialog when running under Windows 10 would incorrectly notify you that your version of Direct-X is too old.
The title area in the bundled fullscreen navigation skins did not properly account for the width of Time display when using 12H AM/PM format.

New in Zoom Player MAX 11.1 (Nov 25, 2015)

New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to treat the "Play" function as if it was "Open Media" or a click on Enter
when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible (bypassing the mini-menu
in the media library's thumbview mode). Enabled by default.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether folders are marked as seen if they contain a
previously played media file. By default, this setting is disabled.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Thumb View) to create additional thumbnail scraping threads when current
threads time out while parsing a video. This can happen with
partially downloaded media files.
The upside is that scraping will not pause when problematic files
are encountered.
The downside is that by creating additional threads, CPU usage may
rise during the scraping operation and slow down screen updates,
making the user interface a bit more sluggish.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files) to disable the
multi-part file loader when opening or adding multiple files.
This setting is enabled by default.
The WTV format is now associable with Zoom Player. You may need to click
the "Default" button in the advanced options dialog under "File Format
Association / File Extensions -> Video.
Once clicked, WTV format files will start listing within the media library
and other video-format specific features.
Optimized Zoom Player's load time by about 10-30%.
The fullscreen navigation interface's on-screen clock should now respect
the 24h/12h AM/PM system setting.
Some of the options dialog elements have been spread out to enhance
clarity of use.
Code optimization should improve skin loading time and other
code elements.
You can now dismiss the internal screen saver by clicking with the
mouse "left/right/X" buttons or using the mouse wheel.
The "/LastNAV", "/MainNAV" command line parameters and the "Start Player
in" setting when set to "Previous Navigation" or "Main Navigation" no
longer open the last navigation interface when a file name is passed
in the command line, instead only switching to fullscreen mode.
Scrolling with the mouse wheel no longer generates a double action
when used in Windows 10 or earlier versions of windows with a custom
mouse utility that sends scroll events to inactive windows.
When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor's
configure category' button would cause an access violation.
Disabling the "Show File Extensions (playlist, file and media library
navigators)" setting would corrupt the play history when opening the
play history fullscreen navigation interface.
When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor would
not automatically show the 'video' category by default.
Pressing enter on the playlist editor to play the selected file maintains
the keyboard focus on the playlist (previously, the keyboard focus would
move to the main window, preventing using the keyboard again to play
the next file).
When using MadVR as the video renderer with the "Auto-Size User Interface
to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled caused
the player window to resize and screen-center when opening certain media
formats (MOV, WebP and other formats may have been affected).
This fix requires the latest version of MadVR, otherwise support for
black-bar crop detection by MadVR will cease working.
The Media Library fullscreen navigation interface did not respect the
"Show File Extensions" setting in thumbnail view mode.
The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library
fullscreen navigation interface did not use the current font size.
Folders containing previously viewed media were highlighted even if
the "Highlight previously viewed files" setting was disabled.
The options dialog's search feature did not find searches for radio group
listed elements (lists with bullet-point selection).
The qBittorrent file tracker did not show the download progress of some
torrents with nested folders.
Re-ordering playlist entries in the playlist editor using the
Alt+"PgUp/PgDn" keyboard macros or by dragging using the mouse cursor
caused the moved entry to auto-select when playback started.
The internal screen saver would not always appear on secondary monitors.
Includes changes from the previous 11 Beta versions.

New in Zoom Player MAX 11.1 Beta 3 (Nov 12, 2015)

New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface/ Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to use the "Stop" function to close any currently visible fullscreen navigation interface. Enabled by default.
New "Previous Navigation" option for the "Start player in:" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) that opens Zoom Player fullscreen and directly in the previously used navigation interface.
New "/LASTNAV" command line parameter to open Zoom Player fullscreen and directly in the previously used navigation interface.
You can now use the "Time" seek box in the chapter editor ("g" keyboard macro) to seek to a percentage of the video, for example, specifying a value of "8%" seeks to 8 percent from the start of the video.
Added support for WMV files with the GoToMeeting codec.
The video rotate feature (Shift+"R") now uses a new MadVR feature that no longer crops part of the image while rotating. The latest version of MadVR is now required to perform video rotation.
The configuration wizard allowing you to select between PC, HTPC and Tablet modes now sets Zoom Player to open in the previously used fullscreen navigation interface instead of the main navigation interface.
You can now set a value of "0" to OSD Visibility (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions).
When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor's 'configure category' button would cause an access violation.
Disabling the "Show File Extensions (playlist, file and media library navigators)" setting would corrupt the play history when opening the play history fullscreen navigation interface.
When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor would not automatically show the 'video' category by default.
Pressing enter on the playlist editor to play the selected file maintains the keyboard focus on the playlist (previously, the keyboard focus would move to the main window, preventing using the keyboard again to play the next file).
The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library fullscreen navigation interface was not clearing the background between screen updates, causing the path area to become unreadable and the current scroll position to become unclear.
The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library fullscreen navigation interface did not use the current font size.
Pressing the TAG display script's "Default" button when using a language pack could show a corrupt script (??? characters appearing instead of the script text).
The "Center user interface on initial load" setting did not work as intended when opening the player by double clicking on a media file in an external program (e.g. explorer) while the "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)" setting enabled.
The "DVD Settings" advanced options dialog page was not searchable through the options dialog's search feature.
Using Alt+PgDn and Alt+PgUp to move items in the playlist up or down the list did not work if the keyboard focus was on the playlist window.
The internal screen saver would still display even when moving the mouse cursor over the timeline or control bar areas.
The multi-part file loader did not detect the last file in a series if the file names were comprised completely of numbers.
Pressing Alt+"V" to fetch the playlist media entries duration would not work the first time (had to press twice).

New in Zoom Player MAX 11.1 Beta 1 (Oct 22, 2015)

New:
New Direct3D Pixel Shader image processing script support when using MadVR as the Video Renderer (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Pixel Shaders).
Pixel shaders are script text files with the ".HLSL" file extension that can be compiled in real-time by the GPU (display card) to perform various image processing effects.
The options page allows you to specify pixel shader presets, the first 8 of which can be activated directly by using a keyboard/remote control macro (by default Alt+Shift+"F1..F8").
The current pre-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by pressing Alt+Shift+"F9".
The current post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by pressing Alt+Shift+"F10".
Both Pre and Post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled at once by pressing Alt+Shift+"F11".
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface/ Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to treat the Play function as if it was a click on Enter when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible (bypassing the mini-menu in the media library's thumbview mode).
The WTV format is now associable with Zoom Player. You may need to click the "Default" button in the advanced options dialog under "File Format Association / File Extensions -> Video.
Once clicked, WTV format files will start listing within the media library and other video-format specific features.
Changes:
The fullscreen navigation interface's on-screen clock should now respect the 24h/12h AM/PM system setting.
Some of the options dialog elements have been spread out to enhance clarity of use.
Fixes:
When using MadVR as the video renderer with the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled caused the player window to resize and screen-center when opening certain media formats (MOV, WebP and other formats may have been affected). This fix requires the latest version of MadVR, otherwise support for black-bar crop detection by MadVR will cease working.
The Media Library fullscreen navigation interface did not respect the "Show File Extensions" setting in thumbnail view mode.
The options dialog's search feature did not find searches for radio group listed elements (lists with bullet-point selection).

New in Zoom Player MAX 11.0.0 (Oct 8, 2015)

New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!
You can specify which media library category should display in thumb view mode using the Media Library category editor or through the "functions / settings" page in the fullscreen media library navigation interface.
Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within the media library.
Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry", "Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".
Bumping the first or last thumb rows using a keyboard or remote control shows a momentary glow effect to signify navigation has reached the start or end of the thumbnail display. Pressing up or down once again using the keyboard or remote control scrolls to the other end of the thumbnail display.
Holding down on a thumbnail (with the mouse button or by touch) or Pressing Enter with a keyboard or remote control brings up a mini-menu with options to "play the media file", "erase the media file", "open the full function menu" and "go back to the category list". The mini-menu automatically times out after 3 seconds or you can close it manually by pressing left on the left side. The two functions on the right side of the mini-menu ("erase media file" and "go back to the category list") are customizable through the advanced options dialog.
To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control, you can press "Left" on the first entry. By default, bumping left will go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show the category list.
New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view user experience.
The media library category editor has gained a new category configuration dialog used to enable thumbnail view mode, control the thumbnail layout for the category and lock the category with a password.
The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Settings" page can now be used to switch between list view and thumbnail view as well as control whether thumbs are scaled or cropped to fit within the thumbnail area.
The default Onyx skin and the bundled AlbaHD skins have been enhanced with clean mouse-hover animation effects for all buttons on the main user interface, the playlist editor and the equalizer window.
The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set a custom background pattern.
You can now password protect a media library category to prevent children from accessing prohibited content directly from the media library fullscreen navigation interface.
Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points as well as the duration of the highlighted range.
New 4K resolution version of the Alba skin control bar, now accessible through the skin selection dialog (press "N" or access through the right-click menu).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the media library lists content that matches a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.
The new default is to only show content based on the media library category type. To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to Automatically select the last viewed file/folder when entering a folder.
This setting requires play history's "save last play time" setting enabled to function.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a portion of the timeline
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to invert the text view's colors. The new text file viewing default is Black background with white text.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for the image itself. Enabled by default.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that enables using the navigation "Enter" key action on a media library category list to open the category at the root folder.
This was the previous default behavior, which have now been disabled. Pressing enter with this setting disabled, opens the category in its previous position.
Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering over with the mouse cursor.
Zoom Player now supports MadVR's automatic black-bar video detection and window size changes when the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting is enabled.
The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files.
The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.
The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images, does not support animating GIF files).
New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.
New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation interfaces to clarify usage experience.
All media library categories have been automatically converted to thumbnail view mode. You can restore each category to list view mode using the media library category editor (Shift+"M") or through the settings page on the media library fullscreen navigation interface.
Dependant on the content type (Audio/Video/Picture/Executable), a default thumbnail aspect ratio and column count is applied.
Modified how Zoom Player loads, shaving about 900ms off the load time, which on the development system accounts for a 36% faster load time.
Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.
The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main fullscreen navigation interface.
The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface.
The "Media Scanner" and "Remove folder(s) from categories" entries in the fullscreen media library's category list, now display a message indicating these interfaces are not available when navigation "safe mode" is enabled.
The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Filter List" page has been renamed to a now more expanded "Settings" page.
The checkboxes on the Media Library's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and "Settings" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
The checkboxes on the File Browsers's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and "Filter List" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably, to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.
When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode, the description could appear as "???" when using a non-English language pack.
The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously viewed files' was enabled.
Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration when using a different navigation key.
For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by more than one item.
The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release.
Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
Using functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the user interface to become unresponsive.
Fixed a few small memory leaks.
With the "Nav-Left goes up a directory before entering the Drive/Category list" setting enabled, clicking the "

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.5.0 Beta 2 (Jul 8, 2015)

New:
New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!
You can specify which media library category should display in thumb view mode using the Media Library category editor.
Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within the media library.
Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry", "Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".
To access the function menu, long click or touch the thumbnail until the function icon appears and then let go of the mouse button or screen before the icon disappears.
Using the keyboard, pressing Enter brings up a mini-menu with options to play the media file, erase the media file, open the full function menu and go up a folder. This mini-menu automatically times out after 3 seconds or you can close it manually by pressing left with the top-left icon highlighted.
To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control, press "Left" on the first entry. By default, bumping left will go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show the category list.
New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view layout and user experience.
The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set a custom background pattern.
Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points as well as the duration of the highlighted range.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the media library lists content that matches a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.
The new default is to only show content based on the media library category type. To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a portion of the timeline
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for the image itself. Enabled by default.
Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering over with the mouse cursor.
The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files.
The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.
The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images, does not support animating GIF files).
New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.
New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation interfaces to clarify usage experience.
Changes:
Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.
The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main fullscreen navigation interface.
The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface.
Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably, to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.
Fixes:
When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode, the description could appear as "???" when using a non-English language pack.
The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously viewed files' was enabled.
Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration when using a different navigation key.
For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by more than one item.
The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release.
Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
Using a functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the user interface to become unresponsive.
Fixed a small memory leak.
Fixed a crash when trying to close the player with certain fullscreen navigation interfaces open and uTorrent/qBittorrent/eMule file tracking was enabled.
The "Screen-Center Playlist when switching to Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting did not actually screen-center the playlist editor.
Trying to set file association with UAC enabled under Windows 7 would erroneously show a 'this feature is not supported by the FREE/PRO version' dialog.

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.1.0 Beta 2 (May 27, 2015)

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.1.0 Beta 1 (Apr 28, 2015)

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.0.0 (Feb 19, 2015)

NEW PRE-CONFIGURATION WIZARD:
The wizard opens automatically on a fresh installation or can be manually triggered by using the Alt+Shift+F12 keyboard macro. The wizard lets you automatically configure Zoom Player based on the playback PC device profile:
PC:
This is the default configuration used in previous versions of Zoom Player.
HTPC (Home Theater PC) - When choosing the HTPC profile, the following settings are adjusted:
A. Buttons added to the Control Bar:
Subtitle Cycling.
Open the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface.
Maximize video to fullscreen.
B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar:
Fullscreen on/off toggle.
C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures'.
D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open.
TABLET - When choosing the Tablet profile, the following settings are adjusted:
A. Buttons added to the Control Bar:
Seeking controls
Lock user interface function
Maximize video to fullscreen.
B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar:
Fullscreen on/off toggle.
Open File
C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures' with the static mouse click set to toggle the Control Bar on/off.
D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open.
F. Zoom Player prompts for the tablet screen's physical size. Zoom Player uses the screen size information to adjust the following settings to ensure they work well with touch input:
Fullscreen navigation scroll bar size.
Control Bar size.
Hot-Corner click-region size.
Color Control UI size.
G. The control bar auto-hides after 15 seconds instead of 3.
H. The number of lines displayed in the fullscreen navigation interfaces is reduced, making line selection easier.
I. Do not show timeline position when hovering with the mouse over the timeline since tablets do not use mouse as input device by default.
J. Disable quick searching using the keyboard.
K. Set LAV Video hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Native
L. Hide button hints (no mouse to hover with).
New "Media Scanner" fullscreen navigation interface (Ctrl+Shift+"M"). The Media Scanner scans the PC's drives, searching for media content audio/video/images) and presenting a clear list featuring the content of each folder identified to contain media. Each media folder can be browsed, added to existing media library categories or used as a base for a new media library category. With the new Media Scanner, you no longer have to leave the fullscreen navigation interface to setup the media library.
New "Stream Selection" fullscreen navigation interface (Shift+"E"). The stream selection navigation interface allows you to easy select which of the playing media's Audio and Subtitle streams to enable.
New "Mini Color Control" fullscreen navigation interface that by default replaces the old color control fullscreen navigation interface. The new minified version uses as little screen-space as possible to ensure color changes are clearly seen as they are being applied.
New "Control Bar" button on the skin selection dialog, introducing a new class of skinning specifically for the control bar, allowing you to pick custom control bar designs, regardless of the currently used skin. By default, Zoom Player ships with 5 custom control bars: Onyx Very Small, Onyx Small, Onyx Medium, Onyx Large, Onyx Very Large.
Zoom Player is now "Large Address Aware". This means that Zoom Player and filters in use by Zoom Player can now allocate more than 2GB of RAM. Large Address Aware is required when playing 4K video content through MadVR using a very large frame buffer.
New "Media Scanner" entry on the media library fullscreen navigation category list giving easy access the new media scanner fullscreen navigation interface.
New "Remove folder(s) from categories" function on the media library fullscreen navigation category list enabling easy removal of folders from existing media library categories.
New "Hot Corner" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that triggers customizable functions when the mouse (or finger with touch input devices) clicks on one of the screen's corners while in fullscreen mode. By default the functions are:
Top-Left corner : Main fullscreen navigation interface
Top-Right corner : Playlist fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Left corner : File browsing fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Right corner : Media library fullscreen navigation interface
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) to limit "Hot Corner" feature to fullscreen mode (enabled by default).
New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) to set which function is triggered when using the 4th (Forward) and 5th (Backward) buttons on the mouse. By default the forward and backward buttons are set to perform a medium distance seek, but any Zoom Player function can be assigned to the buttons using the 'Custom' option.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to control LAV Video Decoder's hardware acceleration. By default, Zoom Player now sets the hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Copyback (which falls back to software mode if it is not supported by the hardware/drivers) in tablet mode and "Use LAV's setting" on PCs and HTPCs.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether clicking the right/left screen edges navigates to the left/right. This behavior was previously enabled and hard coded, it is now optional and disabled by default.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) that switches between the old color control navigation style and the new mini-color control navigation style. The current navigation skin must support the mini-color control navigation mode for the setting to have an affect. A few great looking background patterns for the customizable dark/light fullscreen navigation interfaces are now included with the installer. The browse button next to the "Override navigation background image" setting now opens the new patterns folder by default. The advanced playlist control can now be searched with either an "OR" or an "AND" type Boolean search when using multiple words.
New "Lock user interface" control bar button. When enabled, the mouse and keyboard interfaces are disabled until the top-left corner of the screen is quickly clicked 3 times or the space bar is quickly pressed 3 times.
New "/MainNav" command line parameter that starts the player with the main navigation interface visible and fullscreen.
New "Main Navigator" setting for the "Start Player in" feature Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
New Text Viewer font size settings for both ASCII and ANSI (used to display art in NFO files) under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display".
New "exLAVHWAccel" extended function that specifies the type of video hardware acceleration used by the LAV Video Decoder filter. Values:
0 = Use LAV's setting
1 = None (software decoding)
2 = NVIDIA CUVID
3 = Intel½ QuickSync
4 = DXVA2 (copy-back)
5 = DXVA2 (native)
Extended functions can be mapped to keyboard events to make switching
between different hardware acceleration modes more accessible.
New smart play profile to support decoding of Apple's ProRes format. Media can now be played directly from the fullscreen download manager navigation interface.
New API message #1935 to add a file to the playlist and automatically start playing it. Zoom Player should load faster, especially on a fresh install or when upgrading to a new version.
Rewrote the entire fullscreen navigation mouse click/touch code to prevent clicking and double clicking outside list boundaries selecting the first/last list entry.
The Image Adjust, Image Blanking, Equalizer and Color Control navigation interfaces are now much more reactive when quickly clicking the mouse or touch input devices.
The GoTo Time fullscreen navigation interface is now much more touch-intuitive with +/- icons under the Hours/Minutes/Seconds fields to quickly change the values without having to use the more cumbersome directional arrows interface.
The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface no longer displays the volume label of network drives as it caused massive slow downs if the network drive was disconnected.
The fullscreen navigation interfaces' close button now only reacts when the mouse button is released or when the finger is moved off the touch surface. The change makes the interface more intuitive when used with touch interfaces.
Double clicking on the fullscreen media library category or file browsing drive list now opens the last position instead of the first item in the list.
When hovering with the mouse over the main fullscreen navigation interface's grid, the active entry is now set to the item selected instead of just highlighted, making use of a keyboard+mouse setup more intuitive.
The order of the navigation interfaces has been changed along with the default navigation interfaces listed in the main navigation interface. You can still choose which navigation interfaces to list through the advanced options dialog.
The on-screen clock is now hidden when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible.
The default value for "Navigation Scroll Mode" is now set to "Middle Centered".
The icon in the path area was removed from several fullscreen navigation interfaces.
The path text was changed to be more subtle in several fullscreen navigation interfaces.
Played items in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces are made easier to spot by changing played media's icon to 25% transparency (compared to 50% in previous versions).
Several actions, (for example trying to open a category in the media library that contained no files) would not show any visual cue to indicate why no action took place. These action will now Pop-up an OSD message to indicate the cause.
When opening the options dialog for the very first time, it will now open centered within the active monitor (previously it would open centered on the main UI window).
Due to a bug, the scheduler interface became impossible to enable even when using the MAX version.
The "Check for updates" setting was broken and may have notified of new components on the install center even though they may have not been any.
Closing a fullscreen navigation interface by clicking/touching the "X" area located at the top-right corner of the screen could accidentally trigger a "right" navigation function, which by default is to seek forward 20 seconds.
Long-presses on buttons now work when used with a touch screen (instead of the default windows behavior of a long-press being used to right-click).
Double-click action will not trigger accidentally when trying to quickly select/unselect entries in the Playlist, Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
The selected file(s) attribute in the Media Library, Playlist and File
Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces would not clear after performing several actions (Cut, Paste, Add to Playlist, Remove from Playlist and Clear Playlist).
Fixed a memory leak when using the main navigation interface in grid mode.
Certain mouse actions and features did not perform well when the text viewer was used.
When playing a file using the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, opening the interface will now mark the file as seen without requiring you to exit and re-enter the folder.
Scrolling quickly through the "image adjust" and "image blanking" fullscreen navigation interfaces could cause values to change using a multiplier instead of accurately one at a time.
In the FREE and PRO versions, the chapter points on the timeline could not be disabled.
Pressing Backspace before typing anything else in a fullscreen navigation interface that had QuickSearch enabled could cause the dialog to appear frozen until other characters were entered.
Using the "End" key to go to the end of the line when using the fullscreen keyboard navigation interface would go one character after the line's end.
If the "Auto-Show the Control Bar on Mouse Movement" setting was enabled and the "Limit Control Bar Auto-Show to Fullscreen / Zoom mode" was disabled, it took two clicks to close the control bar.
Using the CommAPI #1930 message to add files to the playlist now automatically translates "/" characters to "\" if the path is local, fixing cosmetic issues in the playlist.

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.0.0 RC 1 (Feb 11, 2015)

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.0.0 Beta 7 (Feb 11, 2015)

New in Zoom Player MAX 10.0.0 Beta 6 (Jan 9, 2015)

New:
New pre-configuration wizard
The wizard opens automatically on a fresh installation or can be manually triggered by using the Alt+Shift+F12 keyboard macro.
The wizard lets you automatically configure Zoom Player based on the playback PC device profile
PC - This is the default configuration used in previous versions of Zoom Player.
HTPC (Home Theater PC) - When choosing the HTPC profile, the following settings are adjusted
Buttons added to the Control Bar
Subtitle Cycling.
Open the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface.
Maximize video to fullscreen.
Buttons removed from the Control Bar
Fullscreen on/off toggle.
The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures'.
The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open.
Tablet - When choosing the Tablet profile, the following settings are adjusted
Buttons added to the Control Bar
3xSpeed seeking controls (short, medium, long).
Subtitle Cycling.
Lock user interface function
Maximize video to fullscreen.
Buttons removed from the Control Bar
Fullscreen on/off toggle.
The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures' with the static mouse click set to toggle the Control Bar on/off.
The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry.
Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open.
Zoom Player tries to detect the tablet's physical dimensions (size), which is not always possible due to invalid information sometimes returned by the screen's drivers.
If detected successfully, Zoom Player adjusts multiple settings to automatically compensate for different screen sizes and resolutions: Fullscreen navigation scroll bar size or Hot-corner click-region size.
The larger control bar from the AlbaHD skin is used.
The control bar auto-hides after 6 seconds instead of 3.
The number of lines displayed in the fullscreen navigation interfaces is reduced, making line selection easier.
Do not show timeline position when hovering with the mouse over the timeline since tablets do not use mouse as input device by default.
Disable quick searching using the keyboard.
Set LAV Video hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Copy-back.
New "Media Scanner" fullscreen navigation interface (Ctrl+Shift+"M"). The Media Scanner scans the PC's drives, searching for media conten (audio / video / images) and presenting a clear list featuring the content of each folder identified to contain media.
Each media folder can be browsed, added to existing media library categories or used as a base for a new media library category.
With the new Media Scanner, you no longer have to leave the fullscreen navigation interface to setup the media library.
New "Stream Selection" fullscreen navigation interface (Shift+"E"). The stream selection navigation interface allows you to easy select which of the playing media's Audio and Subtitle streams to enable.
New "Media Scanner" entry on the media library fullscreen navigation category list giving easy access the new media scanner fullscreen navigation interface.
New "Remove folder(s) from categories" function on the media library fullscreen navigation category list enabling easy removal of folders from existing media library categories.
New "Hot Corner" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that triggers customizable functions when the mouse (or finger with touch input devices) clicks on one of the screen's corners while in fullscreen mode.
By default the functions are
Top-Left corner : Main fullscreen navigation interface
Top-Right corner : Playlist fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Left corner : File browsing fullscreen navigation interface
Bottom-Right corner : Media library fullscreen navigation interface
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) to limit "Hot Corner" feature to fullscreen mode (enabled by default).
New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) to set which function is triggered when using the 4th (Forward) and 5th (Backward) buttons on the mouse.
By default the forward and backward buttons are set to perform a medium distance seek, but any Zoom Player function can be assigned to the buttons using the 'Custom' option.
New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to control LAV Video Decoder's hardware acceleration.
By default, Zoom Player now sets the hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Copyback (which falls back to software mode if it is not supported by the hardware/drivers) in tablet mode and "Use LAV's setting" on PCs and HTPCs.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether clicking the right/left screen edges navigates to the left/right.
This behavior was previously enabled and hard coded, it is now optional and disabled by default.
A few great looking background patterns for the customizable dark/light fullscreen navigation interfaces are now included with the installer. The browse button next to the "Override navigation background image" setting now opens the new patterns folder by default.
The advanced playlist control can now be searched with either an "OR" or an "AND" type Boolean search when using multiple words.
New "Lock user interface" control bar button. When enabled, the mouse and keyboard interfaces are disabled until the top-left corner of the screen is quickly clicked 3 times or the space bar is quickly pressed 3 times.
New "/MainNav" command line parameter that starts the player with the main navigation interface visible and fullscreen.
New "Main Navigator" setting for the "Start Player in" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
New Text Viewer font size settings for both ASCII and ANSI (used to display art in NFO files) under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display".
New "exLAVHWAccel" extended function that specifies the type of video hardware acceleration used by the LAV Video Decoder filter.
Values:
0 = Use LAV's setting
1 = None (software decoding)
2 = NVIDIA CUVID
3 = Intel QuickSync
4 = DXVA2 (copy-back)
5 = DXVA2 (native)
Extended functions can be mapped to keyboard events to make switching between different hardware acceleration modes more accessible.
New smart play profile to support decoding of Apple's ProRes format.
Media can now be played directly from the fullscreen download manager navigation interface.
Changes:
Rewrote the entire fullscreen navigation mouse click/touch code to prevent clicking and double clicking outside list boundaries selecting the first/last list entry.
The Image Adjust, Image Blanking, Equalizer and Color Control navigation interfaces are now much more reactive when quickly clicking the mouse or touch input devices.
The GoTo Time fullscreen navigation interface is now much more touch-intuitive with +/- icons under the Hours/Minutes/Seconds fields to quickly change the values without having to use the more cumbersome directional arrows interface.
The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface no longer displays the volume label of network drives as it caused massive slow downs if the network drive was disconnected.
The fullscreen navigation interfaces' close button now only reacts when the mouse button is released or when the finger is moved off the touch surface. The change makes the interface more intuitive when used with touch interfaces.
Double clicking on the fullscreen media library category or file browsing drive list now opens the last position instead of the first item in the list.
When hovering with the mouse over the main fullscreen navigation interface's grid, the active entry is now set to the item selected instead of just highlighted, making use of a keyboard+mouse setup more intuitive.
The order of the navigation interfaces has been changed along with the default navigation interfaces listed in the main navigation interface. You can still choose which navigation interfaces to list through the advanced options dialog.
The on-screen clock is now hidden when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible.
The default value for "Navigation Scroll Mode" is now set to "Middle Centered".
The icon in the path area was removed from several fullscreen navigation interfaces.
The path text was changed to be more subtle in several fullscreen navigation interfaces.
Played items in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces are made easier to spot by changing played media's icon to 25% transparency (compared to 50% in previous versions).
Several actions, (for example trying to open a category in the media library that contained no files) would not show any visual cue to indicate why no action took place.
These action will now Pop-up an OSD message to indicate the cause.
Fixes:
Due to a bug, the scheduler interface became impossible to enable even when using the MAX version.
The "Check for updates" setting was broken and may have notified of new components on the install center even though they may have not been any.
Closing a fullscreen navigation interface by clicking/touching the "X" area located at the top-right corner of the screen could accidentally trigger a "right" navigation function, which by default is to seek forward 20 seconds.
Double-click action will not trigger accidentally when trying to quickly select/unselect entries in the Playlist, Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
The selected file(s) attribute in the Media Library, Playlist and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces would not clear after performing several actions (Cut, Paste, Add to Playlist, Remove from Playlist and Clear Playlist).
Fixed a memory leak when using the main navigation interface in grid mode.
Certain mouse actions and features did not perform well when the text viewer was used.
Scrolling quickly through the image adjust and image blanking fullscreen navigation interfaces could cause values to change using a multiplier instead of accurately one at a time.
Using the "End" key to go to the end of the line when using the fullscreen keyboard navigation interface would go one character after the line's end.
Using the CommAPI #1930 message to add files to the playlist now automatically translates "/" characters to "\" if the path is local, fixing cosmetic issues in the playlist.

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 RC 4 (Oct 30, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 RC 3 (Oct 30, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 RC 2 (Oct 30, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 Beta 7 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 Beta 6 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 Beta 5 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 Beta 3 (Oct 13, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.5.0 Beta 1 (Oct 2, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.4.1 (Sep 29, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.4.0 (Sep 19, 2014)

New feature to load DirectShow filters directly from a DLL even if the filter is not registered/installed on the system (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Info & DLL Paths).
The external DLL paths are searched when Zoom Player tries to create a filter that is not registered with the operating system.
Note
All paths are relative to Zoom Player's EXE's folder.
Some filters may require registry entries to work.
New icon next to a fullscreen navigation interface's icon/title to provide a clear visual indicator that clicking the location navigates to the previous navigation page.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to set the scrollbar's width.
New clickable icons for "Play all files in this directory" and "Randomly Play all files in this directory".
New "Play" icon next to playable entries in multiple fullscreen navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc).
You can now select MadVR as the Windows Media DRM playback video renderer.
Large playlist load time has been optimized by up to 200%.
You can now single-click previous directory icon to go to the previous directory.
New "Unknown" icon now used with unknown file types in file listing fullscreen navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc).
When loading a playlist comprised of multiple playlists, each with a sort method specified in the playlist, the playlists will now be individually sorted and appended instead of the final playlist being sorted.
The fullscreen navigation scrollbar width is no longer dependant on the width of the dialog as that didn't make sense rotating displays (such as tablets). The scroll bar width is now fixed size.
The icon used to access the fullscreen navigation interface's functions page has been modified to more clearly indicate the action taken by clicking the icon.
On the fullscreen navigation function pages of the media library and file browsing interfaces, on the "Add to Playlist" entry, the icon has been changed from a right arrow to a playlist icon to better indicate that clicking the icon opens the playlist navigation interface.
The playlist icon has been replaced with a new, polished design.
The "Create Contact Sheet" feature got completely broken in v9.3.
The fullscreen navigation interfaces did not resize when rotating the screen orientation.
When playing a media with external audio track files, the used filters may not have been released properly from memory, causing all sorts of possible issues (for example, MadVR would not release its overlay, covering the video area when playing audio files afterwards).
The fullscreen playlist navigation interface's font did not adjust in size to match the "Navigation Line Count" setting and was not perfectly centered within each line.
The Alt+"S" keyboard macro that opens the subtitle configuration page did not work if the "XySubFilter" subtitle renderer filter was used.
When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display preview thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the thumbnails would always appear below the timeline, even when there was space above it.
When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display preview thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the thumbnails would initially appear on the secondary until the mouse was moved at least 1 pixel over the timeline.
The previous fullscreen navigation customization settings were not restored if the options dialog was closed using the "Cancel" button.
Resizing the fullscreen station navigation interface width could cause the station name to overlap the station format and bitrate text fields.
The Install Center would list an update as available even if a newer version was already installed if the update's build number was higher than the currently installed version's build number, for example: v9.3.0.102 would appear newer than v9.4.0.3
The "DefaultSettings.exe" file did not reset the Steam Edition's settings.

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.3.0 (Sep 2, 2014)

New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to pre-load navigation graphics, improving load time at the cost of additional memory usage.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to prevent the navigation icon from being displayed next to the title text.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to prevent the navigation title from being displayed.
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker) that tracks and displays download progress in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces when using the qBittorrent BitTorrent download client
New skin-script code specifying the fullscreen navigation interfaces' icon position and scale next to the title text.
Several fullscreen navigation customization features have been moved from other pages to the new customization page on the advanced options dialog.
Several fullscreen navigation widget have been polished to better fit the navigation style.
Multiple fullscreen navigation skin files can now reside in the same folder, allowing graphical element re-use for a smaller distribution.
All settings on the fullscreen navigation customization options dialog page are now updated in real time, making it much simpler to customize the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
Using the fullscreen navigation's navigation skin selection interface now updates the navigation skin as soon as you highlight a skin entry.
Detaching the control bar now overrides all other control bar positional settings.
Adding files/folders to the playlist using the media library or file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces now reports the number of files actually added to the playlist.
The Advanced playlist control now works 200% faster by pre-allocating some RAM (10mb ram for a playlist with 40,000 entries).
Fixed a vulnerability when loading specially crafted ".BMP" files.
The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) will no longer appear partially off-screen when the playback window is positioned at a screen corner.
When applying file extension association, the confirmation dialog appeared in the wrong screen position.
Adding a streaming URL using the playlist editor would clear the entire playlist instead of appending the URL to the end of the playlist.
Hardened the language-pack parsing code to better handle several types of translation errors.
The "DefaultSettings.exe" application that resets Zoom Player's settings to their default values did not work with the Steam Edition of Zoom Player.
Fixed several issues related to conflicts between assigned double-click and single-click mouse functions, like the inability to exit fullscreen mode when double-click is set to switch to "Fullscreen on/off" and single click set to "Move Video / Window".
The "ESC" key no longer closes the keyboard editor's key mapping dialog, allowing the "ESC" key to be mapped.
Loading playlists with embedded media-duration information skips the media-duration scanner's background operation from trying to get the media's duration from the media file itself.
The advanced playlist control dialog would take twice as long to open if the 'Search' was set to "Starting with...". Only noticable on massive playlists.

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.3 Beta 2 (Aug 7, 2014)

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.2.0 (Jul 28, 2014)

XBOX controller sticks can now be used to Pan & Scan directshow zoomed video
New "Speed" parameter assignable to XBOX controller stick and trigger functions specifies the number of operations per second to perform customizing motion accuracy for each function
The mouse left-click button can now be assigned to Pan & Scan directshow zoomed video
When the mouse left-click button is set to "Mouse Gestures", a new function can be assigned to a static click, by default the function is Play/Pause
The DirectShow Zooming & Panning features now apply to the internal image viewer (JPEG/PNG/BMP) as well
The internal image viewer (JPEG/PNG/BMP) now supports image rotation by 90 degree increments using the Shift+"R" keyboard macro
Video streaming over http is now supported when using the "Open->Streaming link" feature from the right-click context menu
New virtual meta-data editing accessible through the playlist editor's right-click context menu or for the currently playing media using the Ctrl+Shift+"T" keyboard macro
The virtual editor saves the meta-data in Zoom Player's ZPL playlist format without modifying the meta-data within media files themselves
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that specifies whether http media streaming builds a video or audio graph when the specified URL does not contain a file extension (for example "http://my.ip.com")
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to auto-sort playlists on load (excluding the default playlist used when restarting the player)
The right-arrow appearing on multiple fullscreen navigation interfaces is now clickable and equivalent of using the right arrow key keyboard macro
New button and right-click context menu entry on the playlist editor to add streaming URLs (e.g. "http://www.somesite.org/folder/channel1.ts")
The chapter-points graphical elements in the bundled Onyx and Alba skins is now better color-coded to make it easier to see behind text
The auto-part loader now ignores space characters when trying to decide if the next file in the directory should be automatically inserted into the playlist
Added a warning to reload the playing media when enabling "Show time seek position over Timeline" setting with "Show position preview thumbnail" previously enabled
Added a warning to reload the playing media when enabling the "Display OSD through MadVR's OSD API (preserves fullscreen exclusive mode)" setting
The options dialog is now slightly wider to better account for the width required to display the entire settings tree
When playing a live stream, pausing now stops the graph instead of being completely disabled
The multi-part file loader will no longer try to find multiple parts when the file loaded is a playlist
The play history fullscreen navigation interface now has a small arrow on the active line signifying access to additional functionality
The ZPL playlist parsing code ignored meta-data such as the title if the playlist entry was a URL (link)
Fixed multiple issues with M3U playlist parsing, including parsing of UTF8 encoding and meta-data parsing of titles for streaming links
Mouse gestures could conflict with the mouse left-click combined with holding the Alt or Ctrl key functions
With the "Auto-Save Media Chapter files (".ZPCHP" files)" setting enabled chapter files were not being saved automatically under some circumstances
A few JPEG orientation modes were not displaying in the correct orientation
Setting the "Screen-Align the Control Bar to" setting to "Top" or "Bottom" caused MadVR to drop out of fullscreen exclusive mode every time the control bar was shown
With the "Screen-Align the Control Bar to" setting set to "Top" or "Bottom", the control bar would align within the video in fullscreen mode instead of the top/bottom positions
With EVR set as the video renderer, the first time a media was loaded caused a momentary glitch in the skin (black box appearing behind the skin's button)
The PreAmp equalizer slider would get reset when the audio was muted if the "Link volume up/down functions to PreAmp volume..." setting was enabled
Adding a web page to the playlist and then saving and loading the playlist or just restarting the player would cause the playlist entry to be played as a media file (and failing) instead of opening as a web page
The extended fullscreen navigation interface would show "???" instead of displaying unicode language-specific texts
Fixed a typo in one of the function descriptions

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.1.0 (Jul 2, 2014)

The left mouse click can now be set to "Mouse Gestures".
You can now assign 4 mouse gestures (up/down/left/right) when gesturing with the mouse cursor while holding down the left mouse button or by swiping a finger on touch displays a forth of the way across the screen. By default the assigned functions are:
· Left: Medium seek backward
· Right: Medium seek forward
· Up: Previous Track
· Down: Next Track
All gestures can be assigned a custom function in the MAX version. xySubFilter support for full resolution subtitle rendering when playing lower resolution video content.
MadVR must be used as the video renderer for xySubFilter to function. Please note that the current version of xySubFilter may break ffdshow subtitle rendering if the xySubFilter filter is registered.
The XInput (XBOX360 and compatible controllers) interface can now assign Zoom-in and Zoom-out functions to the left and right Trigger buttons.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that displays chapter points on the timeline. When the mouse hovers over a chapter point, a pop-up shows the chapter name. This feature requires a skin that includes additional chapter-point graphical elements. The Onyx and Alba skins include this support.
New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver) to always disable the windows screen saver and monitor powerdown while Zoom Player is running.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enables the Mouse's middle click (wheel click) to reset DirectShow Zooming.
New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enable the Mouse's left click combined with holding either the Alt or Ctrl keys to pan the DirectShow Zoomed video (panning is currently limited to the EVR video renderer).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse Wheel) that allows the DirectShow Zoom In/Out functions to be assigned to the mouse wheel.
New extended "exDirectShowZoom" function used to specify a zoom-in factor when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike standard Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed mode.
New "fnDSZoomIn" and "fnDSZoomOut" functions that Zoom into and out of the video area when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike standard Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed mode.
New Comm API message #1705 notifying of a subtitle stream change.
New Comm API message #1605 notifying of an audio stream change.
New "TimelineChapters" and "TimelineCBarChapters" skin scripting functions used to specify coordinates for the timeline chapter marks.
Comm API message #1702 (get subtitle stream names), only worked in DVD mode. It now works for media mode subtitle steams as well.
The 'Current Position' is now horizontally centered in the chapter editor.
The font size used when creating contact sheets was too small, making the text unreadable when creating lower resolution contract sheet images.
Restored subtitle compatibility with the latest version of ffdshow.
Using the ffdshow subtitle rendering option should now work.
Playing media files with both embedded and external subtitle tracks with the embedded subtitle tracks set as both not-default and not-forced, the next subtitle track function would require several tries to properly show the correct subtitle track and at times, the OSD pop-up may have shown the wrong active subtitle track name.
Adding a chapter point to a media file would list the new chapter in the wrong order within the chapter editor.
Removing chapters using the chapter editor did not prompt to erase the chapter files when all chapters were removed, causing the chapters to re-appear after re-loading the media.
Using the next/previous chapter buttons would pop an action OSD containing character encoding instead of the actual character.
For example "&comma" instead of ",".
The 'Show OSD filename when opening a new file' setting stopped working.
Detaching the Control Bar when using MadVR as the video renderer would cause the control bar to appear twice under certain circumstances.
Setting the control bar to appear at the top/bottom of the screen instead of the video area would not work when using MadVR as the video renderer.
Disabling the "Auto Play" setting broke the "Automatically restore the last media position on replay" feature.
With "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)" and "Limit Auto-Size to User Interface Height" settings enabled, playing a video while fullscreen and then exiting fullscreen would have resulted in a window the same size as the source video's full resolution instead of only adjusting the height to compensate for the aspect ratio.
Searching for some buttons using the options dialog's search feature would prevent the searched buttons from being clicked until the search dialog was closed first.
Enabling the 'Always start with media subtitles hidden' setting would cause a 'Play' OSD to pop-up when playing a media file containing subtitles.
The current time and date did not appear on any fullscreen navigation interface based on the virtual keyboard (Rename, New Folder, etc).

New in Zoom Player MAX 9.0 (Apr 9, 2014)

New:
Support for XInput (XBOX360 and compatible) controllers
Each button can be assigned a Zoom Player functions
The DPAD can be used for fullscreen navigation
The thumb sticks are assigned special functions that change in strength based on the pressure applied to the stick. This feature is limited to the Steam Edition of Zoom Player
New thumbnail preview when hovering over the timeline (MAX only). Thumbnail preview currently works only on media formats that report key frame position
Enable under Adv. Options / Control Bar / Timeline Area
Extensive changes to the Smart Play profiles, enabling newer, better codecs for many profiles. Please report any issues playing a format that previously used to play
New "Automatically restore the previously active subtitle track on replay" Play History setting
New "Automatically restore the previously active audio track on replay" Play History setting
The slate navigation interface has been tweaked and now displays the current time & date
A 'New Folder' function has been added to the Media Library and file Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces
New rename function accessible either through the playlist's right-click menu or using the Alt+Shift+"M" to rename the currently playing file
The fullscreen navigation interface now display an integrated clock (date time and day)
New Smart Play profiles for H.265 (HEVC) and VP9
The Microsoft Windows TV '.WTV' file extension is now supported by Smart Play using the 'MPEG2 Program' Smart Play profile
New "GIF" smart play profile to better support animated GIF playback
New Alt+Shift+"O" keyboard macro used to enable/disable MadVR's Smooth Motion' feature
New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video" that controls whether MadVR's smooth motion feature is enabled, disabled or MadVR default
New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls mouse cursor visibility for all dialogs in both fullscreen and windowed mode (useful when only using a remote control or keyboard)
New video rotation function (fnVideoRotate), assigned to the Shift+"R" keyboard macro that uses MadVR along with Pixel Shader scripts to rotate the video image. Each use turns the video 90 degrees clockwise. This feature requires using MadVR as the video renderer and using a display card capable of at least Pixel Shader model 2 (supported by most display hardware purchased in recent years)
New Function "fnMadVRSmootMo" that enables/disables MadVR's smooth motion feature
New Extended Function "exStayOnTop" used to set StayOnTop mode
New "exSlideshow" extended function used to specify the slideshow delay wait period) between two images
New "exFastFoward" and "exRewind" extended functions, used to set a custom fast forward or rewind rate on the fly by assigning the new functions to a button or interface hardware (keyboard/remote/etc)
New "exSlowMotion" extended function, used to set a slow motion rate on the fly by assigning the new functions to a button or interface hardware (keyboard/remote/etc)
The playlist editor's sort menu can now sort by ascending or descending order
The contact sheet settings are now saved
New "/FMax" command line parameter that starts with the Player set to fullscreen across all connected monitors
New skin script code used to display the time & date within fullscreen navigation interfaces
New Comm API message #0110, returning the current system time in multiple time formats
New Comm API message #0120, used to request the monitor layout
New Comm API message #0130, used to request available audio devices
New Comm API message #0132, used to set the active audio device
New Comm API message #0134, used to request the active audio device
New Comm API message #0142, used to set the active video renderer
New Comm API message #0144, used to request the active video renderer
New Comm API message #0150, used to enable or disable mouse cursor visibility for all dialogs in both fullscreen and windowed mode
New Comm API message #6040, returning the current playlist with path relative to the share path specified using the /SharePath command line parameter
New Comm API message #6105, used to enable/disable the scheduler
New Comm API message #2310, used to adjust the audio volume level
Changes:
The file association for Windows 8 now opens the Windows file association interface as Microsoft completely locked down any external changes to file association starting with Windows 8
In previous versions, trying to play a DVD would initially open a dialog to choose the audio/video decoders to use for DVD playback. Now, If installed, LAV Filters are used as the default audio/video decoders. So now, on a fresh install, you only need to switch to DVD mode and hit play
The Shift+"R" keyboard macro has been changed from "reverse aspect ratio" cycle to "video rotation"
The play next media file in the same directory feature no longer tries to open playlist files which could be abused and cause the feature to play media files outside the original playing folder
Incomplete AVI files can now be played using LAV Filters as the source filter, making the 'Gabest AVI Splitter' filter obsolete (and no longer available for download through the install center)
The Shift+"A" and Alt+"A" keyboard macros for opening the audio decoding filter configuration dialog have been merged into the Alt+"A" macro
The active/inactive buttons on skinned dialogs are now clearer
The "Still Image" smart play profile is no longer used for GIF images
The "Open Item Directory" entry on the playlist editor's right click menu now opens an explorer window with the file highlighted. Previously, only the directory would open
The load-playlist button on the playlist editor will now open in the "default media open path" folder if one is specified
Updated the HuffYUV Smart Play profile to support HuffYUV files created using ffmpeg/ffdshow encoder
Comm API message #6010 now returns the number of files verified to exist on the system
Fixes:
Windows 8.1 multi-monitor DPI is now supported, the Zoom Player user interface will maintain its correct size and sharpness regardless of the monitor's DPI setting
Disabling the windows screen saver and monitor powerdown now only works while in fullscreen as intended (previously, the powerdown was completely disabled while Zoom Player was running)
Trying to shutdown windows while Zoom Player is playing a media file could cause Zoom Player to close improperly
Fixed glitch that caused the FPU accuracy to drop, causing sorting issues with files having a time difference of less than a minute
Opening a DVD Menu using LAV filters may cause the menu not to refresh properly
Under some condition, DVD Fast Forward and Rewind could cause the displayed subtitle to remain fixed on-screen
Some settings on the 'Adv. Options / Playback / Video' were accidentally showing a dialog stating a different version of Zoom Player was required
Some Play History settings were not being grayed out in the options dialog when they should have been
When the multi part file loader feature is set to 'Automatic Match' playing a file with a name comprised only of numbers that converts to a very high value, triggered a crash
Trying to use the "Random play a file with the same extension from the playing directory" or "Random play a media file from the playing directory" functions would result in an instant access violation error
Using Zoom Player's playlist format to specify the "SR=6" (sort Randomly) tag would result in a corrupted playlist
Delayed DVD seeking was always active when seeking backwards, even when the "Delayed DVD seeking" setting was disabled
After the operating system has been up for more than 25 days, the mouse double-click functions in the fullscreen navigation interface would cease working
Double-clicking the 'previous directory' icon in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces could automatically select a file or folder in the parent directory
The "SPACE" button on the virtual keyboard did not work when the text carrot was at the end of the line
Trying to seek in a DVD that was authored to disable seeking in certain title will now show an OSD pop-up message informing that this is the case
Clicking too quickly on the virtual keyboard keys would type in the same
character twice
The Smart Play profile for OPUS audio is now using the LAV Audio Decoder by default as the DC-Bass decoder did not properly support all OPUS files DVD that contain disc titles with invalid file name characters now properly save any disc-specific information (such as resume from last position)
Going up a folder from the fullscreen station navigation function interface would not work correctly and could lead to a crash
Opening a web page will now cover the entire display area, ignoring aspect ratio settings
Worked around a uTorrent bug that prevented download percentage from appearing in media navigation fullscreen interfaces for certain file names
When the "Save Position" checkbox is unticked in the Skins Selection window, while using the "F6" skin mode, clicking the "Switch to Standard User Interface" button did not retain the user interface when switching
In F6 mode, clicking the "Switch to Standard User Interface" button doesn't retain the size of the interface when switching has been fixed
A minor visual glitch in the Audio skin's bottom right buttons down state has been corrected
Fixed a crash when closing the player with the 'Show time seek position over timeline' setting enabled
The volume skin widget did not support unicode (non-english) characters
Fixed two vulnerabilities identified by researcher 'Kaveh Ghaemmaghami' and brought to our attention by 'Secunia Research' related to malformed BMP files
Using the playlist editor to sort by file size would not work when the "Don't check if a file exists when adding a file to the Playlist (faster loading)" setting was enabled
Trying to sort by file size will now notify you of this issue
A single frame shift would occur when pausing video with the EVR/VMR video renderers

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.1 (Mar 13, 2013)

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.0 (Mar 13, 2013)

New :
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.5.1 (Jan 3, 2013)

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.0 Beta 6 (Dec 18, 2012)

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.0 Beta 5 (Dec 13, 2012)

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.0 Beta 4 (Dec 3, 2012)

New:
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.6.0 Beta 1 (Nov 12, 2012)

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.5.0 (Oct 26, 2012)

New :
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.2.0 Preview 1 (Jun 5, 2012)

New :
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.15 (Apr 18, 2012)

New :
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.11 (Feb 13, 2012)

New :
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.10 (Jan 6, 2012)

New:
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 8.00 RC1 (Mar 18, 2011)

New:
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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 7.10 Alpha 4 (Jun 10, 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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 7.00 Final (Nov 17, 2009)

New in Zoom Player MAX 7.00 RC2 (Nov 8, 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.

New in Zoom Player MAX 7.00 RC1 (Jul 6, 2009)

New in Zoom Player MAX 5.5 Beta 1 (Aug 13, 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.