What's new in Zoom Commander 2.0.1
Mar 20, 2014
- The remote file browser can now add HTML (.htm/.html/.shtml) files for playback.
- The screen edit dialog now notifies you that 'An initial connection to the screen is required to display the layout preview'.
- Displaying HTML/Website content with a slideshow value of "0" to disable the slideshow, would instead apply a 5 second slideshow.
New in Zoom Commander 2.0 (Mar 14, 2014)
- The screen editing dialog has been redesigned and now includes an intuitive screen layout preview, displaying the remote PC's monitor layout and color-coded screen positions for all screen entries residing on the same PC.
- The screen editing dialog's 'Screen Layout' selection includes a new Video Wall layout option.
- New right-click menu on the 'Screen Layout' pane in the screen editing dialog that is used to configure the motion ratio when dragging the active screen zone using the mouse cursor.
- Invisible screen zone option, useful for background audio playback.
- New 'Hide screen at end of scheduled playback' screen setting. When enabled, Zoom Presenter's playback window is automatically hidden when no scheduled content is playing.
- This feature is very useful when there is a need to quickly pop a screen into view, display content within the screen for a specified time period and then automatically hide the screen.
- New 'Hide mouse cursor' screen setting. Disable only when presenting interactive content (web pages, flash).
- Selectable video rendering technologies that take advantage of high-end display adapter hardware or introduce backward compatibility with lower-end or older display adapter hardware.
- Selectable audio device, each screen zone can output audio to a separate audio device on the remote PC.
- Certain features now trigger a warning message to clarify when certain settings are applied.
- Screens can now be edited even when connected.
- More warning messages to clarify usage scenarios with an option to dismiss the messages so they never show again.
- Multiple license keys can be applied to increase the number of PCs controllable through Zoom Commander.
- The mouse cursor is no longer visible
- The 'Pause at end of scheduled playback' setting did not save if Zoom Presenter was restarted without Zoom Commander reconnecting.
- Opening a web page would not cover the entire screen area.
- The current playlist did not display web link URLs properly.
New in Zoom Commander 1.1 (Oct 30, 2013)
- Added support for point-to-point communication encryption
New in Zoom Commander 1.0 (Sep 20, 2013)
- This is the final version, it includes several important bug fixes and minor improvements to the UI/UX.
New in Zoom Commander 1.0 Beta 15 (May 9, 2013)
- This beta introduces both TAGing and Screen-Links (controlling multiple screens/zones/players at the same time). Even in this early state, Zoom Player Commander already provides a nice user interface for performing synched head to head video comparisons.
- The link feature is not fully tested yet and sharing the schedule across multiple linked screens is not yet implemented.