Zoom Player Professional Changelog

What's new in Zoom Player Professional 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 Professional 11.1 (Nov 25, 2015)

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 "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)
to use the "Stop" function to close any currently visible fullscreen
navigation interface. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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).
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.
The qBittorrent file tracker did not show the download progress of some
torrents with nested folders.
Pressing Alt+"V" to fetch the playlist media entries duration would not
work the first time (had to press twice).
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.

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

What's new in Zoom Player v11: 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. Thanks Dimitar Pankov.
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 Professional 10.5.0 Beta 2 (Jul 9, 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 Professional 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 Professional 9.4.1 (Sep 29, 2014)

New in Zoom Player Professional 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 Professional 9.3.0 (Sep 13, 2014)

Support for registering the GXF, MXF media exchange formats file extensions.
New Smart Play profiles for GFX, MXF, Motion JPEG2000 and DVCPro formats.
Clicking on the fullscreen navigation interfaces title area now navigates to the previous interface (like using the navigate "left" function).
The current navigation icon is now drawn next to the fullscreen navigation interface's title.
Clicking the "Main" fullscreen navigation interface now toggles back and forth between the function page and the navigation interface selection index.
The playlist, file browsing and media library fullscreen navigation interfaces display item and selected item counts on the right-side of the path section.
New "Main" entry on the main fullscreen navigation interface functions page that returns to the main navigation interface selection index.
The fullscreen virtual-keyboard navigation interface's text box can now be clicked to move the text-caret to the clicked position in the text.
The fullscreen navigation skinning code has been enhanced to control whether navigation arrows are displayed on each navigator interface.
The fullscreen navigation skinning code has been enhanced to allow specifying a specific file for each navigation icon. Navigation icon sizes are no longer fixed at 160x160 pixels (source resolution).
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).
Image rotation was completely broken (did nothing) in v9.2.
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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 8.6.1 (Mar 13, 2013)

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

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

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

New in Zoom Player Professional 6.00 RC3 / 5.02 (Aug 19, 2008)

New "/Browse" command line parameter instructing Zoom Player to open the specified web address in its internal web browser. This command line works even if Zoom Player is already running.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) allowing you to select custom DVD & Media background images.
Added support for the PowerDVD v8 MPEG2 video decoder.
New CommAPI message 1860 allowing you to pass a web address (URL) for Zoom Player to open.
Dropping items into the playlist now drops the items at the mouse cursor position in the playlist.
Updated description of video renderers.
When opening the options dialog on a monitor with resolution too low to display the entire dialog, the dialog will now cover more of the screen area.
Enabling/Disabling the DVD & Media Background images has moved to "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display"
The external command to "Enqueue/Play with" Zoom Player has been moved to a shell extension under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, making it faster and more reliable.
The installer automatically sets legacy mode when running under Windows 95/98/ME.
A few more "divide by zero" bugs should be squashed with EVR.
Playing the next/previous file in the directory, or using similar functions such as playing the next/previous file of the same type in the directory didn't work with UNC paths (network paths).
Opening the media information dialog ("I") while fullscreen and then switching to windowed mode would incorrectly show the dialog.
When Stay On Top was enabled, the seek-to hint window would appear behind the main user interface window.
Erasing sub-directories in the file browsing navigation interface would fail under some circumstances.
Setting the control bar to be aligned with the top/bottom of the screen instead of the video area didn't work properly.
Fullscreen Navigation Safe Mode (File Browsing/Media Library navigation interfaces) got broken.
Using the "Play all files in this directory" function from the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface would crash.
Networked mapped drives didn't work well with the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface.
Playing a media file from one of the navigation interfaces no longer shows the media background image before playing the file.
Left over debug code broke the media library navigator if no drive D: existed on the system.
If transparent action OSD was enabled with OSD skinning enabled prior to installing v6.0 RC2, visual glitches could occur in the OSD.
Under some conditions, the TCP port would not become accessible.
Some Windows Media settings were not enabled in the preimum version.

New in Zoom Player Professional 6.00 RC2 / 5.02 (May 5, 2008)

New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video & Subtitles) allowing you to enable/disable Closed Captions support for media files.
New Button (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to reset the Remember Last Position cache (and play history, which are the same thing).
New "/SP:[n]" command line parameter allowing you to turn Smart Play ON/OFF.
To turn Smart Play off use "/SP:0" to turn it on use "/SP:1".
New "" skin script dynamic variable that returns the current playing index.
New "" skin script dynamic variable that returns the current playlist item count without adding the "file(s)" text to the returned value.
New DVD profiles for the Convolver filter: http://convolver.sourceforge.net/
The Main fullscreen navigational interface is now accessible directly through the right-click context menu.
Support for the ".WAX" ,".WVX", ".WMX" playlist file extensions.
Opening "mms://" addresses should now work a little better.
When using the File Browsing and Media Library navigation interfaces, the
Copy & Paste functions will now show an OSD message while moving files and a success/fail OSD message when the file operation completes.
When opening the player with secondary windows open (playlist editor, equalizer, etc...) the keyboard focus did not remain on the main window.
Real-Time Frame rate reporting on the information dialog should now work with Custom Video Renderers as long as they support the IQualProp interface.
The "Add Chapter" function's keyboard macro has been changed from "C" to Ctrl Shift "C".
Fixed List Index out of Bounds error when playing archived files.
Switching between skin modes in the skin selection dialog would not update the available skin lists properly between modes.
Using the play next file in the same directory should no longer flash the media background images between files. This fix also makes the images load faster.
The Screen Orbiting feature did not accept values properly.
Setting a Playlist Font/Color override would return to the skin values when switching skin modes.
Disabling Skinning of the OSD Action pop-up and setting it to transparent didn't work properly.
The Skip to the next file in the playlist when an unplayable file is encountered function no longer skips to the next file if the entire playlist is unplayable. This fix prevents the playlist from looping in error messages forever.
Improved Network path support for paths starting with "//".
etc

New in Zoom Player Professional 6.00 Beta 2 / 5.01 (Jan 3, 2008)

New in Zoom Player Professional 5.50 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.