Zoom Player FREE 15 Beta 8 Media Player for PC Windows

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

Enhanced fullscreen navigation experience.
SHOUTcast Radio Station index.
YouTube Enhancements.
User eXperience Enhancements.
Windows 10 Creators Edition.

New :
The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail area to squeeze in more pixels.
The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's script and advanced options customization settings.
Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams, enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
The Media Library's RSS feed plugin now caches previous entries that may no longer reside on the RSS feed and shows you cached entries even if the RSS feed server is temporarily down.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream 1080p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
The Media Library plugin API has been extended with per-category storage path (e.g. RSS feed caching) and a new function which is called when a category using the plugin is deleted (for cleanup purposes).
New function to activate the internal screen saver. This means that you can now hook user interface actions (like a hot-corner click) with activating the screen saver.
New function to copy the currently playing media's Path/URL to the windows clipboard.
New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each fullscreen navigation interface.
Changes :
The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read. The text's background is now using a different effect which should make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails. The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces' user experience.
The main fullscreen navigation interface's click logic has been changed to make it behave the same as the media library's thumb-click logic.
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Error dialog are now limited in size to 94% of the Zoom Player interface width.
The Zoom Player news feed that's accessible through the options dialog has been simplified and will hopefully eliminate the javascript error some users have been experiencing when trying to view the news feed.
Fixes :
The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
A missing DLL prevented the Pixel Shaders from being compiled and used to post-process a video image.
When loading .ZPL playlist files, playback did not resume from the the last file played in the playlist under some conditions.
Fixed a possible conflict between Zoom Player's internal DSP filter and bit-streaming DTS-HD and possibly other multi-channel audio formats.
The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
The scroll wheel did not function correctly in some of the advanced options dialog's scroll boxes.
Playing a new track from the fullscreen playlist navigation interface no longer pops the playlist editor to the top.
Fixed a bug in the Media Library plugin API that prevented unicode (non-english) language searches from working using the YouTube search plugin.
The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.

New :
The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail area to squeeze in more pixels.
The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's script and advanced options customization settings.
Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams, enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream 1080p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
New function to activate the internal screen saver. This means that you can now hook user interface actions (like a hot-corner click) with activating the screen saver.
New function to copy the currently playing media's Path/URL to the windows clipboard.
New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each fullscreen navigation interface.
Changes :
The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read. The text's background is now using a different effect which should make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails.
The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces' user experience.
The main fullscreen navigation interface's click logic has been changed to make it behave the same as the media library's thumb-click logic.
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Fixes :
The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
Fixed a possible conflict between Zoom Player's internal DSP filter and bit-streaming DTS-HD and possibly other multi-channel audio formats.
A missing DLL prevented the Pixel Shaders from being compiled and used to post-process a video image.
The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
Playing a new track from the fullscreen playlist navigation interface no longer pops the playlist editor to the top.
Fixed a bug in the Media Library plugin API that prevented unicode(non-english) language searches from working using the YouTube search plugin.
The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.

New:
Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
Unlike previous versions where Zoom Player used a static database which over time included more and more dead stations, the SHOUTcast directory is now downloaded in real time, ensuring that every station should be operational.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
Changes :
The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
Fixes :
The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.