Zoom Player FREE 15 Beta 8 Media Player for PC Windows

* 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 it's 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.

* 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.

- 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.

* 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).

- Pressing Alt+"A" to open the Audio decoder configuration page when no media is loaded, now tries to show the LAV Audio decoder instead of ffdshow's audio decoder. If LAV Filters are not installed the ffdshow audio decoder will open instead.
- Fixed a small cosmetic glitch when maximizing the audio skin.

- When maximizing the Video or Playlist windows, the curved window corners are now transformed into a solid frame, preventing accidental clicks on background applications. This applies to both the Onyx (default) and AlbaHD skins.
- New Skin API command block "ifmaximized" and "endmaximized" used to draw an additional skinning layer when the playlist or video windows are maximized.
- The keyboard macro list (F1 to show) is now cleaner and easier to read.

# 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 "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.
- A 'New Folder' function has been added to the Media Library and File browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
- New Smart Play profiles for H.265 and VP9.
- The Microsoft Windows TV '.WTV' file extension is now supported by Smart Play using the 'MPEG2 Program' Smart Play profile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

# New :
* 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 "GIF" smart play profile to better support animated GIF playback.
* New "exSlideshow" extended function used to specify the slideshow delay (wait period) between two images.
* 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 play next media file in the same directory feature no longer tries to open playlist files which could be abused and cause the featuer to play media files outside the original playing folder.
+ The active/inactive buttons on skinned dialogs are now clearer.
+ The "Still Image" smart play profile is no longer used for GIF images.

# Fixes :
- 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, in 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.

# New
- The slate navigation interface has been tweaked and now displays the current time & date.
- 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 skin-script parameters that specify the new integrated clock position and size.
- 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 or disabled.
- New Function "fnMadVRSmootMo" that enables/disables MadVR's smooth motion feature.
- New Extended Function "exStayOnTop" used to set StayOnTop mode.
- The playlist editor's sort menu can now sort by ascending or descending order.
- New skin script code used to display the time & date within fullscreen navigation interfaces.
- New Comm API message #110, returning the current system time in multiple time formats.
# Changes
- 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.
- Comm API message #6010 now returns the number of files verified to exist on the system.
# Fixes :
- Fixed two vulnerabilities identified by researcher 'Kaveh Ghaemmaghami' and brought to our attention by 'Secunia Research' related to malformed BMP files.
- A single frame shift would occur when pausing video with the EVR/VMR video renderers.

* 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 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 "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.
* 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 Skin Script variables that specifies the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface's text size and position.
* Two new functions (Alt+Shift+"T" and Alt+Shift+"R") for increasing and decreasing the Derived aspect ratio width.
* It is now possible to create a non-square scroll widget for the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* 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 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 (only when using the parameter). 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 that 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.
* 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
* 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.
* When overriding the playlist colors, the entry number is now colored using the 'Playlist font color' value instead of remaining in a fixed color.
* API message #6010 will now return a code once processing has finished.
* 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.
* An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
* The fullscreen navigation skin loading code now falls back to the default navigation style if the previously selected navigation skin file no longer exists.
* Looping videos in EVR no longer blink black between loops.
* The subtitle selection dialog would erroneously show the currently visible subtitle as "Disabled" even though subtitles were showing under certain circumstances.
* 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 "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.
* 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.
* Fixed a crash when Zooming to a resolution over 8192x8192. 8192x8192 is now the maximum zoom-in resolution.
* Fixed an icon-cache bug that kept displaying old cached icons even after switching to a new fullscreen navigation style.
* 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.
* 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.
* Fixed issues playing Icecast URLs from the Xiph database.
* 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.
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 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).
* While in fullscreen, Zooming out to the point where the video area becomes very small truncated the pop-up OSD actions.
* When using the function selection dialog's search function, pressing ENTER would not loop to the top of the list when repeating the search.
* 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.
* 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 Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
* The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions).
* An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
* 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.
* Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
* The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique visualization plugins.
* The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to it's default settings under some circumstances.

# 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 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.
* 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 it's 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.

* The LAV Video decoder can now be selected as a DVD video decoder. LAV's DVD support is still experimental.
* The PowerDVD 12 video decoder is now supported for DVD decoding.
* 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
* Zoom Player now supports the Open-Source DVD Navigation filter:
* New fullscreen navigation skin-scripting parameter to set the playlist's active playing track color, when it is the selected entry.
* An LAV Video decoder option has been added to the Theora Video Smart Play profile.
* A new Theora Video sub-type has been added to the Smart Play profile.
* A new warning dialog now pops-up when trying to enable certain conflicting settings in the options dialog.
* When selecting items in the fullscreen navigation interface, for additional clarity, an icon is now used to mark the selected entry.
* 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 function list dialog's search function has been enhanced for clarity.
* 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.
* More Smart Play profiles now provide an 'LAV' option to use as the decoder/splitter.
* Fixed several memory leaks, especially when loading skins or expanding/contracting skin elements.
* 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 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).
* Changing the fullscreen navigation's 'navigation line count' value no longer distorts the 'Path' icon size in the following fullscreen navigation interfaces:
- Media Library.
- File Browser.
- Station Browser.
- Download Manager.
* When setting the fullscreen navigation's 'navigation line count' value to a high figure, the Equalizer and Color Control navigation interface's display became too small to read.
* 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.

# 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: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/skins/
* 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 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.
* 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.
* 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 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.
* 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.
# 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.
* 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.
* 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.