Zoom Player FREE 15 Beta 8 Media Player for PC Windows

- Removes the erroneous 'trial period is over' message.

- Includes usability tweaks, cosmetic fixes to the user interface and lots of bug fixes

# 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 :
* 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. Using the LIRC section of the options dialog, you can directly assign remote control buttons to Zoom Player Standard, Extended and Navigation functions.
* 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) :
- Random play a media file from the playing directory.
- 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. Example: "c:program fileszplayerzplayer.exe" /CONNECTTCP:127.0.0.1:4770
* 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.

- Bug Fixes.

New :

* To maintain compatibility with Windows Vista's user account
control (UAC) mechanism, the Zoom Player installer will move
all files that require modification to the windows application
data directory (Can be reached by typing "%AppData%oom Player"
in any folder window).

In addition to the move, user-specified skins must be re-selected
through the skin selection dialog.

* New "Auto-Configure" button on the Smart Play options dialog.
When clicked, all current decoder configuration will be reset
and then the system is scanned for the best decoder configuration
using the currently installed decoders.

* Added support for Haali's Video Renderer technology.
Haali's Video Renderer uses Bicubic interpolation of video using
3D hardware. This means improved video quality, especially when
up-scaling to higher resolution. Older 3D Graphic card may not
be supported (Cards with PS 2.0 or better should work well).

* 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.

* Zoom Player's ".zpl" playlist format has been extended to support
TAG data (author,composer,artist,etc). All TAG data read from
a media file (ID3,ApeTAG,WMA Tag,etc) is automatically saved
within the play list format (allowing you to override TAG data
display without actually modifying the source media file).

* Options dialog tree nodes now have an icon to make them easier to
navigate and remember.

* New "Navigation Style" Navigation interface, allowing the
navigation skin to be replaced from within the navigation
interface itself.

* New "Open Navigator" button on the Media Library Path Editor.

* 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 / Interface / On Screen Display /
Full Screen Navigation) restoring the ability to "Play all
files in this Directory" from the main file list (file and
media library navigators).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display /
Full Screen Navigation) allowing you to highlight previously
viewed files. This setting with the "remember last
media position" setting (Adv. Options / Playback) and will
highlight any previously viewed file in the Media and File
Navigation interfaces by making its icon semi-transparent.
Please note that this feature can tax the CPU if the play
history (generated by remembering the last media position)
is over a few 100 files.

* New Setting (Avd. Options / System & Files / Paths, Folders
and Files), allowing you to select the Frame Capture (screenshot)
format. BMP, PNG and JPEG are supported.

* New Auto-Segment load setting (Avd. Options / System & Files /
Paths, Folders and Files), allowing you to match file names
automatically by how similar they are. Press the "?" button
for more details on how the matching works.

* New Function (fnBlankMonitors) assigned to the Alt+Shift+"K"
keyboard macro, allowing you to manually toggle blanking
(black-out) of non-playing monitors. The automatic-blanking
of non-playing monitors is accessible through the options
dialog (Adv. Options / System - Blank non-Playing Monitors
while in Fullscreen / Zoom mode).

* New Function (fnFSActMonitor) assigned to the Alt+Shift+"Enter"
keyboard macro, allowing you to go fullscreen on the currently
active monitor, overriding the fullscreen to monitor "X" setting.

* 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 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.

* 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.

* Added support for DCoder's Bass Source filter. The bass
source filter adds support for the following audio formats:
AAC, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MPC, TTA, WV, MO3, IT, XM, S3M,
MTM, MOD, UMX.

* Added support for DCoder's Bass Source filter SHOUTcast streaming.
DCoder's Bass Source filter is more reliable and supports streaming
of SHOUTcast MP3/OGG/AAC content.

* Added support for the Illiminable FLAC decoder as an alternative
to CoreFLAC.

* Added support for FLV4 type Flash Video (".FLV" files).

* The Keyboard Shortcut list (F1) has been restructured, making it
easier to find keyboard macros.

* Can now quickly get duration for Windows Media Audio (".wma") files.
The default value for auto-get duration now includes the "wma" format,
If you are upgrading from a previous installation, you will need to
go to "Adv. Options / System / File Extensions" and press the Default
button next to the "Auto-Get Duration" edit line.

* The ".DVR-MS" file extension can now be associated with Zoom Player.

* The ".EVO" file extension can now be associated with Zoom Player.

* Initial EVO/EVOB (HD-DVD video files) playback support,
If you are upgrading from a previous installation, you will need to
go to "Adv. Options / System / File Extensions" and press the Default
button next to the "Video" edit line.

* You can now activate a Zoom Player registration by double-clicking
on a valid "zplayer.regkey" file from within Explorer.

* 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.



Changes :

+ The default skin is now selected directly from the skin list,
(as the first skin listed) instead of clicking on the default
skin button.

+ The skin selection interface is now sorted alphabetically.

+ 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 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 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).

+ You can now select a custom playlist font without having to
customize the playlist colors as well.

+ Synchronizing the Subtitles Ahead/Back is now carried in 100ms
increments (instead of the previous 25ms).

+ The Mouse Wheel function-cycle function and the Mouse Wheel
Function navigation interfaces now list the custom function as
the actual function name instead of "Custom".

+ The File Browser and Media Library navigation interfaces will now
display the file's icon when using the function pane.

+ The DVD Fast Forward and Rewind rate now support two more values:
"8/16/32" and "12/24/48".

+ Several items on the right-click menu have been renamed for clarity.



Fixes :

- File Association should now be working under Windows VISTA with
UAC mode enabled.

- The "Continue to the next item on the playlist when an invalid
file is played" didn't work when the file was missing rather than
corrupt/problematic.

- 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.

- Navigation interfaces would not appear when using VISTA Aero and
having the blank seconday monitor feature enabled.

- Pressing Insert in the File Navigator with no files listed would
raise a List out of Bounds error.

- The File Navigator would forget the last active drive if you opened
and closed Zoom Player without opening the navigator.

- Windows Media files that required a password to play would fail to
display the password prompt and fail to play.

- Switching the Navigation Interface color-tint through the skin
selection interface could cause a crash under certain circumstances.

- Having the Control Bar Auto-Show and then having it Auto-Hide
if the distance is too big could cause the Control Bar to
remain on-screen under some circumstances.

- The Scene-Cut Jump and Mute Audio functions were not working correctly.

- Clicking on the Zoom Player tray icon while fullscreen on a secondary
monitor would cause the Zoom Player window to resize without drawing
the skin properly.

- Improved stability for DCoder's DVB filter's graph building.

- Ejecting a non-playing CD/DVD/USB device while a DVD is playing
would cause the DVD to stop.

- The Next/Previous chapter functions were not working properly in
the default DVD skin.

- On some non-standard resolution, the fullscreen navigation interface
would not cover the right-most pixel.

- Playing audio files with file extensions that could also be used for
video files (such as ".MP4") would have Zoom Player remember the
last media position for the audio file, even if remembering audio
file last position was disabled.

- Playing a Matroska file with External subtitles would not allow you
to cycle through the external subtitle tracks with Ctrl+"B".

- Having On Play Complete set to "Do Nothing" while having "Remember
Last Media Position" enabled would cause the video to rewind, even
though it should have paused on the last frame.

- CommAPI message 5130 (call navigation function) was not working.

- Under Windows VISTA, pressing Alt+Tab with some interfaces would
cause several buttons/checkboxes to disappear.

- Filter property pages will now appear on the same monitor as the
Zoom Player user interface.

- Several small cosmetic glitches fixed in the default skin.

- Several navigation interfaces were not showing unicode text correctly.

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- New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD / Fullscreen Navigation), allowing you show hidden files (default off).
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar) allowing the Control Bar to hide automatically if the mouse cursor is moved a certain distance away from the control bar (50 pixels).
- New Mouse Left-Click setting to only move the user interface window (without the ability to move the video while in fullscreen).
- New "/MEDIACAT:category name" command line parameter allowing you to open the media library navigator within the category selection screen when Zoom Player starts.Using "/MEDIACAT" alone will open the category list in the previously saved position, while specifying a category name would highlight a specific category, for example "/MEDIACAT:Music" would highlight the Music category.
- New CommAPI message (1950) allowing you to remove items from the Playlist.
- Clicking on the left/right sides of the navigation interfaces is no longer restricted to 1 pixel, but rather 1 percent of the interface width.
- The "/MEDIANAV:category name" command line parameter was not functioning correctly.
- Under certain conditions the internal image viewer would not position the image correctly.
- Executing external applications on Windows 95/98 could cause a crash. This also affected the install center.
- Fixed small glitches with the skin.
- Made a few text instances clearer.
- Few more small bug fixes.

* The default skin has been replaced with a new cleaner, clearer
and more versatile skin.

* The mouse left click (DVD/Media), double click and middle click
can now be assigned custom functions.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD / Fullscreen
Navigation), allowing you to enable a Safe Mode where potentially
unsafe navigation functionality (cut/copy/paste/erase files)
is hidden from the function list.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface) allowing you to have
Zoom Player switch to fullscreen/zoom modes when starting to
play new content.

* New Function (Shift+"J") that reloads the currently playing
media file.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the main user interface
window is maximized.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the skin selector
interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the station manager
interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the color control
navigator is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the equalizer
interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if any navigation
interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the media library
editor interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the chapter
editor/GoTo interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is active.

* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is maximized.

* New Skin Script Commands allowing you to have Transparent
elements within the timeline (both on the control bar and
on the main user interface).

* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHint" value, allowing
you to change the button's hint value depending on the button
active state.

* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHoverX" and "ActiveHoverY"
values, allowing you to set a button image when the button is
both active and the mouse is hovering over it.

+ Entering a negative FunctionParam value on any of the group
skin script functions ensures that the skin's window size
remains unchanged (use with care).

+ The Play List, Media Library and File Browser navigation interfaces
only check for the existance of an external subtitle file once
(instead of checking each time the interface is opened).

- Opening the Options dialog on a Monitor/TV with a resolution lower
than 800x600 will show scroll bars allowing the dialog to remain
accessible.

- External Control Bar buttons (not part of the control bar button
list) would not show under certain conditions.

- Having blanking enabled should no longer obscure the navigation
interfaces.

- You couldn't disable Smart Play in Zoom Player Standard.

- Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions would not display the exact
play rate on the pop-up OSD.

- Audio TAGs (ID3) would not position properly in some cases.

- Navigation interfaces should no longer show hidden files.

- Getting media duration would not work under certain conditions.

- The context navigator colors were not correct if it was the first
open navigator.

- Opening directories would not always sort them properly.

- Opening the media library in a filter mode containing no categories
would cause an error dialog to appear.

- Setting the mouse left click to move the video area would not work
in fullscreen mode.

- Move to Bottom/Top functions on the Play List navigator would not
always work properly.

- You could add the "Previous Directory" to the play list in the
File / Media Library navigation interfaces.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar
/ Display), allowing you to position the control bar
at the Top, Center or Bottom of the video area.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Fullscreen Navigator) allowing you to choose
which navigation interfaces are to be listed on the
Main Navigator.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Fullscreen Navigator) allowing you to choose
If the Navigate-Left key goes up a directory until
reaching the root directory or goes to the Drive/Category
list directly (File and Media Library Navigators).

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Audio Tags) allowing you to choose Auto-Hide
the background folder image along with the tags.

* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar)
allowing you to show the Control Bar when the mouse cursor
is at the top of the screen.

* Clicking the right and left most pixels in any of the
navigation interfaces is now equivalent to clicking
right/left on the arrows.

* New 2710 CommAPI message allowing you to query the
Random Play state (it is also sent when the user changes
the Random Play state).

* Pressing Enter on the File Navigator drive list will now
open the drive at the root directory. Pressing Right on
the drive list opens the last directory browsed on the
selected drive.

* Pressing Enter on the Media Library Navigator category
list will now open the category at the root directory.
Pressing Right on the category list opens the last
directory browsed on the selected category.

* New "On Play Complete" value of "Open Media Library".

* New 256x256 Windows VISTA icon.

* New Skin Script "SearchFG" play list parameter, allowing
you to set the font color for the search box.

* New Skin Script command "CBarFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the Control Bar timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.

* New Skin Script command "TLineFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the main GUI timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.

+ The media library navigator now remembers the last path
location for each category.

+ The control bar no longer closes when opening a navigation
interface while the control bar is detached.

+ When stay on top is enabled, the control bar remains accessible
if it is detached from the user interface.

+ "Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar / Buttons" no
longer lists inaccessible functions.

+ The Information Dialog ("I" with a media file playing) now shows
format information for the playing file (requires Smart Play enabled).

+ The internal screen saver now runs at idle priority (doesn't
take any CPU power unless the CPU isn't doing anything else).
This also fixes the problem where using a remote control to
turn off the screen saver would not always react instantly.

+ The TAG-Display background color now uses the user-specified
Fullscreen Background color instead of Black.

+ The Browse for Folder dialog is now resizable.

- The navigation interfaces would not display properly on a
secondary monitor under certain conditions.

- Adding files to the play list from the File or Media Library
Navigators could fail under certain conditions.

- Auto-Get duration would not work under certain conditions.

- The Fullscreen Navigation font wasn't being saved properly.

- Having a Volume/Balance/Play Rate bar on either the
Control Bar, Equalizer or Play List interfaces would disappear
when going fullscreen.

- The mouse cursor would not hide properly when using the
internal image decoder or the Flash/HTML/QuickTime ActiveX
controls.

- When opening the Media Library Navigator and going to the category
selection screen for the first time and then back to the file
listing, the file list position would reset.

- Opening non-standard URLs (tivo:// for example) should now
work from command line.

- Under some circumstances, the file navigator wouldn't highlight
the currently playing file properly.

- The navigation scrollbar size would not always scale properly.

- Opening a new file with the mouse cursor hidden and the
control bar visible would hide the mouse cursor to the point
it wouldn't show again.

- Frame advance got broken.

- Holding Alt+Enter (fullscreen) for a several seconds straight
could cause a crash.

New :
- All navigation interfaces have been rewritten from scratch. Navigtion is now much simpler, only using 5 directional controls (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT/ENTER). All interfaces are inter-connected through the "MAIN" navigation interface and are much more easy to control using a mouse or touch-screen. Furthermore, navigational interfaces are now scriptable using a simple text-based scripting language, allowing you to easily reposition the layout and introduce alternative graphical elements. Multiple navigation styles are now available for download.
- Smart Play (previously Customized Media Mode) has been vastly simplified. In the simple mode, only the available profiles and the currently used filters are visible. If the currently used filter matches a profile (which it most always will), the profile will be highlighted. Smart Play is now available in all version of Zoom Player to a lesser degree.
- The Advanced Options dialog has been rewritten from scratch. The new dialog layout is much more logical and should help make Zoom Player's powerful features much more easy to access.
- The Keyboard Editor will now let you create Global HotKeys. These are functions assigned to keys that are active even if Zoom Player itself is not the active application. Global HotKeys also have (on a per-key basis) the option to bring Zoom Player to the front.
- The Auto-Get Duration for media files has been rewritten to get the duration in the background (working only on unused CPU cycles), allowing you to load massive play lists without having to wait. Getting durations for media files also supports more formats and is now enabled by default.
- You can now drop Subtitle files on the main user interface in order to display the subtitle track with the currently playing media file. Requires DirectVobSub installed and Smart Play enabled.
- New Equalizer Navigator (Shift+"Q"), allowing you to access Equalizer settings through the navigation system.
- New Play History Navigator (Shift+"H"), allowing you to return to previously played files (if they still exist).
- New "ZPS" Skin Installation System. Simply opening any "ZPS" file (file with a .zps extension) will run Zoom Player and prompt you to install the skin.
- New Navigation Skin selection option within the Skin Selection interface ("N").
- New Contact Sheet creation dialog (Alt+Shift+"C"). Using this new interface, you can easily create contact sheet for the currently playing media file (doesn't work with DVDs). You must also set the video renderer to VMR9 Windowless.
- New Functions allowing you to play the Next and Previous files in the same directory as the currently playing file with a matching file extension. These functions are now assigned to the "PgUp" and "PgDn" navigational keys when navigator interfaces are not visible. For example, when viewing "MyImage.jpg" in a directory that looks like this: MyImage.jpg MyImage.avi MyImage2.jpg Pressing "PgDn" will show "MyImage2.jpg", skipping "MyImage.avi" These functions enhance Zoom Player's capability as an image viewer.
- New Functions (Accessible on the Play List's right-click context menu) allowing you to move selected items to the top/bottom of the play list.
- New Function (Alt+"E") that enables you to Open/Close the last visible navigator. This last visible setting is saved between sessions, thus allowing you continuous navigation through multiple sessions.
- New Function (Shift+"L") allowing you to show/hide the all Control Bar buttons (without the need to select/remove which buttons are visible). This function has also replaced the Hide/Show All Control Bar buttons on the Control Bar Context-Menu. You will now be presented with a "Hide All Button" toggle (with a checkbox indicating ON/OFF state).
- New Function "fnDeleteCurrent", Assigned by default to the Delete key (when the navigational interfaces are not in use), allowing you to erase the currently playing file (with confirmation).
- New Function (Shift+"Esc") allowing you to close all navigational interfaces. If no navigators are visible, this function does nothing.
- New Functions allowing you to go to the Next/Previous DVD Title. This requires that the DVD is authored to accept this functionality (some DVDs are authored to prohibit certain types of access). The macro keys are Alt+Shift+"]" for Next DVD Title and Alt+Shift+"[" for Previous DVD Title.
- New Extended Function (exZoomTo). This function can be set to Zoom the video area to a specific Zoom percentage (for example, Zoom to 125%). You can access this function using the keyboard editor.
- New Settings (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD), allowing you to force all OSD Displays (Navigators, OSD Actions, Control Bar, etc...) to display relative to a specific position on screen (while in fullscreen) or locked to fullscreen on the active monitor. When enabled, it allows you to Zoom/Move the video without it having an effect on the positioning of the On Screen Display elements.
- New Settings (Advanced Options / Playback), which by default tells Zoom Player to play the next file in the play list when the current file ends, but when disabled, Zoom Player will pause at the end of each file (useful for presentations).
- New Setting (Skin Selector / Save Position). When enabled, each skin's position (window position and size) will be remembered on an individual basis.
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Video / Aspect Ratio) allowing you specify which monitor you want Source Relative Stretch (Pixel Aspect Ratio) to apply to.
- New Setting (Advanced Options / System) allowing you to blank
(black-out) all secondary monitors (any monitor not currently playing video).
- New Setting (Advanced Options / System) allowing you to enable the Internal Screen Saver for Audio-Only files (so that the Internal Screen Saver would kick-in even if the file is playing).
- New Setting (Advanced Options / Playback / Windows Media) allowing you to use the "WMAPro over S/PDIF" DMO filter to output Windows Media Audio through the S/PDIF port. This setting requires that you use an external Receiver with Windows Media Audio capabilities.
- Support for DCoder's DC-DVB filter (a filter capable of using Zoom Player to view Digital-TV with TimeShifting) has been improved with new Teletext funtionality (number 0-9 to enter page numbers and Ctrl+"B" to switch Teletext on/off). Download the filter at "www.dsp-worx.de".
- The Chapter Editor and GoTo dialog have been merged into a single interface. The new interface is easier to use and more powerful.
- The Chapter Editor now allows you to input a time to seek to using an HH:MM:SS.ms structure. The input is pretty flexible, allowing variants such as H:M:S, M:S, S.ms, etc...
- Pressing Ctrl+"V" in the Chapter Editor pastes the clipboard value into the "H:M:S.ms" Time field.
- New Setting on the Chapter Editor allowing you to keep the dialog open even after seeking to a new position. (Useful for FanSub Editors)
- The current time in MS is now visible on the Chapter Editor.
- The Navigation Keyboard Macros (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select) can now have a custom function assigned to them when a navigator is not in use.
- New "Remove Non-Exisiting Entries" button on the Play History interface, allowing you to remove old entries where the file no longer exists on the system.
- Automatic support for Audio file image support by base name. For example, if you have "song.mp3" and "song.jpg" in the same directory, "song.jpg" will automatically load as a folder image.
- New "FolderImage" Skin-Script function allowing you to draw the folder image anywhere within the main user interface.
- The "VolumeExData", "BalanceExData" and "RateExData" Skin-Script functions can now use a Target parameter allowing you to place a Volume, Balance and Rate Control interfaces on the Play List Editor, Equalizer and Control Bar.
- SHOUTcasted audio information (Title, Author, URL, Copyright, Description) can now be accessed by the following Skin-Script tags: /trackname>, /artistname>, /urllink>, /copyright>, /comment>.
- New "/Volume>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the current Audio Volume level percentage (0-100).
- New "/FileIndex>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the currently playing file's index number.
- New "/VideoZoom>" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the current video zooming used in the window interface (affected by the Alt-"1..5" keys and the new "exZoomTo" function).
- New "cBarTLMinWidth" Skin-Script constant allowing you to specify the minimum width of the Control Bar's TimeLine (default 64 pixels).
- The Skin Selection dialog now has an "Uninstall" button.
- New "RN" tag for the Zoom Player Play List file format (".zpl") instructing Zoom Player to randomize the play list once loaded.
- New Communication API Messages "2610, 2611, 2620, 2621, 2630, 2631, 2640, 2641" allowing you to query the current video display area located within fullscreen mode and to set a new location/size.
- New Communication API Messages "2700, 2701" allowing you to get and set the current Play Rate (Media Mode Fast Play/Slow Motion and DVD Mode Fast Forward/Slow Motion/Rewind rates).
- New Communication API Message "5130" allowing you to execute navigational control functions.
- New Communication API Message "1450" allowing you to request the Unique DVD Identifier information.
- New DVD "Additional Filter", the "Trombettworks Channel Downmixer", http://www.trombettworks.com/directshow.php
- The Nero DVD Navigator is now a DVD Navigator option.
- New support for ".FLV" (Flash Video) files (used on YouTube and several other locations). You need a recent version of ffdshow (with the FLV1 codec support enabled) and the Gabest FLV Splitter to get the files to play.
- New Smart Play support for WMV:AP (Windows Media Video:Advanced Profile). You also need updated Windows Media decoders to play this new format (the decoders come with WMP 11 and possibly in a decoder pack from Microsoft).
- New Smart Play profiles for several uncommon AVI/MOV codecs.
- New Smart Play profiles for WavPack Audio.

Changes :
- The WMV DRM license acquisition code has been improved and you should no longer be required to use Windows Media Player to acquire licenses.
- Zoom Player's image-scaling code has improved. This means a very nice speedup when drawing scaled image elements (navigators, background/folder images, etc...) and a slight improvement in image quality. (Licensed from Avery Lee's VirtualDub)
- The Media Library Path Editor ("Shift+"M") interface has been restructured, making it clearer and easier to use.
- The Skin Selection ("N") interface has been restructured, making it clearer and easier to use.
- The Station Editor ("X") interface has been restructured, making it clearer and easier to use.
- When running a new version for the first time, you will now be prompted only for important missing decoders. The full list can still be found in the options dialog.
- The missing decoders list in the Advanced Options dialog has been split into a list of Important decoders and All decoders in order to emphasize that not all decoders listed are required for general day to day media playback. The Simple Options dialog will only show the Important decoders.
- The Media Library navigator interface should work faster on networked drives and use less drive access.
- The Media Library navigator will now only highlight the currently playing file once instead of constantly trying to highlight it.
- The erase navigator confirmation dialog now returns to the navigator it was called from.
- The navigation interfaces can now work without any graphics (without the "NavData" directory). Won't look very good though.
- Using the Next/Previous Track function with only one file in the play list will play the Next/Previous media file in the same directory (useful for picture browsing).
- The Auto Show control bar when the cursor is at the screen's bottom now also Auto Shows the control bar when the cursor is at the screen's top.
- Integration into Windows Vista file association interface. Zoom Player should now appear as a supported program for all association extensions supported by Zoom Player.
- A new value has been added to the "Select" (Enter key) allowing it to open the previously open navigator.
- Switching display resolution while in fullscreen should now react better with the main window covering the full display in the new resolution. And if the display area covered the entire monitor, the display area is now modified to cover the new resolution.
- Pressing Stop while already stopped (in media mode) will now return the playback position to its previous position.
- The Default Play List skin has been tweaked a bit for usability and clarity.
- The File and Media Library Navigators will now dynamically update their content when a removable media is inserted/removed.
- When opening the File Navigator and the previous saved directory position no longer exists, the file navigator will go up through the directory path until a valid directory does exist or the root path for the drive is reached (previously, it would go straight to the root path).
- The Blanking Navigator will now allow you to Enable/Disable Blanking.
- The Control Bar will now have a minimum width of 64 pixels for the timeline and whatever space the active Control Bar buttons take.
- The Mouse Cursor over the Volume, Rate Control, Balance and Equalizer bars will now use the "Hand Point" mouse cursor.
- The Fast Play/Slow Motion rates have changes slightly.
- Showing the Control Bar now hides the navigator interfaces.
- Better streaming support.
- Customized Media Playback has been renamed to "Smart Play".
- Updated Smart Play profiles to account for Elecard v4's change of filter identifications.
- The "Mouse Wheel" section of the Options Dialog has been renamed to "Mouse" and the "Mouse Toggles" section has moved under it.
- The Skinning Constants "/filename>", "/filetitle>" and "/filebase>" in DVD Mode will now display the DVD Title instead of the file name (which when playing DVDs always points to "VIDEO_TS.IFO". This is simply more informative.
- Pressing Enter in the Chapter Editor without any fields filled will now seek to the current position (useful for Subbing).
- The Information Dialog (Press "I") now shows an approximate bitrate as calculated using size of the file being played when DirectShow doesn't return a valid bitrate.
- Playing external audio tracks should now maintain proper synchronization when seeking. Playing external tracks will also create improved graphs.
- The Sort by Date feature now sorts new files first.
- "Play List Editor display moves to follow currently playing track" setting now centers the currently playing track within the list (instead of having it appear at the top of the list).
- The White Wash pattern (Shift+"P") now ignores aspect ratio and moves the bar somewhat faster (previously it was too slow).
- The Smart Play Source Filter selection now allows you to add DMO filters as post processors.
- Improved shortcut support. When loading shortcuts, instead of loading the shortcut into the play list, the entry is replaced by the file the shortcut is pointing to. Furthermore, you can now use shortcut files in the file and media library navigators.
- The Sub-Type list on the Audio/Video Smart Play configuration dialog will now display the FourCC code for each Sub-Type.
- The Girder Command export function now exports Zoom Player's functions in a more orderly list grouping function types into Girder categories.
- The Key Edit dialog is now a bit more friendly.
- The Blanking Navigator key has been changed from "K" to Shift+"K" in order to prevent accidental activation.
- The File Navigator key has been changed from "E" to Shift"F" in order to prevent accidental activation.
- The Scene-Cut and Chapter Editor interfaces now require the use of Zoom Player Professional.

Fixes :
- Audio Renderers containing "00" in their device name (such as the "SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A400]") could have disabled audio under some conditions.
- Under certain conditions (such as logging a user out while Zoom Player is still running), Zoom Player would have crashed with an "Unhandled OS Exception" error.
- Trying to run multiple instances all using the same TCP/IP port will no longer crash with a bind error.
- The Hide TaskBar setting could cause issues in VMR9 Renderless Exclusive mode.
- Flash files should now play in the proper aspect ratio on display devices that do not use square pixels.
- OSD Messages wider than the monitor will now be cut to fit the monitor.
- Possible fix for VMR9 Renderless Exclusive fullscreen mode where tray icons may have flashed.
- Shortcuts with targets using unicode paths are now supported.
- Under certain cases, loading play list files with relative paths would not always find the files.
- Parameters in shortcut files are no longer ignored.
- Zoom Player can now use/display BMP files created with Photoshop. (Recent versions of PhotoShop create improperly formatted BMP files).
- Zoom Player user interface elements will now snap to the Visible Work Area (Task Bar rather than the Monitor border).
- When Zoom Player was set to save its configuration file locally, or when using an alternative window name, Zoom Player would not load files from external programs if it was already open.
- Auto-Disable DVD Subtitles and Preferred DVD Subtitles are now mutually exclusive (with warning message).
- When Detached, The Control Bar can now be resized from the right as well as the left sides of the interface.
- Better handling of filters that change the duration of the currently playing media in real-time (such as TSFileSource).
- You should now be able to erase the currently playing file from within the Media Library Navigator.
- Mid-Stream aspect ratio changes should now work better (was not working well when switching DVB TV-Channels).
- Switching to Audio Mode from DVD Mode and then back to DVD Mode would load the Media Mode skin instead of the DVD Mode skin.
- A few stability tweaks to the skin parsing engine (better handling of badly written skin-script).
- The setting to prevent Zoom Player from using Smart Play by the extension of the file being played was not working properly.
- Fixed a possible stability issue with Smart Play and problematic filters.
- A System-Sound would play when trying to exit Zoom Player using the TCP Interface.
- The Hand Icon used over the Volume/Balance/Play Rate controls was not the windows hand icon, this is now fixed.
- The Definition File "SetAudioSync" setting wasn't being applied when playing DVDs.
- Using the "/F" or "/Z" parameters while Zoom Player is already fullscreen on a secondary monitor could cause the display to move to the primary monitor.
- The Change Resolution on Fullscreen feature may not have properly covered the video area.
- The Search area background color on the Play List Editor was not being set properly for the default skin.
- When ejecting DVDs as they are playing, Zoom Player may have tried to automatically replay them causing a DVD Not Found error to pop.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition would only accept the image if it existed in the root skin directory.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition was ignored if no icon file was set.
- Automatic Save/Restore of the last position for ".dvr-ms" and ".ts" files was not working correctly.
- Scene-Cut would malfunction under certain conditions (especially when trying to use it in combination with ".dvr-ms" files).
- The Play List Editor Window sizes would glitch if closing Zoom Player while the Play List Editor was maximized.
- When Zoom Player was set to disable the Windows Screen Saver in fullscreen mode, it could under some conditions cause hardware powerdown not to activate after Zoom Player was closed.
- When scrolling on the Play History or the Key Editor, the screen will now update while scrolling.
- Audio files will now be listed in the Play History even if the setting not to remember the last position for audio files is enabled.
- Removing the currently playing file from the play list would not clear the file name from the Task Bar or Tray Icon.
- Adding Chapters/Bookmarks would not automatically make the new Chapters/Bookmarks accessible in certain cases.
- The "/track>" Skin Script value wasn't being cleared when a file was closed.
- Sorting the play list could lead to the currently playing item highlight on the play list editor to show the wrong file.
- Moving items in the Play List up/down could fail on unicode files.
- The Bookmark/Chapter Navigator would not support unicode chapter descriptions.
- The Gradient skin commands were not being effected by the skin tint.
- Several Option dialog tabs may have not translated properly when a unicode translation was used.
- Using a forced duration value in a Zoom Player Play List file would carry over the duration to the next file in the play list if it did not have a forced duration.
- The Pop-Up OSD Action message would not show Unicode characters properly under some conditions.
- Pressing Enter in the Station Navigator when the navigator contained no entries would have caused a crash.
- Switching from DVD Mode to Audio Mode and trying to select a different skin, would set the skin to the DVD Mode and not the Audio Mode.
- Closing the Player when the screen saver is active on a secondary monitor caused Zoom Player to crash and not close properly.
- Opening a URL from the command line would have caused it to open using uppercase, which some servers would not accept as a correct location for the item.
- Communication API Message 2500 would only transmit if a specific play on insert setting was enabled. It will now always transmit if a new disc/drive was inserted.
- Communication API Message 1850 did not properly support UTF8 file names.
- Enabling the TCP/IP interface using an Extended Function did not properly enable the interface.

- Some cosmetic glitches when using XP Themes.
- Grid Interfaces (Play History, Key Editor etc...) now respect the windows color scheme.
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- The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at: http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml
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Complete Change list from v4.51:
* Smart Media Mode (previously Customized Media Mode) has been
vastly simplified. In the simple mode, only the available
profiles and the currently used filters are visible. If the
currently used filter matches a profile (which it most always
will), the profile will be highlighted.
Smart Media Mode is now available in all version of Zoom Player
to a lesser degree.
The Keyboard Editor will now let you create Global HotKeys.
These are functions assigned to keys that are active even if
Zoom Player itself is not the active application.
Global HotKeys also have (on a per-key basis) the option to
bring Zoom Player to the front.
The Auto-Get Duration for media files has been rewritten to
get the duration in the background (working only on unused CPU
cycles), allowing you to load massive play lists without having
to wait.
Getting durations for media files also supports more formats
and is now enabled by default.
You can now drop Subtitle files on the main user interface in
order to display the subtitle track with the currently playing
media file.
Requires DirectVobSub installed and Smart Media Mode enabled.
New Equalizer Navigator (Shift+"Q"), allowing you to access
Equalizer settings through the navigation system.
New Play History Navigator (Shift+"H"), allowing you to return
to previously played files (if they still exist).
New "ZPS" Skin Installation System. Simply opening any
"ZPS" file (file with a .zps extension) will run Zoom Player
and prompt you to install the skin.
New Contact Sheet creation dialog (Alt+Shift+"C"). Using this
new interface, you can easily create contact sheet for the
currently playing media file (doesn't work with DVDs).
You must also set the video renderer to VMR9 Windowless.
New Functions allowing you to play the Next and Previous files
in the same directory as the currently playing file with a
matching file extension. These functions are now assigned to the
"PgUp" and "PgDn" navigational keys when navigator interfaces
are not visible.
For example, when viewing "MyImage.jpg" in a directory that looks
like this:
MyImage.jpg
MyImage.avi
MyImage2.jpg
Pressing "PgDn" will show "MyImage2.jpg", skipping "MyImage.avi"
These functions enhance Zoom Player's capability as an image viewer.
New Functions (Accessible on the Play List's right-click context menu)
allowing you to move selected items to the top/bottom of the play list.
New Function (Alt+"E") that enables you to Open/Close the last visible
navigator. This last visible setting is saved between sessions, thus
allowing you continuous navigation through multiple sessions.
New Function (Shift+"L") allowing you to show/hide the all Control Bar
buttons (without the need to select/remove which buttons are visible).
This function has also replaced the Hide/Show All Control Bar buttons
on the Control Bar Context-Menu. You will now be presented with
a "Hide All Button" toggle (with a checkbox indicating ON/OFF state).
New Function "fnDeleteCurrent", Assigned by default to the Delete key
(when the navigational interfaces are not in use), allowing you to
erase the currently playing file (with confirmation).
New Function (Shift+"Esc") allowing you to close all navigational
interfaces. If no navigators are visible, this function does nothing.
New Functions allowing you to go to the Next/Previous DVD Title.
This requires that the DVD is authored to accept this functionality
(some DVDs are authored to prohibit certain types of access).
The macro keys are Alt+Shift+"]" for Next DVD Title and Alt+Shift+"["
for Previous DVD Title.
New Extended Function (exZoomTo). This function can be set to Zoom
the video to a specific Zoom percentage (for example, Zoom to 125%).
You can access this function using the keyboard editor.
New Settings (Advanced Options / OSD / OSD Area), allowing you
to force all OSD Displays (Navigators, OSD Actions, Control Bar,
etc...) to display relative to a specific position on screen
(while in fullscreen). When enabled, it allows you to Zoom/Move
the video without it having an effect on the positioning of the
On Screen Display elements.
New Setting (Skin Selector / Save Position). When enabled,
each skin's position (window position and size) will be remembered
on an individual basis.
New Setting (Advanced Options / Values / Aspect Ratio) allowing you
specify which monitor you want Source Relative Stretch (Pixel Aspect
Ratio) to apply to.
New Setting (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you
to blank (black-out) all secondary monitors (any monitor not
currently playing video).
New Setting (Advanced Options / Values / Interface) allowing you
to enable the Internal Screen Saver for Audio-Only files (so that
the Internal Screen Saver would kick-in even if the file is playing).
New Setting (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Windows Media)
allowing you to use the "WMAPro over S/PDIF" DMO filter to output
Windows Media Audio through the S/PDIF port. This setting requires
that you use an external Receiver with Windows Media Audio capabilities.
Support for DCoder's DC-DVB filter (a filter capable of using
Zoom Player to view Digital-TV with TimeShifting) has been
improved with new Teletext funtionality (number 0-9 to enter
page numbers and Ctrl+"B" to switch Teletext on/off).
Download the filter at "www.dsp-worx.de".
The Chapter Editor and GoTo dialog have been merged into a single
interface. The new interface is easier to use and more powerful.
The Chapter Editor now allows you to input a time to seek to using
an HH:MM:SS.ms structure. The input is pretty flexible, allowing
variants such as H:M:S, M:S, S.ms, etc...
Pressing Ctrl+"V" in the Chapter Editor pastes the clipboard value
into the "H:M:S.ms" Time field.
New Setting on the Chapter Editor allowing you to keep the dialog
open even after seeking to a new position.
(Useful for FanSub Editors)
The current time in MS is now visible on the Chapter Editor.
New "Remove Non-Exisiting Entries" button on the Play History
interface, allowing you to remove old entries where the file no
longer exists on the system.
Automatic support for Audio file image support by base name.
For example, if you have "song.mp3" and "song.jpg" in the same
directory, "song.jpg" will automatically load as a folder image.
New "FolderImage" Skin-Script function allowing you to draw the
folder image anywhere within the main user interface.
The "VolumeExData", "BalanceExData" and "RateExData" Skin-Script
functions can now use a Target parameter allowing you to place a
Volume, Balance and Rate Control interfaces on the Play List Editor,
Equalizer and Control Bar.
SHOUTcasted audio information (Title, Author, URL, Copyright,
Description) can now be accessed by the following Skin-Script tags:
, , , , .
New "" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the current
Audio Volume level percentage (0-100).
New "" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the
currently playing file's index number.
New "" Skin-Script tag, allowing you to display the
current video zooming used in the window interface (affected
by the Alt-"1..5" keys and the new "exZoomTo" function).
New "cBarTLMinWidth" Skin-Script constant allowing you to specify
the minimum width of the Control Bar's TimeLine (default 64 pixels).
The Skin Selection dialog now has an "Uninstall" button.
New "RN" tag for the Zoom Player Play List file format (".zpl")
instructing Zoom Player to randomize the play list once loaded.
New Communication API Messages "2610, 2611, 2620, 2621, 2630, 2631,
2640, 2641" allowing you to query the current video display area
located within fullscreen mode and to set a new location/size.
New Communication API Messages "2700, 2701" allowing you to get
and set the current Play Rate (Media Mode Fast Play/Slow Motion and
DVD Mode Fast Forward/Slow Motion/Rewind rates).
New Communication API Message "5130" allowing you to execute
navigational control functions.
New Communication API Message "1450" allowing you to request
the Unique DVD Identifier information.
New DVD "Additional Filter", the "Trombettworks Channel Downmixer",
http://www.trombettworks.com/directshow.php
The Nero DVD Navigator is now a DVD Navigator option.
New support for ".FLV" (Flash Video) files (used on YouTube and
several other locations). You need a recent version of ffdshow
(with the FLV1 codec support enabled) and the Gabest FLV Splitter
to get the files to play.
New Smart Media support for WMV:AP (Windows Media Video:Advanced
Profile). You also need updated Windows Media decoders to play
this new format (the decoders come with WMP 11 and possibly in
a decoder pack from Microsoft).
New Smart Media profiles for several uncommon AVI/MOV codecs.
New Smart Media profiles for WavPack Audio.
+ The WMV DRM license acquisition code has been improved and you
should no longer be required to use Windows Media Player to
acquire licenses.
+ Zoom Player's image-scaling code has improved. This means a
very nice speedup when drawing scaled image elements
(navigators, background/folder images, etc...) and a slight
improvement in image quality.
(Licensed from Avery Lee's VirtualDub)
+ The Media Library Path Editor ("Shift+"M") interface has been
restructured, making it clearer and easier to use.
+ The Skin Selection ("N") interface has been restructured,
making it clearer and easier to use.
+ The Station Editor ("X") interface has been restructured,
making it clearer and easier to use.
+ When running a new version for the first time, you will now be
prompted only for important missing decoders. The full list
can still be found in the options dialog.
+ The missing decoders list in the Advanced Options dialog has been
split into a list of Important decoders and All decoders in order
to emphasize that not all decoders listed are required for
general day to day media playback. The Simple Options dialog will
only show the Important decoders.
+ The Media Library interface should work faster on networked drives
and uses less drive access.
+ The erase navigator confirmation dialog now returns to the
navigator it was called from.
+ The navigation interfaces can now work without any graphics
(without the "NavData" directory). Won't look very good though.
+ The Auto Show control bar when the cursor is at the screen's
bottom now also Auto Shows the control bar when the cursor is
at the screen's top.
+ Integration into Windows Vista file association interface.
Zoom Player should now appear as a supported program for all
association extensions supported by Zoom Player.
+ Switching display resolution while in fullscreen should now react
better with the main window covering the full display in the new
resolution. And if the display area covered the entire monitor,
the display area is now modified to cover the new resolution.
+ Pressing Stop while already stopped (in media mode) will now return
the playback position to its previous position.
+ The Default Play List skin has been tweaked a bit for usability
and clarity.
+ The File and Media Library Navigators will now dynamically update
their content when a removable media is inserted/removed.
+ When opening the File Navigator and the previous saved directory
position no longer exists, the file navigator will go up through
the directory path until a valid directory does exist or the root
path for the drive is reached (previously, it would go straight
to the root path).
+ The Blanking Navigator will now allow you to Enable/Disable Blanking.
+ The Control Bar will now have a minimum width of 64 pixels for the
timeline and whatever space the active Control Bar buttons take.
+ The Mouse Cursor over the Volume, Rate Control, Balance and
Equalizer bars will now use the "Hand Point" mouse cursor.
+ The Fast Play/Slow Motion rates have changes slightly.
+ Showing the Control Bar now hides the navigator interfaces.
+ Better streaming support.
+ Customized Media Playback has been renamed to "Smart Media Playback".
+ Updated Smart Media profiles to account for Elecard v4's change
of filter identifications.
+ The "Mouse Wheel" section of the Options Dialog has been renamed
to "Mouse" and the "Mouse Toggles" section has moved under it.
+ The Skinning Constants "", "" and ""
in DVD Mode will now display the DVD Title instead of the file name
(which when playing DVDs always points to "VIDEO_TS.IFO". This is
simply more informative.
+ Pressing Enter in the Chapter Editor without any fields filled will
now seek to the current position (useful for Subbing).
+ The Information Dialog (Press "I") now shows an approximate bitrate
as calculated using size of the file being played when DirectShow
doesn't return a valid bitrate.
+ Playing external audio tracks should now maintain proper
synchronization when seeking. Playing external tracks will
also create improved graphs.
+ The Sort by Date feature now sorts new files first.
+ "Play List Editor display moves to follow currently playing track"
setting now centers the currently playing track within the list
(instead of having it appear at the top of the list).
+ The White Wash pattern (Shift+"P") now ignores aspect ratio and
moves the bar somewhat faster (previously it was too slow).
+ The Smart Media Mode Source Filter selection now allows you to add
DMO filters as post processors.
+ Improved shortcut support. When loading shortcuts, instead of loading
the shortcut into the play list, the entry is replaced by the file
the shortcut is pointing to.
Furthermore, you can now use shortcut files in the file and media
library navigators.
+ The Sub-Type list on the Audio/Video Smart Media Mode configuration
dialog will now display the FourCC code for each Sub-Type.
+ The Girder Command export function now exports Zoom Player's
functions in a more orderly list grouping function types into
Girder categories.
+ The Key Edit dialog is now a bit more friendly.
+ The Blanking Navigator key has been changed from "K" to Shift+"K" in
order to prevent accidental activation.
+ The File Navigator key has been changed from "E" to Shift"F" in
order to prevent accidental activation.
+ The Scene-Cut and Chapter Editor interfaces now require the use of
Zoom Player Professional.
- Audio Renderers containing "00" in their device name (such as the
"SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A400]") could have disabled audio under some
conditions.
- Under certain conditions (such as logging a user out while
Zoom Player is still running), Zoom Player would have crashed
with an "Unhandled OS Exception" error.
- Trying to run multiple instances all using the same TCP/IP port
will no longer crash with a bind error.
- The Hide TaskBar setting could cause issues in VMR9 Renderless
Exclusive mode.
- Flash files should now play in the proper aspect ratio on display
devices that do not use square pixels.
- OSD Messages wider than the monitor will now be cut to fit the monitor.
- Possible fix for VMR9 Renderless Exclusive fullscreen mode where
icons may have flashed.
- Shortcuts with targets using unicode paths are now supported.
- Parameters in shortcut files are no longer ignored.
- Zoom Player can now use/display BMP files created with Photoshop.
(Recent versions of PhotoShop create improperly formatted BMP files).
- Zoom Player user interface elements will now snap to the Visible
Work Area (Task Bar rather than the Monitor border).
- When Zoom Player was set to save its configuration file
locally, or when using an alternative window name,
Zoom Player would not load files from external programs if
it was already open.
- Auto-Disable DVD Subtitles and Preferred DVD Subtitles are now
mutually exclusive (with warning message).
- When Detached, The Control Bar can now be resized from the right
as well as the left sides of the interface.
- Better handling of filters that change the duration of the
currently playing media in real-time (such as TSFileSource).
- You should now be able to erase the currently playing file from
within the Media Library Navigator.
- Mid-Stream aspect ratio changes should now work better (was not
working well when switching DVB TV-Channels).
- Switching to Audio Mode from DVD Mode and then back to DVD Mode
would load the Media Mode skin instead of the DVD Mode skin.
- A few stability tweaks to the skin parsing engine (better handling
of badly written skin-script).
- The setting to prevent Zoom Player from using Smart Media
Playback by the extension of the file being played was not
working properly.
- Fixed a possible stability issues with Smart Media Playback
and problematic filters.
- A System-Sound would play when trying to exit Zoom Player using
the TCP Interface.
- The Hand Icon used over the Volume/Balance/Play Rate controls
was not the windows hand icon, this is now fixed.
- The Definition File "SetAudioSync" setting wasn't being applied
when playing DVDs.
- Using the "/F" or "/Z" parameters while Zoom Player is already
fullscreen on a secondary monitor could cause the display to move
to the primary monitor.
- The Change Resolution on Fullscreen feature may not have properly
covered the video area.
- The Search area background color on the Play List Editor was not
being set properly for the default skin.
- When ejecting DVDs as they are playing, Zoom Player may have tried
to automatically replay them causing a DVD Not Found error to pop.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition would only accept
the image if it existed in the root skin directory.
- The Navigator Background skin code definition was ignored if no
icon file was set.
- Automatic Save/Restore of the last position for ".dvr-ms" and ".ts"
files was not working correctly.
- Scene-Cut would malfunction under certain conditions (especially
when trying to use it in combination with ".dvr-ms" files).
- The Play List Editor Window sizes would glitch if closing
Zoom Player while the Play List Editor was maximized.
- When Zoom Player was set to disable the Windows Screen Saver
in fullscreen mode, it could under some conditions cause
hardware powerdown not to activate after Zoom Player was closed.
- When scrolling on the Play History or the Key Editor, the
screen will now update while scrolling.
- Audio files will now be listed in the Play History even if the
setting not to remember the last position for audio files is enabled.
- Removing the currently playing file from the play list would not
clear the file name from the Task Bar or Tray Icon.
- Adding Chapters/Bookmarks would not automatically make the new
Chapters/Bookmarks accessible in certain cases.
- The "" Skin Script value wasn't being cleared when a file
was closed.
- Sorting the play list could lead to the currently playing item
highlight on the play list editor to show the wrong file.
- Moving items in the Play List up/down could fail on unicode files.
- The Bookmark/Chapter Navigator would not support unicode
chapter descriptions.
- The Gradient skin commands were not being effected by the skin tint.
- Several Option dialog tabs may have not translated properly when
a unicode translation was used.
- Using a forced duration value in a Zoom Player Play List file would
carry over the duration to the next file in the play list if it
did not have a forced duration.
- The Pop-Up OSD Action message would not show Unicode characters
properly under some conditions.
- Pressing Enter in the Station Navigator when the navigator contained
no entries would have caused a crash.
- Switching from DVD Mode to Audio Mode and trying to select a
different skin, would set the skin to the DVD Mode and not
the Audio Mode.
- Closing the Player when the screen saver is active on a secondary
monitor caused Zoom Player to crash and not close properly.
- Opening a URL from the command line would have caused it to open
using uppercase, which some servers would not accept as a correct
location for the item.
- Communication API Message 2500 would only transmit if a specific
play on insert setting was enabled. It will now always transmit
if a new disc/drive was inserted.
- Communication API Message 1850 did not properly support
UTF8 file names.
- Enabling the TCP/IP interface using an Extended Function did not
properly enable the interface.
- Some cosmetic glitches when using XP Themes.
- Grid Interfaces (Play History, Key Editor etc...) now respect
the windows color scheme.