Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform. Using our powerful Smart Play technology, more image, audio and video media formats play with less hassle, increased stability and better performance.
Changelog:
Since a lot of people don't appreciate the changes microsoft made to
Windows Vista with its UAC limitations, the Zoom Player installer now lets
you choose between two modes:
Standard install where dynamic files are saved in the AppData directory and
static files are saved in the selected directory. This is required when
running Windows Vista with UAC enabled or running Windows XP with a limited
user account.
Legacy mode where all the files are saved in the selected directory. This is
easier to backup, but wont work properly when running Vista with UAC enabled
or Windows XP on a limited user account. With Legacy mode selected, the file
extension association functionality is restored to Windows XP levels (UAC
under Windows Vista limits some file extension association functions such as
changing file icons).
Zoom Player now warns you when it detects you are running in legacy mode
under restricted file access (UAC in Vista or a limited user account under
XP/Vista).
New F8/F9 skin modes (equivalent to the Onyx Lite skin).
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to
automatically hide Closed Captions when playing media files.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to set the "On
Play Complete" event (which triggers when a playlist has finished
playing) to "Randomize & Replay", which gives you another
random play method.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to limit remembering
the last media position to media files longer than a specified amount of
minutes. This is useful when you don't want the last media position
remembered when playing short media files.
New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio & Subtitles) allowing you
play media files with the subtitles not showing by default.
New "Guard Dog" feature (Adv. Options / System). When enabled,
the Guard Dog periodically tests that the Zoom Player process is responding.
If the process stops responding for a specified number of seconds, the Guard
Dog will close the player and start a new instance using a specified command
line parameter list.
The Media Library, File Browser and Playlist fullscreen navigation
interfaces now offer a "Quick Search" option allowing you to more
easily browse through large listings. The Quick Search option is accessible
by navigating to the right and selecting the "Quick Search" entry.
The Media Library and File Browser navigation functions have been
restructured so that the sorting function is now part of a sub-menu.
"Select All" and "Clear Selection" functions have been
added to the Media Library and File Browser navigation interfaces as a
sub-menu under the "Select" function.
The Playlist navigation interface has been restructured so that the
sorting method is now a sub-menu with more sorting options available (by
Size, Directory, Date and Randomly).
Pressing right on the Playlist history navigation interface now brings you
to the top of the list (the most recently played item).
New "exRandomPlay" function, allowing you to discretely set the
Random Play setting to on/off (compared to the fnRandomPlay function which
toggle between on/off).
New "/Config" command line parameter. Using this parameter, you
can specify which local (non-registry) configuration file Zoom Player should
use. This parameter is very useful when running multiple instances of Zoom
Player, each with a different configuration. If the specified configuration
file doesn't exist, Zoom Player will create one (using the default
configuration).
Usage: zplayer.exe "/config:z:path to config filefilename.local"
Note that the "" characters are required as this command line
parameter contains spaces.
New "/Func" command line parameter. This parameter allows you to
instruct Zoom Player to execute functions directly from the command line.
This parameter can also be used while Zoom Player is running, enabling
simple command-line based automation.
Example for always starting with the Main Navigator open: zplayer.exe
/Func:fnMainNav
For a full function list, see the Function List:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/zpfunctions.shtml
New "/ExFunc" command line parameter. This parameter allows you
to instruct Zoom Player to execute extended functions directly from the
command line.
This parameter can also be used while Zoom Player is running, enabling
simple command-line based automation.
Example for always starting with the Playlist Editor open: zplayer.exe
/ExFunc:exInterface,2
For a full function list, read the Skinning Tutorial:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/zpfunctions.shtml
New "/MultInst" command line parameter. Using this parameter
instructs Zoom Player to start another instance of the player even if Zoom
Player's multiple-instances setting is set to disabled.
All screen saver settings have been moved to: Advanced Options / System /
Screen Saver
The internal screen saver has been enhanced to support image slideshows
instead of the plasma background.
You can now specify if the text information and animated streamers are
displayed by the internal screen saver.
You can now specify a network address for the uTorrent fullscreen
navigation file tracker.
Added support for the Microsoft DVD decoders (part of Windows Vista).
Added support for the "ffds" XVID sub-type created by the
ffdshow encoder.
New "default" button next to the Archive Playback configuration
dialog (Adv. Options / System & Files / Paths, Folders and Files).
The DVD AutoGraph script format now supports a parameter that connects the
Video Decoder's Subpicture pin to the Video Renderer directly (to support
DXVA with subtitles).
The Color Control and Equalizer navigation interfaces have been redesigned
to take less screen space.
When setting the navigation interface's line count, the Equalizer and
Color Control interfaces ignore a value of "-2" as they are only 3
lines to begin with.
The archive configuration now allows you to specify dynamic system paths.
For example: "%programfiles%7-Zip7z.exe" x "%n"
"-o%p" Instead of : "C:Program Files7-Zip7z.exe" x
"%n" "-o%p" The default values have been updated and you
can use the new default button to set them.
The ".iso" and ".img" extensions have been moved from
the executable extension list into the archive extension list. With the
latest version of 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org) installed, you can now extract and
play CD/DVD images directly from within Zoom Player. Make sure to press the
default buttons (Adv. Options / System / File Extensions).
The Main Navigation interface should appear much quicker now, especially
when accessed while a video is playing.
The "/X", "/Y", "/W" and "/H"
command line parameters now function even if Zoom Player is already running,
allowing you to re-position & size the main user interface window from
the command line (previously, these parameters only worked when initially
running Zoom Player).
The Media Library and File Browser navigation functions have been
re-ordered for increased usability.
The File Association options dialog has been restructured for additional
clarity.
You can now specify a +6,+8 or +10 values for the navigation interface
line count.
A bug in the archive extracting code could cause extracted archive to
extract in the wrong directory under some conditions.
When random play was enabled and only one file was playing, the "On
Play Complete" event was called if the same file was opened twice.
When extracting and playing the content of an archive file, the first file
in the archive would be loaded twice in succession.
Setting a custom aspect ratio with a "0" value could cause Zoom
Player to crash with an invalid division by zero error.
A sorting glitch was fixed in the file browser and media library
navigation interfaces where the "Go to previous directory" option
appeared at the bottom of the file list instead of at the top.
When using the internal image decoder, Zoom Player can now detect badly
named image files (such as PNG files with JPG extension). Supported
mislabeled image formats include: BMP, JPG, PNG.
Some MJPEG files may not have been detected properly by Smart Play.
Fix for the Zoom Player Install Center where it wouldn't recognize certain
updates as up to date if they were installed to a unicode file path.
The Zoom Player registration key is now searched for in both the Zoom
Player directory and in the application data directory.
Pressing "Del" to erase the currently playing file with other
entries selected in the playlist would not remove the erased file from the
playlist.
ID3/TAG display of unicode file name would show "???" if the
audio file had no ID3 data.
ID3/TAG display of unicode file name would show "???" if the
audio file ID3 data containing unicode text and the Windows country code was
non-english.
ID3/TAG display wouldn't always update when loading certain audio file
formats.
When trying to select a DVD auto-execute software (Adv. Options / Playback
/ DVD / DVD Tools), typing in the "New" field would not enable the
"Apply" button.
Ejecting a drive while listening to streaming media could cause playback
to stop.
Using the "," character as part of a chapter name would truncate
the chapter name.
When specifying a transparent color for the Timeline, loading a different
skin that didn't contain timeline transparency would not clear the
transparent regions properly.
Fixed a bug where applying a custom File Extension Association icon would
not always work properly.
Failing to load a media file with a background image enabled could cause
the background image to display in an incorrect aspect ratio.
The TV Pattern mode would incorrectly draw a red vertical line at some
resolutions.
The background image and circle pattern would not respect the source
relative stretch feature when it was set to a specific monitor (the stretch
value was applied to all monitors).
Cosmetic fix for the navigation scrollbar widget being slightly inaccurate
position wise.
Program Information Category:
Multimedia Type:
Shareware Version: 6.0 beta 2 Size: 4.11MB Works on: Windows
