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13th November 2011, 22:38 | #1 | Link |
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Announcing Zoom Player v8 final!
It's taken a long time, but it is finally here... Zoom Player version 8 is ready to go!
The long development time was well spent, with 120+ hot new features & settings, 60+ changes & enhancements, 100+ bugs squashed and a 52k change log. With version 8, we worked diligently to:
Download Now! - More Skins - Additional Languages Change log from v8 RC3: Code:
* New "TSFileSource" MPEG2 Transport Stream Smart Play profile. Please note that the "TSFileSource" filter is not compatible with Zoom Player's default MPEG2 Transport splitter. To ensure compatibility, switch the MPEG2 Transport splitter to the microsoft profile. * The BINK media format used by many games is now supported by Smart Play and the ".BIK" extension can be associated with Zoom Player. * Updated Smart Play profiles and file association option for the "3gp2, 3gpp, m2t, mp2v, mp4v, mpe, mpv2 and tts" video file extensions. * Updated Smart Play profiles and file association option for the "adt, adts, aif, aifc, aiff, au, midi, mid, rmi, mp2 and snd" audio file extensions. * The ".BDMV" BluRay Movie extension can now be associated with Zoom Player. * Zoom Player now tries to use the system default fonts in dialogs that display windows fonts (not all dialogs use windows font). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that controls whether Zoom Player uses Natural or Alphabetical sorting. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that controls whether the playlist editor displays item numbers next to each entry in the playlist. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that controls whether the playlist editor displays the media duration (length). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) controlling how the clock function displays the time & date. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) controlling whether the line background for empty text lines is drawn. This setting is enabled by default. If you would like to return to the previous look, you can uncheck this setting. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that determines whether Zoom Player auto-configures the Smart Play profiles when it first detects a new version of Zoom Player is installed. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that determines whether Zoom Player resume function (pressing Stop twice) should resume playback or only restore the previous media position and remain paused. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) allowing you to enable MadVR's seek-bar. By default the MadVR seekbar is disabled as its functionality duplicates Zoom Player's Control Bar. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) allowing you to auto-save the play history after playing each media file. * New Setting (Adv. Options / System) allowing you to change the windows font used in most Zoom Player dialogs. * New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver) allowing you to optionally set the number of second the player should remain in screen saver mode before automatically exiting the player. * The Fullscreen Playlist navigation interface now draws the media duration when available. * The Fullscreen Playlist navigation interface now highlights the currently playing media files. * PowerDVD 10 profile and DVD Navigator added to "Adv. Options / Playback / DVD". * MediaPortal's TS File Reader filter is now supported by Smart Play. * A new sub-type used by the AAC format is now supported by Smart Play. * The Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interface's sort function now displays a checkbox to clearly indicate the active sorting mode. * New navigation skin scripts variable "ActiveColor", used to highlight the currently playing media file. * New navigation skin scripts variables "CursorActive" and "CursorInactive" used to specify the brightness adjustment value for the fullscreen virtual keyboard navigator cursor. * New function "fnSkinSelectNav" which opens the Fullscreen navigation skin selection navigation interface (switch fullscreen navigation skin style). + MadVR support for non-fullscreen images while in fullscreen exclusive mode (zoom in/out, panning, etc). + MadVR mouse-wheel scroll/tilt now works on the control bar. + The options search dialog now highlights the selected components, big thanks to Mitko for the enhanced code. + Redesigned the Smart Play configuration dialog for greater clarity. + The Smart Play configuration dialogs now prompt you to update a modified profile when clicking on a different profile in the list or clicking the OK button to close the configuration dialog. + The guard-dog function now forces Zoom Player to close if it detects a freeze during shutdown. + The "Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist - Use Media Title if available" setting will now display the media title (if available) in the fullscreen playlist navigation interface. + The "Start Player in" setting has moved from "Adv. Options / Interface" to "Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size". + The "Guard Dog" settings were moved to the "Adv. Options / System / Guard Dog & Events" section. + The Local setting file saving procedure has been hardened to make it more resilient to system crashes. + The Play History saving procedure has been hardened to make it more resilient to system crashes. + The options dialog search window now remembers its previous height value. + The "System Overview" and "Missing Formats" options dialog sections have been removed as the Install Center provides more accurate information. + Blanking is now disabled when closing the playing media. + Blanking is now hidden and restored when opening and closing fullscreen navigation interfaces. + Blanking is now supported through MadVR OSD, enabling blanking without losing fullscreen exclusive mode. + Pressing ESC now closes any open navigation interfaces prior to restoring blanked secondary monitors when pressing the ESC key multiple times. - The Windows 7 task list wasn't cleared if no items were selected. - The Install Center now identifies 3rd party 64bit installations (e.g. 7-zip). Thanks Gleb Egorych, Midiboy. - When using MadVR fullscreen exclusive mode in combination with auto-changing monitor resolution on fullscreen, exiting fullscreen did not restore the original monitor's resolution. Thanks Hawke. - The 'Playing new content moves the player window to the top" setting was bringing MadVR out of exclusive mode for a split second (screen flashes). - The "CUE" chapter parsing code has been rewritten. It now parses unicode/ascii charsets correctly and loads meta-data information (Perfomer/Genre/etc). Thanks Orf. - Unchecking the "Enable TAG display" setting would hide the entire display, including the background image rather than just the TAG display. - Unchecking "Save last play time and date" from "Adv. Options / Playback / History" would cause Zoom Player to forget any new items played the next time Zoom Player was restarted. - Choosing to hide the Zoom Player task bar icon would fail (the icon would reappear) under certain circumstances. - The GuardDog feature no longer restart Zoom Player if the internal screen saver is active. - Clicking the "Switch to Basic Mode" or "Switch to Advanced Mode" Options dialog buttons lost any modified settings. - The "Automatically restore volume level on replay with video files" setting was not remembered after a Zoom Player restart. - Fixed a complete freeze when playing audio files containing corrupt ID3 tags. - Fixed a very old bug where opening a media file through non-media library interfaces would prevent the fullscreen media library navigation interface from automatically displaying the currently playing media (if the media's path resides within a media library category). - The control bar and time display should now appear in the correct position when moving the video area or zooming with MadVR. - JPEG scanline image fixed! Thanks Spuncut/OV2. - The Next/Previous track with no items in the playlist did not use natural sorting to pick the currect next file to play from the same directory as the currently playing media. - Folder image base names did not recognize the use of paths. Thanks Orf. - The Smart Play configuration dialogs now selects the first profile from the list when erasing a profile so the previously erased profile's filters do not remain active. - Changing the navigation keyboard layout could cause a crash when closing the skin selection dialog through the keyboard. Thanks Gleb Egorych. - Under certain circumstances, the skin selection dialog would show media skin selection while the navigation mode was highlighted. - The Screen Saver and clock function accidentally labeled 'October' as 'Saturday'. - Shift+ESC didn't close the fullscreen navigation interface if the "Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation interfaces" setting was enabled. - When Smart Play is disabled, the Zoom Player DSP filter is no longer part of the graph if no audio streams are detected. - The red error dialog messages were limited to 255 characters. - Cleaned up some of the ffdshow profile/filter names. - Loading external icon definition files did not apply the icons to all file extensions in some cases. |
15th November 2011, 20:21 | #3 | Link |
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The OSD seems laggy when I for instance change volume with the scroll wheel and in full screen I can't see the control bar, but it is there because it responds when I click to jump in the video or quit the player.
I am sticking with v7. |
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Quote from Zoom Player RC3 thread,
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All of my 8 bit content plays fine unless I'm using madVR as both a decoder and a renderer like previously stated in the other thread. Also, other than not having subtitles Hi10p works just fine. Anyway, any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks. |
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21st November 2011, 23:36 | #5 | Link |
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Vista-Vis:
It's a matter of time until a new version of VobSub with 10bit support is released (or some other alternative rises). I'll do my best to see it implemented in ZP once the resources are out there. obieobieobie: Are you using MadVR? If the answer is 'Yes', try disabling the MadVR OSD integration (Adv. Options / Playback / Video). If not, I'll need more details on your system, the decoders and media format being played (if that makes a difference) and your hardware specs. dukey: If you'd like to help, I'm sure we can set something up to add winlirc support in ZP, PM me and we can discuss this further. |
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(Note that it works fine with other decoders. It just doesn't work when madVr decoders are selected since those don't allow for insertion of VobSub between the decoder and the renderer. MPC-HC, JRiver and PotPlayer have subtitle support that works directly with madVR and doesn't have this problem.) |
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24th November 2011, 14:06 | #8 | Link |
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jmonier:
I contact madshi to ask how it was done and if it can be done with ZP without having to write a new subtitle renderer from scratch (no resources to do that I'm afraid) obieobieobie: Sadly, that's a limitation of MadVR. It takes MadVR ~500ms to update the OSD in order to maintain smoothness in Fullscreen exclusive mode. I discussed this with Madshi and he may improve the situation on higher-end systems in the future. |
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I was thinking that it might be possible to adapt the MPC-HC subtitle renderer since it already does what's needed. Of course, I'm not sure if that would fall within the MPC-HC license (it may prohibit use in commercial applications) and how unhappy the MPC-HC developers would be if that were done. I was even thinking of looking at it myself, but I'm not sure when I'd get a chance to do that. In any case, you should probably have a FAQ about it so people wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out why it doesn't work. |
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jmonier:
I asked Madshi: Quote:
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Can't use the MPC code as it's both GPL and in the wrong language... |
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obieobieobie:
You misunderstood my meaning. What I'm saying is, that Madshi can possibly fix the delay issue on higher-end systems as they are powerful enough to do some things in real-time where less powerful system can't (which causes the 500ms delay). |
28th November 2011, 15:32 | #14 | Link |
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My experience is that there is no appreciable delay in OSD presentation as long as the size of the queues in madVR is not set too high. I've found that 12 and 8 (which I believe was the default prior to 0.79) is a good value. 0.79 defaults to setting the queue sizes based on the size of video RAM and for 1 gb that is 17 and 13 which, for me, causes problems with the OSD and with pausing. (The playback itself is fine with the higher values but it's just as good with 12 and 8.)
Now my machine is an i7-960 with an HD5870 and, with a considerably slower machine, more buffers may be necessary. I wonder, though, that if a machine cannot keep up using 12 and 8 it may just not be adequate. Last edited by jmonier; 28th November 2011 at 15:37. |
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Another way would be to add a second pin to the renderer like VMR, then get the renderer to composite the subtitles over the existing picture. (This is how DVDs work with VMR9.) That would be the ideal solution. The subtitle renderer then only needs to spit out RGBA. The existing subtitle filters try to render directly over the top of the video, and with the huge number of colour spaces out there, including the new DXVA ones, this must be somewhat of a nightmare.
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Thank you for the clarification, Blight. With ZP8, using madvr and disabling madvr osd integration, I have a problem when going fullscreen. The Win7 taskbar remains over the video for a little while after going fullscreen. Is this an artifact of the issue? I haven't measured it but it could be 0.5s but it feels like more.
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obieobieobie:
It's a windows thing, ZP's window just covers the screen area, it's windows that hides the taskbar. dekey: I agree that adding another input pin is another option, but it's one that MadVR doesn't support. |
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Does ZoomPlayer have any non-standard/special handling for VSFilter or Graph Building when SmartPlay is disabled? Anything which could cause a P010 connection to madVR to appear failed on its first attempt and/or a downstream filter to attempt an 8-bit connection which forces the graph to be rebuilt? Last edited by cyberbeing; 5th December 2011 at 12:29. |
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Just a noob question. How can I stop zoom player from littering my library with zpchp files?!
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