Zoom Player

[Godwin]

Version 14 release candidate 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* New "Facebook" smart play profile for playing facebook video URLs
using the 3DYD directshow filter.

* New "Vimeo" smart play profile for playing viemo video URLs using
the 3DYD directshow filter.

* New "Daily Motion" smart play profile for playing Daily Motion
video URLs using the 3DYD directshow filter.

* New "Streaming Services" smart play profile supporting streaming
videos from:

- bofunk.com
- break.com
- ebaumsworld.com
- godtube.com
- liveleak.com
- tcmag.com
- teamfourstar.com
- veoh.com
- vk.com
- vkmag.com
- yourepeat.com

* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that
specifies the visualization rendering frame rate, by default 30fps.

+ The media library's "TheMovieDB" plugin detection accuracy has
increased by cropping out more undesired key-words from file/folder
names.

+ The "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video
file within the folder instead of the folder name" media library
category setting now works better in TV Jukebox mode by scraping
only for the show name, no longer scraping season/episode numbers
from the file name.

+ Many of the main navigation icons were polished to give the default
navigation theme a more consistent look.

- The Double-Click function did not work when clicking audio
visualizations.

- The default value for the new "Navigation on Monitor" setting was
accidentally set to as fullscreen on a the first monitor instead of
the current monitor (within the window or fullscreen).

- Fixed a crash when trying to close the media library just as it was
being opened.

- Fixed a bug in the smart play source filter "new profile" dialog which
caused the "use with the following URLs" entries to be lost when pressing
smart play's auto-configure button.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 13.7.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14 release candidate 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ The media library scraping plugin now uses a fuzzy search algorithm
to better detect non-exact movie names matches.

+ The media library scraping plugin now prefers a release year to
an exact name match, reducing false-positive matches.

- Registry entries were not being saved/loaded properly when running
Zoom Player in Windows Vista compatibility mode (and possibly other
compatibility modes). This of course lead to instability.

- The "stay on top" setting would stop functioning when exiting fullscreen
mode with the playlist editor visible.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 13.7.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Blight]

Version 14 is ready and contains lots of cool new features! here are the highlights:

Navigation and Media Library Enhancements
The default fullscreen navigation skin has been enhanced with new/polished icons and a cleaner background image for a more modern and professional style.

TheMovieDB.org meta-data scraper plugin has been enhanced to improve the identification accuracy for Movies and TV shows.

The media library setting page includes new controls to easily switch between different audio and video rendering devices in real time.

The fullscreen navigation interfaces can now be detached from the main user interface and displayed in fullscreen on a second monitor.

The download tracking fullscreen navigation interface now shows downloads in a familiar label/folder structure instead of the flat list shown in previous versions.
Control downloading media with more functions such as "Download Priority", "Pause/Resume" and more...

With a new "Playlist" plugin, media library categories can be created by simply pointing to any playlist file.


Download & Tracking
By introducing a Download & Tracking API and greater integration with the open-source qBittorrent client,
Zoom Player can automatically send torrent files and magnet links to qBittorrent and track the download process in
real time. Media files with enough downloaded pieces are highlighted as playable while the media is
still downloading (faux streaming).

qBittorrent version 4 is a requirement for this feature and is now available for download through Zoom Player 14's Install Center.

Check out this cool slideshow demonstrating the new Torrents plugin (https://www.facebook.com/zoomplayer/videos/1475689062513061/).


Playback History, Privacy & Child safety
Zoom Player's playback history is a great feature that allows you to resume media playback from the last played position and a lot more (restore volume/subtitle & audio track/etc...).

For additional privacy & child safety, new playback history features have been introduced to provide greater control over how information is retained and later displayed by the play history dialogs.
The new controls provide the additional security that children will not be accidentally exposed to previously played content that is inappropriate for their age.

More Features, Enhancements & Fixes
Many more features, enhancements and fixes didn't make the short list. Make sure to check out the full list by clicking here (https://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml).

Download
You can upgrade to version 14 through the Install Center or by manually downloading the installers (https://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml).

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ You can now press the escape key to cancel a 'play all files in folder'
feature mid-action. Accidentally playing an entire drive could have
caused Zoom Player to appear unresponsive.

+ Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode while the media library is
opened should be cleaner and faster (less visual junk in the transition).

- Fixed a scraping bug where the ".nfo" file detection algorithm would fail
with files/folders names containing unicode characters.

- Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation
interfaces will no longer freeze for two seconds if the Torrents download
plugin is enabled and qBittorrent isn't running.

- Opening the file browsing and download manager fullscreen navigation
interfaces will no longer freeze for long periods if qBittorrent
is seeding many torrents.

- The media library should no longer freeze for a few seconds when
retrieving large file lists from qBittorrent using the Torrents plugin.

- The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) did not show up when playing
in fullscreen on a secondary monitor.

- The torrents download plugin was not recognizing a file's download
priority correctly after the latest qBittorrent release.

- The torrents download plugin was listing files returned by qBittorrent
but no longer existing on the disk drive in the root folder instead of
their (no longer existing) path.

- The Lock-UI (user interface) feature used to prevent accidental clicks
did not block some click and double-click actions.

- The Dolby Digital Plus audio format was not being displayed with an icon
on the TV and Movie jukebox screens.

- The play position tool-tip was sometimes displayed in the wrong screen
position on multi-monitor displays.

- MIDI audio playback should be more reliable.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New setting (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions" to
instruct Zoom Player to process ".m3u8" playlists.

This setting is disabled by default as it can cause conflicts with services
that require DirectShow filters to process this type of playlist format.

* New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it
from passing file entries to Zoom Player that do not actually exist on
the disk drive. This setting is off by default but can increase
performance when dealing with a large number of torrents that were
only partially downloaded.

* The last play position is now drawn over the thumbnail in TV Jukebox mode.

+ The download plugins synchronization has been completely rewritten, and
should no longer cause any user interface slow-downs.

+ The torrents plugin has been greatly optimized, working much faster with
large file lists.

+ The download fullscreen navigation interface should scroll much smoothly
when dealing with a large number of files.

+ The YouTube (Channel/Search/Trending), Playlist and RSS Feed media library
plugins have been optimized for greater performance.

+ Optimized core string handling routines, improving script parsing
(e.g. Skin parsing) and other areas.

+ A 'processing, please hold ...' message now appear when it takes
Zoom Player longer to close due to background tasks (media scraping,
download plugin sync) still being active.

- The currently selected playlist editor entries would lose their selection
if a playlist update was triggered after the listed media's duration has
been scraped.

- Trying to play a streaming media URL that contained trailing spaces would
fail. Trailing spaces are now trimmed (you can still use encoded space
characters in the URL).



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 beta 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* Automatic support for native Windows 7-10 media library folder structure
(previously only the more basic Windows XP-Vista library structure
was supported).

+ Zoom Player's default window size for the onyx skin was changed to
present a default video size of 960x540 (up from the previous 604x340) and
for the alba skin, the default video size was changed to 1280x720.

+ You can now press any navigation key to cancel a 'play all files in folder'
feature mid-action.

- Fixed a possible crash that would trigger sometimes on an initial run
after a fresh install.

- A function optimized in beta 2 had a bug which caused the visualization
plugin list to reset (no plugins listed).


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 release candidate 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
File Tracker) to specify the download tracking plugins refresh rate.

This value only affects the media library and file browsing navigation
interfaces, the download tracking navigation interface refreshes at
a higher rate automatically.

Please note that using a low number (under 10 seconds) may impact
performance when tracking large file lists (over 10,000 entries).

+ Windows 10 creators edition changed how fonts are rendered by enabling
clear-type rendering at higher resolutions. Clear-type is a lot slower
to draw and at resolutions above 1080p causes severe performance
degradation in Zoom Player's fullscreen navigation interfaces.

Previously, to solve this issue, you could set Zoom Player to override
windows' font rendering. From this version, the setting is enabled by
default (you can still change it manually under "Adv. Options / System").

+ Further optimized the download plugin code to the point where a data
refresh on the download navigation interface should no longer cause
any UI lag whatsoever.

- Fixed a crash when playing a live video stream using MadVR as the video
renderer and trying to use the pause button on the control bar.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 release candidate 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to enable
Zoom Player's DSP filter only for visualizations.

* New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to set an
initial audio re-synchronization value for visualizations (Zoom Player's
DSP filter is required for this setting to function).

+ Media Library plugin result entries now display the media's title instead
of the file name or URL in list mode (previously the title only showed
in thumbnail mode).

- Fixed a bug introduced in a previous beta that caused a mess when trying
to move items in the playlist.

- Scrolling down in the download tracking fullscreen navigation interface
then exiting and re-opening the interface caused an empty list to show
instead of the previous list.

- The media library's playlist plugin no longer shows an invalid duration
value if the playlist entry has no duration.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.1 release candidate 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


- Opening the media library, especially on 4K displays showed a low
resolution image of the media library for a split second before
displaying the full resolution version.

The double-draw event caused both the described visual glitch as well as
a performance penality.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Blight]

Zoom Player v14.1 final has been released:

Polished
With each version, I evaluate what improvement can be made to make Zoom Player even more polished and friendly to use. In this version, the media library's TV jukebox mode now shows the episode's last play position right on the thumbnail, the native (and customizable) Windows 10 media library folders are now automatically accessible and finally, fullscreen navigation on 2K/4K screens is automatically set for high performance text anti-aliasing, fixing slow navigation introduced by a change in how Windows 10 creators edition renders high resolution text.

Optimized
The torrents download plugin and the fullscreen download navigation interface changes introduced in version 14 suffered from performance issues when tracking a large number of files (over 10,000), making the interface nearly unusable. To fix this, the entire logic was rewritten and tested to work smoothly with over 28,000 tracked files. Some of these optimizations also made their way into other media library plugins such as YouTube, RSS & Playlist.

Enhanced
This version includes a larger default window size, the ability to abort 'play all files in folder' type functions mid-action, enhanced support for ".m3u8" playlists, more visualization options, a notification when closing Zoom Player takes a bit longer, smoother transition between fullscreen and windowed mode for the media library and many small bugs were squashed.

Download (https://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml) : What's new (https://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml)

[Godwin]

Version 14.2 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface.
Any media can be added to the favorites list through the media library or
file browsing navigtional interfaces.

Please note that this change required resetting the "Navigation
interfaces on main navigator" feature to it's default value
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation).

* When using the "Open URL" function, a new "Clear playlist" checkbox is now
available (previously the playlist was always cleared).

+ The torrents plugin should now shutdown a little faster if Zoom Player
closes while the plugin was fetching an updated file list.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.2 beta 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* With LAV Filters v0.71, a D3D11 hardware decoding mode has been added.
You can instruct LAV to use this mode automatically by setting the option
under "Adv. Options / Playback / Video".

+ The "Play History database may be corrupted" message will no longer
appear unless the play history file is actually corrupted.

- Fixed a bug that prevented the previously active audio track from being
restored when re-playing a video with multiple audio tracks.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.2 beta 4 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!

+ You can now set the "Retain Media Playback History for" value to
99999 days (~2738 years), up from the original 9999 days (~27 years),
just in case one of you finds immortality and wished to use
Zoom Player forever.

- Opening a playlist from navigation interfaces loaded the playlist
but did not automatically start playing it.

- The fullscreen navigation's text Anti-Aliasing setting was being
reset after restarting the player.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v14.2 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface.
New Direct3D 11 hardware accelerated decoding path.
Play History enhancements.
Optimizations.
Bug fixes.



What's new in Zoom Player v14.2:


* New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface.
Any media can be added to the favorites list through the media library or
file browsing navigational interfaces.

Please note that this change required resetting the "Navigation
interfaces on main navigator" feature to it's default value
(Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation).


* When using the "Open URL" function, a new "Clear playlist" checkbox is now
available (previously the playlist was always cleared).


* With LAV Filters v0.71, a D3D11 hardware decoding mode has been added.
You can instruct LAV to use this mode automatically by setting the option
under "Adv. Options / Playback / Video".


+ The "Play History database may be corrupted" message will no longer
appear unless the play history file is actually corrupted.


+ You can now set the "Retain Media Playback History for" value to
99999 days (~2738 years), up from the original 9999 days (~27 years),
just in case one of you finds immortality and wished to use
Zoom Player forever.


+ The torrents plugin should now shutdown a little faster if Zoom Player
closes while the plugin was fetching an updated file list.


- Fixed a bug that prevented the previously active audio track from being
restored when re-playing a video with multiple audio tracks.


- Opening a playlist from navigation interfaces loaded the playlist
but did not automatically start playing it.


- The fullscreen navigation's text Anti-Aliasing setting was being
reset after restarting the player.


- Bug Fixes.



Previous changes since the release of version 14.1:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v14.3 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

Enhanced SHOUTcast station browsing.
Enhanced stream selection.
UI/UX enhancements
Bug fixes.



What's new in Zoom Player v14.3:


* You can now perform sorting (by Listeners, Name, BitRate & Format)
in the SHOUTcast station browser dialog.

+ When the up/down arrow keys are assigned to next/previous chapter
or track, the up/down keys were not set logically, now pressing
down will go to the next track/chapter and pressing up will
go to the previous track/chapter.

+ Opening a YouTube channel with no internet connection now shows
a refresh option instead of a message that the category is empty.

+ Using the 'Open subtitle file' to add a subtitle to the currently
playing media now initializes the file selection dialog to open in
the playing media's folder.

+ The stream selection fullscreen navigation interface will no longer
automatically close when switching between tracks.

+ You can now open the stream selection fullscreen navigation interface
even if no media is currently playing.

- Due to a language file that was not updated in version 14.2,
the titles on navigation interfaces showed the wrong title.

- Pressing the "Load More" button in media library categories with
a plugin capable of showing multiple pages (e.g. YouTube) would
cause the "refresh" option to disappear if there were no more
media to list.

- The RSS feed media library plugin was not showing the correct
publishing dates for some RSS feed (e.g. YouTube RSS).

- Trying to load a playlist through the Open URL (Shift+"U")
dialog failed with an error message.

- The media library playlist plugin did not function properly
under some conditions, reporting an empty category.

- The media library playlist plugin did not use a clean category
name when a playlist URL was used instead of an actual file.



Previous changes since the release of version 14.2:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.4 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ Two Sonique visualization resolution settings have changed from an
aspect ratio of 4:3 to 16:9 :
320x240 -> 320x180
640x480 -> 640x360

This change may not be reflected in the drop-down list if you are
not using an updated language pack, but this is just cosmetic, the
new resolutions are set according to the numbers above.

+ Enhanced the SHOUTcast station sorting.

+ The number of RSS entries cached by the media library plugin has been
raised from 2000 to 5000.

- Enabling the "Share Play History at a custom path" setting and not
specifying a trailing "" in the folder name would cause the play
history to be saved incorrectly.

- The media library playlist plugin now supports playlist URLs longer than
255 characters long.

- Playing an audio file with visualization could cause the right click menu
to show multiple "close navigator" entries when right-clicking on a
fullscreen navigation interface.

- The SHOUTcast station browser would show duplicate entries after opening
the dialog multiple times on different days.

- Opening a streaming URL from clipboard (Alt+Ctrl+"U") failed to work if
the URL was a playlist.

- Pressing the "Play (add to playlist)" button while a navigation interface
was visible and the "Stop closes the navigation interfaces" setting was
enabled prevented playback of the station from starting.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.3:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.4 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* New "Run Application" media library plugin that lets you run applications
and scripts directly from a media library category thumbnail.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface), Station manager should stay on
top of other application when switching to fullscreen mode.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback), Load .URL files as streaming media
(otherwise load as web page).

+ Media library meta-data scraping had issues with long file paths and
URLs (over 200 characaters, depending on Zoom Player's installation
path) due to an early design decision to make the cached entries easy
to identify using their file names and URL addresses.

However, to this day, windows does not support paths longer than 255
characters correctly. As a work-around, if a long file name or url is
processed, the cache mechanism now uses a short hash instead
of the full file name or url.

+ Enhanced support for RSS feed thumbnails. More thumbnails should show
up when adding RSS feeds as media library categories (including more
category thumbnail for feeds that support them).

+ If an RSS Feed has multiple entries with the same publish date, the
entries will now be second-level sorted by URL.

+ When download playlists Zoom Player now uses the windows temp folder
instead of the 'my documents'.

- A race condition caused the scrape manager thread to not signal it is
terminating correctly, causing Zoom Player to freeze on exit.

- RSS feeds containing a special unicode line-break character in the
description would trigger a freeze when opening the RSS media library
category a second time.

- The "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played"
setting would skip tracks if the unplayable media was the last playlist
entry.

- Opening a playlist from the file-open dialog would not always preserve
the active playlist entry as specified in the playlist file.

- Some unicode characters did not show up correctly in the playlist editor
and music OSD if the selected font did not support the characters.
Now a different windows text-rendering function is used, one that takes
unsupported character from a system-default font.

- When including an executable entry in the playlist, playback did not
progress to the next track correctly and would cause the wrong title
to appear in the playlist editor.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.3:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v14.4 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

Support for the new AV1 codec.
Media Library enhancements.
Station manager enhancements.
Important bug fixes.



What's new in Zoom Player v14.4:

* Initial support for the AV1 video compression format:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1), is an open, royalty-free video coding format
designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It is being
developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium
of firms from the semiconductor industry, video on demand providers,
and web browser developers, founded in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

The AV1 codec should eventually provide a 20% superior image
quality/bitrate compared to HEVC (H.265).

* New "Run Application" media library plugin that lets you run applications
and scripts directly from a media library category thumbnail.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface), Station manager should stay on
top of other application when switching to fullscreen mode.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback), Load .URL files as streaming media
(otherwise load as web page).

* New (Adv. Options / Playback) "On play complete" option to execute an
application or script as soon as the playlist completes playing.

+ Media library meta-data scraping had issues with long file paths and
URLs (over 200 characaters, depending on Zoom Player's installation
path) due to an early design decision to make the cached entries easy
to identify using their file names and URL addresses.

However, to this day, windows does not support paths longer than 255
characters correctly. As a work-around, if a long file name or url is
processed, the cache mechanism now uses a short hash instead
of the full file name or url.

+ Enhanced support for RSS feed thumbnails. More thumbnails should show
up when adding RSS feeds as media library categories (including more
category thumbnail for feeds that support them).

+ If an RSS Feed has multiple entries with the same publish date, the
entries will now be second-level sorted by URL.

+ The number of RSS entries cached by the media library plugin has been
raised from 2000 to 5000.

+ Two Sonique visualization resolution settings have changed from an
aspect ratio of 4:3 to 16:9 :
320x240 -> 320x180
640x480 -> 640x360

This change may not be reflected in the drop-down list if you are
not using an updated language pack, but this is just cosmetic, the
new resolutions are set according to the numbers above.

+ Enhanced the SHOUTcast station sorting.

+ When downloading playlists, Zoom Player now uses the windows temp
folder instead of the 'my documents'.

+ When playing archive files (zip/rar), the archive is now extracted to
the windows temp folder instead of 'my documents'.

+ Meta-data returned when playing streaming audio is now trimmed to remove
superfluous spaces before/after the returned text.

- A race condition caused the scrape manager thread not to signal it is
terminating correctly, causing Zoom Player to freeze on exit.

- The media library playlist plugin now supports playlist URLs longer than
255 characters long.

- RSS feeds containing a special unicode line-break character in the
description would trigger a freeze when opening the RSS media library
category a second time.

- Enabling the "Share Play History at a custom path" setting and not
specifying a trailing "" in the folder name would cause the play
history to be saved incorrectly.

- The "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played"
setting would skip tracks if the unplayable media was the last playlist
entry.

- Opening a playlist from the file-open dialog would not always preserve
the active playlist entry as specified in the playlist file.

- Some unicode characters did not show up correctly in the playlist editor
and music OSD if the selected font did not support the characters.
Now a different windows text-rendering function is used, one that takes
unsupported character from a system-default font.

- When including an executable entry in the playlist, playback did not
progress to the next track correctly and would cause the wrong title
to appear in the playlist editor.

- Playing an audio file with visualization could cause the right click menu
to show multiple "close navigator" entries when right-clicking on a
fullscreen navigation interface.

- The SHOUTcast station browser would show duplicate entries after opening
the dialog multiple times on different days.

- When playing SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, playing the next track would
cause the previously playing title to overwrite the new track's title
in the playlist editor.

- Opening a streaming URL from clipboard (Alt+Ctrl+"U") failed to work if
the URL was a playlist.

- Pressing the "Play (add to playlist)" button while a navigation interface
was visible and the "Stop closes the navigation interfaces" setting was
enabled prevented playback of the station from starting.

- Parsing ".CUE" files failed when the an entry contained the word "TRACK"
in either the performer or title tags.



Previous changes since the release of version 14.3:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls):
"Next / Previous Track" plays the next/prev media in the same folder if
playlist contains 1 file.

This function behind this setting was previously always enabled.
This setting remains enabled by default, but from now you can disable
this behavior from the advanced options dialog.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation) to force the
navigation list or thumb view to maximum width.

Unlike the "full width" setting, this setting will make the navigation
list area take the display device's maximum resolution, which can cause
some cosmetic issues (like the thumbnail highlight getting cropped).

+ Zoom Player now does a better job at extracting album art images from
media files if the JPEG image contains junk in front of the actual image.

+ The Command & Control API now notifies when subtitles are enabled/
disabled when using the "fnToggleSub" and "fnDisableDVDsub" functions.

- Kinetic scrolling in the media library did not work well using a mouse
cursor, stopping when attempting to scroll multiple times while the
kinetic movement was still in mid process.

- Playing media that contained certain special characters in the media's
title caused multiple unplayable entries to appear in the play history.

- With the "Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size - Auto-Size User
Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled,
playing audio files with folder/album art could cause Zoom Player's main
window to display partially off-screen.

- The latest version of mediainfo DLL changed how it extracts cover art
for audio files, breaking Zoom Player support for displaying the album
art with some audio formats (mainly M4A).

- Better album art image extraction from audio files with ID3v2 TAGs when
the image header included some junk data.

- When opening a media file by double-clicking from explorer (or other
file managers), the currently playing track wouldn't highlight correctly
and show the playing position in the playlist editor.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* The playlist editor (when using the default Onyx skin or the bundled
Alba skin) now draws alternating line highlights making the playlist
easier to track visually.

* The playlist editor's right-click menu now features Colorize actions
that let you easily color-code track(s) text and background colors.
The color information is automatically saved and restored when using
Zoom Player's default ZPL format playlists.

* New "PlayListData/Background2" skin script parameter that specifies
the alternating playlist editor line highlight color.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that automatically tries to use
the YouTube IFRAME player if DirectShow playback of a YouTube stream
fails.

* The advanced playlist control (accessible through the playlist editor
or by pressing "J") now show the number of items remaining in the
playlist as the search filters down the list.

+ The advanced playlist control's filter search was searching the
entire playlist on each letter pressed, this caused a sluggish
user experience when dealing with very larger playlists (over
30,000 entries).

To enhance the user experience, the search action is now only
performed 350-400ms after the last key-stroke, ensuring that
the user interface does not stall while typing.

- Using the "Stop" function while a media was loading combined with
a non-default setting that closes the playing media when using the
"Stop" function and when display a JPEG/PNG image could cause the
image to remain on screen.

- Double-clicking an entry on the skin selection dialog could sometimes
trigger an access violation error.

- When opening the playlist editor, under some conditions the bottom
entries would not show up until the playlist screen was refreshed
by a click or scroll.

- The "&" character wasn't showing up in the playlist editor.

- Pressing under the last item in the playlist editor did not
visually select the last item in the list. Then if you pressed
the "Enter" key, it would start playing the last item in the
playlist which was a bit confusing without the visual cue of
a selected entry.

- Fixed a crash when trying to play a video file with too many
external audio tracks. External audio tracks are now limited
to a maxiumum of 10 tracks.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* TheMovieDB.org media library scraping plugin has been enhanced and can
now return non-english meta-data (texts and images).

+ The Install Center now includes two configuration profiles for the
3DYD YouTube Source filter that enable HD/4K streaming.

+ Visualization are now enabled when the 3DYD YouTube Source filter is set
to "audio only" output.

- TheAudioDB.com scraper plugin is now functional after the API used by
the site moved to encrypted communication (https), breaking backward
compatibility.

- If a media title contained a 'line feed' or 'return' characters, it would
corrupt the play history.

- Fixed a possible TheMovieDB.org scraper freeze (could have caused
slow-downs on exit or more rarely, a player freeze) when used in
combination with the "Scrape using media derived title (instead
of file name)" category setting.

- When the "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" category
setting was enabled, under some conditions, the media's thumbnail would not
display after closing and reopening the media library.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 4 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


- When the "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
setting was enabled in combination with the "Use dynamically visible
scroll bar" setting, the thumbnail would not highlight correctly.

- TheAudioDB.com media library scraper can now better handle artist names
containing the "-" character, for example "Alt-J - This Is All Yours"
will now properly scrape.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 5 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New "Thumb rendering threads" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of CPU threads
used to render the thumbview display.

Previously, this setting was hard-coded to use 2 threads, but now you
can specify any value from "Auto" to "16".

Auto mode uses either 2 or 3 threads depending on your PC, but
performance can be improved further with additional threads on systems
containing many cores or high bandwidth RAM.

* New "Support folders as playlist entries" Setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Playlist). This setting was previously hardcoded and
is still enabled by default to support advanced playlist functionality.

However, supporting folders as playlist entries triggers a spun-down HDD
drive to spin back up when a playlist is loaded. With this new setting
disabled, you can now prevent drives from accidentally spinning up.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio when
enabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.

* New "fnToggleOverlayCover" function to toggle the "Video covers entire
display area" setting on and off.

+ Optimized the Media Library's thumbnail drawing code, increasing update
speed and smoothness.

+ The Maximum number of scraping threads used by the media library has
increased from 8 to 16.

+ When a media library scraped movie did not contain a backdrop image,
the default background image is now used instead of a black screen.

+ Updated the PNG and zLib libraries to newer versions.

- Starting Zoom Player with the "Do not check if a file exists when adding
to the playlist" setting enabled no longer triggers spun-down HDD drives
to spin-up.

- The GuardDog feature would try to restart Zoom Player if Zoom Player's
load time was taking too long (due to HDD drive spin-ups or a network
drive reconnection).

- The Media Library's Jukebox mode would not enable if the only file in
the folder was a playlist.

- Fixed a case where a media library scraped movie not containing a
backdrop image showed a backdrop from another movie.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.5 beta 6 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* Extended video streaming support for the following web sites:

Facebook (facebook.com)
Vimeo (vimeo.com)
Dailymotion (dailymotion.com)
VK (vk.com)
LiveLeak (liveleak.com)
Break.com (break.com)
Veoh (veoh.com)
eBaum's World (ebaumsworld.com)
VKMag.com (vkmag.com)
Team Four Star (teamfourstar.com)
GodTube (godtube.com)
StreetFire.net (streetfire.net)
Daily HaHa (dailyhaha.com)
TCMag.com (tcmag.com)
Bofunk (bofunk.com)

Some sites (e.g. facebook) may require you to enable the extended analysis
mode for the 3DYD filter through the Zoom Player Install Center.

* Automatic fullscreen navigation skin switching based on the display's
aspect ratio.

For example, by specifying a 16:10 and selected a Zoom Player navigation
skin designed for 16:10 displays.
(e.g. https://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/nav/default1610.shtml)

Note:
Skin switching is currently only triggered when opening a navigation
interface.

* New "Refresh" option (Media Library Category Editor / Configure Category)
for YouTube channels and RSS Streams that refreshes the channel's Name &
Thumbnail.

+ Entering a media library TV JukeBox folder that contains no media files
will no longer switch to thumbnail view for the empty folder, instead
remaining in file list mode.

- When viewing the media library's TV/Movie in JukeBox mode, the backdrop
images was not scaled and cropped properly on non-16:9 displays
(e.g. 1920x1200 monitor) leaving black bars instead of filling with
the backdrop.

- Zoom Player will no longer try running MediaInfo.dll when playing a URL,
removing the 'unknown error' message from the play information dialogs.

- Using the "^" character in a file name to cause the media library
scraper to ignore any text after this character did not work in
some cases.

- The "Mute audio during forward and backward seeks" setting was muting
audio when attempting to seek forward/backward in a live stream even
in cases seeking was not possible.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v14.5 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

Streaming support for:
Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion, VK, LiveLeak,
Break.com, Veoh, eBaum's World, VKMag.com,
Team Four Star, GodTube, StreetFire.net,
Daily HaHa, TCMag.com and Bofunk.
Enhanced media library multi-core threading support for extra smoothness.
Localization support for TheMovieDB scraper (get posters and information for any language).
TheAudioDB scraping is now functional again after changes were made to the API.
Automatic fullscreen navigation skin switching based on the display's aspect ratio.
Playlist entry highlighting & UX enhancements to the Advanced Playlist Control.
Many important bug fixes and speedy optimizations.



What's new in Zoom Player v14.5:

* Extended video streaming support for the following web sites:

Facebook (facebook.com)
Vimeo (vimeo.com)
Dailymotion (dailymotion.com)
VK (vk.com)
LiveLeak (liveleak.com)
Break.com (break.com)
Veoh (veoh.com)
eBaum's World (ebaumsworld.com)
VKMag.com (vkmag.com)
Team Four Star (teamfourstar.com)
GodTube (godtube.com)
StreetFire.net (streetfire.net)
Daily HaHa (dailyhaha.com)
TCMag.com (tcmag.com)
Bofunk (bofunk.com)

Some sites (e.g. facebook) may require you to enable the extended analysis
mode for the 3DYD filter through the Zoom Player Install Center.

* Automatic fullscreen navigation skin switching based on the display's
aspect ratio.

For example, by specifying a 16:10 and selected a Zoom Player navigation
skin designed for 16:10 displays.
(e.g. https://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/nav/default1610.shtml)

Note:
Skin switching is currently only triggered when opening a navigation
interface.

* TheMovieDB.org media library scraping plugin has been enhanced and can
now return non-english meta-data (texts and images).

* The playlist editor (when using the default Onyx skin or the bundled
Alba skin) now draws alternating line highlights making the playlist
easier to track visually.

* The playlist editor's right-click menu now features Colorize actions
that let you easily color-code track(s) text and background colors.
The color information is automatically saved and restored when using
Zoom Player's default ZPL format playlists.

* New "PlayListData/Background2" skin script parameter that specifies
the alternating playlist editor line highlight color.

* New "Thumb rendering threads" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of CPU threads
used to render the thumbview display.

Previously, this setting was hard-coded to use 2 threads, but now you
can specify any value from "Auto" to "16".

Auto mode uses either 2 or 3 threads depending on your PC, but
performance can be improved further with additional threads on systems
containing many cores or high bandwidth RAM.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that automatically tries to use
the YouTube IFRAME player if DirectShow playback of a YouTube stream
fails.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls):
"Next / Previous Track" plays the next/prev media in the same folder if
playlist contains 1 file.

This function behind this setting was previously always enabled.
This setting remains enabled by default, but from now you can disable
this behavior from the advanced options dialog.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio when
enabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to
force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width.

Unlike the "full width" setting, this setting will make the navigation
list area take the display device's maximum resolution, which can cause
some cosmetic issues (like the thumbnail highlight getting cropped).

* New "Support folders as playlist entries" Setting (Adv. Options /
Interface / Playlist). This setting was previously hardcoded and
is still enabled by default to support advanced playlist functionality.

However, supporting folders as playlist entries triggers a spun-down HDD
drive to spin back up when a playlist is loaded. With this new setting
disabled, you can now prevent drives from accidentally spinning up.

* The advanced playlist control (accessible through the playlist editor
or by pressing "J") now shows the number of items remaining in the
playlist as the search filters the playlist.

* New "Refresh" option (Media Library Category Editor / Configure Category)
for YouTube channels and RSS Streams that refreshes the channel's Name &
Thumbnail.

* New "exVidMoveHorz" and "exVidMoveVert" extended functions that move
the video area (fullscreen) or player window (when not in fullscreen)
horizontally and vertically.

Command line usage example:
zplayer.exe /exfunc:exvidmovehorz,-200 /exfunc:exvidmovevert,-100

* New "fnToggleOverlayCover" function to toggle the "Video covers entire
display area" setting on and off.

+ Optimized the Media Library's thumbnail drawing code, increasing update
speed and smoothness.

+ The Maximum number of scraping threads used by the media library has
increased from 8 to 16.

+ The advanced playlist control's filter search was searching the
entire playlist on each letter pressed, this caused a sluggish
user experience when dealing with very larger playlists (over
30,000 entries).

To enhance the user experience, the search action is now only
performed 350-400ms after the last key-stroke, ensuring that
the user interface does not stall while typing.

+ When a media library scraped movie did not contain a backdrop image,
the default background image is now used instead of a black screen.

+ Zoom Player now does a better job at extracting album art images from
media files if the JPEG image contains junk in front of the actual image.

+ The Install Center now includes two configuration profiles for the
3DYD YouTube Source filter that enable HD/4K streaming.

+ Visualization are now supported when the 3DYD YouTube Source filter is
set to "audio only" output.

+ The Command & Control API now notifies when subtitles are enabled/
disabled when using the "fnToggleSub" and "fnDisableDVDsub" functions.

+ Updated the PNG and zLib libraries to newer versions.

- TheAudioDB.com scraper plugin is now functional again after the API used
by the site moved to encrypted communication (https), breaking backward
compatibility.

- TheAudioDB.com media library scraper can now better handle artist names
containing the "-" character, for example "Alt-J - This Is All Yours"
will now properly scrape.

- Starting Zoom Player with the "Do not check if a file exists when adding
to the playlist" setting enabled no longer triggers spun-down HDD drives
to spin-up.

- The GuardDog feature tried to restart Zoom Player if Zoom Player's
load time was taking too long (due to HDD drive spin-ups or a network
drive reconnection), from now the guard dog feature will only start
functioning once Zoom Player has finished loading.

- When viewing the media library's TV/Movie in JukeBox mode, the backdrop
images was not scaled and cropped properly on non-16:9 displays
(e.g. 1920x1200 monitor) leaving black bars instead of filling with
the backdrop.

- Kinetic scrolling in the media library did not work well using a mouse
cursor, stopping when attempting to scroll multiple times while the
kinetic movement was still in mid process.

- Fixed a possible TheMovieDB.org scraper freeze (could have caused
slow-downs on exit or more rarely, a player freeze) when used in
combination with the "Scrape using media derived title (instead
of file name)" category setting.

- The Media Library's Jukebox mode would not enable if the only file in
the folder was a playlist.

- Fixed a case where a media library scraped movie not containing a
backdrop image showed a backdrop from another movie.

- When the "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" category
setting was enabled, under some conditions, the media's thumbnail would not
display after closing and reopening the media library.

- Playing media that contained certain special characters in the media's
title caused multiple unplayable entries to appear in the play history.

- If a media title contained a 'line feed' or 'return' characters, it would
corrupt the play history.

- With the "Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size - Auto-Size User
Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled,
playing audio files with folder/album art could cause Zoom Player's main
window to display partially off-screen.

- The latest version of mediainfo DLL changed how it extracts cover art
for audio files, breaking Zoom Player support for displaying the album
art with some audio formats (mainly M4A).

- Better album art image extraction from audio files with ID3v2 TAGs when
the image header included some junk data.

- When opening a media file by double-clicking from explorer (or other
file managers), the currently playing track wouldn't highlight correctly
and show the playing position in the playlist editor.

- Using the "Stop" function while a JPEG/PNG image was loading, combined
with a setting that closes the playing media when using the "Stop"
function, caused the image to remain on screen under some conditions.

- Double-clicking an entry on the skin selection dialog could sometimes
trigger an access violation error.

- When opening the playlist editor, under some conditions the bottom
entries would not show up until the playlist screen was refreshed
by a click or scroll.

- The "&" character wasn't showing up in the playlist editor.

- Pressing under the last item in the playlist editor did not
visually select the last item in the list. Then if you pressed
the "Enter" key, it would start playing the last item in the
playlist which was a bit confusing without the visual cue of
a selected entry.

- Fixed a crash when trying to play a video file with too many
external audio tracks. External audio tracks are now limited
to a maximum of 10 tracks.

- When the "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
setting was enabled in combination with the "Use dynamically visible
scroll bar" setting, the thumbnail would not highlight correctly.

- Zoom Player will no longer try running MediaInfo.dll when playing a URL,
removing the 'unknown error' message from the play information dialogs.

- Using the "^" character in a file name to force the media library
scraper to ignore any text after this character did not work properly
in some cases.

- The "Mute audio during forward and backward seeks" setting was muting
audio when attempting to seek forward/backward in a live stream even
in cases where seeking was not possible.



Previous changes since the release of version 14.4:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[saman]

Why does not sound after the run mov file

[Godwin]

Version 14.6 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ The Media Library category editor has been restructured to make it
easier to use when working with many categories.

- Deleting the currently playing file did not remove the file from the
current playlist.

- Under some condition, the previously played media title would appear
in the timeline area and invalid entries were being added to the
play history.

- Erasing entries from the favorite media list did not actually save the
list your drive. Unless a new entry was added (which did save the list),
restarting Zoom Player would restore the erased entries.

- Removing entries from the playlist editor did not always select the
current remaining track.

- The chapter selection pop-up OSD appeared in the wrong screen position.

- In the playlist editor, clicking the blank area under the playlist
entries would select the last entry without clearing the currently
selected entry.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 14.6 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ YouTube changed their text encoding scheme which caused Zoom Player
to show the encoding of certain characters instead of the actual
characters.

+ Trying to open a navigation interface while in audio mode simply
didn't do anything, now Zoom Player will automatically switch to
media mode and show the navigation interface.

+ Trying to seek backward/forward on a live stream with no duration
will no longer show an OSD message as if a seek was performed.

- Manually editing a Zoom Player ".CHP" chapter file using an external
text editor could have triggered a freeze when trying to load the
associated media file.

- Changing the internal screen saver's slideshow path did not take
affect until the next player restart if the screen saver was
previously active (changing the folder didn't clear the cache).


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* Live YouTube stream support using the latest version of the
3DYD YouTube source and LAV Filters.

* New YouTube channel listing strategy (not enabled by default)
which you can now enable through the Media Library category
editor.

The new strategy works by listing videos in a channel's "Uploads"
playlist. The downside to this strategy is that some videos
may not be ordered by Publish date. For this reason, 50 videos
are requested instead of the usual 25 and these videos are then
sorted by the plugin instead of just listing them as-is. The upside
is that you get longer descriptions for the videos.

* The media library can now display a format icon for the new
AV1, DTS:X and Dolby Atmos audio/video codecs.

* Support for the ADTS audio wrapper format.

* New "/SHOWOSD:[Text]" command line parameter used to show a pop-up
OSD on an already running instance of Zoom Player.

+ YouTube changed their text encoding scheme which caused Zoom Player
to show the encoding of certain characters instead of the actual
characters.

+ Trying to open a navigation interface while in audio mode simply
didn't do anything, now Zoom Player will automatically switch to
media mode and show the navigation interface.

+ Trying to seek backward/forward on a live stream with no duration
will no longer show an OSD message as if a seek was performed.

- The "Refresh" button on the media library category configuration
dialog was accidentally left enabled for folder based categories.
Clicking it would trigger a "list index out of bounds" error.

- Manually editing a Zoom Player ".CHP" chapter file using an external
text editor could have triggered a freeze when trying to load the
associated media file.

- Changing the internal screen saver's slideshow path did not take
affect until the next player restart if the screen saver was
previously active (changing the folder didn't clear the cache).

- Streaming audio-only YouTube with visualizations would not always
enable the ZP DSP Filter, causing synchronization issues between
the audio and visualization.

- Trying to close the Install Center during an install could have
resulted in a crash.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 4 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* The Play History fullscreen navigation interface now lists the
last play time (not just the date), the last play position and
the full path to the currently highlighted entry.

* The Favorite media fullscreen navigation interface now shows the
full path to the highlighted entry.

* New "Close on Play" checkbox on the Advanced Playlist Control dialog
to control whether the dialog remains open or closed after playing a
new media from the dialog.

+ Enhanced detection for Dolby Atmos tracks.

+ Changed the how information (text/icons) are aligned on the right side of
fullscreen navigation interfaces so the information does not shift around
when the selected line is changed.

+ Tweaked the list based fullscreen naviation interfaces to squeeze out
a little more horizontal space.

- The sub-folder selection within the media scanner fullscreen
navigation interface would draw outside the defined line boundries.

- The media scanner no longer allows you to add folders to plugin
based categories (which are not folder based).


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 5 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New Smart Play profile for the ".DSF" file format.

* New Smart Play profile for the "DSD" (Direct Stream Digital) codec.

+ When safe mode is enabled, instead of completely hiding the main
navigation interface's "System" sub-menu, now only the "Exit Zoom Player"
entry is hidden.

- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen
on the "Favorites" navigation interface.

- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the
stream selection navigation interface.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 6 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ Newly created YouTube media library categories will no longer show
a video icon overlay by default (as all content from YouTube is
video).

+ The fullscreen navigation information interface no longer closes
automatically when opening a new media file.

- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" broke the functions screen
on the "Favorites" navigation interface.

- Enabling fullscreen navigation's "Safe Mode" prevented access to the
stream selection navigation interface.

- It's no longer possible to erase files in safe mode from within the media
library mini-menu.

- Accidentally forgot to include the DSF/DSD smart play profiles with
the previous beta.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 7 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded:
1. New command to open a streaming URL.
2. New command to Get & Set the current playlist
sorting order (Ascending/Descending).
3. New command to sort the playlist (by name, size, date, etc).

+ The Next/Previous frame functions are now ignored when playing
audio-only content (there was no real use for it and it caused weird
behavior with some decoders).

- Enabling "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width"
or "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width" settings
would break the visual integrity of the information fullscreen navigation
interface (and the Main navigation interface if it was used in list mode).

- The Media Library's "Run Application" plug-in did not run applications
correctly if some command line parameters were used.

- Fixed an issue where certain characters used in a media library's
category path could corrupt the category list or prevent the afflicted
category from functioning correctly.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 8 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New Setting "Adv. Options / System" (disabled by default) to allow the
Command & Control API to remotely control the PC's mouse cursor.

* Zoom Player Command & Control API has been expanded with support
for remotely controlling the PC's mouse cursor. For additional
security, this capability requires you to enable the new
"Allow remote mouse control" setting.

- Playing a media through the Advanced Playlist Control dialog and then
trying to close the dialog before the media finished loading would
cause a non-fatal crash.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 9 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ TheMovieDB scraper plugin will now scrape movies that do not contain
a poster image.

- Using the Advanced Playlist Control to move items to the top or
bottom while a media was playing messed up the playlist active item
display as well as the ID3/TAG on-screen information.

- When the media library displayed a movie with no poster in JukeBox
mode, the poster area showed random junk.

- Trying to switch to Audio or DVD modes while a media was in the
process of loading triggered a crash.

- Trying to close the Playlist editor while a track was in the process
of loading triggered a crash.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 beta 10 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ Forgot to include the updated TheMovieDB scraper plugin in the
previous beta.

- Rewrote the entire system that handles the currently selected audio
device. Previously, if you were to disconnect an audio device
(e.g. a BlueTooth headset), Zoom Player would switch to the default
audio device, but when the the audio device was reconnected,
Zoom Player would continue to use the default device instead of the
previously selected device.

Now Zoom Player always tries to use the previously selected device
and only temporarily switches to the default device if the selected
device is not currently available.

- Pressing the next-track button with the next tracks being a series of
executable files would execute all files at once instead of just the
first executable and pausing.

- A bug introduced in a recent beta prevented Zoom Player from automatically
switching between DVD and Media modes.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 release candidate 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


+ Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline no longer pops up a
"00:00" position hint when playing a live stream with no duration.

- Rewind, Fast Forward and Slow Motion are now disabled when playing
live streams with no duration (these functions were interfering
with playback).

- Fixed a freeze when using the MPC Audio Renderer combined with the
"Show all filters in Stream Selection sub-menu" setting.

- The DVD Audio Renderer setting was not being saved due to a bug
introduced in the previous beta.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15 release candidate 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that lets you
specify the number of milliseconds Zoom Player should wait after
closing a streaming media before resuming operations.

+ To prevent instability, if Zoom Player's options dialog is open,
all API/Keyboard processing (for the main window) are now disabled.

- Fix for a possible freeze when opening the media library.

- The default 16:10 skin was showing a 1px clear line to the right of
the movie poster in jukebox mode.

- Fixed an issue where pressing next track in a playlist containing an
executable file would not stop playing the previous media track after
executing the playlist entry, which also caused a cosmetic glitch in
the playlist editor.

- Furiously Clicking the mouse's right button to open the context menu
while a track was loading caused multiple context menus to appear on
screen and could even lead to a crash in some cases.

- Under some rare conditions, Mouse Gesture actions could trigger without
the left mouse button being held down.

- Unchecking "Limit 'Hot Corners' to fullscreen mode" caused issues trying
to move the player windows in Audio Mode.

- Pressing DEL to erase the currently playing media will no longer prompt
you to delete to recycle bin if the playing media is a URL.

- Stopped the two settings that control automatic switching between Audio
and Media mode from working while the player is in fullscreen mode:
Auto Switch to Audio Mode when a Media File does not contain a Video Stream
Auto Switch to Media Mode when a Media File contains a Video Stream

- Deleting the active entry in the playlist editor (orange highlight when
using the default onyx skin), did not reset the active entry if that
track wasn't currently playing.

- Using the "fnPLEditMetaData" function (for example using the command line
"/func:fnPLEditMetaData" parameter) several times would cause multiple
windows to appear.

- The internal screen saver no longer activates if a track is currently
in the process of loading or if an error dialog is currently visible.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[hay178]

Can some tell me what the last basic version of player was? my computer is getting old, i want to run as efficiently as possible; and i rarely use htpc mode. I realy love this player. I have a bunch of versions over the years still on backup hdds

[Godwin]

Version 15 release candidate 3 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!



* New "Go" button on the station editor to make search practical
without access to a keyboard.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) to control whether
the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls should process DTS/Dolby audio
(and their sub-formats such as DTS-HD, Dolby Atmos, E-EAC, etc).

By default, these formats are not processed as they are intended
for decoding by an external receiver over S/PDIF or BitStreaming.

However if you decode these formats on your PC, disabling this
setting will allow the Equalizer and Pre-Amp controls to function.

* New setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that
controls whether playback should be paused before trying to capture
a video frame. Please note that it's possible that some video
renderers may not be able to capture a frame if the media is playing.

* New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to enable listing
live streams. To playback live YouTube streams you must use the
IFRAME player or use D3D YouTube Source filter v2 or newer.

* New setting on the media library YouTube plugin to use the maximum
thumbnail resolution YouTube provides (now disabled by default).

In previous versions getting the maximum resolution thumbnail was
the default behavior, however there are rare instances where the
maximum resolution and extra bandwidth are merited.

Additionally, there is a YouTube bug that lists a URL for the
maximum resolution thumbnail without the file actually being
available, so this change works around this issue.

+ The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface has been enhanced to
work more intuitively and with less clicking required to reach
the desired time.

+ The Torrents download plugin has been updated to support q**********
API v2, requiring q********** v4.2 or newer, please upgrade.

+ You can now drag the meta-data edit window more easily by dragging
from anywhere in the windows.

+ Using the "fnTitleToClipboard" function with no media playing will
now try to get the title from the currently highlighted playlist
entry.

+ The "Close Navigator when opening a new file" setting now applies
to the streaming fullscreen navigation interface. Previously it
would always close the interface regardless of the setting.

+ Ctrl+"V" now works in the playlist editor's search box.

+ You can now use the Space character to activate buttons on the skinned
confirmation dialog (previously only the Enter key would work).

+ Opening a streaming URL now closes the fullscreen navigation interface.

+ Extended the Command & Control API message 1870 to support passing
a title along with the URL to stream.

+ When playing an MP3 with ID3v2 TAGs that contain multiple images, now
the first embedded image is displayed instead of the last.

+ Right clicking a track in the playlist editor will now select the
track less than 2 other tracks are currently selected.

- A major bug that was introduced in v13.5 prevented the Equalizer and
Pre-Amp controls from functioning when decoding audio using a filter
that outputs the WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE" structure (Which LAV Audio
Decoder uses for most audio formats it decodes).

- Streaming audio with non-English characters encoded in the stream's
meta-data would sometimes display the wrong characters.

- Trying to open the last used fullscreen navigation interface did
not work if the player was in audio mode. Now the window automatically
switches back to media mode and shows the navigation interface.

- The "Trash" icon no longer shows up at the bottom of the media library
fullscreen navigation mode when Safe Mode is enabled.

- Since they were causing playback issues, the Fast Play, Slow Motion,
Half Speed Fast-Play, Half Speed Slow Motion and Increase/Decrease
Play Rate functions are no longer accessible when playing a live
stream with no duration.

- Using Shift+Delete to delete the currently selected playlist entries
did not work properly if one of the selected entries was the currently
playing media.

- When Zoom Player was minimized to the taskbar, instructing Zoom Player
to switch to fullscreen mode did not work as intended.

- Trying to play a URL straight from the windows clipboard will no longer
try playing if the clipboard does not actually contain a URL.

- Opening the previously open navigation interface did not work when the
previous navigation interface was the 'Favorites'.

- Going back from the favorites fullscreen navigation interface to the
main interface highlighted the playlist icon instead of the favorites
icon.

- Using the play history fullscreen navigation with safe mode enabled
would trigger a crash or cosmetic glitches when trying to access
the functions page.

- Assigning functions that auto-execute when a secondary screen is attached
or detached did not execute under some conditions.

- Some functions called from command line using the "/func" or "/exfunc"
parameters could have run before Zoom Player finished loading, triggering
unexpected behavior.

- You can no longer try to erase the "refresh" and "more" (plus) entries
in the media library.

- The "Scrapers file name blacklist:" label disappeared under
"Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View".

- TheMovieDB scraper plugin can now display information on multiple
directors of one movie instead of just the first director.

- The delete icon was visible in the download manager fullscreen
navigation while safe mode was enabled.

- The playlist editor's right-click menu's "Add Streaming URL" feature
caused a visual glitch where the highlighted playlist entry was not
the one actually playing.

- Pressing the Enter key on the playlist editor right after running
the player would play the first track instead of the last played track.

- Under some rare conditions, the play history dialog could show duplicate
entries of the same media.

- When playing certain live feeds, right-clicking the timeline could
wrongfully show a "Seeking 0 seconds" OSD.

- Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline will no longer show
the timeline position or a preview image if the playing media has
no duration (e.g. when viewing a jpeg image).

- Some UTF8 encoded ".txt" files did not display anything when viewed.

- Loading ".wpl" playlists that contain URLs did not load the URL
entries correctly.

- Using the Advanced Playlist Control's "Move to Bottom" function caused
issues if the currently playing media was moved.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v15 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml

Highlights:

Live YouTube stream playback support.
Enhanced remote control functionality.
Enhanced fullscreen navigation.
UI/UX enhancments.
Better support for dynamic audio output (e.g. removable headphones).
Equalizer & Pre-Amp support for audio with more than 2 channels.
Support for q********** v4.2+
Important stability & bug fixes.


Previous changes since the release of version 14.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.1 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls whether a progress position bar appears on the bottom of
thumbnails instead of the current position time (does not apply to Movie
JukeBox mode or folders since theys may be comprised of multiple media
files).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls the percentage of a media you need to see before it is marked
with the "seen" overlay (eye icon).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that controls whether playback
should be paused when exiting fullscreen using the ESC key.

* The YouTube Media Library plugin now includes an option to set
your own YouTube API Key.

To get your own key, all you need is a google account and
filling in a few forms:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application

By using your own API key, you can gain analytics insights from google.

+ In previous version, the seen icon (eye) would show on a media library
thumbnail if that media has been played previously.
Now the seen icon is only displayed when at least 95% of the media has
been seen (you can customize this value).

+ The media library thumbnail view has been slightly optimized, especially
when using Windows Default anti-aliasing.

- Fixed an issue that caused the wrong track to play when opening a media
file from explorer (or other external process) if the option to clear
the playlist was not enabled.

- Using the Advanced Playlist Control to sort items would not work as
intended if two items with the same file name were present in the playlist
using different titles.

- The OpenSubtitles.org subtitle search plugin did not save non-English
characters in the username correctly.

- Fixed a rare crash when resizing the media library window in thumbnail
view mode.

Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.1 beta 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* When the current position bar is enabled, it is now drawn on movie
posters in jukebox mode.

Please note, this feature will only work properly if there is only one
video file within the movie's folder. If the movie is split across
multiple files, the bar's position may show an incorrect value.

* When using the correct folder structure for the Movie scraping
(folder named for the movie+year and one video file within), the
last play position will now appear on the movie's folder thumbnail.

+ You can now select the thumbnail progress bar size.

- Fixed a bug that triggered a re-scrape of media information whenever
daylight saving was enabled/disabled.

- Fixed a bug that prevented maximizing to fullscreen if the "Prevent
exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting was enabled in some cases.

- The YouTube plugin now correctly displays the video's publish date after
YouTube changed the date format May/2020.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.1 release candidate 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!

* New "Play position bar Position and Color" settings (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) allowing you to select where
the position bar appears in thumb view mode, the options are:
1. Bottom of thumbnail
2. Top of text area
3. Bottom of text area

* New "Show TV series name when scraping TV episodes in JukeBox mode"
setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings).

* New "Disable automated cache clean-up" setting (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that prevents the automated
clean-up of the thumbnail cache.

While cleaning the cache is a once per week operation, when using a
large cache size, it can take up to a minute to clear the cache when
using a mechanical HDD drive (on an SSD drive it takes 1-2 seconds).

* Double clicking a category in the category editor dialog will now open
the category's configuration dialog.

+ When playing a media file all the way through to the end, it's position
will now display as fully played instead of no position at all.

This does not affect playback, playing the media file will start at the
beginning.

+ When using the AB-Repeat feature, the on-screen markers now hide after
setting the repeat end position, no longer obscuring parts of the video.

+ Due to a YouTube licensing requirement, OSD messages will no longer
appear when playing YouTube content.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.1 release candidate 2 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now displays the path to the
currently highlighted playlist entry on the bottom of the screen.

+ Added support for new YouTube channel URL structures that
included '/c/' instead of '/user/' or '/channel'.

- When using the same media library category name for two different category
content types (e.g. TV & Movies), re-opening the media library after playing
content from one of the categories could result in the wrong category showing.

- A bug in the DVD auto-loading bookmarks code caused bookmarks to be ignored.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.5 release candidate 3 has been released.


Download:

http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml



Changes in this beta:


* New feature!


+ Changed feature!



- Fixed feature!



* The play history window now includes a last play position column.


* The play history window's right-click menu can now be used to remove

selected entries.


* The play history window now includes the last play time along with

the play date.


* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that allow you

to customize the right-click on timeline seek distance.


* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls

whether the control bar should hide automatically if the mouse cursor

is currently hovering above the control bar (enabled by default).


Previously the control bar would never hide if the mouse cursor hovered

above it, now you are in control.


+ The play history window can now be used to select multiple entries.


+ You can now enter empty (folder based) media library categories in order

to perform file operations (copy/paste) instead of Zoom Player displaying

a "The Category is Empty" message.


- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not maintain

the folder's date, causing it to be re-scraped and any custom artwork to

be ignored.



- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not update

the media history play cache, causing the last play position to

disappear.


- The Guard Dog feature was incorrectly activated when exiting sleep mode.


- With the "Use Media Title if Available" setting disabled, the media title

could still become visible in the main window's title area under some

conditions.


- Fixed an issue that slowed down loading large playlists when

drag & dropping the playlists into Zoom Player.


- Fixed an issue where the media library's "refresh" entry could become

selected for file operations (copy/paste).


- The media library's category editor's "Open Media Library" button did

not open the media library with the selected category highlighted if

the category was not listed due to a category filter. Now the category

filter is reset to ensure the correct category is highlighted.


- Updated the user-agent ZP uses when downloading data from web servers

as some servers were blocking ZP thinking it was an older browser.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:

http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.5 release candidate 4 has been released.


Download:

http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml



Changes in this beta:


* New feature!


+ Changed feature!



- Fixed feature!



* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct

Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles

when adding files to the playlist.



Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and

is not suited for very large playlists.


* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct

Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles

based on the parent folder of the playing media (usually applies to movies)

when adding files to the playlist.


Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and

is not suited for very large playlists.


* New entry in the play history's right-click menu to try obtaining titles

for the selected entries using meta-data scraped through the media library.


* New "fnRestart" function to restart Zoom Player.


* New "fnRestartWithParams" function to restart Zoom Player with the same

command line parameters it was executed with.


+ Zoom Player should close much faster when closing the player while a

download plugin was refreshing content.


+ The RSS media library plugin can now display more than 5000 entries, it can

now display any number of entries fitting under 10mb of RAM.


+ Ctrl+"A" now works to select every item in the play history window.


- The YouTube media library plugins did not save the "Maximum thumbnail-

resolution (720p, more bandwidth)" setting.


- The control bar's timeline seek preview image is now hidden instantly when

closing the control bar.



Previous beta changes since the release of version 15:

http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player v15.5 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

A new, customizable play position bar that displays the last play position over thumbnails, movie posters and TV episode screenshots.
The seeking distance used when right-clicking on the timeline is now customizable.
Enhanced Play History dialog.
Many quality-of-life customization features.
Performance optimization and fixes.



What's new in Zoom Player v15.5:

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls whether a progress position bar appears on the bottom of
thumbnails instead of the current position time.

* New "Play position bar Position and Color" settings (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) allowing you to select where
the position bar appears in thumb view mode, the options are:
1. Bottom of thumbnail
2. Top of text area
3. Bottom of text area

* New "Show TV series name when scraping TV episodes in JukeBox mode"
setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls the percentage of a media you need to see before it is marked
with the "seen" overlay (eye icon).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that controls whether playback
should be paused when exiting fullscreen using the ESC key.

* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that allow you
to customize the right-click on timeline seek distance.

* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that controls
whether the control bar should hide automatically if the mouse cursor
is currently hovering above the control bar (enabled by default).

Previously the control bar would never hide if the mouse cursor hovered
above it, now you are in control.

* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct
Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles
when adding files to the playlist.

Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and
is not suited for very large playlists.

* New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) that instruct
Zoom Player to scan the media library scraped information for media titles
based on the parent folder of the playing media (usually applies to movies)
when adding files to the playlist.

Please note, this feature is disabled by default as it adds disk access and
is not suited for very large playlists.

* New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that control whether the current play position is drawn on movie folders.

* When the current position bar is enabled, it is now drawn on movie
posters in jukebox mode.

Please note, this feature will only work properly if there is only one
video file within the movie's folder. If the movie is split across
multiple files, the bar's position may show an incorrect value.

* The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now displays the path to the
currently highlighted playlist entry on the bottom of the screen.

* When using the correct folder structure for the Movie scraping
(folder named for the movie+year and one video file within), the
last play position will now appear on the movie's folder thumbnail.

* New "Disable automated cache clean-up" setting (Adv. Options /
Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that prevents the automated
clean-up of the thumbnail cache.

While cleaning the cache is a once per week operation, when using a
large cache size, it can take up to a minute to clear the cache when
using a mechanical HDD drive (on an SSD drive it takes 1-2 seconds).

* The play history window now includes a last play position column.

* The play history window now includes the last play time along with
the play date.

* The play history window's right-click menu can now be used to remove
selected entries.

* New entry in the play history's right-click menu to try obtaining titles
for the selected entries using meta-data scraped through the media library.

* The YouTube Media Library plugin now includes an option to set
your own YouTube API Key.

To get your own key, all you need is a google account and
filling in a few forms:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/registering_an_application

By using your own API key, you can gain analytics insights from google.

* Double clicking a category in the category editor dialog now opens
the category's configuration dialog.

* New "fnRestart" function to restart Zoom Player.

* New "fnRestartWithParams" function to restart Zoom Player with the same
command line parameters it was executed with.

+ In previous version, the seen icon (eye) would show on a media library
thumbnail if that media has been played previously.
Now the seen icon is only displayed when at least 95% of the media has
been seen (you can customize this value).

+ When playing a media file all the way through to the end, it's position
will now display as fully played instead of no position at all.

This does not affect playback, playing the media file will start at the
beginning.

+ Zoom Player should close much faster when closing the player while a
download plugin was refreshing content.

+ The RSS media library plugin can now display more than 5000 entries, it can
now display any number of entries fitting under 10mb of RAM.

+ The play history window can now be used to select multiple entries.

+ Ctrl+"A" now works to select every item in the play history window.

+ You can now enter empty (folder based) media library categories in order
to perform file operations (copy/paste) instead of Zoom Player displaying
a "The Category is Empty" message.

+ When using the AB-Repeat feature, the on-screen markers now hide after
setting the repeat end position, no longer obscuring parts of the video.

+ Added support for new YouTube channel URL structures that
included '/c/' instead of '/user/' or '/channel'.

+ Due to a YouTube licensing requirement, OSD messages will no longer
appear when playing YouTube content.

- Fixed a bug that triggered a re-scrape of media information whenever
daylight saving was enabled/disabled.

- Fixed an issue that caused the wrong track to play when opening a media
file from explorer (or other external process) if the option to clear
the playlist was not enabled.

- Using the Advanced Playlist Control to sort items would not work as
intended if two items with the same file name were present in the playlist
using different titles.

- The OpenSubtitles.org subtitle search plugin did not save non-English
characters in the username correctly.

- The YouTube plugin now correctly displays the video's publish date after
YouTube changed the date format May/2020.

- Fixed a rare crash when resizing the media library window in thumbnail
view mode.

- Fixed a bug that prevented maximizing to fullscreen if the "Prevent
exiting Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting was enabled in some cases.

- When using the same media library category name for two different category
content types (e.g. TV & Movies), re-opening the media library after playing
content from one of the categories could result in the wrong category showing.

- A bug in the DVD auto-loading bookmarks code caused bookmarks to be ignored.

- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not maintain
the folder's date, causing it to be re-scraped and any custom artwork to
be ignored.

- Using the internal copy/cut & paste operation on folders did not update
the media history play cache, causing the last play position to
disappear.

- The Guard Dog feature was incorrectly activated when exiting sleep mode.

- With the "Use Media Title if Available" setting disabled, the media title
could still become visible in the main window's title area under some
conditions.

- Fixed an issue that slowed down loading large playlists when
drag & dropping the playlists into Zoom Player.

- Fixed an issue where the media library's "refresh" entry could become
selected for file operations (copy/paste).

- The media library's category editor's "Open Media Library" button did
not open the media library with the selected category highlighted if
the category was not listed due to a category filter. Now the category
filter is reset to ensure the correct category is highlighted.

- Updated the user-agent ZP uses when downloading data from web servers
as some servers were blocking ZP thinking it was an older browser.

- The YouTube media library plugins did not save the "Maximum thumbnail-
resolution (720p, more bandwidth)" setting.

- The control bar's timeline seek preview image is now hidden instantly when
closing the control bar.

- Opening certain dialogs (e.g. the "Media library category editor") when
Zoom Player's window was close to a screen edge would open the dialog
partially off-screen.

- When enabling the "Force the navigation list or thumb view display to
full width" or "Force the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width"
settings, some of the main navigation interface's icons did not appear.

- The GuardDog feature could have automatically executed if it took
Zoom Player too long to close.

- At times, a media library scraped backdrop image would remain in use
after re-opening the media library in category listing.



Previous changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Zoom Player FREE v15.5 final has been released:

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml


Highlights:

A new, customizable play position bar that displays the last play position over thumbnails, movie posters and TV episode screenshots.
The seeking distance used when right-clicking on the timeline is now customizable.
Enhanced Play History dialog.
Many quality-of-life customization features.
Performance optimization and fixes.


Previous changes since the release of version 15:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml

[Godwin]

Version 15.6 beta 1 has been released.

Download:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_beta.shtml


Changes in this beta:

* New feature!

+ Changed feature!

- Fixed feature!


* New network keep-alive feature (Adv. Options / Playback Files & Paths)
that instructs Zoom Player to access the specified paths to make sure a
network share does not disconnect for inactivity.

+ Erasing files/folders from the media library will now erase their scraped
meta-data/thumbnail cache from the "MediaCache" folder.

- Scraping meta-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file
didn't support IMDB IDs longer than 7 digits.

- Scraping meta-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file
with an IMDB URL didn't write the IMDB id into the meta-data cache.

- The RSS feed media library plugin wont show duplicate entries if the server
moves from http:// to https:// links. However, old entries that were
already downloaded before this fix may remain as duplicates.

- Enabling 'Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width'
caused cosmetic issues in the equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.


Previous beta changes since the release of version 15.5:
http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta.shtml