Announcing Zoom Player v3.00 final

[Blight]

It's finally here, Zoom Player v3.00 final is out the door.

If you're upgrading from v2.90 or ealier, I recommend going to the Inmatrix Front Page (http://www.inmatrix.com) as it contains some useful information.

Changes from RC3:

* Implemented support for Windows Media High-Definition Audio playback
and Speaker Setup Selection (Options/Settings/Windows Media)

* New skinning function "FillRectNT" allows you to fill an area of a
skin with a color without having it tinted by the skin tinting
profiles, this is important as you don't want the background of the
video area to get tinted (can cause color-bars on the sides of the
video under certain conditions).

* New Seting (Options / Values) allowing you to Screen Snap the Main
Window and the Play List Editor.

* New Source Relative Stretch calculator to help you setup display for
display modes with non-standard pixel ratios. I'm not entirely sure
the math is correct at the moment, so the usefulness is in question.

- Fixed Mouse wheel issue with play list while in fullscreen mode.

- Fix so that the background of the video area in window mode doesn't
get tinted by the skin tinting profiles.

- Mouse Cursor would hide while using play list in fullscreen mode.

- Put some safty checks to prevent misbehaving drivers causing ZP to
throw errors in the VMR9 color controls.

- Having the window maintain AR and going to fullscreen while maximized
caused a weird effect when exiting from fullscreen.

- Taking screenshots didn't save under the right name in DVD Mode.


Download v3.00 here (http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml).

If someone can provide solid mirrors for the ZIP Archives, please provide me with links.

[alexnoe]

It still does not read the names of the audio streams (stored in a strn chunk). BSPlayer and GraphEdit read them...

[Blight]

Post a graphedit screenshot of what you mean.

[alexnoe]

Here it is:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Temp/AVI_strn.gif

[Blight]

Ok, this information appears to be on the Pin name, but where would you like to see it displayed in ZP?

[alexnoe]

In the list of available audio streams. This (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Temp/multilangfile.gif) doesn't look too nice ;)

Then, I can store the names of the languages in the file, and can see "Deutsch", "English", "Français" etc in the list of available audio streams, instead of (or additionally to) "Device 0012"

This would be useful especially for people who know many languages...once I received a bug report which said that AVI-Mux GUI doesn't work when trying to mux 5 audio streams and 12 subtitles...(fixed in the meantime)

[Blight]

The problem is, you can't always back-track the pins from the audio renderer to the splitter, i'll see what I can do, no promises.

[BoNz1]

Thanks, Blight v3.0 is very nice. I have one request though, I apologize if you have already added it. You have said a couple times that maybe one day you would clean up the menu that pops up when you right click since there are a lot of things in it and sometimes it gets a little cumbersome to navigate. I think it would be kinda cool if it were possible for the user to configure what pops up in the menu in the player options. Maybe this is a ridiculous suggestion, but I think it would be kinda neat. Anyhow, thank you again, and I love the new skin it is really slick. :)

[Blight]

you can completely replace the context menu...

look at default.menu and there's a setting in the options dialog that lets you assign a different file.

[BoNz1]

Wow, this menu is really customizable. I had thought you probably had implemented something like this. Thank you very much.