Zoom Player Home Free -> Version History

This is the version history page for Zoom Player Home Free, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 14.5 (Jan 18, 2019)
• Version 14.4 (Oct 12, 2018)
• Version 14.3 (Aug 15, 2018)
• Version 14.2 (Jul 13, 2018)
• Version 14.1 (Feb 3, 2018)
• Version 14.0 (Nov 30, 2017)
• Version 13.7.1 (Jul 23, 2017)
• Version 13.7 (Jul 7, 2017)
• Version 13.5 (May 18, 2017)
• Version 13.0 (Apr 3, 2017)
• Version 12.7 (Dec 1, 2016)
• Version 12.6 (Oct 24, 2016)
• Version 12.5 (Sep 23, 2016)
• Version 12.1 (Jul 14, 2016)
• Version 12.0 (May 30, 2016)
• Version 11.1 (Nov 30, 2015)
• Version 11 (Nov 16, 2015)
• Version 10.5 (Jul 10, 2015)
• Version 10.0 (Mar 6, 2015)
• Version 9.5 (Nov 7, 2014)

• Release Date: Jan 18, 2019
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- 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 analysismode for the 3DYD filter through the Zoom Player Install Center.
  
  
  * Automatic fullscreen navigation skin switching based on the display'saspect ratio.For example, by specifying a 16:10 and selected a Zoom Player navigationskin 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 navigationinterface.
  
  
  * TheMovieDB.org media library scraping plugin has been enhanced and cannow return non-english meta-data (texts and images).
  
  
  * The playlist editor (when using the default Onyx skin or the bundledAlba skin) now draws alternating line highlights making the playlisteasier to track visually.
  
  
  * The playlist editor's right-click menu now features Colorize actionsthat let you easily color-code track(s) text and background colors.The color information is automatically saved and restored when usingZoom Player's default ZPL format playlists.
  
  
  * New "PlayListData/Background2" skin script parameter that specifiesthe alternating playlist editor line highlight color.
  
  
  * New "Thumb rendering threads" setting (Adv. Options / Interface /Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of CPU threadsused to render the thumbview display.Previously, this setting was hard-coded to use 2 threads, but now youcan specify any value from "Auto" to "16".Auto mode uses either 2 or 3 threads depending on your PC, butperformance can be improved further with additional threads on systemscontaining many cores or high bandwidth RAM.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that automatically tries to usethe YouTube IFRAME player if DirectShow playback of a YouTube streamfails.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls):"Next / Previous Track" plays the next/prev media in the same folder ifplaylist contains 1 file.This function behind this setting was previously always enabled.This setting remains enabled by default, but from now you can disablethis behavior from the advanced options dialog.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to mute the audio whenenabling Slow Motion or Fast Play.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) toforce the navigation list or thumb view to maximum width.Unlike the "full width" setting, this setting will make the navigationlist area take the display device's maximum resolution, which can causesome cosmetic issues (like the thumbnail highlight getting cropped).
  
  
  * New "Support folders as playlist entries" Setting (Adv. Options /Interface / Playlist). This setting was previously hardcoded andis still enabled by default to support advanced playlist functionality.However, supporting folders as playlist entries triggers a spun-down HDDdrive to spin back up when a playlist is loaded. With this new settingdisabled, you can now prevent drives from accidentally spinning up.
  
  
  * The advanced playlist control (accessible through the playlist editoror by pressing "J") now shows the number of items remaining in theplaylist 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 movethe 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 entiredisplay area" setting on and off.
  
  
  + Optimized the Media Library's thumbnail drawing code, increasing updatespeed and smoothness.
  
  
  + The Maximum number of scraping threads used by the media library hasincreased from 8 to 16.
  
  
  + The advanced playlist control's filter search was searching theentire playlist on each letter pressed, this caused a sluggishuser experience when dealing with very larger playlists (over30,000 entries).To enhance the user experience, the search action is now onlyperformed 350-400ms after the last key-stroke, ensuring thatthe 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 frommedia files if the JPEG image contains junk in front of the actual image.
  
  
  + The Install Center now includes two configuration profiles for the3DYD YouTube Source filter that enable HD/4K streaming.
  
  
  + Visualization are now supported when the 3DYD YouTube Source filter isset 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 usedby the site moved to encrypted communication (https), breaking backwardcompatibility.
  
  
  - TheAudioDB.com media library scraper can now better handle artist namescontaining 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 addingto the playlist" setting enabled no longer triggers spun-down HDD drivesto spin-up.
  
  
  - The GuardDog feature tried to restart Zoom Player if Zoom Player'sload time was taking too long (due to HDD drive spin-ups or a networkdrive reconnection), from now the guard dog feature will only startfunctioning once Zoom Player has finished loading.
  
  
  - When viewing the media library's TV/Movie in JukeBox mode, the backdropimages was not scaled and cropped properly on non-16:9 displays(e.g. 1920x1200 monitor) leaving black bars instead of filling withthe backdrop.
  
  
  - Kinetic scrolling in the media library did not work well using a mousecursor, stopping when attempting to scroll multiple times while thekinetic movement was still in mid process.
  
  
  - Fixed a possible TheMovieDB.org scraper freeze (could have causedslow-downs on exit or more rarely, a player freeze) when used incombination with the "Scrape using media derived title (insteadof file name)" category setting.
  
  
  - The Media Library's Jukebox mode would not enable if the only file inthe folder was a playlist.
  
  
  - Fixed a case where a media library scraped movie not containing abackdrop image showed a backdrop from another movie.
  
  
  - When the "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" categorysetting was enabled, under some conditions, the media's thumbnail would notdisplay after closing and reopening the media library.
  
  
  - Playing media that contained certain special characters in the media'stitle caused multiple unplayable entries to appear in the play history. 
  
  
  - If a media title contained a 'line feed' or 'return' characters, it wouldcorrupt the play history.
  
  
  - With the "Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size - Auto-Size UserInterface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled,playing audio files with folder/album art could cause Zoom Player's mainwindow to display partially off-screen.
  
  
  - The latest version of mediainfo DLL changed how it extracts cover artfor audio files, breaking Zoom Player support for displaying the albumart with some audio formats (mainly M4A).
  
  
  - Better album art image extraction from audio files with ID3v2 TAGs whenthe image header included some junk data.
  
  
  - When opening a media file by double-clicking from explorer (or otherfile managers), the currently playing track wouldn't highlight correctlyand show the playing position in the playlist editor.
  
  
  - Using the "Stop" function while a JPEG/PNG image was loading, combinedwith 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 sometimestrigger an access violation error.
  
  
  - When opening the playlist editor, under some conditions the bottomentries would not show up until the playlist screen was refreshedby a click or scroll.
  
  
  - The "&" character wasn't showing up in the playlist editor.
  
  
  - Pressing under the last item in the playlist editor did notvisually select the last item in the list. Then if you pressedthe "Enter" key, it would start playing the last item in theplaylist which was a bit confusing without the visual cue ofa selected entry.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to play a video file with too manyexternal audio tracks. External audio tracks are now limitedto 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 visiblescroll 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 libraryscraper to ignore any text after this character did not work properlyin some cases.
  
  
  - The "Mute audio during forward and backward seeks" setting was mutingaudio when attempting to seek forward/backward in a live stream evenin cases where seeking was not possible.

• Release Date: Oct 12, 2018
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- 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 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.

• Release Date: Aug 15, 2018
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  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.

• Release Date: Jul 13, 2018
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- 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.

• Release Date: Feb 3, 2018
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1:
  
  
  * Automatic support for native Windows 7-10 media library folder structure (previously only the more basic Windows XP-Vista library structure was supported).
  
  
  * 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 (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).
  
  
  * 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.
  
  
  * New setting on the Torrents download & tracking plugin to prevent it from passing file entries to Zoom Player that are marked as "do not download". This setting is off by default. Enabling this setting can reduce some computations and speed up the listing process but at the same time it prevents you from later changing the download priority on these files.
  
  
  * 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).
  
  
  * The last play position is now drawn over the thumbnail in TV Jukebox mode.
  
  
  + 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 / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization").
  
  
  + 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 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.
  
  
  + You can now press any navigation key to cancel a 'play all files in folder' feature mid-action.
  
  
  + 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.
  
  
  + 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).
  
  
  + 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.
  
  
  + Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode while the media library is opened should be cleaner and faster (less visual junk in the transition).
  
  
  - 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.
  
  
  - Resizing the Zoom Player window while the media library was visible in thumbnail mode could cause the thumbnails to display in the wrong size.
  
  
  - Selecting a custom Audio Renderer for audio visualizations did not work well (the wrong audio renderer was used at times).
  
  
  - Loading a text file would not display the file name in the title area.
  
  
  - Using the Stop function to close the playing media did not work if the playing media was a text file.
  
  
  - Fixed a scraping bug where the ".nfo" file detection algorithm would fail with files/folders names containing unicode characters.
  
  
  - Fixed a possible crash that would trigger sometimes on an initial run after a fresh install.
  
  
  - 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.
  
  
  - 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 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).
  
  
  - 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.
  
  
  - The media library's playlist plugin no longer shows an invalid duration value if the playlist entry has no duration.

• Release Date: Nov 30, 2017
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v14:
  
  
  * New Download & Tracking plugin API has been developed. The API specifies which file extensions or URL sub-string matches to pass to the Download & Tracking API instead of trying to play.
  This information is specified under: Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions : Download The API can be used create a plugin that integrate with 3rd party download software or directly download the content itself.
  The tracking portion of the API shows the currently download state and whether there's a good chance the download is currently playable. This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
  
  
  * The download tracking navigation interface has been enhanced with the ability to predict when you can begin playing a media file while it is still downloading.
  When using the new Torrents plugin, the prediction is based on the number of torrent pieces that have successfully downloaded from the beginning and end of the media file.
  By default this is 2% from the beginning of the file and 1% from the end. The Torrents plugin requires qBittorrent version 4 or newer to work. qBittorrent is now available to download through the Install Center. A quick slideshow demonstrating how to use the Torrents plugin: https://www.facebook.com/zoomplayer/videos/1475689062513061/
  We are building a library and possibly a seed-box to show case public- domain and creative commons videos. If you would like to expose your video to Zoom Player's user base, please contact us at: https://inmatrix.com/email/business.shtml
  
  
  * Download tracking plugins can be enabled, disabled and configured through a new interface under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker".
  
  
  * New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign any playlist as a media library category.
  
  
  * The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used to select the Audio Rendering device (audio output), making it easy to switch between different output modes (switching audio between rooms, speaker setups, headphone output, etc).
  
  
  * The media library fullscreen interface's settings page can now be used to select the Video Rendering device, making it easy to test out different rendering qualities or in cases where a particular video may not play correctly in your preferred video renderer.
  
  
  * 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 feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to prevent files or URLs from being saved to the play history. All you need to do is specify a partial string, for example "some folder name" or "someurl.org".
  
  
  * New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to hide files or URLs from being displayed in the play history dialogs while still remember the last playback position, volume, subtitle track, etc. All you need to do is specify a partial string, for example "some folder name" or "someurl.org".
  
  
  * New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) to disable seeking controls when playing files or URLs containing a specified path or text.
  
  
  * New feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) to override the audio renderer when playing with visualization. This allows you to use the "DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer" to support a volume fading effect on Start/End/Play/Stop/Seek only when playing with visualizations. This is similar to how WinAmp fades audio between tracks.
  Download the DC-Crossfading Audio Renderer here: (http://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=14) 
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) to display all navigation interfaces on a secondary monitor.
  
  
  * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Controls) that controls whether Zoom Player switches to the next/previous track when using next/previous chapter function on a media that does not contain chapters. This setting is enabled by default.
  
  
  * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that can force playback to delay for a specified number of milliseconds after finishing to play a track with audio visualizations.
  
  
  * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations) that specifies the visualization rendering frame rate, by default 30fps.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that reloads a live stream if the stream disconnects unexpectedly.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically play the next media in the playlist after deleting the currently playing media. This setting is disabled by default.
  
  
  * New "Scrape using media derived title (instead of file name)" media library category setting used to scrape online for content based on the media's title (instead of the file name).
  
  
  * New "Do not display the media's position/duration on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the current play position and the media's duration from appearing on top of thumbnails. 
  * New "Do not display a media format (audio/video/picture) icon on top of thumbnails" media library category setting to prevent the drawing of a media format indicator icon from appearing on top of thumbnails.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / On Screen Display) that controls the OSD clock position.
  
  
  * You can now create and save chapter points (bookmarks) for streaming URLs.
  
  
  * When taking screenshots of the playing video (Alt+F keyboard macro), the current play position is now saved as part of the file name.
  
  
  * The fullscreen information navigation interface now includes media format information extracted using the MediaInfo.dll plugin.
  
  
  * New (optional) control bar button to open/hide the fullscreen stream selection navigation interface.
  
  
  * New "exSetAudTrack" extended function that sets the current audio track.
  
  
  * New "exSetSubTrack" extended function that sets the current subtitle track.
  
  
  + The media library "TheMovieDB" plugin's Movie/TV detection accuracy has increased by cropping out more undesired key-words from file/folder names, using a fuzzy search algorithm to better detect non-exact movie names matches and preferring a release year with a partial name match to an exact name match with a mismatched release date.
  
  
  + The internal image decoder (JPEG/GIF/PNG/BMP) is now capable of downloading and displaying images directly from web servers (e.g. a playlist full of image URLs).
  
  
  + Using the "open streaming link" or "open streaming link from keyboard" functions will now relay downloadable URLs to any matching download plugin (for example .torrent/magnet links) without affecting the current playback.
  
  
  + The media library 'RSS Feed' plugin now caps the maximum cached entries to 2000 and the description length to 3500 characters. Otherwise, over time the RSS plugin data would become too large and would stop displaying.
  
  
  + The playlist fullscreen navigation interface now draws a playing icon next to the currently playing track.
  
  
  + The YouTube Search and Trending media library plugins will now use a search/trending thumbnail when creating new categories. This change does not apply to previously created categories. The new images can be manually assigned using the category configuration dialog. By default the new images are located here using Windows 64bit: "c:Program Files (x86)Zoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Search.jpg" "c:Program Files (x86)Zoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Trending.jpg"
  And here using Windows 32bit: "c:Program FilesZoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Search.jpg" "c:Program FilesZoom PlayerMediaNavPluginsYouTube_Trending.jpg"
  
  
  + The new version update notification will now include a condensed highlight list of what changed in the latest version (will only appear in the next version released after this one).
  
  
  + 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.
  
  
  + Pruning the play history (using the button) no longer erases URL entries, only local files that were erased from the disk drive.
  
  
  + The thumbnail and meta-data cache folder is now cleared once a week instead of on every exit, improving the time it takes Zoom Player to close.
  
  
  + Many of the main navigation icons were polished to give the default navigation theme a more consistent look.
  
  
  + The "unknown" icon has been updated to better suit the UX design.
  
  
  + The media library plugin API can now accept local-file thumbnails when creating new categories.
  
  
  - Fixed a major issue with random play that would cause it to stop working after the entire playlist has been finished playing one time.
  
  
  - Installing an audio device or a custom audio renderer filter would change the selected audio renderer for DVDs and WMP ActiveX playback.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to open a URL from the clipboard when the clipboard contained junk text.
  
  
  - Using local settings files while running multiple Zoom Player instances from different folders prevented changed settings from being saved.
  
  
  - Zoom Player didn't look for subtitles in the XySubFilter's paths definition, causing subtitles not to load when they were not in the same folder as the video.
  
  
  - Playing a media from the windows explorer (or other 3rd party software) would show an "are you sure?" prompt by accident.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to load a malformed play history cache file.
  
  
  - The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of sync, triggering a new components update notification to appear within 2 weeks after running the Instal Center.
  
  
  - 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.
  
  
  - When enabling the "Seek to key-frames when using LAV Video decoder (faster, less accurate seeking)" setting, some file handles were not properly closed, preventing the playing media from being erased until Zoom Player was closed.
  
  
  - The key-mapping editor's search feature did not work.
  
  
  - Fixed a freeze triggered by the media library's 'RSS Feed' plugin on certain RSS feeds that used an ASCII #13 as a line break.
  
  
  - When playing a SHOUTcast stream, the playlist editor cleared the selected entry every second.
  
  
  - Smart Play's "Configure File Source" dialog did not set a default value for the "Use with" field when a non-english language pack was used.
  
  
  - The "stay on top" setting would stop functioning when exiting fullscreen mode with the playlist editor visible.
  
  
  - The Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
  
  
  - The controlbar's volume pop-up slider did not appear in the correct position under some circumstances.
  
  
  - Fixed a glitch where TAG display for a local file playback would show "???" instead of international characters.
  
  
  - Fixed an issue where audio visualization wouldn't render in the correct resolution when changing the visualization display size.
  
  
  - Wrong duration displayed in the playlist when using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control to play streaming media.
  
  
  - Double-clicking a station list entry to begin playback while the media library was opened could trigger a playback of whatever was highlighted in the media library instead of the station list entry.
  
  
  - Hiding the "Media Scanner" and "Remove Category Folder(s)" from the media library's category listing would break keyboard quick search from working on the last category listed.
  
  
  - In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay would be twice as long as the specified value.
  
  
  - Playback of ASX playlists did not work.
  
  
  - With some language packs, the text for the station manager's left column would cut-off.
  
  
  - Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the non-debug version.
  
  
  - 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.
  
  
  - The OSD clock is now closed when the options dialog is open as it caused other windowed opened through the options dialog to hide behind the options dialog window.
  
  
  - Fixed a few small memory leaks.

• Release Date: Jul 23, 2017
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v13.7.1:
  
  
  + Adding chapters using the chapter editor will now instantly show the chapter's position in the timeline (if timeline display is enabled).
  
  
  - Fixed a bug in countries with a comma decimal symbol where the media library thumbnails text height and spacing got truncated. For example: A thumbnail's Text Height of "1.95%" resulted in an actual text height of "1%".
  
  
  - Loading ".PLS/.XSPF" playlists where the first item in the playlist did not play (e.g. "server down") would trigger an infinite loop and Zoom Player froze.
  
  
  - The inactive navigation txt-lines background was not being drawn.
  
  
  - The "I" key will again close the information dialog if it is visible.
  
  
  - The media library category sorting order and last folder position could get reset under some conditions due to insufficient registry memory allocation.
  
  
  - Setting the control bar to appear with a fixed width while in fullscreen did not show the control bar in the right position (or at all) on secondary monitors.
  
  
  - Setting the control bar to appear at the top or bottom of the screen did not show the control bar in the right position (or at all) on secondary monitors.
  
  
  - The media library category editor did not show the currently enabled scraping mode, thumbnail aspect ratio and thumbnail columns when a language pack was installed.
  
  
  - The playlist editor line-spacing did not work well with every font.
  
  
  - Slight adjustment to the media library's thumbnail text drawing to better account for fonts with less-uniform character heights.
  
  
  - It was possible for a new components/filters notification to trigger without new components being available. It was triggered due to a new version of Zoom Player being available on the install center. Since player updates has its own notification, this message is redundant.

• Release Date: Jul 7, 2017
• "*" = New
  "+" = Change
  "-" = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v13.7:
  
  
  
  
  * The Media Library's settings page has been expanded to configure the layout of each category and the category list itself without ever exiting the fullscreen navigation interface. The following customization options are now available, Per-Category: 1. Aspect Ratio 2. Text-Box lines 3. Text height 4. Horizontal spacing 5. Vertical spacing Globally: 1. Categories columns 2. Categories Text-Box lines 3. Categories Text height 4. Text margins 
  
  
  * The default fullscreen navigation skin has been tweaked a bit and now includes a new variant with larger fonts for the visually impaired and small displays.
  
  
  * Support for automatically scaling of un-skinned dialogs based on the monitor's DPI setting. This should help greatly on 4K or higher resolution screens (disabled by default, see "override scaling of un-skinned dialogs" below).
  For 4K/8K skinned interfaces, there are several options at the Inmatrix.com shop.
  
  
  * Support for high DPI scaling of Windows standard dialogs (Open/Save file, folder browser, font selector, color selector, etc).
  
  
  * YouTube subtitles are now supported when playing using DirectShow.
  
  
  * The YouTube plugin has been tweaked to include the channel name in a more prominent position.
  
  
  * The bottom-meta data for regular media now includes a field for the format (file extension, e.g. MP4/MP3/etc).
  
  
  * The equalizer full screen navigation interface has been polished to include translucent equalizer bars.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of columns drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the text height used for drawing the media library's category list thumbnail text.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the number of text lines drawn for the media library's category list thumbnails.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that specifies the margin area around the media library's thumbnail text.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / System) to override scaling of un-skinned dialogs by using a custom value (Automatic/100%/125%/150%/200%/300%/400%). This manual control further enhances usability for the visually impaired, regardless of screen resolution.
  
  
  * Support for qBitTorrent v3.3.13 new security enhancements. For older versions of Zoom Player, you must use qBitTorrent v3.3.12 to continue tracking your downloads.
  
  
  * Media Titles are now properly extracted and displayed with M4V/MP4 files.
  
  
  * Audio Visualization will now work for streaming audio stations if they are defined as "Radio" stations through the station manager.
  
  
  * New Smart Play setting to control which DirectShow filter is used to stream SHOUTcast and ICEcast streams.
  
  
  * New Smart Play profile setting that determines if Zoom Player should use a profile if the input is a file name, URL or both. 
  * New Smart Play "MP3 (streaming)" profile used to specify which filter should be used with streaming MP3 files (by default LAV Source).
  
  
  * When playing live SHOUTcast/ICEcast streams, the on screen display now updates with the currently playing track name.
  
  
  * The internal screen saver now displays the playing media's current play position.
  
  
  * New "fnTitleToClipboard" function to copy the currently playing media's title to the clipboard.
  
  
  * New "fnToggleSub" function to toggle subtitles on and off.
  
  
  * New "fnMediaSrcToClipboard" function that copies the playing media file or URL directly from the playing DirectShow source filter to the Windows clipboard.
  
  
  * New "fnWMPActiveX" function to enable/disable Windows media content streaming using Windows Media Player's ActiveX control.
  
  
  * New "exWMPActiveX" extended function to directly set whether Windows media content streaming will use Windows Media Player's ActiveX control. 0 = Disabled 1 = Enabled
  
  
  + A cooperation with TheAudioDB.com resulted in an improved album-name identification algorithm (used for scraping Album meta-data and cover art within the Media Library).
  
  
  + The media library's thumbnail font size configuration was calculated in a poorly conceived manner that made it difficult to change a thumbnail's font size and line numbers while maintaining consistency across different thumbnail aspect ratios. This has led to a complete rewrite of the text rendering code and new defaults being applied which may affect your previous thumbnail layout settings.
  
  
  + Switching between categories should update the thumbnails a bit quicker (~300ms) if they were previously memory cached.
  
  
  + Adding a station to the station manager now automatically highlights the newly created station.
  
  
  + LAV Source is now used by default for SHOUTcast type streams.
  
  
  + When using LAV Source to stream SHOUTcast/ICEcast content, the playing track's now is now properly displayed in the title and timeline areas.
  
  
  + Opening a ".PLS" playlist containing URLs is now assumed to contain SHOUTcast streaming audio stations.
  
  
  + The Options dialog search window still appeared too small on very high resolution screens, will now show more result lines.
  
  
  + Slightly tweaked the SHOUTcast station browser dialog to increase space for translated texts.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when listing some RSS streams in the media library.
  
  
  - Fixed a list index out of bounds error when starting in HTPC mode.
  
  
  - The Windows media library categories are now properly presented with Zoom Player's default Audio/Video/Picture layouts.
  
  
  - Fixed a "category is empty" message when trying to list RSS streams with very long descriptions.
  
  
  - Playing ICEcast ".xspf" streams did not work with some servers.
  
  
  - Deleting a media library category using the media library "remove category" feature left some cache files behind when clicking the trash can icon (pressing enter or double-clicking did not trigger this issue).
  
  
  - An "new components update on the install center" notification was accidentally triggered by Install Center update entries for Zoom Player itself (which has a separate update notification), resulting in a double notification.
  
  
  - The Mouse Wheel, Navigation Style, Information, Main, Stream Selection, Media Scanner and Play History were showing the wrong number of text lines which caused the list to appear slightly off-center.
  
  
  - Pressing the "Auto-Scan System" button on the Audio Visualization Adv. Options dialog page would trigger a crash with some Sonique plugins preventing the scan from functioning. Now the crashing plugin is skipped.
  
  
  - Adding too many audio visualization plugins would cause the plugin list to reset once Zoom Player was restarted.
  
  
  - Disabling Smart Play by specifying a file extension to ignore would also break Smart Play for URLs or files that did not contain a file extension.
  
  
  - Adding a station using either the Station Manager's SHOUTcast station browser or using the fullscreen station navigation interface did not work if a non-english language pack was in use.
  
  
  - In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, the "Previous Folder" function worked on the root level even though there was no folder above it, resulting in an empty screen display.
  
  
  - In the Station list fullscreen navigation interface, navigating left from the functions page would go up a folder instead of returning to the station list.
  
  
  - When setting the thumbnail text to appear above the thumbnail, the media library's category thumbnail display would improperly position the thumbnail under the text.
  
  
  - The media library category cache did not function properly, leading to a slight performance hit when initially opening the media library.
  
  
  - The Graph Information dialog did not display unicode text correctly.
  
  
  - Fixed a cosmetic issue with the background of the media library's category thumbnails which would appear with some skins or thumbnail configurations.
  
  
  - Using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control to play an audio stream could have resulted in some UI functions not working correctly.
  
  
  - Fixed a few crashes when zpresampler.dll was not found.
  
  
  - Cosmetic fixes to various dialogs.

• Release Date: May 18, 2017
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v13.5:
  
  
  * The default fullscreen navigation interface has been replaced with a clean new style that looks better and extends the available thumbnail area to squeeze in more pixels.
  
  
  * The media library category thumbnail view will now darken the area behind the thumbnail's text or media icon depending on the skin's script and advanced options customization settings.
  
  
  * Zoom Player support for streaming radio station is now fully integrated with the SHOUTcast Directory API, providing easy access to thousands of streaming radio stations.
  Unlike previous versions where Zoom Player used a static database which over time included more and more dead stations, the SHOUTcast directory is now downloaded in real time, ensuring that every station should be operational.
  
  
  * Zoom Player now supports 3DYD YouTube Source filter's DASH streams, enabling DirectShow YouTube streaming at resolutions of 1080p/4K/8K.
  
  
  * A major performance issue was triggered by the Windows 10 Creators Edition update. In the update, Microsoft forced ClearType font anti-aliasing at larger font sizes. This lead to a massive navigation performance slow-downs on QHD (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160) screens. More information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43895435/exttextoutw-x50-performance-drop-on-qhd-4k-screens-after-windows-creators-editio
  As a work-around, Zoom Player introduced a new setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that lets controls the font anti-aliasing mode used to render the fullscreen navigation text.
  
  
  * The Media Library's RSS feed plugin now caches previous entries that may no longer reside on the RSS feed and shows you cached entries even if the RSS feed server is temporarily down.
  
  
  * New "fnPLEraseFiles" function assigned to the Shift+"Delete" keyboard macro. Wgeb used it erases all selected files in the playlist to the window's Recycle Bin (with confirmation prompt).
  
  
  * New "fnOpenStreamInBrowser" function that opens the currently playing stream in a web browser (might be helpful for YouTube links).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to force LAV Splitter to seek to key frames (faster seeking, less accurate) instead of the accurate seek position (slower seeking, perfectly accurate).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) to select the YouTube IFRAME Player's preferred streaming resolution, allowing you to stream 1080p/4K/8K content using the IFRAME player.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback) that allows interactivity when playing YouTube content using the IFRAME player.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Display) to show the playing file's extension in the window title (default off).
  
  
  * The Media Library plugin API has been extended with per-category storage path (e.g. RSS feed caching) and a new function which is called when a category using the plugin is deleted (for cleanup purposes).
  
  
  * New function to activate the internal screen saver. This means that you can now hook user interface actions (like a hot-corner click) with activating the screen saver.
  
  
  * New function to copy the currently playing media's Path/URL to the windows clipboard.
  
  
  * You can now define web pages as "stations" in the station editor to have the web page opened inside Zoom Player's integrated web browser.
  
  
  * New skin script parameters to control the text line count on each fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  + The integrated keyboard mapping editor has been rewritten to better support high-DPI displays. As a bonus, the dialog is now resizable as well.
  
  
  + The integrated keyboard mapping editor now shows a 'code' column which signifies a keyboard scan-code or other code used to identify an interface index.
  
  
  + Optimized fullscreen navigation lists line-drawing code by about 10% in cases where the skin didn't specify a background for unselected/empty lines.
  
  
  + The thumbnail duration display position should now be easier to read. The text's background is now using a different effect which should make the text stand out more against bright noisy thumbnails.
  
  
  + The Hot Mouse Tracking on the main fullscreen navigation interface has been disabled as it was inconsistent with the other interfaces' user experience.
  
  
  + The main fullscreen navigation interface's click logic has been changed to make it behave the same as the media library's thumb-click logic.
  
  
  + The "Open Streaming Link from clipboard" keyboard macro has changed from Alt+Shift+"U" to Alt+Ctrl+"U" to prevent conflicts with the DirectShow YouTube source filter which detects the held "Shift" key and pops a video streaming quality options dialog.
  
  
  + Error dialog are now limited in size to 94% of the Zoom Player interface width.
  
  
  + The Zoom Player news feed that's accessible through the options dialog has been simplified and will hopefully eliminate the javascript error some users have been experiencing when trying to view the news feed.
  
  
  - The optimizations in v13 broke the play history dialog's unicode support.
  
  
  - A missing DLL prevented the Pixel Shaders from being compiled and used to post-process a video image.
  
  
  - When loading .ZPL playlist files, playback did not resume from the the last file played in the playlist under some conditions.
  
  
  - The kinetic scrolling feature did not work in the media library's category list.
  
  
  - The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface was not updating the screen when scrolling by holding the down/up keys for a long period.
  
  
  - If the monitor's DPI setting was set to a really high value (when used in 4K monitors), it would cause the options dialog's search window to appear really small, hiding the search result area.
  
  
  - Fixed a possible conflict between Zoom Player's internal DSP filter and bit-streaming DTS-HD and possibly other multi-channel audio formats.
  
  
  - The play history dialog's "Show All" button did not refresh the screen.
  
  
  - The scroll wheel did not function correctly in some of the advanced options dialog's scroll boxes.
  
  
  - Playing a new track from the fullscreen playlist navigation interface no longer pops the playlist editor to the top.
  
  
  - Fixed a bug in the Media Library plugin API that prevented unicode (non-english) language searches from working using the YouTube search plugin.
  
  
  - The Media Library's function menu was missing the "Go to Top" entry.
  
  
  - The Media Library's "Safe Mode" feature was semi-broken allowing access the a category's setting from the media library's function menu.
  
  
  - Opening the media library through the main navigation interface would take longer than normal due to the highlighted category's content being read before actually entering the category.
  
  
  - Under some conditions, the media libary's scrollbar widget did not appear on the categories page.
  
  
  - Navigating the fullscreen file browsing interface's subtitle search result page with the keyboard did not scroll the results when reaching the bottom of the screen.
  
  
  - The playlist fullscreen navigation interface used the wrong icon for URLs.
  
  
  - Opening a ".URL" file and then opening a media file resulted in the web page remaining on screen while the media played in the background.
  
  
  - The "Please Wait" window was trying to write debug information to "C:Log" and silently failing each time.
  
  
  - Aggressively hiding the mouse cursor has been disabled when HTML/YouTube/Flash interactivity modes are enabled as it prevented the mouse cursor from being restored on motion.
  
  
  - Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not scroll down to the searched category thumbnail.
  
  
  - Quick Search using the keyboard in the media library did not work at all unless you previously entered a category.
  
  
  - Using higher level scan-code keys (like Volume keys on certain keyboards) in fullscreen navigation interfaces that support quick search using the keyboard would trigger a quick-search lock that caused the interfaces to not respond properly.
  
  
  - The RSS media library plugin was showing links containing ".MOV" as audio.
  
  
  - The RSS Feed media library plugin would show duplicate entries on some RSS feeds.
  
  
  - Fixed a small cosmetical glitch that caused the scrollbar background area in the media library category to be drawn twice in slightly different vertical positions.
  
  
  - Fixed a small memory leak when using the options dialog.

• Release Date: Apr 3, 2017
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v13:
  
  
  * New media library plugin system allowing 3rd party developers to create media library categories based on content meta-data provided by the plugin. 
  * To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plugin system, an open-source project has been created to implement a 'YouTube channel', 'YouTube Search' and 'YouTube Trends' media library category plugins. - YouTube Channels: After specifying a YouTube channel's URL, the plugin automatically downloads the channel's category image, retrieves the channel's name and sets up the default category settings and layout best suited to display a YouTube channel. - YouTube Searches: Simply specify a search term and the plugin will return results based on relevance (as determined by YouTube).
  - YouTube Trends: Select a country and the plugin displays the available trending categories as determined by YouTube for that country. Choose from the trending category list or simply select 'everything'.
  - Using the plugins: The new plugins are accessible through the Media Library category editor (Shift+"M") as entries on a new drop-down list that is located right next to the "Create Category" button.
  The source code for the YouTube media library category plugins can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-YouTube-Channel-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-Player Please contribute!
  
  
  * To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plugin system, an open-source project has been created to implement a 'RSS Feed' category plugin. Any media specified in the RSS feed URL will be listed in the media library category.
  The source code for the 'RSS Feed' media library category plugin can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-RSS-feed-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-Player
  
  
  * New subtitle download plugin system allowing 3rd party developers to create plugins that download subtitles for your media library collection.
  
  
  * To demonstrate the capabilities of the new subtitle download plugin system, an open-source project has been created to implement an 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin. The new plugin is accessible on the newly re-designed Advanced Options dialog's "Subtitle" page (Playback / Video / Subtitles).
  Note: OpenSubtitles.org limits anonymous downloads by IP, use the configuration dialog to specify a user name and password to bypass any anonymous login limits (registration is free and passwords are saved as MD5 hashes not as clear text).
  The code for the 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plugin can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-OpenSubtitles.org-API-support-for-Zoom-Player
  
  
  * New YouTube IFRAME (web based) player support, providing official YouTube playback. All YouTube URLs automatically use the new IFRAME player interface. You can disable the IFRAME player support in the options to force Zoom Player to use DirectShow for playback (Adv. Options / Playback > Use YouTube IFRAME video player to play YouTube content).
  
  
  * New media library scraper that uses TheAudioDB.com's API to download album art and meta-data for audio files.
  If you previously created music categories, you will need to use the category editor to configure the category to use the scraper and then re-scrape the category.
  New categories will automatically use TheAudioDB scraper.
  The source code for the TheAudioDB.com scraper can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-theaudiodb.com-Zoom-Player-media-scraping-plug-in
  
  
  * The Zoom Player Install Center has been enhanced to support installation of new versions of Zoom Player without having to use the downloader tool (this will only apply for updates post v13 release).
  
  
  * The internal audio scraper now uses MediaInfo extract ID3/TAG information and display it in the media library's bottom information area. You will need to re-scrape your audio files for the new content to appear.
  
  
  * New Alt+"/" keyboard macro to search for subtitles based on the currently playing video. You can access this function using the right-click context menu under the new "Download" sub-menu.
  
  
  * New function to download subtitle file(s) for any selected video file. The new function is accessible using the right-click context menu under the new "Download" sub-menu.
  
  
  * You can now assign extended functions and execute external programs using the Hot Corner feature. Sadly, this enhancement forced the reset of the previously assigned Hot Corner functions.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play) that allows you to select the default filter used when streaming "http/https" URLs not covered by a Smart Play profile. The default option is now "LAV Splitter Source", but you can also choose "File Source (URL)" or "Let DirectShow decide".
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) that switches the media library's thumbnail view category list aspect ratio between Album Art (1:1) or Widescreen (16:9).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that can disable the new "Please Wait" / "Loading" pop-up window that appears for long lasting operations (e.g. opening a network stream for playback).
  
  
  * New Media Library option for the "Start Player in" setting. (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library category editor / Configure Category) that specifies if scraper errors should appear in the meta-data overview display. The debug information was always enabled in previous versions and will now be disabled by default.
  
  
  * New "Loop Current Track" setting on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface's function menu.
  
  
  * New "On Playback Complete" setting on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface's function menu.
  
  
  * New smart play profile for media files encoded with the DNxHD codec.
  
  
  * New "Please Wait" / "Loading" window that pops-up when there are operations that are taking a long time (like fetching a YouTube channel's video list).
  
  
  * New Alt+Shift+"U" keyboard macro to play a streaming URL directly from the clipboard. For example, right-click and "copy link location" on a youtube video and then press Alt+Shift+"U" in Zoom Player to start playing the video. This open streaming link function is also available in Zoom Player's right-click context menu under the 'Open' sub-menu.
  
  
  * Media titles are now used instead of the File name/URL on the system tray hint and on the windows taskbar button.
  
  
  * The play history now saves media titles, making play history clearer, especially with network streams and media library plugins. 
  
  
  * New skin script code to control the media library's bottom meta-data's font and font style of each meta-data element. 
  
  
  * Placing a "zplayer_skipfolder.txt" file in a folder will prevent this folder and any folders within it from being listed in the media scanner.
  
  
  + The fullscreen navigation icons are now loaded on demand instead of all in advanced, reducing memory usage and cutting down the initial startup time by approximately 33%.
  
  
  + The default navigation interface has been reduced in size by 15%, improving Zoom Player's initial fullscreen navigation interfaces start time on PCs with slower HDD/Flash drives.
  
  
  + TheMovieDB's scraper initialization code has been cleaned up so Zoom Player should start quicker, especially if there are network connection issues.
  
  
  + The play history search feature is now a bit more flexible by ignoring certain spacing characters (".","-" and "_"). For example, In previous versions searching for "a series" would fail to make a match if the file name was "a.series.of.unfortunate.events".
  
  
  + The playlist fullscreen navigation interface's function menu entries have been re-ordered.
  
  
  + The Alba's skin timeline design has been visually enhanced.
  
  
  + Pressing the "Open Media Library" button on the media library category editor now opens the media library with the current edited category selected.
  
  
  + The play history dialog will now display the recently played items first in the list.
  
  
  + The play history dialog should now open significantly faster (nearly instantly), especially with a play history database of over 10,000 entries.
  
  
  + You can now use the HOME/END/PGUP/PGDN keys in the Media Library's thumbnail mini-menu to quickly access one of the four mini-menu actions.
  
  
  + The DVD Bookmark editor generates more descriptive bookmark names and includes the text specified next to the "Add Chapter" button.
  
  
  + The DVD Bookmark fullscreen navigation interface will now let you seek to a DVD Chapter. A new icon is displayed next to each entry to signify if it's a DVD Chapter or a Saved bookmark.
  
  
  + The time display on thumbnails used to show videos with a duration of under 10 minutes as "09:30", this have now changed to show "9:30", saving a bit more of the thumbnail area.
  
  
  + When opening the media library, the last played position for the currently playing media is now updated straight away (previously it would update when the playing media was closed).
  
  
  + The station list dialog now remembers and restores the scroll offset within the station list, restoring the dialog to it's last display position each time.
  
  
  + As an extra security measure, the "DefaultSettings.exe" tool that helps you reset Zoom Player to its default setting now asks for confirmation before starting.
  
  
  + To prevent accidental clicks, the eject disc drive keyboard macro has been changed from "/" to Ctrl+"/".
  
  
  + The media library category editor dialog doesn't reset the category type each time the dialog is closed.
  
  
  + The Quick Search function on the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces now tries to use media titles instead of file names/urls when titles exist.
  
  
  + Searching the media library using the keyboard will now search the media title instead of the file name (if a media title exists).
  
  
  + To prevent the media library opening in a confusing category, after editing the media library category list, opening the media library will always open in the category list (instead of cases where it previously opened in the media list).
  
  
  + Updated MediaInfo to the latest version at release time.
  
  
  - Fixed a case where multi-threaded DLL flag wasn't enabled which triggered random crashes and cause ZP to freeze on exist at times.
  
  
  - The Movie Database (TheMovieDB.org) scraper stopped downloading thumbnails due to a change in API handling of user agents.
  
  
  - Renaming a media library category will no longer forget the category's last position and sort mode in the media library.
  
  
  - If two media library categories of different type (e.g. Audio vs Video) shared the same category name, it could trigger unexpected media library behavior.
  
  
  - Certain characters in a media library's category name could have triggered parsing errors which would result in a category's settings being set to unwanted values.
  
  
  - Re-ordering the playlist by selecting and dragging entries with the mouse cursor didn't work properly if the same file appeared more than once in the playlist (all same file name entries were accidentally selected and moved).
  
  
  - When Zooming to 4:3 on a 16:9 video, using the function, exiting Zoom Player did not restore the previous non-zoomed position, which could cause incorrect zoom value if trying to use the function again.
  
  
  - Pressing the "Windows" keyboard key would trigger a quick search action and block certain key/mouse inputs from working.
  
  
  - Shifting/Zooming the video screen position while in fullscreen would break the Hot Corners feature.
  
  
  - Duration for audio files was not being displayed on their thumbnail.
  
  
  - Fixed a very rare case where opening a media file could trigger a freeze if the background thread that grabs the media's duration was active.
  
  
  - The trial-ended message in Zoom Player MAX could trigger an eventual crash if left open for a long period.
  
  
  - Play history should now restore position for URL streams.
  
  
  - Fixed an issue where playing a SHOUTcast/ICEcast streaming station and then restarting Zoom Player would not allow you to resume playing the previous station from the playlist.
  
  
  - The media library's category list would use the wrong aspect ratio thumbnail in some cases where the active category was password protected.
  
  
  - Switching the Media Library's category filter mode would reload the active category's content. Now the content is only read when entering the category, speeding up the category filter switch.
  
  
  - Fixed an issue where the media library's path would not show any text at all.
  
  
  - Accessing the media library's category screen could at times trigger an unnecessary reload of the category's content.
  
  
  - Fixed a stack-overflow crash when trying to open a playlist that contained the playlist's file name as an entry (creating a loop).
  I would like to thank Sultan Albalawi for the report: https://www.exploit-db.com/author/?a=8741
  
  
  - Using the "Open Webpage" function did not work for secure HTTP (links starting with "https://").
  
  
  - Switching the Zoom Player language pack to a non-english language could have caused the favorite station list to be wiped.
  
  
  - The word "PreAmp" was hard coded into Zoom Player instead of using the translated text when using a non-english language pack.
  
  
  - Open the equalizer without ever opening the playlist editor could trigger a weird state where the equalizer always initially show up docked under the main window.
  
  
  - Using the backspace key after using the media library's movie jukebox mode's file view now returns to jukebox movie view instead of thumbnail view.
  
  
  - Adding media entries to the playlist using the media library's function menu did not add the media's title (only the file name/URL).
  
  
  - The playlist editor's "Add streaming URL" button did not use the newer open URL dialog.
  
  
  - Opening the fullscreen chapter/bookmark navigation interface did not pause playback when the setting to do so was enabled.
  
  
  - Ejecting a drive/device while playing a stream would cause the stream playback to stop.
  
  
  - When the media library is opened and the previously opened folder no longer exists, the media library will try to go up the folder tree to the first parent folder that exists.
  
  
  - Trying to take a screenshot from a live stream or a media file with a very long file name did not work.
  
  
  - Fixed an issue when OSD messages would not appear if the "Use Exclusive Fullscreen with VMR9 Renderless mode (use with care)" setting was enabled in some cases.
  This same bug caused screen-refresh issues with some of the fullscreen navigation pages under some conditions.
  
  
  - Setting "On Play Complete" to "Auto-Rewind" did not work with non- DirectShow playback (playback would loop instead of pausing on the first frame).
  
  
  - Using the quote (") character in a media library category name would cause the category name to get cropped.
  
  
  - Media Library categories containg the "&" character in their name did not list correctly in the category editor, showing up as "_" instead of "&".
  
  
  - Fixed a category rename bug that allowed you to merge categories by renaming to an existing category name.
  
  
  - Fixed a category create bug that allowed you to merge categories by creating a category with an existing category name.
  
  
  - When the media library's dynamic scrollbar was disabled, it still triggered unnecessary screen updates.
  
  
  - When the media library updated the clock, it would not clear the background behind the path area, causing small cosmetic glitches.
  
  
  - Can now stream from URLs containing space characters as part of the URL.
  
  
  - Opening a ".url" pointing to a web page ignored the "HTML Interactivity" setting.
  
  
  - Pressing "update" on the "Audio Device Filter Manager" dialog with nothing selected/entered would trigger a crash.
  
  
  - Wrote a work-around for M3U UTF8 encoded playlists that were not properly marked as UTF8 using a BOM.
  
  
  - Fixed a cosmetic glitch where file names on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface's function menu could overlay the action icon.
  
  
  - Fixed a few small memory leaks.
  
  

• Release Date: Dec 1, 2016
• What's new in Zoom Player v12.7:
  
  
  * New Zoom Player settings Export/Import feature that saves all of Zoom Player's settings, profiles and configuration files to a single ZIP archive and can later on restore Zoom Player's settings from within Zoom Player itself (making it compatible with the Windows Store version of Zoom Player). Both settings are accessible through Zoom Player's advanced options dialog by pressing the "Help / Export" button.
  The following settings are supported by the export feature: 1. Activation Key file. 2. Options dialog settings. 3. Smart Play profiles. 5. Skin color tinting profiles. 6. Equalizer presets. 7. Media library categories. 8. Play history cache. 9. Playback scheduler schedule. 10. Streaming station manager entries. 11. Custom right-click context menu script file. 12. Custom Media/DVD background images. 13. Custom Media/DVD keyboard mapping files.
  
  
  * The smart play source filter configuration dialog now allows you to specify a partial URL instead (or in combination) with file extensions, allowing you to setup custom filters based on the site's URL. This allows using such filters as the "3DYD YouTube Source" to stream youtube content directly (https://ys.3dyd.com/).
  
  
  * Two new category types have been introduced "TV Shows" and "Movies". Zoom Player tries to automatically assign previous categories to these new types based on the 'scrape content mode' previously assigned to the category.
  
  
  * The media library filter icons that appear under the category list are now accessible using the keyboard by pressing the up or down arrow keys on the first/last category entry. Once activated, you can use the left/right arrow keys to switch between the filtering modes.
  
  
  * The playlist editor and the playlist fullscreen navigation interface now show the current play position next to the actively playing track.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to switch the category layout between list and thumbnail view modes.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that controls how the thumbnail memory cache encodes the images. The default value is to store as JPEG images which uses the least amount of RAM. But for higher performance, especially on lower end CPUs, switching to RAW 24bit or 32bit will improve performance.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation 'Media Scanner' is displayed.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation 'Remove category folder(s)' is displayed.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to prevent Zoom Player from trying to parse ".PLS" files and instead lets directshow choose a filter to parse the files. This improves SHOUTcast streaming reliability. If you use .PLS files as SHOUTcast stations outside the station manager, you will need to enable this setting.
  
  
  * New "/MediaFilter:[Number]" command line parameter to set the media library's filter mode.
  Valid values are: 0 = ALL 1 = Movies 2 = TV Shows 3 = Videos 4 = Audio 5 = Pictures 6 = Executables
  
  
  * The media library's filter mode is now saved/restored when re-opening Zoom Player.
  
  
  * With the "Continue to the next Playlist item when an invalid file is played (otherwise show error)" setting enabled, you can now press the Stop button to stop from continuing to the next Playlist item.
  
  
  * The station manager has been enhanced with an integrated search box.
  
  
  * New "fnPlayingToClipboard" function that copies the currently playing media file/URL to the clipboard.
  
  
  + Zoom Player should start between 10%-300% faster, especially if there are many items in the play history.
  
  
  + Optimized the default fullscreen navigation skin to require less resize operations improving load/open time and taking up to 20% less RAM.
  
  
  + Optimized the file name hashing algorithm which should improve performance in several areas.
  
  
  + When fullscreen navigation 'Safe Mode' is enabled, the media library's 'Media Scanner' and 'Remove category folder(s)' are no longer displayed.
  
  
  + Disabling the "Show media content specific to the media library's category type" setting now shows all media files in a category (previously it would show the content based on the category filter).
  
  
  + The selected entry on the station manager is now restored when re-opening the interface.
  
  
  + The station manager now lets you specify a "SHOUTcast" station type. Any station set as SHOUTcast are now opened as SHOUTcast streams even if the "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no file ext. is specified in the URL (link)" setting is disabled.
  
  
  + SHOUTcast stations added from station browser or the fullscreen navigation station list are now automatically marked as SHOUTcast.
  
  
  + The Station Browser dialog entries no longer resets each time the dialog is closed and reopened.
  
  
  + The Add station dialog (station manager) remembers the last station mode (TV/Radio/SHOUTcast) used.
  
  
  + The default media library folder scraping blacklist has been cleaned up.
  
  
  + The "Assume audio streaming (SHOUTcast, ICEcast) if no file ext. is specified in the URL (link)" advanced options setting is now disabled by default and reset to default on initial run. This setting may be removed entirely in future versions as it conflicts with streaming video and is no longer necessary when playing shoutcast streams through the station manager or fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  + The playing track on the fullscreen playlist navigation interface has changed from green to blue.
  
  
  - Removing every entry from the "Scrapers folder name blacklist" or "Scrapers file name blacklist" would crash and freeze Zoom Player.
  
  
  - Resizing the media library window could trigger a crash or show an improperly-sized thumbnail.
  
  
  - Fixed several memory leaks.
  
  
  - Fixed a freeze when trying to open the media library before the scraping DLL finished initializing.
  
  
  - Fixed several cases of "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to use the media library with no thumbnail selected.
  
  
  - Switching media library filter mode would reset several values changed since opening the media library (e.g. sorting).
  
  
  - Opening a new media file while the media information dialog was visible did not update to the new media's date and file size.
  
  
  - Fixed a small memory leak when re-scraping modified media library folders.
  
  
  - The mouse scroll wheel did not work within the media information window while in fullscreen mode.
  
  
  - The integrated keyboard-mapping editor did not show the correct key-value for multimedia keys (play/stop/etc), which prevented assigning new functions to multimedia keys.
  
  
  - Using the station manager's "Play (Add to Playlist)" button would not actually start playing the new station.
  
  
  - In Windows 10 with the "Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen / Zoom mode" enabled and Zoom Player set to start in fullscreen mode, Zoom Player appeared as a blank black box.
  
  
  - The timeline thumbnail preview appeared in the wrong position on some multi-monitor setups.
  
  
  - The windows task bar icon was not correctly updated with the specified task list after restarting Zoom Player.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to close Zoom Player while Zoom Player was in the process of opening a media file or URL.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to play over a 1000 non-existant files or non-responding URLs.
  
  
  - Trying to switch stations through the station manager while the previous station did not complete loading could have triggered unforeseen issues.
  
  
  - Trying to close Zoom Player while a track was loading could have caused instability in certain cases.
  
  
  - When using the media library category filter and then loading a media file that's currently in a filtered-out category, Zoom Player will now switch the category filter to match the playing file and then show the file highlighted when opening the media library.
  
  
  - If you enabled the video resolution display on the timeline, it should now display even when playing live streams.
  
  
  - Error messages should no longer appear partially offscreen if the message's content is wider than the resolution of the screen.
  
  
  - The play history no longer lists duplicate entries for URL streams.
  
  
  - Zoom Player failed to identify "https://" and "rtmp://" URLs with no duration as live streams, which could trigger a freeze when trying to seek.
  
  
  - Panning a Zoomed video with the mouse would trigger the mouse's click-event (by default play/pause) after letting go of the mouse button.
  
  
  - The station manager dialog was showing character tags instead of the actual characters (e.g. "&" instead of "&").
  
  
  - The station manager wasn't updating the station list display after editing a station.
  
  
  - With "Show OSD filename when opening a new file" enabled, failing to play would show a blank OSD message.
  
  
  - The error dialog wouldn't show "&" characters correctly.

• Release Date: Oct 24, 2016
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v12.6:
  
  
  * New Advanced Options page that controls Zoom Player's behavior when a monitor is attached or detached, when Windows 10's tablet mode is enabled or disabled and when a 2 in 1 laptop's screen is docked or undocked. Each of these mode changes can be assigned a different set of actions and custom functions, even if the mode changed while Zoom Player was not running (optional).
  
  
  * New "Switch to TV JukeBox list view without having the parent folder scraped first" media library category setting. This setting is enabled by default on new categories and I recommend manually enabling this setting on your pre-existing TV JukeBox categories.
  
  
  * The last play position is now displayed on media library thumbnails for audio and video files next to the media's duration (only works with newly played media).
  
  
  * New "/CBar" command line parameter to automatically show the control bar when starting Zoom Player.
  
  
  * The playing media's Title (if one exists) is now displayed in Zoom Player's playing item text and in the timeline area if showing file names in the timeline is enabled.
  
  
  * The skin installation process has become simpler with the addition of a new "Install Skin" button on the skin selection dialog.
  
  
  * Zoom Player can now extract Album art and meta-data from ".M4A" and possibly other audio formats.
  
  
  * The open URL dialog now remembers the last visited URL and keeps a history of the last 10 URLs.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to specify the number of threads to use while scraping. If your operating system drive ("C:") is mechanical, it may require lowering the thread count to "1" to prevent the user interface from being overly affected by the disk writes.
  
  
  * New "Darken thumbnail background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail.
  
  
  * New "Darken thumbnail text background" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override's a skin-script parameter that decide if to draw a dark rectangle behind a thumbnail's text.
  
  
  * The ".pls" playlist format is now supported for non-shoutcast streams and files with additional support for displaying file/stream titles.
  
  
  * New right-click "Copy" menu that copies the options search dialog's selected entry into the windows clipboard.
  
  
  * New "Scrape folder thumbnails by using the name of the first video file within the folder instead of the folder name" media library category setting.
  
  
  * You can now instruct the media library TheMovieDB.org's scraper to ignore part of a file or folder name by using the "^" character, for example "Moonrise Kingdom^(1.85)" would ignore the "(1.85)" portion of the file/folder name, allowing you to add special tags to the file/folder name without breaking scraping.
  
  
  * New "ThumbActiveHighlightMode" skin script variable that controls whether the media library's thumbnail highlight is drawn with the aspect ratio of the thumbnail or as a fixed-size frame around the thumbnail as well as new modes to draw a tiled highlight overlay.
  
  
  + TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has been enhanced with ".nfo" hinting for TV content and improved naming convention detection.
  
  
  + The media library's "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping using metadata scrapers fails" category setting is now automatically disabled when JukeBox mode is active.
  
  
  + The entry for opening the Media Library on the right-click context menu has moved out of the 'navigate' sub-menu and toward the top of the menu.
  
  
  + The "deinterlace" toggle has been removed from the right-click context menu. It is still accessible by keyboard macro (Ctrl+Shift+D).
  
  
  + The "Stream Windows Media content using Windows Media Player ActiveX control" setting is now disabled by default. If you previously relied on this setting, you will need to re-enable it in the advanced options dialog.
  
  
  + The media library's category configuration "Darken thumbnail background" setting has been depreciated in favor of the new options dialog setting.
  
  
  - Closing Zoom Player using the Alt+F4 key would trigger a crash under some circumstances.
  
  
  - Fixed a possible freeze when using MadVR and switching in and out of fullscreen while a timeline preview thumbnail/position hint was visible.
  
  
  - The media library's thumbnail memory cache was cleared when switching between categories if new category used a different thumbnail resolution.
  
  
  - Double clicking a media library unselected and partially visible thumbnail would not trigger the play/mini-menu action.
  
  
  - Fixed a visual glitch in the media library's bottom meta-data area when scrolling and the active thumbnail scrolls off screen.
  
  
  - Switching video renderer should no longer affect restoring the last play position (only works with newly played media).
  
  
  - The "Auto-Play next file in the playlist" setting did not work as intended and at times did play the next file even when disabled.
  
  
  - Random play would not include randomly playing newly added playlist tracks until at least half the original playlist tracks were played.
  
  
  - Some JPEG images with either embedded as Album art or with a mislabeled file extension were not properly recognized as valid JPEG images and were not used/shown.
  
  
  - Depending on the function assigned to the left mouse button, clicking a hot-corner may activate both the hot-corner functionality and the functionality assigned to the left mouse button (instead of only triggering the hot corner action).
  
  
  - Closing Zoom Player while the playlist was retrieving the duration of media files prevented Zoom Player from closing properly.
  
  
  - Pressing on the "disabled" subtitle entry when it was already selected incorrectly displayed an "Unknown error" message.
  
  
  - TheMovieDB.org's scraper plug-in has did not properly detect movies and tv shows containing the "-" character as part of their name.
  
  
  - The Time/Date display area in the fullscreen navigation virtual keyboard would re-draw over and over instead of just once when showing and when the time/date changed.

• Release Date: Sep 23, 2016
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v12.5:
  
  
  * The media library's TV JukeBox mode is now fully functional.
  With jukebox mode enabled in a TV video category, a new list view mode is used to display meta-data (overview, rating, duration, etc) and a thumbnail ("still image" from an online database or a screenshot extracted from the video itself) on the right side of the screen when entering a folder containing media files.
  For best performance, use the proper TV JukeBox mode folder structure: Show NameSeason [Number]MediaFiles For example: Game of ThronesSeason 1Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.mp4 Game of ThronesSeason 1Game.of.Thrones.S01E02.mp4 etc...
  
  
  * New Media Icons display in the media library information area at the bottom of the screen and in the Movie Jukebox presentation mode.
  Media icons display the Format (AVI/Matroska/etc...), Video Codec (H.264/HECV/etc...), Video Resolution (1080p/UHD 4K/etc...), Audio Codec (DTS/AAC/etc...), Audio Channels (2.0/5.1/7.1/etc...).
  Media icons are detected during the scraping process, to display the icons you must re-scrape the content of your media library. This is done the Media Library Category Editor (Shift+"M") or through the media library's function page's 'scraping' menu.
  
  
  * New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to display Media Icons in the media library information area and in movie jukebox presentation mode.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that specifies whether thumbnail display should used a dynamically visible scroll bar (suitable for tablets and touch devices) or a fixed scroll bar (suitable for PC and Mouse input).
  
  
  * The "Navigation Scrollbar Size" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) has four new possible values: 1. Dynamic Smallest 2. Dynamic Small 3. Dynamic Large 4. Dynamic Max
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to override the skin-script's font effect (used in lists) that now include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting that only let you force an "outline" effect).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to override the skin-script's font effect (used in thumbnails) that now include a "drop shadow" option (replacing the previous setting that only let you force an "outline" effect).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) allowing you to assign keyboard functionality to the "Insert" key when fullscreen navigation is not in use.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) to show thumbnail previews even if the playing media does not report key-frame. Note that allowing media with no key frame reporting to display thumbnails over the timeline can take much longer.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Category Editor / Configure) to re-scrape a folder's thumbnail if the folder's "modified" time-stamp changes.
  
  
  * The advanced playlist control has become more powerful with integrated sorting that does not affect the main playlist until items are moved.
  
  
  * The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) has been restructured and expanded to include the media's file size and date as well as full information on the file from MediaInfoLib (MediaInfo DLL).
  
  
  * Zoom Player is now listed as a Windows "AutoPlay" option for Music, Videos and Pictures.
  
  
  * The Mini color control fullscreen navigation interface will now display the name (brightness/saturation/etc...) and not only an icon.
  
  
  * Scraped poster/backdrop/still images are now downloaded concurrently using multiple threads to speed up the online scraping process.
  
  
  * The mouse's "back" and "forward" buttons now act as "back" and "enter" when used in the fullscreen navigation interfaces.
  
  
  * New function and keyboard macro (Alt+Ctrl+"T") to toggle the TAG display when playing audio files.
  
  
  * New "Copy to Clipboard" button on the playing media information dialog that copies the content of the "format" box into the clipboard.
  
  
  * New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the fullscreen navigation list font.
  
  
  * New skin-script parameter used to enable a drop-shadow effect on the fullscreen navigation thumbnail font.
  
  
  + For additional security, password protected media library categories no longer show path information on the category list screen.
  
  
  + The media library scrape icon and count now reflect the scrape queue and processing threads and not only the queue, giving a more accurate picture of the background scraping process.
  
  
  + The default keyboard mapping for the numbers pad has changed to make the same button functions trigger regardless of the num-lock state.
  This means the configured functionality for the arrows and insert keys will function even if the num-lock key is enabled.
  
  
  + The advanced options dialog's 'Keyboard' page has been restructured for enhanced clarity and the addition of more features.
  
  
  + Optimized media library disk access by improving meta-data caching.
  
  
  + Changed the default text background color in audio playback (when a folder image is not used) to a much darker gray.
  
  
  + The fullscreen navigation clock text is no longer affected by the text effect/outline setting.
  
  
  - The virtual keyboard did not accept physical keyboard input if the "Use keyboard input to quickly search and enter data through navigation interfaces" setting was disabled.
  
  
  - It was impossible to use the GoTo fullscreen navigation interface without a mouse. Now a new "Apply" button makes the interface usable again.
  
  
  - Media files or folder flagged never to be scraped were scraped again under some circumstances.
  
  
  - Fixed a bug that caused the media duration to disappear from a media library thumbnail.
  
  
  - Selecting several files and choosing to flag them for re-scraping would not clear the selected file count at the top-right section of the media library interface.
  
  
  - The fullscreen navigation scroll acceleration (when holding or fast clicking the up/down buttons) now resets itself as the list loops, preventing a crazy level of acceleration that may make the list appear to freeze.
  
  
  - The thumbnail view's "drag to scroll" was triggered after 1 pixel of movement, making selecting a thumbnail with a single click fail if the mouse cursor moved a bit during the click.
  
  
  - Clicking a media or folder in the media library's thumb view mode and then trying to click the close or back buttons would not work on the first click (requiring a second click).
  
  
  - The text labels on the virtual keyboard keys is now more uniform in size.
  
  
  - Clicking a media library thumbnail and then trying to click the "back" or "close" icons would fail on the first click (and work on the second).
  
  
  - In the FREE version, the screen saver would over-tax the CPU (the streamers were always used and it was impossible to turn off).
  
  
  - The Advanced playlist control, Chapter editor, Scheduler, Scene-Cut, Skin selector and Play history dialogs would not save their last window size and position if you closed the player without first closing the dialog.
  
  
  - Clear the search box text of the advanced playlist control using the "DEL" key would also remove any selected entries from the playlist.
  
  
  - The "Hide all control bar buttons" setting stopped saving in v12.1.
  
  
  - Switching directly to the Play History fullscreen navigation interface using a keyboard or other macro from another fullscreen navigation interface would not update the title area.
  
  
  - The internal screen saver would still activate even after calling functions when using the TCP/IP command & control API.
  
  
  - Folders marked not to be scraped were still being scraped if no online database scrapers were specified for the media library category.
  
  
  - Setting the left mouse button to open the context menu didn't work.
  
  
  - ".CUE" chapter files indexing a single audio file longer than 99.9 minutes would have failed to load.

• Release Date: Jul 14, 2016
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v12.1:
  
  
  * Kinetic scrolling has been rewritten from scratch, it should now be a lot more responsive and accurate, especially when used on lower-end PCs and Tablets.
  The kinetic acceleration/deceleration speed settings have also been tweaked and are now more reasonable.
  
  
  * Zoom Player FREE now provides a trial period for using most of Zoom Player MAX's features (e.g. fullscreen navigation interfaces, play history, audio visualizations, playback scheduler and more!).
  
  
  * You can now assign custom functions to XInput (e.g. XBOX controller) left and right thumb stick clicks. By default the left and right thumb clicks do nothing.
  
  
  * The two left media library mini-menu entries are now fully customizable.
  
  
  * Three new functions added to the media library mini-menu: 1. Add to playlist 2. Open the function menu 3. Play / Enter
  
  
  * Changing some of the setting on the media library category editor's "Category Configuration" dialog now prompts you to flag the content of the category for re-scraping.
  
  
  * New media library category setting to completely disable the category from scraping for metadata.
  
  
  * The "Re-scraping" media library function page has been renamed "Scraping" and contains a new setting to flag selected files and folders not to be scraped.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / System), allowing you to choose the Zoom Player task bar icon (either current, version 11 or old school icon).
  Note: This setting will have no effect if the windows taskbar is set to combine buttons.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Playlist) to automatically show the playlist editor when exiting fullscreen mode.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Control Bar) to disable seeking when using the mouse wheel over the control bar (and use the default mouse-wheel functionality instead).
  
  
  * Three new extended functions: exSeekAheadPercent : Seek Ahead (percent of duration) exSeekBackPercent : Seek Back (percent of duration) exSeekToPercent : Seek To (percent of duration)
  
  
  * The fullscreen navigation scrollbar source image can now be any resolution, adding skinning support for sharp 4K resolution scroll bars.
  
  
  * The control bar's fixed position close and volume slider buttons have received mouse-hover visual cues.
  
  
  + The notification to upgrade an old license is no longer shown every time Zoom Player is launched. It will show up every few days instead.
  
  
  + When notified of a new version release, a special message will now show up to notify you that your current license may be too old to use with the new version.
  
  
  + Clicking/Touching an unselected thumbnail in the media library now selects the thumbnail and displays any related meta-data instead of automatically starting playback.
  
  
  + You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll through the entirety of the media library's fullscreen navigation mini-menu.
  
  
  + Mouse wheel scrolling in the media library now scrolls the list instead of scrolling by changing the active thumbnail.
  
  
  + The playlist editor and equalizer dialogs now restore automatically after exiting fullscreen exclusive mode when MadVR is used as the video renderer.
  
  
  + The media scraping error list is now auto-saved more often to prevent system failures from losing information.
  
  
  + Content images used in Zoom Player FREE now come in full 1080p HD resolution (Zoom Player MAX already included the higher resolution images).
  
  
  + Some sections of the options dialog now more clearly turn to a "disabled" state when a parent setting that enables the functionality is turned off.
  
  
  + The XInput advanced options dialog section has been restructured.
  
  
  - Pressing Smart Play's "Auto Configure" button on the basic options dialog would trigger a crash under some conditions.
  
  
  - Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error when pressing enter on an entry in the playlist fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  - Fixed a "List index out of bounds" error that triggered by bad audio visualization configuration. 
  - Clicking the media library's thumb area did not always play the clicked thumbnail (it would play the media in the thumbnail above it).
  
  
  - Under some conditions, opening the media library would use a thumbnail aspect ratio from a different category.
  
  
  - Dragging to scroll the media library's thumbnail area did not work in the entire thumbnail area.
  
  
  - Clicking the left mouse button on a media library thumbnail and holding for a few seconds to activate the mini-menu caused the next mouse click to be ignored in some areas of the screen (like going back to the category menu).
  
  
  - Fixed a small cosmetic issue with the ring tone generator dialog.
  - People who have purchased the Zoom Player lifetime license were accidentally shown an upgrade notice in some cases.
  
  
  - The media library bottom category-type filtering icons were accessible using the mouse even when they were not visible.
  
  
  - Fixed a possible rare freeze in cases where the media library navigation dialog was opened at the exact same time one of the file tracker threads (emule/utorrent/qbittorrent) was trying to synchronize.
  
  
  - Using the mouse wheel in combination with kinetic scrolling in the media library fullscreen interface would result in chaos.
  
  
  - When the media library's thumb view left/right bump actions were disabled, thus allowing you to use the left/right keys to scroll through thumb rows, the scroll bar did not appear when the active thumb jumped up/down a row.
  
  
  - Zoom Player should close much faster now.
  
  
  - Opening the media library's function menu would wipe clean the meta-data display area.

• Release Date: May 30, 2016
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v12.0:
  
  
  New :
  
  
  * The media library has a new metadata-scraping capability that
  automatically downloads movie and TV show posters, backdrops,
  still images and displays them in a JukeBox mode.
  
  
  This is a major feature, Here is a full guide explaining the best methods
  to ensure your media library collection is scraped correctly:
  http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
  
  
  * The default fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned up and
  polished. If you have previously used a non-default navigation skin,
  you will need to re-apply the skin through the skin selection dialog.
  
  
  * Within the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface, the area
  below the file list/thumbnail view that previously showed the filter
  category icons is now replaced with metadata and file information.
  
  
  The category filter icon are still accessible on the category
  selection page.
  
  
  * New Zoom Player icon on the taskbar and desktop.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to specify whether Zoom Player
  should use the enhanced (Windows Vista+) open file dialog.
  This setting is enabled by default.
  
  
  The older open dialog has issues with high DPI monitor setting, causing
  some of the icon to appear extremely small.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
  to add Extended Controls (Delete Media and Functions Menu) to the path
  area of the media library, playlist and file browsing fullscreen
  navigation interfaces.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
  that prevents the "Previous Folder" entry from being added to the
  media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) to use a video
  frame from the media file as thumbnail if the meta data scrapers fail.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
  whether the thumbnail's background is darkened or not.
  The default value for this setting is determined by the category type.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
  the number of text lines to display under each thumbnail.
  Depending on the media file's name length, the file name will be
  word-wrapped across multiple lines.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that enables
  JukeBox mode, where the movie poster, backdrop images and metadata
  are scraped from an online database (TheMovieDB.org) and then displayed
  as a full-screen presentation when opening a folder.
  
  
  For more information, see:
  http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
  whether folders with thumbnails should display the folder icon in
  the background or only the thumbnail.
  
  
  * New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that determines
  whether the metadata derived title or file name is drawn on thumbnails.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / BluRay) to let DirectShow
  filters handle BluRay parsing. This setting is enabled by default
  and allows 3rd party filters (such as LAV filters) to parse the
  BluRay structure and decide on the best title selection.
  
  
  * New media library scraping indicator to make the scraping process
  clearer by displaying the number of media files waiting to be scraped.
  
  
  * New folder scraping blacklist, enabling you to prevent scraping of
  folders. The main use of this new feature is to prevent "sample" and
  "subs" folder from being scraped, especially when downloading movie
  posters from TheMovieDB.org or other online databases.
  
  
  * New media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
  designed to better display poster aspect ratio (1:1.5) thumbnails.
  
  
  * When creating a new media library video category, a new dialog prompts
  for the type of video category, either "Videos", "TV shows" or "Movies".
  The category type is then use to control the category initial
  configuration and layout.
  
  
  * On a fresh install, the Play History dialog's column width are now
  automatically spaced to better cover the grid's width.
  
  
  * New skin script variables that control the position and height of the
  thumbnail drawing area (previously it was set to the file-list height),
  allowing the thumbnail grid to better utilize the available screen space.
  
  
  * The media library category editor now remembers the last selected tab
  and category mode when re-opening the dialog.
  Changes :
  
  
  + The media library category editor (use Shift+"M" or access using the
  right click menu) has been redesigned for enhanced simplicity and user
  experience. 
  
  
  + The thumbnail layout setup (Media Library Editor / Configure Category)
  has been rewritten. Instead of manually specifying the thumbnail
  with and height or using the built-in calculator to do so, you can now
  directly select the thumbnail's aspect ratio and number of columns to
  display along with a new horizontal spacing layout option.
  
  
  When changing the thumbnail's aspect ratio, you are now given the option
  to reset the category settings to a new default based on the selected
  aspect ratio.
  
  
  + The clear media cache button has moved from the options dialog to the
  media library category editor dialog (Shift+"M").
  
  
  + The "Scrape for parent folder name when file name scraping using
  metadata scrapers fails" setting has been moved to the category editor's
  "Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category
  instead of global for all categories.
  
  
  + The "Create folder thumbnails from first media file within the folder
  (if scraping is disabled or fails)" setting has been moved to the category
  editor's "Configure Category" page. This makes the setting now per-category
  instead of global for all categories.
  
  
  + The thumbnail view's thumbnail memory cache now syncs cached thumbnails
  directly with the main thread without waiting for other scraping threads,
  ensuring memory cached thumbnails show up faster while scraping for new
  content.
  
  
  + The subtitle overlay icon, displayed over a thumbnail in the media library
  has been enhanced for extra clarity (the sub-bits are now highlighted
  in yellow).
  
  
  + The media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
  has been enhanced to give extra space to the thumbnail image.
  
  
  + The media library category editor's "Category Configuration" dialog's
  layout calculator has been enhanced with improved better defaults for
  font-size consistency.
  
  
  + When the 'Treat the "Play" function as "Open Media" or "Enter"' setting
  is enabled, using the "Play" function on a folder within the file browsing
  or media library fullscreen navigation interfaces will now play the
  content of the entire folder instead of just entering the folder.
  
  
  + Setting thumbnail mode's left/right bump action to 'do nothing' will
  now move the selected entry up/down a row instead of doing nothing.
  
  
  + Installing a new skin now prompts you to apply the skin to all skin
  modes (Media/DVD/Audio/Navigation) supported by the newly installed
  skin. Previously, you were only prompted to open the skin selection
  dialog.
  
  
  + Opening a new file through file association (for example, opening a media
  file through explorer) now closes the media library and file browsing
  fullscreen navigation interfaces before playback starts.
  
  
  + Input boxes and error/warning/confirmation/information dialogs are no
  longer skinned when triggered from a non-skinned dialog for both
  consistency and to prevent issues with monitor DPI values not matching
  the current skin's resolution.
  
  
  + Zoom Player now tries to automatically reduce the font size in the options
  dialog to ensure certain elements fit inside the dialog regardless of
  windows font or DPI settings.
  Fixes :
  
  
  - Fixed several high DPI layout issues, especially evident when using
  a high DPI value (300%) used by 4K monitors/TV sets.
  Thank you Adam Howarth for the in-depth 4K testing.
  
  
  - The "LAV Hardware Acceleration" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video)
  was not applied correctly, forcing the LAV Video Decoder filter to drop
  back to software decoding.
  
  
  - Trying to create a new folder through the media library while in thumbnail
  view mode could trigger a "list index out of bounds" crash.
  
  
  - Extended functions that can use a negative value parameter (like
  "exFastForward") did not work when a negative value was used.
  
  
  - The background image no longer flashes when opening media files through
  explorer (or other applications) while Zoom Player was already playing.
  
  
  - The "Chapter editor/Seek to" dialog did not scale properly with monitor
  DPI adjustments.
  
  
  - Entering and leaving a media library folder in thumbnail view mode
  extremely quickly could result in a crash or thumbnails not appearing.
  
  
  - When two or more media library categories shared the same folder paths
  and the same thumbnail width but with a different thumbnail height, it
  would have prevented the thumbnails from drawing in some of the
  categories.
  
  
  - When using the media library in thumb view mode with the media names
  sorted by date, erasing a file within a folder and then going up
  a folder would no longer show the highlighted folder (the folder itself
  changed position as the folder date changes when files inside are
  modified).
  
  
  - When "Automatically restore last media position on replay" was
  disabled, the "Retain Media Playback History for [x] days" setting
  became inaccessible.
  
  
  - The audio device list would re-list the same device multiple times
  under some circumstances, possibly causing audio issues.
  
  
  - Setting a high column number using the media library category
  configuration dialog's thumbnail layout calculator would result
  in an additional column displayed and possibly no spacing between
  the columns.
  
  
  - Using the media library category editor's 'Configure Category'

  dialog to edit a category's settings would reset the category's

  password protection.

  
  

  - Switching to some video renderers in the options dialog when

  running under Windows 10 would incorrectly notify you that your

  version of Direct-X is too old.

  
  

  - The title area in the bundled fullscreen navigation skins did not properly

  account for the width of Time display when using 12H AM/PM format.

  
  

  - The "Multi-Part file loader" automatic match mode did not always

  load multi-part GoPro sequences into the playlist correctly.

  
  

  - Smart Play's "Auto-Configure" option could improperly set a partially

  unregistered profile comprising of multiple filters if the unregistered

  filter was sandwiched between two registered filters.

  
  

  - Zoom Player should now terminate properly even if there are scraper

  threads busy or stalled.

• Release Date: Nov 30, 2015
• Zoom Player v11.1 Free released now!
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v11.1:
  
  
  * New Direct3D Pixel Shader image processing script support when using MadVR as the Video Renderer (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Pixel Shaders).
  Pixel shaders are script text files with the ".HLSL" file extension that can be compiled in real-time by the GPU (display card) to perform various image processing effects. The options page allows you to specify pixel shader presets, the first 8 of which can be activated directly by using a keyboard/remote control macro (by default Alt+Shift+"F1..F8"). The current pre-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by pressing Alt+Shift+"F9".
  The current post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled by pressing Alt+Shift+"F10".
  Both Pre and Post-image resize pixel shader scripts can be toggled at once by pressing Alt+Shift+"F11".
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to treat the "Play" function as if it was "Open Media" or a click on Enter when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible (bypassing the mini-menu in the media library's thumbview mode). Enabled by default.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to use the "Stop" function to close any currently visible fullscreen navigation interface. Enabled by default.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether folders are marked as seen if they contain a previously played media file. By default, this setting is disabled.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) to create additional thumbnail scraping threads when current threads time out while parsing a video. This can happen with partially downloaded media files.
  The upside is that scraping will not pause when problematic files are encountered.
  The downside is that by creating additional threads, CPU usage may rise during the scraping operation and slow down screen updates, making the user interface a bit more sluggish.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files) to disable the multi-part file loader when opening or adding multiple files. This setting is enabled by default.
  
  
  * New "Previous Navigation" option for the "Start player in:" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) that opens Zoom Player fullscreen and directly in the previously used navigation interface.
  
  
  * New "/LASTNAV" command line parameter to open Zoom Player fullscreen and directly in the previously used navigation interface.
  
  
  * The WTV format is now associable with Zoom Player. You may need to click the "Default" button in the advanced options dialog under "File Format Association / File Extensions -> Video. Once clicked, WTV format files will start listing within the media library and other video-format specific features.
  
  
  * You can now use the "Time" seek box in the chapter editor ("g" keyboard macro) to seek to a percentage of the video, for example, specifying a value of "8%" seeks to 8 percent from the start of the video.
  
  
  * Added support for WMV files with the GoToMeeting codec.
  
  
  + The video rotate feature (Shift+"R") now uses a new MadVR feature that no longer crops part of the image while rotating. The latest version of MadVR is now required to perform video rotation.
  
  
  + Optimized Zoom Player's load time by about 10-30%.
  
  
  + The fullscreen navigation interface's on-screen clock should now respect the 24h/12h AM/PM system setting.
  
  
  + Some of the options dialog elements have been spread out to enhance clarity of use.
  
  
  + The configuration wizard allowing you to select between PC, HTPC and Tablet modes now sets Zoom Player to open in the previously used fullscreen navigation interface instead of the main navigation interface.
  
  
  + You can now set a value of "0" to OSD Visibility (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions).
  
  
  + Code optimization should improve skin loading time and other code elements.
  
  
  + You can now dismiss the internal screen saver by clicking with the mouse "left/right/X" buttons or using the mouse wheel.
  
  
  + The "/LastNAV", "/MainNAV" command line parameters and the "Start Player in" setting when set to "Previous Navigation" or "Main Navigation" no longer open the last navigation interface when a file name is passed in the command line, instead only switching to fullscreen mode.
  - Scrolling with the mouse wheel no longer generates a double action when used in Windows 10 or earlier versions of windows with a custom mouse utility that sends scroll events to inactive windows.
  
  
  - When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor's 'configure category' button would cause an access violation.
  
  
  - Disabling the "Show File Extensions (playlist, file and media library navigators)" setting would corrupt the play history when opening the play history fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  - When a language pack is in use, the media library category editor would not automatically show the 'video' category by default.
  
  
  - Pressing enter on the playlist editor to play the selected file maintains the keyboard focus on the playlist (previously, the keyboard focus would move to the main window, preventing using the keyboard again to play the next file).
  
  
  - When using MadVR as the video renderer with the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting enabled caused the player window to resize and screen-center when opening certain media formats (MOV, WebP and other formats may have been affected). This fix requires the latest version of MadVR, otherwise support for black-bar crop detection by MadVR will cease working.
  
  
  - The Media Library fullscreen navigation interface did not respect the "Show File Extensions" setting in thumbnail view mode.
  
  
  - The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library fullscreen navigation interface was not clearing the background between screen updates, causing the path area to become unreadable and the current scroll position to become unclear.
  
  
  - The "Remove folder(s) from categories" section of the media library fullscreen navigation interface did not use the current font size.
  
  
  - Folders containing previously viewed media were highlighted even if the "Highlight previously viewed files" setting was disabled.
  
  
  - The options dialog's search feature did not find searches for radio group listed elements (lists with bullet-point selection).
  
  
  - Pressing the TAG display script's "Default" button when using a language pack could show a corrupt script (??? characters appearing instead of the script text).
  
  
  - The "Center user interface on initial load" setting did not work as intended when opening the player by double clicking on a media file in an external program (e.g. explorer) while the "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)" setting enabled.
  
  
  - The "DVD Settings" advanced options dialog page was not searchable through the options dialog's search feature.
  
  
  - Using Alt+PgDn and Alt+PgUp to move items in the playlist up or down the list did not work if the keyboard focus was on the playlist window.
  
  
  - The internal screen saver would still display even when moving the mouse cursor over the timeline or control bar areas.
  
  
  - The multi-part file loader did not detect the last file in a series if the file names were comprised completely of numbers, for example: 01.mp3 02.mp3 03.mp3 04.mp3 <- would not add automatically.
  
  
  - The qBittorrent file tracker did not show the download progress of some torrents with nested folders.
  
  
  - Pressing Alt+"V" to fetch the playlist media entries duration would not work the first time (had to press twice).
  
  
  - Re-ordering playlist entries in the playlist editor using the Alt+"PgUp/PgDn" keyboard macros or by dragging using the mouse cursor caused the moved entry to auto-select when playback started.
  
  
  - The internal screen saver would not always appear on secondary monitors. 

• Release Date: Nov 16, 2015
• --- What's new in Zoom Player v11:
  
  
  * New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!
  You can specify which media library category should display in thumb view mode using the Media Library category editor or through the "functions / settings" page in the fullscreen media library navigation interface.
  Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within the media library.
  Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry", "Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".
  Bumping the first or last thumb rows using a keyboard or remote control shows a momentary glow effect to signify navigation has reached the start or end of the thumbnail display. Pressing up or down once again using the keyboard or remote control scrolls to the other end of the thumbnail display.
  Holding down on a thumbnail (with the mouse button or by touch) or Pressing Enter with a keyboard or remote control brings up a mini-menu with options to "play the media file", "erase the media file", "open the full function menu" and "go back to the category list". The mini-menu automatically times out after 3 seconds or you can close it manually by pressing left on the left side. The two functions on the right side of the mini-menu ("erase media file" and "go back to the category list") are customizable through the advanced options dialog.
  To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control, you can press "Left" on the first entry. By default, bumping left will go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show the category list.
  
  
  * New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view user experience.
  
  
  * The media library category editor has gained a new category configuration dialog used to enable thumbnail view mode, control the thumbnail layout for the category and lock the category with a password.
  
  
  * The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Settings" page can now be used to switch between list view and thumbnail view as well as control whether thumbs are scaled or cropped to fit within the thumbnail area.
  
  
  * The default Onyx skin and the bundled AlbaHD skins have been enhanced with clean mouse-hover animation effects for all buttons on the main user interface, the playlist editor and the equalizer window.
  
  
  * The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set a custom background pattern.
  
  
  * You can now password protect a media library category to prevent children from accessing prohibited content directly from the media library fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  * Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points as well as the duration of the highlighted range.
  
  
  * New 4K resolution version of the Alba skin control bar, now accessible through the skin selection dialog (press "N" or access through the right-click menu).
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether the media library lists content that matches a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.
  The new default is to only show content based on the media library category type. To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to Automatically select the last viewed file/folder when entering a folder.
  This setting requires play history's "save last play time" setting enabled to function.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a portion of the timeline
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to invert the text view's colors. The new text file viewing default is Black background with white text.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for the image itself. Enabled by default.
  
  
  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that enables using the navigation "Enter" key action on a media library category list to open the category at the root folder. This was the previous default behavior, which have now been disabled. Pressing enter with this setting disabled, opens the category in its previous position.
  
  
  * Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering over with the mouse cursor.
  
  
  * Zoom Player now supports MadVR's automatic black-bar video detection and window size changes when the "Auto-Size User Interface to maintain Video Aspect Ratio (when resizing)" setting is enabled.
  
  
  * The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files. Thanks Dimitar Pankov.
  
  
  * The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.
  
  
  * The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images, does not support animating GIF files).
  
  
  * New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.
  
  
  * New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation interfaces to clarify usage experience.
  
  
  + All media library categories have been automatically converted to thumbnail view mode. You can restore each category to list view mode using the media library category editor (Shift+"M") or through the settings page on the media library fullscreen navigation interface. Dependant on the content type (Audio/Video/Picture/Executable), a default thumbnail aspect ratio and column count is applied.
  
  
  + Modified how Zoom Player loads, shaving about 900ms off the load time, which on the development system accounts for a 36% faster load time.
  
  
  + Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.
  
  
  + The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  + The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
  + The "Media Scanner" and "Remove folder(s) from categories" entries in the fullscreen media library's category list, now display a message indicating these interfaces are not available when navigation "safe mode" is enabled.
  
  
  + The media library fullscreen navigation interface's "Filter List" page has been renamed to a now more expanded "Settings" page.
  
  
  + The checkboxes on the Media Library's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and "Settings" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
  
  
  + The checkboxes on the File Browsers's fullscreen navigation "Sort" and "Filter List" pages are now clickable with the mouse or touch input.
  
  
  + Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably, to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.
  
  
  - When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode, the description could appear as "???" when using a non-english language pack.
  
  
  - The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously viewed files' was enabled.
  
  
  - Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration when using a different navigation key. For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by more than one item.
  
  
  - The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release. 
  - Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
  
  
  - Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
  
  
  - Using functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the user interface to become unresponsive.
  
  
  - Fixed a few small memory leaks.
  
  
  - With the "Nav-Left goes up a directory before entering the Drive/Category list" setting enabled, clicking the "<" icon in the media library triggered a "folder up" action instead of returning to the category list.
  
  
  - Fixed a crash when trying to close the player with certain fullscreen navigation interfaces open and uTorrent/qBittorrent/eMule file tracking was enabled.
  
  
  - The "Screen-Center Playlist when switching to Fullscreen / Zoom mode" setting did not actually screen-center the playlist editor.
  
  
  - Trying to set file association with UAC enabled under Windows 7 would erroneously show a 'this feature is not supported by the FREE/PRO version' dialog.
  
  
  - Pressing the "5" key on the keypad with num-lock disabled would interfere with fullscreen navigation's 'quick search' functionality and regular keyboard navigation until ESC was pressed.
  
  
  - Fixed a few possible crashes when closing Zoom Player.

• Release Date: Jul 10, 2015
• Legend :
  
  
   "*"  = New
   "+"  = Change
   "-"  = Fix
  
  
   
   
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v10.5:
  
  
  
  
   New :
  
  
    * New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen
      navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!
    
      You can specify which media library category should display in thumb
      view mode using the Media Library category editor.
  
  
      Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for
      information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within
      the media library.
  
  
      Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control
      brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry", 
      "Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".
  
  
      To access the function menu, long click or touch the thumbnail until
      the function icon appears and then let go of the mouse button or
      screen before the icon disappears.
  
  
      Using the keyboard, pressing Enter brings up a mini-menu with options
      to play the media file, erase the media file, open the full function
      menu and go up a folder.  This mini-menu automatically times out
      after 3 seconds or you can close it manually by pressing left with the
      top-left icon highlighted.
  
  
      To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control,
      press "Left" on the first entry.  By default, bumping left will
      go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show
      the category list.
  
  
    * New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all
      the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view layout
      and user experience.
  
  
    * The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used
      to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set
      a custom background pattern.
  
  
    * Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating
      ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points
      as well as the duration of the highlighted range.
  
  
    * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
      that controls whether the media library lists content that matches
      a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.
  
  
      The new default is to only show content based on the media library
      category type.  To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.
  
  
    * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that
      determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a
      portion of the timeline
  
  
    * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to
      remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
  
  
    * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to
      remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.
  
  
    * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to
      use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for
      the image itself.  Enabled by default.
  
  
    * Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering
      over with the mouse cursor.
  
  
    * The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect
      and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files.
      Thanks Dimitar Pankov.
  
  
    * The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player
      is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.
  
  
    * The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images,
      does not support animating GIF files).
  
  
    * New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's
      ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.
  
  
    * New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation
      interfaces to clarify usage experience.
  
  
   Changes :
   
    + Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.
  
  
    + The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces
      to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main
      fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
    + The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen
      navigation interface.
  
  
    + Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably,
      to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.
   Fixes :
  
  
    - When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode,
      the description could appear as "???" when using a non-english
      language pack.
  
  
    - The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight
      previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously
      viewed files' was enabled.
  
  
    - Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping
      a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration
      when using a different navigation key.
      
      For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast
      down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by
      more than one item.
  
  
    - The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not
      updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release.
      
    - Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the
      maximized window state and non-maximized window size.
  
  
    - Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the
      player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window
      state and non-maximized window size.
  
  
    - Using a functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the
      dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the
      user interface to become unresponsive.
      
    - Fixed a small memory leak.
  
  
    - Fixed a crash when trying to close the player with certain fullscreen
      navigation interfaces open and uTorrent/qBittorrent/eMule file tracking
      was enabled.
  
  
    - The "Screen-Center Playlist when switching to Fullscreen / Zoom mode"
      setting did not actually screen-center the playlist editor.
  
  
    - Trying to set file association with UAC enabled under Windows 7 would
      erroneously show a 'this feature is not supported by the FREE/PRO
      version' dialog.

• Release Date: Mar 6, 2015
• Legend :
  
  
   "*"  = New
   "+"  = Change
   "-"  = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v10:

  
  

  * New pre-configuration wizard! The wizard opens automatically on a fresh installation or can be manually triggered by using the Alt+Shift+F12 keyboard macro. The wizard lets you automatically configure Zoom Player based on the playback PC device profile: 1. PC This is the default configuration used in previous versions of Zoom Player.

  2. HTPC (Home Theater PC) When choosing the HTPC profile, the following settings are adjusted: A. Buttons added to the Control Bar: * Subtitle Cycling. * Open the Media Library fullscreen navigation interface. * Maximize video to fullscreen. B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar: * Fullscreen on/off toggle. C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures'. D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry. E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open. 3. Tablet When choosing the Tablet profile, the following settings are adjusted: A. Buttons added to the Control Bar: * Seeking controls * Lock user interface function * Maximize video to fullscreen. B. Buttons removed from the Control Bar: * Fullscreen on/off toggle. * Open File C. The mouse left button-click is assigned to 'Mouse Gestures' with the static mouse click set to toggle the Control Bar on/off. D. The open file function is assigned to open the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, affecting the control bar button and the 'Open file' right-click menu entry. E. Zoom Player automatically starts in fullscreen mode with the main fullscreen navigation interface open. F. Zoom Player prompts for the tablet screen's physical size. Zoom Player uses the screen size information to adjust the following settings to ensure they work well with touch input: * Fullscreen navigation scroll bar size. * Control Bar size. * Hot-Corner click-region size. * Color Control UI size. G. The control bar auto-hides after 15 seconds instead of 3. H. The number of lines displayed in the fullscreen navigation interfaces is reduced, making line selection easier. I. Do not show timeline position when hovering with the mouse over the timeline since tablets do not use mouse as input device by default. J. Disable quick searching using the keyboard. K. Set LAV Video hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Native L. Hide button hints (no mouse to hover with).

  
  

  * New "Media Scanner" fullscreen navigation interface (Ctrl+Shift+"M"). The Media Scanner scans the PC's drives, searching for media content (audio/video/images) and presenting a clear list featuring the content of each folder identified to contain media. Each media folder can be browsed, added to existing media library categories or used as a base for a new media library category. With the new Media Scanner, you no longer have to leave the fullscreen navigation interface to setup the media library.

  
  

  * New "Stream Selection" fullscreen navigation interface (Shift+"E"). The stream selection navigation interface allows you to easy select which of the playing media's Audio and Subtitle streams to enable.

  
  

  * New "Mini Color Control" fullscreen navigation interface that by default replaces the old color control fullscreen navigation interface. The new minified version uses as little screen-space as possible to ensure color changes are clearly seen as they are being applied.

  
  

  * New "Control Bar" button on the skin selection dialog, introducing a new class of skinning specifically for the control bar, allowing you to pick custom control bar designs, regardless of the currently used skin. By default, Zoom Player ships with 5 custom control bars: 1. Onyx Very Small 2. Onyx Small 3. Onyx Medium 4. Onyx Large 5. Onyx Very Large

  
  

  * Zoom Player is now "Large Address Aware". This means that Zoom Player and filters in use by Zoom Player can now allocate more than 2GB of RAM. Large Address Aware is required when playing 4K video content through MadVR using a very large frame buffer.

  
  

  * New "Media Scanner" entry on the media library fullscreen navigation category list giving easy access the new media scanner fullscreen navigation interface.

  
  

  * New "Remove folder(s) from categories" function on the media library fullscreen navigation category list enabling easy removal of folders from existing media library categories.

  
  

  * New "Hot Corner" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that triggers customizable functions when the mouse (or finger with touch input devices) clicks on one of the screen's corners while in fullscreen mode. By default the functions are: Top-Left corner : Main fullscreen navigation interface Top-Right corner : Playlist fullscreen navigation interface Bottom-Left corner : File browsing fullscreen navigation interface Bottom-Right corner : Media library fullscreen navigation interface

  
  

  * New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) to limit "Hot Corner" feature to fullscreen mode (enabled by default).

  
  

  * New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) to set which function is triggered when using the 4th (Forward) and 5th (Backward) buttons on the mouse. By default the forward and backward buttons are set to perform a medium distance seek, but any Zoom Player function can be assigned to the buttons using the 'Custom' option.

  
  

  * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) to control LAV Video Decoder's hardware acceleration. By default, Zoom Player now sets the hardware acceleration to DXVA2 Copyback (which falls back to software mode if it is not supported by the hardware/drivers) in tablet mode and "Use LAV's setting" on PCs and HTPCs.

  
  

  * New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) that controls whether clicking the right/left screen edges navigates to the left/right. This behavior was previously enabled and hard coded, it is now optional and disabled by default.

  
  

  * New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) that switches between the old color control navigation style and the new mini-color control navigation style. The current navigation skin must support the mini-color control navigation mode for the setting to have an affect.

  
  

  * A few great looking background patterns for the customizable dark/light fullscreen navigation interfaces are now included with the installer. The browse button next to the "Override navigation background image" setting now opens the new patterns folder by default.

  
  

  * The advanced playlist control can now be searched with either an "OR" or an "AND" type Boolean search when using multiple words.

  
  

  * New "Lock user interface" control bar button. When enabled, the mouse and keyboard interfaces are disabled until the top-left corner of the screen is quickly clicked 3 times or the space bar is quickly pressed 3 times.

  
  

  * New "/MainNav" command line parameter that starts the player with the main navigation interface visible and fullscreen.

  
  

  * New "Main Navigator" setting for the "Start Player in" feature (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).

  
  

  * New Text Viewer font size settings for both ASCII and ANSI (used to display art in NFO files) under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display".

  
  

  * New "exLAVHWAccel" extended function that specifies the type of video hardware acceleration used by the LAV Video Decoder filter. Values: 0 = Use LAV's setting 1 = None (software decoding) 2 = NVIDIA CUVID 3 = Intel½ QuickSync 4 = DXVA2 (copy-back) 5 = DXVA2 (native)

  Extended functions can be mapped to keyboard events to make switching between different hardware acceleration modes more accessible. 

  * New smart play profile to support decoding of Apple's ProRes format.

  
  

  * Media can now be played directly from the fullscreen download manager navigation interface.

  
  

  * New API message #1935 to add a file to the playlist and automatically start playing it.

  
  

  + Zoom Player should load faster, especially on a fresh install or when upgrading to a new version.

  
  

  + Rewrote the entire fullscreen navigation mouse click/touch code to prevent clicking and double clicking outside list boundaries selecting the first/last list entry.

  
  

  + The Image Adjust, Image Blanking, Equalizer and Color Control navigation interfaces are now much more reactive when quickly clicking the mouse or touch input devices.

  
  

  + The GoTo Time fullscreen navigation interface is now much more touch-intuitive with +/- icons under the Hours/Minutes/Seconds fields to quickly change the values without having to use the more cumbersome directional arrows interface.

  
  

  + The file browsing fullscreen navigation interface no longer displays the volume label of network drives as it caused massive slow downs if the network drive was disconnected.

  
  

  + The fullscreen navigation interfaces' close button now only reacts when the mouse button is released or when the finger is moved off the touch surface. The change makes the interface more intuitive when used with touch interfaces.

  
  

  + Double clicking on the fullscreen media library category or file browsing drive list now opens the last position instead of the first item in the list.

  
  

  + When hovering with the mouse over the main fullscreen navigation interface's grid, the active entry is now set to the item selected instead of just highlighted, making use of a keyboard+mouse setup more intuitive.

  
  

  + The order of the navigation interfaces has been changed along with the default navigation interfaces listed in the main navigation interface. You can still choose which navigation interfaces to list through the advanced options dialog. 

  
  

  + The on-screen clock is now hidden when a fullscreen navigation interface is visible.

  
  

  + The default value for "Navigation Scroll Mode" is now set to "Middle Centered".

  
  

  + The icon in the path area was removed from several fullscreen navigation interfaces.

  
  

  + The path text was changed to be more subtle in several fullscreen navigation interfaces.

  
  

  + Played items in the media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces are made easier to spot by changing played media's icon to 25% transparency (compared to 50% in previous versions).

  
  

  + Several actions, (for example trying to open a category in the media library that contained no files) would not show any visual cue to indicate why no action took place.

  These action will now Pop-up an OSD message to indicate the cause.

  
  

  + When opening the options dialog for the very first time, it will now open centered within the active monitor (previously it would open centered on the main UI window).

  
  

  - Due to a bug, the scheduler interface became impossible to enable even when using the MAX version.

  
  

  - The "Check for updates" setting was broken and may have notified of new components on the install center even though they may have not been any.

  
  

  - Closing a fullscreen navigation interface by clicking/touching the "X" area located at the top-right corner of the screen could accidentally trigger a "right" navigation function, which by default is to seek forward 20 seconds.

  
  

  - Long-presses on buttons now work when used with a touch screen (instead of the default windows behavior of a long-press being used to right-click).

  
  

  - Double-click action will not trigger accidentally when trying to quickly select/unselect entries in the Playlist, Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.

  
  

  - The selected file(s) attribute in the Media Library, Playlist and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces would not clear after performing several actions (Cut, Paste, Add to Playlist, Remove from Playlist and Clear Playlist).

  
  

  - Fixed a memory leak when using the main navigation interface in grid mode.

  
  

  - Certain mouse actions and features did not perform well when the text viewer was used.

  
  

  - When playing a file using the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, opening the interface will now mark the file as seen without requiring you to exit and re-enter the folder.

  
  

  - Scrolling quickly through the "image adjust" and "image blanking" fullscreen navigation interfaces could cause values to change using a multiplier instead of accurately one at a time.

  
  

  - In the FREE and PRO versions, the chapter points on the timeline could not be disabled.

  
  

  - Pressing Backspace before typing anything else in a fullscreen navigation interface that had QuickSearch enabled could cause the dialog to appear frozen until other characters were entered.

  
  

  - Using the "End" key to go to the end of the line when using the fullscreen keyboard navigation interface would go one character after the line's end.

  
  

  - If the "Auto-Show the Control Bar on Mouse Movement" setting was enabled and the "Limit Control Bar Auto-Show to Fullscreen / Zoom mode" was disabled, it took two clicks to close the control bar.

  
  

  - Using the CommAPI #1930 message to add files to the playlist now automatically translates "/" characters to "" if the path is local, fixing cosmetic issues in the playlist.

• Release Date: Nov 7, 2014
• Legend :
  
  
   "*"  = New
   "+"  = Change
   "-"  = Fix
  
  
  --- What's new in Zoom Player v9.5.0:
  
  
    * The main fullscreen navigation interface index is now drawn
      using an icon grid array instead of a list, making it much more
      touch/mouse friendly.
  
  
    * There is now a dedicated close button for all fullscreen navigation
      interfaces, making them more suitable for usage with touch devices.
  
  
    * New text-file viewer, opening any of the following text extensions
      uses the new viewer: csv, css, ini, json, log, nfo, txt, xml, yaml.
     
      Files with the 'nfo' extension will open using the Terminal font
      at a fixed size of "9" to preserve the ASCII art.
  
  
      While the text-file viewer is in use, the UP/DOWN navigation keys
      and the mouse scroll wheel are used to scroll through the file
      instead of their usually assigned function.
  
  
    * You can now rename files directly from the playlist fullscreen
      navigation interface's function menu.
  
  
    * The GoTo time fullscreen navigation interface is now more usable
      with a mouse or touch input :
      
      1. You can now click to select the Hour/Minute/Seconds fields.
      2. Clicking the current position pastes the current position
         to the Hour/Minute/Seconds entry fields
      3. The arrow controls are larger and more accessible.
  
  
    * A clickable "Trash" icon is now displayed next to the erase entry
      on fullscreen navigation interfaces' function menu.
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
      Customization) to override a skin's icon grid array viewing mode
      for the main fullscreen navigation interface index.
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that overrides the mouse
      scroll wheel and UP/DOWN navigation keys functions when the HTML
      or Text file viewers are in use. Instead of the assigned functions
      the mouse wheel and UP/DOWN keys are used to scroll through the
      HTML/Text content.
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Subtitles" that
      determines whether the XySubFilter high resolution subtitle renderer
      is used (MadVR set as the video renderer is also a requirement
      for XySubFilter to work).
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
      Settings" that determines if text files are listed in the media
      library and file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces.
  
  
      This setting can also be accessed through the media library and
      file browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces' function menu.
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
      Customization" specifying that the selected custom background
      image should be treated as a pattern and tiled instead of stretched.
  
  
    * New setting "Adv. Options / Playback" that determines whether text
      files are added to the playlist when opening an entire drive or folder.
  
  
    * You can now select "Text & HTML" from the open dialog's drop-down
      format list.
  
  
    * New control bar buttons that opens the 'Main' and 'Media Library'
      fullscreen navigation interface.
  
  
    * New button on the Install Center's options dialog to open the
      cache folder in explorer.
  
  
    * You can now click an arrow icon on the media library, file browsing
      and playlist fullscreen navigation interfaces' quick search function
      to reach the selected entry with one click.
  
  
    * New skin-script code to better position the 'GoTo Time' fullscreen
      navigation interface's "current" and "seek-to" position texts.
  
  
    * New Smart Play profile for opening local ".NSV" media files.
      Improved NSV streaming should appear in a future version.
  
  
    + The default configuration has been improved to better account for new
      and updated features.
  
  
    + The 'Navigation Scrollbar Size' setting can now be set to
      "Dynamic Mode" which changes the scrollbar's size dynamically
      based on the interface's width, restoring the previous default
      scrollbar behavior.
  
  
    + "Dynamic mode" is the new default 'Navigation Scrollbar Size',
      restoring the scrollbar size to v9.3 values.
  
  
    + When the HTML viewer is in use, the UP/DOWN navigation keys and
      the mouse scroll wheel are now used to scroll through the web page
      instead of their usually assigned function.
  
  
    + The icon next to the 'Play all files in this Directory' and
      'Randomly Play all files in this Directory' has been changed from
      a checkbox to a play icon.
  
  
    + The notification about bad sub-types in a smart play profile will
      no longer appear by default. These messages will now only appear
      if the 'Show Smart Play graph creation errors' setting is enabled.
  
  
    + The default panning rate when using an XInput (XBOX 360/ONE)
      controller has been slowed a bit.
  
  
    + A few of the fullscreen navigation icons were tweaked for clarity
      and enhanced visuals.
  
  
    + Some of the icons on the bundled Customizable Background fullscreen
      navigation skin have been made semi-translucent in sections to better
      integrate with the background image.
  
  
    + The GoTo time fullscreen navigation dialog now always opens on the
      "Seconds" field (previously it would on the "Hours" field).
  
  
    + Improved keyboard time to seek input when using the GoTo time
      fullscreen navigation interface.  
  
  
    + Added more space between some buttons in fullscreen navigation
      interfaces (Equalizer, Image Adjust, Color Control, Image Blanking).
  
  
    + The Image Adjust fullscreen navigation interface layout has been
      optimized for additional clarity.
  
  
    + The Mouse wheel function fullscreen navigation interface has been
      optimized for additional clarity and enhanced touch input.
  
  
    - Disabled the "Press & Hold" windows touch-input feature on the
      fullscreen navigation interfaces. The "Press & Hold" feature
      adds a delayed response to touch events, which interfered with
      smooth operation on tablet devices.
  
  
    - Enabling a file tracker feature while the download manager
      fullscreen navigation interface was already visible could
      cause a crash.
  
  
    - Trying to play streaming audio without the DC-Bass component
      installed would trigger a crash.
  
  
    - Trying to play a station listed under the favorites section
      would trigger a crash.
  
  
    - Adding a station to the favorite station list would not save
      the new favorite item after restarting the player.
  
  
    - Long Path text in the media library and file browsing fullscreen
      interfaces would cause the text to overlay the selected item count
      and icon.  
  
  
    - Renaming a file in the media library or file browsing fullscreen
      navigation interfaces would cause the some of the playlist navigation
      interface icons to appear in the wrong size.
  
  
    - Renaming a file using one of the fullscreen navigation interfaces
      would not rename the playlist entry for that file.
  
  
    - Clicking in an empty space under or above a file entry's icon in
      the playlist, media library and file browsing fullscreen navigation
      interfaces no longer selects the last entry in the list.
  
  
    - Clicking in an empty space under or above an entry in all
      fullscreen navigation interface would wrongly interpret the
      click as if it was on the first or last entry in the list,
      leading to accidental actions.
  
  
    - Switching to fullscreen with the Zoom Player window in a maximized
      state would lose the window's maximized state upon exiting fullscreen
      mode.
  
  
    - Hovering with the mouse cursor over a timeline area containing
      a chapter/bookmark would cause the hint window containing the
      bookmark name and position to flicker if the hint window would
      appear on the edge of the active screen.
  
  
    - Setting the mouse's middle-click (mouse wheel click) to reset
      DirectShow Zooming, instead of resetting, the maximum zoom
      value was applied.
  
  
    - Opening a folder through several means (drag & drop for example)
      would not always respect the "Opening a drive or directory includes
      opening image files" setting.
  
  
    - Rotating the screen/tablet now hides the date & time display from
      the navigation interfaces (previously they would overlap due to
      the lack of space).
  
  
    - Category names would overlap the right-side icons in the fullscreen
      media library navigation interface.
  
  
    - Clicking the left/right edges of a fullscreen navigation interface
      to navigate left/right now works again.