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Zoom Player 8.15

Updated: 17 Apr 2012

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- The Equalizer fullscreen navigation interface usage framework has changed. The new design is simpler and easier than ever:
* Simply scroll up/down to reach a setting you would like to modify.
* Notice the Plus/Minus icons on the right hand side.
* The active icon is opaque and the inactive icon is transparent.
* Moving right/left switches the active state between addition and subtraction whilst Enter performs the action.
* New reset and enabled/disabled icons are displayed next to their corresponding action for additional clarity.
- The fusion skin's control bar now supports brightness, contrast and saturation adjustments.
- New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the player's user interface is restored when loading new content while the player is minimized.
- New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface" that controls whether the player interface is brought on top of all other windows when switching to fullscreen. In previous versions, this feature was always enabled, but since it can cause conflicts with MadVR and there's no real benefit keeping this feature enabled for everyone. It is now disabled by default.
- New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play" that when enabled, all graph creation error messages are saved to a log file.
• See full changelog
 
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New version 8.2.0 preview, Jun 06


Version history:

--- What's new in v8.2.0:

Legend :

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :

* The Onyx (default) skin has undergone a modernization process, making the icons clearer, sharper and everything a little more intuitive.

* Under Windows 7 (or newer), the Taskbar thumbnail, which appears when hovering with the mouse cursor over the Zoom Player task bar button now features 4 functions: 1. Mute 2. Previous Chapter/Track 3. Play / Pause 4. Next Chapter/Track

* The Install center can now install language packs.

* The Install Center now remembers the 'Silent Installer' and 'Automatic Configuration' checkbox values after restarting.

* The Play History cache (used to store last media position and display the play history) has been rewritten from scratch, performance has been greatly improved.

* New "Very Long Seek" Backward and Forward functions using the Ctrl+Shift+"," and Ctrl+Shift+"." keyboard macros.
By default the seek action is 10 minutes. This value is adjustable through the Advanced Options dialog under the [Playback / Controls] sub-menu.

* The Playlist editor's scroll bar background is now skinnable. For more information, visit the skinning tutorial: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml

* The Playlist editor's search-box font and background are now skinnable. For more information, visit the skinning tutorial: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml

* The Playlist editor's scroll bar widget is now skinnable with an Alpha (translucency) bitmap, as used by the modernized default onyx skin.
Changes :

+ The Playlist editor's scroll widget now moves smoothly.

+ Version display is now more consistent with web (8.1.x vs. 8.1x). API version structure remains the same for backward compatibility.

+ The keyboard editor no longer shows scan code character value for MultiMedia keys (since multimedia keys are not mapped to characters).

+ A few optimizations to the skin parsing code.

+ With the new Play History caching optimizations, the Advanced Options [Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - Highlight previously viewed files] is now fast enough to work with large directories on modern hardware.
Fixes :

- Fixed a bug introduced in v8.1.5 that listed all file sizes as "0 bytes" in the play history.

- When maximizing the player window and then minimizing the player window to the taskbar, the maximized window state and the previous window size were lost.

- The "Fix window movement glitches" setting that was used to work-around a window glitch that caused the player window to jump when trying to move the player window by clicking on the video area is now disabled by default (even for users who previously had this feature enabled). An alternative fix is now in place that should hopefully resolve the jumping window issue without having to enable this setting.

- The Options dialog search function results prevented certain buttons from being accessible while the search results were visible.

- The Options dialog search function now supports unicode text.

- The options dialog's Help button's context menu now supports unicode text.

- A Zoom Player tab would briefly appear on the desktop when running Zoom Player with a windows shell other than 'explorer.exe'.
- The #1601 API message returning the number of audio tracks for the playing media returned the wrong number at times.
- Under certain conditions, the 'filter properties' sub-menu would list filters with a '#2' suffix even though there was only one instance of the filter in the graph.

---

* The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at: http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml

--- End.

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Zoom Player 13.7.1

"*" = 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.

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Zoom Playe / 14 Beta 1

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14:
New :
* 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 playbable.
This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and
download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New Torrent download plugin.
The torrent download plugin uses the Download & Tracking API to
pass torrent URLs and magnetic links directly to the open-source
qBitTorrent project:
h***://www.qbittorrent.org/
Once a torrent is added to qBitTorrent, you can track the download
state of each file in the torrent using the download tracking fullscreen
navigation interface
* New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign
any playlist as a media library category.
* 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 "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.
Changes :
+ 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.
Fixes :
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.
- The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of
synch, triggering a new components update notification to appear
within 2 weeks after runing the Instal Center.
- 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 Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not
have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
- 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.
- In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay
would be twice as long as the specified value.
- Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the
non-debug version.

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Zoom Player 14 Beta 2

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14 beta 1:

New :
* 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 playbable.
This information is displayed in the media library, file browsing and
download tracking fullscreen navigation interfaces.
* New Torrent download plugin.
The torrent download plugin uses the Download & Tracking API to
pass torrent URLs and magnetic links directly to the open-source
qBitTorrent project:
h***://www.qbittorrent.org/
Once a torrent is added to qBitTorrent, you can track the download
state of each file in the torrent using the download tracking fullscreen
navigation interface
* New Playlist media library source plugin that lets you assign
any playlist as a media library category.
* 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 "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.
Changes :
+ 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.
Fixes :
- 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.
- The Zoom Player Install Center and Zoom Player itself were out of
synch, triggering a new components update notification to appear
within 2 weeks after runing the Instal Center.
- 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 Windows Picture Library and Music Library (system folders) may not
have displayed with the correct thumbnail layout in the media library.
- 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.
- In some cases, when using the "Media Close Delay" feature, the delay
would be twice as long as the specified value.
- Debug logs related to kinetic scrolling were being saved by the
non-debug version.
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14 beta 2:
New :
* 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:
h***://www.dsp-worx.de/?n=14
* You can now create and save chapter points (bookmarks) for streaming URLs.
* The fullscreen information navigation interface now includes media format
information extracted using the MediaInfo.dll plugin.
* New "exSetAudTrack" extended function that sets the current audio track.
* New "exSetSubTrack" extended function that sets the current subtitle track.
Changes :
+ 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).
+ 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 Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Search.jpg"
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Trending.jpg"
And here using Windows 32bit:
"c:\Program Files\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Search.jpg"
"c:\Program Files\Zoom Player\MediaNavPlugins\YouTube_Trending.jpg"
+ The media library plugin API can now accept local-file thumbnails
when creating new categories.
Fixes :
- Fixed a crash when trying to load a malformed play history cache file.
- With some language packs, the text for the station manager's left
column would cut-off.
- Playing a media from the windows explorer (or other 3rd party software)
would show an "are you sure?" prompt by accident.
- Playback of ASX playlists did not work.

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Zoom Player 14 Beta 3

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14 beta 3:

New :
* The Torrents plugin and the fullscreen download tracking navigation
interface have been enhanced with the ability to predict when you can
begin playing a media file while it is still downloading.
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.
Please note that the torrent playback readiness prediction requires
a custom qBitTorrent EXE that supports an enhanced API that Zoom Player
uses to understand which part of the file have finished downloading.
Until these enhancement are part of an official release, you can test
the new feature by downloading qBitTorrent 3.4 beta 2 64bit here.
And then replacing "qbittorrent.exe" with this update:
h***://zoomplayer.com/t/qbittorrent_enhanced.zip
Without the updated qBitTorrent EXE you will see a "?" next to the file
names in the download tracker instead of the playback readiness icons and
new torrents will not download automatically in sequential order.
A quick slideshow demonstrating how the Torrents plugin looks and works:
h***://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
* 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.
* When taking screenshots of the playing video (Alt+F keyboard macro),
the current play position is now saved as part of the file name.

Changes :
+ Pruning the play history (using the button) no longer erases URL entries,
only local files that were erased from the disk drive.
+ 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 thumbnail and ****-data cache folder is now cleared once
a week instead of on every exit, improving the time it takes
Zoom Player to close.
+ The "unknown" icon has been updated to better suit the UX design.

Fixes :
- [Introduced in v14 b2] The TAG display when playing audio files did not
display at all or would display a lot of low-level information on the
playing file that should have only displayed in information dialogs.

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Zoom Player 13.7.1 / 14 Beta 4


"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14 beta 4:
New :

* 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 Setting (Adv. Options / On Screen Display) that controls the OSD
clock position.

* New (optional) control bar button to open/hide the fullscreen stream
selection navigation interface.
Fixes :

- Installing an audio device or a custom audio renderer filter would
change the selected audio renderer for DVDs and WMP ActiveX playback.

- 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.

- The Torrents download tracking plugin did not handle character decoding
correctly for non-english characters.

- Wrong duration displayed in the playlist when using Windows Media Player's
ActiveX control to play streaming media.

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Zoom Player 14

"*" = 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: h***://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: h***://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: (h***://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 ****-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 accid...


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Zoom Player 14 / 14.1 Beta 1

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1:

New :

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- MIDI audio playback should be more reliable.

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Zoom Player 14 / 14.1 Beta 3

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 beta 3:
New :

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

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

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

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

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

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Zoom Player 14 / 14.1 RC1

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 release candidate 1:
New :

* 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).

Change :

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

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

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

- 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.

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Zoom Player 14 / 14.1 RC2

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 release candidate 2:

New :

* 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).
Change :

+ 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).
Fixes :

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

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

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

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Zoom Player 14 / 14.1 RC3

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.1 release candidate 3:

Fixes :

- 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.

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Zoom Player 14.1

"*" = 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.


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Zoom Player 14.1 / 14.2 Beta 2

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 2:

New :

* 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).
Change :

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

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Zoom Player 14.1 / 14.2 Beta 3

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 3:
New :

* 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".
Change :

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

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

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 2:

New :

* 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).
Change :

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

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Zoom Player 14.1 / 14.2 Beta 4

"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix

--- What's new in Zoom Player v14.2 beta 4:

Change :

+ 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.
Fixes :

- 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.

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