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- Even if you don't want to donate, I want you to read the current
- situation the Inmatrix site and this program is currently in.
-
- --- What's new in v4.00:
-
- Legend :
-
- "*" = New
- "+" = Change
- "-" = Fix
-
-
- New :
-
- * Zoom Player now has an Audio-Bar mode.
- Playing files in the Audio-Bar mode will disable any video
- output and certain features that relate to video output and
- navigation. There is also a new Audio-Bar default
- skin element with 3 visual configuration (F4/F5/F6). You
- can switch to Audio-Bar mode by pressing F2, or using the
- new skin button.
-
- * The Professional version of Zoom Player can now automatically
- extract and play any Archive Format (default presets for
- 7Z,ARJ,BZ2,CAB,RAR and ZIP using the freely available 7-Zip
- extraction suite). You can configure your own extractors
- under "Options / Values / Other", but I recommend grabbing
- 7-Zip at www.7-zip.org as it's free and fast.
- This new feature can also be used to extract AlbumWrap MP3 files
- using the freeware "mp3splt.exe" tool from "http://mp3splt.sf.net".
-
- * Zoom Player can now filter out filters that can cause
- playback instability in standard playback mode through
- a Filter Black List.
-
- By default I have included the following filters that
- are known trouble-makers:
- BiCubic Resizer
- DivX Antifreeze
- DeDynamic Audio Filter
- Morgan Stream Switcher
- Subtitle Mixer
- Subtitle Parser
- TFM Audio Filter
-
- You can easily add/remove filters to the black list
- through the options dialog (Filter Control / Management).
- This should make Zoom Player a lot more stable on systems
- where a lot of 3rd party software have been installed.
-
- * On a fresh install, Zoom Player will look for missing
- components required to play popular file formats. If
- no components are detected for a specific file format,
- you will be prompted to go to the media setup guide.
- This check is only done once when installing a new
- version.
-
- * New Setting (Advanved Options / Mouse Wheel) allowing you
- to reverse the direction of the mouse wheel with regards
- to the functions it calls.
-
- * New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Playback), allowing
- the Media Definition File (a file containing information on the
- file being played such as color values, volume, balance, etc...)
- to be saved automatically (default:off).
-
- * You will now be prompted to install DirectVobSub if it's not
- installed on your system (only one time when a new version
- is installed).
-
- * New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you
- to have the Play List Navigator opened if the Chapter Navigator
- is opened and doesn't contain any chapters.
-
- * New "/AUDBAR" command line parameter starting Zoom Player
- in Audio-Bar mode.
-
- * New "/VOL" command line parameter allowing you to set the
- Zoom Player volume level on start-up. Value can be 0-100.
- Example:
- "x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" /vol:75
-
- * New "/MEDIANAV:[CATEGORY]" parameter allowing you to start
- Zoom Player opened in the Media Library Navigator at a
- specific category. Example:
- "x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" "/MEDIANAV:TV Shows"
-
- * New "/EJECT:[n]" command line parameter allowing you to eject
- a CD/DVD drive from the command line. Example:
- "x:\path\to\zplayer.exe" /EJECT:F
-
- * You can now associate the ".FLAC" extension. FLAC is
- an Open-Source lossless Audio Format. You still need
- a decoder for it to play. For more information see:
- http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
-
- * You can now associate the ".MPC" extension. MPC is
- a lossy audio format similar to MP3 and Vorbis.
-
- * Two new sections have been added to the Menu file.
- These new sections allow you to define the menu used
- for the Context Menu Navigator in DVD and Media modes.
- I have included useful default entries for these.
-
- * Zoom Player should now support WMV PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio).
- You must set the Aspect Ratio mode to Derived for PAR to
- kick in (you should always set the Aspect Ratio to Derived
- unless you have other special requirements).
-
- * Zoom Player can now display APE Tags from MPC/MP3/APE/FLAC files.
-
- * Zoom Player can now display WMF Tags from WMA files.
-
- * Zoom Player can now play UTF8 encoded M3U play lists.
-
- * Zoom Player now has 4 default skin visual configuration modes, one
- with only the volume control (Press "F4"), the same layout with
- the Balance and Play Rate controls (Press "F5") or the minimalistic
- layout (Press "F6") or the Video Only Layout (Press "F7").
-
- * New Profiles for Nero Digital filters. These filters seem
- to be capable of decoding MPEG1 audio (including MP3),
- MPEG1 Video, XVID and DIVX. Playback is not perfect, I
- noticed big issues with DIVX playback. These filters are
- also supposed to decode MPEG2 video and possibly even DVD,
- but I was unable to get them to work.
-
- * New Profile for the Elecard Video Decoder as a DVD Video
- Decoder. It may only work for unencrypted DVDs.
-
- * New "Select All" button on the Association Page.
-
- * Two new skin variables "cBarNoText" and "tLineNoText"
- allowing you to disable text display on the timeline
- and control bar timeline.
-
- * New skin variable "AudioSkin" implying that the specified
- skin doesn't contain any video area.
-
- * New skin constant "<TimeLineText>", showing the user
- selectable entry that usually shows within the timeline
- (useful to use if you want to disable the text on the
- timeline itself and show it elsewhere).
-
-
-
-
- Changes :
-
- + The "zplayer.regpath" file now allows you to specify a
- second line with the new Zoom Player Window Name so that
- you can run multiple instances of Zoom Player and control
- each remotely as a unique entity. For example, the content
- of the "zplayer.regpath" file would look like this:
-
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayer2
- Zoom Two
-
- + The "System" Options dialog section now displays the merit
- of each listed filter and also lists known "bad filter"
- offenders (filters can cause cause audio-loss, flipped
- video image and so forth).
-
- + The Flash (SWF files) background color is now set to the
- fullscreen background color (Options / Values / Interface),
- default to black.
-
- + The Flash and QuickTime playback experience should be better
- now. The Right-Click context menu should now work perfectly
- and the keyboard/mouse should be a bit more responsive.
-
- + DVD "VIDEO_TS.IFO" files are now ALWAYS listed on the File
- and Media Library navigators.
-
- + OGM Audio Selection should now work even if the OGG Splitter
- is not set to Output all Streams.
-
- + Zoom Player will now check your DirectX version when you try
- to select the VMR9 as the Video Renderer and inform you if
- you don't have DirectX v9 installed.
-
- + The external Minimalistic and Ultra Minimalistic skins have
- been removed as their functionality is more than covered by
- the new skin layouts within the default skin.
-
- + Zoom Player now checks the DirectVobSub path list when looking
- for subtitle files instead of only looking in the same directory
- as the media file.
-
- + The Customized Media Playback Audio/Video Decoder configuration
- dialog now fits 800x600 resolution in advanced mode.
-
- + The /F:[n] and /Z:[n] will now allow you to force Zoom Player
- to fullscreen/zoom mode on a selected monitor even if
- Zoom Player is already running.
-
- + DVD Auto-AR values are now applied only once each time the
- Aspect Ratio mode changes instead of every chapter.
-
- + The screenshot function will now save the screenshot to the
- "My Documents" folder if no alternative folder is specified.
-
-
-
-
- Fixes :
-
- - Zoom Player could stop responding when trying to load a new
- media file while the first media file was still being loaded.
-
- - Wrong date encoding error could pop when opening files with
- no creation dates (could happen with some VCD/SVCD images).
-
- - Going to fullscreen on a second monitor using the setting
- on "Options / Values / Interface" would set the fullscreen
- size according to the resolution of the monitor the user
- interface currently resides on instead of the real monitor
- resolution.
-
- - Opening a DVD while another DVD is already playing would not
- save the last position properly for the original DVD.
-
- - Remembering the last position on media files would ignore the
- number of days to save this data and would in fact save it
- forever. Furthermore, several entries were kept for each
- file played. It is recommended that you erase the old
- "zplayer.playcache" file as old entries may stick forever.
-
- - The Increase/Decrease Play Rate wasn't working in the correct
- order when increase after decreasing or the other way around.
-
- - Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
- resolution should no longer disable the VMR9 scaling fix.
-
- - Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
- resolution should no longer reset the VMR9 color control values.
-
- - Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
- resolution should no longer reset the Overlay color control values.
-
- - The /Q parameter now works when used in combination with the
- scene-cut end playback event.
-
- - Flash end-of-file should now be detected better.
-
- - Flash clipping should now be OK when setting to the Source
- or Derived AR modes.
-
- - The Setting to have ZP not clear the play list when opening
- files externally, wasn't really working (play list was getting
- cleared anyhow).
-
- - Enter will now open the selected navigator in DVD Mode
- as long as there is no DVD playing.
-
- - If customized media playback failed to renderer a graph,
- it was possible that a valid standard graph would get created,
- but the video would wrongfully appear in an external window.
-
- - Changing the Customized Media Mode Splitter twice would throw
- an error about the file being in use.
-
- - The Screen Snap Pixel value would not save properly.
-
- - Trying to play a truly locked media file (most applications
- allow you to read files even if they are using them, so not
- a lot of files are truly locked) could cause ZP to stop
- responding after an error dialog popped.
-
- - The DrawExText "ShadeBottom" parameter was actually using
- the value from the "ShadeTop" parameter.
-
- - Switching skins would not set the active skin elements correctly.
-
- - Can now load UTF8 file names from WPL play list files.
-
- - Fixed too many unicode related issues to even begin listing
- them here.
-
- - "SetOPMWReversed" wasn't exported properly for translation.
-
- - Possible "Insert Disc in Drive" dialog opening inappropriately
- when opening an ejected DVD drive.
-
- ---
-
- * The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:
- http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml
-
- --- End.
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