Zoom Player is een mediaspeler die in staat is om de meeste mediabestanden af te spelen. Verder is er een groot aantal mogelijkheden om de speler in te stellen en aan te passen aan eigen wensen. Er worden twee versies geleverd, de standaardversie waarmee het mogelijk is om de meeste mediabestanden te kijken, en de professionele versie die ook in staat is om dvd's af te spelen. Voor deze professionele versie moet echter betaald worden. Het changelog van de nieuwe versie, versie 3.30 RC1 om precies te zijn, is terug te vinden in het te downloaden bestand. Voor de tweakers die wel graag willen weten wat er veranderd is, maar niet willen downloaden is het complete changelog ook hieronder terug te vinden:
New:
- I highly recommend that on the first run, you should go to "Options / Values / Extensions" and press on all the default buttons so that all the latest file formats will be properly listed on the open dialogs.
- The Options Dialog has been split in two. The Basic options dialog (default) will show a very limited feature-set that is should simplify setup. The Advanced options dialog is the same dialog as in previous versions. This should now make Zoom Player much less intimidating to new users.
- New "System" Options dialog, allowing you to see an overview of which codecs on your system are available for the various audio and video formats and wrappers and which are missing which may prevent proper playback.
- Zoom Player now has limited capability Flash (*.swf) playback capability. You must have Flash previously installed for this to work and playback isn't as flexible as standard media playback.
- Customized Media Entries are now split into two files. One for the actual entry in use and another for available profiles. This should help you keep the current Custom Media Playback settings when upgrading. If you do manual installation, just make sure to only copy the "
- .profiles" over from the "MediaAutoGraph" directory.
- Created a few Customized Media profiles for the new ffdshow Audio Decoder filter. This filter can't play DVD AC3 quite yet, but it can decode AC3 in media files along with MPEG1/2 Audio and MPEG Layer 3 audio (MP3). It also has a few interesting DSP features. Not sure if they are all active though.
- Created a Customized Media Profile for the Sorenson Video 3 video format. This is the format used by nearly all the QuickTime trailers! You need a recent version of ffdshow for this to play (I used the ffdshow-20021029.exe version). Between this decoder and the 3ivx QuickTime parser, you can play quite a bit of QuickTime content without having to resort to using the somewhat unpredictable (and CPU hoggish) QuickTime ActiveX component (Which you can disable under "Options/Filter Control/Settings".
- It seems that Vorbis Audio in an OGG container is not the same thing as Vorbis Audio in a Matroska container. The only way to get proper 100% smooth playback for both formats is to use the older Vorbis decoder that comes with the OGGDS package along with the CoreVorbis decoder (http://corevoribs.corecodec.org) set to a higher merit. If you don't like to mess around with filter merits, I have created properly working Customized Media Playback profiles as well (Requires Zoom Player Professional in Custom Media Playback mode).
- You can now specify a forced Sub-Type identification on Customized Media Mode Source Filter profiles. In some cases, source filters may not properly identify the file being played and may not assign a proper Sub-Type. By entering one manually, you assure that the correct Splitter filter will get connected. You can see an example of this in the MPEG2 Transport source profile.
- You can now use filters with no output pins within the Customized Media Audio/Video Decoder Profiles (such as renderer filters). Doing so will automatically force Zoom Player to ignore any specified rendering filter.
- Can now associate the ".MID" Midi Audio extension.
- New setting (Options / Settings / Playback) that allows you to select whether the Speed Control on the User Interface is used for "Fast Forward/Rewind" or "Fast Play/Slow Motion" as it was in previous versions (v3.10 and older).
- New Setting (Options / Settings / Interface) allowing you to show the Zoom Player version within the FileName area of the user interface whennothing is playing.
- New Setting (Options / Values / Interface) that slows down the Zoom Player internal screen saver so that it won't hog the CPU.
- New setting (Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to decide whether you want "Play all files in this Directory" to appear in the File and Media Library Navigators.
- New Settings (Options / DVD / AutoAR) allowing you to set default Video Position, Blanking and Aspect Ratio presets when a DVD Starts.
- New Settings (Options / Filter Control / Settings) allowing you to determine whether Zoom Player will try to use the ActiveX control or DirectShow to play Macromedia Flash files.
- New Settings (Options / Filter Control / Settings) that makes Zoom Player check if the file size changed when playback ends and if it does, reload the file at the last position. This is useful if you are streaming a file and it keeps growing as you watch it. This feature is limited to the professional version.
- New Toggle (Options / Settings / Toggles) allowing you to select if the video is aligned to the top, center, bottom, left or right side of the screen.
- New Toggle Entry (Options / Settings / Mouse Toggles) allowing the middle mouse button to pop the Mouse Wheel Navigator. This makes selection of a mouse wheel function a breath.
- DVD Forced/Commentary subtitle tracks are now identified as such.
- DVD Audio Tracks with Commentary are identified and the khz and bit value of each track is displayed.
- Included support for Matroska Aspect Ratio handling. This works well as long as no filter modifies the Aspect Ratio (like DirectVobSub does when set to enforce an aspect ratio).
- When playing matroska files with multiple audio tracks, you will now be able to see the track name alongside the language (as long as a track name is entered by the original author).
- Alt+"I" will now Minimize the Player.
- You can now Customize the Play List right-click Context Menu.
- Menu files are now fully unicode.
- Some new icons on the options dialog.
Changes:
- Due to a Class name change, you will have to re-export the girder command list as previous versions would no longer identify the Zoom Player window correctly. Sorry for this snafu, but it was required for unicode support. If you have no idea what Girder is, don't worry.
- DVD Definition files can now modify registry entires before the DVD Graph is constructed, allowing you to change filter properties (which are saved in the registry) on a per-disc basis.
- The Customized Additional DVD Filters can now be ordered so the connection order in the graph can be determined. You can also load multiple instances of the same filter.
- More changes to the default settings to make them friendlier to a new user.
- Restructured the Right-Click context menu to be a bit more useful and less cluttered. It also context the keyboard context for activating each of the functions. Only relevant if you use the default keyboard mapping.
- Playing a Media file containing two video streams in Customized Media mode will have Zoom Player intercept the second video stream and connect it to a null renderer so no other video window will pop-up. Customized media playback could still fail as certain filters will not allow themselves to be loaded twice (ffdshow, corevorbis, etc...).
- Zoom Player will now properly highlight subtitles that contain a language string (MyMovie.Eng.sub for MyMovie.avi). And will also automatically add DirectVobSub in customized mode if such subtitle files exist.
- Window snapping is now smoother and also made on vertical/horizontal matches.
- The mouse wheel can now be used for seeking when over the time line on the main user interface and not only on the control bar.
- There seems to be some weirdness in the XCard DVD support, at some point, the XCard DirectShow filter allowed for SubPicture decoding (Displaying DVD Subtitles), but this functionality seems to have been removed, causing the Zoom Player Customized DVD Mode profile not to load. I've made some modification and now a "NoSub" profile for the XCard is available for experimentation.
- I have restored the Filter File (filename.filters) functionality. This feature has a very specific usage which is not required under normal circumstances and as such I put a few warning messages when using this feature.
- Using "exInterface" function you can now discreetly set Zoom Player to Window or Zoom Modes.
Fixes:
- Updated to work with QuickTime v6.5. You MUST have QuickTime v6.5 or newer installed for QuickTime to play properly.
- Pressing Insert or Delete on the Media Library Navigator will no longer throw an "List Index Out of Bounds" error.
- The Next/Previous buttons on the DVD Skin Control Bar were set to the wrong function.
- Fixed a couple of inaccuracies in the Auto-Segment loading code.
- A chapter file saved when the media file was on a read-only media (such as a CD) wasn't saved under the right name and was basically useless.
- Play List formats were not being listed on the File and Media Library navigators.
- Having the Internal Zoom Player Audio DSP filter enabled with the InterVideo Audio Decoder could cause audio issues if you change the number of audio-channel output while playing.
- Small cosmetic bug fixed dealing with folder images scaling to fullscreen even though the setting was set not to.
- 8 Bit Buffer Processing fix to the Zoom Player Audio DSP filter.
- You could not access all of the Resize Navigator functionality using the mouse.
- You could not access all of the Resize Navigator functionality using the mouse.
- Using the Eject function will now only close currently playing Media File/DVD if it is being played from the ejected drive.
- When the Search box on the Play List Editor was disabled, you couldn't use the mouse to highlight the bottom items on the list.
- Switching skins should no longer disrupt the maximized window state.
- Erasing files using the file navigators should now refresh the list when reopening the navigator.
- Folder images now work properly in unicode subdirectories.
- ID3 display with non-english characters should now work.
- Exporting Girder file and selecting Cancel will no longer export the file anyhow.
- Girder export should now work with Zoom Player even if it's minimized (as long as it's not only minimized to the system tray as girder doesn't seem capable of finding Zoom Player there).
- Should now be able to open Ripped DVD Images from unicode paths.
- Couldn't read ID3v2 from certain MP3 files.