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* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) that determines whether to list collections alongside categories in the Media Server Browser (PLEX / Emby / Jellyfin).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) that determines whether to list collections within categories in the Media Server Browser. This feature is limited to PLEX as it's the only media server that associates collections with a specific category.
* When creating a new category, the Media Server media library plugin will now list Emby/Jellyfin collections. Emby/Jellyfin collections are not locked to a specific type (e.g. movies/tv) so every collection is selectable, regardless of the category type you are creating. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.
* When creating a new category, the Media Server media library plugin will now list PLEX collections based on the category type you are creating. Unlike Emby/Jellyfin, PLEX locks collections to specific categories. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.
* The Media Server media library plugin now lists PLEX collections within categories. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.
Changed :
+ The IPTV Setup wizard has been enhanced for clarity and includes new Information, Skip and Quit buttons.
+ When using the media server browser interface, going up a folder now restores the exact position of the list prior to entering the folder (the list's top index is now saved along with the item's index).
+ The MP4 and Matroska (MKV) smart play profiles have been split in two. Each format now has two smart play profiles, one for local file playback and one for streaming, allowing you to pick different components depending on whether you're playing a local file or streaming from a media server.
+ The Media Server Browser's pop-up hint that appears when hovering items is now a lot less annoying. The hint will only show when hovering over items that don't have enough space to display and instantly hides when hovering over other items.
+ Emby/Jellyfin collections are no longer listed as a "Collections" folder, this has been replaced with the collection setting above.
+ Updated MediaInfo to the latest version.
+ Small quality of life enhancements throughout the UI.
Fixed :
- When moving Zoom Player's window between monitors should no longer pause or snap the window back to the original monitor.
- Zoom Player will no longer adjust the minimal window size based on your monitor's resolution as it broke some features. This does mean there can be some visual artifacts as the control overlay gradient backgrounds may overlap each other if the playback window is tiny.
- Right-clicking a media library entry did not select the entry unless it was in a
[COLOR=inherit !important]TV[/COLOR] or Movie category.
- Fixed a case where another Zoom Player window could appear between the main player window and the control overlay.
- The Home Theater quick search feature was partially broken.
- The quick search feature now works on with both media file/url or title in the play history Home Theater interface.
- When using the YouTube IFRAME player with the Chromium engine it was possible that seeking ahead/back multiple times in a row in under 250ms would seek in place.
- The trial version of Zoom Player MAX/IPTV no longer asks you to upgrade on first run.
- No Card sharing discussion allowed on this forum.
- Note: Viewing Pay TV without a valid subscription is illegal.
- All the files available here are kept for experimental and educational purpose only.
18 new functions added to the control overlay button options:
01. Play previous video in the same folder as the playing video 02. Play next video in the same folder as the playing video 03. Play previous media with the same file extension in the same folder 04. Play next media with the same file extension in the same folder 05. Fast Play by user specified value 06. Delete currently playing media 07. Increase play rate by user specified value 08. Decrease play rate by user specified value 09. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Left 10. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Right 11. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Up 12. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Down 13. Audio Synchronize ahead by user specified value 14. Audio Synchronize back by user specified value 15. Subtitle Synchronize ahead by user specified value 16. Subtitle Synchronize back by user specified value 17. Increase Volume by user specified value 18. Decrease Volume by user specified value Since the available buttons now stands at 88, I've added a filtering option to make it easier to find the button you're looking for.
* Color Control support is now available when using MPC-VR as the video renderer.
* Added a new JSON post-processing cache mechanism when using the IPTV Player API. The practical application is that Zoom Player opens the IPTV window faster when closing and reopening Zoom Player several times in the same IPTV database update period (by default, once per day).
* The IPTV play window has been visually enhanced with gradient shading of the playlist and EPG sections. Of course, I made the gradient colors fully customizable through the IPTV Window's "Customize" menu option.
* The IPTV EPG Grid view has been visually enhanced with gradient shading of Streams and Programs. Of course, I made the gradient colors fully customizable through the EPG Grid's "Customize" menu option.
* Added support for IPTV stream grouping based on the "#EXTGRP" tag in M3U/M3U8 playlist.
* Added support for two more types of IPTV archive (catchup) streaming modes.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that determines whether the mouse cursor hides automatically when the player window is maximized. Enabled by default.
* New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to pick the color and opacity of timeline highlighting features (e.g. AB Repeat).
* The "exInterface" extended function has been enhanced with new parameters: 15 = Show Control Overlay 16 = Hide Control Overlay 17 = Show Color Control Overlay 18 = Hide Color Control Overlay 19 = Show IPTV stream selection window 20 = Hide IPTV stream selection window 21 = Show Media Server browser window 22 = Hide Media Server browser window
* Zoom Player's error dialog is no longer skinned and has been rewritten to use a modern overlay style. Should be easier to read, especially when compared to the skinned version on bright skins (e.g. Alba).
* Zoom Player's "Please wait" dialog is no longer skinned and has been rewritten to use an modern overlay style.
* New "Tab" (nvTab) navigation function.
The Tab button can now be used to: 1. Switch the main home theater interface between home theater interface selection and system functions. 2. Switch the media library home theater interface to function mode and back to the media list. 3. Switch the file browsing home theater interface to function mode and back to the file list. 4. Switch the play list home theater interface to function mode and back to the media list. 5. Switch the play history home theater interface to function mode and back to the media list. 6. Switch the favorites home theater interface to function mode and back to the media list. 7. Switch the streaming audio home theater interface to function mode and back to the media list. 8. Switch the active button on the error dialog window.
If you are using a custom keyboard layout, you may want to add this line to your key file: nvAddKey(None,9,nvTab)
* I modified the media library's meta-data editor to show the last play date for TV and Movie category folders. And now next to the date, I show how many years and days have passed since the last play date.
* Added "Switch to Modern UI" and "Switch to Classic UI" right-click menu options under the "Controls" sub-menu.
* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0300" message that returns the current skin mode. The skin mode is a 32bit value with each bit indicating whether a skin group section is active.
* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0310" message that returns the current Media mode skin file.
* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0320" message that returns the current DVD mode skin file.
* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0330" message that returns the current Audio mode skin file.
Changed :
+ The AB Repeat feature's active range is now visible on the control overlay timeline area.
+ The "Refresh" button on the IPTV player window can now be used to force a refresh of the IPTV playlist/EPG databases for either the selected playlist entry or All playlist entries without having to open the advanced options dialog.
+ Playing media from a media server (PLEX / Emby / Jellyfin) that includes multiple versions of the same media will now add all versions to the playlist, allowing you to switch between versions using the "next track" feature.
+ The Media Server Browser now remembers the list's "Top Index" when closing and re-opening the browser window, restoring the exact scroll bar position of the selected item within the list.
+ Opening the "Chapter Editor / Go to" dialog using the "G" keyboard shortcut now opens with the "Go to" entry box active and available for immediate input. Opening the same dialog with the Shift+"C" keyboard shortcut opens the dialog with the Chapter name entry box active.
+ Dragging the Color Control Overlay's color bars now shows the active value as you drag the mouse cursor over a color bar.
+ Switching between Modern and Classic user interface modes now tries to remember the currently active skin in Classic mode.
+ Zoom Player's function picker dialog now uses a filtering feature instead of search as it makes it much easier to find functions. The function picker is used in several places throughout Zoom Player's user interface, including the keyboard layout editor and picking custom mouse button functions.
+ When using multiple attempts to connect to a streaming server, the "Please Wait" window now shows a "Connecting (2/3)" type messages to provide better feedback on the current connection status.
+ You can no longer show the control overlay by mouse movement when the "Please Wait" window is visible.
Fixed :
- Fixed an issue where the playlist editor and equalizer windows could pop to the front of other applications when a new media is loaded and Zoom Player is in the running in the background.
- When specifying a custom font that is incompatible (e.g. vertical text font starting with the "@" character) with overlay interfaces or was uninstalled later on, the overlay interfaces did not show any text.
Now in such cases, the Arial font is used as a fallback.
- There were some cases when trying to use the media library category editor to add a YouTube channel where channel URLs using "@[username]" were not identified correctly and other channels were added instead.
- When using Zoom Player's trial version, the time viewing limit only counts actual play time and will no longer bug you to upgrade when you're just setting up.
- When using Zoom Player's trial version and the time viewing limit expires Zoom Player did not close itself properly.
- Using the media library category editor failed to add a YouTube channel where the channel's URL contained extra information after the channel's identifier (e.g. "https://youtube.com/@zptechnology?si=LsHK4XZ6ngCgLcXE").
- In the advanced options dialog, the ability to set custom functions for the keyboard's "Space" and "Arrow" functions (left/right/up/down) was broken with the custom entry fields remaining disabled.
- Switching to audio mode when using MPC-VR as the video renderer did not hide the video window causing cosmetic issues with the audio mode skin.
- There was a slight lag updating the timeline's current position when loading a media with a previously saved position.
- Favorites added from the media server's media library plugin are now playable. If you previously added favorites from a media library category using the media server plugin, you will have to add them again.
- Trying to play a media from either an Emby or Jellyfin server failed if the media had multiple versions (encodings).
- The "Show/Hide the Home Theater's Web Browser interface" feature was broken, triggering an empty screen or crash.
- The advanced options dialog's playlist Customization page was accidentally labeled as "Playlist".
- Resetting the control overlay's default style did not reset the opacity level of the timeline chapter marks to its correct 50% default value.
- The were cases where the error dialog could appear behind other, open windows.
- Fixed a glitch when Zoom Player's window is positioned in between two different monitors, the OSD action pop-up message could have appeared in the wrong position and even flicker a bit.
- No Card sharing discussion allowed on this forum.
- Note: Viewing Pay TV without a valid subscription is illegal.
- All the files available here are kept for experimental and educational purpose only.
+ I changed how the trial version works by removing the view time limits entirely. Zoom Player is now limited to running for 20 days after a fresh install, letting you know how many days remain on each run.
+ Optimized the IPTV M3U parsing and overall load time by 20-50% depending on the playlist size.
+ The IPTV window should open faster when using playlists with 1000's of different groups.
+ I've enhanced the keyboard shortcut help dialog (Press "F1" to show) to allow filtering of the keyboard shortcut list, making it much easier and faster to find what you're looking for.
+ Closing and re-opening the IPTV window after playing an archive (catchup) program restores the currently playing program into view.
+ Small enhancements to Zoom Player's Install Center experience, making it easier to cancel downloads and showing clearer messaging.
+ The OSD time/date display (Alt+Ctrl+"D" keyboard shortcut) will now switch automatically between the 12H AM/PM and 24H time formats based on the Windows setting which you can easily change in Windows regional settings.
Fixed :
- Using the "MPC Audio Renderer" component as the audio renderer could have triggered a freeze if no audio devices were actually installed on the PC.
- Playing an IPTV stream containing Unicode characters in the name could have resulted in "????" characters displaying as the title.
- Even though the IPTV's fix Player API encoding setting was disabled, it still got applied in some cases, causing properly encoded non- English characters and Emoji to appear as question marks.
- Fixed a bug where if the playlist or equalizer windows were open, clicking on another application would send Zoom Player to the back of all currently opened windows applications or mess with the magnetize state.
- Fixed a case where pressing the play button on Modern UI with the playlist window visible could cause the Modern UI overlay to disappear behind the player window, making it inaccessible until hidden by timeout or triggered through a keyboard shortcut.
- In trial mode, the "please upgrade" window could appear in a different monitor than the player window.
- No Card sharing discussion allowed on this forum.
- Note: Viewing Pay TV without a valid subscription is illegal.
- All the files available here are kept for experimental and educational purpose only.
- New feature on the right-click menu of the Video Streaming window
to open streams/favorites in a new instance.
* New feature on the Video Streaming window to open previously played
streams in a new player instance.
* To make it easier to mobilize Video Streaming subscription across
devices, I've added a new feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Video
Streaming) to Disable or Enable Video Streaming subscriptions.
Disabled subscriptions will not show up in the Video Streaming
Windowed or Home Theater interfaces and automated/manual databases
updates will remain paused until the subscription is re-enabled.
* Added the option to show the current time on the control overlay's
timeline area (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay). The new
letter to show the current time in either of the left/center/right
screen zones is "M".
Changed :
+ When using the Video Streaming Window in "Player API" subscription
mode, clicking on VOD entries will now show a visual "Loading ..."
indicator in the EPG panel to make it clearer that information is
being downloaded.
+ The Control Overlay's timeline can now be used to seek in sub-second
values. Mostly noticeable on short videos.
Fixed :
- Fixed several stability issues related to the Video Streaming window.
- Fixed a case when using the control overlay interface to open a window
(e.g. The playlist editor) would cause the control overlay to become
hidden behind the video window.
- Trying to play an archive (catchup) program from a favorite stream
stopped working in v22 beta 2, showing the live stream instead.
- The "Adv. Options / Playback / Video Streaming" setting for "Playing
a stream clears the playlist" did not function with the playlist
still being cleared with this setting unchecked.
- Showed the wrong Video Streaming window's EPG selected entry
background color for VOD entries.
- Showed the wrong duration for some Video Streaming "Player API"
VOD entries.
- Video Streaming "Player API" subscription VOD entries could show
"null" instead of no text at times where the provider did not include
certain texts such as Title and Plot.
- Closing the Video Streaming Window as stream icons/posters were queued
for download/decoding prevented the icons/posters from being downloaded/
decoded when reopening the window.
- Due to a bug in character encoding, it was impossible to login to
Emby/Jellyfin media servers when using a username or password
containing certain characters.
- The internal screen saver did not activate when hovering with the
mouse cursor over the control bar's timeline area.
- Zoom Player's internal screen saver should now show the time in the
Windows selected regional format (24h/12h).
- Fixed a bug that prevented the timeline thumbnail preview from working
when the preview thumbnail and playing video shared the same resolution.
- Zoom Player's error dialog (in red) did not have a minimum size
limit, causing it to break if the error message was too short.
It also flickered when hovering over the buttons and the buttons
themselves were triggered on mouse "down" instead of "click",
making the dialog less intuitive.
- No Card sharing discussion allowed on this forum.
- Note: Viewing Pay TV without a valid subscription is illegal.
- All the files available here are kept for experimental and educational purpose only.
