Est. in 1999, Zoom Player provides the most impactful media player and Home Theater experience for Windows. Beautiful skins, many UI/UX tweaking options, smooth playback, plays all the format (including streaming options such as YouTube & IPTV), a powerful media library and much more, check it out!
Change List from v19 release candidate 1:
* The hint pop-up that appears when hovering with the mouse
cursor over a skinned user interface button now includes the
keyboard macro used to activate the button.
* You can now rotate the playing video by 90 degree increments
using MPC-VR as the video renderer by pressing Shift+"R".
* Subtitle synchronization adjustments now works when using the
MPC-VR video renderer.
* New "fnMPCVRinfo" Zoom Player function to toggle MPC-VR's video
rendering information overlay. The new function is assigned by
default to the Ctrl+"J" keyboard macro.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC) to enable SHOUTcast
playback using the libVLC media engine. I do not recommend enabling this
setting, the way libVLC handles SHOUTcast playback is sub-par compared
to the default DirectShow media engine.
Watch me code this feature live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zav2jFDmmjs
* You can now press Ctrl+"C" with an IPTV EPG program selected to copy
the program name to the Windows Clipboard.
* New "Configure" button in the Advanced Options' Audio Renderer selection
dialog. Mainly useful when using the MPC Audio Renderer option.
+ The IPTV window's active stream list is now restored when re-opening.
+ The Open-Source media library YouTube plugins will notify you when
Zoom Player's YouTube API key quota has been reached.
Since YouTube is limiting API calls, you can work-around this issue by
creating a personal API key using the instructions in Zoom Player's blog:
https://www.inmatrix.com/blog/a_guide_to_creating_a_personal_youtube_api_key.shtml
+ The download tracking home theater interface keyboard macro has been
moved from Ctrl+"J" to Ctrl+"X".
+ The keyboard editor dialog now appears faster, resizes faster and you can
press a key combination to instantly find its current assignment or use
the search box to search by the feature description assigned to a key.
Watch me code this feature live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zav2jFDmmjs
+ The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) now displays real-time video
rendering information when MPC-VR is used as the video renderer.
+ The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) now prefixes a "~" symbol
before the frame rate (FPS) value when the frame rate is not properly
detected in the media file (can happen quite often with formats that
use variable frame rate).
- Adding new Chapters (bookmarks) for existing media files would add a
second "No title" ghost entry that did not function properly.
- When an IPTV playlist contained multiple streams using the exact same
name and ID, but with a different URL or Archive Catch-up source, playing
such a stream would highlight all the streams as "playing".
- Filenames with special characters did not open correctly when using
libVLC as the media engine.
- Setting the timeline to display the media's remaining time would result
in displaying odd values when streaming live content that doesn't update
the stream's duration. Now "??:??" is displayed instead.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the last play position being restored when
using libVLC as the media engine.
- Media Chapters were not loaded correctly in regions where the decimal
separator character is ",".
Watch me fix this feature live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zav2jFDmmjs
- Trying to play a bad file or URL using the libVLC media engine would not
fail properly, instead leaving the player in a sort of limbo state.
- When using the libVLC media engine with the "On Playlist Complete" setting
set to "Auto-Rewind", the media would start playing and did not pause at
the media's start as expected.
- The information dialog ("I" keyboard macro) did not show the correct
resolution with some clips when using MadVR or MPCV-VR as the video
renderers.
- Fixed a case were closing and re-opening the IPTV dialog after playing
a channel would not highlight the correct channel if there were multiple
channels with the same name.
- Fixed a glitch that showed new an IPTV EPG/Playlist are ready to refresh
message and enabling the refresh button after initiating and completing
an update download from the options dialog.
- If two IPTV channels share the same channel name and EPG entry, playing
one of the entries could later highlight the identical program entry on
another channel as playing.
- Fixed a few cosmetic glitches in the default Charcoal skin.
[url=https://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta_19.shtml]Click here for the complete change list[/url]
To opt in for beta access, right click Zoom Player in Steam and choose properties. Go to the betas section and type the following code:
ZoomPlayerBeta
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