Zoom Player v20 beta 3 has been released

Zoom Player : Steam Edition

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!

[h2]Change List from v20 beta 2:[/h2] * The default IPTV skin now includes new buttons to open the Home Theater Media Library and Media Server Browser interfaces. These buttons replace the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons which work on a technology that is not really practical with streaming content. * New (optional) color Hue adjustment control bar buttons, including Increase Hue, Decrease Hue and Reset Hue. * New (optional) control bar button to open the Media Server Browser. * New TCP/IP API command #3210 that returns information on whether the user accepted or canceled a file delete request. * When using the Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog to show information on the clicked entry, clicking the thumbnail shifts the image to cover the entire screen for a close up look. * The Media Server Browser window now includes a search feature that works on several levels. In the "Home" level, you can pick which server to search and the entire server is searched. When inside a category, only the contents of the category are searched. Search results are color-coded for clarity. You can customize the colors in the advanced options dialog (Playback / Media Server). Depending on the Media Server used, the returned result may differ. For example, when searching the entire server, Emby will return Movies, TV Series, Seasons and Episodes, including if the search term is only in the show name and not an episode's title. Plex and Jellyfin on the other hand, will only return Movies, TV Series and Episodes that the search term matches the entry's title. Episodes and Seasons that do not contain the Series name in the title, will not be listed. Plex is even worse when searching within a category, it does not such recursively so it's not working much better than the filtering feature. * The Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog now shows additional meta-data whenever the server returns such information: 1. Duration 2. Star Rating 3. Average Bitrate (e.g. "4200kbps") 4. Content Rating (e.g. "TV-MA"). * You can now re-order the Media Server list (Adv. Options / Playback Media Server) to better control the default server entry on the Media Server Browser's search feature. * When adding a Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) without specifying a port, the default local port number is used automatically ("32400" for Plex and "8096" for Emby or Jellyfin). * Two new functions added to the XBOX controller Stick controls (Adv. Options / Interface / XInput) to control the volume using and seek forward/backward a number of seconds. * You can now assign any Zoom Player function to the XBOX controller trigger buttons. The default custom values are seeking backward/forward. + The IPTV setup window (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) now allows you to set an auto-update time that includes a fractional value, allowing the database to be updated more than once per day. The minimal automatic update value is approximately 30 minutes. + A message explaining libVLC was not installed on your computer accidentally displayed when libVLC was installed but failed to open a file or stream. + You can now select and play multiple items directly from the play history window (Alt+"H" keyboard shortcut). + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to Home Theater list interfaces where previously the text was simply cut off. + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the playlist editor. + Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the meta-data display area when playing audio tracks. + The Options window's Search feature will now start showing results only from the second letter searched, typing that first character returned a lot of results which wasn't as snappy as I wanted and there's nothing to search for that is one letter long, so it didn't make sense either. - The IPTV's "Force http" Xtream Codes setting did not actually force "http" connections if the server reported it supports "https", but doesn't actually have a server listening on the https port. - Fixed a bug that prevented some channel icons from being displayed in the IPTV player window. - Fixed a bug that prevented the IPTV player window from being closed after playing a stream and then closing and re-opening the IPTV player window. - Fixed an issue that prevented the libVLC media engine from playing media files containing Emoji characters. - Fixed an issue that under some conditions caused the media library thumbnail text to render incorrectly, either not utilizing the available space or actually drawing over the thumbnail. - Fixed loading ".Cue" external chapter files not loading the correct chapter positions. - The Media Library's "Playlist" plugin did not display the media's title when listing ".M3U" playlists. - Opening the options dialog now resets the IPTV player cache to make sure changes are updated when re-opening the IPTV player window. - The XBOX controller functions were not being triggered at the correct speed and in the case of analog input (stick, triggers), the function did not repeat if the stick did not move. [url=https://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_beta_2000.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 You will be granted access to the latest beta. You might need to close and reopen Steam to see the changes.