About This Software Zoom Player is a Powerful, Flexible and Highly Customizable Media Player and Media Center software for the Windows PC platform. Using our Smart Play technology, more media formats play with less hassle, improved stability and greater performance. Zoom Player's fullscreen navigation interface is based on a simple 5-Key system (up/down/left/right/select). The 5-key system is suitable for easy access and navigation by novices and experts alike.Dedicated support staff & documentationWith Zoom Player, you are not only getting a professional quality software, but also tech support from fans, QA personal and access to the development and art team.To top it off, Zoom Player's documentation is unparallelled in scope, every feature is explained in great detail, the vast number of customization features are easily searchable through the options dialog search feature and selected features are shown & automatically highlighted.Main FeaturesA polished user interface (check the screenshots!) with no bloat!The User-Interface is customizable to the extreme with hundreds of settings that control every aspect of the user experience.Use the XBOX 360 controller (or compatible devices) as a remote control with custom functions assignable to buttons and thumb sticks.Over 300 functions, assignable to keyboard keys, mouse buttons, remote control buttons or controller buttons and thumb sticks.Hardware accelerated video Decoding & DeInterlacing (DXVA, CUDA, QuickSync).Hardware, GPU based high-quality image upscaling algorithms (Bicubic, Lanczos, Jinc), maxing out high-end gaming cards for best-in-class video image quality.Digital Audio output over S/PDIF & HDMI Bit-Streaming to external receivers/amps.An Install Center application which makes life easy by keeping decoding components consistently up to date (optional).A fullscreen navigation interface, easily upgrading the PC into a full Home Theater experience or for use on touch-screen tablets.A Command & Control API that works over TCP/IP (the internet), COM or WinAPI, providing access to custom mods you can create yourself.Decrypted Blu-Ray Movie playback with Subtitle support.Video Wall (Span a single video across multiple monitors).Scene-Cut (Dynamic, Virtual Audio/Video editing).Non-Linear 16:9 (widescreen) / 4:3 (fullscreen) video scaling.Video Orbiting (Prevents screen-burns by slowly moving the video image every few seconds).HTML, Flash and QuickTime Interactivity (Browse content from within Zoom Player, bypassing standard media controls).Create custom Mobile-Phone RingTones from playing media.GuardDog (Automatically restart Zoom Player if the player becomes unresponsive).All popular formats are supported : H.264, XVID, DIVX, DVD, Blu-Ray, FLV, WMV, QuickTime, MPEG 1/2/4, MP3, AAC, DTS, Dolby Digital, FLAC and many more including the recent ones such as Dolby-TrueHD, WebM, OPUS, etc...Click here for the complete feature list.Note: The latest version of DirectX is recommended but not mandatory. We suspect most of you have updated already and we simply did not want to burden you with a bloated download. If you feel it is finally time to upgrade to the latest DirectX, click here. 7aa9394dea Title: Zoom Player 13 : Steam EditionGenre: Audio Production, Utilities, Video ProductionDeveloper:Inmatrix LTDPublisher:Inmatrix LTDRelease Date: 4 Apr, 2014 Zoom Player 13 : Steam Edition Download] [PC] Utterly useless, plays hardly any video files at all. Free players like VLC run rings around this piece of junk.. Only 13 minutes of usage in Steam, but this is my main video-player ever since I bought it.Zoom works like a lot of free players, but the smoothing of movie is where it excells. Playing MP4 files with ZOOM compared to WinAMP and MS Media Player *blegh* is a difference between having a smooth playback and blocks from time to time.Only problem I think is configuration. Somehow the settings have been made way too complicated, even when it comes to simple stuff like 'play all videos from start' are hard to find.... This may be the first media player I've seen that inisists on runnig full screen. I also had Windows 10 default font sizes at 20 and the program's interface was completely broken.Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display. If you are serious about video playback, and need to tweak and customize how video is played then Zoom Player is definitely for you. Sure, VLC and MPC play "everything" and are free. But honestly - their user interface is a mess, it's hard to figure out where to customize playback and settings. They work fine for a basic user who just wants to play a file, but lacks a lot in the options and features.Zoom Player has a ton of features, while making it easy to find the basic settings. The Advanced menu is huge, and it also has a search function to easily find the settings you want which is a huge bonus.The intergrated Install Center allows you to download all the codecs you need to play 99% of all video out there: LAV Filter, FFDShow, MadVR, AC3filter and so on. There's no need to download those huge and confusing "codec-packs" that in my experience just mess up your playback.There's a free version as well, available on the developer site, and it does basically everything the Steam version does, but you get some extra features here, and you are supporting a quality product (which IMO is important as well). The most lacking feature might be the network streaming, like VLC has. But then again VLC was built from the ground up to be a networked media player.I've been using Zoom for years now, and it outclasses all the other media players I've tried.Personally I'd rather get it from the developers themselves, but having it in Steam is a nice addition.. Nice player.But PotPlayer (Successor of KMPlayer) still wins.At least in 1. Subtitle control. (Potplayer auto loads the subtitles with the same filename)2. Language support.3. Video format support.Hope you can catch up with the freeware!. What a nice refreshing attempt to grab the 'player who does everything' -title that has been floating around for quite some time. It doesn't achieve this objective but it sure tries and gets very close. My needs for a generic media player are not exactly heavy but diverse: living room pc. game rig. workshop pc. several laptops. preferably some type of dj/kiosk mode or settings that allow it to be used effectively during parties. This far no setup does a 10/10 job but this one appears to be a good replacement candidate for Winamp on windows machines. This far Winamp+VLC combo has been the best tools i have used since they 'just work' (good enough/always available/rarely fail or start crashing). Yes i have tried other players too but always return back to this ol' workhorse duo sooner or later. I especially liked the nice base interface and the fact that just about anything can be changed and settings can be exported to other machines. Gamepad can also be used for control which is good in living room. edit: forgot one thing. some reviews mention bad video support but after doing 'Advanced interface' -> 'Help' -> 'Check update' and installing some plugins i can play just about anything i have on my rig and all works. So this means VLC is under the loop now too. This one has a better interface though only time will tell if it's better since crashing is what i hate mosly about VLC. If this one works better then it will beat VLC. Demo version coming early next week: We are working on the demo version and hope to have it ready early next week.Stay tuned!. Announcing Zoom Player v9.4.2: Legend :"*" = New"+" = Change"-" = Fix--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.4.2: + The 'Navigation Scrollbar Size' setting can now be set to "Dynamic Mode" which changes the scrollbar's size dynamically based on the interface's width, restoring the previous default scrollbar behavior. + The icon next to the 'Play all files in this Directory' and 'Randomly Play all files in this Directory' has been changed from a checkbox to a play icon. + The notification about bad sub-types in a smart play profile will no longer appear by default. These messages will now only appear if the 'Show Smart Play graph creation errors' setting is enabled.---* The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml. Announcing Zoom Player v13.7.1: Hi Everyone,This release is all about bug fixes and many were fixed:+ Adding chapters using the chapter editor will now instantly show the chapter's position in the timeline (if timeline display is enabled).- Fixed a bug in countries with a comma decimal symbol where the media library thumbnails text height and spacing got truncated.For example:A thumbnail's Text Height of "1.95%" resulted in an actual text height of "1%".- Loading ".PLS/.XSPF" playlists where the first item in the playlist did not play (e.g. "server down") would trigger an infinite loop and Zoom Player froze.- The inactive navigation txt-lines background was not being drawn.- The "I" key will again close the information dialog if it is visible.- The media library category sorting order and last folder position could get reset under some conditions due to insufficient registry memory allocation.- Setting the control bar to appear with a fixed width while infullscreen did not show the control bar in the right position (or at all) on secondary monitors.- Setting the control bar to appear at the top or bottom of the screen did not show the control bar in the right position (or at all) on secondary monitors.- The media library category editor did not show the currently enabled scraping mode, thumbnail aspect ratio and thumbnail columns when a language pack was installed.- The playlist editor line-spacing did not work well with every font.- Slight adjustment to the media library's thumbnail text drawing to better account for fonts with less-uniform character heights.- It was possible for a new components/filters notification to trigger without new components being available. It was triggered due to a new version of Zoom Player being available on the install center. Since player updates has its own notification, this message is redundant.If you missed a version, check out the change list archive:http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml. Zoom Player : Steam Edition is now DRM free, here's what you need to know: Hi!I'm happy to announce, the DRM-Free version is now live!Please note that you must initially launch Zoom Player from steam. after the first run, you do not need the steam client running to launch Zoom Player.As an additional benefit from the removal of DRM, two new features are now possible:1. Running multiple instances of Zoom Player.2. Saving Zoom Player's configuration to a local file (useful when running multiple separate configurations or when porting configuration between computers).. Announcing Zoom Player v11: Hi Everyone,It's been nearly 8 months since Zoom Player v10 has been release and these 8 months have been all about making Zoom Player even more polished and user friendly.To begin with, the media library has undergone a major face-lift with the new Thumbnail view mode, which is now the new default (but can be disabled, see below).A lot of work went into ensuring the media scraping code (grabbing screenshots and meta-data from media in the background) is smooth and stable, especially when dealing with incomplete or corrupted media files.The new interface is simple, flexible, sophisticated and optimized to run smoothly on even lower end 7" windows tablets.I have re-written the media library documentation to introduce the new thumbnail view feature and it includes new quick usage guide screenshots to illustrate how the thumbnail view interface is used as well as a few usability tricks to help make the user experience more enjoyable.Beyond that, Zoom Player can start up up to 40% faster, The default skins (Onyx & Alba) now features mouse-hover animation to draw the eye's attention for an improved user experience and you can now switch background images for customizable fullscreen navigation interfaces without leaving fullscreen navigation.What's more, the new thumbnail view interface is the starting point for v12 which will include an API to add 3rd party media scraping plug-ins as well as a default plug-in for The Movie Database to automate online scraping of additional meta-data and movie posters.Please leave feedback, especially with regards to the new media library thumbnail view mode.Check out the complete change list for v11:http://inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml. Announcing Zoom Player v9.4: Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix--- What's new in Zoom Player v9.4: * New feature to load DirectShow filters directly from a DLL even if the filter is not registered/installed on the system (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Info & DLL Paths). The external DLL paths are searched when Zoom Player tries to create a filter that is not registered with the operating system. Note: + All paths are relative to Zoom Player's EXE's folder. + Some filters may require registry entries to work. * New "<" icon next to a fullscreen navigation interface's icon/title to provide a clear visual indicator that clicking the location navigates to the previous navigation page. * New setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to set the scrollbar's width. * New clickable icons for "Play all files in this directory" and "Randomly Play all files in this directory". * New "Play" icon next to playable entries in multiple fullscreen navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc). * You can now select MadVR as the Windows Media DRM playback video renderer. + Large playlist load time has been optimized by up to 200%. + You can now single-click previous directory icon to go to the previous directory. + New "Unknown" icon now used with unknown file types in file listing fullscreen navigation interfaces (media library, file browser, etc). + When loading a playlist comprised of multiple playlists, each with a sort method specified in the playlist, the playlists will now be individually sorted and appended instead of the final playlist being sorted. + The fullscreen navigation scrollbar width is no longer dependant on the width of the dialog as that didn't make sense rotating displays (such as tablets). The scroll bar width is now fixed size. + The icon used to access the fullscreen navigation interface's functions page has been modified to more clearly indicate the action taken by clicking the icon. + On the fullscreen navigation function pages of the media library and file browsing interfaces, on the "Add to Playlist" entry, the icon has been changed from a right arrow to a playlist icon to better indicate that clicking the icon opens the playlist navigation interface. + The playlist icon has been replaced with a new, polished design. - The "Create Contact Sheet" feature got completely broken in v9.3. - The fullscreen navigation interfaces did not resize when rotating the screen orientation. - When playing a media with external audio track files, the used filters may not have been released properly from memory, causing all sorts of possible issues (for example, MadVR would not release it's overlay, covering the video area when playing audio files afterwards). - The fullscreen playlist navigation interface's font did not adjust in size to match the "Navigation Line Count" setting and was not perfectly centered within each line. - The Alt+"S" keyboard macro that opens the subtitle configuration page did not work if the "XySubFilter" subtitle renderer filter was used. - When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display preview thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the thumbnails would always appear below the timeline, even when there was space above it. - When using a detached control bar on the primary screen to display preview thumbnails from a video playing on a secondary screen, the thumbnails would initially appear on the secondary until the mouse was moved at least 1 pixel over the timeline. - The previous fullscreen navigation customization settings were not restored if the options dialog was closed using the "Cancel" button. - Resizing the fullscreen station navigation interface width could cause the station name to overlap the station format and bitrate text fields. - The Install Center would list an update as available even if a newer version was already installed if the update's build number was higher than the currently installed version's build number, for example: v9.3.0.102 would appear newer than v9.4.0.3 - The "DefaultSettings.exe" file did not reset the Steam Edition's settings.--- * The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at: http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml. Announcing Zoom Player v14.2: Highlights: New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface. New Direct3D 11 hardware accelerated decoding path. Play History enhancements. Optimizations. Bug fixes.What's new in Zoom Player v14.2: * New "Favorites" fullscreen navigation interface. Any media can be added to the favorites list through the media library or file browsing navigational interfaces. Please note that this change required resetting the "Navigation interfaces on main navigator" feature to it's default value (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation). * When using the "Open URL" function, a new "Clear playlist" checkbox is now available (previously the playlist was always cleared). * With LAV Filters v0.71, a D3D11 hardware decoding mode has been added. You can instruct LAV to use this mode automatically by setting the option under "Adv. Options / Playback / Video". + The "Play History database may be corrupted" message will no longer appear unless the play history file is actually corrupted. + You can now set the "Retain Media Playback History for" value to 99999 days (~2738 years), up from the original 9999 days (~27 years), just in case one of you finds immortality and wished to use Zoom Player forever. + The torrents plugin should now shutdown a little faster if Zoom Player closes while the plugin was fetching an updated file list. - Fixed a bug that prevented the previously active audio track from being restored when re-playing a video with multiple audio tracks. - Opening a playlist from navigation interfaces loaded the playlist but did not automatically start playing it. - The fullscreen navigation's text Anti-Aliasing setting was being reset after restarting the player. - Bug Fixes.Support Zoom Player development on PatreonWould you like to help new features become a reality sooner rather than later? Join us by supporting Zoom Player on Patreon[www.patreon.com].As a patron you will receive early access to exclusive content, input on future development and the warm fuzzy feeling you get in your heart for helping to make Zoom Player great.. Announcing Zoom Player v9.1: --- What's new in Zoom Player v9.1.0: * The left mouse click can now be set to "Mouse Gestures". * You can now assign 4 mouse gestures (up/down/left/right) when gesturing with the mouse cursor while holding down the left mouse button or by swiping a finger on touch displays a forth of the way across the screen. By default the assigned functions are: Left : Medium seek backward Right : Medium seek forward Up : Previous Track Down : Next Track All gestures can be assigned a custom function in the MAX version. * xySubFilter support for full resolution subtitle rendering when playing lower resolution video content. MadVR must be used as the video renderer for xySubFilter to function. Please note that the current version of xySubFilter may break ffdshow subtitle rendering if the xySubFilter filter is registered. * The XInput (XBOX360 and compatible controllers) interface can now assign Zoom-in and Zoom-out functions to the left and right Trigger buttons. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that displays chapter points on the timeline. When the mouse hovers over a chapter point, a pop-up shows the chapter name. This feature requires a skin that includes additional chapter-point graphical elements. The Onyx and Alba skins include this support. * New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver) to always disable the windows screen saver and monitor powerdown while Zoom Player is running. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enables the Mouse's middle click (wheel click) to reset DirectShow Zooming. * New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse) that enable the Mouse's left click combined with holding either the Alt or Ctrl keys to pan the DirectShow Zoomed video (panning is currently limited to the EVR video renderer). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse Wheel) that allows the DirectShow Zoom In/Out functions to be assigned to the mouse wheel. * New extended "exDirectShowZoom" function used to specify a zoom-in factor when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike standard Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed mode. * New "fnDSZoomIn" and "fnDSZoomOut" functions that Zoom into and out of the video area when using a DirectShow video renderer. Unlike standard Zoom-in, DirectShow based zooming works even in windowed mode. * New Comm API message #1705 notifying of a subtitle stream change. * New Comm API message #1605 notifying of an audio stream change. * New "TimelineChapters" and "TimelineCBarChapters" skin scripting functions used to specify coordinates for the timeline chapter marks. + Optimized skin parsing code. + Comm API message #1702 (get subtitle stream names), only worked in DVD mode. It now works for media mode subtitle steams as well. + The 'Current Position' is now horizontally centered in the chapter editor. + The font size used when creating contact sheets was too small, making the text unreadable when creating lower resolution contract sheet images. + Restored subtitle compatibility with the latest version of ffdshow. Using the ffdshow subtitle rendering option should now work. - Playing media files with both embedded and external subtitle tracks with the embedded subtitle tracks set as both not-default and not-forced, the next subtitle track function would require several tries to properly show the correct subtitle track and at times, the OSD pop-up may have shown the wrong active subtitle track name. - Adding a chapter point to a media file would list the new chapter in the wrong order within the chapter editor. - Removing chapters using the chapter editor did not prompt to erase the chapter files when all chapters were removed, causing the chapters to re-appear after re-loading the media. - Using the next/previous chapter buttons would pop an action OSD containing character encoding instead of the actual character. For example "&comma" instead of ",". - The 'Show OSD filename when opening a new file' setting stopped working. - Detaching the Control Bar when using MadVR as the video renderer would cause the control bar to appear twice under certain circumstances. - Setting the control bar to appear at the top/bottom of the screen instead of the video area would not work when using MadVR as the video renderer. - Disabling the "Auto Play" setting broke the "Automatically restore the last media position on replay" feature. - With "Auto-Size User Interface to fit Source Video Resolution (on load)" and "Limit Auto-Size to User Interface Height" settings enabled, playing a video while fullscreen and then exiting fullscreen would have resulted in a window the same size as the source video's full resolution instead of only adjusting the height to compensate for the aspect ratio. - Searching for some buttons using the options dialog's search feature would prevent the searched buttons from being clicked until the search dialog was closed first. - Enabling the 'Always start with media subtitles hidden' setting would cause a 'Play' OSD to pop-up when playing a media file containing subtitles. - The current time and date did not appear on any fullscreen navigation interface based on the virtual keyboard (Rename, New Folder, etc).. Announcing Zoom Player v14.3: Highlights: Enhanced SHOUTcast station browsing. Enhanced stream selection. UI/UX enhancements Bug fixes.What's new in Zoom Player v14.3: * You can now perform sorting (by Listeners, Name, BitRate & Format) in the SHOUTcast station browser dialog. + When the up/down arrow keys are assigned to next/previous chapter or track, the up/down keys were not set logically, now pressing down will go to the next track/chapter and pressing up will go to the previous track/chapter. + Opening a YouTube channel with no internet connection now shows a refresh option instead of a message that the category is empty. + Using the 'Open subtitle file' to add a subtitle to the currently playing media now initializes the file selection dialog to open in the playing media's folder. + The stream selection fullscreen navigation interface will no longer automatically close when switching between tracks. + You can now open the stream selection fullscreen navigation interface even if no media is currently playing. - Due to a language file that was not updated in version 14.2, the titles on navigation interfaces showed the wrong title. - Pressing the "Load More" button in media library categories with a plugin capable of showing multiple pages (e.g. YouTube) would cause the "refresh" option to disappear if there were no more media to list. - The RSS feed media library plugin was not showing the correct publishing dates for some RSS feed (e.g. YouTube RSS). - Trying to load a playlist through the Open URL (Shift+"U") dialog failed with an error message. - The media library playlist plugin did not function properly under some conditions, reporting an empty category. - The media library playlist plugin did not use a clean category name when a playlist URL was used instead of an actual file.Support Zoom Player development on PatreonWould you like to help new features become a reality sooner rather than later? Join us by supporting Zoom Player on Patreon[www.patreon.com].As a patron you will receive early access to exclusive content, input on future development and the warm fuzzy feeling you get in your heart for helping to make Zoom Player great.
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