Zoom Player : Steam Edition news & patch notes

Highlights of v22.2:

• Video Streaming Home Theater Search
• ZP Remote Neo, Free, Open-Source Android remote control
• yt-dlp integration to support Instagram, X, Tiktok streaming
• Several Video Streaming optimizations and important fixes
• Quality of life enhancements
• Bug fixes

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * Introducing Home Theater Video Streaming search! I implemented a new "Search" section to the Video Streaming Home Theater interface that allows you to search for Live Streams, Live Programs, VOD Movies and VOD TV Shows. * ZP Remote Neo is now live on the google play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inmatrix.zpremote.neo Features : * Control and easily switch between multiple PCs running Zoom Player. * Fully customizable button layout (position, size, background shape, background color, horizontal/vertical spacing). * Navigate and play items from the playlist directly on your phone. * Access to 100's of Zoom Player Standard, Extended and Navigation functions. * Control the remote PC's mouse with a virtual track-pad. * Multiple button styles & tap effects. * 100% Private & Open-Source! no Ads! no Tracking! I am releasing ZP Remote Neo as a free, open-source add-on to enhance the Zoom Player experience. Please support my work by purchasing or gifting licenses. * I've added support for YouTube DirectShow/libVLC streaming based on the yt-dlp open source project: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp yt-dlp is a command line tool that can be used to scan YouTube video URLs and provide the direct Video/Audio streams. In Zoom Player, you can now configure YouTube playback to use either the official YouTube IFRAME Javascript player. DirectShow media engine using yt-dlp or DirectShow directly (in case you want to use a DirectShow component such as "3DYD Youtube Source"). You can pick the YouTube media engine under "Adv. Options / Playback" and in the case of yt-dlp, you can specify the exact command line Zoom Player uses with yt-dlp to list the stream URLs. Verify that the path to where you have yt-dlp installed is correct and you have any yt-dlp prerequisites installed. For context, the official IFRAME Javascript player is the fastest and most responsive, but since it's embedded in a Web Browser (Microsoft's WebView2) and doesn't use the DirectShow media engine, it lacks support for higher quality video scalers (MadVR/MPC-VR) and custom audio output device. * Beyond YouTube, yt-dlp supports finding streams on many other website such as Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud, Twitter/X and many many more : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md In the "Advanced Options / Playback" section, you can now specify website URLs Zoom Player should pass through yt-dlp before trying to play the stream. Take into account that playback from such sources may not be perfect. * I've added a "Currently playing" icon next to the stream name in the Video Streaming Home Theater interface. * The Video Streaming Group Manager has been enhanced with support for selecting multiple groups to hide by matching a name. For example, if your provider includes many groups in french and you don't speak the language and each french group contains "FR |", you can just type this text to select every matching group. * New "/UseLibVLC" command line parameter that instructs Zoom Player to try using libVLC as the media engine for the next media played. * New "Mouse Hover" color effect for the control overlay's timeline. You can fully customize the colors in the advanced options dialog under "Interface / Control Overlay". * New "Use fuzzy logic when indexing the Episode Guide" Video Streaming setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video Streaming). Disabled by default. In previous versions Zoom Player always used a fuzzy name matching logic when trying to match the stream index of a Stream Playlist with the Electronic Program Guide (EPG). However, using fuzzy matching logic is a lot slower than a direct match, causing the global program search feature to become impractically slow when dealing with a massive amount of streams which is the reason I disabled fuzzy matching by default and created a new setting which you manually enabled. For comparison, on the same playlist and program guide, using fuzzy matching logic took over 2 minutes while a direct match took 4 seconds. The results were identical since the provider's Playlist and EPG databases were not too messy. For greater context, regardless of using either a fuzzy or direct match, the results are cached so fuzzy-matching's long processing time is only triggered once per provider and repeated global program searches should usually take 1-2 seconds on even large databases. * I wrote new code to load the Playlist -> EPG indexing code to run in a background thread as soon as you open either the Windowed or Home Theater versions of the Video Streaming interface. This means that performing a global program search should return results a lot faster in most usage cases. * Made the rotate video function accessible as a control overlay button which you can assign to any of the 4 control overlay button zones. * Added support for the APV format. Advanced Professional Video is a high-efficiency, intra-frame only and visually lossless video codec developed by Samsung for professional smartphone recording and editing. It offers 20% better storage efficiency than traditional codecs (according to Samsung), supports 10-16 bit depths, 4K/8K resolution. Please note that APV playback requires LAV Filters v0.81 or newer. This version of LAV Filters may not be included in this release due to bug reports I've seen on the LAV release post over at the doom9 forums. * New "2800" TCP/IP API command to force the next media to load with libVLC instead of DirectShow. May not apply if DirectShow isn't used to load the media. + Filtering streams (searching) in the Video Streaming Windowed interface should be significantly faster, to the point you may want to disable the "Filter streams when pressing enter (otherwise filter on each key stroke)" setting. + The "Filter streams/programs when pressing enter" Video Streaming setting has been changed to "Filter streams when pressing enter" and now only applied to streams and no longer to program searches which now always require pressing enter to search. + Scrolling through the Video Streaming Home Theater interface should be a bit smoother. + Optimized EPG indexing by removing EPG channel entries that did not contain any program entries. + When creating Windows Shortcuts to streams from the Video Streaming windowed dialog's right click menu, if libVLC is set as the playback engine for Video Streaming, the new "/UseLibVLC" command line parameter will be included in the new shortcut to ensure Zoom Player uses the correct media engine when the shortcut is launched. - Fixed multiple bugs in the Video Streaming Episode Guide to Playlist indexing cache which could inflate the cache file with duplicate entries, slowing down future indexing and global program searches. - Some Video Streaming VOD movies showed a wrong duration due to bad database input by some service providers (entered minutes instead of seconds). I fixed this by using a validation against an alternative JSON text field. - Fixed a crash when trying to browse a VOD TV Show's episode listing with some TV Shows that had a different way of encoding episode meta-data information. - Enabling the "Pre-load navigation gfx" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Home Theater / Settings) could have triggered a crash under some conditions, causing the home theater fullscreen interfaces to glitch. - Fixed a crash when trying to use an external audio track with Zoom Player's DSP filter disabled. - Fixed a crash when trying to open the Video Streaming window and then closing Zoom Player before the Video Streaming window had a chance to appear. - Performing a Video Streaming global program search now waits for the EPG to finish loading first. Previously a search before the EPG finished parsing would return partial results. - Opening and then closing the Video Streaming Group Manager interface would cause visual artifacts when the Video Streaming Home Theater was in focus on the Stream or EPG lists. - Fixed a media library bug that triggered after resetting filters, causing clicks on the scrollbar to register as thumbnail clicks.

Highlights of v22.0.1:

• Fix Video Streaming user interface freeze
• Quality of life enhancements
• Bug fixes

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix + You can now resize the Video Streaming Windowed interface to a much smaller height. + Changed the default network connection timeout for Video Streaming database updates from 5 seconds to 60 seconds. - Fixed a complete freeze when trying to open either the Windowed or Home Theater Video Streaming interfaces with some service providers due to a bug in how the playlist meta-data was cached. - Fixed an issue that triggered the Control Overlay showing when Zoom Player's window got focus, causing home theater interfaces to close unexpectedly.

Highlights of v22:

• New Video Streaming Home Theater interface
• Many Video Streaming optimizations and enhancements
• Easily move Zoom Player between monitors
• Quality of life enhancements
• Important bug fixes

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * If you have Zoom Player setup to use a local settings file, please disable this setting (Adv. Options / System) before upgrading. Once upgraded, you can re-enable the setting. Not following this procedure may result in your settings being reset. This issue does NOT apply to Zoom Player MAX. * I have designed an entirely new Video Streaming Home Theater interface. You can access the new interface by: 1. Using the right-click menu under "Home Theater". 2. Using the Shift+"G" keyboard shortcut. 3. Navigating through the home theater main interface (assuming the Video Streaming setting is enabled in Zoom Player's advanced options). 4. By assigning it as a button in the control overlay's advanced options page. What works: 1. Playing streams. 2. Playing VOD movies & series. 3. Playing archive (catch-up) programs. 4. EPG Grid & List view modes. 5. Multiple playlists. 6. VOD movies / series meta-data information and posters (basic). 7. You should be able to easily control and navigate the interface using a mouse, keyboard or remote control. 8. The Streaming Video Home Theater interface is fully customizable. From colors to element sizes, press the top bar's paint brush button to begin customizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXbFB5OWyM What's coming in next : 1. Search / Filtering. 2. Playing stream indicator 3. A prettier VOD Movies / TV Series thumbnail with backdrop display. 4. Manual refresh Playlist/EPG database button. 5. Fancy animations. * Wrote a Video Streaming Player API meta-data scraping spider that uses multiple threads to download and cache VOD meta-data such as descriptions, cast, director, etc). Specify how many threads in Advanced options under "Playback / Video Streaming". The default value is "4" and when choosing a higher value, consider how much you're willing to overload your content provider's servers or even risk having them block your IP address (most probably won't notice a higher value). * The Video Streaming Windowed interface (Ctrl+"G" keyboard shortcut) icon download/decoding/resizing code is now heavily multi-threaded, freeing the user interface to be more responsive and icons to load faster. The updated code supports displaying WebP icons/thumbnails and uses a place-holder if no image is found or if an unsupported format is used (e.g. SVG). If WebP icons are not showing, make sure you have Microsoft's WebP extension installed: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PG2DK419DRG SVG icon support may come eventually if Microsoft decides to release an extension that supports it. * Video Streaming M3U playlist URLs and Player API JSON URLs are now automatically parsed and cached in the background as soon as the download completes to ensure the fastest operation when opening the Video Streaming Windowed or Home Theater interfaces. * Implemented a Video Streaming M3U caching system that automatically caches M3U files as soon as they're added as a video streaming playlist sources. Since cached parsing speed is over 200% faster, initially opening the Video Streaming Window or Home Theater interfaces should feel faster when using M3U sources. * Rewrote the Video Streaming's Player API JSON playlist caching code to a binary format, increasing both reliability and performance. * The Video Streaming's Player API JSON playlist parsing now processes the "Live / Series / Movie" JSON playlists concurrently using multiple threads, increasing parsing speed by 20-50% depending on your system and content provider. * Window's keyboard shortcut to move the active window across multiple monitors did not work well if Zoom Player had an overlay/window interface visible, instead of moving Zoom Player, Windows' keyboard shortcut would move the open window or overlay interface instead. Another issue with this Windows keyboard shortcut is that it simply doesn't work well if Zoom Player is in fullscreen mode and you are moving the user interface between two different resolution monitors. To work-around both issues. I've created two keyboard shortcuts of my own: Ctrl+Shift+"]" - Move Zoom Player's interface to the next monitor Ctrl+Shift+"

Highlights of v21.5.1:

• Optimized IPTV database parsing, now 20-50% faster
• Enhanced keyboard shortcut (F1) dialog
• Fixed window order glitches
• Quality of life enhancements
• Bug fixes

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix + 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. - 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.

Highlights of v21.5:

• 18 new functions added to the control overlay button options
• Faster IPTV database caching with a simpler refresh option
• Support more IPTV archive (catchup) streaming and Grouping formats
• Visual enhancements to the IPTV Player window and EPG Grid
• Modern UI error dialog and please wait windows
• "Tab" Home Theater navigation feature
• PLEX/Emby/Jellyfin same media multi-source streaming option
• Quality of life enhancements
• Bug fixes

What's new in v21.5:

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * 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. + 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 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 "@" 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.

Change List from v21.4:

New :

* 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 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. * 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) * 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.

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. - There were some cases when trying to use the media library category editor to add a YouTube channel where channel URLs using "@\" were not identified correctly and other channels were added instead. - 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. ""). - 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. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Highlights of v21.4:

• Enhanced IPTV setup wizard
• Media Server (PLEX/Emby/Jellyfin) collections support
• Quality of life enhancements.
• Fixed window snap-back when crossing between monitors
• Other bug fixes

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * 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. + 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. - 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 TV 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.

Highlights of v21.3:

• More Modern UI customization options
• Enhanced accuracy meta-data scraping (TV / Movies)
• Simplified multi-playlist management
• Edit multiple media library meta-data entries
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * Updated TheMovieDB meta-data scraper for TV and Movies. There have been too many bad results lately, so I dug in and rewrote the matching algorithm. The new algorithm is much more accurate, especially if you specify a release year in the folder/filename. I've also added a new setting to pick a specific spoken language preference (disabled by default). Setting this value will not break foreign language content, just give a preference if there's two entries with very similar details except for the spoken language. If you still see incorrect listings, the best recourse would be to specify a release year in the folder/file name, for example "My Movie" would be renamed to "My Movie.2005" or "My Movie (2005)". You may need to close and restart Zoom Player as newly scraped TV shows are cached in system memory until you restart Zoom Player (only need to do this after failed scrapes). * The Color Control Overlay has been enhanced: 1. Hover hint showing the exact brightness/contrast/saturation/hue value before you apply it. 2. You can now use the mouse wheel to adjust the values. 3. You can use the right/left arrow keys to adjust values even if an icon is highlighted and not the bar itself. 4. Adjusting values using the keyboard pops a hint showing the new value. * The control overlay now supports color tinting the timeline/volume knob separately from the buttons (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay). * The setting that controls the control overlay's timeline text display layout has been replaced with a new system for specifying the timeline text. If you previously set a non-default layout, you will need to set it again using the new system. You can now pick which information appears in the left/center/right areas of the timeline text by specifying one or more of the following fields: - Current Position - Duration - Remaining Time - Media Resolution - Current Resolution - Media Title (or file name) Allowing you to display any of these fields in any order and in any position. * I've added an "Update" menu option to the playlist editor's multi-playlist menu, making it much simpler to update previously added playlists. * You can now select multiple media library entries and then use the meta-data editor available through the right-click context menu or the functions page accessible by clicking the gear icon to edit multiple entries in one action, there are the fields you can edit: - Sort Title - Personal Rating - Personal Note - Genres - Tags - Collections * To quickly select items using the mouse, I've added a "Select / Unselect" option to the right click context menu when used within the media library. * You can now use the media library's cache meta-data editor on media that failed to scrape. + The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) now uses mediainfo.dll to extract the playing frame-rate if an accurate frame-rate value cannot be derived from the media engine directly. + The info dialog now gives mediainfo.dll more time to parse the media file to ensure the information it returns is more accurate. + Opening the playlist editor or equalizer dialogs will not automatically hide the control overlay now. + Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline when Zoom Player is not the focused application no longer shows the current position hint as showing the hint causes Zoom Player's window to pop to the front, which can be annoying. - Dragging and Dropping media from other applications did not work if you tried dropping the media on the control overlay. - Using Modern UI and attaching the playlist editor to the main user interface and then dragging the main window to move it caused the playlist editor to snap to the left side of the main window instead of moving along with it. - The IPTV window's "Filter EPG" mode drop-down list was not initially set when using a language file to translate zoom player to other languages. - Switching to fullscreen to a secondary monitor using the Classic UI interface could have resulted in the skin's buttons remaining visible in fullscreen mode. - Trying to play a network shared path over 260 characters would fail if the "Do not check if a file exists when adding to the playlist" setting was disabled (the file exist check did not function with the long network path). - The DirectShow Zoom function did not zoom into the mouse cursor position accurately when used from the mouse wheel in windowed mode. - The keyboard shortcut listing dialog did not adjust itself properly for higher DPI displays, forcing you to manually resize the window to see the content properly. - The keyboard layout editor's key-edit dialog now appears centered over the the keyboard layout editor's window, fixes an issue where the ok/cancel buttons were partially truncated on a high DPI monitor and makes more space for translations. - The "Clicking the video area with another app active only takes focus" setting did not work when the control overlay was visible. - Under some circumstances, the pop-up action OSD (Play/Pause/Volume/etc) text may have appeared cropped when using a language file. - Two entries in the options dialog's "Help / Export" menu were not translated properly to other languages. - The entries in the IPTV's menu were not translated properly to other languages. - The entries in the IPTV's EPG Grid menu were not translated properly to other languages. - The Media Library's category editor's right-click menu was not translated properly to other languages. - One entry on the control bar's context menu was not translated properly to other languages. - Under some conditions, the EPG Grid window could appear behind the IPTV window. - Under some conditions, the IPTV Customization window could appear behind the IPTV window. - Under some conditions, the IPTV EPG Grid's Customization window could appear behind the EPG Grid's window. - You couldn't use the Shift+"O" keyboard shortcut to close the color control overlay interface. - I'm not sure if it's an NVIDIA issue or Microsoft, but when using the EVR video renderer, the color control ranges for the Contrast value are reported incorrectly, causing the default widget not to appear centered and the lowest value not to apply correctly. I wrote a work- around to fix this issue. - The cached meta-data editor window could appear in between the main user interface and the control overlay. - Using the cached meta-data editor could result in duplicate personal note and personal rating values added into the cache file.

Highlights of v21.2:

• Enhanced Modern UI customization options
• Automated IPTV TV VOD episode queuing
• Browse IPTV stream history using next/previous track
• Enhanced IPTV Group Manager
• Additional IPTV quality of life enhancements
• The playlist editor now uses a Modern UI style
• Action pop-up OSD now uses a Modern UI style
• Timeline preview text now uses a Modern UI and is fully customizable
• Move the player window by clicking and dragging anywhere
• The advanced options dialog is now larger and clearer to use
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix * When customizing the control overlay (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay), all changes are now updated in real time to reflect your preferences. Check out this video to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypufL7tUczo * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to set the maximum width (relative to your screen) for the control overlay's user interface while in fullscreen mode. This feature is very useful when using a mouse to control Zoom Player with a large display where you don't want to move the mouse long distances. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that limits showing the control overlay on mouse movement only if the mouse is hovering over the top / bottom overlay controls (disabled by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that automatically hides the control overlay if the mouse cursor moves into the video area and no longer hovers over the top / bottom overlay controls (disabled by default). * New settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to colorize the Control Overlay buttons and bar knobs. Colorizing the bar knobs is optional when colorizing the buttons. * New settings (Adv. Options / Interface) that allow you to customize the hint pop-ups that appear when hovering over the timeline and in the color control overlay interface. * When using the IPTV dialog to play a VOD TV series, the next episodes are automatically queued to the playlist, allowing you to switch to the next episode without re-opening the IPTV dialog. * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that when enabled, closing a group snaps the group to the center, displaying an even number of items above / below the closed group (enabled by default). * New "Copy URL" entry adding to the IPTV Window stream list's right-click context menu (when clicking a stream). * The OSD Pop-up actions have a new default style that overrides any style set by the current skin with a new modern style with transparent background. Of course you can customize the new style with custom fonts, background opacity and colors. If you prefer the classic style, you can disable the modern style under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions". * The playlist editor now uses a Modern UI style. * The setting that controls the OSD Pop-up actions (Play, Pause, volume, etc) size change while in fullscreen mode (Adv. Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) has been replaced with a new "OSD window size" setting. The new OSD window size setting automatically adjusts relative to the display device's DPI setting, letting you pick a size that is maintained on high resolution screens with a DPI value greater than 100%. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to align the fixed buttons zone to the left instead of the default screen-centered layout. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to hide the timeline (useful if you're only watching live events). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is hovering over the timeline area. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is hovering over anywhere in the overlay (top and bottom areas). * Using the next/previous track feature after playing a live IPTV stream plays the previously/next streamed channel from the IPTV stream history. * The IPTV Group Manager is now able to add an entire group as a favorite group, simply select the group and click the left-arrow button. * The IPTV Group Manager is now able select and hide multiple groups, simply click the eye button, pick the group and click the check button. * New "Reset user interface size to default" feature assigned by default to the Ctrl+"`" keyboard shortcut. Using this feature resets the user interface to it's default size, taking skin magnification and system-level DPI into account. * Added two more size settings to the Control Overlay's timeline bar. * New next/previous DVD bookmark features that can be added as buttons to the Modern UI's control overlay. * Added "Fullscreen (maintain zoom) on/off" button options to the control overlay's settings page (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay). + You can now click anywhere in the video area to drag the playback window a few pixels when the left click action is set to play/pause. The play / pause action still works as intended if the mouse cursor isn't moved too far between clicking the button and letting go (16 pixels by default). + The Zoom Player playlist format has been enhanced to remember the media engine used when opening the media. So closing and re-opening Zoom Player or just re-opening the same file from the playlist should preserve the previously used media engine instead of reverting automatically to DirectShow. + The options dialog has been redesigned to make it wider, giving translators more room to effectively translate Zoom Player's settings to other languages. + The "Playlist Editor" entry on the right-click menu has been moved from the "Open Interface" sub-menu to the second option from the top on menu's root level. + For clarity, I renamed the "Zoom on/off" double-click/middle-click mouse actions to "Fullscreen (maintain zoom) on/off" + Now that the control overlay has become the default interface, I moved the "Show time seek position hint over Timeline", "Show position preview thumbnail" and "Only if media reports key frames" settings from "Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline" to "Adv. Options / Interface" as these settings apply to both the control bar and the control overlay. + The timeline position hints are now styled in the same style as the color control overlay hints and are fully customizable under "Adv. Options / Interface". + To make it more accessible, I've added the "Group Manager" to more places in the IPTV's stream list right-click context menu. + The keyboard layout editor now always opens centered on the options dialog and covering 80% of it's size. I also cleaned up the editor dialog a bit when used with high DPI displays. + If skin magnification is at 100%, the default window size now takes into account the monitor's DPI value on initial run (if you have the setting to restore the UI position and size disabled). + The control overlay buttons now show a pop-up hint describing the button's function when hovering over a button for approximately 2 seconds. This feature can be disabled under "Adv. Options / Interface - Show Button Hints". + The Pop-up action messages' (e.g. play/pause/volume) OSD Message Pixel Offset setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) is now DPI adjusted, meaning that it maintains the same relative distance based on your display's DPI value. + Removed the "keyboard shortcuts" section from the options dialog. It has been replaced several versions ago by the "F1" keyboard shortcut. + Removed the "Link Parser" section from the options dialog, it's a feature I once planned but was never implemented. + I changed how the option dialog's tree-view panel is translated to make it easier for me to edit and to make it more future proof as previously any change broke the translation. For you it means that if you are currently using an older language file, the tree-view will appear in English. Updating to the latest language files as they become available on the install center should fix this issue. + The modern UI default button layout has changed to replace next/previous track with next/previous chapters (which fallbacks to next/previous track if no chapters are available). + The next/previous chapter feature no longer performs a next/previous DVD bookmark action. Instead performing a next/previous track action. The next/previous DVD bookmark features have been split into separate features. + The Ctrl+Shift+"F10" switch user interface to Classic mode and Ctrl+Shift+"F11" switch user interface to Modern mode keyboard shortcuts now reset the Media and DVD skins to default. + You can now use a double-click action in the options dialog's control overlay section to quickly add/remove buttons from the different zones (System, Pre-Title, Fixed and Dynamic). - When using non-DirectShow zooming or panning functions in fullscreen mode, the control overlay buttons stopped working. - There was a hard limit to the number of IPTV groups you could hide and unfortunately that limit was around 180-240 groups and going over would reset the hidden groups. I have upped the limit, allowing you to hide anywhere between 10000 - 15000 groups, which should hopefully cover even the most Xtream playlist. - Trying to play a video with an external audio track failed if the original video file or streaming media had no audio track itself. - Fixed an issue where the next chapter feature did not always work. - The options dialog's search feature did not work for some sections (media server, control overlay, possibly others). - Fixed a case when using the MPC-VR video renderer where the mouse cursor would sometimes stick as a resize cursor even after moving it from the window's edge. - The minimum window size is now automatically adjusted based on the monitor's resolution in order to prevent overlapping user interface elements on a high DPI display. - Under certain conditions, the resume playback dialog did not work, simply doing nothing when you pressed enter. - The mouse wheel can now be used to scroll over the control overlay's timeline to seek in the same way that was possible when using the Classic interface's timeline. - If you have had the setting to show the control overlay when seeking, performing consecutive seek actions did not reset the auto hide timer causing the control overlay to sometimes hide sooner than expected. - Setting the control overlay's timeline/volume bar's corner radius to "None / Square" caused the specified bar colors not to be used. - Fixed a very hard to trigger crash when trying to close Zoom Player using the control API just as Zoom Player was starting to run. - Using the next frame or previous frame feature did not work as expected while the fast forward or rewind features were active. - The title text on the IPTV VOD TV listing was slightly cropped on the right side. - Fixed a few cosmetic issues when redesigning the options dialog. - Fixed a bug when using the next/previous track repeatedly by holding the "]" or "

Change List from release candidate 1:

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to set the maximum width (relative to your screen) for the control overlay's user interface while in fullscreen mode. This feature is very useful when using a mouse to control Zoom Player with a large display where you don't want to move the mouse long distances. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that limits showing the control overlay on mouse movement only if the mouse is hovering over the top / bottom overlay controls (disabled by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that automatically hides the control overlay if the mouse cursor moves into the video area and no longer hovers over the top / bottom overlay controls (disabled by default). * New settings (Adv. Options / Interface) that allow you to customize the hint pop-ups that appear when hovering over the timeline and in the color control overlay interface. * Added "Fullscreen (maintain zoom) on/off" button options to the control overlay's settings page (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay). + You can now click anywhere in the video area to drag the playback window a few pixels when the left click action is set to play/pause. The play / pause action still works as intended if the mouse cursor isn't moved too far between clicking the button and letting go (16 pixels by default). + For clarity, I renamed the "Zoom on/off" double-click/middle-click mouse actions to "Fullscreen (maintain zoom) on/off" + Now that the control overlay has become the default interface, I moved the "Show time seek position hint over Timeline", "Show position preview thumbnail" and "Only if media reports key frames" settings from "Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline" to "Adv. Options / Interface" as these settings apply to both the control bar and the control overlay. + The timeline position hints are now styled in the same style as the color control overlay hints and are fully customizable under "Adv. Options / Interface". + To make it more accessible, I've added the "Group Manager" to more places in the IPTV's stream list right-click context menu. - When using non-DirectShow zooming or panning functions in fullscreen mode, the control overlay buttons stopped working. - There was a hard limit to the number of IPTV groups you could hide and unfortunately that limit was around 180-240 groups and going over would reset the hidden groups. I have upped the limit, allowing you to hide anywhere between 10000 - 15000 groups, which should hopefully cover even the most Xtream playlist. - Using the control overlay did not reset the internal screen saver timing, causing it to incorrectly activate. - Trying to play a video with an external audio track failed if the original video file or streaming media had no audio track itself. - Fixed an issue where the next chapter feature did not always work. - Fixed a case when using the MPC-VR video renderer where the mouse cursor would sometimes stick as a resize cursor even after moving it from the window's edge. - Opening the options dialog with a media currently playing could would trigger a case where only the control overlay's timeline was visible. - The "Double-click triggers both double and single click actions" setting did not function as intended (single click action not triggered twice even if this setting was enabled), possibly broken by a previous update. - Fixed a crash when opening the color control overlay, closing it with the hint visible and then re-opening the color control overlay and hovering over the icons to show the hint. - The options dialog's section title area was not translated correctly when initially opening the options dialog. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v21:

* When customizing the control overlay (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay), all changes are now updated in real time to reflect your preferences. Check out this video to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypufL7tUczo * When using the IPTV dialog to play a VOD TV series, the next episodes are automatically queued to the playlist, allowing you to switch to the next episode without re-opening the IPTV dialog. * The OSD Pop-up actions have a new default style that overrides any style set by the current skin with a new modern style with transparent background. Of course you can customize the new style with custom fonts, background opacity and colors. If you prefer the classic style, you can disable the modern style under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions". * The setting that controls the OSD Pop-up actions (Play, Pause, volume, etc) size change while in fullscreen mode (Adv. Interface / On Screen Display / Actions) has been replaced with a new "OSD window size" setting. The new OSD window size setting automatically adjusts relative to the display device's DPI setting, letting you pick a size that is maintained on high resolution screens with a DPI value greater than 100%. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to align the fixed buttons zone to the left instead of the default screen-centered layout. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows you to hide the timeline (useful if you're only watching live events). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is hovering over the timeline area. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is hovering over anywhere in the overlay (top and bottom areas). * Using the next/previous track feature after playing a live IPTV stream plays the previously/next streamed channel from the IPTV stream history. * The IPTV Group Manager is now able to add an entire group as a favorite group, simply select the group and click the left-arrow button. * The IPTV Group Manager is now able select and hide multiple groups, simply click the eye button, pick the group and click the check button. * Added two more size settings to the Control Overlay's timeline bar. * New next/previous DVD bookmark features that can be added as buttons to the Modern UI's control overlay. + The Zoom Player playlist format has been enhanced to remember the media engine used when opening the media. So closing and re-opening Zoom Player or just re-opening the same file from the playlist should preserve the previously used media engine instead of reverting automatically to DirectShow. + The options dialog has been redesigned to make it wider, giving translators more room to effectively translate Zoom Player's settings to other languages. + The "Playlist Editor" entry on the right-click menu has been moved from the "Open Interface" sub-menu to the second option from the top on menu's root level. + The keyboard layout editor now always opens centered on the options dialog and covering 80% of it's size. I also cleaned up the editor dialog a bit when used with high DPI displays. + Removed the "keyboard shortcuts" section from the options dialog. It has been replaced several versions ago by the "F1" keyboard shortcut. + Removed the "Link Parser" section from the options dialog, it's a feature I once planned but was never implemented. + I changed how the option dialog's tree-view panel is translated to make it easier for me to edit and to make it more future proof as previously any change broke the translation. For you it means that if you are currently using an older language file, the tree-view will appear in English. Updating to the latest language files as they become available on the install center should fix this issue. + The modern UI default button layout has changed to replace next/previous track with next/previous chapters (which fallbacks to next/previous track if no chapters are available). + The next/previous chapter feature no longer performs a next/previous DVD bookmark action. Instead performing a next/previous track action. The next/previous DVD bookmark features have been split into separate features. + The Ctrl+Shift+"F10" switch user interface to Classic mode and Ctrl+Shift+"F11" switch user interface to Modern mode keyboard shortcuts now reset the Media and DVD skins to default. + You can now use a double-click action in the options dialog's control overlay section to quickly add/remove buttons from the different zones (System, Pre-Title, Fixed and Dynamic). - The options dialog's search feature did not work for some sections (media server, control overlay, possibly others). - The minimum window size is now automatically adjusted based on the monitor's resolution in order to prevent overlapping user interface elements on a high DPI display. - Under certain conditions, the resume playback dialog did not work, simply doing nothing when you pressed enter. - The mouse wheel can now be used to scroll over the control overlay's timeline to seek in the same way that was possible when using the Classic interface's timeline. - If you have had the setting to show the control overlay when seeking, performing consecutive seek actions did not reset the auto hide timer causing the control overlay to sometimes hide sooner than expected. - Setting the control overlay's timeline/volume bar's corner radius to "None / Square" caused the specified bar colors not to be used. - Fixed a very hard to trigger crash when trying to close Zoom Player using the control API just as Zoom Player was starting to run. - Using the next frame or previous frame feature did not work as expected while the fast forward or rewind features were active. - The title text on the IPTV VOD TV listing was slightly cropped on the right side. - Fixed a few cosmetic issues when redesigning the options dialog. - Fixed a bug when using the next/previous track repeatedly by holding the "]" or "Click here for the complete change list 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.

Highlights of v21:

• A new and extremely customizable Modern UI
• IPTV Group Manager with M3U export
• New color control overlay interface
• Several IPTV enhancements
• Hide black bars with a keystroke
• Create windows shortcuts for IPTV streams
• Snap zones to quickly set window position
• More ways to add favorites
• Options dialog opens a lot faster!
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v21: * Introducing : Modern UI Zoom Player's user interface has remained more or less the same over many years and now it's finally time for a fresh new look. Gone is the skinned user interface, replaced by a simple frame. Hovering with the mouse cursor (or pressing the Ctrl+"Space" keyboard shortcut) now brings up a new Control Overlay, a semi-transparent user interface that appears over the video area. I tried to setup the default control overlay layout similar to the previous skinned layout to make the transition to a new interface as seamless as possible, but at the same time maintained the option to easily revert the user interface to the old design. Since the control overlay replaces both the skin and the control bar, some of the default settings related to the control bar have been reset in favor of control overlay features. If these changes are not suited to your setup, you can easily return to using the control bar instead. While designing the new Control Overlay interface, I took your feedback on Zoom Player's reddit forum and made sure the Control Overlay is the most customizable media interface ever created. You can customize nearly everything: + Button selection across 4 different button zones. + Button sizes for each button zone. + Text fonts, colors, sizes and transparency. + Volume and Timeline color, size and transparency. + Element visibility (button zones, volume bar, widgets, etc). + Lots and lots of settings to manage the Control Overlay behavior. The Control Overlay feature can be customized through the advanced options dialog under "Interface / Control Overlay". * When upgrading to a version previous to v21, a new dialog shows up to let you pick the user interface mode, either Classic UI or Modern UI. Please note that if you are using a non-default skin, your skin selection is reset to default in either case. You can pick your favorite skin again through the skin selection dialog ("N" keyboard shortcut). * The default skin modes have been updated. You can access the new modes from the right-click context menu or using these keyboard shortcuts: F3 = No user interface at all, just a floating video window. F4 = The new default, just a thin frame around the video area. F5 = Slightly larger frame with a title area and system buttons. F6 = Charcoal UI using small buttons. F7 = Full Charcoal UI (the previous default). F8 = Show bottom bar with more features. F9 = Show bottom bar with more features. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse (enabled by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse even when Zoom Player is not the active application. This feature is not perfect and can cause a cosmetic issue where the overlay appears in between Zoom Player's video window and a window from another application. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's bottom in fullscreen mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's top in fullscreen mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when performing a forward/backward seek action. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when pausing. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when using fast forward or rewind. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically hide the Control Overlay when idle (3 seconds by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically hide the Control Overlay when clicking the video area. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to show the control overlay when opening a new media. * As part of the Modern UI overhaul, I created a new color control overlay interface. It is accessible through the same color color keyboard shortcut (Shift+"O") and the right-click context menu. The new color control overlay is fully compatible with remote control devices using the left/right/up/down/enter navigation style and provides a more intuitive and less obtrusive interface. The color control overlay is now the default option when picking the color controls from the main home theater interface. You can change this under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation". * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Colors) that controls the size of the new color control overlay. * New snap zones feature that allows you to instantly snap Zoom Player's window to 10 predefined screen positions and sizes. The snap zones feature uses a similar interface to the video position presets used in fullscreen mode. In fact, they share the same Zoom Player function and keyboard shortcuts. There is no conflict as snap zones only work in windowed mode while video position presets only work in fullscreen mode. There are two ways to set snap zones. The advanced options dialog under "Interface / Position & Size" or by using keyboard shortcuts. To use keyboard shortcuts, first position and size Zoom Player's window and then use the Ctrl+"0-9" keyboard shortcut to set one of the desired zones. For example, Ctrl+"5" will set the current window size and position to snap zone #5. To snap Zoom Player's window back to snap zone #5, all you need to do is press the "5" key in Windowed mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that prevents the first mouse click on the video area from triggering the assigned functions if Zoom Player was not the active application. This setting is enabled by default to allow you to switch to Zoom Player's window now that the user interface is embedded within the video area. This setting only ignores the first click in the video area. If you click the control overlay or other Zoom Player windows, the action is triggered as expected. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC) allowing you to control whether the libVLC media engine should be used to stream IPTV archived (catchup) programs. This setting does not affect VOD playback. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls whether the stream/program filtering works when pressing enter or when typing in each key stroke. The new default is to require pressing enter. On older PCs or some laptops the experience of filtering on every key stroke was not optimal. * Updated Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) to allow the selection of the new Color Control Overlay interface as an option when opening the color controls from the main Home Theater interface. * New media library search feature that works by filtering the currently listed items. This feature will be expanded in future releases to make it accessible using a remote control. * The media library's Media Server (PLEX/Emby/Jellyfin) plugin now shows TV episode numbers next to the episode name. * You can now drag Zoom Player's window by dragging the title area of a Home Theater interface. If you are not using the default home theater skin, you may need a new version of the skin that supports this feature. * The default home theater interfaces have been slightly tweaked with the close button moved to the right side and the title/date/time appearing more vertically centered in the title area. * New feature to automatically resize the player window to hide aspect ratio black bars, showing only the video. By default, this feature is assigned to the Shift+"`" (~) keyboard shortcut. * New feature to add the currently playing media to the favorites list. By default, this feature is assigned to the Ctrl+Shift+"F" keyboard shortcut. * New keyboard shortcuts to switch between Classic & Modern user interfaces: Ctrl+Shift+"F10" - Switch to Classic mode Ctrl+Shift+"F11" - Switch to Modern mode Classic mode : - Fully skinned user interface with lots of buttons - Control overlay interface is disabled - Control bar appears when moving the mouse to screen-bottom (fullscreen) - The space key shows the control bar - Hot corners are enabled at 5% Modern mode : - Small frame user interface, no buttons whatsoever - Control overlay interface appears over video area on mouse movement - Control bar is disabled - The space key performs a pause/play action - Hot corners are disabled (feature conflict with control overlay) * New "Add to favorites" option on the Playlist Home Theater interface. * New "Add to favorites" option on the Play History Home Theater interface. * New feature to show a pop-up Stream Selection menu. By default this feature is assigned to the control overlay's stream selection button. * When using IPTV's Xtream Codes API, icons (Live, Movie, Series) are now displayed next to group names. * You can now show/hide the Control Overlay using the Ctrl+"Space" keyboard shortcut. * New "Control Overlay" entry added to the right-click context menu. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that disables Zoom Player from activating any function assigned to a mouse click when Zoom Player's video area is clicked when Zoom Player is not the active application, allowing you to switch to Zoom Player without activating any mouse button assigned function by accident. This new setting is enabled by default, otherwise switching to Zoom Player using the modern UI could trigger undesired actions. * New IPTV Group Manager interface accessible from the IPTV menu button or through the right-click menu. The Group Manager allows you to create new groups and easily select and add multiple streams to the group with a single click. The group manager can then export the organized streams to an M3U format, allowing the groups to be viewed and streamed by other software or devices. * In the previous version, I've added a feature that when you Zoom in using the mouse wheel, it zooms toward the mouse cursor. I have since listened to your feedback and made this feature optional. You can now turn it off under "Advanced Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings". * New "Create Shortcut" IPTV context-menu option that creates a shortcut file for the stream you've right-clicked, allowing you to launch Zoom Player directly into the stream. * You can now add and stream Xtream Codes TV Shows from IPTV favorites. If you previously added a TV Show as favorite, you have to recreate the TV Show favorite for this to work. * New "/referrer:" command line parameter that specifies a referrer header when opening a URL from the command line, for example: zplayer.exe "/referrer:https://website.com" "https://website.com/v.m3u8" * New "/useragent:" command line parameter that specifies a user- agent header when opening a URL from the command line, for example: zplayer.exe "/useragent:SpecialCode" "https://website.com/v.m3u8" * New "/exaudio:" command line parameter that manually specifies an external audio file/URL for the currently playing media, for example: zplayer.exe "http://website.com/steam/video.mp4" "/exaudio:http://website.com/stream/audio.mp3" * New "/subtitle:" command line parameter that specifies an external subtitle file that should be loaded when opening a media file from the command line. * New right-click context menu "Help" usage guide images for the Media Server Browser and the new Modern UI control overlay. + Due to MadVR issues with Windows 11 and no update currently in sight, on a fresh install under Windows 11, MPC-VR is now offered as the performance mode video renderer. + It took nearly 3 days of optimization work, but now the advanced options dialog should open almost twice as fast. + The IPTV player window has been optimized for smoother scrolling while the stream's logo/image is being updated. + The new default when using the left arrow keyboard shortcut in the media library now goes up a folder if you are in a sub-folder rather than showing the category list. If you are already in the root folder then the category list is shown. This change does not affect existing installations, if you would like to apply it to your current installation, you can disable this setting: Advanced Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - "Nav-Left goes up a folder before entering the Drive/Category list". + You can now resize Zoom Player's in the "F3" no-user-interface skin mode when a home theater interface is visible. + Zoom Player now saves the current play rate (speed) on exit. So if you disabled the settings that automatically reset the play rate, reopening Zoom Player now restores the previous play rate when playing the next track. + Rephrased Zoom Player's function descriptions to make them more logical and easier to find when sorted alphabetically. + Since the new Overlay Control conflicts with the Hot Corner feature, Hot Corners have been disabled by default. If you previously used the Hot Corners feature, you can re-enable it in the advanced options (make sure to disable the Control Overlay). + Maximizing the video window now pops-up any visible Zoom Player windows such as the Playlist Editor, Equalizer, Media Server Browser, IPTV Player, etc. + The default value for the "Show the Mouse Cursor (pixels)" setting (that also determines the number of pixels the mouse should move to show the new Control Overlay interface) has been changed from 2 pixels to 16. If you've previously set another value, you will need to set it again. + The default function assigned to the space key is now "Play / Pause", replacing the previous default of showing/hiding the control bar. If you wish to return to the previous default, you can do so from the advanced options dialog under (Interface / Keyboard). + The user interface button hints are now showing the function names from the translations in combination with any hint text from the skin. This change will help with translations since the text that is currently embedded in the skin script is not accessible. The downside is that using non-default skins may show a double-hint. + Updated Home Theater icons (media library, play history & color controls). + Scrolling through the play history window should be smoother now. + The default audio tag display position has changed from "Bottom" to "Center" in order to make sure it's not obscured by the control overlay. This change only affects clean installations. + The Control Bar menu entry has been moved under the "Controls" sub-menu. + The multi-playlist manager can now be resized to a smaller window. - Streaming from the media library's "Media server" plugin did not respect the "Use libVLC Engine to stream Media Server content" setting. - The Media Server Browser and Media Library Media Server plugins failed to show any episode listing for Jellyfin servers. - Media Server paths are no longer displayed in the media library, they were basically just gibberish to a human and a distraction. - Media Server TV show listings did not show their duration in the TV jukebox area. - Fixed a bug in the media library where resizing the window's height would stop thumbnails from updating until another action was used (clicking somewhere or using the keyboard). - Opening a media from the play history window and then as the media was being loaded quickly reopening the play history window would trigger a crash. - Fixed an issue where partially downloaded IPTV metadata was used instead of keeping the previously downloaded metadata, causing the IPTV stream list to disappear or appear partially with no error being reported in the IPTV settings section of the advanced options dialog. - Eliminated a bit of flickering (two updates) in the IPTV window's stream list panel when re-opening the window. - Clicking the "Media Info" radio button on the information window got broken and didn't show any information. - Switching between multiple-playlists now properly stops the currently playing media. - When using MadVR or MPC-VR as the video renderer with the no-UI skin mode (F3 keyboard shortcut), you can now resize the video from the edges and not only from the corners. - Hopefully fixed cases where Chinese/Japanese time and date display would show invalid characters. - Adding IPTV Xtream Codes movie to the favorites did not show the movie's description when clicked in the favorites section. - Fixed a bug after playing certain media files and then opening the media library would open the media library in the wrong mode (e.g. media scanner). - Fixed some DPI scaling issues on the "please upgrade" window.

Change List from v21 release candidate 1:

* New snap zones feature that allows you to instantly snap Zoom Player's window to 10 predefined screen positions and sizes. The snap zones feature uses a similar interface to the video position presets used in fullscreen mode. In fact, they share the same Zoom Player function and keyboard shortcuts. There is no conflict as snap zones only work in windowed mode while video position presets only work in fullscreen mode. There are two ways to set snap zones. The advanced options dialog under "Interface / Position & Size" or by using keyboard shortcuts. To use keyboard shortcuts, first position and size Zoom Player's window and then use the Ctrl+"0-9" keyboard shortcut to set one of the desired zones. For example, Ctrl+"5" will set the current window size and position to snap zone #5. To snap Zoom Player's window back to snap zone #5, all you need to do is press the "5" key in Windowed mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls whether the stream/program filtering works when pressing enter or when typing in each key stroke. The new default is to require pressing enter. On older PCs or some laptops the experience of filtering on every key stroke was not optimal. * New right-click context menu "Help" usage guide images for the Media Server Browser and the new Modern UI control overlay. + Replaced the Audio mode button with an Options button in the Control Overlay's title area. + Reduced CPU overhead when dragging Zoom Player's window with the control overlay visible. - Fixed an issue where the control overlay did not disappear automatically after the specified time period. - Fixed a bug after playing certain media files and then opening the media library would open the media library in the wrong mode (e.g. media scanner). - Fixed an issue where partially downloaded IPTV metadata was used instead of keeping the previously downloaded metadata, causing the IPTV stream list to disappear or appear partially with no error being reported in the IPTV settings section of the advanced options dialog. - Fixed some DPI scaling issues on the "please upgrade" window. - When fixing a unicode date issue with Japanese/Chinese languages in a previous beta, I accidentally broke the IPTV EPG's date listing. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from beta 3 :

* As part of the Modern UI overhaul, I created a new color control overlay interface. It is accessible through the same color color keyboard shortcut (Shift+"O") and the right-click context menu. The new color control overlay is fully compatible with remote control devices using the left/right/up/down/enter navigation style and provides a more intuitive and less obtrusive interface. The color control overlay is now the default option when picking the color controls from the main home theater interface. You can change this under "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation". * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Colors) that controls the size of the new color control overlay. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to show the control overlay when opening a new media. * Updated Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation) to allow the selection of the new Color Control Overlay interface as an option when opening the color controls from the main Home Theater interface. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls whether the stream list filter works when pressing enter or when typing in each letter (default). * The media library's Media Server (PLEX/Emby/Jellyfin) plugin now shows TV episode numbers next to the episode name. + To make sure the new Modern UI's control overlay works well when upgrading from previous versions, the default skin has been applied. If you are using a custom skin, you will need to re-select it from the skin picker dialog. + The IPTV player window has been optimized for smoother scrolling while the stream's logo/image is being updated. + Pressing the ESC key in the Media Library's search window first clears any existing searches and then a second press closes the search window. - Streaming from the media library's "Media server" plugin did not respect the "Use libVLC Engine to stream Media Server content" setting. - Media Server paths are no longer displayed in the media library, they were basically just gibberish to a human and a distraction. - Media Server TV show listings did not show their duration in the TV jukebox area. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v21 beta 2:

* New media library search feature that works by filtering the currently listed items. This feature will be expanded in future releases to make it accessible using a remote control. * You can now drag Zoom Player's window by dragging the title area of a Home Theater interface. If you are not using the default home theater skin, you may need a new version of the skin that support this feature. * New "/subtitle:" command line parameter that specifies an external subtitle file that should be loaded when opening a media file from the command line. * Now showing the seek mouse cursor when the mouse is hovering over the timeline area (can be disabled in the control overlay options). * New keyboard shortcuts to switch between Classic & Modern user interfaces: Ctrl+Shift+"F10" - Switch to Classic mode Ctrl+Shift+"F11" - Switch to Modern mode Classic mode : - Fully skinned user interface with lots of buttons - Control overlay interface is disabled - Control bar appears when moving the mouse to screen-bottom (fullscreen) - The space key shows the control bar - Hot corners are enabled at 5% Modern mode : - Small frame user interface, no buttons whatsoever - Control overlay interface appears over video area on mouse movement - Control bar is disabled - The space key performs a pause/play action - Hot corners are disabled (feature conflict with control overlay) + Opening a Home Theater interface while the control overlay was visible now restores the control overlay when closing the home theater interface. + The control overlay's timeline position-hint now appears above the current time/duration time display area, no longer obscuring the text. + The audio tag display position has changed from "Bottom" to "Center" in order to make sure it's not obscured by the control overlay. + Moving between screens instantly redraws the control overlay with button sized to match the screen's resolution. - Upgrading from previous versions using the default skin now resets the skin to the new default mode. - The control overlay's button sizes should now appear reasonable on ultra-widescreen monitors. - Fixed a bug that caused some of the Modern UI buttons to randomly appear as white boxes. - The "Prevent mouse actions from moving or resizing the main window" feature no longer blocks regular mouse clicks. - One of the code optimizations I've made in v21 beta 1 broke some command line parameter parsing. - Fixed a crash trying to resize the player window to minimum size on a 4K display. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v21 beta 1:

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC) allowing you to control whether the libVLC media engine should be used to stream IPTV archived (catchup) programs. This setting does not affect VOD playback. * New feature to automatically resize the player window to hide aspect ratio black bars, showing only the video. By default, this feature is assigned to the Shift+"`" (~) keyboard shortcut. * New feature to add the currently playing media to the favorites list. By default, this feature is assigned to the Ctrl+Shift+"F" keyboard shortcut. * New "Add to favorites" option on the Playlist Home Theater interface. * New "Add to favorites" option on the Play History Home Theater interface. * You can now add the "Add to favorites" button to the control overlay. * New feature to show a pop-up Stream Selection menu. By default this feature is assigned to the control overlay's stream selection button. * When using IPTV's Xtream Codes API, icons (Live, Movie, Series) are now displayed next to group names. + It took nearly 3 days of optimization work, but now the advanced options dialog should open almost twice as fast. + Added a lot more control overlay button options including Play History, Streaming Stations, Seek by duration percentage, DirectShow Zoom in/out and many more (63 button options so far). + Zoom Player now saves the current play rate (speed) on exit. So if you disabled the settings that automatically reset the play rate, reopening Zoom Player now restores the previous play rate when playing the next track. + Rephrased Zoom Player's function descriptions to make them more logical and easier to find when sorted alphabetically. + Pop-up OSD messages are now shown below the control overlay's title area when the control overlay is visible. + Added buttons to the Control Overlay setup page to make it easier to reset only some of the settings to default, allowing you to more easily experiment with custom designs. + The stream selection button on the default control overlay layout now opens a pop-up menu instead of the Home Theater stream selection interface. + Updated Home Theater icons (media library, play history & color controls). + The multi-playlist manager can now be resized to a smaller window. - Fixed a case where the pop-up OSD message would appear in the wrong screen position. - A pop-up OSD message (e.g. changing the volume level) would reset the Control Overlay's auto-hide timer, causing it to show for longer than specified. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v20.1:

* Introducing : Modern UI Zoom Player's user interface has remained more or less the same over many years and now it's finally time for a fresh new look. Gone is the skinned user interface, replaced by a simple frame. Hovering with the mouse cursor (or pressing the Ctrl+"Space" keyboard shortcut) now brings up a new Control Overlay, a semi-transparent user interface that appears over the video area. I tried to setup the default control overlay layout similar to the previous skinned layout to make the transition to a new interface as seamless as possible, but at the same time maintained the option to easily revert the user interface to the old design. Since the control overlay replaces both the skin and the control bar, some of the default settings related to the control bar have been reset in favor of control overlay features. If these changes are not suited to your setup, you can easily return to using the control bar instead. While designing the new Control Overlay interface, I took your feedback on Zoom Player's reddit forum and made sure the Control Overlay is the most customizable media interface ever created. You can customize nearly everything: + Button selection across 4 different button zones. + Button sizes for each button zone. + Text fonts, colors, sizes and transparency. + Volume and Timeline color, size and transparency. + Element visibility (button zones, volume bar, widgets, etc). + Lots and lots of settings to manage the Control Overlay behavior. The Control Overlay feature can be customized through the advanced options dialog under "Interface / Control Overlay". * The default skin modes have been updated. You can access the new modes from the right-click context menu or using these keyboard shortcuts: F3 = No user interface at all, just a floating video window. F4 = The new default, just a thin frame around the video area. F5 = Slightly larger frame with a title area and system buttons. F6 = Charcoal UI using small buttons. F7 = Full Charcoal UI (the previous default). F8 = Show bottom bar with more buttons. F9 = Show bottom bar with more buttons. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse (enabled by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when hovering with the mouse even when Zoom Player is not the active application. This feature is not perfect and can cause a cosmetic issue where the overlay appears in between Zoom Player's video window and a window from another application. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's bottom in fullscreen mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when the mouse cursor reaches the screen's top in fullscreen mode. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when performing a forward/backward seek action. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when pausing. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically show the Control Overlay when using fast forward or rewind. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically hide the Control Overlay when idle (3 seconds by default). * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to automatically hide the Control Overlay when clicking the video area. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that prevents the first mouse click on the video area from triggering the assigned functions if Zoom Player was not the active application. This setting is enabled by default to allow you to switch to Zoom Player's window now that the user interface is embedded within the video area. This setting only ignores the first click in the video area. If you click the control overlay or other Zoom Player windows, the action is triggered as expected. * You can now show/hide the Control Overlay using the Ctrl+"Space" keyboard shortcut. * New "Control Overlay" entry adding to the right-click context menu. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that disables Zoom Player from activating any function assigned to a mouse click when Zoom Player's video area is clicked when Zoom Player is not the active application, allowing you to switch to Zoom Player without activating any mouse button assigned function by accident. This new setting is enabled by default, otherwise switching to Zoom Player using the modern UI could trigger undesired actions. * In the previous version, I've added a feature that when you Zoom in using the mouse wheel, it zooms toward the mouse cursor. I have since listened to your feedback and made this feature optional. You can now turn it off under "Advanced Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings". * New "Create Shortcut" IPTV context-menu option that creates a shortcut file for the stream you've right-clicked, allowing you to launch Zoom Player directly into the stream. * You can now add and stream Xtream Codes TV Shows from IPTV favorites. If you previously added a TV Show as favorite, you have to recreate the TV Show favorite for this to work. * New "/referrer:" command line parameter that specifies a referrer header when opening a URL from the command line, for example: zplayer.exe "/referrer:https://website.com" "https://website.com/v.m3u8" * New "/useragent:" command line parameter that specifies a user- agent header when opening a URL from the command line, for example: zplayer.exe "/useragent:SpecialCode" "https://website.com/v.m3u8" * New "/exaudio:" command line parameter that manually specifies an external audio file/URL for the currently playing media, for example: zplayer.exe "http://website.com/steam/video.mp4" "/exaudio:http://website.com/stream/audio.mp3" + Since the new Overlay Control conflicts with the Hot Corner feature, Hot Corners have been disabled by default. If you previously used the Hot Corners feature, you can re-enable it in the advanced options (make sure to disable the Control Overlay). + Maximizing the video window now pops-up any visible Zoom Player windows such as the Playlist Editor, Equalizer, Media Server Browser, IPTV Player, etc. + The default value for the "Show the Mouse Cursor (pixels)" setting (that also determines the number of pixels the mouse should move to show the new Control Overlay interface) has been changed from 2 pixels to 16. If you've previously set another value, you will need to set it again. + The default function assigned to the space key is now "Play / Pause", replacing the previous default of showing/hiding the control bar. If you wish to return to the previous default, you can do so from the advanced options dialog under (Interface / Keyboard). + The user interface button hints are now showing the function names from the translations in combination with any hint text from the skin. This change will help with translations since the text that is currently embedded in the skin script is not accessible. The downside is that using non-default skins may show a double-hint. + Scrolling through the play history window should be smoother now. + The Control Bar menu entry has been moved under the "Controls" sub-menu. - The Media Server Browser and Media Library Media Server plugins failed to show any episode listing for Jellyfin servers. - Opening a media from the play history window and then as the media was being loaded quickly reopening the play history window would trigger a crash. - Eliminated a bit of flickering (two updates) in the IPTV window's stream list panel when re-opening the window. - Clicking the "Media Info" radio button on the information window got broken and didn't show any information. - Switching between multiple-playlists now properly stops the currently playing media. - When using MadVR or MPC-VR as the video renderer with the no-UI skin mode (F3 keyboard shortcut), you can now resize the video from the edges and not only from the corners. - Hopefully fixed cases where Chinese/Japanese time and date display would show invalid characters. - Adding IPTV Xtream Codes movie to the favorites did not show the movie's description when clicked in the favorites section. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Highlights of v20.1:

• IPTV Personal Groups
• IPTV Xtream Codes archive (catch-up) playback
• IPTV Xtream Codes TV/Movie categories
• IPTV Player Window UX enhancements
• Options Dialog UX enhancements
• Enhanced network stream analysis
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v20.1: * The IPTV Player window's favorites system has been replaced by personal groups. This means that when you right-click a stream you are now presented with an option to pick which group to add the stream to or to add the stream to a "New Group". You can now right-click a personal group to rename, sort and remove the group along with additional controls to reposition the group (move up/down/top/bottom) within multiple personal groups. * The IPTV Player window's "Only show favorites" menu option is now saved when restarting Zoom Player. * Added support for IPTV Archive (catch-up) streams when using the Xtream Codes API. Archive channels allow you to play previously aired content on a live channel. * Added support for TV / Movie categories when using the IPTV Xtream Codes API login method (instead of listing them all under "TV" and "Movies"). * New setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to fix IPTV Xtream Codes API server-side character encoding issues. If stream names appear to use incorrect characters for foreign languages, symbols or emoji, try enabling this setting. * I found the IPTV window's user experience with regards to groups somewhat annoying. It's way too easy to accidentally click a group and then it auto-opens which can be jarring. To improve the experience, I decided to require a double-click action to open/close a stream group. However, I left the door open to disable this behavior in the options (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) in case single click action is preferable to you. * The advanced options dialog window is now taller and a bit more spaced out to make it easier finding a particular setting. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Smart Play / Settings) that allows you to specify LAV Splitter Source's (the DirectShow media engine streaming component) Stream Analysis Duration. The higher the value, the less chances of a partial stream detection (audio only playback) or a failed connection in exchange. A higher value may delay initial stream playback as the stream is analyzed. LAV Filter's default value is 1000, but from experimentation, I changed the default to 9500. If this causes streams to open slowly on your PC, you can reset this value back to 1000. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) to disable the custom mouse cursor used when hovering over the timeline and use the Windows default mouse cursor instead. * When the libVLC media engine is in use, you can now see a "libVLC" entry on the right-click menu under the "Filter Properties" sub-menu. + The Media Server Browser dialog (Shift+"Y" keyboard shortcut) should open slightly faster. + You can now dismiss a connection error message from the IPTV player window by clicking the stream list, EPG list or an empty region within the IPTV player window. You can also dismiss the error dialog using the keyboard by pressing the ESC key without the action closing the IPTV player window. - Closing and then re-opening the IPTV player window caused the EPG Grid button to become disabled until Zoom Player was restarted. - An IPTV Authentication error could result in the "Please Wait" window never disappearing. - The Pre-Configuration Wizard wizard that appears on a fresh install or when using the Alt+Shift+"F12" keyboard shortcut would enable MadVR's OSD for fullscreen exclusive mode, a feature that's actually problematic and on some PCs would break the control bar and other OSD elements. To work-around this issue, I had to reset this setting globally. If you are using MadVR in fullscreen exclusive mode, you will have to re-enable this setting manually. - Adding an IPTV stream with archive (catch-up) support as a favorite stream did not allow you to watch archived programs. - In some cases where the IPTV EPG is messed up, listing two entries for the same stream at the same air time, a "no information" entry was inserted between these entries entries. - Zoom Player now tries to remove duplicate IPTV EPG entries (as long as they are listed at the exact same air time).

Highlights of v20:

• Plex/Emby/Jellfin media browser.
• Plex/Emby/Jellfin media library plugin.
• Optimized and Enhanced IPTV features.
• Modern Home Theater Icons & Background.
• Media Library Enhancements.
• XBOX Controller Enhancements.
• Support for more Audio Book formats.
• Quality of life enhancements.
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v20: * In an effort to modernize Zoom Player's Home Theater look & feel, I've been working with Godwin on a new icon style. Simple, clean, subtle shading. Another small tweak I made is to the Home Theater interfaces title area. It is now using a more standard font & color, reducing the number of different fonts used on-screen for a cleaner look. If you would like to comment on the new design, leave me a post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/zoomplayer * New Media Server Browser feature that allows you to stream media from a local or remote Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server). Zoom Player currently supports the top-3 media servers: 1. Plex 2. Emby 3. Jellyfin There is no limit to the number or types of servers you can add, you can mix and match as many servers as you want. With Zoom Player MAX, you can access the new Media Server Browser using the Shift+"Y" keyboard shortcut or using the right-click menu under the "Open Interface" sub-menu. With Zoom Player IPTV, there is an additional dedicated button to open the Media Server Browser window and it's the second option from the top on the right-click menu. Right-clicking a media entry to show information about the media along with any associated art (poster/cover image). Please note that depending on the media server type, load and connectivity, using libVLC to stream content from a media server may offer faster seeking and audio/subtitle track switching. Depending on the Media Server used, the returned search 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 search recursively so it's not working much better than the filtering feature. * New "Media Server" Media Library plugin. After specifying your media server credentials in Zoom Player's options dialog (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server), Simply press Shift+"M" to open the media library category editor, select either the TV Shows or Movies category mode and click "Create Category". You will be presented with a choice of categories available on the specified media servers. Pick a category and you're done, full access to your Plex, Emby or Jellyfin library accessible directly from Zoom Player's media library. * New "Stream connection attempts" IPTV setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV). IPTV servers can be overloaded at times and may require more than one attempt to establish a connection. The default value is now "3" connection attempts before showing an error. * New libVLC option ("Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC" or "Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server", this setting appears twice) to control whether the libVLC media engine should be used when playing content from media servers. * You can now edit a media library plug-in's memory cache duration by opening the category editor (Shift+"M") and pressing the "Configure Category" button (the default value is specified by the plugin itself). * New Shift+"Y" keyboard shortcut to open the Media Server browsing client. * 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 "Play History" button on the IPTV Player window next to the "Play Stream" button to quickly replay the last 10 (configurable, see below) viewed streams. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls how many streams should be saved in the IPTV Player window's play history drop- down menu). The default value is "10" and you can set it to "0" to completely disable saving IPTV stream playback history. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the media library shows a media's duration next to the media's name in list view (enabled by default). * You can now define a Personal Rating and leave a Personal Note in the media library's meta-data editor. Setting a Personal Rating overrides the Star rating user interface display, but does not affect sorting or filtering by Star rating. * New "Sort by Personal Rating" media library sorting option. * New "Filter by Personal Rating" media library filtering option. * You can now set the DVD Video Renderer to MPC-VR. Please note that if LAV Filters is used with hardware accelerated video decoding in "D3D11" or "DXVA2 (native)" modes, subtitles will not be visible. * The Media Library's Plugin API has been enhanced to provide additional information to the plugin, opening access to new features (e.g. Media Server plugin). * New feature to reset Zoom Player to default settings. Accessible from the advanced options dialog by clicking the "Help / Export" button. * You can now change the skin magnification from 100% to 400% through the right-click menu within the "Controls" sub-menu. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) to only show the time when showing the clock (Alt+Ctrl+"D" keyboard shortcut). By default both the Time and Date are shown. * Since neither of the Subtitle components used by Zoom Player (DirectVobSub and xySubFilter) support VTT subtitles, I wrote code to dynamically convert ".VTT" files to ".SRT" files on the fly. The temporary ".SRT" files are saved to the windows temp folder and are erased as soon as the media closes. This feature only works on external subtitle files. * 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. * 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. * New "exSkinMagnify" extended function that lets you set the skin's magnification values. Valid values are 1 (100%) to 8 (800%). * Added smart play profiles for Audiobooks in the ".M4B" and ".AAX" formats. * Added "AAX" as a default Audio file extension format. This change is not applied automatically to existing installation, you can apply it by clicking the "Default" button next to the audio extensions under "Advanced Options / File Format Association / File Extensions". * The Media Library plug-in API has been extended to allow plugins to specify their own memory cache duration. The default value for most plugins is 1 hour. The default value for the media server plugin is 24 hours. Using the "Refresh" option clears the cache and retrieves fresh data. + Re-opening the IPTV Player window should now be nearly instant. The only downside is that if you edit the files manually while Zoom Player is running, you will have to restart Zoom Player for the changes to take affect. + New (optional) control bar button to open the IPTV Player window added to Zoom Player MAX. + 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. + The Zoom in functions (both standard and DirectShow) now try to Zoom in toward the mouse cursor when triggered using the mouse wheel. + The Playlist Editor's right-click context menu has been simplified with some of the items moved to an "Extras" sub-menu. + The IPTV Player window is now using skinned right-click context menus. + 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 default TCP/IP Control API port has been changed to 32999. + The default Web Server Control port has been changed to 32998. + Play history is used by many of the features, making the default value of storing history for 30 days no longer make sense. I have now changed the default value to 18262 days (approximately 50 years). + The mouse wheel should work better when scrolling through options in the advanced options dialog. + The Media Library Playlist plugin can now handle playlists that have x32 more entries compared to the previous version (over 24,000 entries). + The Media Library RSS plugin is now more compatible with Atom feeds. + The Media Library RSS plugin should be a little faster parsing feeds. + I am disabling the "Display OSD through MadVR's OSD API" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) on every install. This feature can have a negative impact on the user experience, its only benefits is if you use MadVR in fullscreen exclusive mode, a mode that is no longer of much use when running Windows 10 or better. If you previously used this feature and would like to continue using it, it can be re-enabled in the options. + libVLC's default audio framework is now set by default to "DirectSound", otherwise using libVLC and changing the volume would affect the windows- level volume level for Zoom Player (which should always be set to 100%). + Added "cover" to the "Background image search mask" feature which is used to find album art images when playing audio files. So right now the search mask covers both "folder" and "cover" file names (in any support image format). - 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 a crash when using the keyboard or remote in the confirmation home theater interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm erasing a file) to press Enter multiple times in quick succession. - Fixed a crash when opening the IPTV's or EPG Grid's 'customize' menus on a monitor with a DPI setting larger than 100%. - Fixed a crash when opening the play history window on a monitor with a DPI setting larger than 100%. - Setting "On Playlist Complete" to "Auto-Rewind" could have triggered a crash or unstable behavior under some conditions. - Fixed a crash when loading 4bit PNG images with transparency. This was especially nasty with the IPTV player window as some stream logos were using this format, causing the IPTV Player feature to become unstable (unable to close window or an outright crash). - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the confirmation home theater interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm erasing a file). - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the virtual keyboard interface (used when renaming files in the media library or trying to access a password protected category). - Fixed an infinite-loop freeze when using the media library with a network share path (e.g. "\\ServerName\Movies\") folder based category, entering a sub-folder within that category and later on renaming or deleting the folder server-side without updating Zoom Player's media library configuration. - Fixed a bug in the open-drive feature (which is also used when auto- mounting ISO files) that failed to properly load virtually mounted BluRay content. - Fixed a bug where re-opening the IPTV Player window with a previously selected stream highlighted didn't enable the "Play Stream" button. - Using the media library's Filter by Star Rating feature showed a value range, for example "6 - 7", but did not actually show any 7.0 entries, showing only up to 6.9. - Setting the DVD Video Renderer to MadMR did not work at all with only audio playing. Please note that if LAV Filters is used with hardware accelerated video decoding in "D3D11" or "DXVA2 (native)" modes, subtitles will not be visible. - Titles in the skinned right-click menu were not horizontally aligned. - The Shift+Arrow keys to accurately reposition the video image or player windows stopped functioning at some point and now works again. - The "Reset Brightness" feature when using the EVR or MadVR video renderers reset the brightness to "1" instead of "0". - Hiding IPTV Groups containing the quote character in the group's name did not work as intended. - The Media Library RSS Feed plug-in should be better at handling text that is not encoded in UTF8 or English (e.g. Russian). - libVLC's audio framework selection was completely broken, selecting another device wouldn't work at all or would use the default audio device instead. - When streaming media using libVLC, under some unknown condition, libVLC starts sending 1000's of time-changed events to Zoom Player every second, causing Zoom Player's user interface to freeze under the load. I wrote custom code to filter out all the duplicate events to work-around this issue. - Fixed a bug in Zoom Player IPTV that partially broke translation of the options dialog left-pane tree view, causing some lines to remain in the original English. - The setting to go fullscreen on play was accidentally disabled in Zoom Player IPTV. - Fixed a bug that caused some error message text to get truncated. - In some resolutions, the meta-data display for playing audio media did not use a round-rectangle background correctly, causing text to appear partially outside the background. - Some over-zealous code optimization broke the audio playback meta-data display area, showing tags for empty fields. - When loading TAG data from audio files and MP4 files containing unicode character using MediaInfo.dll, the media title appeared as a series of question marks. - Selecting the libVLC section in the Advanced Options dialog a second time no longer tries to relist libVLC's audio devices, causing a slight delay. - 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/trigger did not move.

Change List from v20 beta 5:

* The Media Library's Media Server plugin now supports JukeBox mode for TV Shows categories. * The Media Library's Media Server plugin now uses another cache sub-system to re-open massive categories (over 20,000+ entries) even faster. * The Media Library's Media Server plugin can now uses server-provided category thumbnails whenever available. * The Media Server Browser dialog now uses another (different from the media server plugin) cache sub-system to re-open massive categories (over 20,000+ entries) even faster. * New "Stream connection attempts" IPTV setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV). IPTV servers can be overloaded at times and may require more than one attempt to establish a connection. The default value is now "3" connection attempts before showing an error. * You can now edit a media library plug-in's memory cache duration by opening the category editor (Shift+"M") and pressing the "Configure Category" button (the default value is specified by the plugin itself). * The Media Library plug-in API has been extended to allow plugins to specify their own memory cache duration. The default value for most plugins is 1 hour. The default value for the media server plugin is 24 hours. Using the "Refresh" option clears the cache and retrieves fresh data. + Media Server Browser's movie categories using an Emby/Jellyfin server are now recursive (includes all sub-folders) and only show movies so there is no need to navigate through folders. + If you used the beta Media Library's Media Server plugin, you need to re-create the category, otherwise items may not show as intended and operations may be significantly slower. - Fixed an infinite-loop freeze when using the media library with a network share path (e.g. "\\ServerName\Movies\") folder based category, entering a sub-folder within that category and later on renaming or deleting the folder server-side without updating Zoom Player's media library configuration. - Fixed a bug introduced in the last beta version that prevented media library plugins from using the correct cache if the plugin uses a pagination system (e.g. The YouTube plugins), resulting in any listings added with the "Load More" entry to reset. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v20 beta 4:

* New "Media Server" Media Library plugin. After specifying your media server credentials in Zoom Player's options dialog (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server), Simply press Shift+"M" to open the media library category editor, select either the TV Shows or Movies category mode and click "Create Category". You will be presented with a choice of categories available on the specified media servers. Pick a category and you're done, full access to your Plex, Emby or Jellyfin library accessible directly from Zoom Player's media library. This plugin is still a work in progress and may not function perfectly, make sure to report any issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/zoomplayer * You can now search the Media Server browser by "All", "Movies" or "TV Shows" using a drop-down list next to the search field. * New "Play History" button on the IPTV Player window next to the "Play Stream" button to quickly replay the last 10 (configurable, see below) viewed streams. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls how many streams should be saved in the IPTV Player window's play history drop- down menu). The default value is "10" and you can set it to "0" to completely disable saving IPTV stream playback history. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the media library shows a media's duration next to the media's name in list view (enabled by default). * You can now define a Personal Rating and leave a Personal Note in the media library's meta-data editor. Setting a Personal Rating overrides the Star rating user interface display, but does not affect sorting or filtering by Star rating. * New "Sort by Personal Rating" media library sorting option. * New "Filter by Personal Rating" media library filtering option. * The Media Server browser window will now return the video resolution after the media's name (e.g. "My Amazing Movie "). You can customize the color used to display the video's resolution in the options dialog. * You can now set the DVD Video Renderer to MPC-VR. Please note that if LAV Filters is used with hardware accelerated video decoding in "D3D11" or "DXVA2 (native)" modes, subtitles will not be visible. * The Media Library's Plugin API has been enhanced to provide additional information to the plugin, opening access to new features (e.g. Media Server plugin). * New feature to reset Zoom Player to default settings. Accessible from the advanced options dialog by clicking the "Help / Export" button. * You can now change the skin magnification from 100% to 400% through the right-click menu within the "Controls" sub-menu. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) to only show the time when showing the clock (Alt+Ctrl+"D" keyboard shortcut). By default both the Time and Date are shown. * New "exSkinMagnify" extended function that lets you set the skin's magnification values. Valid values are 1 (100%) to 8 (800%). + The Zoom in functions (both standard and DirectShow) now try to Zoom in toward the mouse cursor when triggered using the mouse wheel. + The Media Server browser window no longer allows you to pick which server to search if multiple servers are defined. From now on, performing a search returns results from all the specified servers. + The Playlist Editor's right-click context menu has been simplified with some of the items moved to an "Extras" sub-menu. + The IPTV Player window is now using skinned right-click context menus. + Play history is used by many of the features, making the default value of storing history for 30 days no longer make sense. I have now changed the default value to 18262 days (approximately 50 years). + The mouse wheel should work better when scrolling through options in the advanced options dialog. + The Media Library Playlist plugin can now handle playlists that have x32 more entries compared to the previous version (over 24,000 entries). + The Media Library RSS plugin is now more compatible with Atom feeds. + The Media Library RSS plugin should be a little faster parsing feeds. - Fixed a crash when using the keyboard or remote in the confirmation home theater interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm erasing a file) to press Enter multiple times in quick succession. - Fixed a crash when opening the IPTV's or EPG Grid's 'customize' menus on a monitor with a DPI setting larger than 100%. - Fixed a crash when opening the play history window on a monitor with a DPI setting larger than 100%. - Setting "On Playlist Complete" to "Auto-Rewind" could have triggered a crash or unstable behavior under some conditions. - Fixed a crash when loading 4bit PNG images with transparency. This was especially nasty with the IPTV player window as some stream logos were using this format, causing the IPTV Player feature to become unstable (unable to close window or an outright crash). - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the confirmation home theater interface (used when resuming playback or to confirm erasing a file). - Fixed a relatively rare crash when closing the virtual keyboard interface (used when renaming files in the media library or trying to access a password protected category). - Fixed a bug in the open-drive feature (which is also used when auto- mounting ISO files) that failed to properly load virtually mounted BluRay content. - Fixed a bug where re-opening the IPTV Player window with a previously selected stream highlighted didn't enable the "Play Stream" button. - Using the media library's Filter by Star Rating feature showed a value range, for example "6 - 7", but did not actually show any 7.0 entries, showing only up to 6.9. - Setting the DVD Video Renderer to MadMR did not work at all with only audio playing. Please note that if LAV Filters is used with hardware accelerated video decoding in "D3D11" or "DXVA2 (native)" modes, subtitles will not be visible. - Titles in the skinned right-click menu were not horizontally aligned. - The Shift+Arrow keys to accurately reposition the video image or player windows stopped functioning at some point and now works again. - The "Reset Brightness" feature when using the EVR or MadVR video renderers reset the brightness to "1" instead of "0". - Hiding IPTV Groups containing the quote character in the group's name did not work as intended. - The Media Library RSS Feed plug-in should be better at handling text that is not encoded in UTF8 or English (e.g. Russian). Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v20 beta 3:

* In an effort to modernize Zoom Player's Home Theater look & feel, I've been working with Godwin on a new icon style. Simple, clean, subtle shading. With each beta, I'm including the latest icons, some of which are not in their final state. Another small tweak I made is to the Home Theater interfaces title area. It is now using a more standard font & color, reducing the number of different fonts used on-screen for a cleaner look. If you would like to comment on the new design, leave me a post on reddit: https://www.redit.com/r/zoomplayer * Since neither of the Subtitle components used by Zoom Player (DirectVobSub and xySubFilter) support VTT subtitles, I wrote code to dynamically convert ".VTT" files to ".SRT" files on the fly. The temporary ".SRT" files are saved to the windows temp folder and are erased as soon as the media closes. This feature only works on external subtitle files. * Added smart play profiles for Audiobooks in the ".M4B" and ".AAX" formats. * Added "AAX" as a default Audio file extension format. This change is not applied automatically to existing installation, you can apply it by clicking the "Default" button next to the audio extensions under "Advanced Options / File Format Association / File Extensions". * Added a button to the Media Server setup dialog (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) to apply the server's (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin) default local port to the specified URL. + If a Media Server URL is specified without an "http/https" prefix, "http" is now assumed by default. - When streaming media using libVLC, under some unknown condition, libVLC starts sending 1000's of time-changed events to Zoom Player every second, causing Zoom Player's user interface to freeze under the load. I wrote custom code to filter out all the duplicate events to work-around this issue. - The setting to go fullscreen on play was accidentally disabled in Zoom Player IPTV. - An authentication failure on a Media Server could have caused that media server's profile to disappear. - Fixed a bug in the previous beta where Zoom Player tried to automatically set local ports for media servers, preventing servers that work on the default http/https ports from connecting if you didn't specify the port. - Fixed TCP/IP Command & Control API message #1702 returning duplicate subtitle entries. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v20 beta 2:

* 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. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v20 beta 1:

+ The Media Server Browser window now restores its previous size & position when re-opening. + The Media Server Browser will now remember the previous browsing path instead of resetting to the root folder each time you open the window. + Right clicking an entry in the Media Server Browser now pops up an information window displaying the media's description and art. + Added "cover" to the "Background image search mask" feature which is used to find album art images when playing audio files. So right now the search mask covers both "folder" and "cover" file names (in any support image format). + New (optional) control bar button to open the IPTV Player window added to Zoom Player MAX. - The previous beta tried to save some debug logs to "c:\log" and probably failed causing slow-downs in the Media Server Browser. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Change List from v19.5.2:

* New Media Server Browser feature that allows you to stream media from a local or remote Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server). Zoom Player currently supports the top-3 media servers: 1. Plex 2. Emby 3. Jellyfin There is no limit to the number or types of servers you can add, you can mix and match as many servers as you want. Please note that depending on the media server type, load and connectivity, using libVLC to play content from a media server may offer faster seeking and audio/subtitle track switching. * New libVLC option ("Adv. Options / Playback / libVLC" or "Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server", this setting appears twice) to control whether the libVLC media engine should be used when playing content from media servers. * New Shift+"Y" keyboard shortcut to open the Media Server browsing client. + Re-opening the IPTV Player window should now be nearly instant. The only downside is that if you edit the files manually while Zoom Player is running, you will have to restart Zoom Player for the changes to take affect. + The default TCP/IP Control API port has been changed to 32999. + The default Web Server Control port has been changed to 32998. + I am disabling the "Display OSD through MadVR's OSD API" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video) on every install. This feature can have a negative impact on the user experience, its only benefits is if you use MadVR in fullscreen exclusive mode, a mode that is no longer of much use when running Windows 10 or better. If you previously used this feature and would like to continue using it, it can be re-enabled in the options. + libVLC's default audio framework is now set by default to "DirectSound", otherwise using libVLC and changing the volume would affect the windows- level volume level for Zoom Player (which should always be set to 100%). - libVLC's framework selection was completely broken, selecting another device wouldn't work at all or would use the default audio device instead. - Fixed a bug in Zoom Player IPTV that partially broke translation of the options dialog left-pane tree view, causing some lines to remain in the original English. - Fixed a bug that caused some error message text to get truncated. - In some resolutions, the meta-data display for playing audio media did not use a round-rectangle background correctly, causing text to appear partially outside the background. - Some over-zealous code optimization broke the audio playback meta-data display area, showing tags for empty fields. - Selecting the libVLC section in the Advanced Options dialog a second time no longer tries to relist libVLC's audio devices, causing a slight delay. Click here for the complete change list 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.

Highlights of v19.5.2:

• IPTV Quick Setup Wizard.
• Enhanced Media Library Category editor.
• Code Optimizations.
• Quality of life enhancements.
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v19.5.2: * A new IPTV Setup Wizard is shown when opening the IPTV player window for the first time. The Wizard simplifies the IPTV setup experience by automatically using the recommended default values. You only need to enter the login details you receive from your provider, click "save" and you're done. In Zoom Player IPTV, the IPTV Setup Wizard is shown immediately after launching Zoom Player for the very first time. * You can now open the IPTV Setup Wizard at any time by using the Ctrl+Shift+"F12" keyboard shortcut. Please note that using the IPTV Setup Wizard wipes existing IPTV provider information (with a warning message first). * On a fresh install, the Pre-Configuration wizard now offers a new "PC IPTV" option. The only difference from the regular PC option and the "PC IPTV" option is that picking the "PC IPTV" shows the new IPTV Setup Wizard right afterwards. * New Alt+"Q" keyboard shortcut to bring up the Source/Splitter filter's property page (configuration dialog). By default it opens the "LAV Splitter Source" dialog, allowing you to more easily configure Stream Analysis Duration", "Queue Memory", Preferred audio stream selection and other "source" related features. * New "Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV" button to clear the database cache. + Optimized the options dialog, it should now open 500-800ms faster. Yes, it still takes longer than desired. There's so many settings that it takes Windows itself about 1.3 seconds just to create the dialog and another 0.3 second just to set the DPI-Aware font. + Opening the IPTV player window for the first time no longer offers to add the FreeTV project's stream list. You can still add the stream list in the advanced options dialog. + The IPTV Player window's "Update Available" button is now outlined in a highlight color when an update is available, making it easier to see when an update is available. + To make the interface more intuitive, the media library category editor's "Create Category" button is now enabled in Prism View mode. When clicked, you will be prompted for the category mode before proceeding. + You can now rename and delete media library categories from prism view without first having to select the category mode. + The media library category editor's right-click menu now selects the item under the cursor before showing the menu. + To allow activation, Zoom Player's trial version will no longer automatically close after the trial period is over, instead preventing new media playback and showing the "Trial Over" message again. + The playlist editor's item counter has been changed from "file/files" to "Item(s)" to better reflect the fact that the playlist can hold URLs. Previously the "file/files" text was hard-coded, but now it's using the translated text for other languages. + The MadVR default is now set to not to display OSD through MadVR's OSD service which is slower and only intended for fullscreen exclusive mode. + There is now a "Cancel" button on the media library category editor's "Create Category" type selector. + Added a confirmation message when trying to use the "Remove All" button on the chapter/bookmark editor. + You can minimize the IPTV window again. - The IPTV Player window's "Update Available" button did not enabled after downloading Xtream Codes database updates. - The "IPTV" entry's text on the main right-click context menu was not updated correctly. - Removing an IPTV XCode/Playlist/EPG automated download profile mid- download could have caused Zoom Player to freeze. Now a message pops up and asks you to wait for the download to complete first. - The following keyboard shortcuts were not assigned the function listed in the keyboard help: Alt+"6" - Toggle libVLC IPTV playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"7" - Toggle libVLC BluRay playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"8" - Toggle libVLC Media file playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"9" - Toggle libVLC Streaming playback (Enabled/Disabled) - Adding chapters to a media file containing embedded chapter data caused the embedded chapters to disappear when reloading the media. - The "Open Window's file association interface" button in the "File Format Association" section of the options dialog now works with Windows 10+.

Highlights of v19.5.1:

• IPTV Quick Setup Wizard.
• Enhanced Media Library Category editor.
• Code Optimizations.
• Quality of life enhancements.
• Bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v19.5.1: * A new IPTV Setup Wizard is shown when opening the IPTV player window for the first time. The Wizard simplifies the IPTV setup experience by automatically using the recommended default values. You only need to enter the login details you receive from your provider, click "save" and you're done. In Zoom Player IPTV, the IPTV Setup Wizard is shown immediately after launching Zoom Player for the very first time. * You can now open the IPTV Setup Wizard at any time by using the Ctrl+Shift+"F12" keyboard shortcut. Please note that using the IPTV Setup Wizard wipes existing IPTV provider information (with a warning message first). * On a fresh install, the Pre-Configuration wizard now offers a new "PC IPTV" option. The only difference from the regular PC option and the "PC IPTV" option is that picking the "PC IPTV" shows the new IPTV Setup Wizard right afterwards. * New Alt+"Q" keyboard shortcut to bring up the Source/Splitter filter's property page (configuration dialog). By default it opens the "LAV Splitter Source" dialog, allowing you to more easily configure Stream Analysis Duration", "Queue Memory", Preferred audio stream selection and other "source" related features. * New "Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV" button to clear the database cache. + Optimized the options dialog, it should now open 500-800ms faster. Yes, it still takes longer than desired. There's so many settings that it takes Windows itself about 1.3 seconds just to create the dialog and another 0.3 second just to set the DPI-Aware font. + Opening the IPTV player window for the first time no longer offers to add the FreeTV project's stream list. You can still add the stream list in the advanced options dialog. + The IPTV Player window's "Update Available" button is now outlined in a highlight color when an update is available, making it easier to see when an update is available. + To make the interface more intuitive, the media library category editor's "Create Category" button is now enabled in Prism View mode. When clicked, you will be prompted for the category mode before proceeding. + You can now rename and delete media library categories from prism view without first having to select the category mode. + The media library category editor's right-click menu now selects the item under the cursor before showing the menu. + To allow activation, Zoom Player's trial version will no longer automatically close after the trial period is over, instead preventing new media playback and showing the "Trial Over" message again. + The playlist editor's item counter has been changed from "file/files" to "Item(s)" to better reflect the fact that the playlist can hold URLs. Previously the "file/files" text was hard-coded, but now it's using the translated text for other languages. + The MadVR default is now set to not to display OSD through MadVR's OSD service which is slower and only intended for fullscreen exclusive mode. + There is now a "Cancel" button on the media library category editor's "Create Category" type selector. + Added a confirmation message when trying to use the "Remove All" button on the chapter/bookmark editor. + You can minimize the IPTV window again. - The IPTV Player window's "Update Available" button did not enabled after downloading Xtream Codes database updates. - The "IPTV" entry's text on the main right-click context menu was not updated correctly. - Removing an IPTV XCode/Playlist/EPG automated download profile mid- download could have caused Zoom Player to freeze. Now a message pops up and asks you to wait for the download to complete first. - The following keyboard shortcuts were not assigned the function listed in the keyboard help: Alt+"6" - Toggle libVLC IPTV playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"7" - Toggle libVLC BluRay playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"8" - Toggle libVLC Media file playback (Enabled/Disabled) Alt+"9" - Toggle libVLC Streaming playback (Enabled/Disabled) - Adding chapters to a media file containing embedded chapter data caused the embedded chapters to disappear when reloading the media. - The "Open Window's file association interface" button in the "File Format Association" section of the options dialog now works with Windows 10+.

Highlights of v19.5:

• IPTV Xtream Codes support.
• IPTV EPG Grid and per-EPG time shifting.
• IPTV Global Search.
• IPTV interactive UI/UX customization.
• Enhanced Play History (restore AR).
• Seeking by percent of media duration.
• Extended mouse wheel functions.
• Optimizations for faster operations.
• Ease of life UI/UX enhancements.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Full changelog:

Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix --- What's new in Zoom Player v19.5: * Steam Overlay has been re-enabled and the previous "F12" keyboard shortcut has been moved to a new keyboard shortcut in order to clear the way for Steam to take screenshots without triggering an existing Zoom Player feature. * IPTV Xtream Codes support. Zoom Player supports three different Xtream Codes modes to access the stream playlist and EPG (electronic program guide) information. The modes exist to offer a fallback solution in case your IPTV provider is only offering partial support for Xtream Codes' feature-set. 1. Player API : This is the most recent Xtream Codes API. It uses network queries to obtain both the Stream Playlists and EPG data. TV Series and Movies are handled separately from live streams, providing an enhanced navigation experience. However, the EPG information is only accessible on a per-stream level and not as a whole, preventing the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features from working. 2. Player API + XML (default) : By leveraging the Player API you still benefit from the separate handling of TV Series and Movies. With the entire EPG downloaded as a single XML file, the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features have access to the full program guide and can work as intended. 3. M3U + XML : This is the most basic mode with both the EPG and the stream playlists downloaded as single-file databases. Global Filtering and the EPG Grid features work as intended, however TV Series and Movies are left to the graces of your IPTV provider, which means they may be harder to access and usually lack EPG or Meta-Data information (e.g. Bitrate). * New IPTV Electronic Program Guide Grid. The EPG grid is an alternative program guide view that lists the episode guide of multiple streams in an easy to scroll and filter interface. You can access the EPG grid by pressing the "#" button within the IPTV window. The EPG grid does not rely on the stream list and can be used without specifying any stream sources. The EPG grid's look and feel can be fully customized by pressing the menu button and choosing "Customize". You can use this same menu to "Magnetize" the EPG Grid window to the IPTV window. * New IPTV global episode guide filter. The new global filter works across all streams, filtering out streams that do not contain a program title containing the filter text. Global filtering is very useful when searching for a particular program or live event across all available streams. Please note that performing the initial global search triggers a one time stream indexing operation that may up to a few minutes on some hardware. * Added support for H.266/VVC, AV1 and Opus detection and icons to the media library. * New IPTV menu button on the IPTV window. The new menu includes: 1. Only show favorites (new feature, hides all other streams). 2. Toggle Opacity (previously a button). 3. IPTV Settings (previously a button). * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that allows you to specify if screenshots should be saved in the same folder as the video currently being played (Only applies to local files). * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Aspect Ratio) to reset the aspect ratio to "Derived" when opening a new media (disabled by default). * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to automatically restore the previously active video aspect ratio on replay (disabled by default). This new feature will only work for videos that was previously played by this version of Zoom Player (or newer) since previous versions did not save the active aspect ratio. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to sort the Group list by name. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Naviation / Settings) to prevent the fullscreen playlist and streaming navigation interfaces from closing when playing a new file. * New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's duration. Te default seek distance is 10% of the media's duration but you can change this value under "Adv. Options / Playback / Controls". By default, the two new functions are assigned to the Ctrl+Alt+"" keyboard shortcuts. * New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's duration when right-clicking the timeline. The default action is still seeking in seconds, you can change this to percent under - "Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings". * Added settings to control which Zoom Player function is triggered when using the mouse wheel while holding either the Alt, Ctrl or Shift keys. The default values are: Mouse Wheel + Alt : Seek 5 seconds backwards/forwards Mouse Wheel + Ctrl : Seek 20 seconds backwards/forwards Mouse Wheel + Shift : Seek 120 seconds backwards/forwards Watch me code it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to control whether global EPG filtering includes filtering using the program's description. This setting can slow down filtering and is disabled by default. * New "Copy path to clipboard" item on the playlist editor's right-click menu. This feature allows you to copy the file or URL path of the selected media entry in the playlist editor. * IPTV Per-EPG Time Shift support (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) has been added. The time shift is applied to the entire EPG. Please note : If you previously set a time shift on a specific stream then both time shifts are combined. * In cases where you list an IPTV stream supporting archive playback but the stream does not have an Episode Guide or the Episode Guide does not cover the full archive period specified in the playlist, Zoom Player now creates empty entries on the EPG listing panels to enable archive playback covering the full archive period. * IPTV playback of streams that require authentication using user-agent or referrer are now supported. For compatibility, Zoom Player uses the same "#EXTVLCOPT" playlist tag as VLC. This feature requires a version of LAV Filters newer than 0.79.2 as it was introduced by LAV Filters in a nightly build released after v0.79.2. * Rewrote some of the IPTV stream listing code to work much faster when dealing with massive stream lists. I used a test file containing an outrageous 572,527 playlist entries in a 142mb file. I managed to reduce filtering time from 24.4 seconds all the way down to 1.3 seconds or 1877% faster compared to the previous version. * Added an IPTV stream "filtered / count" label to the IPTV window. * Adding an IPTV Playlist or EPG download link will now automatically suggest a profile name based on the base URL. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that determines whether clicking on an IPTV group snaps the group to the top of the list, displaying the maximum number of items on-screen. Enabled by default. * Added an "Export Playlist to M3U" feature to the playlist editor's right- click context menu. * Closing Zoom Player with less than 1GB of free space on the "C:" drive now shows a warning message. Under some conditions, low disk space can corrupt Zoom Player's settings and we don't want that. If the message is annoying, disable it under "Adv. Options / System". + Some of the IPTV customization options have moved to an interactive dialog that can be opened from the IPTV window and allows you to view any changes you make in real time. + The media library now shows the media's duration in list view mode when a duration is available. + Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Video Aspect Ratio section. + Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Mouse Wheel section. Watch me redesign it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c + Redesigned the chapter/bookmark editor to make it cleaner and easier to use. Watch me redesign it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c + Enhanced the IPTV playlist parsing code to be more tolerant of badly authored playlists. + Optimized several parsing functions, Zoom Player should now load a little quicker. + You can now edit the IPTV's Playlist/EPG URL value without having to first remove the existing listing. + Unassigned (to a group) IPTV playlist entries are now listed on the bottom and not semi-randomly (where the first unassigned entry was spotting in the playlist). + Zoom Player no longer asks you if you would like to add the free IPTV channels if you already configured your own IPTV subscription service. + Clicking on a playlist entry in the playlist editor window when search is active, now removes the keyboard focus from the search box. The search value is not reset in this case, just hidden until you click the search box again. + Changed the title of the IPTV interface on the right-click context menu from "IPTV Electronic Program Guide" to "IPTV Player". + Some of the IPTV window's buttons have moved under a Menu button to make room for new features. + The Media Library's YouTube Playlist plugin can now be used to "Refresh" the thumbnail and playlist name under the media library editor's configuration page. + For clarity, the IPTV Window's "Play Stream" button is now disabled in cases where streams can't be played based on the currently selected entry. + The scene-cut dialog now closes when closing the playing media and will not open unless a media is playing with a duration longer than "0". + The "Reset user interface windows" function now applies to the IPTV player window and EPG Grid window. + Refreshed the content of the keyboard help dialog (F1 keyboard shortcut) for clarity. + The options dialog's Search feature now tries to screen-center the searched feature when clicked. + You can now select and delete multiple media library categories in the media library category editor using a single action. + You can now use the "Delete" key in the media library category editor to delete (with confirmation) the selected categories. + Added a right-click menu to the media library category editor's category list to make the features more accessible. + Small tweaks to the Media Library Category Editor layout to improve the user experience. + Added "VTT" to the default subtitle extensions (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions). You need to press the "Default" button on this page to apply this change on existing installations. + Added the ".RA" extension to Smart Play's real audio source profile. + The "Reset Color settings" keyboard shortcut has been changed from "F11" to "Ctrl+F11". + The "Apply Color settings" keyboard shortcut has been changed from "F12" to "Ctrl+F12". - Playing new media from the Playlist Editor, IPTV windows, Advanced Playlist Control and the Station Manager should no longer cause the main player window to appear on top for a short duration while the media is loading. - Incorrectly setting the Hot-Corner action in the advanced options dialog could cause Zoom Player's settings to get partially reset. - Due to an encoding bug, favorite IPTV stream names containing special characters got progressively more corrupted with "&pipe", ""e", "&" and other HTML character encoding garbage. - Parsing "M3U" playlist containing URLs ignored the listed duration. - Any interface SFX played while a media was loaded using the DirectShow media engine would break volume control until a new media was loaded. - "SOON" and "LIVE" media library YouTube entries would disappear when pressing the "Load More" option and then closing and reopening the media library. - Fixed a UTF8 encoding/decoding bug that failed to decode unicode characters greater than U+010000 in the TCP/IP control API, causing Zoom Player to not find files with these characters in the name. - Loading a Zoom Player chapter file (".zpchp") did not sort the chapters by position, instead showing them by the order they were listed in the file. Watch me fix it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c - Fixed a bug that prevented the source video resolution from being read when using MPC-VR as the video renderer. Watch me fix it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c - Fixed a bug that prevented text input on the "Folder/Poster file mask" and "Backdrop file mask" settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization). - Fixed a bug where IPTV stream's time-shift offset was not being saved correctly if the stream only had a name and not an ID. - The media library category editor should now restore the previously selected category when closing and re-opening the dialog. - Using the media library's "resume playback" feature did not add the media's title (when available) to the playlist. - Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to freeze on exit when a new IPTV playlist/EPG download has finished with no disk space to extract it. - Pressing "Play" from the control bar when using the libVLC engine for playback could cause the control bar to appear hidden behind the video, preventing access until the control bar was closed and reopened. - Fixed a small cosmetic glitch when resizing the IPTV program information dialog. - Fixed a cosmetic bug that caused the wrong icons to appear in the playlist fullscreen navigation interface if safe mode was enabled. - Fixed a cosmetic bug that didn't update the playing media's duration in real time if the playlist had another duplicate entry listed earlier. - The Media Library RSS feed plugin showed duplicate entries if the server switched from "https://" URLs to "http://" URLs. This fix does not resolve the issue if bad entries were already cached, to resolve that you have to erase the ".rss" file from Zoom Player's "CategoryCache\RSS_Feed\" folder. - The Media Library RSS feed plugin did not show the "Refresh" option. - Some dialogs on the skin selection dialog were not showing translated OK/Cancel buttons. - When using really massive IPTV playlists that can take a few seconds to parse or filter, Windows would detect Zoom Player's window as unresponsive and when Zoom Player completed the action and became responsive again, Windows would bring the main player window to the front automatically. Now Zoom Player restores the IPTV window to the top as soon as such long actions are complete. - You can no longer right-click to hide your IPTV's "Favorites" from the stream list. - When picking a local IPTV playlist or EPG file and changing the dialog to search for "all files", no files were shown. - Fixed a rare case where the playlist editor was not able to read an M3U playlist entry's title. - You can no longer use a duplicate or empty profile name when adding or renaming IPTV sources. - On rare occasions using the Edge Webview2 engine to playback YouTube content resulted in the video's duration remaining at zero, causing Zoom Player's internal screen saver to kick-in. I wrote a fix, but it is untested as this issue is somewhat rare, let me know if you encounter it after this fix. - Fixed a glitch with the default skins that caused the title text to appear behind the minimize button in audio mode. - Setting the Scene Cut editor to "Pause Playback" did not update the user interface correctly. - Using ".df" definition files to save/restore a subtitle synchronization offset was broken in v19 when I added support for the libVLC media engine. - Using a custom menu "Execute" feature did not work if the playing file had space characters in the file name. - You can no longer "favorite" the same IPTV stream more than once. - Clicking on "Favorite" IPTV streams did not show their EPG information or showed an EPG information from a different stream. - Right-clicking the IPTV Stream List panel did not update the EPG listing. - The scene-cut information was not cleared when closing the playing media. - The scene-cut "GoTo" button was incorrectly enabled for some cut modes. - An IPTV's program description did not show line breaks correctly in the EPG list. - Switching an audio or subtitle track while the Home Theater Stream Selection interface was open did not update the listed entries to reflect the new track selection. - Media Library thumbnails with a title longer than the available space to display the text were not vertically centered correctly.

Change List from v19.5 beta 3:

* New "Copy path to clipboard" item on the playlist editor's right-click menu. This feature allows you to copy the file or URL path of the selected media entry in the playlist editor. * You can now customize the IPTV EPG Grid's stream name column width as a percentage of the current monitor's width. * Added keyboard navigation using the arrow keys to the IPTV EPG Grid. + Some of the IPTV customization options have moved to an interactive dialog that can be opened from the IPTV window and allows you to view any changes you make in real time. + The IPTV EPG Grid's customization options have moved to an interactive dialog that can be opened from the EPG Grid window and allows you to view any changes you make in real time. + The IPTV EPG Grid now displays a separator between streams. + The IPTV EPG Grid now shows 30min time ticks in the header instead of 60 minute ticks. + The IPTV EPG Grid no longer lists streams with no EPG information. + The IPTV EPG Grid now lists "No Information Available" program entries when the EPG grid moves outside the available program guide date range. + The scene-cut dialog now closes when closing the playing media and will not open unless a media is playing with a duration longer than "0". - An over-zealous optimization caused some IPTV EPG guide entries not to appear in the EPG grid. - Accidental IPTV EPG Grid program/stream selection is less likely to occur. - The Scene Cut "Type" selector got pretty messed up in a previous beta, hiding the "end" elements on some types it shouldn't have. - Reduced some flicking when initially listing IPTV EPG entries. - Filtering IPTV streams in the previous beta caused the filtered streams to be unplayable. - Fixed some visual glitches in the IPTV dialog. - Fixed keyboard navigation in the IPTV dialog's stream list. - Setting the IPTV player window to only show favorites caused the wrong right-click menu to show when right-clicking favorite entries. - You can no longer "favorite" the same IPTV stream more than once. - Clicking on "Favorite" IPTV streams did not show their EPG information or showed an EPG information from a different stream. - You can no longer access the IPTV customization options from the IPTV player window or EPG Grid if Safe Mode is enabled. - Right-clicking the IPTV Stream List panel did not update the EPG listing. - The scene-cut information was not cleared when closing the playing media. - The scene-cut "GoTo" button was incorrectly enabled for some cut modes. Click here for the complete change list 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.