Zoom Player Max 10.5 Beta5

With Zoom Player, you can instantly Convert any PC into a Home Entertainment Center (HTPC) with no specialized hardware requirement or operating system. Zoom Player runs with every version of Windows.

Utilizing Zoom Player's modular design and flexibility, you can easily design a safe viewing environment, limiting or extending functionality, making it ideal for both newbies and professionals.

Zoom Player is fully scalable, supporting the latest media formats and interfaces. New features are incorporated constantly with release schedules and feature integration clearly announced on our support Forum, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Install Center:
Zoom Player's Install Center quickly scans your system for missing or outdated media components and automatically present you with an installation list of recommended updates, keeping your system up to date with the latest technology.

Supported Video Formats:
DVD, BluRay (Decrypted Main Movie playback), Matroska (MKV), MPEG2 Transport (TS/TP/TSP/TRP/M2T/M2TS/MTS/PVA/TOD), H.264 & AVCHD (MPEG4 AVC), H.265 & HEVC, WebM, XVID, DIVX, AVI, Flash Video (FLV), Windows Media (WMV/ASF), QuickTime (MOV/HDMOV), Ogg Movie (OGM), Theora (OGV), Real Media (RM/RMVB), VideoCD (VCD), Super VideoCD (SVCD), MPEG (MPG), MPEG2 Program (M2V/VOB/MOD), MPEG4 (SP/ASP), MPEG4 ISO (MP4), General Exchange Format (GXF), Material Exchange Format (MXF), Media Center DVR (DVR-MS), CamCorder (MOD/TOD), Digital Video (DV), DVCPRO, VP3, VP6, VP7, Motion JPEG (MJPEG), Motion JPEG 2000 (MJPEG2000), Flash (SWF), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP/3G2), FLIC (FLI/FLC) and more . . .

Supported Audio Formats
MP3, Free Lossless Audio CODEC (FLAC), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Windows Media (WMA), OGG Vorbis (OGG), OPUS (OPUS), CD-Audio (CDA), Dolby Digital (AC3), Digital Theatre Surround (DTS), Matroska (MKA), Wave Audio (WAV), SHOUTcast (Streaming), Cell Phone (AMR), Monkey Audio (APE), Real Media (RA), MusePack (MPC), OptimFROG (OFR), Shorten (SHN), True Audio (TTA), WavPack (WV), Apple Lossless Audio Coding (ALAC), LPCM, MIDI, AIFF, MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, UMX and more . . .

Supported Interactive Formats:
DVD, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Flash (SWF).

Supported Image Formats:
JPEG (JPG), PNG, GIF, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF, JFIF, RLE, WIN, VST, VDA, TGA, ICB, TIFF, FAX, EPS, PCX, PCC, SCR, RPF, RLA, SGI, BW, PSD, PDD, PPM, PGM, PBM, CEL, PIC, PCD, CUT, PSP, PN and more .

Whats New in version 10.5:

* New thumbnail based view mode for the Media Library fullscreen
navigation interface with kinetic scrolling!

You can specify which media library category should display in thumb
view mode using the Media Library category editor.

Thumb view mode automatically uses background threads to scrape for
information (thumbnails and other meta-data) from media files within
the media library.

Bumping on the left/right sides using a keyboard or remote control
brings up custom functionality such as "Go to first entry",
"Go up a folder" or "Switch sorting mode".

To access the function menu, long click or touch the thumbnail until
the function icon appears and then let go of the mouse button or
screen before the icon disappears.

Using the keyboard, pressing Enter brings up a mini-menu with options
to play the media file, erase the media file, open the full function
menu and go up a folder. This mini-menu automatically times out
after 3 seconds or you can close it manually by pressing left with the
top-left icon highlighted.

To return to the category list using a keyboard or remote control,
press "Left" on the first entry. By default, bumping left will
go to the first entry, so a few left clicks will quickly show
the category list.

* New thumb view section in the advanced options dialog featuring all
the settings available to control Zoom Player's thumb view layout
and user experience.

* The 'Navigation Style' fullscreen navigation interface can now be used
to switch between background patterns on skins that allow you to set
a custom background pattern.

* Features that highlight a portion of the timeline (AB-Repeat, creating
ring tones, etc) now show position markers for the start and end points
as well as the duration of the highlighted range.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that controls whether the media library lists content that matches
a category type or shows the content based on the media library filter.

The new default is to only show content based on the media library
category type. To restore the previous default, uncheck this setting.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to Automatically select the last viewed file/folder when entering a folder.

This setting requires play history's "save last play time" setting enabled
to function.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Bar / Timeline Area) that
determine if timeline markers are shown with features that highlight a
portion of the timeline

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Playlist editor to
remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to force the Equalizer to
remain on-top when switching to fullscreen mode.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Tags) to
use the folder/embedded image as a stretched and darkened background for
the image itself. Enabled by default.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
that enables using the navigation "Enter" key action on a media library
category list to open the category at the root folder.

This was the previous default behavior, which have now been disabled.
Pressing enter with this setting disabled, opens the category in its
previous position.

* Volume widgets now show the volume percentage as a hint when hovering
over with the mouse cursor.

* The Multi-Part file loader's "Automatic Match" setting can now detect
and add into the playlist GoPro series of media files.
Thanks Dimitar Pankov.

* The "Options / About" page will now specify if your copy of Zoom Player
is a life time (free upgrades for life) license.

* The internal image decoder now supports GIF decoding (only still images,
does not support animating GIF files).

* New "fnThumbViewMiniMenu" function that Shows/Hides the media library's
ThumbView mode's Mini-Menu.

* New "unchecked" icon used throughout several fullscreen navigation
interfaces to clarify usage experience.

+ Zoom Player file tracker is now compatible with qBitTorrent v3.2.

+ The backspace key can now be used with all fullscreen navigation interfaces
to quickly go up to a previous folder or all the way back to the main
fullscreen navigation interface.

+ The backspace key no longer clears the playlist on the playlist fullscreen
navigation interface.

+ Zoom Player used the term 'Directory' and 'Folder' interchangeably,
to prevent confusion, all references should now appear as 'Folder'.

- When viewing the main fullscreen navigation interface in grid mode,
the description could appear as "???" when using a non-english
language pack.

- The media library fullscreen navigation interface did not highlight
previously seen image files when the setting to 'Highlight previously
viewed files' was enabled.

- Navigation scroll acceleration (when holding down or quickly tapping
a keyboard or remote control button) didn't reset the acceleration
when using a different navigation key.

For example, pressing the down arrow quickly would scroll real fast
down a list, but then pressing the UP key would scroll back up by
more than one item.

- The keyboard macro list and right-click context menu file were not
updated to the latest version in the original v10.0.0 release.

- Maximizing and then Minimizing the main player window lost the
maximized window state and non-maximized window size.

- Playing a new video with MadVR set as the video renderer while the
player window was in a maximized state lost the maximized window
state and non-maximized window size.

- Using functions that shows a file open/save dialog and keeping the
dialog window open until the internal screen saver started, caused the
user interface to become unresponsive.

- Fixed a small memory leak.

- With the "Nav-Left goes up a directory before entering the
Drive/Category list" setting enabled, clicking the "
the media library triggered a "folder up" action instead of
returning to the category list.

- Fixed a crash when trying to close the player with certain fullscreen
navigation interfaces open and uTorrent/qBittorrent/eMule file tracking
was enabled.

- The "Screen-Center Playlist when switching to Fullscreen / Zoom mode"
setting did not actually screen-center the playlist editor.

- Trying to set file association with UAC enabled under Windows 7 would
erroneously show a 'this feature is not supported by the FREE/PRO
version' dialog.


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