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-- Please Read:
* Please go to: http://order.kagi.com/?47D
Even if you don't want to donate, I want you to read the current
situation the Inmatrix site and this program is currently in.
--- What's new in v2.90:
New :
* Completely redesigned the default skin. The Brownish skin is still
part of the distribution so if you favor it,you can just re-select it.
* You can now Color-Tint any skin, simply open the skin selection dialog
and modify the Red/Green/Blue values with either a positive or a
negative value and click on the skin you want to load.
* You can now access a DVD's Number Pad by pressing Alt+Ctrl+"0..9" on
the keyboard (or through a remote). The only real use of this feature
is for discs with hidden content that require number pad activation
(Such as "Terminator 2:Ultimate Edition").
* New Media Library Navigator (Alt+"M") allowing you to group specified
directories (even from different drives) into one virtual listing.
Similar to the file navigator, this interface can be navigated using
the following keys (or remote-mapped alternates):
Left - Go up one Directory.
Right - Play Selected File or Directory.
Up/Down - Scroll through the List.
Insert - Play all files within the selected directory or
Play all files in a directory when a file is selected.
Enter - Enter Directory or Play Selected File.
PgUp/PgDn - Scroll a page through the List.
Home/End - Go to Beginning/End of the List.
* New Media Library Path Editor (Shift+"M") allowing you to select the
paths used by the Media Library Navigator as a Virtual Drive.
* New "/MEDIANAV" command line parameter which starts Zoom Player with
the Media Library Navigator opened.
* New Toggle (Options -> Key Toggles) allowing you to select which
Navigator to open when the Enter key is pressed while in Media Mode.
Previously you could only open the File Navigator, with this toggle
you can now choose from:
1. Disabled
2. File Navigator
3. Media Library Navigator
4. GoTo Navigator
5. Play List Navigator
6. Chapter/Bookmark Navigator
* New Toggle (Options -> Toggles) allowing you to have the Control Bar
aligned to the Tom/Bottom of the Monitor when in windowed mode.
Set to either Top or Bottom, overrides all other Control Bar position
settings.
* New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Interface) allowing you to detach
the Control Bar from the user interface. The position of the Control
Bar in Window and Fullscreen modes are remembered independently.
Can also be accessed by middle clicking the Control Bar.
* New Registered Filter Manager Interface (Options -> Manual Filters)
allowing you to select any registered filter(s) and unregister them
quickly and easily. It further allows you to set the merit value on
each filter which determines which filter has precedence when two
filters of the same function are registered at one time (such as
two types of MPEG2 filters). By adjusting the filters merit, you
may be able to prevent filter conflicts to some degree.
* New Setting (Options -> Manual Filters -> Extended VMR Mode).
In preparation for DirectX-9, I've implemented support for Extended VMR
modes. The VMR uses 3D hardware to accelerate video graphics.
At present it depends on the Display Driver implementation as to whether
VMR improves or degrades video quality (and yes, it can degrade it).
This mode only works under Windows XP as it's the only OS with VMR
support, but this may change with DirectX-9 (I'm not really sure).
Similar to the overlay mixer, the VMR can fix aspect ratio modes for
WMV9 and MPEG2 content. However, unlike the Overlay Mixer it does so
without lying to the player about the actual video resolution, so
playing back SVCD content will show the actual 480x480 resolution, but
when setting the Aspect Ratio mode to "Derived" in Zoom Player, you
will see the correct aspect ratio.
At this time, there is no Overlay Color Control interface on the VMR,
so you still need to use the Overlay Mixer to access this. I am told
that DirectX-9 may change that, so we'll have to see.
* New DVD Setting (Options -> DVD -> DVD Settings) allowing you to set
the Closed Caption Background to Transparent (otherwise Opaque).
* New Audio Balance (stereo) interface. Using the Alt+Shift+"," and
Alt+Shift+"." keys you can move the Audio Balance Left to Right.
* New Open Drive Function (Shift+"D") allowing you to open every file
on the drive according to the allowed extension list (Options ->
Values -> Other). The code also checks if the drive contains a
VCD, SVCD or DVD disc and only opens the appropriate files accordingly.
* If the Tray icon is visible, hovering the mouse cursor over it will
now show the open File Name or DVD Volume.
* New Command Line Parameter allowing you to set the keyboard file,
Example: "c:\path\to\exe\zplayer.exe" "/key:c:\path\to\key\keyfile.key"
* New Skinning interface (not implemented on default skin) allowing you
to create an Audio Balance Control on the user interface. It works
similar to the Play Rate Control and implemented through the
BlanaceExData skinning function.
* New Skin Button type allowing you to have a switch the active skin.
* The CreateExButton Skinning interface has been expanded so you can
Optionally specify the position of the button down bitmap rather than
having it aligned to the right of the up bitmap.
* New "TimelineCursor" Skinning Variable allowing you to set the cursor
used for timeline seeking.
* New Skin Constant "DVDVolume" allows you to write the DVD Disc's
volume label.
* New FillMask skinning helper function for easily filling skin areas
with a mask of another bitmap (useful for backgrounds with transparent
buttons).
* OGG Audio files can be used as external audio tracks.
* New Extended Function (exDVDNumPad) allowing you to activate a DVD's
Number Pad through either the keyboard, remote or context menu command.
* Shortcut ".lnk" files are now parsed and the files they are pointing
to are now properly loaded. One use can be a DVD Archive where you
create shortcuts in one directory for the VIDEO_TS.IFO files that
reside in multiple hard drives/paths.
* When Pausing, the OSD will now show the current position.
Changes:
* VASTLY! Reduced the Windows 95/98/ME system resources used by
Zoom Player, Zoom Player now takes around 6% resources compared to
around 30% v2.80 used. This of course doesn't have any effect
on Windows 2K/XP as they don't have such a limited widget resource
bank to begin with.
* Zoom Player should load a bit faster now (not that it was slow to
load to begin with).
* The Custom Context-Menu interface has been completely revamped, there
are no more fixed items and more functions are accessible. Backward
support for the previous custom menu interface won't be supported,
however, it doesn't take more than 2 minutes to manually convert.
* The default Context-Menu for the Media, DVD and Tray interfaces has
been sorted and expanded.
* The Open Directory function is now "DVD-Aware". This means that if
you open a directory with a VIDEO_TS.IFO file in it, the directory
would be played as a DVD.
* The Association dialog now shows you which extensions are associated
and allows you to remove association.
* The File Navigator interface now uses the Open Drive button when using
the Insert key on a drive letter.
* Separated the Custom Audio Device to Media and DVD so you can decide
if it affects one or the other (or neither).
* The Next/Previous Chapter buttons now act as Next/Previous Tracks when
no chapters are defined. When Chapters are defined they will only
change tracks if you are on the last/first chapters. This allows
you to cross-chapter media files.
* New Overlay Color automated verification system that double checks if
DirectShow is returning the correct overlay color used in OSD
transparency. This is required due to bugs in such filters as the
WinDVD v4 Video Decoder which modifies the overlay color code for some
unknown reason.
* The vlLeft and vlTop skin parameters have been moved into the
VolumeExData function and should no longer be used in future skins.
* The rtLeft, rtTop parameters and RateData function has been integrated
into a new "RateExData" function for further skinning simplification.
* The skinning documentation has moved from the plasticblue to the
brownish skin as it is updated to much all the new functions.
* Several of the Red Error messages have been converted to an OSD
message, especially those involving missing a DVD disc or wrong path.
* The red error dialog now has a "Close" button on them, some people
were unaware they could be closed by pressing Escape or Clicking on
the dialog.
* The Previous/Next filter file functions have been removed, if you
plan to use a filter file, you must select it through the options
dialog.
* Screen centering functions should now center on the active monitor
and not on the virtual screen coordinates for better multi-monitor
support.
* When the Extended VMR setting is enabled (see above) under Windows XP,
the frame capture function (Alt+"F") is more accurate and captures
any file format (including MPEG2, ASF and WMV).
* Some speed up to the ASX play list file parsing. On a P3/733 it now
takes around 40 seconds to load a 17000 entry list (verifying that
each file actually exists), down from 233 seconds with the previous
code. An improvement of over 500%.
* Improved Overlay ColorKey detection.
* The Minimize to Tray setting has been removed as it had the same
function as the Tray location selection toggle.
Fixes:
* Wrote a DirectShow workaround a bug that failed to notify the player
when exiting a Menu mode when playing from a Bookmark.
* The Next Audio Track didn't work with the new OGM DirectShow filter.
* Fixed a problem when the Override VMR setting was enabled and you
simply wouldn't see any video.
* The TransBitmapCopy function was not working properly.
* Fixed a bug that could cause crashes on non-english versions of
windows.
* Fixed a problem that would alter the DVD Background Image aspect
ratio.
* Using the new DrawExText would cause position covered by the
text not to react to mouse clicks.
* Open Filter Property Pages should no longer mess up buttons with
Hover Graphics.
* Fixed possible crashes (multiple divide by zero) with Scene Cut files.
* Clicking the mouse on the Play List Navigator could pop an error dialog.
* Fixed a few possible crashes involving versions of windows that didn't
use "." as a fraction separator.
* Certain DVD Discs (ones without the "AUDIO_TS" directory) would not have
been identified as DVD when Insert Auto-Play was enabled.
* The "CopyTransBitmap" skinning function was faulty.
* The Red Error dialog should now close properly when using a remote.
* The DVD Background Image would not always return to it's correct
aspect ratio after stopping a DVD.
---
* The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew.shtml
--- End.