Zoom Player Premium (former Zoom Player WMV Professional) 6 00 RC2

Zoom Player WMV Professional description
An application that allows users to play various types of media files
Zoom Zoom Player Premium will allow you to play Windows Media Video Digital Rights Management files (Copy protected WMV files).

The first thing you should do is install this Microsoft Patch if you are using an older operating system (older than Windows XP Service Pack 2). This patch shouldn't hurt your system if you install it on a later version of windows.

Next make sure you have DirectX v9 or newer installed on your machine. You can download the latest version of DirectX from Microsoft.

You also need a display card and drivers that support VMR9 Video Rendering. Both ATI and NVIDIA have drivers that support VMR9. If your driver is old, you may need to upgrade it to their latest releases. You will further need to Configure Zoom Player Windows Media settings within the "Windows Media" tab under "Advanced Options / Settings".

Finally, you must authenticate the disc/file you are trying to play in order to obtain a playing license. With WM-DVD discs, usually inserting the disc accomplishes that. For WMV DRM media files, you may need to first try playing them with Windows Media Player 9.

Here
are some key features of "Zoom Player Premium":

· Enchancement to the Skinning code, allowing you to specify a negative group value to make sections of the skin only activate if the specified skin group is disabled.

· The "fnPLItemUp" and "fnPLItemDown" functions which allow you to move items up and down within the Play List have now been assigned keyboard macros of "Alt+PgUp" and "Alt+PgDn". These functions have also been extended to update the Play List Navigator, so that you can now re-order items within the Play List using a remote.

· The Play List Navigator has been enhanced to accept the Navigational Insert key to toggle selection of the currently highlighted play list entry. This ties into the above functions to allow you to re-order multiple items at once. The color used for file selection is selectable under "Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators".

· New Button on the Station Editor allowing you to play a new station by appending the station to the play list instead of clearing the play list.

· New Communication API Message 1210.

· The skin selection dialog has been changed so that single clicking on a selected skin will apply that skin while double clicking will apply the skin and close the dialog.

· The Main GUI on the default skin has changed. Some buttons graphics have been changed to be more windows-centric. The Eject and Options buttons have been dropped (still accessible through the keyboard and the right-click context menu).

· The Equalizer and Switch to Audio Mode buttons have been moved in place of the Options and Eject buttons.

· The Minimalistic mode button has been removed (still accessible in several modes through the keyboard F4-F7 keys).

· The Play List Editor GUI on the default skin has changed.
· By default, most of the buttons are no longer visible (their functionality is accessible through the right-click context menu). However, by pressing the "+" button, you can have the Extra Controls appear.

· The Brownish skin is no longer part of the official distribution, but would still be available through the Zoom Player Skin site.

· Comm API messages 1603, 1703 wouldn't work if DVD Preferred
· Audio/Subtitle selection was enabled in the options dialog.

· The /AR command line did not accept "0" (disabled AR) as a valid parameter.

· DefaultSetting.exe will now delete "zplayer.local" as well.

· Some language files may have gotten only partially loaded under some conditions.

· Unicode text may not have been displayed properly in some of the dialog bevel elements.

· Timeline text may have not been properly centered if unicode characters were part of the text.

· The "click here to search" text entry on the play list editor may not have gotten its translated text to appear properly.

· Girder Export Commands got broken again.

· Trying to load an 0 byte play list or playing a non-existant play list off the internet could cause a crash.


What's New in This Release:

· Zoom Player can now communicate with uTorrent's Web UI interface in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on this page for additional information.
· Zoom Player can now keep track with eMule's temporary files directory in order to display download progress within the Media Library and File Browsing fullscreen navigation interfaces. This feature is accessible under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation / File Tracker". Press the "?" button on this page for additional information.
· New "Download Manager" navigation interface (Ctrl+"J"), allowing you to get an overview of your currently downloading files (compatible with eMule and uTorrent).
· The Scene Cut editor has been simplified and enhanced. The Scene cut editor no longer requires you to click on the save button, saving is done automatically now. A new edit button allows you to edit entries without having to remove an old entry first. Lastly, the scene cut interface layout has been updated to make it simpler to use.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Video / Aspect Ratio) instructing Zoom Player "Derived" Aspect Ratio mode to Automatically Adjust (fix) the Aspect Ratio for badly encoded content. This would convert 4:3 content encoded as 720x480 to display as 720x540, 720x576 to 768x576, 352x240 to 352x264, 352x288 to 384x288, etc... Badly encoded 16:9 content is also adjusted in a similar fashion. This setting also fixes small aspect ratio inaccuracies caused by a requirement made by video encoders for the video pixel width or height to be dividable by 16 (or 8 or 4).
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to skip the "Library Filter Mode" page. With this setting enabled, navigating left on the media library category list will go straight to the Main navigation menu.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to disable the delete key from erasing the currently playing file.
· New Setting (Adv. Options / System / Paths) allowing you to select the Frame Capture (screenshot) format. BMP, PNG and JPEG are supported.
· The Zoom Player function selection dialog is now split into three categories: Content, Interface and Control. The function list is also sorted, making functions easier to find.
· New "IconScale" parmeter for the "ListData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to set the size of list line icons relative to the size of the line height.
· New "ProgressColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation Skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used when displaying download progress within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathExtraColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the extra path text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "PathExtraOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the path extra text within the Media Library, File Browsing and Download Manager fullscreen navigation interfaces.
· New "ConfirmColor" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which color will be used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
· New "ConfirmOutline" parameter for the "ColorData" navigation skin-script command, allowing you to select which outline color will be used for the confirmation fullscreen navigation interface.
· New Vista specific feature allowing you to make the entire Zoom Player window semi-transparent. This also requires that you use a video renderer that would work (Haali's/VMR9/EVR) and that VISTA Aero is enabled. To use: Alt+Ctrl+F4 = Fully visible window / Alt+Ctrl+F5 = 80% visiblity / Alt+Ctrl+F6 = 60% visiblity / Alt+Ctrl+F7 = 40% visiblity. You can also specify exact transparency values using the new "exTransWin" extended function.
· New "exTransWin" extended function, allowing you to specify a transparency value (1-255) for the Zoom Player window. This function requires Windows VISTA with Aero enabled.
· The default Audio mode skin now has a wider volume bar and includes a new button that opens the statio manager.
· The Control Bar and OSD Pop-ups are now accessible even when the player window is set to "Stay on Top".
· Pressing stop twice was set to resume playback from the position prior to the stop function being called. This wasn't too clear so now a "Resume" OSD message pops up.
· Newly supported file extensions: M4B, HDMOV.
· The Navigation interfaces should work slightly faster, especially in situations where more complex navigation skins are used (skins with large transparency effects).
· The skin selection interface behavior has been changed slightly. In order to apply a custom tint, you must now click the Apply Tint button.
· The skin selection interface is now sorted alphabetically.
· The Frame Capture Alt+"F" (screenshot) function should now work in all video renderers except Overlay Mixer, VMR9 Renderless (VMR9 Windowed and Windowles should work) and EVR.
· Function descriptions have changed to make them easier to Read, Understand and Search.
· The Girder Exported commands are now sorted and split into categories, making it easier to program remote devices and home automation systems.
· Mouse left click while holding the Alt key now zooms in 10% instead of 50% (which wasn't as useful).
· Ctrl+"C" now enables/disables closed captioning when used by media files (it was previously limited to DVDs).
· With some file formats, the playlist would not update the total playlist duration properly.
· Enabling the "Show Time Seek Position Over Timeline" feature would cause the Zoom Player window to become the top-most window if the mouse cursor hovered over the timeline.
· Trying to open the Options dialog with the main window set to "Stay on Top" and Zoom Player set to only show an icon on the tray area would cause the options dialog to appear behind the main window.
· Monitor Powerdown will no longer be disabled when playing in windowed mode (Powerdown will only be disabled when fullscreen).
· Detaching the control bar would not snap its position to the previously saved detached position under some conditions.
· Trying to play streaming content while in DVD Mode would not switch to media mode automatically and then fail to play.
· The Context Navigator did not use the scripting parameters assigned to it correctly.
· The Contact Sheet creation form didn't allow you to select the contact sheet color values.
· Some navigation interface titles could not be translated into other languages.
· The "exSetMode" function would not switch modes properly under some conditions.
· Switching between Media/DVD/Audio mode could result in an Audio mode skin loaded in DVD mode.
· The "Scrollbar Highlight" color for forced Playlist colors was not being saved properly.
· If the internal screen saver got activated with the open file dialog already open, it could cause Zoom Player to become non-responsive....

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