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"*" = New
"+" = Change
"-" = Fix
New :
* The media library now has a new media-scraping capability to
automatically download movie posters (TV coming soon).
This is a major feature, a full guide is included here:
http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/mediascraping.shtml * New Zoom Player icon on the taskbar and desktop.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) to specify whether Zoom Player
should use the enhanced (Windows Vista+) open file dialog.
This setting is enabled by default.
The older open dialog has issues with high DPI monitor setting, causing
some of the icon to appear extremely small.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View)
that controls whether folder thumbnails are created from the first media
file within the folder (if meta data scraping fails).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings)
to add Extended Controls (Delete Media and Functions Menu) to the path
area of the media library, playlist and file browsing fullscreen
navigation interfaces.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) to use a video
frame from the media file as thumbnail if the meta data scrapers fail.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
whether the thumbnail's background is darkened or not.
The default value for this setting is determined by the category type.
* New Setting (Media Library Editor / Configure Category) that controls
the number of text lines to display under each thumbnail.
Depending on the media file's name length, the file name will be
word-wrapped across multiple lines.
* New folder scraping blacklist, enabling you to prevent scraping of
folders. The main use of this new feature is to prevent "sample" and
"subs" folder from being scraped, especially when downloading movie
posters from TheMovieDB.org or other online databases.
* New media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
designed to better display poster aspect ratio (1:1.5) thumbnails.
* On a fresh install, the Play History dialog's column width are now
automatically spaced to better cover the grid's width.
Changes :
+ The media library category editor (use Shift+"M" or access using the
right click menu) has been redesigned for enhanced simplicity and user
experience.
+ The clear media cache button has moved from the options dialog to the
media library category editor dialog (Shift+"M").
+ The thumbnail view's thumbnail memory cache now syncs cached thumbnails
directly with the main thread without waiting for other scraping threads,
ensuring memory cached thumbnails show up faster while scraping for new
content.
+ The subtitle overlay icon, displayed over a thumbnail in the media library
has been enhanced for extra clarity (the sub-bits are now highlighted
in yellow).
+ The media library fullscreen navigation thumbnail view mode's folder icon
has been enhanced to give extra space to the thumbnail image.
+ The media library category editor's "Category Configuration" dialog's
layout calculator has been enhanced with improved better defaults for
font-size consistency.
+ Installing a new skin now prompts you to apply the skin to all skin
modes (Media/DVD/Audio/Navigation) supported by the newly installed
skin. Previously, you were only prompted to open the skin selection
dialog.
+ Opening a new file through file association (for example, opening a media
file through explorer) now closes the media library and file browsing
fullscreen navigation interfaces before playback starts.
+ Input boxes and error/warning/confirmation/information dialogs are no
longer skinned when triggered from a non-skinned dialog for both
consistency and to prevent issues with monitor DPI values not matching
the current skin's resolution.
+ Zoom Player now tries to automatically reduce the font size in the options
dialog to ensure certain elements fit inside the dialog regardless of
windows font or DPI settings.
Fixes :
- Fixed several high DPI layout issues, especially evident when using
a high DPI value (300%) used by 4K monitors/TV sets.
Thank you Adam Howarth for the in-depth 4K testing.
- The "LAV Hardware Acceleration" setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video)
was not applied correctly, forcing the LAV Video Decoder filter to drop
back to software decoding.
- Extended functions that can use a negative value parameter (like
"exFastForward") did not work when a negative value was used.
- The background image no longer flashes when opening media files through
explorer (or other applications) while Zoom Player was already playing.
- The "Chapter editor/Seek to" dialog did not scale properly with monitor
DPI adjustments.
- Entering and leaving a media library folder in thumbnail view mode
extremely quickly could result in a crash or thumbnails not appearing.
- When two or more media library categories shared the same folder paths
and the same thumbnail width but with a different thumbnail height, it
would have prevented the thumbnails from drawing in some of the
categories.
- When using the media library in thumb view mode with the media names
sorted by date, erasing a file within a folder and then going up
a folder would no longer show the highlighted folder (the folder itself
changed position as the folder date changes when files inside are
modified).
- The audio device list would re-list the same device multiple times
under some circumstances, possibly causing audio issues.
- Setting a high column number using the media library category
configuration dialog's thumbnail layout calculator would result
in an additional column displayed and possibly no spacing between
the columns.
- Using the media library category editor's 'Configure Category'
dialog to edit a category's settings would reset the category's
password protection.
- Switching to some video renderers in the options dialog when
running under Windows 10 would incorrectly notify you that your
version of Direct-X is too old.
- The title area in the bundled fullscreen navigation skins did not properly
account for the width of Time display when using 12H AM/PM format.
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* The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml--- End.
