--- What's new in zoom player v4.00:
New :
* Zoom Player Professional has been split into a third version.
"Zoom Player WMV Professional" is a seperate version of Zoom
Player which is capable of playing DRM encoded Windows Media
files.
Due to the licensing fees involved in playing DRM content files,
Zoom Player WMV Professional requires a purchase upgrade from any
previous version of Zoom Player.
In order to play DRM files you must first obtain the DRM license
by using Windows Media Player 9 to obtain the license, or with
certain WM-DVD discs, just by inserting the disc in the drive
for the first time (note that license can expire after several
sessions).
You must also download this patch from microsoft which fixes
important issues with Windows Media DRM playback:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;823738
* Zoom Player now has an Audio-Bar mode.
Playing files in the Audio-Bar mode will disable any video
output and certain features that relate to video output and
navigation. There is also a new Audio-Bar default
skin element with 3 visual configuration (F4/F5/F6). You
can switch to Audio-Bar mode by pressing F2, or using the
new skin button.
* Double clicking on the file name area will now switch between
Audio mode and DVD Mode.
* The Navigator Interfaces have been rewritten from scratch.
Most of the functionality has remained the same, but the
graphical elements have a clearer look and are now skinnable.
Here are the usability changes:
- The File Navigator
1. Switching between the file and drive listing is now done
using the left/right (directions switched).
2. The right direction in the file navigator will go up a
directory where possible.
3. The current path is now always visible.
- The Play List Navigator:
1. The design has changed entirely, the display is now split
into three regions, the main play list, the current directory
for the highlighted file and a mini file browser.
2. When the Play List items are active, pressing the Left button
will remove the currently highlighted item from the list.
3. When using the Up/Down buttons within the Play List items,
the file browser will automatically switch the current location
of the highlighted file.
4. The Right button switches between the Play List items and the
File Browser.
5. Pressing Enter in the file browser will add a highlighted file
or enter a directory.
6. Pressing the Left button in the file browser will add an
entire directory or all the files in the directory if a file
is highlighted
- The Media Library Navigator:
1. Similar to the File Navigator design, the media categories are
now visible on the left pane at all times.
2. The Right/Left buttons always switch between categories and the
active category is highlighted on the left pane.
* The Professional version of Zoom Player can now automatically
extract and play any Archive Format (default presets for
7Z,ARJ,BZ2,CAB,RAR and ZIP using the freely available 7-Zip
extraction suite). You can configure your own extractors
under "Options / Values / Other", but I recommend grabbing
7-Zip at
www.7-zip.org as it's free and fast.
This new feature can also be used to extract AlbumWrap MP3 files
using the freeware "mp3splt.exe" tool from "http://mp3splt.sf.net".
* New Stream Selection Interface (Only for the Professional version)
allowing you to automatically select Audio and Subtitle streams
according to Language Codes, Stream Name text matching and specific
stream numbers.
* Zoom Player can now filter out filters that can cause
playback instability in standard playback mode through
a Filter Black List.
By default I have included the following filters that
are known trouble-makers:
BiCubic Resizer
DivX Antifreeze
DeDynamic Audio Filter
Morgan Stream Switcher
Subtitle Mixer
Subtitle Parser
TFM Audio Filter
You can easily add/remove filters to the black list through the
options dialog (Filter Control / Standard Media Playback). This
should make Zoom Player a lot more stable on systems where a lot
of 3rd party software have been installed.
* On a fresh install, Zoom Player will look for missing
components required to play popular file formats. If
no components are detected for a specific file format,
you will be prompted to go to the media setup guide.
This check is only done once when installing a new
version.
* Zoom Player will now try to load JPEG image files outside of
DirectShow. It seems that DirectShow is very resolution-limited
and even the best display hardware doesn't support a video-surface
with the resolution captured by recent Digital Cameras.
The new JPEG Module uses a software bilinear scaler to resize the
images, so quality should be better than standard image viewers,
although a bit slower.
You can disable the JPEG Module and let DirectShow try to load
these images under "Advanced Options / Filter Control / Settings".
* Customized Media Playback Splitter, Audio and Video profiles can
now blacklist themselves according to the file extension being
played (previously you could only whitelist extensions).
* New Entry (Advanced Options / Values / Other) allowing you to Auto-Get
the duration of Media Files according to file extensions. The default
is not to Auto-Get as this slows down loading of play lists, however
an entry of "AVI;MP3;MPA;OGG" won't slow it too much.
* New Setting (Options / DVD Setup) allowing you to hide the
Audio/Video decoder profiles that are not currently registered
on your computer.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Mouse Wheel) allowing you
to reverse the direction of the mouse wheel with regards
to the functions it calls.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Settings / Playback), allowing
the Media Definition File (a file containing information on the
file being played such as color values, volume, balance, etc...)
to be saved automatically (default:off).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you
to have the Play List Navigator opened if the Chapter Navigator
is opened and doesn't contain any chapters.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to
select whether the Left Pane on the File and Media Library
navigators is visible. When the Pane is invisible, the
top-directory box will show additional details about the media
category and drives.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar / Settings) allowing
you to limit the control bar so that it only shows up on mouse
movement when in fullscreen mode.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar / Settings) allowing you
to have the Control Bar always visible when playing an Audio file
in fullscreen.
* New Button (Advanced Options / Filter Control / Management /
Registered Filter Manager) on the Registered Filter Manager allowing
you to Re-Register the DirectShow filters that come as default with
windows. This should help in such cases where a 3rd party program can
destabilize the default system or in case you want to unregister all
filter and restore your system to a default state.
* New Color Selection (Advanced Options / OSD / Navigators) for
Navigators Internal, External and Select Framing Colors.
* You will now be prompted to install DirectVobSub if it's not
installed on your system (only one time when a new version
is installed).
* New "/SPEAKER:[value]" command line parameter allowing you to
set the Windows Speaker setting. Zoom Player will restore the
default speaker value when exiting. Possible values are:
/SPEAKER:0 - Direct Out
/SPEAKER:1 - Headphone
/SPEAKER:2 - Mono
/SPEAKER:3 - Quad
/SPEAKER:4 - Stereo
/SPEAKER:5 - Surround
/SPEAKER:6 - 5.1
/SPEAKER:7 - 7.1
* New "/AUDBAR" command line parameter starting Zoom Player
in Audio-Bar mode.
* New "/LOCKFS" command line parameter which locks Zoom Player in
fullscreen mode (useful for Kiosk-Type operation).
* New "/VOL" command line parameter allowing you to set the
Zoom Player volume level on start-up. Value can be 0-100.
Example:
"x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" /vol:75
* New "/MEDIANAV:[CATEGORY]" parameter allowing you to start
Zoom Player opened in the Media Library Navigator at a
specific category. Example:
"x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" "/MEDIANAV:TV Shows"
* New "/EJECT:[n]" command line parameter allowing you to eject
a CD/DVD drive from the command line. Example:
"x:\path\to\zplayer.exe" /EJECT:F
* Zoom Player can now associate and play CellPhone 3GPP (.3GP)
s263 video files (Must have QuickTime installed for it to play).
* You can now associate the OptimFROG (.OFR) extension and play
OptimFROG files once you the decoder installed. OptimFROG is
yet another lossless audio compression format (in the nature of
APE and FLAC). You can get the OptimFROG decoder here:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/optimfrog.shtml
* You can now associate the ".FLAC" extension. FLAC is
an Open-Source lossless Audio Format. You still need
a decoder for it to play. For more information see:
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml
* You can now associate the ".MPC" extension. MPC is
a lossy audio format similar to MP3 and Vorbis.
* Two new sections have been added to the Menu file.
These new sections allow you to define the menu used
for the Context Menu Navigator in DVD and Media modes.
I have included useful default entries for these.
* Zoom Player should now support WMV PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio).
You must set the Aspect Ratio mode to Derived for PAR to
kick in (you should always set the Aspect Ratio to Derived
unless you have other special requirements).
* The LCD interface has been extended and can now be used to call
Zoom Player standard and extended functions.
* New Toggle (Advanced Options / Settings / Toggles) allowing you
to choose how text is truncated to fit the desired space. This
effect a lot of text elements within Zoom Player such as the
Navigator display and ID3 display.
The default setting is to "Vowel Decimation" which tries to remove
vowels so that more text remains readable. The alternative is
to cut the end of the text.
* Two new ID3 display tags "" returning the length of the
currently playing file and "" returning the total
duration for the entire play list.
* The DVD AutoAR feature can now execute an external program when
a DVD Aspect Ratio mode changes.
* Zoom Player can now display APE Tags from MPC/MP3/APE/FLAC files.
* Zoom Player can now display WMF Tags from WMA files.
* Zoom Player can now play UTF8 encoded M3U play lists.
* Zoom Player now has 4 default skin visual configuration modes, one
with only the volume control (Press "F4"), the same layout with
the Balance and Play Rate controls (Press "F5") or the minimalistic
layout (Press "F6") or the Video Only Layout (Press "F7").
* New Profiles for Nero Digital filters. These filters seem
to be capable of decoding MPEG1 audio (including MP3),
MPEG1 Video, XVID and DIVX. Playback is not perfect, I
noticed big issues with DIVX playback. These filters are
also supposed to decode MPEG2 video and possibly even DVD,
but I was unable to get them to work.
* New Profile for the Elecard Video Decoder as a DVD Video
Decoder. It may only work for unencrypted DVDs.
* New "Select All" button on the Association Page.
* The ScanCode button (Options / Keys) now shows you when
a multi-media key is pressed so you can now identify such
keys and add support for them in the keyboard file using
the "mcAddKey" function.
* Two new skin variables "cBarNoText" and "tLineNoText"
allowing you to disable text display on the timeline
and control bar timeline.
* Two new skin variables "tLineFontHeight" and "cBarFontHeight"
which are superseding "tLineFontSize" and "cBarFontSize" which
were ill suited for Large Fonts. Support for the older variable
remains to keep compatibility with old fonts.
* New skin variable "AudioSkin" implying that the specified
skin doesn't contain any video area.
* New skin constant "", showing the user
selectable entry that usually shows within the timeline
(useful to use if you want to disable the text on the
timeline itself and show it elsewhere).
* New Keyboard Macro (Shift+"V") to enable/disable the Internal
Screen Saver. This macro uses the new "fnSSaverToggle" function.
Changes :
+ Zoom Player now supports VMR7 Windowed playback in all play modes.
If you previously used a customized video renderer, make sure to
update your settings.
+ Audio DSP should take less CPU power, especially under SSE/SSE2
capable processors.
+ The External Audio Track support has been greatly expanded. You
can now specify an alternative search path for External Audio Tracks
(Advanced Options / Values / Other), audio track naming is now more
flexible, for example:
MyVideo.avi
MyVideo.english.mp3
MyVideo.spanish.wav
MyVideo.japanese.mpc
All are valid names now. You can use any file format specified
as an audio extension under "Advanced Options / Values / Extensions".
+ The Customized Media Playback configuration dialogs should now be
a little easier to understand.
+ The Segment Matching Code has been enhanced to support "*" masking.
This new method only works when used at the end of the mask. For
example, a mask of "x??.*" would match the following:
Andromeda.4x01.answers_given_to_questions_never_asked.avi
Andromeda.4x02.pieces_of_eight.mpg
Andromeda.4x03.waking_the_tyrants_device.avi
And so forth ...
+ SHOUTcast Playback should now be more reliable, Zoom Player will
now try the alternate servers if one fails to connect.
+ The "System" Options dialog entry has been replaced with a "Formats"
entry. The content of the previous "System" dialog has been moved to
the "System Overview" tab within the new "Formats" section. Another
tab on the formats section now contains a list of detected missing
playback components with links to where you can download and get
more information about each component/format.
+ If Windows Animation is enabled (in windows), Zoom Player will no
longer animate the window when going fullscreen or when minimizing
as it's not very elegant.
+ The "zplayer.regpath" file now allows you to specify a
second line with the new Zoom Player Window Name so that
you can run multiple instances of Zoom Player and control
each remotely as a unique entity. For example, the content
of the "zplayer.regpath" file would look like this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayer2
Zoom Two
+ The "System" Options dialog section now displays the merit
of each listed filter and also lists known "bad filter"
offenders (filters can cause cause audio-loss, flipped
video image and so forth).
+ The Flash (SWF files) background color is now set to the
fullscreen background color (Advanced Options / Values / Interface),
default to black.
+ The Flash and QuickTime playback experience should be better
now. The Right-Click context menu should now work perfectly
and the keyboard/mouse should be a bit more responsive.
+ DVD "VIDEO_TS.IFO" files are now ALWAYS listed on the File
and Media Library navigators.
+ OGM Audio Selection should now work even if the OGG Splitter
is not set to Output all Streams.
+ Zoom Player will now check your DirectX version when you try
to select the VMR9 as the Video Renderer and inform you if
you don't have DirectX v9 installed.
+ The external Minimalistic and Ultra Minimalistic skins have
been removed as their functionality is more than covered by
the new skin layouts within the default skin.
+ Zoom Player now checks the DirectVobSub path list when looking
for subtitle files instead of only looking in the same directory
as the media file.
+ The Customized Media Playback Audio/Video Decoder configuration
dialog now fits 800x600 resolution in advanced mode.
+ The /F:[n] and /Z:[n] will now allow you to force Zoom Player
to fullscreen/zoom mode on a selected monitor even if
Zoom Player is already running.
+ DVD Auto-AR values are now applied only once each time the
Aspect Ratio mode changes instead of every chapter.
+ The screenshot function will now save the screenshot to the
"My Documents" folder if no alternative folder is specified.
+ New "function" parameter on the "DrawExText" skinning function
allowing you to specify a double-click function for text labels.
+ Vowel decimation is now used to ensure ID3 display fits within the
display area.
+ The Resize Navigator now displays the current Video Aspect Ratio.
+ Adding a chapter from the chapter editor dialog will now enter
the specified text as the chapter name if such a text was given.
+ You can now select the Custom Mouse Wheel function from a list
instead of manually typing it in.
+ Going fullscreen now moves the Zoom Player window to the front.
+ The System Overview now lists the filter version numbers when the
filter files contain them.
+ The Alt+"A" macro will now also open the AC3Filter property dialog.
+ The F1 keyboard macro now opens the key-help dialog with the
focus on the search field.
Fixes :
- Zoom Player could stop responding when trying to load a new
media file while the first media file was still being loaded.
- Wrong date encoding error could pop when opening files with
no creation dates (could happen with some VCD/SVCD images).
- Playing multiple VIDEO_TS.IFO file through a play list should now
work again (as long as the IFO files are not looped in a DVD Menu).
- Going to fullscreen on a second monitor using the setting
on "Options / Values / Interface" would set the fullscreen
size according to the resolution of the monitor the user
interface currently resides on instead of the real monitor
resolution.
- Using Zoom Player to execute external files could cause
certain Zoom Player features to stop responding.
- Opening a DVD while another DVD is already playing would not
save the last position properly for the original DVD.
- Remembering the last position on media files would ignore the
number of days to save this data and would in fact save it
forever. Furthermore, several entries were kept for each
file played. It is recommended that you erase the old
"zplayer.playcache" file as old entries may stick forever.
- The Increase/Decrease Play Rate wasn't working in the correct
order when increase after decreasing or the other way around.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer disable the VMR9 scaling fix.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer reset the VMR9 color control values.
- Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
resolution should no longer reset the Overlay color control values.
- The /Q parameter now works when used in combination with the
scene-cut end playback event.
- Flash end-of-file should now be detected better.
- Flash clipping should now be OK when setting to the Source
or Derived AR modes.
- The Setting to have ZP not clear the play list when opening
files externally, wasn't really working (play list was getting
cleared anyhow).
- Enter will now open the selected navigator in DVD Mode
as long as there is no DVD playing.
- If customized media playback failed to renderer a graph,
it was possible that a valid standard graph would get created,
but the video would wrongfully appear in an external window.
- Changing the Customized Media Mode Splitter twice would throw
an error about the file being in use.
- The Screen Snap Pixel value would not save properly.
- Could not save a Scene-Cut file for DVD discs if they were not
previously played.
- Trying to play a truly locked media file (most applications
allow you to read files even if they are using them, so not
a lot of files are truly locked) could cause ZP to stop
responding after an error dialog popped.
- The DrawExText "ShadeBottom" parameter was actually using
the value from the "ShadeTop" parameter.
- Switching skins would not set the active skin elements correctly.
- The Control Bar and TimeLine fonts should now appear properly when
Windows is set to 120dpi Large Fonts.
- Can now load UTF8 file names from WPL play list files.
- Fixed too many unicode related issues to even begin listing
them here.
- "SetOPMWReversed" wasn't exported properly for translation.
- Possible "Insert Disc in Drive" dialog opening inappropriately
when opening an ejected DVD drive.
- The /OpenDrive parameter would open a dialog asking you to insert
a disc if a CD drive has been ejected and the drive then opened.
- Mouse wheel would not work properly when the play list editor
window was visible before going to fullscreen.
- Custom Media Playback should now work with WMV file that use internal
scripting code.
- With Random Play enabled, items would play that were previously
removed from the play list.
- Tab switching in options dialog is now more logical.
MUSK Codec Pack 5.0
# Nouvelle interface graphique
# Nouveau Logo
# Logiciel 2 fois plus rapide en chargement que la v4
# Télechargement des mises à jours via le logiciel lui même
# Détection automatique des Codecs/Filtres installés à partir de MUSK v5
# Les bouttons de configuration des Codecs/Filtres ne s'activent que si le Codec en question est installé
# Trois logiciels ajoutés dans la section "tools", MUSK Filter Codec Enumerator , MUSK Media Player et VideoToolBox
# Cette version detecte si l'utilisateur a les droits d'administrateur (sous WinNT/2000/XP) et refuse de s'executer s'il n'y a pas de droits
# La taille a diminué de 5Mo par rapport à la v4
# Bilan: 8 Codecs, 9 Filtres, 10 Utilitaires et 1 encodeur OggVorbis
# Testé et stable sous Win98 et WinXP, et censé rester stable sous WinMe et Win2000, pour Win95 WinNT il faut toutes les mises à jours de windowsupdate, et pour Win2003 il devrait fonctionner mais ce n'est pas sur
