Zoom Player is a Media Player replacement. Zoom Player provides special zooming functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan. Zoom Player's scaling system allows you to exactly match the video area to your screen's dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color in order to test for brightness bleeds. You can also fast forwarding (even on MPEG4 type formats such as DivX), 10 Keyboard accessible presets to automatically adjust the video area to pre-defined settings, customizable control bar with graphical time-seek controls, keyboard mapped controls, aspect ratio support for correct playback of anamorphic video and out of aspect-ratio content. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a direct download link.
Click here for direct download. What's New: Restructured the Settings dialog into sub-functions and generally cleaned up parts of the Options dialog. The left mouse button can now be assigned a different function if the player is in DVD Mode. An additional DVD Mode-Only function is to force menu select. You can now modify the OSD size so that it will be bigger while in Zoom/Fullscreen modes (Options -> OSD). New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Other) to disable the drawing of Navigator backgrounds. This should further offload some CPU usage. I don't recommend turning off both outlining and background as that will make the fonts hard to read. New Setting (Options -> Settings -> DVD) that allows you to have the DVD Stop Position auto-loaded only if the disc played is the same as the last played disc. New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to select which file extensions will be used when opening directories and when using the Open dialog (the files that will appear in the dialog). New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set an alternative path to look for Media Chapter files. If a chapter file isn't found in the same directory as the Media file, this directory will also be scanned (useful if you want to create chapter files for files that are already burnt on CD). New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set the Zoom Player thread priority. When using a non-normal priority, you should make sure your thread priority is set prior to playback. New Function (Ctrl+"R") to turn Random (Shuffle) Play ON / OFF. New Skin Scripting Constat "" allows you to fill parts of the Control Bar using the Overlay Chorma Color-Key thus making it transparent. The various "Move Window" toggles have been revamped! Now when in Window mode, they move the video, however in Fullscreen/Zoom mode, they move the Video area! This makes it extremely quick to position the video using the mouse. Completely rewrote the Multi Track AVI Audio code. It should now compatible with more Multi Track AVI files and have less "issues". There is a SERIOUS problem in the current implementation of the Vorbis wrapper for DirectShow. When the "Stop" command is called, the filter freezes, causing major problems with ALL players. I've written a fix so that Zoom Player doesn't crashes when loading a new track or when exiting the player (by simply making sure that the stop method isn't called). However, if you do infact use the "Stop" button, the Vorbis filter will crash, taking Zoom Player along for the ride. This is one of the bugs in the Vorbis filters, other bugs include seeking to keyframes (fast but inaccurate) and random crashes and freezes during playback. The DVD Angle Cycle function should now cycle properly. When playing audio files with folder images active at times the folder image would not disappear correctly. Using ALT-F4 to close the player while the Task Bar was hidden didn't restore the Task Bar.
Click here for direct download. What's New: Restructured the Settings dialog into sub-functions and generally cleaned up parts of the Options dialog. The left mouse button can now be assigned a different function if the player is in DVD Mode. An additional DVD Mode-Only function is to force menu select. You can now modify the OSD size so that it will be bigger while in Zoom/Fullscreen modes (Options -> OSD). New Setting (Options -> Settings -> Other) to disable the drawing of Navigator backgrounds. This should further offload some CPU usage. I don't recommend turning off both outlining and background as that will make the fonts hard to read. New Setting (Options -> Settings -> DVD) that allows you to have the DVD Stop Position auto-loaded only if the disc played is the same as the last played disc. New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to select which file extensions will be used when opening directories and when using the Open dialog (the files that will appear in the dialog). New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set an alternative path to look for Media Chapter files. If a chapter file isn't found in the same directory as the Media file, this directory will also be scanned (useful if you want to create chapter files for files that are already burnt on CD). New Value (Options -> Values -> Other) allowing you to set the Zoom Player thread priority. When using a non-normal priority, you should make sure your thread priority is set prior to playback. New Function (Ctrl+"R") to turn Random (Shuffle) Play ON / OFF. New Skin Scripting Constat "" allows you to fill parts of the Control Bar using the Overlay Chorma Color-Key thus making it transparent. The various "Move Window" toggles have been revamped! Now when in Window mode, they move the video, however in Fullscreen/Zoom mode, they move the Video area! This makes it extremely quick to position the video using the mouse. Completely rewrote the Multi Track AVI Audio code. It should now compatible with more Multi Track AVI files and have less "issues". There is a SERIOUS problem in the current implementation of the Vorbis wrapper for DirectShow. When the "Stop" command is called, the filter freezes, causing major problems with ALL players. I've written a fix so that Zoom Player doesn't crashes when loading a new track or when exiting the player (by simply making sure that the stop method isn't called). However, if you do infact use the "Stop" button, the Vorbis filter will crash, taking Zoom Player along for the ride. This is one of the bugs in the Vorbis filters, other bugs include seeking to keyframes (fast but inaccurate) and random crashes and freezes during playback. The DVD Angle Cycle function should now cycle properly. When playing audio files with folder images active at times the folder image would not disappear correctly. Using ALT-F4 to close the player while the Task Bar was hidden didn't restore the Task Bar.
