Inmatrix - (Shareware)
Zoom Player Home Free encourage any user to choose it for its ease of use and support for a large number of formats.
Zoom Player Home Free is a media player very easy to handle, offering a fully free video player that decodes the current standard video codecs (H.264, XVID, DIVX, DVD, FLV, WMV, QuickTime, MPEG 1/2/4, MP3, AAC, DTS, Dolby Digital , FLAC, etc.). It also offers many features including a navigation interface for its Media Center, update and automatic search function.
Zoom Player Home Free also reads DVD from the media player, hard drive, or even on the network and automatically backup where stopped the previous reading.
Zoom Player Home Free offers two modes to allow the user to enjoy their multimedia collections. The first is the "media" mode, it can play files supported by DirectShow. The second, the "DVD" mode, plays DVD content using DirectShow preinstalled filters.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar
/ Display), allowing you to position the control bar
at the Top, Center or Bottom of the video area.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Fullscreen Navigator) allowing you to choose
which navigation interfaces are to be listed on the
Main Navigator.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Fullscreen Navigator) allowing you to choose
If the Navigate-Left key goes up a directory until
reaching the root directory or goes to the Drive/Category
list directly (File and Media Library Navigators).
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / On Screen
Display / Audio Tags) allowing you to choose Auto-Hide
the background folder image along with the tags.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar)
allowing you to show the Control Bar when the mouse cursor
is at the top of the screen.
* Clicking the right and left most pixels in any of the
navigation interfaces is now equivalent to clicking
right/left on the arrows.
* New 2710 CommAPI message allowing you to query the
Random Play state (it is also sent when the user changes
the Random Play state).
* Pressing Enter on the File Navigator drive list will now
open the drive at the root directory. Pressing Right on
the drive list opens the last directory browsed on the
selected drive.
* Pressing Enter on the Media Library Navigator category
list will now open the category at the root directory.
Pressing Right on the category list opens the last
directory browsed on the selected category.
* New "On Play Complete" value of "Open Media Library".
* New 256x256 Windows VISTA icon.
* New Skin Script "SearchFG" play list parameter, allowing
you to set the font color for the search box.
* New Skin Script command "CBarFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the Control Bar timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.
* New Skin Script command "TLineFontMargin" allowing you
to specify side margins within the main GUI timeline
in which the font shouldn't be drawn.
+ The media library navigator now remembers the last path
location for each category.
+ The control bar no longer closes when opening a navigation
interface while the control bar is detached.
+ When stay on top is enabled, the control bar remains accessible
if it is detached from the user interface.
+ "Advanced Options / Interface / Control Bar / Buttons" no
longer lists inaccessible functions.
+ The Information Dialog ("I" with a media file playing) now shows
format information for the playing file (requires Smart Play enabled).
+ The internal screen saver now runs at idle priority (doesn't
take any CPU power unless the CPU isn't doing anything else).
This also fixes the problem where using a remote control to
turn off the screen saver would not always react instantly.
+ The TAG-Display background color now uses the user-specified
Fullscreen Background color instead of Black.
+ The Browse for Folder dialog is now resizable.
- The navigation interfaces would not display properly on a
secondary monitor under certain conditions.
- Adding files to the play list from the File or Media Library
Navigators could fail under certain conditions.
- Auto-Get duration would not work under certain conditions.
- The Fullscreen Navigation font wasn't being saved properly.
- Having a Volume/Balance/Play Rate bar on either the
Control Bar, Equalizer or Play List interfaces would disappear
when going fullscreen.
- The mouse cursor would not hide properly when using the
internal image decoder or the Flash/HTML/QuickTime ActiveX
controls.
- When opening the Media Library Navigator and going to the category
selection screen for the first time and then back to the file
listing, the file list position would reset.
- Opening non-standard URLs (tivo:// for example) should now
work from command line.
- Under some circumstances, the file navigator wouldn't highlight
the currently playing file properly.
- The navigation scrollbar size would not always scale properly.
- Opening a new file with the mouse cursor hidden and the
control bar visible would hide the mouse cursor to the point
it wouldn't show again.
- Frame advance got broken.
- Holding Alt+Enter (fullscreen) for a several seconds straight
could cause a crash.