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.
* The default skin has been replaced with a new cleaner, clearer
and more versatile skin.
* The mouse left click (DVD/Media), double click and middle click
can now be assigned custom functions.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface / OSD / Fullscreen
Navigation), allowing you to enable a Safe Mode where potentially
unsafe navigation functionality (cut/copy/paste/erase files)
is hidden from the function list.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / Interface) allowing you to have
Zoom Player switch to fullscreen/zoom modes when starting to
play new content.
* New Function (Shift+"J") that reloads the currently playing
media file.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the main user interface
window is maximized.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the skin selector
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the station manager
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the color control
navigator is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the equalizer
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if any navigation
interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the media library
editor interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the chapter
editor/GoTo interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is active.
* New Skin Script Active tag for determining if the play list
editor interface is maximized.
* New Skin Script Commands allowing you to have Transparent
elements within the timeline (both on the control bar and
on the main user interface).
* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHint" value, allowing
you to change the button's hint value depending on the button
active state.
* New Skin Script CreateExButton "ActiveHoverX" and "ActiveHoverY"
values, allowing you to set a button image when the button is
both active and the mouse is hovering over it.
+ Entering a negative FunctionParam value on any of the group
skin script functions ensures that the skin's window size
remains unchanged (use with care).
+ The Play List, Media Library and File Browser navigation interfaces
only check for the existance of an external subtitle file once
(instead of checking each time the interface is opened).
- Opening the Options dialog on a Monitor/TV with a resolution lower
than 800x600 will show scroll bars allowing the dialog to remain
accessible.
- External Control Bar buttons (not part of the control bar button
list) would not show under certain conditions.
- Having blanking enabled should no longer obscure the navigation
interfaces.
- You couldn't disable Smart Play in Zoom Player Standard.
- Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions would not display the exact
play rate on the pop-up OSD.
- Audio TAGs (ID3) would not position properly in some cases.
- Navigation interfaces should no longer show hidden files.
- Getting media duration would not work under certain conditions.
- The context navigator colors were not correct if it was the first
open navigator.
- Opening directories would not always sort them properly.
- Opening the media library in a filter mode containing no categories
would cause an error dialog to appear.
- Setting the mouse left click to move the video area would not work
in fullscreen mode.
- Move to Bottom/Top functions on the Play List navigator would not
always work properly.
- You could add the "Previous Directory" to the play list in the
File / Media Library navigation interfaces.