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 :
* Two new category types have been introduced "TV Shows" and "Movies". Zoom Player tries to automatically assign previous categories to these new types based on the 'scrape content mode' previously assigned to the category.
* The media library filter icons that appear under the category list are now accessible using the keyboard by pressing the up or down arrow keys on the first/last category entry. Once activated, you can use the left/right arrow keys to switch between the filtering modes.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to switch the category layout between list and thumbnail view modes.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Thumb View) that controls how the thumbnail memory cache encodes the images. The default value is to store as JPEG images which uses the least amount of RAM. But for higher performance, especially on lower end CPUs, switching to RAW 24bit or 32bit will improve performance.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation'Media Scanner' is displayed.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether the Media Library's fullscreen navigation'Remove category folder(s)' is displayed.
* New "/MediaFilter:[Number]" command line parameter to set the media library's filter mode. Valid values are:
- 0 = ALL
- 1 = Movies
- 2 = TV Shows
- 3 = Videos
- 4 = Audio
- 5 = Pictures
- 6 = Executables
* The media library's filter mode is now saved/restored when re-opening Zoom Player.
# Changes :
- When fullscreen navigation 'Safe Mode' is enabled, the media library's 'Media Scanner' and 'Remove category folder(s)' are no longer displayed.
- Disabling the "Show media content specific to the media library's category type" setting now shows all media files in a category (previously it would show the content based on the category filter).
- Optimized the default fullscreen navigation skin to require less resize operations improving load/open time and taking up to 20% less RAM.
- Optimized the file name hashing algorithm which should improve performance in several areas.
# Fixes :
- Removing every entry from the "Scrapers folder name blacklist" or "Scrapers file name blacklist" would crash and freeze Zoom Player.
- Resizing the media library window could trigger a crash or show an improperly-sized thumbnail.
- Fixed several memory leaks.
- Fixed a freeze when trying to open the media library before the scraping DLL finished initializing.
- Fixed several cases of "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to use the media library with no thumbnail selected.
- Switching media library filter mode would reset several values changed since opening the media library (e.g. sorting).
- Opening a new media file while the media information dialog was visible did not update to the new media's date and file size.
- Fixed a small memory leak when re-scraping modified media library folders.
- The mouse scroll wheel did not work within the media information window while in fullscreen mode.
- The integrated keyboard-mapping editor did not show the correct key-value for multimedia keys (play/stop/etc), which prevented assigning new functions to multimedia keys.
- Using the station manager's "Play (Add to Playlist)" button would not actually start playing the new station.
- In Windows 10 with the "Blank non-Playing Monitors while in Fullscreen /Zoom mode" enabled and Zoom Player set to start in fullscreen mode,Zoom Player appeared as a blank black box.