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 Release notes  Zoom Player Free 13.0 beta 3  |
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New :
* New media library plug-in system allowing 3rd party developers
to create media library categories based on content information
provided by the plugin.
* To demonstrate the capabilities of the new media library plug-in
system, an open-source project has been created to implement a
'YouTube channel' media library category plugin.
After specifying a YouTube channel's URL, the plugin automatically
downloads the channel's category image, retrieves the channel's
name and sets up the default category settings and layout best
suited to display a YouTube channel.
The new plug-in is accessible on the Media Library category
editor (Shift+"M") as an entry on a new drop-down list next to the
"Create Category" button.
The code for the 'YouTube channel' media library category plug-in can
be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-YouTube-Channel-parsing-plugin-for-Zoom-Player
* New subtitle download plug-in system allowing 3rd party developers
to create plug-ins that download subtitles for your media library
collection.
* To demonstrate the capabilities of the new subtitle download plug-in
system, an open-source project has been created to implement an
'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plug-in.
The new plug-in is accessible on the newly re-designed Advanced
Options dialog's "Subtitle" page (Playback / Video / Subtitles).
Note:
OpenSubtitles.org limits anonymous downloads by IP, use
the configuration dialog to specify a user name and password to
bypass any anonymous login limits (registration is free and
passwords are saved as MD5 hashes not as clear text).
The code for the 'OpenSubtitles.org' subtitle download plug-in can
be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/bLightZP/Delphi-OpenSubtitles.org-API-support-for-Zoom-Player
* New YouTube IFRAME (web based) player support, providing official YouTube
playback. All YouTube URLs automatically use the new IFRAME player interface.
You can disable the IFRAME player support in the options to force Zoom Player
to use DirectShow for playback (Adv. Options / Playback > Use YouTube IFRAME
video player to play YouTube content).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation /
Customization) that switches the media library's thumbnail view
category list aspect ratio between Album Art (1:1) or Widescreen (16:9).
* New Media Library option for the "Start Player in" setting.
(Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size).
* New smart play profile for media files encoded with the DNxHD codec.
* New "Please Wait" window that pops when there are operations that
are taking a long time (like fetching a YouTube channel's video list).
* Media titles are now used instead of the File name/URL on the system tray
hint and on the windows taskbar button.
* The play history now saves media titles, making play history clearer,
especially with network streams and media library plugins.
* New skin script code to control the media library's bottom meta-data's
font and font style of each meta-data element.
Changes :
+ The fullscreen navigation icons are now loaded on demand instead of all
in advanced, reducing memory usage and cutting down the initial startup
time by approximately 33%.
+ The default navigation interface has been reduced in size by 15%, improving
Zoom Player's initial fullscreen navigation interfaces start time on
PCs with slower HDD/Flash drives.
+ Pressing the "Open Media Library" button on the media library
category editor now opens the media library with the current
edited category selected.
+ The play history dialog will now display the recently played items
first in the list.
+ The play history dialog should now open significantly faster
(nearly instantly), especially with a play history database of
over 10,000 entries.
+ The time display on thumbnails used to show videos with a duration
of under 10 minutes as "09:30", this have now changed to show "9:30",
saving a bit more of the thumbnail area.
+ When opening the media library, the last played position for the
currently playing media is now updated straight away (previously
it would update when the playing media was closed).
+ The Open URL function now tries to identify a URL in the windows
clipboard. If a valid URL is detected, it automatically filled
into the open url dialog, otherwise the last opened URL is shown
by default.
Fixes :
- Fixed a very rare case where opening a media file could trigger
a freeze if the background thread that grabs the media's duration
was active.
- Play history should now restore position for URL streams.
- Fixed an issue where playing a SHOUTcast/ICEcast streaming station
and then restarting Zoom Player would not allow you to resume playing
the previous station from the playlist.
- The media library's category list would use the wrong aspect ratio
thumbnail in some cases where the active category was password
protected.
- Switching the Media Library's category filter mode would reload the
active category's content. Now the content is only read when entering
the category, speeding up the category filter switch.
- Fixed an issue where the media library's path would not show
any text at all.
- Accessing the media library's category screen could at times
trigger an unnecessary reload of the category's content.
- Fixed a stack-overflow crash when trying to open a playlist that
contained the playlist's file name as an entry (creating a loop).
- The word "PreAmp" was hard coded into Zoom Player instead of using
the translated text when using a non-english language pack.
- Open the equalizer without ever opening the playlist editor could
trigger a weird state where the equalizer always initially show
up docked under the main window.
- Using the backspace key after using the media library's movie
jukebox mode's file view now returns to jukebox movie view instead
of thumbnail view.
- Adding media entries to the playlist using the media library's
function menu did not add the media's title (only the file name/URL).
- The playlist editor's "Add streaming URL" button did not use the
newer open URL dialog.
- Opening the fullscreen chapter/bookmark navigation interface
did not pause playback when the setting to do so was enabled.
- Ejecting a drive/device while playing a stream would cause the
stream playback to stop.
- When the media library is opened and the previously opened folder
no longer exists, the media library will try to go up the folder
tree to the first parent folder that exists.
- Fixed an issue when OSD messages would not appear if the
"Use Exclusive Fullscreen with VMR9 Renderless mode (use with care)"
setting was enabled in some cases.
This same bug caused screen-refresh issues with some of the fullscreen
navigation pages under some conditions.
- When the media library's dynamic scrollbar was disabled, it still triggered
unnecessary screen updates.
- When the media library updated the clock, it would not clear the background
behind the path area, causing small cosmetic glitches.
- Wrote a work-around for M3U UTF8 encoded playlists that were not properly
marked as UTF8 using a BOM.
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