Version 8.1.6 is a bug fix for v8.1.5 that prevents the erroneous 'trial period is over' message in Zoom Player FREE.

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What's New in Zoom Player v8.1.5


 Legend :

 "*"  = New
 "+"  = Change
 "-"  = Fix


 New :

  * New installer option to "Associate with Media Formats", disabled by default.
    When enabled, Zoom Player automatically associates itself with every
    media file extension on the "Options / File Format Association" page.

    Once associated, opening/clicking the file extension (".AVI" for example)
    in explorer and other shell programs prompts Zoom Player to execute and
    play the selected media file.

  * The install center can now list optional items without automatically
    selecting the item for installation.

  * The default Onyx skin's title area has been refined.
    
  * You can now directly configure the LAV Audio, Video and Splitter filters
    through the "Adv. Options / System / Filter Management" dialog.

  * A 'Play in Slowmotion' button has been added to the Control Bar.

  * The Tray icon right-click menu has been added two functions:
    1. Next Chapter/Track.
    2. Previous Chapter/Track.

  * New "ZPEXEIcon" icon library you can apply through the "File Format
    Association" page under "Adv. Options".

    The icon library applies the Zoom Player executable icon to all file
    extensions (replacing the labeled format extensions badges).



 Changes :

  + The player window's video area no longer blanks black when playing
    multiple JPEG images in succession even when the file are not part
    of the playlist (playing the next directory file for example).

  + Smart Play's 'Source Filter' configuration dialog makes it clearer
    that selecting a profile that works as both a source and a splitter,
    overrides smart play's 'Splitter' profile for the media file extension.
    You can only split a media format once ...

  + Smart Play profiles tweaked to increase stability.

  + The custom key file settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Keyboard) now
    accept relative file paths.

  + The play history cache file verification system was overly sensitive,
    causing it to notify you the file may be corrupted even when it wasn't.

  + If "Adv. Option / Interface - 'On Media / DVD Play'" was set to
    'Zoom mode' or 'Fullscreen mode' and the player window was minimized,
    the player window was restored and set to fullscreen each time a new
    media was loaded.  Now this action only takes place if the player window
    is not minimized.



 Fixes :

  - Fixed switching to fullscreen on a secondary monitor with Windows XP,
    which stopped working in version 8.

  - Fixed several small bugs related to how Zoom Player is minimized and
    restored.
    
  - JPEG images with EXIF rotation mode "6" were not rotated correctly.

  - The '"Derived" mode Automatically Adjusts Aspect Ratio for badly encoded
    content' setting did not adjust for dynamically changing aspect ratios.
    This was especially bad with MadVR which throws a Aspect Ratio change
    event every time.

  - ID3 v2.2 tags with embedded images were not parsed correctly, causing
    the embedded image not to display.

  - Using the "zplayer.regpath" file did not apply the new data path.
    More information @ http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/multicopy.shtml

  - Pop-up OSD messages would not appear if MadVR OSD services was used
    with a fullscreen navigation interface visible.

  - MadVR now show the first frame in the video when pressing stop.
  
  - The Pop-Up OSD (Play/Pause/etc) would stick on-screen when using MadVR
    as the video renderer and tabbing away from Zoom Player.

  - If 'On Playlist Complete' is set to 'Do Nothing' and MadVR is used as
    the video renderer, the fullscreen OSD interface would stop updating when
    the video finished playing.

  - Playing MP3 files with embedded album art created by Samsung Kies
    could crash the player (Kies is creating invalid ID3v2 tags).

  - The default "MPEG2 Program" video decoder Smart Play profile has been
    changed from DScaler to LAV as DScaler did not support dynamic aspect
    ratio changes with the EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer).

  - DirectShow filters with stored filter data bigger than 4096 bytes
    would not appear in the 'Registered Filter Manager' dialog (LAV Video
    for example).

  - When deleting a station from the station manager, the station name
    would not appear in the delete confirmation dialog.
    
  - Due to conflict with Real Player, the RealMedia decoder pack is no
    longer included in the Install Center and the RealMedia Smart Play
    profiles have been modified to use LAV in its place.  
    
  - Fixed a cosmetical glitch in the options dialog search results.  

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  * The Complete Change list history can be found on-line at:
    http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_whatsnew_archive.shtml

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