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Introduction to the fullscreen navigation interfaces
Zoom Player is designed to work as a standard media player in a window or fullscreen as well as a fullscreen media center with powerful, flexible and customizable navigation interfaces that control everything from a media library to powerful image enhancements.


Keyboard and Remote Control Devices
For simplicity and ease of use, the navigation system is controlled through a 5 button system (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select {ENTER}), accessible through a keyboard or remote control devices. The fullscreen navigation is ideally suited to Convert any PC into a Home Entertainment Center.

Mouse and Touch Screens
Beyond the 5 keys control, The navigation interfaces are mouse and touch friendly. Use the arrow controls on the top-right section of the navigation interfaces or the mouse wheel to scroll/tilt to navigate through lists and menus. Double clicking an entry selects/plays the entry while clicking on the right/left edges of the screen to simulate left/right clicks that navigate menus.

By default, the ENTER key opens the previously visible navigation interface. However, each navigation interface can be accessed directly through a keyboard macro (Press F1 for the full keyboard macro list), or through the right-click (with the mouse) context menu.

Clicking Left multiple times quickly brings you back to the Main navigation interface where you can access all other navigation interfaces. Pressing the Escape key or Right-Clicking with the mouse, closes the active navigation interface.

Customizable
Through the advanced options dialog, you can decide which navigation interfaces are accessible from the Main navigation dialog along with many other settings controlling the overall look and feel.

Navigation Styles
Zoom Player ships with a default navigation style (skin). However, many other navigation styles are available download on the skins section.

File Browser
The File Browser is a smart way to navigate your file system. The initial dialog lists your drives (Hard Disks/CD/DVD/USB/etc) and custom network shares.
Pressing ENTER with a drive highlighted opens the drive at its root (top most) directory.
Pressing RIGHT with a drive highlighted opens the drive in the previously navigated directory.
Pressing RIGHT while in the file listing area brings up the function list, allowing you to copy/move files, sort the file list, etc.

Special Keys:

  • INSERT
    If a directory is selected, plays the contents of the selected directory.
    If a file is selected, all files within the same directory are played.
    If used while in the Drive list dialog, contents of the entire drive is played (use with caution).
  • DEL
    Delete the currently highlighted file or directory (with confirmation).
  • BACKSPACE
    Go up a directory.

Media Library
The Media Library groups files from different locations on your computer as a virtual drive divided into one or more categories. Categories and their associated directories are specified through the Media Library Editor (Shift+"M"). The initial interface gives you a category listing (as specified through the media library editor), pressing ENTER on a category opens the file listing for that category at the root directory (for the category). Pressing RIGHT on a category brings you into the previous file list position. Clicking RIGHT from the file list opens the function list, allowing you to copy/move files, sort the file list, etc.

Special Keys:
  • INSERT
    If a directory is selected, plays the contents of the selected directory.
    If a file is selected, all files within the same directory are played.
  • DEL
    Delete the currently highlighted file or directory (with confirmation).
  • BACKSPACE
    Go up a directory.

Playlist
The Playlist is used to play and edit the content of the current play list. Clicking RIGHT brings up the function list, allowing you to sort the file list, clear the play list, etc.

Special Keys:
  • INSERT
    Select the currently highlighted entry, allowing functions to perform on multiple entries at once.
  • DEL
    Remove the currently highlighted file from the playlist (the original file is not deleted).

Play History
The play history navigation interfaces provides an easy way to list previously viewed media and to quickly switch between previously played media tracks. Clicking right brings you to the function menu where you can hide and delete play history entries.

Chapter/Bookmark Browser
The chapter/bookmark navigation interface is used to quickly browse through DVD bookmarks (in DVD mode) and media chapter (in Media mode).

Color Control
Graphic cards can control various aspects of the video image (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Saturation, etc). The color control is used to adjust these video color properties.

Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to navigate through color control options, click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust the value. Using the mouse, you can directly click on the bars on the right side of the interface to set a value directly.

Equalizer
The Equalizer navigation interface is used to adjust the built-in Equalizer and PreAmp (digital amplification) values.

Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to navigate through the equalizer entries, click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust the value. Using the mouse, you can directly click on the bars on the right side of the interface to set a value directly.

GoTo Time
The GoTo navigation interface is used to easily access any position in the media timeline. Use the LEFT/RIGHT key to switch between the HOUR/MINUTE/SECOND fields, and UP/DOWN to modify each field.
Press select (enter) to seek to the newly specified timeline position.

Stations
The Station navigation interface is used to easily navigate through favorite station entries created using the Station Editor (TV and Radio) and to navigate the internet streaming radio station index, covering radio content from the across the world.
Use the UP/DOWN keys to select a station and Select (ENTER) to play.

Download Manager
The Download Manager tracks active uTorrent/eMule downloads (Once you correctly specify the paths/passwords in the Advanced Options Dialog).

Adjust Image
The Adjust Image navigation interface is used to position the video in Fullscreen/Zoom modes. Using the UP/DOWN keys you can select between Aspect Ratio, DeInterlacing, Sharpening, X-Offset (Position from left of screen), Y-Offset (Position from top of screen), Video Width, Video Height, H-Resize (Horizontal resize), V-Resize (Vertical Resize).
Click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust each value.

Image Blanking
Image Blanking is the process of covering a section of the video area with a black rectangle in order to hide unwanted video content. Blanking is mostly used in cases where the widescreen video area may contain gray video (rather than black) which can be distracting.

Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to select the video area to Blank out (Left, Right, Top, Bottom).
Click RIGHT and then UP/DOWN to adjust each value.

Mouse Wheel
Zoom Player employs many functions which are accessible through the Mouse Wheel. You can select which functions are accessible through the "Advanced Options/Interface/Mouse/Wheel" dialog.

The mouse wheel interface allows access to the same functions through an on screen display.
Use the UP/DOWN keys to scroll through the functions and Select (ENTER) to activate the selected function and close the mouse wheel navigation interface.

A further modification on this principle is to assign the middle mouse button to open the mouse wheel navigation interface (Advanced Options/Interface/Mouse), and then use the mouse wheel to scroll through entries. Clicking the mouse wheel activates the new functionality.

Web URL
The Web URL interface is used to associate a DVD or Media file with either a Text or URL file (web page). By creating a file with the same base file name as the currently playing media file, opening the Web URL interface displays the content of the file.

For Example:
myvideo.avi
myvideo.url

Valid file extensions are "URL" for a URL file linking to a web page. "htm/html" for local web pages and "nfo/txt" for local text files. To associate a file with DVDs, you need to create a file called "VIDEO_TS" with the appropriate file extension (URL/HTML/TXT/etc) and place it in the DVD bookmark folder (when playing a DVD for the very first time, Zoom Player creates a directory for the DVD under the "Zoom Player\DVD-Bookmarks" directory).

Extended Menu Navigation
The Extended Menu navigation interface is a flexible scripted interface, providing access to a customizable user-defined interface.
Use the UP/DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the available functions, sub-menus are highlighted a different color.
The LEFT/RIGHT keys are used to go into/out of these sub-menus.

The extended menu navigation for DVD and Media modes is defined in the Menu file (see english.menu in the language directory). If you modify the menu file, make sure to assign it under "Advanced Options / Interface - Alternative context menu file".

Playing Information
The playing information interface provides information on the currently playing media along with its folder image (if one exists).

Navigation Style
The Navigation Style interface is used to switch between the currently installed Navigation Styles (skins).