Announcing Zoom Player v19.5 beta 1

What's new in this beta:

  * Added support for H.266/VVC, AV1 and Opus detection and icons to
    the media library.

  * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture)
    that allows you to specify if screenshots should be saved in the same
    folder as the video currently being played (Only applies to local
    files).

  * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Aspect Ratio)
    to reset the aspect ratio to "Derived" when opening a new media
    (disabled by default).

  * Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to automatically
    restore the previously active video aspect ratio on replay (disabled by
    default). This new feature will only work for videos that was previously
    played by this version of Zoom Player (or newer) since previous versions
    did not save the active aspect ratio.

  * Added settings to control which Zoom Player function is triggered when
    using the mouse wheel while holding either the Alt, Ctrl or Shift keys.
    
    The default values are:
    Mouse Wheel + Alt   : Seek   5 seconds backwards/forwards
    Mouse Wheel + Ctrl  : Seek  20 seconds backwards/forwards
    Mouse Wheel + Shift : Seek 120 seconds backwards/forwards
    Watch me code it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c

  * New IPTV Electronic Program Guide Grid. The EPG grid is an alternative
    program guide view that lists the episode guide of multiple streams in
    an easy to scroll and filter interface.

    You can access the EPG grid by pressing the "#" button within the IPTV
    window. The EPG grid does not rely on the stream list and can be used
    without specifying any stream sources.
    
    The EPG grid's look and feel can be fully customized through the
    advanced options dialog under "Playback / IPTV".

  * New IPTV global episode guide filter. The new global filter works
    across all streams, filtering out streams that do not contain a
    program containing the filtering text.
    
    Global filtering is very useful when searching for a particular program
    or live event across all available streams.
    
    Please note that performing the initial global search triggers a one time
    stream indexing operation that may a few minutes on some systems.

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to control whether
    global EPG filtering includes filtering using the program's description.
    This setting can slow down filtering and is disabled by default.

  * Per-EPG Time Shift support (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) has been
    added. The time shift is applied to the entire EPG.
    
    Please note :
    If you previously set a time shift on a specific stream then both time
    shifts are combined.

  * In cases where you list an IPTV stream supporting archive playback but
    the stream does not have an Episode Guide or the Episode Guide does
    not cover the full archive period specified in the playlist, Zoom Player
    now creates empty entries on the EPG listing panels to enable archive
    playback covering the full archive period.

  * IPTV playback of streams that require authentication using user-agent
    or referrer are now supported. For compatibility, Zoom Player uses the
    same "#EXTVLCOPT" playlist tag as VLC. This feature requires a version
    of LAV Filters newer than 0.79.2 as it was introduced by LAV Filters
    in a nightly build released after v0.79.2.

  + Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Video Aspect Ratio section.

  + Cleaned up the Advanced Options dialog's Mouse Wheel section.
    Watch me redesign it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c

  + Redesigned the chapter/bookmark editor to make it cleaner and easier to use.
    Watch me redesign it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c

  + Enhanced the IPTV playlist parsing code to be more tolerant of badly
    authored playlists.

  - Any interface SFX played while a media was loaded using the DirectShow
    media engine would break volume control until a new media was loaded.

  - "SOON" and "LIVE" media library YouTube entries would disappear when
    pressing the "Load More" option and then closing and reopening the
    media library.

  - Fixed a UTF8 encoding/decoding bug that failed to decode unicode
    characters greater than U+010000 in the TCP/IP control API, causing
    Zoom Player to not find files with these characters in the name.

  - Loading a Zoom Player chapter file (".zpchp") did not sort the chapters by
    position, instead showing them by the order they were listed in the file.
    Watch me fix it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c

  - Fixed a bug that prevented the source video resolution from being read
    when using MPC-VR as the video renderer.
    Watch me fix it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEXJgvPv7c

  - Fixed a bug that prevented text input on the "Folder/Poster file mask"
    and "Backdrop file mask" settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen
    Navigation / Customization).

  - Fixed a bug where IPTV stream's time-shift offset was not being saved
    correctly if the stream only had a name and not an ID.

  - The media library category editor should now restore the previously
    selected category when closing and re-opening the dialog.

  - Using the media library's "resume playback" feature did not add the
    media's title (when available) to the playlist.

  - Fixed a bug that could cause Zoom Player to freeze on exit when a
    new IPTV playlist/EPG download has finished with no disk space to
    extract it.

  - Pressing "Play" from the control bar when using the libVLC engine for
    playback could cause the control bar to appear hidden behind the video,
    preventing access until the control bar was closed and reopened.

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