Announcing Zoom Player and Zoom Player IPTV v20 beta 3
Published October 30th, 2024
What's new in this beta:
* The default IPTV skin now includes new buttons to open the Home
Theater Media Library and Media Server Browser interfaces. These
buttons replace the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons which work on
a technology that is not really practical with streaming content.
* New (optional) color Hue adjustment control bar buttons, including
Increase Hue, Decrease Hue and Reset Hue.
* New (optional) control bar button to open the Media Server Browser.
* New TCP/IP API command #3210 that returns information on whether
the user accepted or canceled a file delete request.
* When using the Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog
to show information on the clicked entry, clicking the thumbnail
shifts the image to cover the entire screen for a close up look.
* The Media Server Browser window now includes a search feature that
works on several levels. In the "Home" level, you can pick which
server to search and the entire server is searched.
When inside a category, only the contents of the category are searched.
Search results are color-coded for clarity. You can customize the
colors in the advanced options dialog (Playback / Media Server).
Depending on the Media Server used, the returned result may differ.
For example, when searching the entire server, Emby will return
Movies, TV Series, Seasons and Episodes, including if the search
term is only in the show name and not an episode's title.
Plex and Jellyfin on the other hand, will only return Movies, TV
Series and Episodes that the search term matches the entry's title.
Episodes and Seasons that do not contain the Series name in the
title, will not be listed.
Plex is even worse when searching within a category, it does not such
recursively so it's not working much better than the filtering feature.
* The Media Server Browser window's right-click dialog now shows
additional meta-data whenever the server returns such information:
1. Duration
2. Star Rating
3. Average Bitrate (e.g. "4200kbps")
4. Content Rating (e.g. "TV-MA").
* You can now re-order the Media Server list (Adv. Options / Playback
Media Server) to better control the default server entry on the Media
Server Browser's search feature.
* When adding a Media Server (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server)
without specifying a port, the default local port number is used
automatically ("32400" for Plex and "8096" for Emby or Jellyfin).
* Two new functions added to the XBOX controller Stick controls
(Adv. Options / Interface / XInput) to control the volume using
and seek forward/backward a number of seconds.
* You can now assign any Zoom Player function to the XBOX controller
trigger buttons. The default custom values are seeking backward/forward.
+ The IPTV setup window (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) now allows
you to set an auto-update time that includes a fractional value,
allowing the database to be updated more than once per day.
The minimal automatic update value is approximately 30 minutes.
+ A message explaining libVLC was not installed on your computer
accidentally displayed when libVLC was installed but failed to
open a file or stream.
+ You can now select and play multiple items directly from the play history
window (Alt+"H" keyboard shortcut).
+ Added ellipsis "..." symbols to Home Theater list interfaces where
previously the text was simply cut off.
+ Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the playlist editor.
+ Added ellipsis "..." symbols to the meta-data display area when playing
audio tracks.
+ The Options window's Search feature will now start showing results only
from the second letter searched, typing that first character returned
a lot of results which wasn't as snappy as I wanted and there's nothing
to search for that is one letter long, so it didn't make sense either.
- The IPTV's "Force http" Xtream Codes setting did not actually force "http"
connections if the server reported it supports "https", but doesn't
actually have a server listening on the https port.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some channel icons from being displayed in the
IPTV player window.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the IPTV player window from being closed after
playing a stream and then closing and re-opening the IPTV player window.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the libVLC media engine from playing media
files containing Emoji characters.
- Fixed an issue that under some conditions caused the media library
thumbnail text to render incorrectly, either not utilizing the
available space or actually drawing over the thumbnail.
- Fixed loading ".Cue" external chapter files not loading the correct
chapter positions.
- The Media Library's "Playlist" plugin did not display the media's title
when listing ".M3U" playlists.
- Opening the options dialog now resets the IPTV player cache to make
sure changes are updated when re-opening the IPTV player window.
- The XBOX controller functions were not being triggered at the correct
speed and in the case of analog input (stick, triggers), the function
did not repeat if the stick did not move.