Announcing Zoom Player and Zoom Player IPTV v20 beta 4
Published November 6th, 2024
What's new in this beta:
* In an effort to modernize Zoom Player's Home Theater look & feel, I've been
working with Godwin on a new icon style. Simple, clean, subtle shading.
With each beta, I'm including the latest icons, some of which are not in
their final state.
Another small tweak I made is to the Home Theater interfaces title area. It
is now using a more standard font & color, reducing the number of different
fonts used on-screen for a cleaner look.
If you would like to comment on the new design, leave me a post on reddit:
https://www.redit.com/r/zoomplayer
* Since neither of the Subtitle components used by Zoom Player (DirectVobSub
and xySubFilter) support VTT subtitles, I wrote code to dynamically convert
".VTT" files to ".SRT" files on the fly.
The temporary ".SRT" files are saved to the windows temp folder and are
erased as soon as the media closes. This feature only works on external
subtitle files.
* Added smart play profiles for Audiobooks in the ".M4B" and ".AAX" formats.
* Added "AAX" as a default Audio file extension format. This change is not
applied automatically to existing installation, you can apply it by
clicking the "Default" button next to the audio extensions under "Advanced
Options / File Format Association / File Extensions".
* Added a button to the Media Server setup dialog (Adv. Options / Playback
/ Media Server) to apply the server's (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin) default local
port to the specified URL.
+ If a Media Server URL is specified without an "http/https" prefix,
"http" is now assumed by default.
- When streaming media using libVLC, under some unknown condition, libVLC
starts sending 1000's of time-changed events to Zoom Player every second,
causing Zoom Player's user interface to freeze under the load. I wrote
custom code to filter out all the duplicate events to work-around this
issue.
- The setting to go fullscreen on play was accidentally disabled in
Zoom Player IPTV.
- An authentication failure on a Media Server could have caused that media
server's profile to disappear.
- Fixed a bug in the previous beta where Zoom Player tried to automatically
set local ports for media servers, preventing servers that work on the
default http/https ports from connecting if you didn't specify the port.
- Fixed TCP/IP Command & Control API message #1702 returning duplicate
subtitle entries.