Announcing Zoom Player MAX and Zoom Player IPTV v21.1 release candidate 1
Published April 16th, 2025
What's new in this beta:
* When customizing the control overlay (Adv. Options / Interface /
Control Overlay), all changes are now updated in real time to
reflect your preferences.
Check out this video to see how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypufL7tUczo
* When using the IPTV dialog to play a VOD TV series, the next episodes
are automatically queued to the playlist, allowing you to switch to
the next episode without re-opening the IPTV dialog.
* The OSD Pop-up actions have a new default style that overrides any
style set by the current skin with a new modern style with transparent
background. Of course you can customize the new style with custom
fonts, background opacity and colors.
If you prefer the classic style, you can disable the modern style
under "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Actions".
* The setting that controls the OSD Pop-up actions (Play, Pause, volume,
etc) size change while in fullscreen mode (Adv. Interface / On Screen
Display / Actions) has been replaced with a new "OSD window size" setting.
The new OSD window size setting automatically adjusts relative to the
display device's DPI setting, letting you pick a size that is maintained
on high resolution screens with a DPI value greater than 100%.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows
you to align the fixed buttons zone to the left instead of the default
screen-centered layout.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) that allows
you to hide the timeline (useful if you're only watching live events).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control
whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is
hovering over the timeline area.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to control
whether the control overlay auto-hides when the mouse cursor is
hovering over anywhere in the overlay (top and bottom areas).
* Using the next/previous track feature after playing a live IPTV stream
plays the previously/next streamed channel from the IPTV stream history.
* The IPTV Group Manager is now able to add an entire group as a favorite
group, simply select the group and click the left-arrow button.
* The IPTV Group Manager is now able select and hide multiple groups,
simply click the eye button, pick the group and click the check button.
* Added two more size settings to the Control Overlay's timeline bar.
* New next/previous DVD bookmark features that can be added as buttons
to the Modern UI's control overlay.
+ The Zoom Player playlist format has been enhanced to remember the
media engine used when opening the media. So closing and re-opening
Zoom Player or just re-opening the same file from the playlist
should preserve the previously used media engine instead of reverting
automatically to DirectShow.
+ The options dialog has been redesigned to make it wider, giving
translators more room to effectively translate Zoom Player's settings
to other languages.
+ The "Playlist Editor" entry on the right-click menu has been moved
from the "Open Interface" sub-menu to the second option from the
top on menu's root level.
+ The keyboard layout editor now always opens centered on the options
dialog and covering 80% of it's size. I also cleaned up the editor
dialog a bit when used with high DPI displays.
+ Removed the "keyboard shortcuts" section from the options dialog.
It has been replaced several versions ago by the "F1" keyboard
shortcut.
+ Removed the "Link Parser" section from the options dialog, it's a
feature I once planned but was never implemented.
+ I changed how the option dialog's tree-view panel is translated to
make it easier for me to edit and to make it more future proof as
previously any change broke the translation.
For you it means that if you are currently using an older language
file, the tree-view will appear in English. Updating to the latest
language files as they become available on the install center should
fix this issue.
+ The modern UI default button layout has changed to replace next/previous
track with next/previous chapters (which fallbacks to next/previous
track if no chapters are available).
+ The next/previous chapter feature no longer performs a next/previous
DVD bookmark action. Instead performing a next/previous track action.
The next/previous DVD bookmark features have been split into separate
features.
+ The Ctrl+Shift+"F10" switch user interface to Classic mode and
Ctrl+Shift+"F11" switch user interface to Modern mode keyboard
shortcuts now reset the Media and DVD skins to default.
+ You can now use a double-click action in the options dialog's
control overlay section to quickly add/remove buttons from the
different zones (System, Pre-Title, Fixed and Dynamic).
- The options dialog's search feature did not work for some sections
(media server, control overlay, possibly others).
- The minimum window size is now automatically adjusted based on the
monitor's resolution in order to prevent overlapping user interface
elements on a high DPI display.
- Under certain conditions, the resume playback dialog did not work,
simply doing nothing when you pressed enter.
- The mouse wheel can now be used to scroll over the control overlay's
timeline to seek in the same way that was possible when using the
Classic interface's timeline.
- If you have had the setting to show the control overlay when seeking,
performing consecutive seek actions did not reset the auto hide timer
causing the control overlay to sometimes hide sooner than expected.
- Setting the control overlay's timeline/volume bar's corner radius
to "None / Square" caused the specified bar colors not to be used.
- Fixed a very hard to trigger crash when trying to close Zoom Player
using the control API just as Zoom Player was starting to run.
- Using the next frame or previous frame feature did not work as
expected while the fast forward or rewind features were active.
- The title text on the IPTV VOD TV listing was slightly cropped on
the right side.
- Fixed a few cosmetic issues when redesigning the options dialog.
- Fixed a bug when using the next/previous track repeatedly by holding the
"]" or "[" keyboard shortcuts with only one media entry in the playlist,
triggering a "next media in folder" action that caused a duplicate media
entry to be added to the playlist and the "next media in folder" function
to not work anymore (since now there are two entries in the playlist).
- Adding a media to the favorite list that did not contain a title caused
the favorite list to display an empty line. Now the media's name or URL
is displayed.