Zoom Player MAX & Zoom Player IPTV v22 beta 1 have been released
Published September 18th, 2025
What's new, changed and fixed in this beta:
Legend : "*" = New "+" = Changed "-" = FixedNew :
* I have designed an entirely new IPTV Home Theater interface accessible through the right-click menu, using the Shift+"G" keyboard shortcut, navigating through the home theater main interface (assuming the IPTV setting is enabled in Zoom Player's advanced options) or by assigning it as a button in the control overlay's advanced options page. What works: 1. Playing streams should work. 2. You should be able to easily control and navigate the interface using a mouse, keyboard or remote control. 3. The IPTV Home Theater interface is fully customizable, press the top bar's paint brush button to begin customizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXbFB5OWyM What doesn't work yet: 1. Stream logos are not displayed next to stream names. 2. Archive (catchup) playback is not implemented. 3. The EPG Grid/List view toggle button does nothing. 4. Navigating the EPG using the keyboard on archive (catchup) streams may cause a state where you must press the "Back" button or "Backspace" key to return to stream selection. * The IPTV Group Manager has been redesigned for greater clarity and a few new features were added : 1. The ability to easily unhide multiple previously hidden groups. 2. New Cut/Copy/Paste right-click menu functionality in the "Favorite Group Streams" list to easily organize favorites between multiple favorite groups. * Added another caching layer to optimize the re-opening of the IPTV window which should now be nearly instantaneous even when dealing with playlists with over 20,000 groups. * New feature accessible from the right-click menu under the "Open" sub-menu to show the playing media in Windows' File Explorer. * You can now right-click a media library entry to show the selected file or folder in Windows' File Explorer. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) that controls whether playing archived/catchup IPTV programs uses the specified time zone when creating the URL. Previously, the time zone was always used, disable this setting if the wrong program plays. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) allowing you to prevent streaming re-connection attempts if the initial connection took more than a specified number of seconds (15 by default). The rationale behind this feature is that when a server is truly down or busy, it usually takes 1-3 seconds for the streaming component to recognize the issue. However when the server up but not configured to stream data, it may take streaming component 20 seconds to recognize the connection failure. Performing a sequence of 3 connection attempts when the server takes 20 second to responds would have Zoom Player freezing for a solid minute, which isn't very friendly. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Home Theater / Setting) that controls whether sorting the media library by size in a folder based category includes sorting folders by their content size. Since scanning the contents of folders and sub-folders can be slow, this setting is disabled by default. * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Wheel) to reverse the horizontal scroll / tilt direction.Changed :
+ The IPTV EPG listing should appear a little faster. + Filtering IPTV streams now includes group names in the filtered results to make it easier to differentiate between duplicate stream names by using the group's name. Duplicate stream names are often the result of varying streaming quality (e.g. 1080p/4K/HDR/etc). + You can now disable IPTV auto-updates (download) by setting the "Auto update (days)" value to "0". You can still trigger an update by clicking the refresh button on the IPTV Window or through the advanced options dialog's "Playback / IPTV" section. + Switching IPTV playlist using the drop-down menu on the IPTV Window now always ensures that favorites remain visible at the top of the list regardless of the selected playlist. + The minimize button has been visually updated to match Window's design language (vertically centered now). + The Hidden Group list in the advanced options dialog's IPTV section can now be used to select and delete multiple hidden group names from the list in one action. + The mouse wheel horizontal scroll / tilt feature has been reset with its default value now set to "Navigation" and the scroll direction has been reversed (you can switch the direction back in the options).Fixed :
- Resetting Zoom Player's setting to default through the options dialog now also erases the IPTV database cache. - Fixed a crash when using the IPTV group manager and then closing the IPTV window before the updated list refreshed itself. - The up/down/top/bottom arrows in the IPTV Group Manager's favorite streams section were broken. - Fixed a case where the IPTV Program Info window could appear behind the main IPTV window. - Setting a time shift value to an IPTV username/password login profile did not show the time shift value next to the profile name. - The media library's meta-data editor now allows you to replace the backdrop and poster images after a successful meta-data scrape returned no image data. - Fixed a bug that caused the IPTV EPG for the previously selected stream not to show after opening the options dialog. - Some pop-up confirmation/error/information dialog did not take into account the monitor's DPI (size) value and showed smaller text. - Fixed possible crashes when trying to use Zoom Player's TCP/IP API when a track was loading or when Zoom Player was in the process of shutting down.