Zoom Player MAX & Zoom Player STREAM v22 release candidate 1 have been released

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What's new, changed and fixed in this beta:

 Legend :
 
"*"  = New
"+"  = Changed
"-"  = Fixed


New :
    * I have designed an entirely new Streaming Video Home Theater interface.
      You can access the new interface by: 
      1. Using the right-click menu under "Home Theater".
      2. Using the Shift+"G" keyboard shortcut.
      3. Navigating through the home theater main interface (assuming
         the Streaming Video setting is enabled in Zoom Player's advanced
         options).
      4. By assigning it as a button in the control overlay's advanced
         options page.

      What works:
      1. Playing streams.
      2. Playing VOD movies & series.
      3. Playing archive (catch-up) programs.
      4. EPG Grid & List view modes.
      5. Multiple playlists.
      6. VOD movies / series meta-data information and posters (basic).
      7. You should be able to easily control and navigate the
         interface using a mouse, keyboard or remote control.
      8. The Streaming Video Home Theater interface is fully customizable.
         From colors to element sizes, press the top bar's paint
         brush button to begin customizing:
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXbFB5OWyM

      What's not yet implemented :
      1. Search / Filtering.
      2. Playing stream indicator
      3. A prettier VOD movies / series thumbnail with backdrop display.
      4. Manual refresh Playlist/EPG database button.
      5. Fancy animations.

    * Wrote a Video Streaming Player API meta-data scraping spider that
      uses multiple threads to download and cache VOD meta-data such as
      descriptions, cast, director, etc).
      Specify how many threads in Advanced options under "Playback /
      Video Streaming". The default value is "4" and when choosing a higher
      value, consider how much you're willing to overload your content
      provider's servers or even risk having them block your IP address.

    * Video Streaming M3U playlist URLs and Player API JSON URLs are now
      automatically parsed and cached in the background as soon as the
      download completes to ensure the fastest operation when opening
      the Video Streaming Windowed or Home Theater interfaces.
      
    * Implemented a Video Streaming M3U caching system that automatically
      caches M3U files as soon as they're added as a video streaming playlist
      sources. Since cached parsing speed is over 200% quicker, initially
      opening the Video Streaming Window or Home Theater interfaces should
      feel faster when using M3U sources.

    * The Windows keyboard shortcut to move the active window across multiple
      monitors did not work well if Zoom Player had an overlay/window interface
      visible, instead of moving Zoom Player, Windows' keyboard shortcut would
      move the open window or overlay interface instead.

      Another issue with this Windows keyboard shortcut is that it simply doesn't
      work well if Zoom Player is in fullscreen mode and you are moving the user
      interface between two different resolution monitors.

      To work-around both issues. I've created two keyboard shortcuts:
      Ctrl+Shift+"]" - Move user interface to the next monitor            
      Ctrl+Shift+"[" - Move user interface to the previous monitor            

    * A new feature to specify an exact subtitle synchronization value is
      now accessible under the "Controls" section of the right-click menu.

    * Added a "refresh" options to Video Streaming TV Series episode listing.


Changed :
    + The Video Streaming subscription section of the advanced options dialog
      has been redesigned to improve the user experience.

    + Optimized the Video Streaming playlist group name caching algorithm,
      now 500% faster. Initially opening the Video Streaming Window or Home
      Theater interfaces should feel faster.

    + Enhanced the Video Streaming Player API JSON caching to use a
      specific caching format for each of the Live, Series and Movie
      playlists, lowering the cache file size and slightly speeding
      up the caching process.



Fixed :
    - Zoom Player now trims spaces from the start and end of Video Streaming
      Player API credentials to prevent accidental copy & paste misfortunes
      that result in broken database downloads and streaming links.

    - Using a Video Streaming playlist with identical group names used
      across different content types (live/series/movies) resulted in streams
      from groups with identical names to mix and show across multiple groups.

    - Restoring previously opened groups when opening the video streaming
      window interface did not work as intended if the video streaming playlist
      contained multiple identical group names across different content types.

    - When using the Video Streaming setting to sort the group names, the
      category (live/movies/series) sorting order was incorrect.

    - The Media Library's resume playback confirmation dialog failed to work
      if the media's title contained the "|" (pipe) character.

    - Fixed a cosmetic glitch in the default skin's playlist editor where
      the search-box text could slightly overlay the bottom playlist entry.

    - With the Video Streaming Windowed interface open (Ctrl+"G" keyboard
      shortcut), pressing "Enter" in the EPG panel did not start playing
      the stream.

    - Fixed a crash when trying to display "WEBP" images renamed to "PNG".