Most of you play films of some sort or another on your systems and I'm sure you've all tried and tested many different programs.
Here's one I just spotted however that from the quick test I gave it looks really good.
Give it a shot and judge for yourselves.
Calling Zoom Player a windows Media Player is a major understatement, this player can be fully customised and has more features than any other media players out there, with more features being constantly added.
New Preset dialog to control Video Blanking. Video Blanking is the process of covering a certain video area in black in order to hide unwanted data. This is mostly the case with widescreen video where the actual widescreen area may contain gray video (rather than black) which can be rather annoying.
The preset dialog allows you to define the number of pixels to hide from the Top, Bottom, Left and Right sides of the video. You can store up to 10 presets and easily apply then using the Shift+"0..9" keys. To open the Blanking Presets dialog, press Ctrl+"K".
With the new Blanking interface, you can now toggle the blanking ON/OFF with Alt+"B". Blanking is automatically activated if you use one of the Blanking presets or the Blanking Navigator.
New Blanking Navigator interface, fully controllable through a remote, this interface allows you to easily use either the keyboard or a remote to position the active Blanking area.
The Blanking color is linked to the fullscreen background color as set on the "Options -> Values" setting. You can experiment with blanking by changing the color there.
Default color is Black of course.
Blanking information is now saved by default through the file/disc definition interface.
The Auto-Repeat setting has been replaced with an "On Play Complete" toggle (on the Toggles tab).
This new toggle enables you to activate one of five options once a play list has completed playback.
1. Do Nothing (last frame in video remains on-screen).
2. Auto Rewind (rewind to first frame of first video in the list).
3. Auto Replay (rewind and play the first video in the list).
4. Close Player (auto closes Zoom Player).
5. Shutdown Windows (pops a 10sec delayed system shutdown window).
Setting #3 is the default setting.
The Auto Repeat function (Alt+"P") has been replaced with a cycle function allowing you to cycle through all 5 options above.
New "Custom" Aspect Ratio setting. Using this setting you can apply any aspect ratio to the video, by default it's set to 2.35:1.
New "On Disc Insert" toggle allowing you to Auto-Play DVDs. For this to work properly, you must make sure that the DVD drive is defined on the Options -> Values tab.
If the main user interface is moved off screen, when closing and opening the player, the user interface will be moved back within the screen position.
Under certain older versions of windows, if the Task Bar is set to auto-hide, it leaves a small stub at the bottom of the screen when going to Fullscreen/Zoom mode. In order to circumvent this issue, I included a new setting allowing you to hide/show the Windows Task Bar when Entering/Exiting these modes.
When first run, Zoom Player will now prompt you for a CD / DVD drive to be used for Eject/Insert and for the Insert management system (auto play and such).
The Folder and DVD Images are now always set to their internal aspect ratio rather than conforming to the Media Aspect ratio. So images should not appear stretched anymore. The image aspect ratio does respect the "Source Relative Stretch" value so images should have the correct aspect ratio even when non- square pixels are used.
Using a DVD Background image should no longer make the OSD non-transparent
When the main user interface is minimized to the System Tray (not standard minimize) then playback is paused.
Slight modifications to the Context Menu.
Certain DVD Discs (in my case Toy Story 2) had a thing where they would issue an event saying they are entering a new title, but would refuse to load a bookmark at this point, basically breaking the Auto-Bookmark system for these discs. As a work-around, I changed the code that auto-loads a bookmark. Now it tries to load the bookmark 3 times, once per second after entering the initial title. This seems to be working great with Toy Story 2.
Made a work-around for the Zoom Player DDE server. If you now send a file play request through DDE (pressing enter in explorer), multiple files can be played (selecting several files in explorer and pressing enter). The assumption is, if you send more than 1 DDE request every 2.5 seconds, it's part of the same request and only the first file will be played while the remaining files will be added to the play list. The actual order of playback depends on how windows sends the DDE commands, which isn't always in the order you'd expect it.
Folder Images no longer require the DVD Image to enabled in order to work properly.
The Control Bar will now auto-hide if you are in Fullscreen/Zoom mode and no video is loaded.
The DVD Image should no longer pop up even if it was disabled.
Cosmetic bug, previous Chapter function was showing wrong OSD chapter name (but seeking to the correct position).
Cosmetic, Text used in navigator interfaces is now outlined in black so it contrasts better.
CD-Insert should now work on Win95/98/ME.
Use this posting as a chance to post your own replies on players you use and really like. Mention why you like the player as well when you post it.
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Source: xp-erience.com
