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 * Zoom Player now has an Audio-Bar mode.
   Playing files in the Audio-Bar mode will disable any video
   output and certain features that relate to video output and
   navigation.  There is also a new Audio-Bar default
   skin element with 3 visual configuration (F4/F5/F6).  You
   can switch to Audio-Bar mode by pressing F2, or using the
   new skin button.

 * Zoom Player can now filter out filters that can cause
   playback instability in standard playback mode through
   a Filter Black List.

   By default I have included the following filters that
   are known trouble-makers:
   BiCubic Resizer
   DivX Antifreeze
   DeDynamic Audio Filter
   Morgan Stream Switcher
   Subtitle Mixer
   Subtitle Parser
   TFM Audio Filter

   You can easily add/remove filters to the black list
   through the options dialog (Filter Control / Management).
   This should make Zoom Player a lot more stable on systems
   where a lot of 3rd party software have been installed.

 * On a fresh install, Zoom Player will look for missing
   components required to play popular file formats.  If
   no components are detected for a specific file format,
   you will be prompted to go to the media setup guide.
   This check is only done once when installing a new
   version.

 * New Setting (Options / Mouse Wheel) allowing you to
   reverse the direction of the mouse wheel with regards
   to the functions it calls.

 * You will now be prompted to install DirectVobSub if it's
   not installed on your system (again, only one time when a
   new version is installed).

 * New Setting (Options / OSD / Navigators) allowing you to
   have the Play List Navigator opened if the Chapter Navigator
   is opened and doesn't contain any chapters.

 * New "/AUDBAR" command line parameter starting Zoom Player
   in Audio-Bar mode.

 * New "/VOL" command line parameter allowing you to set the
   Zoom Player volume level on start-up.  Value can be 0-100.
   Example:
   "x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" /vol:75

 * New "/MEDIANAV:[CATEGORY]" parameter allowing you to start
   Zoom Player opened in the Media Library Navigator at a
   specific category.  Example:
   "x:\path\to\zoom player\zplayer.exe" "/MEDIANAV:TV Shows"

 * You can now associate the ".FLAC" extension.  FLAC is
   an Open-Source lossless Audio Format.  You still need
   a decoder for it to play.  For more information see:
   [URL]http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml[/URL]

 * You can now associate the ".MPC" extension.  MPC is
   a lossy audio format similar to MP3 and Vorbis.

 * Two new sections have been added to the Menu file.
   These new sections allow you to define the menu used
   for the Context Menu Navigator in DVD and Media modes.
   I have included useful default entries for these.

 * Zoom Player should now support WMV PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio).
   You must set the Aspect Ratio mode to Derived for PAR to
   kick in (you should always set the Aspect Ratio to Derived
   unless you have other special requirements).

 * Zoom Player can now display APE Tags from MPC/MP3/APE/FLAC files.

 * Zoom Player can now display WMF Tags from WMA files.

 * Zoom Player now has 4 default skin visual configuration modes, one
   with only the volume control (Press "F4"), the same layout with
   the Balance and Play Rate controls (Press "F5") or the minimalistic
   layout (Press "F6") or the Video Only Layout (Press "F7").

 * New Profiles for Nero Digital filters.  These filters seem
   to be capable of decoding MPEG1 audio (including MP3),
   MPEG1 Video, XVID and DIVX.  Playback is not perfect, I
   noticed big issues with DIVX playback.  These filters are
   also supposed to decode MPEG2 video and possibly even DVD,
   but I was unable to get them to work.

 * New Profile for the Elecard Video Decoder as a DVD Video
   Decoder.  It may only work for unencrypted DVDs.

 * New "Select All" button on the Association Page.

 * Two new skin variables "cBarNoText" and "tLineNoText"
   allowing you to disable text display on the timeline
   and control bar timeline.

 * New skin variable "AudioSkin" implying that the specified
   skin doesn't contain any video area.

 * New skin constant "<TimeLineText>", showing the user
   selectable entry that usually shows within the timeline
   (useful to use if you want to disable the text on the
   timeline itself and show it elsewhere).

 + The "zplayer.regpath" file now allows you to specify a
   second line with the new Zoom Player Window Name so that
   you can run multiple instances of Zoom Player and control
   each remotely as a unique entity.  For example, the content
   of the "zplayer.regpath" file would look like this:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VirtuaMedia\ZoomPlayer2
   Zoom Two

 + The "System" Options dialog section now displays the merit
   of each listed filter and also lists known "bad filter"
   offenders (filters can cause cause audio-loss, flipped
   video image and so forth).

 + The Flash (SWF files) background color is now set to the
   fullscreen background color (Options / Values / Interface),
   default to black.

 + The Flash and QuickTime playback experience should be better
   now.  The Right-Click context menu should now work perfectly
   and the keyboard/mouse should be a bit more responsive.

 + DVD "VIDEO_TS.IFO" files are now ALWAYS listed on the File
   and Media Library navigators.

 + OGM Audio Selection should now work even if the OGG Splitter
   is not set to Output all Streams.

 + Zoom Player will now check your DirectX version when you try
   to select the VMR9 as the Video Renderer and inform you if
   you don't have DirectX v9 installed.

 + The external Minimalistic and Ultra Minimalistic skins have
   been removed as their functionality is more than covered by
   the new skin layouts within the default skin.

 + Zoom Player now checks the DirectVobSub path list when looking
   for subtitle files instead of only looking in the same directory
   as the media file.

 + The Customized Media Playback Audio/Video Decoder configuration
   dialog now fits 800x600 resolution in advanced mode.

 + The /F:[n] and /Z:[n] will now allow you to force Zoom Player
   to fullscreen/zoom mode on a selected monitor even if
   Zoom Player is already running.

 - Zoom Player could stop responding when trying to load a new
   media file while the first media file was still being loaded.

 - Going to fullscreen on a second monitor using the setting
   on "Options / Values / Interface" would set the fullscreen
   size according to the resolution of the monitor the user
   interface currently resides on instead of the real monitor
   resolution.

 - Opening a DVD while another DVD is already playing would not
   save the last position properly for the original DVD.

 - Remembering the last position on media files would ignore the
   number of days to save this data and would in fact save it
   forever.  Furthermore, several entries were kept for each
   file played.  It is recommended that you erase the old
   "zplayer.playcache" file as old entries may stick forever.

 - The Increase/Decrease Play Rate wasn't working in the correct
   order when increase after decreasing or the other way around.

 - Dragging the Zoom Player window across monitors or changing
   resolution should no longer disable the VMR9 scaling fix.

 - Flash end-of-file should now be detected better.

 - Flash clipping should now be OK when setting to the Source
   or Derived AR modes.

 - The Setting to have ZP not clear the play list when opening
   files externally, wasn't really working (play list was getting
   cleared anyhow).

 - Enter will now open the selected navigator in DVD Mode
   as long as there is no DVD playing.

 - If customized media playback failed to renderer a graph,
   it was possible that a valid standard graph would get created,
   but the video would wrongfully appear in an external window.

 - The Screen Snap Pixel value would not save properly.

 - Trying to play a truly locked media file (most applications
   allow you to read files even if they are using them, so not
   a lot of files are truly locked) could cause ZP to stop
   responding after an error dialog popped.

 - The DrawExText "ShadeBottom" parameter was actually using
   the value from the "ShadeTop" parameter.

 - Switching skins would not set the active skin elements correctly.

 - Can now load UTF8 file names from WPL play list files.

 - Fixed too many unicode related issues to even begin listing
   them here.

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 * Zoom Player Professional has been split into a third version.
   "Zoom Player WMV Professional" is a seperate version of Zoom
   Player which is capable of playing DRM encoded Windows Media
   files.

   Due to the licensing fees involved in playing DRM content files,
   Zoom Player WMV Professional requires a purchase upgrade from any
   previous version of Zoom Player.

   In order to play DRM files you must first obtain the DRM license
   by using Windows Media Player 9 to obtain the license, or with
   certain WM-DVD discs, just by inserting the disc in the drive
   for the first time (note that license can expire after several
   sessions).

   You must also download this patch from microsoft which fixes
   important issues with Windows Media DRM playback:
   [URL]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823738[/URL]

   Furthermore, you must have a Display Card capable of working
   in Video Mixing Renderer 9 (VMR9) mode.

* The Navigator Interfaces have been rewritten from scratch.
   Most of the functionality has remained the same, but the
   graphical elements have a clearer look and are now skinnable.

   Here are the usability changes:

   -  The File Navigator
   1. Switching between the file and drive listing is now done
      using the left/right (directions switched).
   2. The right direction in the file navigator will go up a
      directory where possible.
   3. The current path is now always visible.

   -  The Play List Navigator:
   1. The design has changed entirely, the display is now split
      into three regions, the main play list, the current directory
      for the highlighted file and a mini file browser.
   2. When the Play List items are active, pressing the Left button
      will remove the currently highlighted item from the list.
   3. When using the Up/Down buttons within the Play List items,
      the file browser will automatically switch the current location
      of the highlighted file.
   4. The Right button switches between the Play List items and the
      File Browser.
   5. Pressing Enter in the file browser will add a highlighted file
      or enter a directory.
   6. Pressing the Left button in the file browser will add an
      entire directory or all the files in the directory if a file
      is highlighted

   -  The Media Library Navigator:
   1. Similar to the File Navigator design, the media categories are
      now visible on the left pane at all times.
   2. The Right/Left buttons always switch between categories and the
      active category is highlighted on the left pane.

 * Double clicking on the file name area will now switch between
   Audio mode and DVD Mdoe.

 * New Setting (Advanced Options / Control Bar / Settings) allowing
   you to limit the control bar so that it only shows up on mouse
   movement when in fullscreen mode.

 * Two new skin variables "tLineFontHeight" and "cBarFontHeight"
   which are superseding "tLineFontSize" and "cBarFontSize" which
   were ill suited for Large Fonts.  Support for the older variable
   remains to keep compatibility with old fonts.

 * Zoom Player can now associate and play CellPhone 3GPP (.3GP)
   s263 video files (Must have QuickTime installed for it to play).

 * You can now associate the OptimFROG (.OFR) extension and play
   OptimFROG files once you the decoder installed.  OptimFROG is
   yet another lossless audio compression format (in the nature of
   APE and FLAC).  You can get the OptimFROG decoder here:
   [URL]http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/optimfrog.shtml[/URL]

 + Audio DSP should take less CPU power, especially under SSE/SSE2
   capable processors.

 + The playback from archive formats now has a checkbox which allows
   you to select whether the file extension should be looked at to
   determine if the file is an archive, or if the whole file name
   should be evaluated (in a case where the file name might actually
   contain the string, such as "my_music_albw.mp3" or "audio.zip.mp3").

 + The Segment Matching Code has been enhanced to support "*" masking.
   This new method only works when used at the end of the mask.  For
   example, a mask of "x??.*" would match the following:
   Andromeda.4x01.answers_given_to_questions_never_asked.avi
   Andromeda.4x02.pieces_of_eight.mpg
   Andromeda.4x03.waking_the_tyrants_device.avi
   And so forth ...

 + SHOUTcast Playback should now be more reliable, Zoom Player will
   now try the alternate servers if one fails to connect.

 + The "System" Options dialog entry has been replaced with a "Formats"
   entry.  The content of the previous "System" dialog has been moved to
   the "System Overview" tab within the new "Formats" section.  Another
   tab on the formats section now contains a list of detected missing
   playback components with links to where you can download and get
   more information about each component/format.

 + Zoom Player can now detect if Flash or QuickTime is missing and
   inform you on the "Missing Formats" page.

 + New "function" parameter on the "DrawExText" skinning function
   allowing you to specify a double-click function for text labels.

 + If Windows Animation is enabled (in windows), Zoom Player will no
   longer animate the window when going fullscreen or when minimizing
   as it's not very elegant.

 + Vowel decimation is now used to ensure ID3 display fits within the
   display area.

 + The Resize Navigator now displays the current Video Aspect Ratio.

 + You can now select the Custom Mouse Wheel function from a list
   instead of manually typing it in.

 - Extracting from archive didn't work for unicode archive names.

 - Using Zoom Player to execute external files could cause
   certain Zoom Player features to stop responding.

 - The Control Bar and TimeLine fonts should now appear properly when
   Windows is set to 120dpi Large Fonts.