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Latest version
19.5 (August 28, 2024)

What's new in Zoom Player v19.5:

* IPTV Xtream Codes support.
Zoom Player supports three different Xtream Codes modes to access the stream playlist and EPG (electronic program guide) information. The modes exist to offer a fallback solution in case your IPTV provider is only offering partial support for Xtream Codes' feature-set. 1. Player API : This is the most recent Xtream Codes API. It uses network queries to obtain both the Stream Playlists and EPG data. TV Series and Movies are handled separately from live streams, providing an enhanced navigation experience.
However, the EPG information is only accessible on a per-stream level and not as a whole, preventing the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features from working. 2. Player API + XML (default) : By leveraging the Player API you still benefit from the separate handling of TV Series and Movies. With the entire EPG downloaded as a single XML file, the Global Filtering and EPG Grid features have access to the full program guide and can work as intended.
3. M3U + XML : This is the most basic mode with both the EPG and the stream playlists downloaded as single-file databases. Global Filtering and the EPG Grid features work as intended, however TV Series and Movies are left to the graces of your IPTV provider, which means they may be harder to access and usually lack EPG or Meta-Data information (e.g. Bitrate).

* New IPTV Electronic Program Guide Grid. The EPG grid is an alternative program guide view that lists the episode guide of multiple streams in an easy to scroll and filter interface.
You can access the EPG grid by pressing the "#" button within the IPTV window. The EPG grid does not rely on the stream list and can be used without specifying any stream sources. The EPG grid's look and feel can be fully customized by pressing the menu button and choosing "Customize". You can use this same menu to "Magnetize" the EPG Grid window to the IPTV window.

* New IPTV global episode guide filter. The new global filter works across all streams, filtering out streams that do not contain a program title containing the filter text. Global filtering is very useful when searching for a particular program or live event across all available streams. Please note that performing the initial global search triggers a one time stream indexing operation that may up to a few minutes on some hardware.

* Added support for H.266/VVC, AV1 and Opus detection and icons to the media library.

* New IPTV menu button on the IPTV window. The new menu includes: 1. Only show favorites (new feature, hides all other streams). 2. Toggle Opacity (previously a button). 3. IPTV Settings (previously a button).

* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / System / Screen Saver & Capture) that allows you to specify if screenshots should be saved in the same folder as the video currently being played (Only applies to local files).

* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video / Aspect Ratio) to reset the aspect ratio to "Derived" when opening a new media (disabled by default).

* Added a new setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) to automatically restore the previously active video aspect ratio on replay (disabled by default). This new feature will only work for videos that was previously played by this version of Zoom Player (or newer) since previous versions did not save the active aspect ratio.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / IPTV) to sort the Group list by name.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Naviation / Settings) to prevent the fullscreen playlist and streaming navigation interfaces from closing when playing a new file.

* New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's duration. Te default seek distance is 10% of the media's duration but you can change this value under "Adv. Options / Playback / Controls". By default, the two new functions are assigned to the Ctrl+Alt+"[" and Ctrl+Alt+"]" keyboard shortcuts.

* New Settings to seek forward/backward a percentage of the media's duration when right-clicking the timeline. The default action is still seeking in seconds, you can change this to percent under - "Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings".

* Added settings to control which Zoom Player function is triggered when using the mouse wheel while holding either the Alt, Ctrl or Shift keys. The default values are: Mouse Wheel + Alt : Seek 5 seconds backwards/forwards Mouse Wheel + Ctrl : Seek 20 seconds backwards/forwards Mouse Wheel + Shift : Seek 120 seconds backwards/forwards
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Download Zoom Player 19.5

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[korn]

Latest version
21.3 (May 19, 2025)

What's new in Zoom Player v21.3:
New :

* Updated TheMovieDB meta-data scraper for TV and Movies.
There have been too many bad results lately, so I dug in and rewrote the matching algorithm. The new algorithm is much more accurate, especially if you specify a release year in the folder/filename.
I've also added a new setting to pick a specific spoken language preference (disabled by default). Setting this value will not break foreign language content, just give a preference if there's two entries with very similar details except for the spoken language.
If you still see incorrect listings, the best recourse would be to specify a release year in the folder/file name, for example "My Movie" would be renamed to "My Movie.2005" or "My Movie (2005)". You may need to close and restart Zoom Player as newly scraped TV shows are cached in system memory until you restart Zoom Player (only need to do this after failed scrapes).

* The Color Control Overlay has been enhanced: 1. Hover hint showing the exact brightness/contrast/saturation/hue value before you apply it. 2. You can now use the mouse wheel to adjust the values. 3. You can use the right/left arrow keys to adjust values even if an icon is highlighted and not the bar itself. 4. Adjusting values using the keyboard pops a hint showing the new value.

* The control overlay now supports color tinting the timeline/volume knob separately from the buttons (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay).

* The setting that controls the control overlay's timeline text display layout has been replaced with a new system for specifying the timeline text. If you previously set a non-default layout, you will need to set it again using the new system.
You can now pick which information appears in the left/center/right areas of the timeline text by specifying one or more of the following fields:
- Current Position - Duration - Remaining Time - Media Resolution - Current Resolution - Media Title (or file name)
Allowing you to display any of these fields in any order and in any position.

* I've added an "Update" menu option to the playlist editor's multi-playlist menu, making it much simpler to update previously added playlists.

* You can now select multiple media library entries and then use the meta-data editor available through the right-click context menu or the functions page accessible by clicking the gear icon to edit multiple entries in one action, there are the fields you can edit:
- Sort Title - Personal Rating - Personal Note - Genres - Tags - Collections

* To quickly select items using the mouse, I've added a "Select / Unselect" option to the right click context menu when used within the media library.

* You can now use the media library's cache meta-data editor on media that failed to scrape.

Changed :

+ The playing media information dialog ("I" keyboard shortcut) now uses mediainfo.dll to extract the playing frame-rate if an accurate frame-rate value cannot be derived from the media engine directly.

+ The info dialog now gives mediainfo.dll more time to parse the media file to ensure the information it returns is more accurate.

+ Opening the playlist editor or equalizer dialogs will not automatically hide the control overlay now.

+ Hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline when Zoom Player is not the focused application no longer shows the current position hint as showing the hint causes Zoom Player's window to pop to the front, which can be annoying.

Fixed :

- Dragging and Dropping media from other applications did not work if you tried dropping the media on the control overlay.

- Using Modern UI and attaching the playlist editor to the main user interface and then dragging the main window to move it caused the playlist editor to snap to the left side of the main window instead of moving along with it.

- The IPTV window's "Filter EPG" mode drop-down list was not initially set when using a language file to translate zoom player to other languages.

- Switching to fullscreen to a secondary monitor using the Classic UI interface could have resulted in the skin's buttons remaining visible in fullscreen mode.

- Trying to play a network shared path over 260 characters would fail if the "Do not check if a file exists when adding to the playlist" setting was disabled (the file exist check did not function with the long network path).

- The DirectShow Zoom function did not zoom into the mouse cursor position accurately when used from the mouse wheel in windowed mode.
- The keyboard shortcut listing dialog did not adjust itself properly for higher DPI displays, forcing you to manually resize the window to see the content properly.

- The keyboard layout editor's key-edit dialog now appears centered over the the keyboard layout editor's window, fixes an issue where the ok/cancel buttons were partially truncated on a high DPI monitor and makes more space for translations.

- The "Clicking the video area with another app active only takes focus" setting did not work when the control overlay was visible.

- Under some circumstances, the pop-up action OSD (Play/Pause/Volume/etc) text may have appeared cropped when using a language file.

- Two entries in the options dialog's "Help / Export" menu were not translated properly to other languages.

- The entries in the IPTV's menu were not translated properly to other languages.

- The entries in the IPTV's EPG Grid menu were not translated properly to other languages.

- The Media Library's category editor's right-click menu was not translated properly to other languages.

- One entry on the control bar's context menu was not translated properly to other languages.

- Under some conditions, the EPG Grid window could appear behind the IPTV window.

- Under some conditions, the IPTV Customization window could appear behind the IPTV window.

- Under some conditions, the IPTV EPG Grid's Customization window could appear behind the EPG Grid's window.

- You couldn't use the Shift+"O" keyboard shortcut to close the color control overlay interface.

- I'm not sure if it's an NVIDIA issue or Microsoft, but when using the EVR video renderer, the color control ranges for the Contrast value are reported incorrectly, causing the default widget not to appear centered and the lowest value not to apply correctly. I wrote a work- around to fix this issue.

- The cached meta-data editor window could appear in between the main user interface and the control overlay.

- Using the cached meta-data editor could result in duplicate personal note and personal rating values added into the cache file.

Download Zoom Player 21.3

https://www.videohelp.com/download/zp2130max.exe

[korn]

Latest version
21.4 (May 26, 2025)

What's new in Zoom Player v21.4:

New :

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) that determines whether to list collections alongside categories in the Media Server Browser (PLEX / Emby / Jellyfin).

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Media Server) that determines whether to list collections within categories in the Media Server Browser. This feature is limited to PLEX as it's the only media server that associates collections with a specific category.

* When creating a new category, the Media Server media library plugin will now list Emby/Jellyfin collections. Emby/Jellyfin collections are not locked to a specific type (e.g. movies/tv) so every collection is selectable, regardless of the category type you are creating. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.

* When creating a new category, the Media Server media library plugin will now list PLEX collections based on the category type you are creating. Unlike Emby/Jellyfin, PLEX locks collections to specific categories. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.

* The Media Server media library plugin now lists PLEX collections within categories. This feature can be disabled in the plugin's configuration page.
Changed :

+ The IPTV Setup wizard has been enhanced for clarity and includes new Information, Skip and Quit buttons.
+ When using the media server browser interface, going up a folder now restores the exact position of the list prior to entering the folder (the list's top index is now saved along with the item's index).

+ The MP4 and Matroska (MKV) smart play profiles have been split in two. Each format now has two smart play profiles, one for local file playback and one for streaming, allowing you to pick different components depending on whether you're playing a local file or streaming from a media server.

+ The Media Server Browser's pop-up hint that appears when hovering items is now a lot less annoying. The hint will only show when hovering over items that don't have enough space to display and instantly hides when hovering over other items.

+ Emby/Jellyfin collections are no longer listed as a "Collections" folder, this has been replaced with the collection setting above.

+ Updated MediaInfo to the latest version.

+ Small quality of life enhancements throughout the UI.
Fixed :

- When moving Zoom Player's window between monitors should no longer pause or snap the window back to the original monitor.

- Zoom Player will no longer adjust the minimal window size based on your monitor's resolution as it broke some features. This does mean there can be some visual artifacts as the control overlay gradient backgrounds may overlap each other if the playback window is tiny.

- Right-clicking a media library entry did not select the entry unless it was in a TV or Movie category.

- Fixed a case where another Zoom Player window could appear between the main player window and the control overlay.

- The Home Theater quick search feature was partially broken.

- The quick search feature now works on with both media file/url or title in the play history Home Theater interface.

- When using the YouTube IFRAME player with the Chromium engine it was possible that seeking ahead/back multiple times in a row in under 250ms would seek in place.

- The trial version of Zoom Player MAX/IPTV no longer asks you to upgrade on first run.

Download Zoom Player 21.4

https://www.videohelp.com/download/zp2140max.exe

[korn]

Latest version

21.4 / 21.5 RC1 (July 7, 2025)

What's new in Zoom Player MAX v21.5 release candidate 1:

New :

* 18 new functions added to the control overlay button options:

01. Play previous video in the same folder as the playing video
02. Play next video in the same folder as the playing video
03. Play previous media with the same file extension in the same folder
04. Play next media with the same file extension in the same folder
05. Fast Play by user specified value
06. Delete currently playing media
07. Increase play rate by user specified value
08. Decrease play rate by user specified value
09. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Left
10. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Right
11. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Up
12. DirectShow-Zoom Pan Down
13. Audio Synchronize ahead by user specified value
14. Audio Synchronize back by user specified value
15. Subtitle Synchronize ahead by user specified value
16. Subtitle Synchronize back by user specified value
17. Increase Volume by user specified value
18. Decrease Volume by user specified value

Since the available buttons now stands at 88, I've added a filtering
option to make it easier to find the button you're looking for.

* Color Control support is now available when using MPC-VR as the
video renderer.

* Added a new JSON post-processing cache mechanism when using the IPTV
Player API. The practical application is that Zoom Player opens the IPTV
window faster when closing and reopening Zoom Player several times in the
same IPTV database update period (by default, once per day).

* The IPTV EPG Grid view has been visually enhanced with gradient shading of
Streams and Programs. Of course, I made the gradient colors fully
customizable through the EPG Grid's "Customize" menu option.

* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Mouse / Settings) that determines
whether the mouse cursor hides automatically when the player window is
maximized. Enabled by default.

* New Settings (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay) to pick the color
and opacity of timeline highlighting features (e.g. AB Repeat).

* The "exInterface" extended function has been enhanced with new parameters:
15 = Show Control Overlay
16 = Hide Control Overlay
17 = Show Color Control Overlay
18 = Hide Color Control Overlay
19 = Show IPTV stream selection window
20 = Hide IPTV stream selection window
21 = Show Media Server browser window
22 = Hide Media Server browser window

* Zoom Player's error dialog is no longer skinned and has been rewritten
to use a modern overlay style. Should be easier to read, especially when
compared to the skinned version on bright skins (e.g. Alba).

* Zoom Player's "Please wait" dialog is no longer skinned and has been
rewritten to use an modern overlay style.

* New "Tab" (nvTab) navigation function.

The Tab button can now be used to:
1. Switch the main home theater interface between home theater interface
selection and system functions.
2. Switch the media library home theater interface to function mode
and back to the media list.
3. Switch the file browsing home theater interface to function mode
and back to the file list.
4. Switch the play list home theater interface to function mode
and back to the media list.
5. Switch the play history home theater interface to function mode
and back to the media list.
6. Switch the favorites home theater interface to function mode
and back to the media list.
7. Switch the streaming audio home theater interface to function mode
and back to the media list.
8. Switch the active button on the error dialog window.

If you are using a custom keyboard layout, you may want to add this line
to your key file:
nvAddKey(None,9,nvTab)

* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0300" message that
returns the current skin mode. The skin mode is a 32bit value with each
bit indicating whether a skin group section is active.

* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0310" message that
returns the current Media mode skin file.

* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0320" message that
returns the current DVD mode skin file.

* Zoom Player's TCP/IP has been extended with a new "0330" message that
returns the current Audio mode skin file.
Changed :

+ The AB Repeat feature's active range is now visible on the control overlay
timeline area.

+ The "Refresh" button on the IPTV player window can now be used to force
a refresh of the IPTV playlist/EPG databases for either the selected
playlist entry or All playlist entries without having to open the
advanced options dialog.

+ Playing media from a media server (PLEX / Emby / Jellyfin) that includes
multiple versions of the same media will now add all versions to the
playlist, allowing you to switch between versions using the "next track"
feature.

+ The Media Server Browser now remembers the list's "Top Index" when
closing and re-opening the browser window, restoring the exact
scroll bar position of the selected item within the list.

+ Opening the "Chapter Editor / Go to" dialog using the "G" keyboard shortcut
now opens with the "Go to" entry box active and available for immediate
input. Opening the same dialog with the Shift+"C" keyboard shortcut opens
the dialog with the Chapter name entry box active.

+ Dragging the Color Control Overlay's color bars now shows the active value
as you drag the mouse cursor over a color bar.

+ Switching between Modern and Classic user interface modes now tries to
remember the currently active skin in Classic mode.

+ Zoom Player's function picker dialog now uses a filtering feature
instead of search as it makes it much easier to find functions. The
function picker is used in several places throughout Zoom Player's
user interface, including the keyboard layout editor and picking
custom mouse button functions.

+ When using multiple attempts to connect to a streaming server, the
"Please Wait" window now shows a "Connecting (2/3)" type messages
to provide better feedback on the current connection status.
Fixed :

- Fixed an issue where the playlist editor and equalizer windows could pop
to the front of other applications when a new media is loaded and
Zoom Player is in the running in the background.

- There were some cases when trying to use the media library category editor
to add a YouTube channel where channel URLs using "@[username]" were not
identified correctly and other channels were added instead.

- Using the media library category editor failed to add a YouTube channel
where the channel's URL contained extra information after the channel's
identifier (e.g. "https://youtube.com/@zptechnology?si=LsHK4XZ6ngCgLcXE").

- In the advanced options dialog, the ability to set custom functions for
the keyboard's "Space" and "Arrow" functions (left/right/up/down) was
broken with the custom entry fields remaining disabled.

- Switching to audio mode when using MPC-VR as the video renderer did not
hide the video window causing cosmetic issues with the audio mode skin.

- There was a slight lag updating the timeline's current position when
loading a media with a previously saved position.

- Favorites added from the media server's media library plugin are now
playable. If you previously added favorites from a media library
category using the media server plugin, you will have to add them again.

- Trying to play a media from either an Emby or Jellyfin server failed
if the media had multiple versions (encodings).

- The "Show/Hide the Home Theater's Web Browser interface" feature was
broken, triggering an empty screen or crash.

- The advanced options dialog's playlist Customization page was accidentally
labeled as "Playlist".

- Resetting the control overlay's default style did not reset the opacity
level of the timeline chapter marks to its correct 50% default value.

- The were cases where the error dialog could appear behind other,
open windows.

Download Zoom Player 21.5 RC1

https://dl.zoomplayer.com/zp2150rc1max.exe

[korn]

21.5.1 (August 4, 2025)

What's new, changed and fixed:
Changed :

+ I changed how the trial version works by removing the view time limits entirely. Zoom Player is now limited to running for 20 days after a fresh install, letting you know how many days remain on each run.

+ Optimized the IPTV M3U parsing and overall load time by 20-50% depending on the playlist size.

+ The IPTV window should open faster when using playlists with 1000's of different groups.

+ I've enhanced the keyboard shortcut help dialog (Press "F1" to show) to allow filtering of the keyboard shortcut list, making it much easier and faster to find what you're looking for.

+ Closing and re-opening the IPTV window after playing an archive (catchup) program restores the currently playing program into view.

+ Small enhancements to Zoom Player's Install Center experience, making it easier to cancel downloads and showing clearer messaging.

+ The OSD time/date display (Alt+Ctrl+"D" keyboard shortcut) will now switch automatically between the 12H AM/PM and 24H time formats based on the Windows setting which you can easily change in Windows regional settings.
Fixed :

- Using the "MPC Audio Renderer" component as the audio renderer could have triggered a freeze if no audio devices were actually installed on the PC.

- Playing an IPTV stream containing Unicode characters in the name could have resulted in "????" characters displaying as the title.

- Even though the IPTV's fix Player API encoding setting was disabled, it still got applied in some cases, causing properly encoded non- English characters and Emoji to appear as question marks.

- Fixed a bug where if the playlist or equalizer windows were open, clicking on another application would send Zoom Player to the back of all currently opened windows applications or mess with the magnetize state.

- Fixed a case where pressing the play button on Modern UI with the playlist window visible could cause the Modern UI overlay to disappear behind the player window, making it inaccessible until hidden by timeout or triggered through a keyboard shortcut.

- In trial mode, the "please upgrade" window could appear in a different monitor than the player window.

Download Zoom Player 21.5.1

https://www.videohelp.com/download/zp2151max.exe

[korn]

21.5.1 / 22 Beta 3 (October 29, 2025)

* New feature on the right-click menu of the Video Streaming window
to open streams/favorites in a new instance.

* New feature on the Video Streaming window to open previously played
streams in a new player instance.

* To make it easier to mobilize Video Streaming subscription across
devices, I've added a new feature (Adv. Options / Playback / Video
Streaming) to Disable or Enable Video Streaming subscriptions.

Disabled subscriptions will not show up in the Video Streaming
Windowed or Home Theater interfaces and automated/manual databases
updates will remain paused until the subscription is re-enabled.

* Added the option to show the current time on the control overlay's
timeline area (Adv. Options / Interface / Control Overlay). The new
letter to show the current time in either of the left/center/right
screen zones is "M".
Changed :

+ When using the Video Streaming Window in "Player API" subscription
mode, clicking on VOD entries will now show a visual "Loading ..."
indicator in the EPG panel to make it clearer that information is
being downloaded.

+ The Control Overlay's timeline can now be used to seek in sub-second
values. Mostly noticeable on short videos.
Fixed :

- Fixed several stability issues related to the Video Streaming window.

- Fixed a case when using the control overlay interface to open a window
(e.g. The playlist editor) would cause the control overlay to become
hidden behind the video window.

- Trying to play an archive (catchup) program from a favorite stream
stopped working in v22 beta 2, showing the live stream instead.

- The "Adv. Options / Playback / Video Streaming" setting for "Playing
a stream clears the playlist" did not function with the playlist
still being cleared with this setting unchecked.

- Showed the wrong Video Streaming window's EPG selected entry
background color for VOD entries.

- Showed the wrong duration for some Video Streaming "Player API"
VOD entries.

- Video Streaming "Player API" subscription VOD entries could show
"null" instead of no text at times where the provider did not include
certain texts such as Title and Plot.

- Closing the Video Streaming Window as stream icons/posters were queued
for download/decoding prevented the icons/posters from being downloaded/
decoded when reopening the window.

- Due to a bug in character encoding, it was impossible to login to
Emby/Jellyfin media servers when using a username or password
containing certain characters.

- The internal screen saver did not activate when hovering with the
mouse cursor over the control bar's timeline area.

- Zoom Player's internal screen saver should now show the time in the
Windows selected regional format (24h/12h).

- Fixed a bug that prevented the timeline thumbnail preview from working
when the preview thumbnail and playing video shared the same resolution.

- Zoom Player's error dialog (in red) did not have a minimum size
limit, causing it to break if the error message was too short.
It also flickered when hovering over the buttons and the buttons
themselves were triggered on mouse "down" instead of "click",
making the dialog less intuitive.

Download Zoom Player 22 Beta 3

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