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* Completely redesigned the Default Media and DVD skins. From this
version, the Default skin is now "Future Brownish". The previous
Default skin, now dubbed "Blue Plastic" is still available if
anyone feels the need to use it.* A new system for manually constructing DVD Graphs. This is for
advanced users only! You can enable it on the DVD Options tab
and control it through the zplayer.dvdgraph file.* Instead of relying on DirectX to work properly, you can now have
Zoom Player use manual settings to build a DVD graph for you.
I have included several presets for popular players which you
can select through the "Options->DVD Setup" dialog. This interface
can also automatically search and register/unregister the appropriate
filters for you.* You can now have the last DVD play position automatically saved
when playback is stopped or the player closed. When trying to
play the same disc again, you will be prompted if you desire
to resume playback at the last position. If an auto-load bookmark
was specified, you will be given a choice at which position to
resume. This dialog is disabled by default, but can be enabled
through the "Options->DVD Options" dialog.* You should now be able to use DVD IFO files in play lists. Although
once the DVD IFO file is loaded, you will no longer be able to use
the rest of the play list. This is useful if you to make a play list
with an intro video before the DVD is launched.* The volume control now allows for up to 50 different settings using
either the keyboard or the user interface (compared to 8 setting
in previous versions).* A new graphical on-screen interface for setting the Overlay Color
Controls. You can access it either through the Right-Click context
menu, or by pressing Shift+"O".* New function and keyboard macro to Apply the Overlay Color control
setting (F12). And to Reset the Overlay Color control (F11).* In some cases, the Overlay Color Control setting may be lost due to
driver issues. In such cases you may want to enable the
"Brute-Force Overlay Color Controls every second" setting which can
be found under "Options->DVD Settings". This only applies to DVD
playback.* New functions to Increase/Decrease all the Overlay Color Controls
(Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Saturation). These are also
keyboard mapped to F5 -> F9 with Alt/Ctrl controlling weather the
value is increased/decreased. You can also choose weather these
functions pop the Overlay Control interface.* You can now save the Overlay Color Control settings to a
definition file. This is saved by default. If you want to disable
this information from saving, see the zplayer.zdf file.* New DVD Disc Definition File. It's similar to the File Definition
file used for Media files. It has a constant name ("disc.df") and
it resides in the disc's bookmark directory. This setting is disabled
by default and you have to enable it in the "Options->DVD Options"
dialog. By default the Overlay Color Controls, the Aspect Ratio
and the Video Positions are saved. However, like the standard
definition files used for Media content, you can also set it
to save registry data, which may be useful for a per-disc decoder
filter data for each movie. For more information, open the
"zplayer.zdf" file in any text editor.* The "Save Definition File" macro now works for DVD Discs (although
not really required since it can be auto-saved on stop).* You can now decide if the Right-Click Context Menu appears in
either one or two (default) columns. This is accessible through
the "Options->Toggles" dialog. Please note that at one column, you
need to be at least at 1024x768 in order to have it fit the screen,
otherwise you'll be forced to scroll.* A new system for external control of the player through Window
messages, see "keys.txt" for more details.* You can now Drag & Drop whole directories onto the player or
play list.* In DVD Mode, the Rate Bar now works as Rewind/Fast Forward instead
of Slow Motion/Fast Forward.* You can now assign the Mouse Wheel to control the Play Rate.
In Media Mode it controls Slow Motion/Fast Forward and in
DVD mode, it controls Rewind/Fast Forward.* You can now assign the Mouse Wheel to Frame Advance/Rewind.
* While this could have been done through a command line, some of
you have requested that you could start Zoom Player directly in
Zoom Mode. This can now be done on the "Options->Settings" dialog.* You can now force the control bar to remain on-screen even when
the video is scaled beyond the screen boundaries.* You can no longer move the OSD off-screen by zooming the video.
* New "Unpause" or "Discrete Play" function/macro ("U" on keyboard).
It acts the same as the standard Play function except that it
only plays and never pauses the video.* The Next/Previous chapter functions now display the chapter
name on the OSD in Media mode.* The Next/Previous chapter functions now display the chapter
number on the OSD in DVD mode.* You can now disable PopUp hints from showing on GUI Buttons.
* Added support for Transparent User-Interface Buttons in the
skinning script.* You can now assign PopUp hints to Control Bar buttons through
the skinning script. This is optional of course.* Script commands can now take "()" chars as string values.
* The Maximize button when used in Window mode now acts more
like the standard Windows Maximized function.* New functions and keyboard macros to cover the rest of the
DVD Menu selection (Subtitle,Audio,Chapter,Angle).* New keyboard macro for the Eject function, The "/" char.
* Added a "Context Help" button to the Options dialog which
should make it easier to locate information pertaining to
the various options settings.* The overlay color controls are now applied every chapter
for DVD output. Hopefully this will assure they are applied
consistently throughout the movie.* When the overlay mixer filter is enabled through a filters
file, SVCD Aspect Ratio should now work properly even with
decoder filters which in the past didn't cooperate.* Bookmarks directory for hard disk play now get their directory
name from the directory name above the VIDEO_TS structure.
If the VIDEO_TS directory structure resides in the root directory
within the drive, then the drive's volume label will be used.* The Increase/Decrease Play Rate functions were broken.
* Fixed a small memory leak when adding new directories to a
play list.* Fixed a possible stability bug when the default skin was used.
* Chapter frame numbers no longer have to have leading zeros
in order to be sorted in order.
