Download Zoom Player 6.00 RC2

Inmatrix has released the second release candidate of Zoom Player 6.00. In the beginning of the development, this media player was still given 5.50 as a version number, but since the list of changes became so long, the developers decided to increase it to 6.0. Zoom Player is normally available in Standard, Professional and Premium flavours, which of course have different features and prices. The standard version is the only one that can be used free of charge and plays the most common formats. The Pro version can also be used to play DVDs and the Premium version (formerly WMV Professional) can also play DRM content. At the moment the free standard version is not available. Below you can see what has changed since the first release candidate:

Changes since version 6.00 RC1:

• You can now specify additional paths for the File Browser (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation). New paths appear as drives. You can add network shares (for example “//USER/Video/” and even local paths such as “C:\Media” creating instant shortcuts to important directories on your system.
• The Chapter editing interface has been modified with a chapter name history drop-down list and instead of a dialog opening up when adding a chapter, now you can just type in the chapter name (or pick from the drop-down history list) and press enter or click the add chapter button, making it easier to add chapters.
• New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) allowing you to lock filter/decoder configuration (property) pages to the main user interface (otherwise they appear as a floating window).
• New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) allowing you to select if Cut, Copy & Paste operations allow you to overwrite files.
• New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display / Fullscreen Navigation) allowing you to specify the minimum number of characters that appear when using Quick Search.
• New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / Video & Subtitles) allowing you to enable/disable Closed Captions support for media files.
• New Button (Adv. Options / Playback) allowing you to reset the Remember Last Position cache (and play history, which are the same thing).
• New “/SP:[n]” command line parameter allowing you to turn Smart Play ON/OFF. To turn Smart Play off use “/SP:0” to turn it on use “/SP:1”.
• New “” skin script dynamic variable that returns the current playing index.
• New “” skin script dynamic variable that returns the current playlist item count without adding the “file(s)” text to the returned value.
• New DVD profiles for the Convolver filter:
• The Main fullscreen navigational interface is now accessible directly through the right-click context menu.
• Support for the “.WAX” ,”.WVX”, “.WMX” playlist file extensions.
• Opening “mms://” addresses should now work a little better.
• When using the File Browsing and Media Library navigation interfaces, the Copy & Paste functions will now show an OSD message while moving files and a success/fail OSD message when the file operation completes.
• When opening the player with secondary windows open (playlist editor, equalizer, etc…) the keyboard focus did not remain on the main window.
• Real-Time Frame rate reporting on the information dialog should now work with Custom Video Renderers as long as they support the IQualProp interface.
• The “Add Chapter” function’s keyboard macro has been changed from “C” to Ctrl+Shift+”C”.
• Fixed List Index out of Bounds error when playing archived files.
• Switching between skin modes in the skin selection dialog would not update the available skin lists properly between modes.
• Using the play next file in the same directory should no longer flash the media background images between files. This fix also makes the images load faster.
• The Screen Orbiting feature did not accept values ​​properly.
• Setting a Playlist Font/Color override would return to the skin values ​​when switching skin modes.
• Disabling Skinning of the OSD Action pop-up and setting it to transparent didn’t work properly.
• The Skip to the next file in the playlist when an unplayable file is encountered function no longer skips to the next file if the entire playlist is unplayable. This fix prevents the playlist from looping in error messages forever.
• Improved Network path support for paths starting with “//”.
• Cosmetic glitch fixed in the advanced playlist control (buttons could overlap).
• Cosmetic glitch when drawing translucent scrollbar/path graphics within the fullscreen navigation interfaces that caused the scrollbar and path graphics to become less and less transparent over time.
• More cases of unsupported hardware color control are now detected by the color control navigational interface.
• Disabling the “‘Del’ key moves media files to the recycle bin (with confirmation)” setting would erroneously disable the erase function from working in the media library and file browsing navigation interfaces.
• Trying to play Audio CDs through the file browsing navigation interface would not play the file.
• EVR with Smart Play disabled should now work on Windows XP (with .NET v3 or newer installed).
• Various “Invalid Floating Pointer operation” EVR errors have been fixed.
• Opening the skin selection dialog with a navigation interface visible would not show the correct tint values ​​(it showed the skin’s tint values ​​rather than the navigation tint values).
• When the player was set to “Stay On Top”, some options dialog sub-menus would appear beneath the options dialog, making them inaccessible.
• When the player window would lose focus, the control bar stopped auto-hiding.
• The internal image decoder can now load images from network paths.

[break]The following downloads are available:
Zoom Player Professional 6.00 rc 2
Zoom Player Premium 6.00 rc 2[break]