Announcing Zoom Player 6.00 release candidate 3, A little but steady Options

[Blight]

We originally planned to release this last month but a few long-standing issues were finally resolved and we had to do some internal testing to see that everything was as stable as possible.

This version of Zoom Player is incompatible with v5.5/6.0 betas (except 6.0 RC2) that were installed in "Standard" mode (legacy mode installations are unaffected). If you've used a previous installation, it is recommended that you uninstall prior to installing this version.

If you do not wish to uninstall, you'll have to manually erase the following folder (from an admin account):
"%AppData%\Zoom Player"

Download:
v6.00 release candidate 3

Navigation interfaces (if you're not using the default drapes interface, you need to update):
Drapes Widescreen :: Drapes for Tablet devices :: Blue Chill :: Bill Chill for Tablet devices :: Charcoal :: Charcoal Widescreen :: Ivory :: Ivory Widescreen :: Mercury :: Onyx :: LCARS]


Changes from 6.00 RC2 :

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  * New "/Browse" command line parameter instructing Zoom Player to open
    the specified web address in its internal web browser.  This command line
    works even if Zoom Player is already running.

    Example:
    zplayer.exe /browse:http://www.inmatrix.com

  * New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display) allowing you
    to select custom DVD & Media background images.

  * Added support for the PowerDVD v8 MPEG2 video decoder.

  * New CommAPI message 1860 allowing you to pass a web address (URL) for
    Zoom Player to open.

  + Dropping items into the playlist now drops the items at the mouse
    cursor position in the playlist.

  + Updated description of video renderers.

  + When opening the options dialog on a monitor with resolution too low
    to display the entire dialog, the dialog will now cover more of the
    screen area.

  + Enabling/Disabling the DVD & Media Background images has moved to
    "Adv. Options / Interface / On Screen Display"

  - The external command to "Enqueue/Play with" Zoom Player has been
    moved to a shell extension under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, making it
    faster and more reliable.

  - The installer automatically sets legacy mode when running under
    Windows 95/98/ME.

  - A few more "divide by zero" bugs should be squashed with EVR.

  - Playing the next/previous file in the directory, or using similar
    functions such as playing the next/previous file of the same type
    in the directory didn't work with UNC paths (network paths).

  - Opening the media information dialog ("I") while fullscreen and
    then switching to windowed mode would incorrectly show the dialog.

  - When Stay On Top was enabled, the seek-to hint window would appear
    behind the main user interface window.

  - Erasing sub-directories in the file browsing navigation interface
    would fail under some circumstances.

  - Setting the control bar to be aligned with the top/bottom of
    the screen instead of the video area didn't work properly.

  - Fullscreen Navigation Safe Mode (File Browsing/Media Library
    navigation interfaces) got broken.

  - Using the "Play all files in this directory" function from the
    file browsing fullscreen navigation interface would crash.

  - Networked mapped drives didn't work well with the file browsing
    fullscreen navigation interface.

  - Playing a media file from one of the navigation interfaces no
    longer shows the media background image before playing the file.

  - Left over debug code broke the media library navigator if no
    drive D: existed on the system.

  - If transparent action OSD was enabled with OSD skinning enabled
    prior to installing v6.0 RC2, visual glitches could occur in the OSD.

  - Under some conditions, the TCP port would not become accessible.

  - Some Windows Media settings were not enabled in the preimum version.