Zoom Player was originally conceived to fill a void in Multimedia playback. Prior to Zoom Player, playing media files on the PC was either overly simplistic for the Power User or overly cryptic to the common user.
Zoom Player is capable of playing all common media formats and quite a few of the not so common, including:
AVI, Matroska (MKV), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), OGG Movie (OGM), MPEG1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MusePack Audio (MPC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), Wave Audio (WAV), CD-Audio.
What's new:
* IMPORTANT! All VMR7/9 settings have changed. If you have previously selected VMR7/9 as your video renderer, make sure to re-select.
* IMPORTANT! Several key Microsoft features that involve the playback of WMV/WMA files have changed. It is required that you to re-install Windows Media Player 10. Even if you already have it installed or are not planning to use it as a player (Windows Media Player contains component that effect playback of all other players). You need at least version "10.00.00.3802" installed.
* New "White Wash" Pattern (Shift+"P"). White Wash is a mechanism that allows you to wash out the burn-in effect of Plasma Televisions. Prolonged use of Plasma televisions can sometime burn a signal onto the screen if left on for too long. Popular examples of this is when watching a lot of the same TV Channel and having the Station's Logo burned into the screen. When enabling white-wash, a white bar will move very slowly across your screen (one pixel every 10 seconds) which over a few hours should wash away any of the burn-in effects.
* New "Gradients" Pattern (Shift+"P"). Useful for seeing the color range of your display device.
* New Customized Media Profiles for Nero Digital filters, including H264 playback (using nero file-reader with FFDShow as the decoder).
* New Customized Media Profile for ".ms-dvr" files. For it to work, you must download the MS-DVR patch from the Microsoft Windows Update web site.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Setup / Customized) allowing you to specify the Video ColorSpace that the video renderer should try to connect at. This should be a relatively safe option as Zoom Player will try to fall back to the default ColorSpace connection if the specified mode doesn't connect.
... and much more!
Download: Zoom Player 4.10 beta 3
AVI, Matroska (MKV), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), OGG Movie (OGM), MPEG1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MusePack Audio (MPC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), Wave Audio (WAV), CD-Audio.
What's new:
* IMPORTANT! All VMR7/9 settings have changed. If you have previously selected VMR7/9 as your video renderer, make sure to re-select.
* IMPORTANT! Several key Microsoft features that involve the playback of WMV/WMA files have changed. It is required that you to re-install Windows Media Player 10. Even if you already have it installed or are not planning to use it as a player (Windows Media Player contains component that effect playback of all other players). You need at least version "10.00.00.3802" installed.
* New "White Wash" Pattern (Shift+"P"). White Wash is a mechanism that allows you to wash out the burn-in effect of Plasma Televisions. Prolonged use of Plasma televisions can sometime burn a signal onto the screen if left on for too long. Popular examples of this is when watching a lot of the same TV Channel and having the Station's Logo burned into the screen. When enabling white-wash, a white bar will move very slowly across your screen (one pixel every 10 seconds) which over a few hours should wash away any of the burn-in effects.
* New "Gradients" Pattern (Shift+"P"). Useful for seeing the color range of your display device.
* New Customized Media Profiles for Nero Digital filters, including H264 playback (using nero file-reader with FFDShow as the decoder).
* New Customized Media Profile for ".ms-dvr" files. For it to work, you must download the MS-DVR patch from the Microsoft Windows Update web site.
* New Setting (Advanced Options / DVD / DVD Setup / Customized) allowing you to specify the Video ColorSpace that the video renderer should try to connect at. This should be a relatively safe option as Zoom Player will try to fall back to the default ColorSpace connection if the specified mode doesn't connect.
... and much more!
Download: Zoom Player 4.10 beta 3
