GOTD Zoom Player Pro 10

[MilesAhead]

GOTD Zoom Player Pro 10:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoom-player-pro-10/#

One of the few giveaways where the thumbs up is over 50%.    I haven't used zoom much myself.  But from some of the user reviews it appears to have some unusual features.

[Curt]

The giveaway version is a MAX-Diet (Trademark belongs to me, "haha"):

FREE|Giveaway|MAX/STEAM | Feature Description
 
-  -  × Use XBOX 360 and compatible controllers as remote control with custom, user-assigned functionality.
- - × Early and frequent access to pre-release builds.
- - × Blu-Ray Decrypted Main-Movie Playback (with subtitles).
- - × Thumbnail preview when hovering with the mouse cursor over the timeline.
- - × Customizable Mouse Gestures.

- - × Display chapters/bookmarks position directly on the timeline.
- - × Media Scheduler with remote TCP/IP network based programming support.
- - × Automatically restore the previously active subtitle track on replay.
- - × Automatically restore the previously active audio track on replay.
- - × Use DirectShow filters directly from DLLs (without registering with OS).

- - × Remotely create and manage playlists without affecting current playback.
- - × Create Mobile-Phone RingTones from playing media.
- - × GuardDog (Auto-Restart if the player locks up).
- - × Scene-Cut Interface (Dynamic, Virtual Audio/Video editing).
- - × Video Wall (Span Videos across multiple monitors using the EVR Renderer).

- - × Non-Linear 16:9/4:3 video scaling using EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer).
- - × Support for Local Configuration file (easily run different configurations/instances on the same PC).
- - × Video Orbiting (Prevents screen-burns).
- - × Auto-Execute external programs Running/Closing the player.
- - × Extended Command Lines "/x", "/y", "/w", "/h", "/nCols", "/nRows", "/Col", "/Row".

- - × Extended Command Lines "/browse", "/func", "/exfunc", "/config", "/multinst", "/seek".
- - × Extended Command Lines "/datapath", "/winname", "/connecttcp", "/sharepath".
- - × HTML Interactivity.
- - × Flash Interactivity.
- - × QuickTime Interactivity.
- - × Copy current play position to the clipboard.



- × × Fullscreen media center navigation interface with easy to use controls for both Home Theater PCs (HTPC) and Tablets (or other touch devices).
- × × Advanced Smart Play controls (Create your own Smart Play profiles, select & configure custom decoders for each media format).
- × × Fullscreen media center navigation Safe Mode (hide dangerous functions from inexperienced users).
- × × Fullscreen media center navigation custom background image.

- × × Real-Time manual audio re-synchronization with optional initial synchronization value.
- × × Communication & Control API (TCP/IP, WinAPI's SendMessage or COM), supported by many 3rd party applications.
- × × Windows Media (WMV/WMA) DRM Support.
- × × Playlist Power Manager (enhanced search/playlist manipulation).
- × × Control Zoom Player through a Web Interface (web remote).

- × × Audio Visualizations (Sonique, Windows Media Player plugin support).
- × × Mouse Wheel Tilt (left/right) support with selectable functions (Windows VISTA or newer).
- × × Custom mouse click & scroll functions.
- × × Password protected options dialog, preventing other people using the computer from modifying your configuration.
- × × Blank Secondary Monitors (when switching to fullscreen or by calling a function).

- × × Automatic Audio and Subtitle media file stream selection.
- × × Play History (Remember Date, Audio/Subtitle Track, Restore previous playback position and more).
- × × Automatically restore volume level on replay with video files.
- × × Automatically restore volume level on replay with audio files.
- × × Share play history on a network path to resume playback from different machines.

- × × Lock the On Screen Display to a region of the screen.
- × × Auto-Execute external programs when a PAL/NTSC DVD disc is detected (prior to playing) and when the DVD playback is stopped.
- × × Map network paths into the File Browsing Media Center navigation interface.
- × × DVD Password Protected Parental Control.
- × × DVD Trailers interface allowing you to play trailers prior to starting the movie.

- × × Automatic Aspect Ratio, Video Size and Blanking depending on the DVD type (Fullscreen, Letterbox or Anamorphic).
- × × Reload & Replay media files as they are being saved.
- × × Closed Captions Support in Media Files.
- × × Use any DirectShow filter as a custom Video Renderer.
- × × Customize the functions assigned to keyboard navigation (up/down/left/right/enter & space keys).

- × × Override the playlist editor's font with custom fonts.
- × × Pattern Calibration System with White Wash Anti Burn-in mode.
- × × Enhanced Screen Saver controls (Computer generated backgrounds, image slideshows and power saving modes).
- × × Integrated eMule/uTorrent/qBittorrent file tracker (track download progress within the fullscreen navigation interfaces).
- × × Customize the background image visible when nothing is playing.

- × × Customize the background image used when playing audio when no folder image exists.
- × × Add custom functions to the Task-Bar right-click menu (Windows 7 or better).
- × × Extended Command Lines "/lockfs", "/tcp".
- × × Create Contact Sheet (Thumbnail index).
- × × Multiple Customizable Context Menus with extensive support for both DVD and Media modes.



× × × No bloat, intuitive interface with a user-friendly design.
× × × Install Center application, capable of detecting and securely installing up-to-date decoders, missing system components and language packs to improve stability and versatility.
× × × Support for legacy and cutting-edge Video Rendering technologies (Overlay, VMR7, VMR9, EVR, Haali, MadVR).
× × × Windows 7 (or better) Task-Bar position coloring.
× × × Windows 7 (or better) controls on the preview thumbnail (Mute, Play/Pause, Next/Previous Track).

× × × 10-Band Equalizer with Digital PreAmp and Presets.
× × × DVD Playback from Disc, Hard Drive or network connection.
× × × Quickly jump between multiple saved positions using media Chapters (or DVD Bookmarks).
× × × Go-To Interface to quickly and accurately seek into any position within a media file.
× × × Automatically Extract & Play Archived (zip/rar/7z/etc) content.

× × × Video Post-Processing (DeInterlacing, Sharpening, etc).
× × × Play incomplete AVI files.
× × × Play files locked by third party programs.
× × × Powerful, category based Media Library interface.
× × × Automatically play multi-part media files.

× × × AB-Repeat (Repeat a section of the playing media in a loop).
× × × Choose from Multiple DVD Audio & Video decoders for improved compatibility and reliability.
× × × Smart DVD Bookmarking tool, including auto-loading bookmarks.
× × × Auto-Remember DVD position per-disc (each DVD's position saved separately).
× × × Multiple DVD play speeds with adjustable speed values.

× × × Preferred DVD language selection (Audio, Video, Subtitle and DVD Menus).
× × × Auto-Save definition file per-disc (remember Aspect Ratio Video Position, Color Values, etc).
× × × External DVD Subtitle Support (Use subtitles from an external file).
× × × Temporarily disable Auto-Play to prevent other programs from popping up when a DVD disc is inserted.
× × × DVD, Media, Audio and Media Center navigation skins.

× × × Advanced media format support (multiple language tracks, subtitles and chaptering in AVI, OGM, MKV and more).
× × × High resolution subtitle rendering on low resolution video using xySubFilter and MadVR.
× × × Integration with Windows VISTA's Media Library folders (auto-mapped to Zoom Player's media library).
× × × Start player window locked to Fullscreen mode (Hide the fact that your computer is your media center back-end).
× × × DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding with H.264 and VC1 video formats.

× × × Integrated image viewer (JPG/PNG/BMP) with Zoom, Panning and image-rotation functionality.
× × × High Quality Icon library containing extension-specific system icons (used when the Player is associated with a file format).
× × × Mouse Gestures.
× × × Automatically load and display embedded/external background images when playing audio files (APE/FLAC/ID3/etc).
× × × Fullscreen Virtual Keyboard (used for renaming files from the fullscreen interfaces and elsewhere where appropriate).

× × × Extensive Playlist support ZPL/B4S/M3U/WPL (including native Unicode and UTF8 file names).
× × × Smart Play support (Faster loading files, no decoder conflicts and smoother playback on less powerful computers).
× × × Microsoft 'MMS' Audio/Video Streaming.
× × × Multi-Format video streaming of media files or live streams over HTTP.
× × × SHOUTcast Radio streaming

× × × Definition system which saves and restores information on the playing media (Aspect Ratio/Color Values/etc).
× × × Easy access to popular filter interfaces such as XVID/H.264 dialogs, DirectVobSub language selection, etc.
× × × Fast Play support for most media formats (as long as your CPU can handle the extra load).
× × × Fast Forward and Rewind support with all media formats.
× × × User-Specified accelerated list scrolling speed (for large playlists and other content).

× × × Quick 'starting with' or 'containing' keyboard searches of large lists.
× × × Enhanced 'On Playlist Complete' setting, allowing control over what actions are taken when playback ends.
× × × Auto-Aspect ratio compensation for badly encoded 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (fullscreen) content
× × × Manual-Aspect ratio adjustment
× × × ID3, APE, FLAC and WMA Tag information visualization.

× × × Virtual meta-data editor for both Audio and Video media files.
× × × 4 Level Zoom-In Toggle (16.6%, 13.3%, 50%, 100%).
× × × Windows Media Format 9 High Resolution Multi-Channel Audio Rendering.
× × × Auto-Play Media CD/USB/External drives.
× × × Bicubic, smooth scaled image slideshows.

× × × Easily associate any file format, including an icon navigation interface that allows you to easily decide which icon is used.
× × × Play random trailers before or after your Movies.
× × × Multilingual (Translated into multiple languages) with Unicode 16bit Character support.
× × × Basic and Advanced options dialog, making Zoom Player easy for new users while giving ultimate flexibility to power users.
× × × Mute audio while seeking.

× × × Automatic Skin-Mode Switching depending on type of content played (DVD/Media/Audio).
× × × Dynamic skinning engine with full support for color-tinting.
× × × Powerful Aspect Ratio controls, including support for non square pixels (Pixel Aspect Ratio), manual Fit-To-Specified-Area Aspect Ratio, Anamorphic Aspect Ratio and even a Custom user-specified ratio.
× × × Easy control of Video Size and Positioning while in fullscreen, allowing you to position the video anywhere and at any size on screen.
× × × Fully keyboard mapped features and dialogs, covering every function used by the player (useful with Remote Control, keyboard devices and HTPC systems).

× × × Programmable keyboard editor, including support for chaining multiple functions to one key and Global Hot-Keys (keys that work even when the player is not focused).
× × × Advanced mouse controls with customizable functions, including a wide array of mouse-wheel supported features (extremely useful with HTPC systems).
× × × Custom Video Position, Aspect Ratios, Color Control and Image Blanking presets.
× × × Dynamic Control Bar, providing easy navigation while in full screen mode, complete with user-selected on-bar functions.
× × × Detachable Control Bar, allowing you to easily control player functionality from a secondary monitor.

× × × 4xSpeed seeking (short/medium/long/very long) with customizable speeds for quickly seeking forward/backward within the playing media.
× × × Extensive command line support.
× × × Override the system-default Audio Output device and assign output to any other audio device on the system.
× × × User specified registry location, supporting multiple running copies of the player using different configuration profiles.
× × × Web URL Navigation system, allowing you to associate DVD and Media files with a URL or local information file.

× × × Fully Multi-Monitor compliant with powerful multi-monitor features.
× × × Multiple Skin-Modes within a single skin (default/small/minmalistic/frame-only/etc).
× × × Docking user interface elements to Window Borders and Advanced Magnetic Docking capabilities.
× × × Translucent user interface (Requires Windows Vista or newer with the Aero interface enabled).
× × × DVB Support using DCoder's DC-DVB filter, including tuning and time shifting.

× × × Change screen resolution when going into fullscreen and restore when leaving fullscreen.
× × × Screenshot support in JPG, PNG and BMP formats.
× × × LIRC Remote Control support.
× × × Shortcut File Parsing for easy redirection of DVD and Media content from a centralized location.
× × × Blanking feature used to cover up non-black area of encoded Video (useful when playing widescreen DVDs or badly encoded media files).

× × × Girder Command file export for maximum control through a remote device and System Automation.
× × × Full support for GraphEdit ".GRF" files.
× × × Backward (Windows 98) and Forward compatible with all versions of windows running on Intel processors.

[MilesAhead]

I don't know about Max Diet.  But I do know Zoom installed and activated.  I have less than an hour of WiFi time left so I'm not going to mess with it tonight.