Written by
Elena Opris on June 26th, 2012
Zoom Player MAX concentrates the power of Zoom Player Home and Zoom Player Professional in one product and on top of these combined features, adds impressive DVD playing capabilities.
The beauty of Zoom Player MAX is that it draws a fine line between files playable with DirectShow and DVD content, featuring two different modes for playing each of those. Switching between modes is done from the main window, via the right-click menu.
The general impression for Zoom Player MAX is of appreciation towards its straight-forward, yet user-friendly interface. It automatically adjusts the best color settings for your monitor, so once you have entered the application, you don't necessarily have to work its settings.
Speaking of image adjustments, Zoom allows you to configure contrast, brightness, hue, gamma, and others, but also see the changes in real-time. This is perfect when you are trying to make a slight modification to a video you're currently viewing.
When it comes to the video adjustments, you have the option of video sharpness, cropping, and rotation (at any angle), image modification, color fun (e.g. dividing a video into puzzle pieces), geometrical view and magnification, panoramic view, zooming in and out etc.
For example, some cameras record videos rotated at 90 degrees. With Zoom's rotation function, you can easily fix that. In addition, you can add logos, record video from a webcam, take snapshots (in JPG or PNG formats), customize the interface, and others.
Other features include playing Blu-Ray movies with subtitles, creating ringtones, scene cutting, video scaling and interactivity with HTML and Flash content.
These are just the essential highlights that Zoom Player MAX. Exploring all of its functions requires a huge amount of time, but the application pays off by providing an excellent media playing environment.
As a side note, Zoom Player MAX relies on a bunch of external filters to play a wide range of formats. Thus, users are required to provide it with third-party codecs in order to fully enjoy the media experience.
Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for
Zoom Player MAX 
Here are some key features of "Zoom Player MAX":
· Blu-Ray Decrypted Main-Movie Playback (with subtitles).
· 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", "/browse".
· Extended Command Lines "/func", "/exfunc", "/config", "/multinst", "/seek", "/datapath", "/winname".
· HTML Interactivity.
· Flash Interactivity.
· QuickTime Interactivity.
· Copy current play position to the clipboard.
· Advanced Smart Play controls (Create your own Smart Play profiles, select & configure filters, etc).
· Media Center navigation Safe Mode (hide dangerous functions from inexperienced users).
· Audio Re-Synchronization Adjustments.
· 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).
· 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/Subtitle media file stream selection.
· 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.
· 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 File Tracker (shows download progress within the Fullscreen Media Center navigation interfaces).
· Extended Command Lines "/lockfs", "/tcp".
· Create Contact Sheet (Image indexes).
· No bloat, intuitive interface with a user-friendly design.
· Install Center application, capable of detecting and securely installing up-to-date decoders and missing system components to improve stability and versatility.
· Windows 7 Integration (Task-Bar position coloring, customizable right-click functions, etc).
· Media Center navigation interfaces with easy to use (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select) controls.
· 10-Band Equalizer with Digital PreAmp and Presets.
· DVD Playback from Disc, Hard Drive or network connection.
· Remember/Resume from last media position.
· 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.
· Play History (Date, Last played position, Volume level and more).
· 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 interfaces.
· 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).
· 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 backend).
· DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding with H.264 and VC1 video formats.
· High Quality Icon library containing extension-specific system icons (used when the Player is associated with a file format).
· Mouse Wheel Tilt (left/right) support with user selected functions (Windows VISTA or newer).
· 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.
· 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
· ID3, APE, FLAC and WMA Tag information visualization.
· 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.
· 3 x Speed seeking (short/medium/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.
· Support for legacy and cutting-edge Video Rendering technologies (Overlay, VMR7, VMR9, EVR, Haali, MadVR and Custom).
· 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.
· Shortcut File Parsing for easy redirection of DVD and Media content from a centralized location.
· Multiple Customizable Context Menus with extensive support for both DVD and Media modes.
· 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 and Forward compatible with most versions of windows (including Windows Vista and Windows 7).
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New Smart Play profile for the FRAPS raw video capture format.
· The ".TSP" file extension was missing under the 'video' section in file browsing interfaces. You need to press the "Default" button in the options dialog (Adv. Options / File Format Association / File Extensions).
· An exploit that could cause arbitrary code execution when loading a specially crafted JPEG file has been fixed.
· Audio files with ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF8 did not display TAG info.
· The Audio Visualization feature did not work correctly with some Sonique visualization plugins.
· The "DefaultSettings.exe" application was not able reset Zoom Player to it's default settings under some circumstances.
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