Zoom Player Home FREE 8.6 Beta 4 is a media player which will let you can start exploring the most powerful media player for the Windows PC.

Major Features:

1. No bloat, intuitive interface with a user-friendly design.
2. Install Center application, capable of detecting and securely installing up-to-date decoders and missing system components to improve stability and versatility.
3. Windows 7 Integration (Task-Bar position coloring, customizable right-click functions, etc).
4. Media Center navigation interfaces with easy to use (Up/Down/Left/Right/Select) controls.
5. 10-Band Equalizer with Digital PreAmp and Presets.
6. DVD Playback from Disc, Hard Drive or network connection.
7. Remember/Resume from last media position.
8. Quickly jump between multiple saved positions using media Chapters (or DVD Bookmarks).
9. Go-To Interface to quickly and accurately seek into any position within a media file.
10. Play History (Date, Last played position, Volume level and more).
11. Automatically Extract & Play Archived (zip/rar/7z/etc) content.
12. Video Post-Processing (DeInterlacing, Sharpening, etc).
13. Play incomplete AVI files.
14. Play files locked by third party programs.
15. Powerful, category based Media Library interface.
16. Automatically play multi-part media files.
17. AB-Repeat (Repeat a section of the playing media in a loop).
18. Choose from Multiple DVD Audio & Video decoders for improved compatibility and reliability.
19. Smart DVD Bookmarking tool, including auto-loading bookmarks.
20. Auto-Remember DVD position per-disc (each DVD's position saved separately).
21. Multiple DVD play speeds with adjustable speed values.
22. Preferred DVD language selection (Audio, Video, Subtitle and DVD Menus).
23. Auto-Save definition file per-disc (remember Aspect Ratio Video Position, Color Values, etc).
24. External DVD Subtitle Support (Use subtitles from an external file).
25. Temporarily disable Auto-Play to prevent other programs from popping up when a DVD disc is inserted.
26. DVD, Media, Audio and Media Center navigation skins.
27. Advanced media format support (multiple language tracks, subtitles and chaptering in AVI, OGM, MKV and more).
28. Integration with Windows VISTA's Media Library folders (auto-mapped to Zoom Player's media library).
29. Start player window locked to Fullscreen mode (Hide the fact that your computer is your media center backend).
30. DXVA (hardware assisted) decoding with H.264 and VC1 video formats.
31. High Quality Icon library containing extension-specific system icons (used when the Player is associated with a file format).
32. Mouse Wheel Tilt (left/right) support with user selected functions (Windows VISTA or newer).
33. Automatically load and display embedded/external background images when playing audio files (APE/FLAC/ID3/etc).
34. Fullscreen Virtual Keyboard (used for renaming files from the fullscreen interfaces and elsewhere where appropriate).
35. Extensive Playlist support ZPL/B4S/M3U/WPL (including native Unicode and UTF8 file names).
36. Smart Play support (Faster loading files, no decoder conflicts and smoother playback on less powerful computers).
37. Microsoft 'MMS' Audio/Video Streaming.
38. SHOUTcast Radio streaming
39. Definition system which saves and restores information on the playing media (Aspect Ratio/Color Values/etc).
40. Easy access to popular filter interfaces such as XVID/H.264 dialogs, DirectVobSub language selection, etc.
41. Fast Play support for most media formats (as long as your CPU can handle the extra load).
42. Fast Forward and Rewind support with all media formats.
43. User-Specified accelerated list scrolling speed (for large playlists and other content).
44. Quick 'starting with' or 'containing' keyboard searches of large lists.
45. Enhanced 'On Playlist Complete' setting, allowing control over what actions are taken when playback ends.
46. Auto-Aspect ratio compensation for badly encoded 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (fullscreen) content
47. ID3, APE, FLAC and WMA Tag information visualization.
48. 4 Level Zoom-In Toggle (16.6%, 13.3%, 50%, 100%).
49. Windows Media Format 9 High Resolution Multi-Channel Audio Rendering.
50. Auto-Play Media CD/USB/External drives.
51. Bicubic, smooth scaled image slideshows.
52. Easily associate any file format, including an icon navigation interface that allows you to easily decide which icon is used.
53. Play random trailers before or after your Movies.
54. Multilingual (Translated into multiple languages) with Unicode 16bit Character support.
55. Basic and Advanced options dialog, making Zoom Player easy for new users while giving ultimate flexibility to power users.
56. Mute audio while seeking.
57. Automatic Skin-Mode Switching depending on type of content played (DVD/Media/Audio).
58. Dynamic skinning engine with full support for color-tinting.
59. 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.
60. Easy control of Video Size and Positioning while in fullscreen, allowing you to position the video anywhere and at any size on screen.
61. Fully keyboard mapped features and dialogs, covering every function used by the player (useful with Remote Control, keyboard devices and HTPC systems).
62. 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).
63. Advanced mouse controls with customizable functions, including a wide array of mouse-wheel supported features (extremely useful with HTPC systems).
64. Custom Video Position, Aspect Ratios, Color Control and Image Blanking presets.
65. Dynamic Control Bar, providing easy navigation while in full screen mode, complete with user-selected on-bar functions.
66. Detachable Control Bar, allowing you to easily control player functionality from a secondary monitor.
67. 3 x Speed seeking (short/medium/long) with customizable speeds for quickly seeking forward/backward within the playing media.
68. Extensive command line support.
69. Override the system-default Audio Output device and assign output to any other audio device on the system.
70. Support for legacy and cutting-edge Video Rendering technologies (Overlay, VMR7, VMR9, EVR, Haali, MadVR and Custom).
71. User specified registry location, supporting multiple running copies of the player using different configuration profiles.
72. Web URL Navigation system, allowing you to associate DVD and Media files with a URL or local information file.
73. Fully Multi-Monitor compliant with powerful multi-monitor features.
74. Multiple Skin-Modes within a single skin (default/small/minmalistic/frame-only/etc).
75. Docking user interface elements to Window Borders and Advanced Magnetic Docking capabilities.
76. Translucent user interface (Requires Windows Vista or newer with the Aero interface enabled).
77. DVB Support using DCoder's DC-DVB filter, including tuning and time shifting.
78. Change screen resolution when going into fullscreen and restore when leaving fullscreen.
79. Screenshot support in JPG, PNG and BMP formats.
80. Shortcut File Parsing for easy redirection of DVD and Media content from a centralized location.
81. Multiple Customizable Context Menus with extensive support for both DVD and Media modes.
82. Blanking feature used to cover up non-black area of encoded Video (useful when playing widescreen DVDs or badly encoded media files).
83. Girder Command file export for maximum control through a remote device and System Automation.
84. Full support for GraphEdit ".GRF" files.
85. Backward and Forward compatible with most versions of windows (including Windows Vista and Windows 7).