Question for fellow Zoomplayer users...

[Freedom Kira]

Recently I've noticed something interesting with softsubbed karaoke rendering in Zoomplayer. It doesn't seem to matter which computer I use.

I have Zoomplayer version 7 installed on my laptop (Windows 7 Pro, Core 2 Duo P8400, 3GB RAM, 240GB SSD), which I recently upgraded the HDD for. It's two years old. I have version 6 installed on two other computers and my netbook, which can't really handle 720p playback but still has the same problem when I try. When I go to play a 720p video (Oreimo), the karaoke renders but the text filler effect doesn't work. It just fills the line arbitrarily and leaves it at that. If the line stays on screen long enough, it might do two arbitrary line fills.

If that didn't make enough sense, basically it would look like you're singing the same syllable for the entire time the line is on screen.

I recently watched through the 1080p version of Nanoha the Movie 1st on this laptop with no playback problems, aside from the subtitles in there acting the same way, and one small lag during a transformation scene. So, this shouldn't be a hardware limitation problem. All the installations run the latest version of all the codecs recognized by the install center (except one computer might be outdated).

Anyone else have this problem?

[RedSuisei]

I don't use Zoomplayer, but MPC-HC internal subtitle renderer and DirectVobSub have an option to 'Pre-buffer subpictures' (or something along those lines, I forgot what it's actually called) which causes softsubbed karaoke to 'freeze' like that. You might want to look around in your Zoomplayer's subtitle options if there's any similar option and disable it.

[Freedom Kira]

I don't recall seeing an option like that, but I will take a look later.

[RedSuisei]

I just tried installing Zoomplayer (lol serious support  ), and it uses DirectVobSub to render subtitle, so you should change the option for DirectVobSub instead. You can do it by playing any video, pause, right click->Filters Properties->DirectVobSub, go to Misc tab then untick Pre-buffer subpictures.

While we're on topic on Zoomplayer, why doesn't it resize the window to video size when I play something? It just keeps the window size when it was opened, unless I manually resize/fullscreen it. Maybe you know how to make it resize to video size?

[Freedom Kira]

Heh, thanks for that. I like Zoomplayer over MPC because it seems to run more smoothly and lightly. Anyway, I will give that a shot when I get home.

There is probably an option somewhere for auto resize, but I always watch fullscreen anyway. It's not the proper method, but I hit M(aximize). Then I hit Z(oom) and then M again. The first M can be skipped, of course. I don't mind hitting two or three keys every time I start it up, and it auto-plays the next video in sequence so you don't have to go open the next video. Pretty nifty.
IIRC hitting the 0 (zero) key will resize the image to its native resolution. Scrolling up or down will zoom in or out, but I can't remember which is which.

BTW, Zoomplayer never truly enters maximized window mode (you know, that middle button of the three in the top right corner). The window is always draggable.

Edit: Awesome, it works! Now to change the settings on the other computers too...

[Freedom Kira]

(Double-post to bump)

While we're on topic on Zoomplayer, why doesn't it resize the window to video size when I play something? It just keeps the window size when it was opened, unless I manually resize/fullscreen it. Maybe you know how to make it resize to video size?

I was just playing around with the settings page and suddenly came across this option, and was reminded of your question a couple months ago. Dunno if you still care, but...
Right-click the player's main screen and enter Options. Under Interface (the main one, not a sub-option), there's a checklist of options to the right. In version 6, option number 4 is "auto-size the user interface to match the Source Video resolution." I haven't tested this, though.

Well anyway, even if you don't care, it's here for those who do. =)

[SupraGuy]

Haven't used zoomplayer in a while.

I know that there's an option to resize the screen on a file open. Can't remember where it is, but I looked until I found it, 'cause it bugged me. There's also an option to always start in full screen.

If you haven't got enough CPU, then something gets left out, whatever takes the most CPU, usually. Text effects actually are fairly intensive... I found that a lot of problems went away with MPC-HC after installing a better codec. The DivX codec for H.264 solved a lot of them, but it doesn't seem to handle ordered chapters worth crap. Installing CoreAVC solved that for me. I'd bet that Zoomplayer would work just fine for me with that codec pack. (I still have it installed on one machine, which is the one that has all the preferences exactly the way I like 'em.)

[Freedom Kira]

(Issue was resolved about 2.5 months ago - I just bumped it to address a related question that went unanswered until I came across the solution, which seems to be what you were trying to answer too)