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Zoomplayer On-Line Documentation

Chapters & Bookmarks

Zoom Player supports internal file chaptering. This means that you can create a chapter index file for each video file you wish to play that will contain Chapter points that you can seek to using the Previous/Next chapter buttons.

Creating chapters is relatively straight forward. Open a file, seek to a position and press on the "Add Current" button, this will add the current position into the chapter list.

Another way is to type a frame number into the "Frame #" field followed by pressing the "Add" button. This will add the exact frame position you specified into the list. You can also seek to this frame position by pressing the "Go to" button.

Pressing the "Save" button will then save the chapter list into a file with the same name as the open video file, but with a "CHP" extension. This file will be loaded automatically the next time you load this video file. When saving a chapter for a file currently on a read-only media (CD disc for example), the Chapter file will be saved within the Zoom Player directory instead (and will be loaded from there automatically when required).

This same interface is also used for DVD Bookmarks, however the file structure is a bit different. For each DVD disc you add bookmarks to, a directory will be created under the Zoom Player directory. The directory name consists of the disc's volume label and a unique 64bit disc identifier. Each bookmark is a file within the disc-specific directory.

You do not need to save DVD bookmarks, this is done transparently by Zoom Player. If all bookmarks are erased, the disc's directory will be removed automatically (as long as there aren't any other setting file in it).


For completeness, here is the file format used for the creation of Media (non-DVD) chapter files,

The Format:
Create a text file with the EXACT same name as the file you are playing, just with the extension "CHP". For example, if you are playing a file called "life is hard.avi", create a text file called "life is hard.chp".

You can use any text editor to create this file. If you don't have any better, you can use notepad.exe that comes with windows.

The actual format is very simple. All you need to do is use the following structure:
AddChapter(FrameNumber,ChapterTitle), or AddChapterBySecond(PositionInSecond,ChapterTitle), or AddChapterByTime(Hour,Minutes,Seconds,ChapterTitle), or

Any line within the chapter file beginning with "#" is considered a comment and is ignored.

Example File:

# This is a Zoom Player chapter file.
#
# Chapter 1:
AddChapter(0,Start of Video)
# Chapter 2:
AddChapterBySecond(1800,The Chase)
# Chapter 3:
AddChapterByTime(1,25,12,End Credits)
# and so forth ...
Make sure that the chapters are entered correctly, putting a lower figure on a higher chapter number may confuse the player.

 

Zoomplayer Scene Cut Editor

The Scene Cut Editor allows you to modify the way content is played.

You can manipulate it in the following ways:

  1. Cut:
    Dynamically remove segments of the time line so that these segments will cut be when encountered.
  2. Jump: Create Jump points which can jump anywhere within the time line, including backwards, this way re-editing the chronological playback order in any way you desire.
  3. Audio Mute: Mute the Audio for a specific duration.
  4. Hide Subtitle: DVD Only, Hide the DVD Subtitle for a specific duration.
Similar to the Chapter Editor, a file is kept for every DVD Disc and Media File with the ".cut" extension. If such a file is encountered it will be applied to the Disc/File.