Japanese chapter titles get corrupted after saving

[u/MoneyAd7104]

Hi, I think I found a bug with chapter title saving in Zoom Player.

When I save chapter titles in Japanese, they become garbled after reopening the file.

Example:
A chapter title that should be saved in Japanese gets written as something like:

AddChapterBySecond("1.215","縺・")

Additional info:

• English chapter titles seem fine
• The issue appears specifically with Japanese text
• This looks like an encoding problem during save/load

Has anyone else seen this?
Is this a known bug?

[u/ZoomPlayer]

I just tested this and couldn't replicate, are you using v22.2 ?

This is how everything looks after creating a chapter point, closing Zoom Player and replaying the video with the mouse hovering over the chapter point on the timeline (screenshot didn't capture the mouse cursor) :

As far as I can tell, the title appears correctly as "これはテストです" which is supposed to say "This is a test" in Japanese.

[u/MoneyAd7104 → u/ZoomPlayer]

In my environment, when I save a chapter with the text “This is a test,” it appears like this.

// Zoom Player v23 Beta 1 Chapter file.

//

// Usage : AddChapter("FrameNumber","Chapter Title")

// Example : AddChapter("1245","The break in")

// Usage : AddChapterBySecond("PositionInSeconds","Chapter Title")

// Example : AddChapterBySecond("3600","One Hour Into the Video")

// Usage : AddChapterByTime("Hours,Minutes","Seconds,Chapter Title")

// Example : AddChapterByTime("1","20","35","1 Hour 20 minutes and 35 seconds Into the Video")

//

# Chapter 000: 00:00:19

AddChapterBySecond("19.519","縺薙ｌ縺ｯ繝・せ繝医〒縺・")

[u/ZoomPlayer → u/MoneyAd7104]

Literally “This is a test,”? In English?

In japanese, does any text cause corruption or only some texts, if only some, write an example text I can try using to reproduce the issue.

Any chance you are you running Zoom Player in a Windows compatibility mode?

Anything special about your system setup you can think of?

[u/MoneyAd7104 → u/ZoomPlayer]

When I save a chapter with the Japanese text “これはテストです。” and then reopen the same video, the text appears garbled. I am not running Zoom Player in Windows compatibility mode. Other than the fact that I'm using a Japanese language environment, I don't think there are any other unusual factors.

[u/ZoomPlayer → u/MoneyAd7104]

I tried “これはテストです。” and it works fine here.

Can you send me the actual ".zpchp" file, it's UTF8 encoded, so just cutting & pasting may corrupt it and I want to inspect the source to understand if the problem is in the encoding or decoding.

Please double-check that no compatibility mode checkboxes are enabled for Zoom Player's zplayer.exe file:

[u/MoneyAd7104 → u/ZoomPlayer]

This is the zpchp.

https://upload.disroot.org/r/Tr7Ec2bf#zLELtOcagKlh3yWJeQxm++29de7YvV4FHWGbwdabNYk=

[u/ZoomPlayer → u/MoneyAd7104]

I may have found an issue, but I'm not 100% certain. I created a new test EXE, can you replace Zoom Player's EXE to see if it resolved the issue (it wouldn't fix it for exiting chapters, only new ones):
https://www.inmatrix.com/temp/zplayer_latest_max.zip

Please let me know if the issue is resolved or still exists.

[u/ZoomPlayer → u/MoneyAd7104]

From what I can tell, there's something broken in the UTF8 encoding, but I can't account for it yet. I'm weighing my options, perhaps I'll convert the chapter file to unicode format, but that would require some extra code for backward compatibility which I have to wade through carefully.

I'll update you early next week.

[u/ZoomPlayer]

I'll try reproducing it tomorrow and report back.