Zoom Player supports several external components either through 3rd party programs and plug-ins or through DirectShow
filters. On this page you will be able to find links to resources that will improve your Zoom Player experience.
Media Setup
Learn how to cleanly configure your computer to run media files with the no issues. This article includes link to all
the components you may need to download for every media file to work properly on your system.
TV Overscan
All CRT TV sets are plagued by Overscan, reducing the visible screen area and cropping your video output. This article
explains how you can minimize overscan using Zoom Player and improve your TV viewing experience.
Doom9.org
This site is a great resource for the latest versions of a lot of the tools I will mention on this page,
if for some reason a link below doesn't function, try this site as a backup.
TV Tool
TV Tool is a program that allows you to optimize the CRT TV Output quality on NVIDIA based cards. The difference
is huge and if you own such a card, you should look into it.
Girder
Girder is a Powerful computer automation program with emphasis on PC:Remote-Control. It supports a wide array
of Remote Control hardware and profiles for many software. Zoom Player supports Girder by allowing
you to export the entire Zoom Player function-set into a Girder compatible file format.
DSP Worx Filters
This page contains link to several useful filters for DirectShow, including a DVB filter allowing you to watch
live DVB content inside Zoom Player (with Live-Pause).
ReClock
The purpose of ReClock is to get rid of jerky playback of AVI and MPEG material on a PC (or a PC connected to a TV). It's a DirectShow filter which is loaded in place of the default directsound audio renderer.
It provides a new reference clock that is locked to the video card hardware clock, in order to ensure that frames are played at the exact speed of what is expected by the video card vertical sync.
It also provides a frame rate adaptator for media files that do not match a multiple of the video card refresh rate (ex: playback of 23,976fps IVTC NTSC on a PAL TV).
Finally it is an audio renderer with hardware or software rate adaptation in real-time, multi-channel audio, and dynamic range compression capabilities.
Hipix HDTV Playback
This Zoom Player wrapper allows for Razor sharp, smooth DVD playback at full HD resolutions (720x480p, 1280x720p, 1360x768p, 1920x1080i).
using the HiPix HDTV card.