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How to set it all up

After you have determined which combination you want to use you now need to install those programs on. I'm not going to show the installation of any of the programs because they are pretty straight forward. Besides, if you cant click on the "next" button a few times you had better stop reading this guide now.

Zoom Player program settings

If you are going the route of Zoom Player Pro with FFDshow and a DVD filter we need to tell Zoom Player how to use it all. Assuming you have done the default installation for all three items needed let's begin. Find the Icon to launch Zoom Player and you should be greeted with this screen:

This is the default media mode for Zoom Player Pro as indicated by the area that oddly enough says Media Mode. To switch between DVD and Media Mode at any time press F10 on your keyboard. The area we want to focus on for configuration is the check mark in the toolbar on the bottom. Hitting this button will bring the configuration menu on to the screen.

Here we see the basic options screen. In order to get to the settings we need though we need to click on the button that says " Advanced Mode". After doing this you should now see quite a few more options available as pictured next.

In this mode of configuration you will be able to control almost every part of Zoom Player. You can change the buttons on the control bar, text sizes and color, even the aspect ratio. For now to prevent confusion we will just get to the DVD configuration. If you havent guessed the next step is to click on "DVD on the side bar menu.

For our configuration under DVD we want to click on the button that says " Customized (Recommended)" This will allow us to select what filters we want to use in what combination. You can use quite a few combinations here such as the Sonic video decoder with the WinDVD audio decoder. First though we need to add FFDshow under additional filters. Do this by clicking on add and select ffdshow from the list. Next select Sonic as the audio and video decoder. Your screen should now look like this:

After selecting all of your filters to use, you will now want to press the "Register Selected Filters" button. Zoom Player will now search your hard drive for the necessary files needed to utilize this setup.

If you did everything correctly above then you should see this box pop up. Press ok to continue on and allow Zoom Player to search for the necessary files.

The dialog box showing that the program is seeking the files.

If you installed everything right, and the files are found you will see this screen pop up. Press OK to continue. You will now be back at the Zoom Player DVD setup screen.

You have now completed the basic setup of Zoom Player Pro. There are many more options to try out in this program, such as using Overlay or VMR9 for the video Renderer. For now stick with the basics to make sure you get everything working. After this feel free to try whatever you like. You will notice little "C" buttons above each section here. Clicking on this button will take you to the properties for that section. For example clicking on the "C" above additional filters while FFDshow is selected will bring you to the configuration page for FFDShow. Which brings us to the next part of our guide setting up FFDshow. Click next to continue on.

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