PowerDVD (from CyberLink) is a commercial video player and music player for Microsoft Windows and recently Turbolinux. It enables the viewing of DVD-Video movies on the user's PC. DVD-Video backups stored on hard disk (created using software such as DVD Decrypter) can also be played. The player can also be used with to play videos and audio/music files in other formats encoded with different codecs, for instance DivX, XviD, Windows Media Video video and MP3 and AAC audio. Newer versions also support full Blu-Ray and HD DVD playback with menus, with CPRM DRM support.
Supported video formats/codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD (high-definition MPEG-2), DVD-Video, Mini-DVD, MPEG-4 ASP (like XviD and DivX, including DivX Pro), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), WMV-HD, DVD-VR, DVD+VR
Supported audio formats/codecs: WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, DVD-Audio, LPCM, MLP Lossless, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Digital EX, DTS 5.1, DTS Neo:6, DTS 96/24, DTS-ES Discrete
Video Playback
- InterActual Player Support
- Software Video Deinterlacing - ensures a smoother and clearer video image on progressive displays
- Dynamic Range Compression and SRS - offers modes suited to Quiet, Noisy and Normal listening environments
- A-B Repeat loops a scene set by users
- 9X Digital Zoom
- Closed captioning support provides closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Dual Captions/Subtitles Display - supports the viewing of two subtitle languages at the same time
- Video Bookmarks enable quick access to a user's favorite movie scenes
- Resume playback - allows users to play a DVD from the last scene prior to stopping
- Screen snapshots can be captured with a user-defined aspect ratio
- External subtitle support allows playback via AVI, DivX and WMV files
- (supports SRT, SUB, SSA, ASS, PSB, and SMI extensions)
- On-screen display (OSD) lets users define where video information is located
- Changeable skins let users change the look of their control panel
- Low Frequency Effects (LFE) mixes the LFE channel (bass) with front speaker channels
- Dolby Pro Logic IIx - 2.0 - 5.1 => 7.1 audio-channels expansion technology (upsample anything from 2.0 to 7.1 surround sound)
- "CyberLink Headphone" - Virtual surround sound on 2-channel (stereo) headphones
- "CyberLink Virtual Speaker" Virtual surround sound on 2-channel (stereo) speakers
Music Playback
- Karaoke mode - dampens music tracks to allow users to sing along with their Karaoke discs
- Audio pitch scaling - feature letting users adjust the pitch of video or audio files for fun, or adopt the tune to their voice for Karaoke discs.
- Audio equalizer presets add atmospheric effects with presets like techno, blues
- Audio visualizations - provides onscreen image effects while playing music
General Features
- UPnP Control Point (UPnP-client) - Play videos from any UPnP AV MediaServer device in your home network
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