FILEnetworks Blog: Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra Deluxe v7.3.3

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