CruNcher
31st December 2007, 05:43
Look out Cyberlink and Nero this Player and it's filters are gonna own your Player Products on XP and Vista alike with full Hardware Accelleration always on and the fastest Interactive Menu Rendering (BDJ, IHD) i saw nowdays in action, and all that with lower CPU and Memory usage compared to those other Solutions the only thing it misses now is full file extension support and non Restricted Dshow Playback then im quiet sure it would Rule everything even Mplayer Classic,Zoomplayer and Kmplayer (as a All in One Windows Player) ;)
Test bassed on Nvidias 8800 GT and PureVideo on Windows XP and Digital Theatre 2 Trial Version 2.1.1.96 (Japanese)
There are some cons also, this Player seems to be optimized more for Blu-Ray its compatibility to most i've tested is the best compared to HD-DVD Menus it renders some wrong or with problems (flickering buttons,menu state change problems) but Performance and Compatibility on Blu-Ray Menus is the Best on the PC you can get (no lags in rendering absolute fluid) compared to Showtime and PowerDVD Engines on Windows XP :) The Video Decoder Filter has full DXVA 1.0 and 2.0 support alike it seems :)
I couldn't test http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/jp/jp/Product/1189528392361 yet as it's not available as a trial version, seems to be that now it has an integrated Upscaller (Sharpener) feature called ALL2HD http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/jp/jp/Product/1189528459164, wich ofcourse we as an Open Comunity had allready long long before it's now being comercialized from now on WinDVD will be officialy on the Corel Brand so Intervideo isn't really exisiting anymore ;)
After some more testing i came to the conclusion that PowerDVD is the most Compatible so far with Playing all kinds of different Menus and allways with Full Hardware Accelleration especialy for the 8800 GT it's the must have HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Player if you wan't to use the VP2 to it's fully potential Digital Theatre 2 has Hardware Accelleration Problems with VC-1.
With my Low Complexity Balanced High Profile AVC HD Bitstreams i have most of the Time 0% Cpu Utilization it's Amazing (only Video) :)
Test bassed on Nvidias 8800 GT and PureVideo on Windows XP and Digital Theatre 2 Trial Version 2.1.1.96 (Japanese)
There are some cons also, this Player seems to be optimized more for Blu-Ray its compatibility to most i've tested is the best compared to HD-DVD Menus it renders some wrong or with problems (flickering buttons,menu state change problems) but Performance and Compatibility on Blu-Ray Menus is the Best on the PC you can get (no lags in rendering absolute fluid) compared to Showtime and PowerDVD Engines on Windows XP :) The Video Decoder Filter has full DXVA 1.0 and 2.0 support alike it seems :)
I couldn't test http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/jp/jp/Product/1189528392361 yet as it's not available as a trial version, seems to be that now it has an integrated Upscaller (Sharpener) feature called ALL2HD http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/jp/jp/Product/1189528459164, wich ofcourse we as an Open Comunity had allready long long before it's now being comercialized from now on WinDVD will be officialy on the Corel Brand so Intervideo isn't really exisiting anymore ;)
After some more testing i came to the conclusion that PowerDVD is the most Compatible so far with Playing all kinds of different Menus and allways with Full Hardware Accelleration especialy for the 8800 GT it's the must have HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Player if you wan't to use the VP2 to it's fully potential Digital Theatre 2 has Hardware Accelleration Problems with VC-1.
With my Low Complexity Balanced High Profile AVC HD Bitstreams i have most of the Time 0% Cpu Utilization it's Amazing (only Video) :)