CruNcher
30th July 2007, 14:35
PowerDVD has become a very interesting Player over the years it seemes to use some techniques that no other OpenSource/Freeware/Commercial (Windows) Player is useing (Ofcourse it's useing also some OpenSource stuff like Pthreads).
Fact is that it plays much more then WinDVD for example wich has very bad (buggy) File Playing support and this ugly based ActiveX interface concept (urgh Corel should do a redesign fast).
The PowerDVD devs definately know what their doing and improved the Player over the last years (could also bee seen in their continues Decoder Development).
At the moment it's the only all in one Player (working File Playing via DS) that Supports all widely spread Standards DVD,HD-DVD,Blu-Ray and can make use of every Hardware accelleration from every Vendor possible under Windows)
A year ago i wouldn't have talked this way about PowerDVD as it wasn't that far (File Playing support, Hardware accelleration problems) as it now is in version 7 compared to WinDVD it looks like the WinDVD devs did nothing to enhance their application core over the years (very sad) im almost sure only CorePlayer (saw a very early tech preview no DVD,HD-DVD or Blu-Ray only File Playing) is gonna be able to gain some popularity over PowerDVD in the next year.
I just had to write this because i often questioned PowerDVD and WinDVD in the past (looks like at least someone from Cyberlink read that ;) ) so some people might think my Party is OpenSource and for sure it is, but i never attacked those applications just said what i think about them, so see this as an status update of my opinion on the mentioned applications.
And yes i don't mention Showtime here as it still is hmm a player that acts on his own (choses Overlay Renderer but i don't wan't it this way Hardware accelleration via DXVA can't work never figured out also not with JohnV his Help) and i never got Hardware accelleration to work with it not even for Mpeg-2 despite for H.264 :P, but yes it shows similaritys in comfort to PowerDVD (as a File Player).
Fact is that it plays much more then WinDVD for example wich has very bad (buggy) File Playing support and this ugly based ActiveX interface concept (urgh Corel should do a redesign fast).
The PowerDVD devs definately know what their doing and improved the Player over the last years (could also bee seen in their continues Decoder Development).
At the moment it's the only all in one Player (working File Playing via DS) that Supports all widely spread Standards DVD,HD-DVD,Blu-Ray and can make use of every Hardware accelleration from every Vendor possible under Windows)
A year ago i wouldn't have talked this way about PowerDVD as it wasn't that far (File Playing support, Hardware accelleration problems) as it now is in version 7 compared to WinDVD it looks like the WinDVD devs did nothing to enhance their application core over the years (very sad) im almost sure only CorePlayer (saw a very early tech preview no DVD,HD-DVD or Blu-Ray only File Playing) is gonna be able to gain some popularity over PowerDVD in the next year.
I just had to write this because i often questioned PowerDVD and WinDVD in the past (looks like at least someone from Cyberlink read that ;) ) so some people might think my Party is OpenSource and for sure it is, but i never attacked those applications just said what i think about them, so see this as an status update of my opinion on the mentioned applications.
And yes i don't mention Showtime here as it still is hmm a player that acts on his own (choses Overlay Renderer but i don't wan't it this way Hardware accelleration via DXVA can't work never figured out also not with JohnV his Help) and i never got Hardware accelleration to work with it not even for Mpeg-2 despite for H.264 :P, but yes it shows similaritys in comfort to PowerDVD (as a File Player).