Whether you are starting to get into creating your own DVDs, or just a naturally an inquisitive kind of person, software DVD player applications are wonderful tools for not only playing DVDs on your desktop, but also for looking under the hood to explore their structure. We are used to accessing DVDs from their menus, but hidden under the hood is a deeper structure and advanced capabilities. Yes, DVD software players have all kinds of cool features for enhancing your video and audio viewing experience, but they also can do more to help you explore the content and organization of the discs.
As you get deeper into DVD authoring, these player applications allow you to explore commercial movies on DVD to learn how the Hollywood designers structured their discs. And as you author your own discs, you can use these tools to test and check your own creations.
Cyberlink PowerDVD
The second generation of CyberLink's world-renowned video enhancing technology makes images brighter and colors more natural. CLEV-2 adjusts a scene's chroma and luminance to enhance image detail, and thus achieves the best possible results for LCD/CRT monitors and playback of overly dark or bright DVD movies. PowerDVD is one of the best software DVD-players around. It features all the functions you'd expect to see in a DVD player. In addition to DVD playback (with Dolby Digital and DTS decoding), PowerDVD is capable of viewing VideoCDs and multi-channel Super VideoCDs which makes it an excellent tool for quick and easy testing.
BlazeDVD is a full-featured DVD, Video CD, Audio-CD and media file player. It can provide crystal clear video quality and high fidelity audio also other enhanced functions: e.g. optional skins, image capture and bookmark, playback photo slide show and DV, etc. Furthermore, it supports DIVX, MPEG4, RM, QuickTime, MP3, WMV, Flash, and so on popular media formats of Internet. Video Features: MPEG-2 MP@HL (720p/1080i), High Definition Video / HDV -Windows Media Video High Definition (WMV-HD), Wide Screen Pan & Scan, NTSC and PAL, Digital Zoom-In/Zoom-Out. Audio Features: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Pro-Logic I/II, MPEG-2 Audio and LPCM -24 Bit /96 kHz LPCM Output, 5.1 - 7.1 Channels, DTS/Dolby AC-3 pass through S/PDIF. Other Features: Screen Capture, Bookmark, Photo Slide shows, laying DV & WebCam, Optional skins. Supported Media Types: DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD), Audio CD, Flash (SWF)/QuickTime/DivX/Xvid/MPEG4 (AVI), DV & WebCam.
InterVideo WinDVD Platinum is the latest version of WinDVD. It has improved video and audio, and has added several brand new features. It is still a simple- to-use DVD player with all the features of a standard consumer DVD player, but there's so much more for you. It still gives you all the great features of WinDVD Platinum like DivX support, Dolby Virtual Speaker and Video Effect, but some new extras were added, including: Movie Encyclopedia; Hyper-Threading Technology Support; Progressive De-interlacing; and support for gamma correction, 96 kHz/24 Bit Audio Decoding, LanguageMate, Windows Media support and much more.
Cliprex DVD Player Professional software is a solution for playing DVDs on the PC. Cliprex DVD Player Professional will handle playback of both commercial and consumer-created DVDs. Beside DVD video it supports most well known video standard formats, like DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, ASF, Video CD, Super Video CD and any other video file you have the codec installed for. This software DVD player gives an impressive video and sound quality with an easy navigation interface through a context menu. Features are: automatic aspect ratio, audio stream selection, selection of available subtitles, chapter selection for the DVD menu, bookmarks management, angle selection, resume option of a specific DVD, and full screen/desktop play. The package also contains free codecs. Enjoy DVD playing with this DVD player
DirectDVD is a full-featured digital DVD player and software decoder for Windows that brings powerful DVD movie capabilities to your PC. With DirectDVD's Software Decoder, you are able to watch all your favorite DVD movies on multiple CPUs, regions, graphic controllers, and DVD drives. DirectDVD includes advanced theater-quality audio such as TruSurround XT, Dolby Digital, and Dolby Headphones, and it offers Circle Surround II from SRS Labs. Features include DVD to MP3, proprietary deinterlacing algorithms for reduction of motion effect on VGA monitors, and CSS software support for playback of all your favorite movies or other encrypted content. Change the playback view of your DVD using letterbox, pan, and crop technology. The skins package allows the user to easily change DirectDVD's look and feel and easily take full control with amazing realistic overlays directly inside the interface. It now features SRS surround plug-ins and Web plug-ins for DVD. Version 5.0 adds ATI Remote capabilities, DMO/DSP plug-ins, UltraFunk, EQ-ENH Digital 10 band EQ, TruSurround Headphones, and other new DVD features.
Direct DVD Features: Orion Studios™DirectDVD solution is the industry's first fully compliant software DVD player for today's Entertainment PC. The combination of true consumer-quality audio and video performance and DirectShow compatibility makes DirectDVD the ideal solution for low-cost, no-compromise DVD playback on the PC. DirectDVD offers complete flexibility in system design by working with a variety of MMX, SSE, or 3DNOW!™ enabled CPUs, accelerated graphics controllers, DVD drives and operating systems. The DirectDVD software easily integrates with your available hardware components to provide the highest quality and performance in every solution.
Hero DVD player is a full-featured DVDs, CDs and media file player. And it offers high-quality video, audio playback and create a home theater on your PC. Furthermore, it supports multiple popular formats media files like AVI, MPEG, RM, MP3, WMV, and Flash. Other powerful features such as optional skins, image capture, crash disk correcting, background playing, caption processing, broken playing, local-zoom, and bookmark.
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