

We’re not too sure about the latter, but the detail enhancement works well – we compared the results with our Denon 1920 DVD player, which boasts dedicated, hardware-accelerated upscaling and were impressed. Pop a DVD movie into your optical drive and PowerDVD’s “TrueTheatre” engine gives you the option to boost the detail and intensity of the picture and smooth out the motion. More importantly, though, HD content that stuttered on our test laptop (1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM) when played back via Windows Media Player and VLC ran smoothly in PowerDVD9.Īnother string to PowerDVD’s bow is its upscaling of DVDs. As well as Blu-ray discs (it also comes with a plug-in for Windows Media Center users), it played every single video format we threw at it without breaking sweat, including MKVs, AVCHD files and all manner of weird and wonderful native camcorder formats.

In fact, PowerDVD turns out to be a very capable movie player indeed. It works perfectly with files stored on external drives connected through usb 3.At least with this piece of software Blu-ray is not all you get. I can also see all the divx movies i have, but not the same quality of the mkv files of course. Yes I rip bluray movies in mkv files (almost 20GB) and then watch them with power dvd. *i heard PavTube and EaseFab are the best but they cost an arm leg and kidney. It's CUDA accelerated and literally 10x faster than handbrake with a 1080ti.like 20 minutes vs 3 hours.

*I used mediaexpresso but it the sound is broken. These combined issues almost broke it for me.ĭoes anyone know a good encoder for 3d content (currently using handbrake and it's slow + too basic)? Pretty much need to rip things to break copy protection or itll fail to open VR - basically you cant play a bluray in the optical drive and watch a movieįorced to be on your primary drive(s), cannot be on ur DNLA or NAS drives (i had to buy a bigger harddrives just for this) *Bigscreen doesnt work good with it see below PowerDVD17 Ultra works great.with a few caveats
