This feature is especially handy if the film you want to play is divided into several parts or you just need to watch several short clips.ĭivX is an impressive 4K video player that allows playing, creating, and streaming any video you like including AVI, MKV, and HEVC. You can ask VLC Media Player to find an album cover and use its playlist function to watch several movies in sequence. If you think that a video is too quiet, you can amplify the volume up to 200% once the download is completed. VLC Media Player offers MPG and DivX streaming, allows watching videos as they are downloading for you to decide whether you really like the content. Moreover, the program integrates with other software and streaming services. Besides, VLC Media Player can optimize the playback of files for a device you use, and stream videos. This program is free, opens practically all file formats, and can play them without using third-party codecs. There’s also the facility to “remix” DVDs – a feature that allows you to re-edit movies to your own ends, add captions and graphics.VLC Media Player is one of the most popular alternatives to PowerDVD. The Denon’s output was better, but the picture quality on our laptop from PowerDVD 9 and a DVD wasn’t far behind.Īmong the software’s less useful features is the ability to link up to Moovie Live!, a website that allows you to rate your DVDs and build up a visual library of DVD covers on your computer – the software links up to the website to download information and cover art whenever you play a new DVD, and then adds this information to a browser view.
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. At least with this piece of software Blu-ray is not all you get.
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