PowerDVD 7

[Peoples-Agent]

PowerDVD 7 has been released.

Some great new features and support for the following at Hardware level.

- MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
- WMV-HD - high-definition video
- MPEG-2 HD - high-definition video
- Mini-DVD
- DTS Neo:6
- AAC decoding

Just a shame it crashes people's pcs when they try to play Xvids. LOL

http://www.cyberlink.com/english/products/powerdvd/7/multimedia.jsp

Apart from that, looks like a steal for £50.

[Q]

Freakin EH! I'm excited about this, PDVD is a great app.

[MUYA]

Apaprently it cannot utilise until patched any HW acceleration by either NV or ATi ;

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcinpact.com%2Factu%2 Fnews%2F28529-Power-DVD-7-pas-encore-tout-fini-sur-la-HD-.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[Peoples-Agent]

ffs, hope I haven't just blown £50 ....lol

Can't believe they still haven't sorted out this hardware acceleration issue.
It's been in the pipeline for like two years now.

[Peoples-Agent]

The DVD playback IS "THE" BEST I have ever seen.

It blows nVidia's PureVideo out of the water by far.

Hardware acceleration for MPEG2 on this thing is simply AWESOME.

[Riptide]

Wonder how it compares to DScaler5.

[mullet]

tons better then PDVD6, smooth as silk and vivid looks awsome now. I have used this sence PDVD 5 and this is better then any other.

[Peoples-Agent]

tons better then PDVD6, smooth as silk and vivid looks awsome now. I have used this sence PDVD 5 and this is better then any other.

Do Xvids work ok for you?

[mullet]

I havent tryed it, I mostly used it for my pc hooked to my 65" tv with media portal and its so much smoother and the picture is way better then ver. 6.

[Peoples-Agent]

Hmm , seems to rocket to 99% CPU usage when trying to open an Xvid file with mad hard drive usage.

[J-Mag]

I have been using PDVD 4 for a while and have never seen any reaosn to upgrade. I mean who the hell cares if CPU load is at 4% vs 10% when wtaching a movie...

[Peoples-Agent]

I do, because I can't play Xvids on this cos it shoves the CPU usage upto 99%.
Hmmm.....

Nero 7 , Power DVD 7 .....I see a pattern here.

[J-Mag]

I do, because I can't play Xvids on this cos it shoves the CPU usage upto 99%.
Hmmm.....

Nero 7 , Power DVD 7 .....I see a pattern here.

You don't have to use PDVD to watch Xvids, just use Media Player or something...

[j0j081]

I still like my nv pure video decoder. Quality is amazing now.

[|JuiceZ|]

Downloaded the trial of this and have been using it for a week or so, its best dvd playback on pc I've seen. Excellent image quality, DTS playback is superb, may have to buy this one.

[-=Gib-McFragger=-]

DVD Image quality is awesome. I am however, having the same problem playing XVid files, it hangs and hogs my CPU at 200,000% usage. :thumbdwn:

[sharangad]

Apaprently it cannot utilise until patched any HW acceleration by either NV or ATi ;

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcinpact.com%2Factu%2 Fnews%2F28529-Power-DVD-7-pas-encore-tout-fini-sur-la-HD-.htm&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools


And you have to pay for the patch most probably as 'tis an enhanceme nt pack:

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2497/cyberlink_launches_powerdvd

"An enhancement pack providing optimized H.264 performance for ATI® Avivo™ and NVIDIA® PureVideo™ graphics cards will be released later in the year."

[Peoples-Agent]

DVD Image quality is awesome. I am however, having the same problem playing XVid files, it hangs and hogs my CPU at 200,000% usage. :thumbdwn:

Gib, me old mucker.....

Any luck on getting Xvids to work?

To me, Media playing software that cannot do Xvid is useless.

[Slyder]

I think you need the Deluxe version for Divx support.

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/compare_1_ENU.html

Divx runs fine on my deluxe versoin anyways. :D

[Peoples-Agent]

You don't have to use PDVD to watch Xvids, just use Media Player or something...

Media Player is a pile of crap.

[Peoples-Agent]

I think you need the Deluxe version for Divx support.

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/compare_1_ENU.html

Divx runs fine on my deluxe versoin anyways. :D

Not tried regular DivX but Xvid is defo busted.

I am running the Deluxe.

[Riptide]

Media Player is a pile of crap.
Unless ofcourse he's talking about Media Player Classic. :)

[SLippe]

<--- Going back to PowerDVD 6.

[j0j081]

Media Player is a pile of crap.
if you are talking about WMP I beg to differ. WMP 10 isn't bad at all if you have the appropriate codecs installed and I don't know if you've seen anything about the new beta for WMP 11 but that has a lot of people saying good things.