Which is good news if you like the feature, although we’re yet to really notice any benefits from it at all.Īnd a new Zoom button on the toolbar makes it easy to zoom in on any video, DVD or Blu-ray by up to 400 percent. And TrueTheater’s other features are well worth having, delivering quality upscaling, noise removal, enhanced contrast, and stabilisation of shaky videos at a click.Įlsewhere, PowerDVD’s “Instant Seek” feature, which supposedly allows you to quickly browse and find specific scenes within a movie, now works on Blu-ray discs. As with previous editions, the results generally aren’t that great, but can make for an entertaining watch, particularly with material of more personal interest (old home movies of your own, say). The program gains support for DTS-HD 7.1 sound, for instance - at least, in the Pro and Ultra editions (PowerDVD 12 Standard users must get by with DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1).ĬyberLink’s TrueTheater 3D can now convert all your media types, including regular Blu-ray discs, to 3D. PowerDVD 12′s core movie-playing functionality sees only a few incremental changes, this time around. Still, if you have PowerDVD open already then it’s now far more capable than previous editions at browsing, organizing and viewing your media files, and that’s all very welcome news to us. Double-click an MP4 file and the program took more than 8 seconds to load and start playing it on our test PC VLC Media Player was launched and running in around a third of that time. And the program’s audio repertoire is notably extended by new support for OGG and FLAC files, making it a much more capable music player.įor all this, we’re still not sure that we’d use PowerDVD as our only media player, just because it’s so big. The program can handle around 50 video types, for instance, including tricky examples like 3G2, 3GP, FLV, and MK3D.

So if you hover a mouse over a folder of photos or videos, for example, then a scroll bar will appear, and dragging this will quickly display thumbnails of everything in that folder without you having to open it first.Īnd CyberLink has significantly expanded file format support. There are some neat navigation shortcuts, too.

Nothing hugely ambitious, but all very straightforward and easy to use. Launch the program and what you’ll encounter first of all is PowerDVD’s media library, for instance, which now makes it easy to organize and navigate your videos, music and digital photos: you can rate content, add a description to your file’s metadata, run keyword searches, create playlists, and even share your files on YouTube, Facebook or Flickr.

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