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PowerDVD would hang at the “Connecting” stage forever, or say it was playing media while nothing whatsoever was happening at the other end. But in reality that proved even more difficult. Of course, in theory we could also push content to our tablet by simply right-clicking it in the library, selecting “Play to” and choosing our device. Playback from that point was fine, but finding our content initially was an unexpected hassle.

By default we were set to view “All” media, which you might think would be enough, but actually only by choosing to view individual folders instead could we browse to whatever we wanted. And that seemed to be due to the way the library was organised.

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What we noticed immediately is that our tablet was displaying only a small subset of the pictures and music available on the PC (5 albums vs the actual 31, for instance). Once we’d explicitly reconfigured this to allow access from Home Media clients (which is turned off by default), we were then able to browse our library remotely. This provided an easy way to browse the music, photos and videos stored on our device, and a click on the Home Media tab also displayed our main PowerDVD Ultra installation. To try this out, we installed the PowerDVD Mobile for Ultra app on a Motorola Xoom tablet.

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You should be able to browse your library from any convenient iOS or Android device So as well as acting as a media server and player, the program can now function as a Digital Media Controller (DMC) and Digital Media Renderer (DMR), which essentially means you can push content to and receive content from other DMC and DMR devices. PowerDVD 12 Ultra sees its mobile device support expanded, in theory at least, with new DLNA functionality. We’re not entirely sure how often you’ll need this feature, but if you ever do then it’s certainly convenient and easy to use. A thumbnail view of the screen shows the area of the frame you’re actually looking at, and you can drag this around to move the focus wherever you like. 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%. 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).

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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 can handle both regular and 3D Blu-ray discs 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, organising and viewing your media files, and that’s all very welcome news to us.

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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 have significantly expanded their file format support. There are some neat navigation shortcuts, too. Keyword searches make it easy to drill down through your media library