PowerDVD 11 Ultra is the best video player for viewing high definition videos, Blu-ray or DVD's on your PC. It integrates seemless with Windows Media Center and you can easily set up a remote control device to use with it just by paring it using a 4-digit code PowerDVD lists on the Device Tab an dconfigure it.Īs far as pictures and music go, it has capabilities for that but I prefer Winamp for my music and ACDSee Pro for my pictures.

Just double click to open, or it can open a video from Windows Explorer as well. It has a built in video library, just click on the Video tab and the directory where your videos are display in thumbnail or list form. are already set up, no need to play around with settings.

It works right out the box, you don't have to go crazy adjusting the settings like other video players out there for simple things it starts up maximized instead of in a tiny little window, aspect ratio is automatically set according to the source, when watching a movie it automatically goes to full screen mode after a few seconds and a if you just move the mouse a little it will set it back to normal display, pressing the keyboard up/down buttons skips through the movie forward or back, space bar pauses/plays, pressing the 'C' key captures a screen shot, etc. except that VobSub subtitles, like those created by HandBrake encodes are not supported, another reason I didn't give it a 10. Subtitles internal or external display clear and crisp: SRT, UTF-8, PGS, etc. The playback of high definition 1080p and 720p AVC/H.264 MKV's especially look great, sharp, crystal clear, vibrant colors and if you have good speakers, the DTS multi-channel surroud sound and even AC-3 Dolby sound like you're in a movie theatre. Otherwise, it can play any kind of video, MKV, AVI, DivX, ASF, MP4, MPG, WMV, FLV-AVC/AAC, Silverlight. I would have given it a 10 but new version 11 cannot play VP6-FLV, it's not supported, ridiculous considering the majority of FLV's on the internet are VP6. To me, video, Blu-ray and DVD on PowerDVD look the best out of any other video player out there and I tried them all: Total MediaTheatre, WinDVD, Zoom Player, KMPlayer, Media Player Classic HC, VLC among others.

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