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. 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

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