Alpha channel MOV files exported from Adobe Premiere can now be played. The alpha channel is to facilitate transparency, allowing you to easily remove or replace the background. Cyberlink has also added support for those web videos you download from YouTube-at least those using the VP9/9.2 or Opus codecs. New as well is Fire TV Stream Casting support, and a full-screen mode for Blu-ray on super-wide aspect ratio 21:9 TVs and displays. It’s passé again, but wait another 20 years-it’ll be back. PowerDVD has supported 3D video since it came back in vogue. If you haven’t seen 360 stuff, it’s quite cool. The program now supports YouTube HDR & Live, as well as YouTube subtitling. Vimeo 360 video 360-degree photos are now rendered. It’s free every year with the $45-per-year ($15 for three months) subscription version.

You can see the full list here. There’s also DLNA streaming for home networks, and just about anything else you can think of pertaining to audio and video.Īdditionally, Cyberlink now has its own online storage service called CyberLink Cloud and 30GB of storage is free for the first year with purchase of the Ultra version. It can play everything from older AVI to h.265 and Ultra HD Blu-ray, MP3 to Apple and Windows Lossless, 3D, 360, and VR. The list of file types and codecs that PowerDVD supports is impressive if not quite as universal as some of the free players. PowerDVD 18’s alternate 10-foot interface for use on your TV with a remote.

PowerDVD sports two interfaces: a simplified large-icon interface for use with a remote while you’re sitting on the couch, and another more complex and versatile interface that you can use with the mouse/keyboard from in front of your computer. It also functions as a media librarian and online video viewer with direct connections to both YouTube and Vimeo.

It’s gradually blossomed into an extremely versatile media player that handles the vast majority of audio and video files in addition to the latest optical disc formats. If you haven’t heard of PowerDVD, where have you been? It started from humble beginnings as a program that allowed you to play commercial DVD movies on your PC (when that was something everybody still wanted to do).

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