Which S/W DVD Player is the Best??

[drgrudge]

I used to like PowerDVD, but now I like VLC player.

* It's free and light on system resources.
* It cuts all the Cr@p before the movie interface, that movie company logo and stuffs like that

But the navigations are not as good as PowerDVD.

 

[mohit]

Windvd 7 - its awesome.
Powerdvd sux !!!

Zoom Player professional with FFDSHOW filters. Nothing comes close to this combo. Recommended by home theatre freaks at HTPC news.

-Keith

can u provide some info on that ? actually i dont know much about this. What are FFDSHOW filters and how can u set up a combo like u mentioned ? is it free ?

 

[Sreekanth V]

WinDVD

WinDVD is my favorite but some time Nero Showtime do better then WinDVD.

ffdshow filters are available in KL lite Mega codec pack or they can be downloaded seperately. Once Digit come with this combo on the DVD.
In my personal experience this is not so good combo. I have faced several problems while encoding some movie clips to MPEG2 and MPEG formats.This is solved after uninstalling KL lite Mega codec pack. ffdshow will take all control in the system and whenever any application try to decode MPEG2 movies, it will automatacally open in background and works. But it seems not so good for me as I have to encode several movies frequently. :roll:

 

[~Phenom~]

my vote goes to power dvd

 

[Keith Sebastian]

Re: WinDVD

In my personal experience this is not so good combo. I have faced several problems while encoding some movie clips to MPEG2 and MPEG formats.This is solved after uninstalling KL lite Mega codec pack. ffdshow will take all control in the system and whenever any application try to decode MPEG2 movies, it will automatacally open in background and works. But it seems not so good for me as I have to encode several movies frequently. :roll:

Newer (2005) builds don't do that. Anyway, it's easily fixed by setiing ffdshow video decoder configuration>codecs. Check disabled next to formats you don't wan't ffdshow to handle.

Keith

 

[Keith Sebastian]

can u provide some info on that ? actually i dont know much about this. What are FFDSHOW filters and how can u set up a combo like u mentioned ? is it free ?

FFDShow will postprocess the video decoded by WinDVD filter. For more info use this link. Try WinDVD + Media Player Classic + FFDShow combo. Set up FFDShow as mentioned here. (Tip: Decrease resize resolution to 1024x768 to reduce load on CPU.)

*htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1

FFDShow can also decode MPEG4 (Xvid/DivX/etc) as a standalone decoder with far superior decoding quality. I use Windows Media Player + FFDShow combo for MPEG4.

Keith

 

[Sreekanth V]

So what I have had is the resolution problem.
I have had more resolution than 1024x768

 

[FilledVoid]

My vote definitely goes for WinDVD.

 

[rajas]

One more to Cyberlink PowerDVD

 

[shivaranjan.b]

I use the following:

Priority1: Power DVD 6
Priority2: Nero Show Time
Priority3: Win DVD 7

 

[neerajvohra]

PowerDVD 6 Deluxe along with all plug-ins – the best in my opinion.

the best in my opinion too!!

 

[gxsaurav]

nvidia dvd decoder with WMP10, no problem & issues in using

someetimes use PowerDVD 6

WinDVD is bloat, Power DVD does everything at really low installation size

 

[gxsaurav]

nvidia dvd decoder with WMP10, no problem & issues in using

someetimes use PowerDVD 6

WinDVD is bloat, Power DVD does everything at really low installation size

 

[Ankit]

in my view powerdvd 6.0 deluxe is best...windvd comes later ...followed by nero show time.....
but all these are paid softwares....the best all in one free media player with excellent dvd navigation in my view is media player classic....download it from sourceforge..

 

[Sreekanth V]

I too agree with that, Media player classic is the only best freeware DVD player.It is very lite still powerful. An exellent one.

 

[(...)]

WinDVD 7 - Too Cool
PowerDVD 6- Ok

What abt Zoom Player Pro

 

[Sreekanth V]

Zoom player is filled with too much functions and the navigation to these functions are not so fast.

 

[nats10]

win dvd rockz for vcd

I have used both win dvd and power dvd.But win dvd is my choice for vcd as its error correction for vcd is good. Power dvd is best for dvd and it is good in picture enhancements like eagle vision.javascript:emoticon(':roll:')
Rolling Eyes

 

[mo_hit4u]

i use power dvd

 

[nishant_nms]

power DVD