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CyberLink PowerDVD is a professional media player, used to playback your
favorite media, collect them inside your customized playlists, or watch
them on TVs by using an awesome TV interface. Let's quickly look at all you
need to know to start using this software for the first time.
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When you open PowerDVD, you will see a big welcome screen, where you
can choose between the two different main interfaces: the PC Mode, used to
browse and watch your media by using a computer interface; and the TV
Mode, that is optimized to be used with TVs. Let's start with the PC Mode.
PowerDVD is divided in several sections, all listed on the extreme left.
These are used to browse for your content, in both offline and online
locations.
Media Library is the main section used to pick and start watching media,
such as videos, pictures and music. Use Movies/TV to start watching videos
and TV Shows. At the very top, you have several tabs. Movie Info lists
several top videos, such as the latest film trailers under Hot Movies; the
most watched, collected or rated videos, and also popular TV Shows and top
celebrities biographies. Movie Discs is used to play any media by reading
any DVD or Blu-ray Disc inside a selected drive. Under Movie Library, you
find all your own videos, such as the new ones, the most recent ones, or
the videos you haven't watched yet. The TV Shows tab lists all your own
TV Shows, collected in their own seasons. When you double-click on a
season, all its episodes will be shown.
When you browse for your own videos, you can see a small circle next to
the media name. This is used to indicate if you watched it fully. If it
is yellow, it means that you haven't watched it; if it is halved, you have
started watching it, but you didn't finish it and if it is completely dark,
it means that you watched it all.
Under Media Library on the left, use Videos, Photos and Music to browse
for other media. Under Videos you find all your own videos, ready to be
played. Under Photos, you can check and preview your most favorite images.
Under Music, you can browse for your full list of music. Use the first two
tabs on top to group music by Artists or by Albums, or use the last tab to
browse from the full list.
All these sections under Media Library show the content contained inside
a default computer folder defined inside PowerDVD. You can check the folder
by right-clicking on a media, and going to Locate on Disk. You can
also add or edit the folders that PowerDVD must read to look for your
media. If you click on the plus button next to Media Library, you can check
the list of the folders for each kind of media: Movies and TV Shows,
Videos and Photos and Music. To add your custom folder, just click on Add
Folder at the very bottom, browse for it, and this will be added in the
list above. For example, if you add a new folder where all your photos are
located, once this is added in this list, all its photos will appear under
the Photos section, in the respective folder. You can select the folder
by using the arrows above, or by double-clicking on it.
If you begin to have a lot of media, you can use the Search bar on the far
left. Use the Refresh button to keep all the media content updated inside
PowerDVD.
If you ever search for media that is not contained inside the Media Library,
you can go to My Computer, and use PowerDVD to browse inside your own
computer folders and hard drives.
From PowerDVD, you can also watch media from online sources. You can use
CyberLink Cloud to connect to your own CyberLink Cloud account, and pick
and watch media directly on PowerDVD. Whereas, use Online Video to watch
videos from YouTube and Vimeo. You can sign in with your personal accounts
by clicking on the key icon.
PowerDVD offers a great playback experience. When you double-click on
videos, pictures or music, these will open on the main interface, with its
player at the bottom. Depending on the kind of media, the player shows
different buttons.
When playing videos, you can use Video Enhancements to improve their
appearance, making it even better than the original quality, by improving
contrast, brightness and color.
If you playback a DVD, you also have the Menu control, that you can use
to come back to the main DVD menu.
Next to it, you have another button through which you can import and use
ready subtitles, change the main language and even make snapshots. You can
also add and use bookmarks to save specific points on the video timeline.
Also, you have two important markers, exactly at the beginning and in the
end of the video. These are used to select the part of the clip to watch.
For example, if you fix the first marker on an instant of time by clicking
and dragging it, and you exit from PowerDVD, when you playback the same
video again, you will right start from the fixed marker.
Next to the player, you have other options. Use the zoom button and its
bar to regulate the zoom on the clip. If you want to go full screen instead,
use the Full screen button on the right.
If you want to play 3D videos, you can enable the three dimensions by
clicking on the 3D button.
When you preview images, the player starts a slideshow by taking all the
pictures linked to PowerDVD. You can check this list by clicking on the
second button on the left. The slideshow follows duration and effect
settings under the Slideshow Preferences button.
Even more, you can use the Rotate buttons to rotate the current image by 90
degrees, or the trash button to delete it. To share or export the
current picture shown, click on the Share button on the far right.
When you playback music, the player shows other options. First of all,
all audio files are played in order. You can use the Shuffle button to
randomly playback your songs without following any order.
Next to it, there is also an Audio Equalizer used to adjust the volume of
each audio bandwidth.
Inside PowerDVD, you can collect your favorite media inside custom
Playlists. These collect multiple media, for example the ones recently
played, or added. You can also create a personalized playlist by clicking
on New Playlist. Then, you can simply drag and drop your favorite media
directly from your computer.
Also, PowerDVD is able to connect and work with smart devices, such as
smartphones and TVs. Under Devices & Home Media, you can download and
start using PowerDVD Remote, that allows you to browse inside PowerDVD and
playback by using your smarthpone, just like a remote control. Or else, you
can download Power Media Player, which is used to download, stream
and share from PowerDVD direct to your smartphone.
Inside PowerDVD 16 is also available the new TV Mode interface. This shows
you all the features inside PowerDVD, but through a TV-adapted interface.
You can open the TV Mode from the welcome screen, or switch to it from the
PC Mode by going to Switch to TV mode in the top right corner.
Also, remember that you can check all the main and general settings for
PowerDVD by going to the Settings icons in the top right corner.
These are all the amazing features inside PowerDVD 16! Leave us comments
below if you want to win a free copy of this amazing software!