CyberLink Power DVD 12 is a multimedia player that can play all media matters such as music, photos, movies and videos. This software can convert the Blu-ray format movies to High definition movies and 3 dimensional movies. The user may also enhance the videos for a more professional look, and enjoy the photos with an improve quality. The software has provided an "Instant scale" to make the files viewable without playing it. The user may also preview the photos inside a folder without opening the folders by using the "Instant View tool". CyberLink Power DVD 12 Runs on Window XP (SP3), Window Vista and Windows 7. The processor would be Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or higher, A VGA card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 or higher/ AMD Radeon HD 6000 or higher) and 330 MB for the Hard Drive. An Internet connection is also required for the initial activation of the software.
VideoLan VLC Media player is a multi-media player software that is considered to be an open source and cross platform multimedia player with framework. Thus, a product that can play most of the standard files of multimedia plus CDs, DVDs and VCDs. It also plays different streaming protocols, supported applications or devices and webcams. There is also the ability to play audios of various codecs even if there are no codec packs included: MPEG-2, WebM, MP3, WMV and MKV. This software works on most Windows computers, Mac OS X PCs, Linux and well as Unix. In addition, there is descryption for DVD which is executed via the libdvdcss library. It also has playback control support for all computers compatible with it using libcdio or libvcdinfo. On Mac computers, this media player can grab audios and videos from EyeTV applications and other devices that capture EyeTV data. On GNU and Linux, it supports encoding cards that are compatible with V4L2 and MPEG-2 which are Visiontech Kfir and Hauppage WinTV-PVR 250-350.