Cineplayer DVD Decoder Pack

Sonic CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack software is designed exclusively for Windows Media Player and delivers superior video quality with optimal system performance for your Windows XP-based computer. CinePlayer DVD playback for Windows XP is noticeably superior to other DVD decoder and DVD software products, showing full frame rate video with no frame drops in amazing clarity and detail.

+ The highest quality DVD playback engine on a PC

+ The industry's best DVD navigation

+ The same exceptional CinePlayer picture quality

+ Enables playback of DVDs and MPEG-2 video files

+ Supports a variety of VGA cards

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What do we mean by Performance?

For software based DVD/MPEG2 playback, dvd decoder software performance is crucial to ensure smooth flowing video and clear, crisp audio playback on any given PC system. Performance for DVD playback is measured as a percentage of your PC's CPU use. The lower the percentage of CPU cycles used by the DVD audio and video decoders, the better the performance. Conversely, the higher the percentage of CPU use by the DVD audio and video decoders, the worse performance is.

Better decoder performance not only translates into unshakable DVD playback under a wide variety of circumstances, it also permits solid DVD playback on older, slower PC systems that otherwise would have difficulty playing DVDs at all.

Better performance also means lower power consumption. A DVD decoder pack that has good performance, also consumes less power from the PC. On a notebook PC, this means longer battery life, and longer battery life means that you'll be able to watch more of your favorite DVDs on a single battery.

Performance with and without Hardware Acceleration

Some display adapters have special hardware to help "offload" the amount of processing that the DVD decoders need to perform. Microsoft has established a new specification that provides DVD decoders a common interface to communicate with the hardware acceleration features on these display adapters. This interface is known as DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA). DVD Decoders that use DXVA, can realize an increase in decoder performance, thus further reducing the amount of CPU use that the decoder would otherwise have had to incur in a "Software Only" DVD decoding environment.

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Picture Quality Comparison

Thanks to faster, more powerful CPUs as well as new display and audio hardware in today's PC, Software-based DVD decoders now rival and even surpass the playback quality of dedicated hardware-based DVD players. Due to the ability to use advanced mathematical CPU instructions, such as MMX, 3DNow!, SSE and SSE2, software based DVD decoders are able to extract significant details from the MPEG2 encoded stream and deliver them in stunning detail.

Sonic's CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack provides the highest level of video and audio quality for your DVD playback experience on Windows XP. The CinePlayer decoder engine is world renowned for its remarkable video quality and superb audio clarity for DVD playback on your PC system.

Audio Quality

The Sonic CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack provides the best DVD audio decoder of any available Windows XP DVD decoder pack add-ons. The CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack contains a comprehensive audio decoder, capable of decoding many types of DVD audio streams including Dolby Digital AC3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and LPCM audio. The CinePlayer DVD Decoder provides the clearest audio for your DVD experience.

Video Quality

The Sonic CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack renders the highest quality video of any available Windows XP DVD decoder pack add-ons. The CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack contains a comprehensive MPEG-2 video decoder, capable of decoding all types of DVD video streams as well as HDTV level MPEG-2 video streams in both Software Only and DXVA decoding modes. The Sonic CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack's video decoding engine is unparalleled in the video image quality that it delivers to your Windows XP system.

Video Quality Comparison

The following is a direct comparison of the video quality between the Sonic CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack and other available Windows XP decoder packs.