What's your opinion?

[harryguy082589]

What's your opinion?

[bmhome1]

Default Cyberlink Power DVD that came with my 303XMi works great.

[arebelspy]

I love Media Player Classic for EVERYTHING.. WMV, AVI, DVDs, mp3s, whatever you want to play it will. The best part is it's free, and the footprint is SMALL, doesn't take a ton of memory to run or anything, it's one of the first things that goes on all my computers that will be playing media.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

-arebelspy

[sumocat]

I use Windows Media Player to play videos. I have PowerDVD installed, which provided the decoder, but I find the picture in PowerDVD to be shaky. By contrast, WMP plays smoothly. I should also mention that I rip my DVDs to hard drive using DVD Decrypter, then compress using DVD Shrink. Any quality differences between compressed and uncompressed formats are negligible on my 10.4" screen and tiny stock speakers.

[ChrisParis]

I use PowerDVD (a commercial version I bought at somepoint). Seems ok.

I'll have to try Media Player in a back-to-back test, though, if what you say is true, Sumocat. I never noticed any jitter, but I'll look closer next time I watch a DVD.

[sumocat]

The shake is subtle, perhaps equal to a shift of a pixel or two at frequent intervals, but it's noticeable because the screen is closer than arm's length. I've also noticed it on two desktops at two different locations. Both were Dells using PowerDVD. They had P4 processors and graphics cards, so I'm reasonably sure it's not my hardware, especially since WMP looks fine. Perhaps there is some setting to correct this, but if so, I don't know why it's not the default.