DVD Players Head-2-Head



The table is sorted by order of importance as seen by myself.

You may want to check the Technical Notes page
in order to understand what some of these features are.


  ATI Player v3.1 CineMaster v1.6 DVD Express v4.0 PowerDVD v1.60 SoftDVD v2.10 Xing 2.03 Win98 DVD v1.0.0.1 WinDVD v1.2
Motion Compensation
ATI
ATI
ATI
ATI, S3
ATI, S3
None
Possible
ATI, S3
iDCT
ATI128
ATI128
No
SiS
No
None
Possible
SiS
Decoding Engine
CineMaster
CineMaster
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
DirectShow
Internal
Changeable Region
W/CineMaster
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
DirectShow Filters
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
N/A
Yes
Proportional Scaling
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Can play VOB Files
Yes
W/AMovie
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
No
Yes
Can play MPEG2 Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
3DNow! support
No
No
?
Yes
No
Yes
Possible
Yes
Brightness Control
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes


Legend:
ATIATI Hardware Acceleration.
S3S3 Hardware Acceleration.
nVidianVidia Hardware Acceleration.
SiSSiS Hardware Acceleration.
N/AShort for "Not appliable".
AMovieMicrosoft ActiveMovie Interface (used in the new media player).
?Unknown, please fill me in.
W/Short for "With".
MPEG2Unencrypted DVD-Quality video.
VOBDVD Video OBject files.
SSEIntel's 'Streaming SIMD Extension' Math-Extension (Speed up) for Pentium 3.
3DNow!AMD's Math-Extention (speed up) for their K6/3D processor line.




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