DVD Player, DVD Copy, Video Converter

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* License: Adware FREE
* OS: Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, 98, Me
* Requirements: DirectX 9.0 or higher
* Publisher: Cliprex Video Software
* Homepage: http://www.cliprex.com

Cliprex DVD Player software is the free solution for playing DVDs on the PC. Cliprex DVD Player Professional will handle playback of both commercial and consumer-created DVDs. Beside DVD video it supports most well known video standard formats, like DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, ASF, Video CD, Super Video CD and any other Videofile you have the codec installed for.

This software DVD player gives an impressive video and sound quality with an easy navigation interface through a context menu. Features are: Automatic aspect ratio, audio stream selection, selection of available subtitles, easy chapter selection for the DVD menu, bookmarks management, angle selection, resume option of a specific DVD, fullscreen/desktop play and more options. This version of Cliprex DVD Player Professional is free for viewing DVD videos and other videos on a home PC or NoteBook computer

The DVD player supports any codec and movie types that are supported by Windows video players, and will play smoothly and on full screen any type of movie and video you will wish to watch.

This software also provides full support in all types of foreign language subtitles, to automatically embed and watch the videos with the matching subtitles by name.

Powerful, yet so simple that anyone, new or experienced, can use it. In a few simple steps, you can burn your multi-media files like MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, DivX, VdiX, MS MPEG4, RM, RMVB, MOV, QT, WMV, WMA, ASF and more on movie DVDs, VCDs or SVCDs. Its authoring and recording capabilities create movie DVD - not just data DVD with wma, for example. So you can play your high quality movie copies on your home VCD or DVD players. Or on your PC using your computer’s DVD player. Using its clear, quickly navigable interface, you can adjust the output quality settings by simply moving the quality slider to preset options. Or define advanced variables like frame rate and bit rate yourself. So you can upload your movies from your web cam or video recorder and burn them on DVD forever. Or make DVD copies of movies your friends and family send you over the Internet to enjoy on home DVD players attached to your TV or PC. And enjoy the quality experience that Smart DVD creator offers even more!

Assuming that the content is on the disc, basic DVD Players offer language choice, special effects, parental lock, programmability, digital audio output, support for multi-angle movies and the playing of audio CDs. The feature set increases with more expensive players. Simply put, the more you spend on a player, the more formats you will be able to play and the picture and sound quality will be better.

Multi-region players: Film studios, keen to protect release dates, price differentials and the amount of information given in certain markets, originally imposed a constraint on DVD Players by restricting which countries DVDs play in. All pre-recorded DVDs have one of six regional codes and region-locked DVD Players can only play DVDs from the same region. So, for example, a Region 1 player (USA and Canada) can only play Region 1 films. Multi-regional players can play DVDs from any region allowing for the widest choice of DVDs.

Zone Countries
Zone 1 USA, Canada
Zone 2 Europe, South Africa, Japan, Middle East (including Egypt)
Zone 3 South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Zone 4 Australia, New Zealand, Latin America
Zone 5 Africa, India, Asia
Zone 6 China
DVD types: In addition to regional format variation, DVD formats can vary in other ways. Common formats are DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD Ram. Not all DVD players can handle all the formats - so it is worth checking before you buy which format it is that you will most likely use.

Multi-disc players: If you’re going to use your DVD player and associated sound system to play your CDs think about a multi-disc player. Sometimes referred to as DVD Jukeboxes they can store multiple DVDs or CDs. 30 discs is a reasonably common limit.

DVD audio: Any DVD player will play CDs but some will play newer types of audio disc (DVD-Audio or SA-CD) which offer better sound quality than a standard CD. Only more expensive DVD players and hi-fi equipment are compatible with these discs.

Digital surround sound: Utilises the information on the DVD to provide sound quality almost equal to cinema sound. This is accomplished by converting the audio track into signals for each individual speaker - usually five speakers and one sub-woofer used for low frequency effect. Dolby Digital and DTS are two popular surround sound formats.

MP3 playback: Some DVD players, especially portable ones, can play MP3 digital music files and other audio files from inserted media.

VCD playback: A popular movie format in Asia, Video CDs or VCDs are cheaper and lower quality than DVDs. They are stored on standard CDs, which means they do not have room for extra features. Many DVD players also play VCD Playback movies.

Display photos: Certain DVD players can also display digital photographs on your TV. These must be stored on a compatible disc.

CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs: Some DVD Players can play audio and video content created on your computer. This can be played from recordable CDs or DVDs on CD-R, CD+RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs. Not all DVD Players can perform this function.

Bookmarking: Bookmarks allow you to store favourite scenes or places in a disc. More expensive players allow you to store bookmarks for several discs and remember them even if the disc is removed.

Resume: If you are going to view your discs repeatedly, the ability to resume where you left off can save a lot of searching. Multi-disc resume means that the player will remember where to start on up to 30 discs.

While DVD players may have been around for less than a decade, the rapid change in the market is similar to other electrical consumer goods. Features that existed on the most expensive models alone are now found almost across the range. Meanwhile, new technological improvements aimed at exploiting the capabilities of digital high-definition TVs are being introduced at the top end. To help you make the right choice of DVD player we have outlined what you can expect to find on basic, advanced and expert models.

Beginner
Choose a basic player if you just want to rent or buy pre-recorded DVDs and play them back using a player and an existing analogue TV set. With any basic player, you’ll get excellent picture quality, CD-quality sound and the ability to select scenes, see special features, and enjoy any added features included on the disc. And there will be no fading of picture or sound quality that repeated playing of a videotape is likely to produce. If you are not going to use the player as part of your sound system than a single disc player is cheaper and will take up less room. Basic players will have a remote control and will connect easily to your TV. They will also be able to read multiple formats including, among others, CD audio and MP3 files.

Cliprex DVD Player software is the free solution for playing DVDs on the PC. Cliprex DVD Player  will handle playback of both commercial and consumer-created DVDs. Beside DVD video it supports most well known video standard formats, like DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, ASF, Video CD, Super Video CD and any other videofile you have the codec installed for. This software DVD player gives an impressive video and sound quality with an easy navigation interface through a context menu. Features are: Automatic aspect ratio, audio stream selection, selection of available subtitles, easy chapter selection for the DVD menu, bookmarks management, angle selection, resume option of a specific DVD, fullscreen/desktop play and more options. This version of Cliprex DVD Player Professional is free for viewing DVD videos and other videos on a home PC or notebook computer. The package also contains free codecs.

Windows 98 contains several components to enhance your multimedia experience, whether you are creating, displaying, or simply playing titles. The multimedia features(DVD Player) of Windows 98 include Microsoft DirectX®, the Media Control Interface (MCI), AutoPlay, and improved support for multimedia files and devices.

DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow applications to gain access directly to a system’s multimedia hardware. The DirectX APIs included in Windows 98 can be broken down into the following components:

• DirectDraw®, a 2-D graphics interface, supports accelerated animation techniques by providing direct access to bitmaps in off-screen display memory as well as extremely fast access to the blitting and buffer-flipping capabilities of a computer’s video adapter.
• DirectSound® provides an interface between applications and an audio adapter’s sound mixing, playback, and capture capabilities.
• Direct3D®, a 3-D graphics interface, supports the 3D-rendering functionality built into modern display adapters.
• DirectPlay® allows for easy connectivity of games over a modem link or network.
• DirectInput® provides functionality to process input from joysticks, gamepads, keyboards, mice, Human Interface Device (HID) devices, and force feedback devices. Although DirectInput is similar to Windows 98 input components, it provides advanced joystick input capabilities for games and scalability for future Windows hardware input APIs and drivers.
• DirectAnimation™ makes it possible to have titles that combine different types of media, such as images, 3-D objects, sounds, movies, and text, where any or all the media types can be animated and respond to user input. DirectAnimation enables multimedia content on Web pages, on your desktop, and in standalone titles.
• DirectShow™, formerly known as ActiveMovie™, provides support for a Digital Video Disk (DVD) Navigator/Splitter, proxy filters for video and audio streams, a video mixer, a video renderer, and an audio renderer.

Media Control Interface

The Media Control Interface (MCI) provides applications created for Windows 98 with device-independent capabilities for controlling such media devices as audio hardware, videodisc players, and animation players. This interface works with MCI device drivers to interpret and run such MCI commands as pause, play, and stop.

MCI provides a set of core commands for a broad range of media devices. For example, MCI uses the same command to begin playback of a waveform-audio file, a videodisc track, and an animation sequence. It also provides extended commands for using particular device types with unique capabilities, such as a frame-based time format used in animation. For more information about MCI drivers and commands, see the Microsoft Windows 98 Device Development Kit.

A device type identifies a class of MCI devices that respond to a common set of commands. Table 12.1 lists the currently defined MCI device types.

DVD Player (also known as dvdplay.exe) was a computer program included in some versions of Microsoft Windows that autoplays a DVD disc if a supported MPEG-2 decoder was present. DVD Player was introduced in Windows 98[1].

When the DVD Player is launched, it searches all local drives in alphabetical order, starting with the C drive, looking for a Video_TS folder. When this folder is located, the data file within it is loaded, and video streaming begins. If this folder exists on a drive that comes before the DVD drive, the player will try to play the data in the first folder it finds.

In Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000, DVDPlay.exe only plays DVDs if a hardware-based decoder is present. In Windows Me, DVDPlay supports software-based decoders. [2]. With Windows XP, DVDPlay.exe was dropped as a separate application in favor of DVD functionality introduced into Windows Media Player. While the DVDPlay executable still resides in %Windir%system32, it simply executes Windows Media Player.