Cyberlink’s new PowerDVD 7.3 ultra is a software disc player with all the controls and features that you may fiend in any hardware player, and much more. The interface is very clean and easy to understand. The controls are at the bottom of the window and balloon help is alwayes there, so you will never be left confused. You can even control the speed of playback, and it dosen’t cause the “Chip’n'Dale” effect on voice even at high playback speeds. There are many hotkeys available during playback, as you can exercise total control with a flick of a button.
PowerDVD is not resource hungry-on our modest computer, it starts up in a second and plays HD clips with complete ease. It supports native hardware acceleration provided by most modern graphics chipsets and takes advantage of it to take the load off the CPU while rendering HD video. playback is stutterless and audio was crisp and clear thanks to the smart de-interlacing support. CLEV-2 is a proprietary video enhancement technology from Cyberlink that detects vidio content and dynamically adjusts brightness/contrast/ saturation ratios for a better viewing experience.
Cyberlink Pano Vision is a non-linear video stretching technology that is used to stretch the video to your desktop resolution with minimal distorion. All speaker configurations are supported, and there are a host of different audio modes, such as Dolby Headphone that creates a virtual surround sound experience while using headphones, Dolby Virtual Speaker that creates virtual surround sound through two speakers, etc. Some of the newer sound technologies supported are Dolby Pro Logic Iix, Neo:6, and SRS TruSurroundXT. DivX, DVD (MPEG-2), DVD+VR, DVD-VR, DVD-Audio, VCD (MPEG-1), SVCD, MiniDVD formats and DVD files on hard drive are all supported. For HD aficionados, PowerDVD also supports blu-ray as well as HD DVD with support for the H.264 format. There is also a See-It-All OPtion THat will adjust the playback speed of your movie so that you can watch an entire movie before your laptop battery runs out . This software is a worthy buy.

Media Player Classic might look like the old Microsoft Windows Media Player 6, but is in fact one of the most used media players around.
At around a megabyte in size, the player is much more compact than VLC or any of the others.
Lets look at some of the most important and useful features that also make Media Player Classic the player of choice for many.

Make it a default player:
View > Options. Click on Formats and then chose the formats you want the MPC to be the default player.

Fixing Audio Delay:
View > Options Click on Internal Filters > Audio Switchers. Enter a value Audio Shift in milliseconds.

Enter a positive value to have a audio delayed or a Negetive Value to have the video delayed.

Boosting Audio:
View > Options Click on Internal Filters > Audio Switchers. Now drag the slider to desired position. This may cause drastic audio if you slide it way too high.

Saving Screenshots:
Pause at your desired frame and then File > Save Image. If you want thumbnails from entire video clip, click on File > Save Thumbnails. Enter a file name and the number of rows and columns you want, click Save. An Image Sheet with the thumbnails and information on the video file will be saved.

Subtitles:
Media Player Classic has supported subtitles for quite a while now. However, there are a few changes to the renderer that need to be done before you can actually view them. Click on View > Options. Choose DirectShow VMR7 or VMR9 (renderless). Click OK and restart Media Player Classic. Now open the movie you want to watch, click on File > Load Subtitle and point to the subtitle file you have. You can customize the way of subtitles are rendered. Go to View > Options > Subtitles > Default Style. Here you can set the subtitles settings such as position, font, color, transparency etc.

Quick Shortcuts:
Play/Pause : Space Bar
Stop : .
Volume Up : Up Arrow
Volume Down : Down Arrow
Full Screen : Alt + Enter
Mute : Ctrl + M
Boss Key : B
Zoom In : Numpad 9 (Page UP)
Zoom Out : Numpad 1 (End)
Increase Width : Numpad 6
Decrease Width : Numpad 4
Increase Height : Numpad 8
Decrease Height : Numpad 2
Center View : Ctrl + Numpad 5