Thursday, February 18, 2010

Alternative to Cyberlink PowerDVD

The alternative to Cyberlink PowerDVD is to use VideoLan's VLC Player. In fact VLC is a good replacement for ALL DVD players that are either supplied with your computer (pre-installed) or that come with a drive. VLC, being opensource and having users and developers that are connected to the media community, has access to ALL KNOWN codecs. If VLC cannot play a file format I would suspect the file for possible malware.



I finally got fed up with the constant reminders to upgrade to the full version of PowerDVD that the version that came with with my BD drive displays every time I try and play a DVD.

Sure, the company has to make money, but, constantly bickering and making me dismiss the registration dialog is NOT THE WAY TO DO IT!

Even if you agree to register it tries to make you purchase the full product - THIS IS NOT REGISTRATION! (of the trial, limited functionality version that I was perfectly happy with!).

Please download and use VLC Player from VideoLan - it is free and open source.

I uninstalled PowerDVD from all my computers.


2 comments:

  1. error 0x80030309 in vlc player

    This means you are trying to error 0x80030309 in vlc player lay an encrypted file with VLC - the same will happen with PowerDVD

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