A software
DVD player, written by
Intervideo
While all software DVD players have rubbish picture quality, to the extent that DVD ripped to
Divx ;-) ends up looking better
1 this software player sucks less than
most. Its nice features include:
- Operable without using stupid
skinnable hyper-l33t interface: All the functions are accessible using toolbars, or right-clicking the video.
-
hyper-l33t interface can be entirely switched off: I haven't seen any other DVD player that can do this... They must think it's helpful, or usable, or something...
- Actually
deinterlaces fields properly : Finally, a DVD player that doesn't smear the remains of the previous frame all over the place...
Anime is actually watchable using windvd. Moving objects don't grow tails.
- Displays both hardware and software region counters, and can set the drive region independently.
DVD Genie can reset its software region counter.
WinDVD can be bought online from intervideo.com, and is also bundled by
OEMs.
1 - Mainly due to the lack of interlace artifacts - DVD was designed to be viewed on a TV, DivX on a monitor...