WinDVD

This product came boxed with the DVD drive, although it retails for between £10 & £20 depending on where you buy. Installation is easy - just pop in the CD and it will autorun. According to the instructions, my PC, an AMD 400 should be able to cope and it does. There is however, a lag of a second or so, every few minutes, but after a while you tend not to notice. Initially, I found that it wouldn't work, and in fact doesn't work, if your screen is set at higher than 800 x 600. I have also found that upon start up it tends to stutter on the sound, but this is only whilst the logo loads. There are a few skins ...  Read the complete review

I have found windvd 2000 to be very good with a decent processor it can provide a very high quality picture quality but to provide a decent framerate you need at least a pentium 2 400mhz it is very easy to use and the manual is excellent as it gives very detailed information . i would recommend this for the beginner with a high powered system an other alternative to this is powerdvd wich is faster but is a little bit harder to set up. so if you have a powerfull system and fast dvd drive buy it now! ...  Read the complete review

I got InterVideo WinDVD 1.2 pre-installed on my PC from Dell (XPS T500). It's not a bad piece of software in that is plays the DVD's well, even the Matrix, which I am told is a bit of a challenge (the software that came on the Matrix disk couldn't manage it!). I do get the occasional judder which seems to coincide with a hard disk access. I do not know if that is my PC doing something in the background or if it is WinDVD. It is not a great problem anyway. WinDVD has all of the controls that you need, i.e. play, pause, FF, REW, next/prev chapter, switch subtitles or language, changing contrast and colour and so on. These can be accessed by right ...  Read the complete review

WinDVD 2000 v2.0, was heralded as one of the best, if not the best, software DVD players around. Still, there was a large number of people who prefered PowerDVD 2.55, due to a number of features that was missing in WinDVD 2000. With the release of WinDVD 2000 v2.1, Intervideo has set out to tackle these missing features head on, and as you're about to find out, the result is promising. Decoding efficiency This decoder is still less efficient than Cyberlink PowerDVD 2.5.5's decoder, although WinDVD makes up for it in greater quality visuals and audio. Compared against version 2.0, 2.1 seems to perform around the same, perhaps even a little slower. CPU ...  Read the complete review