CinePlayer™ 3.2 Surround

A: To use a remote control with CinePlayer, all you really need is a PC infrared (IR) remote control. The most common PC IR remote control is the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition remote control, but there are many other 3rd party PC IR remote controls available. You should refer to the PC IR remote control manufacture for their system requirements. If your computer meets the requirements for the remote control, CinePlayer should support it as well.

A: InterActual enabled DVD's combine standard DVD video with interactive features that can present special content for PC users.

This special content can include on-disc features like music sound track, script view or image galleries, or the special content can include online links to the studio website for even more ways to interact with your DVD and other online bonus features.

A: CinePlayer can play DVD Movies, Music DVD's, and VCD discs, whether the disc was purchased at a store or created using a DVD authoring application like Sonic MyDVD.

A: Yes, CinePlayer can playback NTSC DVD's and PAL DVD's

A: DXVA (DirectX VA) is the new Microsoft standard API for accelerating video rendering under DirectShow. Some display adapters provide hardware that can accelerate MPEG2 video playback either through Motion Compensation or through advanced iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transforms) for better video playback performance. Prior to DXVA, each display adapter company had their own unique and proprietary interface for accessing these hardware capabilities to the decoder.

DXVA now eliminates the need for these proprietary interfaces. DXVA is the new API that connects the video decoder to the display driver and is only available under DirectShow. DVD players and video decoders that do not use DirectShow by default cannot take advantage of DXVA. DXVA debuted with DirectX version 8.0 and is required by WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) on Windows XP. The CinePlayer DS video decoder is completely 100% DXVA compliant and is certified by Microsoft's WHQL.

A: CinePlayer 3.2 will automatically detect and use DXVA. For convenience purposes, DXVA support can be disabled in Cineplayer on the Settings menu; select the DVD button, then the video button and change the "Hardware Acceleration (DXVA)" setting to Off. This will make Cineplayer use its internal software decoding engine without hardware acceleration support.