Gizmodo: cyberlink

CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously

Jason Chen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT

The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you're not utilizing them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you've got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple's going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily]

Best Blu-ray 2.0 Player? Could Be Your PC with CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra

Wilson Rothman — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:20:00 EDT

When we bring up Blu-ray Profile 2.0 with BD-Live, you guys are divided. Some of you say "Who gives a damn?" while others say "PS3 FTW!" But a small minority say that the PS3 doesn't meet your other hardware requirements. Well now it might not matter: by the end of this month, when CyberLink's latest PowerDVD Ultra update arrives, you can assemble your own PC-based Blu-ray 2.0 player with whatever video and audio hardware you like.

According to a press release sent out today, PowerDVD Ultra is already certified for BD-Video Profile 1.1, BD+, AVCHD and BD-RE 3.0. Adding BD-Live means making it fully 2.0 compatible. "Next-generation" disc features (Picture-in-Picture, networking, interactive BD-J, bookmarks, and advanced disc navigation) are covered. And there's support for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD technologies. In addition, the software has "optimized performance" for graphics cards featuring NVIDIA PureVideo, ATI Avivo and Intel Clear Video technology.

Blu-ray 2.0 discs are coming soon from Sony Pictures, starting with such toe-in-the-water projects as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and the slightly more respectable The 6th Day, both which include, according to Sony, "exclusive downloadable content that goes beyond what is available on the actual Blu-ray discs." Yup, sounds like a download.

The newest PowerDVD is a free upgrade for people currently using CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra, and $100 for anyone just jumping in. Of course, if you don't want the hassle of building your own BD playback system, the PS3 is still a very attractive option. [CyberLink]

Watch HD DVD Movies On Your PC For Only $300

Jason Chen — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:30:13 EST

With the combination of an Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive and Cyberlink's newest version of PowerDVD, you can easily piece together a solution for watching HD DVD movies on your PC.

First, install the Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive on your PC using these unofficial drivers. Then buy (or somehow obtain) a copy of CyberLink's PowerDVD Ultra, which supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray. That's it! All done for a price around $300.

Reader James writes in of his own experience:

1) When you simply plug-in the Xbox HD-DVD add-on drive into a PC, the Plug and Play wizard will find the drivers for the HD-DVD drive on the Internet. No need to use "unofficial" drivers.
2) To play HD-DVD's in highest resolution over digital connections, all the components in the chain must be HDCP compatible i.e. you must have a HDCP enabled graphics card and HDCP enabled display.

I have everything up and running and Cyberlink's Ultra is great software!

Thanks James! – Jason Chen

Press Release [CyberLink]

SuwonExpress Card Brings Mobile TV to Your Laptop

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:55:25 EST

ExpressCard slots seem to be getting a lot of love lately. Together with Samsung and Cyberlink, Siano Mobile has unveiled its new SuwonExpress Mobile TV card. The ExpressCard will come bundled with a software suite from CyberLink that'll include an electronic guide, TV player, and recorder. Suwon plans to showcase the card next month at CES. Pricing isn't available yet, but the more ExpressCard solutions, the better. – Louis Ramirez

Siano Mobile [via Laptoping]