There were no major hiccups though panning of detailed city- and nature- scapes wasn’t quite as smooth as with a top-end TV. You can almost always make a movie look better in PowerDVD than in other players.Īs to that, I played all the 2160p (4K UHD) and 4320p (8K UHD) test material I use to test TVs, on my 2015 iMac (running Windows 10) with its Core i5-6500 and AMD Radeon R9 M380 GPU. While VLC and Media Player Classic will serve most users quite well, they don’t offer the ease and breadth of PowerDVD’s True-this and True-that video enhancements discussed above. If any of you movie buffs recognize it, let me know. Cyberlink’s wasn’t bad this one’s better. Lastly, the company has moved from its own movie info database to a third-party repository of film knowledge with nice results. Don’t ask me why I thought of that.Ĭyberlink has added the facial recognition/tagging featured in its other products to PowerDVD’s image section, which also plays into the new social aspects of PowerDVD. This can save quite a bit of time you’d otherwise spend memorizing the last location (tough when you’re falling asleep) and scrolling, and eliminates the possibility of ruining the suspense when you accidentally skip past your last location. If you only use it lightly, the perpetual license with less capacity might make more sense.Īnother new feature is “resume.” If you’re like me and don’t always finish a movie in one sitting, you’ll appreciate that PowerDVD now offers to take you back to where you left off. The 365 rental version is renewable in and of itself, and being only $55, is likely the better deal if you make heavy use of the cloud services. Higher-resolution videos will be transcoded to 720p or 1080p resolution.ġ00GB of Cyberlink Cloud storage is provided free for one year with the perpetual version of PowerDVD 20 Ultra, and can be renewed for $10 per 10GB per year, up to a maximum of 100GB. Note that videos are transcoded to 720p or 1080p resolution as necessary during uploads.Ĭyberlink’s Cloud can be used to store, share, and stream your movies.
The aforementioned Android and iOS apps allow viewing on the go, and you may share links with your friends, who can use those apps for free as well. New featuresĪs I mentioned up top, by far the most compelling new feature in PowerDVD 20 is the leveraging of Cyberlink’s existing online storage infrastructure for storing, sharing, and remotely viewing your movies. You can find the complete comparison of the versions here. Cloud sharing and streaming aren’t provided with these versions, either. The standard ($50) and pro ($80) versions don’t support all the advanced technologies, which honestly, some users won’t need. If it’s a hot new thing, or was a hot new thing at one time, Cyberlink has added support-at least to the Ultra version. The $100 Ultra and 365 ($55 annually) versions of PowerDVD support all the latest (and not so latest) technologies, including 3D, 360-degree video with spatial audio, 8K UHD, HDR and more. You can even cast to your TV using Cyberlink’s Android and iOS apps, which are free. It also “pins” YouTube videos for offline viewing. PowerDVD 20 will stream videos from various sources, including any local DLNA server (such as the NAS box I use to store my movies), YouTube, and Vimeo. Especially with older or lower-resolution material. VLC version 2.7.8 has been tested on iOS 10.3.3 and found to be vulnerable.PowerDVD’s TrueTheater enhancements can make a world of difference in the quality of video playback. CODE : - (NSObject *)_httpGETDownloadForPath:(NSString *)path Vulnerable / Tested Versions URL : METHOD : GET EXAMPLE : The source code excerpt below shows the vulnerable code of the mobile app: The example below shows how the LFD vulnerability can be exploited. Proof Of Concept 1) Local file disclosure An attacker can read any files which can be accessed with current application privileges. The ‘Sharing over WiFi’ feature in VLC for iOS is vulnerable to a local file disclosure vulnerability. Vulnerability Overview/ Description 1) Local file disclosure SEC Consult recommends not to enable “Sharing over WiFi” feature in VLC for iOS which allows wireless file transfer to/from PC until a thorough security review has been performed by security professionals and all identified issues have been resolved. The identified vulnerability allows attackers to steal arbitrary files (accessible by the app) from the mobile device. “VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.”