Cyberlink's PowerDVD 7 Deluxe/Standard


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And I just got PowerDVD 6. Damn.

Same here, but I purchased my at the end of April. Support said I will be getting an email in regards to a free upgrade.

I stuck with PowerDVD 5 before, and it looks like I'm still going to.

PowerDVD 6 tried to take over all my file associations without asking; I won't put up with that. It got deleted very quickly. It was nice to see they corrected this in PowerDVD 7 but the interface is really ugly and I don't see anything worth upgrading to. Product activation, whoopee. As if I haven't had enough of that already. No thanks Cyberlink, PowerDVD 5 works just fine, has a nice interface, and that's the end of the line for me. I just want to watch movies on my PC from time to time. If I want a home theater experience guess where I'm going to go watch my DVDs? That's right, my living room.

You can edit the skin by editing Mercury.dll with a Resource Hacker. :)

Here's a screenshot of my edited skin...

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You can change the colour themes by right clicking the time display.

It also has a Taskbar Skin (Right click on the Taskbar -> Toolbars -> Select PowerDVD 7).

when you edit that background do the icons(DTS, Neo, CPRM, AAC) stay?

Looks like they've done some work on Adaptive CyberLink Eagle Vision 2 (CLEV-2).

My Althon XP 2700+ (Barton) couldnt handle it in PowerDVD6, but it works and looks great with PowerDVD 7. Still uses about 75% CPU since theres no hardware acceleration, but I'll take it. Even works on HD content (ts streams).

when you edit that background do the icons(DTS, Neo, CPRM, AAC) stay?

You can change the position or remove the icons by editing or removing the FeatureIcon part in Skin.xml.

Here's a skin without the icons, GreenFields background + some other changes...

? ?post-20663-1147166643_thumb.jpgGreenFields.zip (2,65 MB)b>

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which file in reshacker is the background? tnx
hey herby i wanted to just change the color of the bg on the Onyx skin but which file do i edit in ResHack i would also like to know please, thanks :)

How to remove the Glasses, the DVD logo, the Feature Icons and change the background:

Open the skin file (dll) with a resource hacker and edit the following files:

Resource.xml:

You can change the name of the skin in the Skin Name section.

Remove the lines with GLASS_BMP* and DVD_WORDING_BMP* (Initial Picture section).

It should look like this:

<!-- Initial Picture -->
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP16X9" file="Initial\face_1280x720.png"/>
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP4X3" file="Initial\face_1280x1024.png"/>

<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP16X9_HI" file="Initial_HI\face_1920x1080.png"/>
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP4X3_HI" file="Initial_HI\face_1920x1440.png"/>

Skin.xml:

Delete the "Glass" and the "DVD Wording" sections in the Video section.

It should look like this:

<!-- Video -->
<ResizablePage name="Display Video" DefaultWidth="768" DefaultHeight="432" MinimumWidth="400" MinimumHeight="350" 

AllowFullScreen="TRUE">
<Video name="Main Video" left="0" top="0" right="768" bottom="432" ResizeStretchX="100" ResizeStretchY="100" 

KeepAspectRatioWhenFullScreen="TRUE">

<!-- Low resolution ones (wide) -->
<Image name="Background" left="0" top="0" right="768" bottom="432" ShowInVideo="FALSE" ShowInVisualization="FALSE" 

ResizeOffsetX="0" ResizeOffsetY="0" ResizeStretchX="100" ResizeStretchY="100" BestResolutionX="1280" BestResolutionY="720">
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP16X9" left="0" top="0" right="1280" bottom="720"/>
</Image>

<!-- Low resolution ones (Normal) -->
<Image name="Background" left="0" top="0" right="768" bottom="432" ShowInVideo="FALSE" ShowInVisualization="FALSE" 

ResizeOffsetX="0" ResizeOffsetY="0" ResizeStretchX="100" ResizeStretchY="100" BestResolutionX="1280" 

BestResolutionY="1024">
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP4X3" left="0" top="0" right="1280" bottom="960"/>
</Image>

<!-- High resolution ones (Wide)-->			
<!-- <Image name="Background" left="0" top="0" right="768" bottom="432" ShowInVideo="FALSE" ShowInVisualization="FALSE" 

ResizeOffsetX="0" ResizeOffsetY="0" ResizeStretchX="100" ResizeStretchY="100" BestResolutionX="1920" 

BestResolutionY="1080">
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP16X9_HI" left="0" top="0" right="1920" bottom="1080"/>
</Image>
-->	
<!-- High resolution ones (Normal)-->			
<!-- <Image name="Background" left="0" top="0" right="768" bottom="432" ShowInVideo="FALSE" ShowInVisualization="FALSE" 

ResizeOffsetX="0" ResizeOffsetY="0" ResizeStretchX="100" ResizeStretchY="100" BestResolutionX="1920" 

BestResolutionY="1440">
<Bitmap name="FACE_BMP4X3_HI" left="0" top="0" right="1920" bottom="1440"/>
</Image>
-->
<Command name="Video"/>
<Command name="Main Express"/>
<Command name="Zoom"/>
<Hotspot region="0,0,768,432"/>
</Video>

Remove the Feature Icons -> remove the FeatureIcon part in the Video section.

Remove the Upgrade button -> remove the BigBang part in the Video Panel section.

Image:

Delete INITIAL\01.PNG ~ INITIAL\DVD_66.PNG + replace INITIAL\FACE_1280X1024.PNG and INITIAL\FACE_1280X720.PNG with the png's that you want to use.

Bitmap:

Replace PLAYBACKPANEL\THUMBNAIL.BMP with a thumbnail from your edited skin (156x105).

? ?post-20663-1148039254_thumb.jpg? Onyx_II.zip/b> ( 999 KB )

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