The region code for the player and the
DVD is displayed here along with the DVD-ROM drive designation.
Display Information
Video Mode
Display Mode: N/A is
displayed during stop mode. Usually DDraw (DirectDraw)
is shown if hardware was set up properly. If GDI is displayed, the
VGA card driver or Microsoft DirectX driver was not installed properly.
FourCC: Four
CC is a Windows' designation for the digital video format
standard. Often YV12, YUY2, UYVY, or MCS3 is displayed which may
include other formats. After installing PowerDVD, the diagnostic
program will automatically determine the best format. However if
Display Mode shows GDI, N/A is displayed for this field.
Surface Type: The default
commonly used that supports display captions is the overlay
mode.
NOTE: We recommend using DDraw compliant display cards so as to
utilize the Overlay feature.
Video, Audio, and Subpicture Attributes
These attributes outline the statistics of the current DVD or VCD and
only some will be explained briefly. Please refer to the Appendix for
more information. For the video attribute:
The compression mode for DVD
is MPEG-2 and for VCD, MPEG-1.
The first figure for TV system is
the number of horizontal lines. The second is number of fields (e.g.
525/60 is standard for NTSC television signals).
The aspect
ratiodepends on the DVD title. 16:9 is the ratio for
most widescreen titled DVDs and widescreen televisions nowadays.
Source picture resolution is
the size of the resolution. The MPEG-2 or DVD standard is 720 x 480.
Frame
rateis number of frames per second. 30 is the standard
for NTSC and MPEG-1 and 2.
Source picture letterboxeddenotes
if DVD title is letterboxed (ratio is 4:3).
Bitrate is the bitrate size
for the particular scene that is being decoded.
For the audio and subpicture attributes:
The audio coding mode
is the decoding mode, for example, Dolby
Digital AC-3.
The sampling
ratedetermines the sound frequency range. The higher the
better quality.
Number of audio channels and streamsbasically
calculate the number of streams (i.e. languages, commentaries or
karaoke). Each stream will have a different audio channels' sum. For
e.g., some streams may support Dolby Digital 5.1, and some may just
be your basic 2 channels.
Bitrate is naturally a lot
smaller in size as compared to video here and is measure in kilobits
per second as opposed to megabits per second.
For the Subpicture
attribute, there is only a tally of the number of subtitles available
along with closed captioning.
Hardware Information
Hardware Information displays which CPU instruction
sets PowerDVD is optimized for:
The 