What are the limitations of CyberLink PowerDVD Essential?
Certain premium features are accessible during the 7-day trial period. However, once the trial period ends, these premium features will no longer be available.
Limitations:
- VC-1/H.264/Blu-ray format playback in the Essential version is limited to systems with hardware acceleration.
- Does not support the playback of HEVC/H.265/VP9/HDR video content.
- Does not support audio extraction from video files.
- Does not support CD audio ripping.
- Does not support DSD audio.
- Does not support TrueTheater HDR.
- Does not support HEIF/HEIC photo file.
- A CyberLink account is required.
- Video playback quality to media casting devices may be reduced due to hardware encoding limitations.
The following premium features unlocked for 7 days:
- Video disc and ISO playback (Blu-ray, DVD).
- AVCHD/AVCREC playback.
- Media Casting to Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast and Apple TV.
- Upload, download, and sharing media to CyberLink Cloud.
- TrueTheater Video and Audio enhancement.
- 360 Video/Photo playback and VR headset support.
- Photo Face Recognition
- YouTube/Vimeo content playback.
- Media library sharing via home network
- Advanced audio codec and effects support.
- Video mark in/out.
- Alpha MOV video playback.
- Karaoke Tool.
- 2GB of free storage on CyberLink Cloud (Media content on CyberLink Cloud may be deleted when the trial expires)
