Elecard DVD Player is available
for purchase now at their website. Calling their player "stylish yet
intuitive" and sporting a set of useful features, a 15 dollar price tag may
make this a desirable addition to your software arsenal. The player allows the
user to play DVDs or media files/a
list of files. It provides high resolution and full quality playback of MPEG -2 and MPEG -1 video streams
based on Elecard MPEG 2 Video Decoder. The
built-in MS DirectShow decoders enable Elecard DVD Player to play a
number of common multimedia formats, such as AVI, WAV, MP3, and MOV.
Among the player features are full resolution DVD video playback at
720x480x30fps for NTSC and 720x576x25fps for PAL; hardware acceleration support;
deinterlace modes support; playlist creation, editing and playback; ability to
select the language of menu, audio, subtitles; ability to play each media file
in a new player instance; subtitles (closed caption) support; subpicture
support; variable playback rate (step-by-step modification from 0.1 up to 2.0 of
normal rate); shuffle playback of the playlist.

The Elecard DVD Player
features:
- Full resolution DVD video playback at 720x480x30fps
for NTSC and 720x576x25fps for PAL.
- Hardware acceleration support
- Deinterlace modes support
- Half vertical, half horizontal or quarter
resolution decoding support
- Full Screen mode.
- Always on Top (provides player position over other
windows).
- Auto Save of the Player and Video window position.
- Auto Save of the last media folder.
- Auto Resume
- Playlist creation, editing and playback.
- Sound control
- Brightness control
- Ability to select the language of menu, audio,
subtitles.
- Subtitles (Closed caption) support.
- Subpicture support
- Ability to select the DVD location.
- Ability to resume the DVD titles playback from the
last played scene.
- Ability to play each media file in a new player
instance.
- Repeat playback.
- Shuffle playback of the playlist.
- Hot Keys setting and editing.
- Variable playback rate (step-by-step modification
from 0.1 up to 2.0 of normal rate).
- Quick switching between files in the playlist or
between the DVD chapters.
Specifications and Supported
formats:
Elecard DVD Player allows playing a number of common
multimedia formats (AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV etc.) using the built-in MS
DirectShow® decoders.
Video:
MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2) MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC
11172-2)
Audio:
MPEG-1/2/2.5 LPCM ATSC A-52 (S/PDIF
passthrough support)* AC-3 (S/PDIF passthrough support)*
* - ATSC A-52/AC-3 audio streams are redirected to
S/PDIF output. Its software decoding is
unavailable.
System and hardware
requirements:
MMX-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium III, Celeron, AMD®
Athlon, Opteron etc.). 128 MB RAM. Any VGA card. About 3.5 MB
of free disk space
Software Requirements
Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP/XP Media
Center.
Installation:
Unzip the delivery pack and run Elecard DVD Player
Setup, follow the onscreen instructions. When setup has finished
installing all of the necessary files on your computer, the Elecard DVD
Player has been successfully installed dialog box will appear, and the
program is ready to run. You do not need to reboot your computer.
Notes: Upon the evaluation
mode there will be the Elecard logo placed at the top right corner
of video window. DVD Player does not allow software decoding
of AC3 audio. CSS (Content Scrambling System) decryption is not
supported.
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You can find a download
here if you want to give this software a whirl. Please let us know if you
think this is a worthy product or not!
Source: Elecard LTD