Last night I downloaded the trial version of InterVideo's Home Theater. It promises you "all" the functionality you normally would need:
- DVD playback
- Video clips
- Music
- Pictures
- TV with PVR etc
After spending 30 min I realised that
- It didn't find any channels on my TV card (ATI and working flawlessly with ATI TV viewer sw)
- Playing divx videos from the harddisk, it didn't have any possibility to adjust the aspect ratio
- I have 150 full length movies on harddisk, and a large number of tv shows, commercials and even some adult stuff ;-) Of course, I have these stored in different folders to easily find what I am looking for. InterVideos Home Theater lets you specify all these folder, but throws every thing into one long list that is difficult to navigate.
- The picture are treated just the same as the movies. My 5.000 digital pictures thrown into one loooong list....
- And maybe the worst is the music player that works in the same way, no nice way of organising by artist, genre, album etc.
InterVideo charge 100 USD for this - IMHO - crap. Now I wonder, is it just me that didn't spend the time to understand how to configure and use this program?
- DVD playback
- Video clips
- Music
- Pictures
- TV with PVR etc
After spending 30 min I realised that
- It didn't find any channels on my TV card (ATI and working flawlessly with ATI TV viewer sw)
- Playing divx videos from the harddisk, it didn't have any possibility to adjust the aspect ratio
- I have 150 full length movies on harddisk, and a large number of tv shows, commercials and even some adult stuff ;-) Of course, I have these stored in different folders to easily find what I am looking for. InterVideos Home Theater lets you specify all these folder, but throws every thing into one long list that is difficult to navigate.
- The picture are treated just the same as the movies. My 5.000 digital pictures thrown into one loooong list....
- And maybe the worst is the music player that works in the same way, no nice way of organising by artist, genre, album etc.
InterVideo charge 100 USD for this - IMHO - crap. Now I wonder, is it just me that didn't spend the time to understand how to configure and use this program?