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Express Menu

Express Menu

The Express Menu provides you with quick access to many of CyberLink PowerDVD’s controls and options during playback. To access the Express Menu, simply right-click the mouse button on the video content window.

The Express Menu is separated into multiple sections, which are outlined below.

Express Menu Preferences

Select
Show/Hide Controls to select which sets of controls you would like to display in the Express menu. To hide a set of controls, just deselect it from the list.

Basic Controls

Playback Controls

Includes basic playback controls (Play, Stop, Pause, etc.) for CyberLink PowerDVD.

Go To

Use the
Go To option to quickly select a chapter or navigate among available titles, when available. The check mark signifies the current playback title, while the arrows to the right of the title signify further selections in the form of chapters. You can also use the Browser or the Chapter Viewer windows for easier access to chapters.

Bookmark

Use the
Bookmark option to add bookmarks or jump to existing bookmarked scenes. You can also use the Browser or Chapter Viewer windows for easier access to your bookmarked scenes.

Full Screen

Select
Full Screen to toggle CyberLink PowerDVD to full screen mode.

Viewing Controls

Aspect Ratio

The
Keep Aspect Ratio option will keep the correct aspect ratio of your video content and window and apply a letterbox if required.

Stretch to Fit the Screen

Stretch to Fit the Screen stretches the movie to fit the video window.

TrueTheater Stretch*

TrueTheater Stretch feature is only available in full screen mode and is for DVD titles with a widescreen aspect ratio (i.e. optimal with 16:9 on a 4:3 monitor). It employs CyberLink’s unique Pano Vision video technology to stretch the movie to fit the monitor size.

Note: * Optional feature in CyberLink PowerDVD. Check the readme file for detailed versioning information.

Select either:

  • Smart Stretch: crops and stretches the sides of the picture slightly, while keeping the center as is.
  • Fit to Screen: keeps the center of the picture as is, while stretching the sides slightly.
  • Smart for 2.35:1: select this option for disc titles that have an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. This setting is specifically designed to maximize the display space of widescreen (16:9 or 16:10) display devices when viewing discs with this aspect ratio.
  • Custom Stretch: enables a custom created aspect ratio configured on the Aspect Ratio tab. See Aspect Ratio Settings for more information on creating a custom aspect ratio.

Pan & Scan

Pan & Scan displays the central portion of disc content and allows you to drag the display area to view all portions of the video. This feature is only available in full screen mode and is for disc titles with the 2.35:1 or 1.85:1 aspect ratios (i.e. optimal for widescreen content on a 4:3 monitor). Check the aspect ratio of your specific disc title for optimal results when using this feature.

Pan & Scan enables you to view content without the black bars, but at the expense of being unable to view the entire screen area at once. The default Pan & Scan position is centered, but you can move the video screen simply by clicking on it and dragging the screen left or right.

Digital Zoom

This is the only area where you may access this state-of-the-art feature that allows you to zoom in on any of your favorite scenes.

Note: Digital zoom is only available in full screen mode.
  1. Right click for the Express Menu and select
    Aspect Ratio > Digital Zoom
    > 4X     or
    9X    .
  2. Click and drag the screen to the area where you want to zoom in. The upper left corner of your screen will display the zoomed in area in relation (green border) to normal screen mode (white border).
  3. To return to the full screen mode, return to the Express Menu (right-click) and choose
    Aspect Ratio > Keep Aspect Ratio    , or any of the other aspect ratio viewing controls.

Preference Controls

Audio Languages

The Audio Languages menu lets you select from the available audio streams, i.e. the dialogue language. The number of audio streams depends on the disc title itself.

Subtitles Menu

The
Primary Subtitles menu is the selection menu for the default subtitles. Primary Subtitles usually display at the bottom of the screen.

The
Secondary Subtitles menu is for additional subtitles that you can choose to display along with the default subtitles.

Read-It-Clearly

Use the Read-It-Clearly feature to adjust the position of the subtitles so that you may view your movie without obstruction.

The following selections are available in the Read-It-Clearly menu:

  • Normal
    displays the subtitles in the default position.
  • choose
    For 2.35:1     to adjust the subtitles position to match movies with a 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 aspect ratio.
  • choose
    For 1.85:1     to adjust the subtitles position to match movies with a 1.70:1 or 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
  • for
    Primary Subtitles    , you can choose
    Bottom     to move the subtitles to the very bottom of the screen.
  • for
    Secondary Subtitles    , you can choose
    Top     to move the subtitles to the very top of the screen.
Blu-ray Disc Controls

During the playback of Blu-ray Disc titles*, the following extra controls are available in the Express Menu:

Note: * Optional feature in CyberLink PowerDVD. Check the readme file for detailed versioning information.
  • select
    PiP Video     to enable a picture in picture window that contains additional content, when available on certain Blu-ray Disc titles. Select the language of the picture in picture video from the
    PiP Audio Language     list.
  • when PiP Video is enabled, there may be additional subtitles available in Primary Subtitles for the picture in picture video (indicated by
    (from PiP)     next to it). When you select PiP subtitles, they are displayed on the main video.

Note: When the video in the PiP window ends or is closed, the displayed subtitles will revert back to the originally selected Primary Subtitles.
Viewing Angles

When available on some disc titles, select this option to switch among camera angles.

Karaoke

The Karaoke option is available when playing back karaoke discs. See Playing a Karaoke DVD/VCD for more information.

Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning, if supported by your disc title, is made available by national organizations and is tailored towards the hearing impaired. The captions are found in video content and in the form of text located somewhere on the picture. Closed captions, as opposed to open captions, are hidden in the video signals and need a special decoder.

Visualization

The Visualization feature allows you to watch computer-generated visualizations while you listen to music.

Show Information

When you enable
Show Information, the OSD (on screen display) displays the variable video bitrate, audio types such as Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 or DTS 5.1, and their audio bit rates. It also displays the playback time elapsed and remaining, plus the chapter and title information.

DVD Menu Controls

Select Menu

Use the
Select Menu option to quickly jump to one of the available menus. See Accessing Menus with PowerDVD for more information.

Resume

Select
Resume to return to the last scene you were watching previously. This function is best if you stopped playback by going to the disc menu, and then you want to quickly return to the last scene.

PowerDVD Controls

Settings

Provides quick access to the Settings window. Refer to Settings for more information.

Activate

Select this option to activate or upgrade your version of CyberLink PowerDVD.

About

Displays information about your version of CyberLink PowerDVD.

Exit

Closes the CyberLink PowerDVD program.

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