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Supported Disc and Media File Formats

CyberLink PowerDVD supports the play back of optical disc and media files in the following formats.

Supported Disc Formats

AVCHD XAVC-S*, CD, BD-R 1.1/BD-RE 2.1*, BD-R 2.0/BD-RE 3.0*, BDROM 2.2*, BD-J*, BDROM Profile 1.1 (Bonus View)*, BDROM Profile 2.0 (BD-Live)*, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR, ISO, SVCD, VCD.

Supported Video File Formats

Conventional Video: 264, 265*, 26L, 3G2, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, ASF, AVC, AVI, DIV, DIVX, DVR-MS, FLV¹, H264*, H265*, HEVC*, ISO, JSV, JVT, M1V, M2P, M2T, M2TS, M2V, M4V, MKV, MOD, MOV¹, MP4, MP4V, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPV, MTS, QT, TOD, TP, TPD, TRP, TS, TTS, VC1*, VOB, VRO, WEBM* (VP9+Opus) (VP9+Vorbis), WM, WMV, WTV².

360 video: Equirectangular format MP4 (H.264/265). Supports up to 4K resolution in 2:1 aspect ratio.

HDR 10 video: H.265 in MP4, MKV, and M2TS; VP9 in WEB.

Note: ¹Only supports FLV/MOV files encoded with H.264 codec. ²Only supported on Windows 7 with OEM TV Feature Pack.

Supported Photo File Formats

ARW, BMP, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, ERF, GIF, HEIC/HEIF, JPEG, JPG, KDC, MEF, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, PNG, RAF, RAW, RW2, SR2, SRF, TIF, TIFF, X3F.

Supported Audio File Formats

AAC³, AC3⁴, ADTS³, ALAC, AOB, APE, DSD Audio* (DFF, DSF), DTS, FLAC⁵, M4A (AAC, ALAC codec), MID, MKA, MP2, MP3, MPA, OGG, RMI, WAV, WMA.

Note: * this feature is not available in some editions of CyberLink PowerDVD 22. ³ADTS and AAC require Windows 7 or above. ⁴Requires Windows 8.1 or above. ⁵Music files only.