CyberLink PowerPlayer

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About this app

PowerPlayer, the Companion App for PowerDVD

Take your home entertainment experience to the next level with the companion app for PowerDVD and PowerPlayer 365. Easily and quickly access your shared media from your wireless home network or files hosted on your CyberLink Cloud and playback on your phone or Android device. PowerPlayer enables you to binge on your favorite TV shows, movies, photos, and music from anywhere, with seamless playback when switching from one device to another. Share the fun and share your media files with friends and family, allowing them to enjoy on-demand access to movies, shows, and other media files you share with them.

Features:
- Playback media shared via home Wi-Fi network
- Playback media uploaded to CyberLink Cloud
- Seamless playback handoff between devices
- Upload media files to your CyberLink Cloud
- Create sharable links for media store on the Cloud
- Add passwords/restrictions to shared links

**Notes**
For the best experience, the PowerPlayer app requires you to have PowerDVD, or PowerPlayer 365 installed on your home computer and have activated your CyberLink Cloud account.

Share with Friends & Family is only applicable to media uploaded to the Cloud. No additional software or services are required, and playback can be performed via the free PowerPlayer app or using a browser.

Ratings and reviews

You cannot play .mkv files on this app. I have a lot of videos under the .mkv file extension in the home network. But when i try to play them through here it will not play. It says power player cannot play this media file. It turns out i also cannot change the subtitles on this app nor audio file. I have many shows that are in english and japanese. Another issue is that any series i put on the home network always gets put in a random order not by name or number in this app. Not sure what to do.

Update 2: bug resulting in music not playing in background is a issue with Android operating system. Apparently sometimes android forgets it's settings and will not be capable of resetting unless app is uninstalled. Afterwards selecting the correct settings works. This is the third time I've seen google break android in the last couple updates. These faults are getting more and more severe and none are getting addressed. Makes one want to use 3rd party OS. 5 stars!

I also experienced the PowerPlayer did not work, and I have a PowerDVD 365 subscription. I uninstalled and re-downloaded and received the error message: Something went wrong with PowerPlayer Powerplayer closed because this app has a bug. Try updating this app after its developer provides a fix for this error

What's new

Fixed an issue where the app would crash when starting to cast a video to a Chromecast device.