PCGuys / HDDVD Revived Media Player project

PCGuys Media Player project. This is a project for a media player that primarily runs HD content, but theres a few twists in the creation. The player must be capable of playing the following formats. • HD-DVD in a standard HDDVD Drive • Blu-ray • HD-DVD lite (this is HDDVD Burned to a single of Dual layer disc) • VCD • DVD This means the player must carry codec’s for the above formats as well as the UDF2.5 patch so that windows xp can read the file system. The player must recognise HDDVD lites even when inserted into a normal dual layer DVD drive. The player must be capable of setting your preferred resolution when playing from disc and must not scrutinise a machine for not having a HD graphics card eg. Laptop with 1.6Ghz cpu 1GB RAM Integrated Video Insert HDDVD attempts to play at 1080p, will not play as it can not decode fast enough. So the user can set to try 720p or failing that 480p to allow the viewing of the format even if not in a HD format, if frame rate loss is more then 20% should offer to end user to play at a lower resolution until lowest res on disc is reached. Please ask questions we must clarify this in full before a coder is picked. We will be looking to have a free version and a paid for version in the long run, but right now a beta is the target. The eventual HD Media player will only cost £4.99, so its not a massive profit project just a desire to get a decent player out there that supports all major formats. For windows, 2000 XP Vista 7