I upgraded to PowerDVD 22 from 18. One thing I thought would be nice is it's ability to show individual movies and TV shows as thumbnails and hopefully getting a fix of the audio decoding of DSD to PCM. I guess I was expecting indexing something like Plex. This definetely isn't Plex. It found 1708 movies on my NAS of which it failed to identify almost 40%, so somewhere around 700 titles ( I did a sample of 200 titles). I found it had also mis-identified some (I only made it through 50 titles); for instance same title multiple different years/actors etc. There were no faces to the actors listed in the details assuming there was supposed to be. I have no intention of trying to fix this mess after a few of the unidentified movies didn't even have the right version available when I tried to fix them.

TV shows were even worse. The naming convention on my files is set up the way Plex wants them. Why would PowerDVD want something else. I'm not going to have two versions of each file with different names, that's ridiculous.

There is an option under Settings/Audio/More Audio Settings/Miscellaneous to decode DSD to PCM automatically but I still get the same errors on half a dozen movies I know are a problem in 18. My NAD M10 doesn't do DSD and the error says to "Please switch your audio source to PCM in order to play". Isn't that what the setting was supposed to do? VLC doesn't have this problem and its free.

I think I was simply ripped off, $60 bucks down the drain. PowerDVD 22 was 4 full versions higher than 18 and I don't see any additional functionality or features that matter (or work). I've uninstalled 22 and I'll go back to using 18 (which sticks to file/folder where I can actually identify what I'm playing) or when I want in Explorer by right clicking on the file and choosing "Play with...". I'm so sick of companies charging for software that simply doesn't do what they say it does or wanting users to find the problems for them; I'll certainly never buy from Cyberlink again. You shouldn't either.