River Past PlayDV is a easy-to-use and flexible DV player and recorder software. You can view your DV tape on your PC. It gives you the full control over the DV camcorder connected to your PC via 1394 iLink connection. You can play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, step backward, and step forward the tape the same way you control a VCR. Comparing to other software which limits the viewing area to a tiny thumbnail, this gives you a resizable playback window. You can maximize for the finest detail, or make it small so you can do your other productive work at the same time. You can also view the video in full screen. It supports hog plug. You can connect and disconnect the camcorder and it will detect the change automatically. It enables you to record the video to a AVI-DV file, or a QuickTime compatible DV file.