PotPlayer
Extensive Windows media player with wide format compatibility, robust customization, ad-free interface, hardware acceleration, advanced and animated subtitle support, smooth seamless playback, 3D output modes, scene preview, bookmarks, OpenCodec, and device support.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Lightweight
- Minimalistic
- Support for Themes
Features
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Graphical User Interface
- Support for subtitles
- Playback speed control
- Skinnable
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Integrated Codecs
- Thumbnail preview
- Video playback
- Screen Recording
- Works Offline
- Capture image from video
- No registration required
- Playlists management
- Built-in subtitle search
- Full keyboard shortcuts
- Double subtitle support
- Built-in Equalizer
- Live Broadcasting
- Album shuffle mode
- Support for 4K
- Selection playback
- Automatic subtitles download
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- A-B repeat
- Portable
- Lossless Audio
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- No Tracking
- Chromecast Support
- Matroska
- Support for Intel Quick Sync acceleration
- Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration
- Gapless Playback
- Touch-based
- Internet Radio
- Live Looping
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Recent News
Recent activities
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- kgurniak91 reviewed PotPlayer
This is my favourite player for watching things casually. It doesn't freeze or crash all the time like VLC. Has great support for changing playback speed. Also words in subtitles are clickable so you can easily look them up if you are watching in foreing language.
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What is PotPlayer?
PotPlayer is a multimedia player developed by Kakao, a South Korean company. Originally known as Daum Live, it's made for Windows and offers extensive customization, lightweight design, and supports many media formats. It optimizes performance using DXVA, CUDA, QuickSync technologies.
PotPlayer supports various 3D glasses and output formats for a 3D experience on 3DTV or PC. It handles different subtitle formats including text, DVD, Blu-ray, ASS/SSA animation, and SMI Ruby tags.
It features OpenCodec support, letting users add codecs without constant installation. It ensures smooth video play, allows sound card selection, offers scene previews with snapshots, and bookmarks for easy access. The software is compatible with Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode and Overlay, DVD, TV, and HDTV.
PotPlayer information
Developed by
Kakao Corp. Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
131 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Korean
Comments and Reviews
Are you looking features-rich media player, which at the same time has intuitive and good UI, nice design which not stuck somewhere in 2005, and at the same time lightweight? PotPlayer is totally for you. Look screenshot below. It uses less then 100MB while playing big video while, without lags, with tons of filters for video which making video much better. It support really million of different options which make your any video looks and sound like you like. It support 3d, it has good skins, and it support mostly ALL video formats. If you are looking for better MPC-HK or VLC alternative - PotPlayer is your choise.
A spot on the description. That is still available in 2024.
There is Norton bundleware in the installer. To avoid installing it, uncheck the box that agrees to the Norton terms and conditions and click the accept button. Giving this piece of crap 2 stars for the audacity of using bundleware in 2019
Edit: as of December 2019 potplayer is now serving pop up ads and I recommend no one install it
Another way is to disable the internet before installation.
I haven't seen any "Norton bundleware" in this app, but the popup ads are true. Still, this is nothing that a firewall cannot fix. And besides, PotPlayer is simply the best. If we don't install it, what must we use? "Movies and TV", Microsoft's sorry excuse for a media player, which also serves ads?
Be that as it may, freeware apps need a way of supporting their development, keeping the lights on, and pay the electricity bill.
This is my favourite player for watching things casually. It doesn't freeze or crash all the time like VLC. Has great support for changing playback speed. Also words in subtitles are clickable so you can easily look them up if you are watching in foreing language.
Minuses: 1) loads the CPU TERRIBLY. Intel Core i7 has an average load of 100% at an average temperature of 71 degrees. This is a file with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, it's SCARY to imagine what the result will be when opening a file with a resolution of 3840x2160 (4K) or 4096x2314 (full Blu-ray). OS - Windows 11 64 bit, stand-fan (6 propellers) 6 cooling speeds, 5th speed was used;
window opens in the center of the OS desktop screen ONLY after MANUALLY changing the orientation settings in the «Settings» category. Up to this point, the window of the videographic player opens SPONTANEOUSLY;
window opens in the optimal size ONLY after MANUALLY changing the resolution settings in the «Settings» category. Up to this point, the window of the videographic player opens in a random size;
playback size of the videographic file does NOT adjust to the centering and resolution parameters, even after making changes to the «Settings» category;
window of the videographic player JERKS SHARPLY to the right / left if open the «Play List» category, what 90% of modern, similar programs do NOT have;
miniature window - Preview does NOT have a smooth frame display. In 80% of cases, this is not critical, but in special situations, smooth display is necessary to save time and quickly find the desired fragment;
there is a technology for remembering the pause on the timeline during the previous viewing of the file, BUT playback starts automatically, without a suggestion, as in VLC or a color mark, as in PowerDVD;
playback speed (acceleration/deceleration) is changed ONLY by pressing keys on the keyboard. Alternative (keys on the player or mouse wheel) NOT provided;
category «Settings» is NOT intuitive, it is OVERLOADED with unnecessary, secondary information, which COMPLICATES the process of configuring the videographic player to meet the user's needs.
Pluses: 1) opens WMV and TS files that cannot be played by PowerDVD players and the new Windows Media Player (there is an image, there is no sound);
there is technology for viewing or listening to a corrupted (videographic or audiographic) file, like the «OLD man» - classic Windows Media Player from MicroSoft;
remembers the timestamp where the user stopped watching the last time and can start playing the file from that moment.
Too many options and most of them unnecessary. My first intent was to change subtitles colors and language... Ohhh My!. Will try again if I can get a a tutorial.
A free app that doesn’t have a Linux version? It could be multiplatform since it is highly praised, and I can't try it out to see if it’s my go-to player. So, minimum rating. After all, I can't even use it.
Please developers, make it compatible with Linux. We are the ones who love using computers the most in the world! We deserve you.
Incredible range of options. I especially appreviate the navigation bar thumbnails and being able to show multiple subtitles simultaneously.