PotPlayer

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.

KMPlayer is dead as in dead, the original other left the development long time ago and its development has stopped, its developer however started another project called POTPLAYER, which is in my opinion KMPlayer improved+features.

PotPlayer is a comprehensive freeware video and audio player, that also supports TV channels, subtitles and skins. Done by the same Korean author as The KMPlayer. It works w/ madVR/HR/EVR and Reclock of course…it’s a much improved/faster version of KMPlayer, including ffdshow and some other stuff to connect to a Korean-only video/chat network. Plenty of features and rich customization. It gives its users great control over its functions, allowing modification of the video speed, adjusting the audio volume, decrease or increase contrast and brightness. Also, several skins are available so that users can match the appearance of their video player to the theme of their OS. Player contains internal codecs and there is no need to install codecs manually.

PotPlayer supports seamless playback (up to 1000 -one thousand – AVI/ WMV/ MKV/ MPG files at once, mixed containers are allowed), auto-resume on the last 200 opened files, has fully configurable XML skin files and also a D3D exclusive mode. Other key features include WebCam/ Analog/ Digital TV devices support, gapless video Playback, DXVA, live broadcasting.

PotPlayer supports almost every available video formats out there (such as AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, M2V, MTS, DPG, WebM, AMV or DivX) formats. Also supports a wide range of audio formats (including, but not limited to WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC, RA, FLAC and MOD), and recognizes several playlist formats (like M3U, ASX, PLS, WVX or CUE).

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

I used VLC for years, I had no idea that there was this perfect free thing waiting for me!

The best video player. I was using vlc but after i tried PotPlayer i can say that this one is much better! I like that you can click 0 and zoom to make it fullscreen if there black bars.

I searched a player with frame thumbnail preview like YouTube and Netflix has. I found this and I just can say, I'm overwhelmed how good this player is. Much better than VLC. This should be the new standard for Windows. Everyone who installs VLC automatically as standard video player should have a look on this. I'd also make this as standard on MacOS, but sadly there is no version for this.
To activate thumbnail preview, go to Settings, Playback and activate "show thumbnail previews".
The player is very fast, intuitive and has many settings, always available per right-click.
I can just recommend to test it right now if you have a Windows machine. This is a proper replacement for VLC.

Simply the best player on the globe, what a waste of money PowerDVD was :(