PotPlayer
Minimalist video player that supports 3D video, Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode, and sound card selection.
What is PotPlayer?
Potplayer is a minimalist media player that has an extensive range of configurable options to choose from and lots of functionality.
The application supports Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, and countless other media formats. It can be configured to work with various devices such as TV or HDTV, and supports Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode and Overlay.
Other features:
- You can take snapshots of the media you are viewing and save as a JPEG file.
- No need to install different codecs all the time when using the player.
- Provides the maximum performance with the minumum resource using DXVA, CUDA, QuickSync.
- Immersive Viewing Experience with 3D. Supports Various Subtitle Formats.
Bundleware
Several antivirus detect a potentially unwanted application (adware) PUA.FusionCore in the file F.dll dropped by the installer of PotPlayer in the Temp folder. Once that file is blocked by the antivirus, the program is installed with no problems and ads.
PotPlayer Screenshots
PotPlayer Features
- Customizable
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Graphical User Interface
- Support for subtitles
- Skinnable
- Playback speed control
- Integrated Codecs
- Minimalistic
- Screen Recording
- Thumbnail preview
- Video playback
- Capture image from video
- Playlists management
- Live Broadcasting
- Album shuffle mode
- Built-in subtitle search
- Full keyboard shortcuts
- Double subtitle support
- Selection playback
- Built-in Equalizer
- Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration
- Matroska
- Skin Randomization
- Live Looping
- Bookmarks that appear on the seek bar
- Touch-based
- Support for Intel Quick Sync acceleration
- A-B repeat
- Automatic subtitles download
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Gapless Playback
PotPlayer information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Media Player
- Audio Player
- broadcasting
- 3d-video-player
- themable
- television
- command-line-start
- Youtube player
- avi
- Video Player
- high-definition
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
Another way is to disable the internet before installation.
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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.
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Perfect. I have yet to find any flaws in this program or a feature it lacks. The best video player I have ever used by far.
Nice One. Nowdays minimalism is not really necessary for video players.
The player works with every file I ever tried opening, even H265. It has real-time audio normalization you can enable. It makes watching anything much better. The UI is pleasantly dark by default.
Hardware acceleration makes it exceedingly fast to quickly scrub through the timeline. It is jam-packed with features and options. Menus are quite dense, though.
People claim it displays ads, but I haven't personally gotten any. I've scanned the setup, and it didn't contain any adware. Maybe it was deleted or people downloaded from a 3rd party? I'm not sure, but it works fine for me.
It's a good alternative to VLC. If you need to scrub through the videos fast, then there is really no competition.
With so many completely freeware media players on PC there is no reason to use one with ads even if they can be disabled or blocked
the reason is this player is insanely feature-rich and customizable like no other
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