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Rating by JACKXING on Jan 3, 2025 Version: 241216 OS: Windows 10 64 位 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




A longtime MPC-HC user, I switched to PotPlayer yrs ago. It's consistently been the best player I've ever used, and I look. Checking new players and updates of old. Both paid and free. IMO, nothing ever compares.

Constantly updated. Works out of the box. Loaded with customizable features to suit your needs, without being overly complicated or having to make compromises.

Review by xlux on Dec 8, 2024 Version: 241206 Beta OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Latest OpenCodec x64 (May 2024): https://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Codec/v3/OpenCodecSetup64.exe

Review by Ayaa on Nov 9, 2024 Version: 241015 / 241108 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by nitpicker on Oct 3, 2024 Version: 249315 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Best player in 2024, playes VVC, hevc, av1 without lag. Also a very good uhd 4k streaming player.

Review by V1KQ on Jun 2, 2024 Version: 240315 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




New May 16 2024 version was updated to my PC. After the install, the player would not allow me to go fullscreen! Their were two slits of video on the top of the screen. I tried fixing it...but no go. The only way to fix it was to revert to the previous version in March of 2024. Update the New May 2024 version at your own. I'll wait for the fix.

Review by Keith on May 16, 2024 Version: 2.40509 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 2/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Huh Again on Dec 6, 2023 Version: 1.722038.0 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 7/10




One of the best and FREE video players.

Review by Florin E Ionescu on Jul 6, 2023 Version: 1.7.21952 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I'm encountering alot playback hiccups with online content from YouTube in last month or two and also it takes much longer to start the playback, on latest LAV filters and Potplayer, I suppose it's not bandwith related as the problematic videos do play perfect smoothly in native browser container.

Review by Anakunda on May 11, 2023 Version: 1.7.21900 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Funkyone80 on Apr 15, 2023 Version: 22H2 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by BaSsAmMq on Jul 28, 2022 Version: 220727 Beta OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by ruyhfrdgvb on Jul 12, 2022 Version: 1.7.21759 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by stax76 on Jul 4, 2022 Version: 220420 / 220704 Beta OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by nuniao on Jun 7, 2022 Version: 220603(1.7.21639) OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by HemLok on May 28, 2022 Version: 220420 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Get rid of the spyware/beam home crap under guise of updating check(check your firewall logs to see its sneaky connections!) and you've got one terrific player!

Review by Jack on Feb 11, 2022 Version: Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Guys check this out !

4k/uhd/60fps/10bit/hevc
demo samples are downloaded from https://www.demolandia.net
dolby-vision-food- .mp4
HDR10-LG-Cymatic-Jazz- .mp4
LG-Journey-to-Space-4k- .ts


Test System:
Laptop 2016 model
CPU: Intel Pentium Apollo Lake N4200 (quad core, 6 watt total power cpu+igpu)
iGPU: HD Graphics 505 (wddma 2.1, hw d3d 12.1, hw video dx11.1)
RAM: 8GB DDR3L,1600mhz
SSD: 256MB


mpc-wanna be player
https://postimg.cc/gwVHT5zK
https://postimg.cc/62zL9vG2
https://postimg.cc/rRmGzwSh
https://postimg.cc/RqVLgXjc
a. is using wrong cpu/gpu count at your bellowed statistics with your so much love for the dx9 the missing dll.
b. mpc-be dxva2, dxva-hd,dx11,biliniar all possible settings resulting in the same under performance !
c. power usage of mpc-wanna be player is way higher !
d. all videos are 60fps but mpc-wanna be player is lagging to maximum 19-21fps and audio is gone !

potato player is the best ever media player !
https://postimg.cc/9DRhZPm2
https://postimg.cc/yDMzPJxZ
https://postimg.cc/Z96zDTvD
https://postimg.cc/YGkK5J12
potato player:
a. the best performance ever based on dx11 !
b. beautiful and rich colors, truly amazing !
c. less power consumption that mpc-wanna be player !
d. full 60fps with full audio sync play of hdr/uhd/4k all samples from start till end..amazing !

verdict mpc-wanna be player is obsolete and with the worst possible quality, it's sluggish higher power consumption, poor
programming and way under performance.
advice you better find some other hobby and close this so called project mpc-wanna be player !


full source article: https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE/issues/6

Review by potplayeisthebest on Feb 11, 2022 Version: 220210 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by CovidHoax on Jan 12, 2022 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Anonymous on Oct 29, 2021 Version: Latest OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Bruce on Oct 23, 2021 Version: PotPlayer 210929 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Covidlo on Oct 10, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by ChasVideo on Oct 7, 2021 Version: 210929 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




After version 1.7.2233 (5/29/2017) Screen Margin Settings not working. Non logical.

Review by Marko on Oct 7, 2021 Version: 1.7.21564 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Jacob88 on Sep 12, 2021 Version: 210729 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Abacaxi on Aug 20, 2021 Version: 1.7.21526 x64 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Playback on Zoom recordings in HW acceleration mode is broken. Please fix it.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/402771-why-potplayer-pixelated-when-using-hardware-encoder#post2628544

Review by savvyguy on Aug 16, 2021 Version: 210729 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 5/10




Rating by Mr.Mosharaf on Aug 3, 2021 Version: 210729 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




After reading in the change log "* Remove sponsor-related features," I tried this current 64-bit beta version today. The installer passed VirusTotal scan on all vendors, and the install itself was flag-free. So far have NOT noticed any occurrence of the corner "empty ad window popup." Runs beautifully. Caveat: as with all other versions, I have blocked potplayermini.exe for both In and Out in Windows Defender Firewall. What we all hoped would happen may have really happened. I would say, "get it while it's hot" before someone at Daum changes their mind. Note this review only applies to the version specified.

Review by svk on Jul 24, 2021 Version: 210723 Beta 64-bit OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@ blud7 - thank you for your input.

The playlist is showing filenames (hence the quotes in my review of July 15th, and here) and the filename "14 29 Palms.flac" will not appear in the playlist. The track will not play.

When the file is renamed to "14 Twenty Nine Palms.flac", the track appears and plays.

This has nothing at all to do with metadata or tags, because I've not modified any of that and it's all the exactly same in both cases. I've only changed the filename.

I've taken the trouble here to refute your dismissive one liner because this IS a bug and SHOULD be fixed.

Review by AlanC on Jul 22, 2021 Version: 210428 Portable 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




To the previous commenter, the player isn't "confused", it's just displaying the ID / META info instead of the file name.

Review by blud7 on Jul 18, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




This has become my go-to FLAC audio player with its good sound, neat informative interface and low resource usage.

BUT numbers in song titles still seem to confuse it. To explain, here's an example:
"14 29 Palms.flac" will NOT appear in the playlist
"14 Twenty Nine Palms.flac" will

Seems a simple enough thing to fix...

Review by AlanC on Jul 15, 2021 Version: 210428 Portable 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Wow... So 210708 Beta really finally removes the "sponsor-related features" (the little ad window, e.g.)??! Just may switch back to this player again! Maybe.

Review by chickinski on Jul 8, 2021 Version: 210708 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Excellent :) !!!

Review by Mircirm23 on Jun 23, 2021 Version: 210617 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




of all the paid and free players i've used over the years, with the many configuration options this player has and configured correctly, i by far get the best viewing experience with this player on my homecinema. it takes some knowledge to setup windows 10, madvr, and potplayer correctly to get that perfect picture and sound but that's true regardless of the player you choose. if you care about that then you need a player that allows you those options for both SDR and HDR content without limiting you. this player will play like any other player out of the box but unlike many players you have the options you need to taylor it for your specific setup. this player does that without being overly complex or too dumbed down. i used my previous favorite mpc-hc for years and it's another great free configurable player. IMO much better than VLC and absolutely better than any paid movie app for my purposes, albeit less configurable than potplayer. if you need inky blacks, bright whites and vivid color then you a good player setup to play on that expensive monitor or fancy 65+" hdr tv. not so much on your phone or budget monitor.

Review by johnburns on Jun 23, 2021 Version: 210617 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by anirudh.goyal on Jun 19, 2021 Version: windows 10 insider OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by slobber on Jun 5, 2021 Version: 210604 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




please update youtube media url extension

Review by teo on May 10, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




I loved POT-player when it was -REALLY- free ( and I was so lazy to avoid MPV)

Now I'm a MPV guy.

You can do (quite) whatever you want with the TOTALLY FREE MPV video player, if you are really interested in learning and understanding it.

It's the only video-player which is completely offering to you.. to be used and customized in any way YOU like and need.

It has a very steep learning curve (reading the manual gives you headaches at first and makes you cry) .. but once you GOT IT... .. .. . .

(and it's so fast.. it can use - at its best - EVERY resource in your configuration/setup/system)

MPV forever !

Review by krykmoon on May 9, 2021 Version: 0 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




OK, I was wrong about the portable version. That's what the version says when you hover over it. However, after opening it and looking at the version, it says it's the most recent. Still, WTH? And my unable to play a video without freezing was entirely Windows fault because Windows sucks! That's what happens when you rage post.

Review by cillowbrand on May 9, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Overall this is a great player. However, as others have mentioned the weird pop-up logo that appears, this review isn't about that. It's about the portable version offered here. It's from PortableAppZ, which is fine. The problem is the version states that it's 2018.12.12.23. WTF??? I expected the latest version, not this! This version keeps crashing. I can't watch an entire movie without this thing crashing. Never had this issue with the installed version. I'll have to reinstall (ugh!) if PortableApps doesn't include an x64 version.

Review by cillowbrand on May 9, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I do wonder, why people will download from this site if the software from this site also show ads from system tray nearby!!!??!! Can't you fix the installer?

Review by mdk750 on May 8, 2021 Version: 210428 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Hello people, I didn't write those ads addresses in my Host File, and I really don't see any Adware Window :S I tried to reproduce the issue but I did not encounter any problem...

Review by GyJ3 on Apr 16, 2021 Version: PotPlayer 210416 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 9/10




Always Showing Adware Window!!!
Please Fix This Bug immediately Now.

Review by MPD on Apr 16, 2021 Version: 210127 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 4/10




Like reviewer vertigo, I had the problem of not being able to access the lower right corner of the screen. I wasted an enormous amount of time looking for a solution to the problem and searched google every which way without finding an answer. I finally discovered the cause of the problem by copying and pasting text that was in the invisible window and saw a reference to Pot Player. After not using Pot Player and not having the problem re-occur, it confirmed that it was indeed Pot Player causing the problem. I suspect that the window was invisible because I was using the modified host file to block ads.

Normally, I wouldn't give a free app a low "value for money" rating, but in this case, time is money and it cost me a lot of time, so it merits a low rating there too. Functionality is also low, since it crippled my computer until I stopped using the app.

I am using MPC-BE now. It does everything I need but is a little less convenient than Pot Player was when using playlists because it doesn't save your place when you close it. I have to re-save the playlist after each use to update it to the last video I was watching.

Review by Cabron on Apr 11, 2021 Version: [210127] 1.7.21419 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




best media player, easy to use but BEWARE it have hidden ads which show as one pixel and because they use several ads provider, they sometime include malware

be sure to block it using host file

127.0.0.1 p1-play.edge4k.com
127.0.0.1 p2-play.edge4k.com
127.0.0.1 p1-play.kgslb.com
127.0.0.1 kyson.ad.daum.net
127.0.0.1 display.ad.daum.net
127.0.0.1 analytics.ad.daum.net
127.0.0.1 play.kakao.com
127.0.0.1 stat.tiara.kakao.com

Review by TehBotolSOsro on Mar 14, 2021 Version: 210209 (1.7.21419 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 3/10




By far the best player from a functionality and capability standpoint, but it has some issues and the dev flat-out doesn't care, so it's a waste of time trying to inform him of them. And now he's including ads, which on its own isn't really an issue, since devs have to make money, but I'd rather pay money for it--and it would be worth it if the dev wasn't such an ***--and they're not even contained within the app. I was trying to figure out why I couldn't interact with things in the bottom-right corner of my screen then realized it was because of an INVISIBLE ad window by PotPlayer, even though the only instances of it I have running are on a COMPLETELY SEPARATE DESKTOP (Win10 multiple desktops). Sorry, but that's totally unacceptable. Highly recommend AVOIDING any version of this app newer than 190621, not only to not reward this scummy behavior but because having an app secretly running invisible windows, with web content no less, is a HUGE security issue. Unfortunately, last time I tried out alternatives, I couldn't find anything as good. GOM Player was probably the closest, but it had a LOT of issues.

Review by vertigo on Feb 1, 2021 Version: 201209 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 1/10




From a technical and visual point of view, unfortunately the best media player for several years. But when the manufacturer was caught with adware, I made myself out of the dust.

I also find it questionable that Videohelp praises the player as "free and good".

Because it is not. It is a spyware. Therefore only 2 points from me

Review by VidiMini on Dec 12, 2020 Version: A former Windows version OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




not portable

Review by jon on Oct 22, 2020 Version: 201021 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by bililing on Oct 22, 2020 Version: 201021 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by babonga on Oct 14, 2020 Version: 201014 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Romsryu on Sep 27, 2020 Version: 200924 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by KamiOh on Aug 31, 2020 Version: 1.7.21280 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by hi on Aug 10, 2020 Version: PotPlayer 200730 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by forone on Aug 5, 2020 Version: 1.7.21276 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by lilum on Jun 8, 2020 Version: 20063 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by zebrapois on Jun 4, 2020 Version: 200513 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by H L on Apr 15, 2020 Version: 200317(1.7.21149) OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by babonga on Apr 12, 2020 Version: 200410 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Since I changed computer in January 2019 PotPlayer stopped working properly. The problem was/is that with certain movie files, especially with "Interstellar 2014 IMAX BluRay 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 x264-MgB [ETRG].mkv", the sound saturates/clips heavily when that didn't happened before (Q9400 win10 x64 to R5 1600 Win10 x64, same soundcard).
Tried every sound setting possible, of course including lowering volumes, wav volume, mixer volumes, and all other volume settings in preferences, also audio rendering, etc.
Well, last night I found the "problem" with one setting somehow I didn't tried before.
I have it on spanish so names can be different to the way I name them, but in settings or preferences -> audio decoding -> audio codec (through output) and change in DTS the "FFmpegMinimum64.dll" which is the recommended to "OpenCodeUnity64.dll(libDCA)" (did the same with AC3 just in case and I will see the rest). Then just lowering PotPlayer volume, as long as the volume method is the predetermined, to 65 seems to be enough or in settings -> audio -> first tab "mixer level" lowering all to 40%. Every other way (wav, individual volume in volume control) doesn't seem to do anything in the sense that the clipping will still be there even when the volume is lower.

Review by Fergutor on Apr 5, 2020 Version: 200317 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This beta version has a problem when trying to use H/W to decode video! The stable version is OK!

Other than that, the program is very good! I thought it was better than the VLC or SMPlayer that I used before!

Review by Rafael Dominiquini on Mar 25, 2020 Version: 200325 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Saadi Shamsaee on Mar 18, 2020 Version: 200317 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Erkan on Mar 13, 2020 Version: 1.7 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I like Potplayer so much because it plays various Types of video files so smoothly and the Picture quality is also very excellent.But sound quality is satisfactory not to be as good as others Because the sound feels Crackling, distorted & Very poor during listening soundtracks due to low Bass frequency. Please add + Bass controls on this Player for best sound quality.
Thank you.

Pros: Highly Customizable & User Friendly
Cons: Mediocre or poor sound quality

Review by anonymus on Feb 25, 2020 Version: 200204 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by angang on Feb 5, 2020 Version: 200205 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 4/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 4/10




Beware with this software, it won't run if you block it's constant connections to internet... (even the "AdFree" version)

Review by Penetreitor on Jan 29, 2020 Version: XP OS: WinXP Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by Fry on Jan 27, 2020 Version: 191211 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Chopper73 on Jan 11, 2020 Version: 191211 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




To the two reviewers below saying it doesn't support HEVC, it does. 8bit HEVC. I haven't installed any kind of LAV filters and it runs HEVC/x265 movies and sample videos out of the box. What it does NOT out of the box support is 10bit HDR HEVC. For that you need madVR/LAVs. Also what's with that adware BS? Haven't got a single ad inside the program or in the update setup(s).

Review by hexerus on Jan 11, 2020 Version: 1.7.21097 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Unfortunately, PotPlayer(both 32 and 64 bit) doesn't support HEVC/x265 videos. So it doesn't play HEVC/x265 videos. If you want to play HEVC videos with PotPLayer. You have to install external LAV Filters, additionaly. I hope owner company of PotPlayer solves this problem as soon as possible, immediately. I checked other players. KMPlayer and GOMPlayer are supporting and playing HEVC/x265 videos.

Review by Burt Sailor on Jan 6, 2020 Version: 191211 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Full of adware now

Review by VidiMini on Jan 3, 2020 Version: all current OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Absolutely stupid they removed HEVC software playback. MPC-BE supports this just fine! Oh well.

Review by IntelliMoo on Nov 18, 2019 Version: 1.7.20977 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 6/10




VideoHelp Admin: I reviewed back on 5th March 2019 that support for Windows XP had been dropped:
"It should be noted that Windows XP support has been dropped in versions AFTER 1.7.17508.
To use on Windows XP, version 1.7.17508 or earlier is required."

I'm not sure in which subsequent version it happened, but it seems support for Windows XP has since been added back - 1.7.20977 works absolutely fine with Windows XP.

Review by mike20021969 on Nov 17, 2019 Version: 1.7.20977 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




November 2019, for new users - PotPlayer (born from KMPlayer) was originally made with the great code of MPC-HC player + parts of FFDSHOW audio-video filters. It's quite reliable (more bugs than MPC-HC), quite fast and light-weight (thanks to MPC-HC code!), with a lot of options. Very good use of system resources, video hardware acceleration implemented very well, usable on old computers (as MPC-HC!). It's used a lot in South Korea for PBS (Personal Broadcasting). Great configurability, smooth GUI, lots of external skins, the numbers of options can intimidate the average user, but everything works fine just with the default settings. BUT my advice is to use madVR as video renderer and Sanear as audio renderer. IMHO audio quality with Sanear Wasapi renderer is very good, articulate sound signature (similar to MPC-HC, much better than JRiver Media Center). Infact, MPC Audio renderer is the Sanear one implemented into the player. PotPlayer also has got a very good native support for online streaming services and videos, much better than MPC-HC + LAV Splitter + external youtube-dl. Fast opening, fast seeking, but some issues with Dailymotion videos (same for MPC-HC + internal LAV filters + external youtube-dl, no issues with MPC-BE + internal filters + internal webpage parser). VLC, from this point of view, remain unsurpassed (but the video and audio quality are poor). The internal splitter, video and audio decoder work very well, but LAV Filters are implemented in a more correct way respect to the standards. Possibility to use Avisynth and Vapoursynth scripts, implemented natively, without the help of FFDSHOW as for MPC-HC. p.s. Just a small but important tip. In the section Video - Color Spaces - YCbCr to RGB conversion use the 'Auto' function and not ITU-R BT.601. ATTENTION: as for November 2019, PotPlayer is bundled with adware, but You can skip it during the set up process. More important, it open two or three back-door internet connections to some korean (?) external server for telemetry functions, to send unknown infos about the home user. It's visible, for example, with the TCPView software made by the great Mark Russinovich - Sysinternals).

Review by Ziggy1978 on Nov 9, 2019 Version: PotPlayer 1.7.20538 X64 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Snn1452 on Oct 28, 2019 Version: 1.7.20538 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




You can avoid any installation rubbish in Windows by adding the .7z extension to the download and unpacking with 7Zip. Just leave out the $0 and $PLUGINSDIR folders. This is not my standard player, but I just tried this and it works OK. MalwareBytes Premium didn't find anything untoward. Just an option to try.

Review by AlanC on Oct 27, 2019 Version: 1.7.20538 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It was for about >3 years the best media player for windows. Functionality was awesome. Menu was smooth. Loots of options, if you wanted to change something. Fast playing 4k and HR movies. But since the developer changed to ad/spyware installer its not usable anymore :(

Review by VidiMini on Oct 24, 2019 Version: since changes to ADs installer OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 2/10




Rating by fedemas1969 on Oct 23, 2019 Version: 1.7.20538 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Just FYI, the developer provides only 64bit version of the beta since 24 Sept.
(http://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/beta/PotPlayerSetup64.exe)
32bit version will be provided only in the official release version.

Review by yonta on Oct 7, 2019 Version: latest OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




To play HEVC/x265 videos with PotPlayer , external LAV Filters have to been downloaded and installed, additionally. After that, LAV Filters have installed. PotPlayer version 1.7.2058 can play HEVC videos.

Review by Burt Sailor on Oct 6, 2019 Version: 1.7.2058 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




@Burt Sailor
That's because Potplayer removed SW HEVC decoder. You gotta have HEVC capable GPU now to play HEVC videos.

Review by yonta on Sep 29, 2019 Version: latest OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




After updated version 1.7020538, both 32-bit and 64-bit version of PotPlayer can't play HEVC/H265 vieos . So i can't use PotPlayer,unfortuntely.

Review by Burt Sailor on Sep 28, 2019 Version: 1.7.2058 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by inst on Sep 20, 2019 Version: 1.7.20538 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It's always a shame when developers resort to these tactics. "Making money by causing misery to other people" I think is what they used to call PPI's. All sorts of deceptive tactics.

I've been using this product for years since VLC kept stuttering.

Had Duam provided a way to donate I would have been happy to, but resorting to these tactics has killed it for me. I've now uninstalled it off all 10 PCs and using MPC-HC. Would definately consider coming back to PotPlayer if they remove the dodgy addons

Review by Yanta on Sep 3, 2019 Version: 1.7.19955 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 3/10




@yonta: Thanks man, you are right (it doesn't install the AV if you uncheck the "I have read..." box), but if you hadn't confirmed that, I wouldn't have tried to install it, as I had several bad experiences with antivirus programs that once installed, is extremely hard to uninstall them. On the other hand, Daum should've seen the "simple mistake" until now (it's released on 07/31), and fix it. Otherwise, I can suspect that it's not just a "simple mistake".

Review by muLineZu on Aug 10, 2019 Version: 1.7.19955 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




As said two posts below, this installer version doesn't allow to decline the bundled AV offer.

It's a pity because it was being a good package from videohelp for all these years. SAD

Review by Marc on Aug 9, 2019 Version: PotPlayer 1.7.19955 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 7/10




@muLineZu
uncheck "I have read..." and click Accept, Avast will not be installed. it's simple mistake.

Review by yonta on Aug 4, 2019 Version: latest OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




I used Potplayer for quite a while, but the new version (1.7.19955) doesn't allow to decline the AV offer - if you click on decline, it throws you back to installation directory, and so on... So, as much as I love this soft, I won't install any version that forces me to accept bundle shitware. Be aware!

Review by muLineZu on Aug 4, 2019 Version: 1.7.19955 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 7/10




Rating by sarmadi on Aug 3, 2019 Version: 1.7.19955 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Excellent media player, especially for video. Have been using for years; yet to find a better alternative for performance and customisation.

FYI - I think the reason I personally don't see any ads during the install process, is because my firewall software automatically blocks all outgoing connections.

Review by Chopper73 on Jul 15, 2019 Version: 1.7.19633 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by HaDe on Jul 15, 2019 Version: 1.7.18958 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by . on Jul 14, 2019 Version: 1.7.19633 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




containing adware: deleted from harddisk

Review by VidiMini on Jul 13, 2019 Version: deinstalled OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Rating by Jasmine on Jun 13, 2019 Version: 1.7.18958 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by K-onto-L on Jun 11, 2019 Version: 1.7.18958 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by iphone4s on Jun 7, 2019 Version: 1.7.18346 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Best media player!!!

Review by Jhon on May 30, 2019 Version: 1.7.18729 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by - on May 29, 2019 Version: 1.7.18346 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by PotPlayer on May 17, 2019 Version: 1.7.18346 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Bojan on Mar 8, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It should be noted that Windows XP support has been dropped in versions AFTER 1.7.17508.
To use on Windows XP, version 1.7.17508 or earlier is required.

Review by mike20021969 on Mar 5, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




This is my favourite but it has a serious bug.
It hiccups at transiting from track to track when playing cue+flac (or ape) album.
This happens only if the playback is started from cue (direct playback is ok but not showing tracks in the playlist).

Review by anonymous on Feb 18, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




My favourite Skin "Tempo" don't work in this software version.

Review by mist32 on Feb 18, 2019 Version: PotPlayer 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Still has that annoying problem with fluttering sound from YouTube videos or lower end AAC audio attached to downloaded streaming videos. It doesn't matter the if the size is 1080p or 360p. It still has a flutter in the sound! Please fix this. Higher end sound plays okay though. I'm still hanging on to version "804" until this problem is fixed.

Review by spudwas on Feb 12, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 6/10




The best one overall and have plenty features. It is extensible, i use Lav Filters as external Codec and its works great thought it is the best Codecs available on the internet. :)

Review by TN13 on Feb 12, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Superb!

Review by Yoph on Feb 12, 2019 Version: 1.7.17508 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by 陳柏衡 on Feb 4, 2019 Version: 2.513 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by reix2x on Jan 23, 2019 Version: 1.6.62377 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Gabor on Jan 14, 2019 Version: 1.7.16291 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Sorry. Version 1.7.16521 Beta (December 24, 2018)still has the cracking/flutter audio playback problem on low end AAC files. I'll be glad to update when this problem is fixed! Please.

Review by spudwas on Dec 24, 2018 Version: 1.7.16521 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by kavi on Dec 21, 2018 Version: 1.7.16291 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Latest update (1.7.16291) has now made the audio in lower AAC files flutter in sound. Higher bit AAC files sound good.I wouldn't have updated to the (1.7.16291)version had I known of this problem. I installed version (1.7.14804) also on my system to play the lower case AAC files until this problem is fixed!

Review by spudwas on Dec 19, 2018 Version: 1.7.16291 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 6/10




Rating by lucas on Dec 17, 2018 Version: 1.716291 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by POPOK BAYI on Dec 16, 2018 Version: 1.7.16291 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by on Dec 16, 2018 Version: 1.7.16291 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




An absolutely brilliant player with. By setting software deinterlacing to BOB (2xframe) interlaced MPEG2 captures look just as they do on TV and the hardware setting works for HuffyUV and MJPEG captures. I appreciate the video recording function too for copying out short clips.

Review by RGS on Dec 13, 2018 Version: 1.7.10667 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It gets better & better.
Now, the subtitles stand still in their frame position as it should be!

Review by Alex on Nov 15, 2018 Version: 1.7.15518 Beta OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by saewd on Nov 11, 2018 Version: 1.7.14804 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Previous problem is fixed! (very fast, I must admit)
It work perfect now, fantastic player!

Review by Alex on Nov 9, 2018 Version: 1.7.15326 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Unfortunately the capturing of subtitles doesn't work properly in this version.
In the former versions the red rectangle always corresponded its subtitle, and subtitles always came back to their position after capturing. In this version capturing the subtitles is quite unstable. I mean the red rectangle may be way above the subtitle on the upper edge of the screen, or at the next line below the subtitle. It's quite uncomfortable.

Review by Alex on Nov 2, 2018 Version: 1.7.14804 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Adi on Oct 12, 2018 Version: 1.7.13963 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by free on Oct 12, 2018 Version: 1.7.13963 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




Rating by saeed on Oct 7, 2018 Version: 1.7.13963 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Dreamer on Oct 4, 2018 Version: 1.7.13963 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by saeed on Sep 19, 2018 Version: 1.7.13963 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Personal ... kaspersky total security 18.0.0.405 is reporting viruses on the PotPlayer program., see:

File: C: \ Program Files (x86) \ DAUM \ PotPlayer \ PotPlayer.dll

Object Name: Trojan.Win32.Inject.akgvp

Type of Item: Trojan Horses

Time: Today 09/06/2018 18:11

Review by Franckdf on Sep 6, 2018 Version: 1.7.14283 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 6/10




Rating by HosseinR8 on Aug 31, 2018 Version: 1.7.14061 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Senol Aydogan on Aug 9, 2018 Version: Latest OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Cinephile on Aug 8, 2018 Version: All OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Andre on Jul 23, 2018 Version: 1.7.1.12845 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@Ladyday - It's not compulsory to update. Try disabling the auto-update option.
If a version is working for you and doing everything you expect it to, then stick with that version.

Personally, I'd rather have software that's constantly being developed/improved/having potential bugs ironed out, than one that is stagnant for months on end.

Review by mike20021969 on Jul 16, 2018 Version: 1.7.13477 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




There seems to be a ridiculous amount of updates. Every time I use it there is an update I have to sit through before I can use it.

Review by Ladyday on Jul 15, 2018 Version: [1.7.12845] 2018/06/29 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




Thanks @ Yonta
Solved

Review by anon1m on May 25, 2018 Version: 1.7.12248 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Perfect for me.
PotPlayer with LAV, MADVR, AC3Filter and SVP.

Review by Diego on May 25, 2018 Version: 1.7.12248 (x64) OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




He silently updated the 12248 installer because of the renderer bug. Redownload it from this link. http://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Version/Latest/PotPlayerSetup64.exe

Review by yonta on May 25, 2018 Version: lastest stable OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




I found the culprit = madshi video render

As soon as I add madshi in preferences/video renderer, 1.7.12248 crash.

Review by anon on May 25, 2018 Version: 1.7.12248 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Unfortunately 1.7.12248 x32 crash on video start.

Back to 1.7.12160

Win 10 x64 1803 madshi/lav nvidia

Review by anon on May 24, 2018 Version: 1.7.12248 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by no comment on May 15, 2018 Version: 1.7.1.10667 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Vesrion 1.7.10667 has some serious bugs, but 45 days after the release there is no new stable version. Why?

Review by User26 on May 15, 2018 Version: 1.7.10667 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Best player I have ever used. It has a very high level of customization options, which is both its greatest advantage and its biggest weakness. I've tweaked lots of settings to my exact personal preference, but that was pure experimentation and I honestly couldn't understand half of what I was doing. That said, I switched to PotPlayer from VLC, and would never go back to VLC, precisely because I (after exhaustive testing) found the exact settings I had been looking for in PotPlayer, which VLC did not have.

When it comes to the overall software experience, I have yet to run into a single file that PotPlayer has failed to run, meaning I haven't had even the slightest bit of regret or worry about removing VLC due to fear of file incompatibility. The developers aren't lazy either, with updates on a regular basis. Also, as a final note, I'd like to add that there are several people in this thread who reported stutter during start-up. I had that issue too, and was waiting for an update to PotPlayer to fix it. However, I had apparently disabled driver updates to my NVIDIA graphics card. As soon as I updated to the newest version of NVIDIA graphics drivers, PotPlayer now starts instantly, no delay or stutter at all. To anyone reading this with that issue, try that :)

Review by Hmmm on May 8, 2018 Version: 1.7.10667 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by adam jones on May 2, 2018 Version: 1.7.11627 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Arun G Nair on Mar 31, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




PotPlayer is a free multimedia player with plenty of features and rich customization. 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. Various output format. Supports Various Subtitle Formats. Variety of Codecs, Easy to Manage.

Best software Player Multimedia : http://www.24last.com/logiciels/logiciel-windows/45371-daum-potplayer-1710420-portable.html

Review by last_software on Mar 26, 2018 Version: 1.7.10420 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Long time happy user, lots of settings, changeable hotkeys, very light, portable, frequent updates. Cons: poor english help, you have to count on the forum(s) and power users to fine-tune it. Lately it developed a delay when exiting (to close the main window). Other than that, the best.

Review by SDude on Mar 24, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Wakaku on Mar 11, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by michse on Mar 6, 2018 Version: PotPlayer 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I also LOVE Potplayer. But yeah, the latest versions have been behaving weird.
When opening any video file there is a delay in my case, kinda stuttering of the timeglass/spinning wheel.
No problems exiting or any kind of freezes. I Have tried both x32 and x64. Same problem.

Review by esteban on Mar 5, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 x32/x64 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




I LOVE PotPlayer, but as someone already mentioned the last few versions have been slow, in my case it's really slow to open my usual videos (short 10 min video tutorials). From 10 seconds to a minute, but today I had to force it to close a few times already.

Review by Fred A. Stares on Mar 3, 2018 Version: PotPlayerSetup64-1.7.8557 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by magdoob on Mar 2, 2018 Version: 1.7.8556 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by nedkox on Feb 25, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Tomur on Feb 10, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Latest 2 versions has a seconds delay when exiting. What's going on PotPlayer?

Review by spudwas on Feb 8, 2018 Version: 1.7.8557 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




PotPlayer is simply the best media player I've used on the Windows OS. It is for the person that wants full personalization. You can set hotkeys for any function imaginable. Use any codec, filter, etc. you want and plenty of skins are available for those who'd like it to look fancy (like me). The only negative thing (though not to me) is that there are so many options that it could overwhelm somebody who doesn't want to deal with it. It's still very functional even if you don't use the options, but if you're the type that changes an obscure preference, it could be hard to find. Other than that, it's awesome.

Review by spinal_ on Feb 3, 2018 Version: 1.7.8556 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This is one of the best players I've tested, has the necessary codecs, has different rendering methods, its hardware acceleration works much better than the LAV codec, in addition to accounts that have small tools like the creation of thumbnails, record audio and video . almost perfect software, its interface can be something positive but at the same time negative since it is quite "difficult" to configure it since some configurations are only made in the contextual menu, its default skin is too robust for me, I would like something more similar to MPC HE, now there are certain options that I can not make them work, including the option "live" how does it work ?, chat? what is that? I thought it was an obsolete utility but in the changelogs I've seen that they continue to add functions to this "function".
For all this this program gets an 8/10 for those little things, easily can be arranged either by making a skin simple enough and make the most accessible settings, and it would not be a bad help file in English.

Review by JaegerFox on Jan 29, 2018 Version: 1.7.7145 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by Gopinath Mukherjee on Jan 10, 2018 Version: 1.7.7145 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Newer version:
If I choose "Haali" or "Madshi", etc in the Video Renderer preference, I can't play second movie in the playlist, Potplayer will crash. It also happen if I double click video file in Windows Explorer while Potplayer is playing something.

Stable old version 1.7.5545 work worked perfectly

My English is horrible, so gomen. I hope you understand what I say.

Review by laler on Jan 10, 2018 Version: 1.7.5545 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Ton Nies on Nov 23, 2017 Version: 1.7 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by someone on Oct 23, 2017 Version: 1.7.4257 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




PotPlayer is the best video player and very good audio player :)

Review by Hatshepsut on Oct 19, 2017 Version: 1.7.4128 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Still the best on Windoze

Review by lintah on Oct 18, 2017 Version: 1.7.3795 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by userworm on Oct 18, 2017 Version: 1.7.4128 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




the best ever! daum s2 sz

Review by trafalgar law on Sep 23, 2017 Version: 1.7.3795 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by VidiMini on Aug 30, 2017 Version: 1.7.3344 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Potplayer is one of the best, though this recent update has some issues (at least for me). For whatever reason opening a movie file now (initially/first time after restart) it is extremely slow to open (sometimes takes like 10 seconds). Another random issue is when right clicking on the screen the menu/options list also takes a very long time to open initially. Really unsure what they did and I highly doubt it is my computer as I have a good system, but something is bogging it down on initial openings.

Review by RandomPerson on Aug 28, 2017 Version: 1.7.3344 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




So, I want to suggest about subtitle included on "Video Recording", and I'm meaning for including all subtitles that are playing (like this https://i.snag.gy/t8jxNk.jpg), it's is pretty that PotP capturer not having such options, or even more like a small post-video editor, also make it possible to change color for individuals subs, ty so much, PotP still the best one out there for Windows.

Creators of this software are blessed and have real good taste on creating cool stuffs. C ya o/

Review by wilpsa on Aug 26, 2017 Version: 1.7.3344 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Arthur on Aug 23, 2017 Version: 1.7.3344 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by hamoo on Aug 6, 2017 Version: 1.7.3372 OS: WinXP 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 4/10




I spent hours trying to improve VLC seeking speed (choppy AF) - no luck.
Switched to PotPlayer, played the same video file and it seeks like a GOD.

+Intuitive interface
+Everything perfect from installation (except double click that I switched in 2 sec from pause to fullscreen)
+Bonus points for removing the bottom seek menu from fullscren the MOMENT mouse hover is gone. A nice touch that doesn't treat you like you have Parkinson's disease.

Review by Sina H. on Aug 6, 2017 Version: 1.7.3344 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




i reimaged my operating system and reinstalled potplayer 64 bit version 1.6.52515
audio didn't work
i downloaded the latest version which overwrote my original. big mistake
the latest version is giving me an error "requires xp sp3". there is no sp3 for xp x64, only sp2
so there's something wrong. latest version won't install, install has no audio. so i looked up the version number and by sheer luck found this site. it was horrible having to sift through all the detritus to finally find what i was looking for. the download was flawless. i reinstalled this version on top of itself, and checked to make sure all the support files were enabled, and it worked! yesh! but this project wasted my whole morning. i feel somewhat older; a feeling of loss, that i could have done something more productive

Review by hamid mazuji on Jul 28, 2017 Version: potplayer 64 bit 1.6.52515 OS: WinXP 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by X ray on Jul 28, 2017 Version: 1.7.3339 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by mohhamedss on Jul 27, 2017 Version: 1.7.3310 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Andre on Jul 25, 2017 Version: 1.7.2710 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




In my opinion, PotPlayer is in the top three of Windows media players. It's loaded with options and has been flawless for me.

A+

Review by Dr. TaaDow on Jul 17, 2017 Version: 1.7.2710 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by reuma1 on Jul 7, 2017 Version: 1.7.2710 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Still crashes on startup sometimes.

Review by Jay on Jun 14, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by Trtv on Jun 11, 2017 Version: 1.7.2417 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Cris on Jun 9, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by observer on Jun 9, 2017 Version: 1.7.2417 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by 1.7.2233 on Jun 5, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Everything fine but except it sounds like cheap AM radio now. It's probably just me. The weird stuff always happens to me!

Review by The D0ct0r on Jun 1, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Very nice for hdr support, thank you very much

Review by bilek on Jun 1, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Working fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review by karaluch on May 26, 2017 Version: PotPlayer 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Still Crashing On Startup

Review by Mostafa Barakat on May 25, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 6/10




Installed Potplayer 1.7.2233 64bit and the program still crashes sometimes on startup!

Review by URBiN4HD on May 25, 2017 Version: 1.7.2233 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




Rating by k2 on May 24, 2017 Version: 1.7.2113 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Funky on May 16, 2017 Version: 1.7.1916 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Rater on May 6, 2017 Version: 1.7.1916 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Functionality gets 9/10 because it doesn't have DVD like Menu as in PowerDVD Player, else it is the best player and I will have none other.

Is it some copyright issue?

Review by ConverterCrazy on May 5, 2017 Version: 1.7.1916 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by BewareNha on May 4, 2017 Version: 1.5.45995 Beta OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The best player i see. The customization is very very great. Thanks for this softwar..abolutly fantastic!

Review by Micky on Apr 19, 2017 Version: 1.7.1916 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




maybe anyone else noticed that since version 1.7.647 - potplayer can no longer play webm files.
maybe potplayer intended droping support?
so I double-checked playback of webm files for each version after 1.7.625 - sadly this version was the last version to work correctly and play webm. all subsequent version crash immediately when trying to open webm files.

otherwise fantastic player and keep up the excellent work.

ps: thanks for allowing the notice.

Review by justsayin on Apr 19, 2017 Version: 1.7.1916 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Reza on Apr 16, 2017 Version: 1.7.1915 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by trafalgar on Apr 16, 2017 Version: 1.7.1915 the best player ever, i use for for years OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Steve on Apr 14, 2017 Version: 1.7.1150 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Steve on Apr 14, 2017 Version: 1.7.1150 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




No comments

Review by Surpy on Apr 3, 2017 Version: 1.7.661 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 8/10




Latest linux version. Runs in Crossover. Make sure to install all optional dependencies.
Difficult to install, but if you have the right DLL overrides and Bottle it can work with tweaking.
Highly tweaked version here, no install hassles necessary:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bypa2qAfU60CU1d5ZTlsM0ttNms/view
100% Compatible, at least as far as playing audio files goes

Review by shillshocked on Mar 21, 2017 Version: 1.7.1150 OS: Linux Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Pot player could be one of the best video players ever, but just too many bugs, and poor documentation, with almost zero support.
I still cannot simply sign in to Forum any more, will not accept simple my documented orig info, or password, p-player reset does not work in forum either. Tried re-registering, but keeps asking for registration code, but none given. So cannot post my hot video crossfade features requests or make new forum inquiries, but had never received any forum replies on my orig inquiries either, when forum access did work.
None of the pot player Email contacts or developers bother to reply to any inquiries or problems, and nothing really works smoothly with this player.
I have been using windows pcs, video editors and forums for many years, have never experienced so many problems,, and lack of support like even this latest potplayer program update, which again could be great, if not for all the headaches .

**As many are now using potplayer for their many video playlists, not just audio, Still Could not find any simple Video crossfade, or video fade out options, this feature needed mainly at end of video downloads and MP4 clips playlist, so do not have to use an addtl editor program,to edit and re-encode just to fade out video at end, instead of all cut or trimmed videos ending abrubtly, which looks terrible. Why no simple video crossfading options.
Cannot find any way at all to do this in Potplayer with even internal or external effects or plugins to crossfade video & audio. So all mp4 videos in potplayer video playlists, can transition automatically smoothly like similar video and audio programs/players.

**(One good thing is that pot player (does appear) to be at least updated somewhat regularly, just was hoping there was some preset options, so that all audio and video can play automatically in best or max quality at all times, (Auto removing or fixing video/audio problems after pot player analyzes all media played) so we do not have to keep tinkering and testing just to always play all video & audio in max quality,with little or no audio clipping or feedback .)

** Also Still trying to find any option in Potplayer, like similar players have, the option to save loaded Online youtube videos etc as MP4 to my PC or external drive.

**Why still no similarly equipped features for android with potplayer yet.

Again,even though it has great potential as a player, too many bugs, and poor documentation, with very poor support. So even though they do update it, and add new features, but this player is still missing a few superhot video features especially, and by potplayer developers just slapping together quick updates and new features, but without good documentation or support, it is not really making this player much better, with just more problems, but very little support.
I would much rather pay a few dollars , and have better documentation, and at least some working support, so do not keep wasting so much time trying tinker, and get pot player to work properly.
Hope they keep improving in the badly needed Video/audio enhancements and features though!
(Rated 2.8 out of 5 stars) for now.

Review by coolvibe on Mar 14, 2017 Version: 1.7.661 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 6/10




Potplayer for Windows 10 latest version with new user interface

Review by falconeye007 on Feb 21, 2017 Version: 1.7.351.0 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




PotPlayer DirectX Sound Problem For some MKV Videos.
Shows error "Can't play the audio. Directx not found or not properly installed". Other players (MPC, KMPlayer, VLC etc) can play them just fine. Windows 7 x86 PC. Installed DirectX 11.0

Review by ah_ovy on Sep 26, 2016 Version: 1.6.62949 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




***>> PotPlayer DirectX 11.0 Sound Problem For MKV Videos

Review by ah_ovy on Sep 25, 2016 Version: 1.6.62949 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Block it with your firewall to stop the update nag.

Review by KiwiKid on Sep 19, 2016 Version: 1.6.62949 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




The latest versions have a noticeable lag on starting up on my older laptop. I was using an older version (unsure which) but uninstalled it. I installed 1.6.52515 but now find that EVERY time I start a video I get a nag screen asking whether I want to update to the latest version.

Do I want to check every time or every week? Well never actually. There is a setting for this in Prefs>General. I set that to never but still every time I start Potplayer the same thing. It doesn't seem to save the setting.

This is NOT cute when the latest versions aren't ideal for you. Hopefully I can keep going back until I find a build which doesn't do this.

Review by rgs_uk on Sep 18, 2016 Version: 1.6.52515 OS: Vista Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




after PotPlayerSetup-1.6.62488 beta
extend video on fullscreen mode not back to primary display after press enter key

Review by SOR on Aug 5, 2016 Version: 1.6.62488 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




@tuco76
"I assume they notificate only for stable versions anymore, at least concerning LAV-Filters and PotPlayer, prolly due to the almost daily releases."

I got a notification for 61097, but not after. Either something's broken, or videohelp decided to limit the number of notifications for updates.


""Directly convert if possible (recommended)" , interesting ;)"

Could it be that they realized that butchering the video is not the best option to go as default? :)

Review by mzso on Jun 20, 2016 Version: 1.6.59347 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I mentioned the same issue on LAV builds, there's been a notification mail for every beta/nightly build, until few weeks ago.
I assume they notificate only for stable versions anymore, at least concerning LAV-Filters and PotPlayer, prolly due to the almost daily releases.

That's just guessing though, some admin might enlighten us.

@mzso: BTW concerning that Colorspaces->color conversion issue that you adressed months ago, selection/drop down menu is changed from previous: "Direct Conversion (not recommended)" to:

"Directly convert if possible (recommended)" , interesting ;)

Review by tuco76 on Jun 13, 2016 Version: 1.6.60136 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I didn't get any update notifications since may 24th for 1.6.60474 beta. Now according to the site it's at 1.6.60876 Beta (June 09, 2016).

What gives? I subscribed precisely so I would be aware of new changes immediately.

Review by mzso on Jun 12, 2016 Version: 1.6.59347 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Recommend following skin which is simple and high in functionality:
MetrONEMod v2 Skin for Potplayer
http://boideboi.deviantart.com/art/MetrONEMod-v2-for-PotPlayer-467572528

There is a selection of skins available here:
http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/customization/skins/?q=PotPlayer&view_mode=0

Review by robertcollier4 on May 28, 2016 Version: 1.6.60136 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Difficulty in 4k video.
I did not like

Review by bilek on May 5, 2016 Version: 1.6.59347 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




It is best player ever. It has even possibility to capture screen and games in any format and container (in full screen with problem) but it is not its purpose. Watch TV, capture games, watch videos and listen to audio files. I didnt meet format that it is unable to open.
Sorry for my english.

Review by Bernix on May 5, 2016 Version: 1.659347 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Playing any video file results in audio going off after about one second.

I have to re-select audio renderer to hear the sound. Something wrong I'm doing?

Have been using this product for over many years.

Review by ConverterCrazy on Apr 17, 2016 Version: 1.6.59347 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Some skins are no longer working. Ex : KMP2_en; Setup was normal in-1.6.59595.exe version PotPlayer.

Review by Franckdf on Apr 12, 2016 Version: PotPlayer 1.6.59749 Beta OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Can you please make it so that the focus of the keyboard controls returns to the video once you click on a file in the playlist? It used to be like this. It changed after one of the updates. Now once you click a file in the playlist and it starts playing, you have to click the video area to focus the keyboard controls so that you can use the keyboard controls again.

Review by LJay on Apr 9, 2016 Version: LATEST OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Wonderful player! I have been using this player ever since; however, why is it unable to play Audio CDs! Cheers! :)

Review by URBiN4HD on Feb 4, 2016 Version: 1.6.58402 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@cdburn: in addition to AllisOne's good advice, regarding your register prob you might try using another email adress (E.G. gmail.com).

Positive thing I noticed in recent versions, .pgs subs seem to play nicely by now. In previous versions they got stuck occasionaly. Switching to x64 version worked slightly better on that for me, by now seems all solved.

Review by tuco76 on Feb 3, 2016 Version: 1.6.58402 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hi AllisOne,

Thanks for your reply.
Yes I allways download additional codecs.

I found the mistake in the S/PDIF pass through witch for some mysterious reason has being changed.
All is OK and works fine now.
Thanks again for your help.

Review by cdburn on Feb 3, 2016 Version: 1.6.58575 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Post questions here: http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/353738-Potplayer-Generic-Current-issues-development-bugs

I've just checked both versions. Everything seems OK. All 4 internal/built-in audio codecs (FFmpegMinimum, dtsdecoderdll, OpenCodecUnity and FFmpeg) are working and external LAV as well. Do you download additional codecs at the end of installation (your firewall might block it)? Have you checked what splitters/codecs your player is using during playback? Is the Pass Through (S/PDIF, HDMI) for DTS disabled/enabled (depending on where you send the audio)?

Review by AllisOne on Feb 2, 2016 Version: 1.6.58575 Beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hello and sorry for my very bad english

Since beta version 1.6.58560, Playing a MKV file with a DTS sountrack give no sound.
Playing MKV file with MP3, AC3 and AAC sountracks works fine.
Last beta version 1.6.58575 have same issue.

Is somebody have noticed this ?

I try today to register to the PotPlayer forum but failed.

Review by cdburn on Feb 2, 2016 Version: 1.6.58560 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I just still find the setup a little basic. Would be nice that in case of previous versions installed, this was detected during the setup so you don't have to select the shortcuts, file association, additional codecs, etc every time you upgrade.

Review by TGB on Jan 29, 2016 Version: 1.6.58402 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Post #194 by AllisOne


Thanks for your reply with so much details.

My sincere apologies for late reply.

Review by ConverterCrazy on Nov 3, 2015 Version: Any OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@ AllisOne

Thank you very much for your suggestions : I have deleted a couple of things and reinstalled PotPlayer and now all is OK.

Curiously, I didn't thought about doing this maybe because I seldom uninstall software.

All is OK now with the version 1.6.56209

Review by Sputnik55 on Oct 26, 2015 Version: 1.6.56209 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@ Sputnik55: is there any particular reason you use 64 bit PotPlayer? (I'm sure you know you can use x32 apps on x64 OS). Wherever I go they advise to use x32 version and newest beta. PotPlayer x32 is updated much more often and I guess your x64 version informs you about those x32 updates.

Or you can try to do a clean install: uninstall PotPlayer, remove all folders from Program Files and Users - [Your profile] - AppData - Roaming - PotPlayerMini (+wherever else you'll find its files and folders). Just in case you can backup those folders somewhere else and Export Current Presets from Preferences window (be aware it will copy all foregoing errors). When doing a clean install you will need to set all the prefs anew.

PS. I don't think you'll find any PotPlayer developers here. You can message him - Kang here: ahahlive@hanmail.net and hope he answers :-)
And it's better to ask for help at videhelp forum, for example here: http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/353738-Potplay ... pment-bugs

Review by AllisOne on Oct 21, 2015 Version: 1.6.56737 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@ Royalstar

Thank you for your suggestion, but I don't use Windows Firewall, I work with COMODO Firewall.

Also, there is no use to block the internet connection of Pot Player because it is not the internet connection which has to be blocked but the window which opens up to say that there is a new version available when 1) it is the latest version which is installed and 2) I expressly say to Pot Player not to check for updates in the Preferences.

Also, I have checked for an exe file which would belong to Pot Player and which would clearly indicate that it is used for the updates and I found none.

The update functionality seems to reside inside the PotPlayerMini64.exe file and it would really not be a good idea to block this one.

Do you know which exact exe file or else should be blocked ?

Thank you.

Review by Sputnik55 on Oct 21, 2015 Version: 1.6.56209 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Hi Sputnik55
Block it in Inbound and outbound Windows Firewall and that's it.
No more notifications.

Review by Royalstar on Oct 21, 2015 Version: 1.6.56209 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Each time I open up PotPlayer a window appears which is telling me that there is an update available.

First, I have the last version, so there is no need to tell me that there is a new version.

Second, in PotPlayer's Preferences, I have told PotPlayer to never automatically check for updates.

Because of these flaws, I have been obliged to install an old version of PotPlayer (v 1.6.47995) to avoid this problem.

Could someone from PotPlayer check this problem please ?

Thank you.

Review by Sputnik55 on Oct 6, 2015 Version: 1.6.56209 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Can you please make it so that the focus of the keyboard controls returns to the video once you click on a file in the playlist? It used to be like this. It changed after one of the updates. Now once you click a file in the playlist and it starts playing, you have to click the video area to focus the keyboard controls so that you can use the keyboard controls again.

Review by LJay on Oct 3, 2015 Version: Latest OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Just the best player.

Review by vasovs on Sep 23, 2015 Version: 1.6.56519 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




"ConverterCrazy
What I learned from a website of PotPlayer's Polish translator is:
(Google translator with a few corrections) It is associated with granting the certificate for PotPlayer by VeriSign. Therefore, at specified intervals CRL is checked online via Windows CryptoAPI.
CRL (Certificate Revocation List): [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revocation_list[/url]
Without an Internet connection, PotPlayer will wait for a response from the Akamai network (CDN). So, do not reject calls from Akamai (try to change your firewall settings). I'm not sure if it's only reason that you have to wait those few / several seconds to turn on.

Certificate confirmation and expiration status:.
Right-click on PotPlayer.dll (.exe) file -> Properties -> Digital Signatures tab -> click Details -> click View certificate -> Details tab -> Extended error information
PotPlayer has now increased protection against adverse effects. Because of growing popularity of PotPlayer it becomes a victim of hacking and Some antiviruses notify that its files are suspicious/infected.
Original link: [url]http://potplayer.pl/viewtopic.php?p=5263#p5263[/url]

A solutions proposed by one user (I'm not sure how it might influence Windows security in general) is:
Disabling CRL checking on Windows level proved to solve the problem of certificates:
Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> click Security -> uncheck Check for publisher's certificate revocation.
* please do this only after installing and running PotPlayer - Windows must at least once download/check certificate.
Now PP loads immediately.
Original link: [url]http://potplayer.pl/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=5417&sid=91b7485c5c6bb3e87461963966943ec5#p5417[/url]

P.S. I'm not sure if it's only reason PP connects to the internet

Review by AllisOne on Aug 16, 2015 Version: 1.6.55832.0 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




In the last stable releases the Pull down menus in Corean ???????

Review by Royalstar on Aug 10, 2015 Version: 1.6.55390 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 5/10




This is the ONLY player I'd like to have but, I have a gut feeling that PotPlayer sends usage or some data over the internet. I am not sure though.

Can someone please throw some light on this?

Thanks.

Review by ConverterCrazy on Jul 3, 2015 Version: Any OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@bartslol

Why don't you send the potplayer developers a message?

Here is there E Mail address

ahahlive@hanmail.net

Review by gate1975mlm on Jun 16, 2015 Version: 1.6.54549 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I made a mistake, in my last message I mean for the Context Menu in Windows, there's no option to tag edition in this way. I remember I could do that in JetAudio.

Man PotP should have a tag editor for audio files, PotP is the most complete media player i've ever seen, cant be belive there is no option for it.

Again, sorry my english

Review by bartslol on Jun 12, 2015 Version: 1.6.54549 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




PotP don't have a mp3 tag editor in Windows' shell, or in PotP playlist/options...

Also, does PotP supports DVD/BD .ISO files? Have anyone ever tried?

Review by bartslol on Apr 22, 2015 Version: 1.6.53757 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




if you go to forums of potplayer they take your suggestion

i publish some issue with closed captions and they resolved it.

Review by godai on Mar 9, 2015 Version: last one OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I want to make a suggestion, time info is over subtitle when creating thumbnails,
it could be on top right

Review by bartslol on Mar 9, 2015 Version: 1.6.52965 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Super video player. Plays FLV files quite well and handles obscure audio codecs.

Review by Rhojan on Feb 22, 2015 Version: 1.6.52515 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Sir kindly correct the top\bottom decoding in 3D section.

Review by addu on Jan 3, 2015 Version: 1.6 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




@cicak: I've noticed the same with a few last betas. Thanks to Comodo Firewall warning I suspect the culprit might be PotPlayer's desire to connect to external IP: 23.43.75.27 (Akamai Technologies European from Holland). It's a new "feature" apart from a few "old" IPs that PotPlayer wants to talk to even if 'Auto check for updates' is set to Never. The old ones don't seem to affect PotPlayer that way.

Review by AllisOne on Jan 1, 2015 Version: 1.6.51728 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Executing potplayermini.exe version 1.6.51728 Beta took more than 5 second to start. Stable version opened instantly.

Review by cicak on Jan 1, 2015 Version: 1.6.51480 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@ Vokol: Thanks for that link, some really awesome stuff there. ("some", like 400) ;P
Currently using "BlackBoxVFD_Original", or if needed more controls at hand:
"BlackBoxVFD_Original_AdvCtrl". Just thought I mention those, I think their great as well.

Review by tuco76 on Dec 26, 2014 Version: 1.6.51643 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Great tool would be nice if you could set a bookmark from the preview video option SHIFT S i think it is, a right click menu option to set bookmark would be most helpful.

Review by ghostrider216 on Dec 16, 2014 Version: 1.65480 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This is the best Media Player I have ever come across and used, it plays anything I throw at it. The best part is that you don't need to install codecs, Potplayer has its own codecs built in which covers everything (Well everything ive tried playing with it.)

If your looking for a player then look no further this is the program for you.

Review by bodgeup on Nov 30, 2014 Version: 1.6.51015 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




All 1.6 versions consumes 100% of CPU during seeking when thumbnail preview on nav. bar is enabled, I returned to v1.5.39659 and the navigation with preview enabled works perfect.

Review by TGB on Nov 26, 2014 Version: 1.6.49952 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




@ mohsein: plz post further questions in the PP-issues/support thread.
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/353738-Potplayer-Generic-Current-issues-development-bugs/page14

Anyway, I checked and PP shows tagged covers in Flac for me. I recommend using Mp3tag, here you find an explicit guide for tagging Flac:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2013/07/16/how-to-tag-flac-files-in-windows/

Review by tuco76 on Oct 29, 2014 Version: 1.6.50320 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




first of all, sorry for my bad english
i just want to say that is there any way to show thumbnail of flac files. i mean that when i tagging my mp3 and some other files, it shows their cover(thumbnail) but for flac files, it shows nothing.
I'm so grateful to you if you tell me that this problem is the nature of flac files or it is just a bug that can be solved
finally Thank you very much for your great software

Review by mohsein on Oct 10, 2014 Version: 1.6.49952 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Beta version 1.6.50108, download from here, some MKV subtitle (ass) out of sync in my PC.
Stable version work fine.

Review by cicak on Oct 8, 2014 Version: 1.6.50108 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




add turkish translation please

Review by enginsen on Sep 16, 2014 Version: 1.6.49775 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@ConverterCrazy

Did you ever get your MKV playback issue fixed?

If you have not already done so just just send a an e mail with a download link of the MKV file with the issue to ahahlive@hanmail.net

And I a sure you more then likely they will fix it in one of the next few updates! :)

Review by gate1975mlm on Sep 5, 2014 Version: 1.6.49775 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Failed to play an old MKV file with MEPG2 video.

Will revert to an old version.

Review by ConverterCrazy on Aug 14, 2014 Version: 1.6.49479 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 6/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 6/10




Please, add support for .xspf playlists.

Review by nick58 on Aug 9, 2014 Version: 1.6 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




very useful multiple 'playlist album' for watching tons of my anime collection. effects work as they should. 10/10 for me.

Review by cicak on Aug 9, 2014 Version: 1.6.49343 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Ability to cool my drinks would be awesome, too. Guess PP just aint no fridge, neither a GIF-tool.
Still some folks do not get the meaning of "Value for money". Meaning, was it WORTH THE MONEY YOU SPENT.
You get it FREE, might be worth a 10/10, just might. Sigh.

Review by tuco76 on Aug 9, 2014 Version: 1.649343 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Needed ability to capture part of video and save into gif, i mean, make an animated gif, would be awesome. the first player who does it '-'

Review by bartslol on Aug 6, 2014 Version: 1.6.49264 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Report any issues with Potplayer to the developers Official e-mail address: ahahlive@hanmail.net

Again that's E mail Address: ahahlive@hanmail.net

Review by gate1975mlm on Jul 31, 2014 Version: 1.6.49134 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




BEST player ever, and i tried a lot of trialware software. The only thing missing is a MVC decoder for packframed 3D .

Review by imhh1 on Jul 24, 2014 Version: 1.6.48576 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@ bartslol: What you mention to be "pretty bad" and "errors" is part weird expectations, part inability of user (you).
PotPlayers only issue worth mentioning might be, you can adjust almost too much.
As AllisOne mentioned, this aint no helpdesk.
Furthermore, you give 8 of 10 points "value of money"?
Maybe you expected, on top of the free download, the devs sending someone straight to your home, doing a little power point presentation and tutorial for you?

Review by tuco76 on Jul 13, 2014 Version: 1.6.48576 64-bit OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




For those who say new version (1.6.x) takes high cpu usage;

New version has turned off DXVA feature by default, so it doesn't use hardware acceleration to play your videos, and instead it uses your cpu for everything it does. To turn on DXVA goto:

Preferences > Filter Control > Video Decoder > Built-in codec/DXVA settings

and check the "Use DXVA" checkbox. Apply the change and close. It should be ok now.

Review by maxeemo on Jul 8, 2014 Version: 1.6.48575 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Every time I do update to a beta or new version, the options: General>Startup> Windows Size reset to default size, pretty bad since i like to startup on last used size

The same for playback settings, it get back to custom video size, i like to use the same window size even for playing or sttoped pb.

PP stills need an ability to save parts of video into gif

There's an error with second subtitle, I do Alt+Shift+S for 2nd subtitle (when video is playing) and its clean after restart the player

Review by bartslol on Jul 6, 2014 Version: 1.6.48902 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Time and subtitles are on same position when creating thumbnails images, that's pretty bad, should also have an option to take images in jpg, but we choose the quality level of it.

Time should be on top left or right of the screen

Review by bartslol on Jul 2, 2014 Version: 1.6.48804 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




@ Doomsday.a and others - probably you noticed this: Please don't post questions, this is NO support or discussion list. Use our forum for that. For example here:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/353738-Potplayer-Generic-Current-issues-development-bugs

It's much easier to find solutions and to answer questions there.

@ Doomsday.a: you know well that your "i did what you said, but it didn't work" means nothing to anybody who wants to help. There's no specific steps you took. Use the link @ the forum to get proper help.

Review by AllisOne on Jun 12, 2014 Version: 1.6.48405 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




thanks .
i did what you said
but it didnt work .

Review by Doomsday.a on Jun 12, 2014 Version: 1.6.47995 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




@ Doomsday.a: try to play HD movies with Built-in Video Codec/Transform turned off (visible in 'Filters' among external codecs/splitters needed to play the video). For me it doubles up CPU usage when playing (Ultra)HD - h.264 (AVC) and h.265 (HEVC). Preferences - Filter Control - (go to the right) Built-in Video processing filter settings - Condition: Disable with the following conditions and choose the conditions: FourCC, Extension, Frame Rate, etc.

Did you download the Open codecs during installation? In the internal filters/decoders setting you have a few decoder to choose (OpenCodecUnity, FFmpeg, Libav). Or try external ones like LAV Filters.

Review by AllisOne on Jun 11, 2014 Version: 1.6.48405 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




well . i'm using win7 ultimate 64 bit cpu AMD X4 - Graphic Nvidia 9600 GT - Ram 4 GB DDR3

right know i'm using this version PotPlayer1.5.44465-x64 and it barely uses any of my CPU

but when i'm using the new version for playing HD Movies Cpu usage is 16

whats the problem ?
how do i fix it?

Review by Doomsday.a on Jun 11, 2014 Version: 1.6.47995 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




Disregard the two posts below, I'm using a Windows 7 64 bit laptop with an i3 processor, and it barely uses any of my CPU playing 720p+ videos.

Further more setting up Madashi VR (MadVR) is beyond simple.

Review by UNC on Jun 11, 2014 Version: 1.6.47995 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




To set up video rendering madshi is very complicated. Madrv already installed and not open. In light alloy player is only madshi you click the option and it opens automatically.

Review by ricklaferla on Jun 10, 2014 Version: 1.6.47995 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 1/10




still has the same problem . cpu usage is high
specially when i play HD Movies .
i hope the fix this problem

Review by Doomsday.a on Jun 4, 2014 Version: 1.6.47995 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 9/10




Re: update 1.6.46971 x64 on Win 8.1 x64


this latest version locks my soundcard so I have no audio when I open other instances, or other applications….

I had to revert back to a previous version. Hopefully this version fixes that.

Great player though….


thx

Review by jazzcat7 on May 27, 2014 Version: 1.6.46971 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Love this media player for me the only problem is that it doesn't play some online streamings links like videos from the vk.me you can use lav filters but then it doesn't work properly.

Review by Me. on May 18, 2014 Version: 1.6.47450 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 8/10




Thanks for this software, is a great player
There's a problem with WarpSharp in PotPlayer x64 (Stable Version) , when I use it, the cpu is going to 100%.
PotPlayer x64 1.647450 -> Video Processing -> There aren't problems with Motion Blur and Deband and others, except with WarpSharp.
Before, when I used WarpSharp in previous versions, there weren't problems.
Please fix it.

Review by TheSuperPhoenix on May 17, 2014 Version: 1.647450 x64 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




hi guys . has anyone downloaded the new version of the player?

cpu usage in this version is very high .

i wanna know if anyone else noticed ?

thanks

Review by Doomsday.a on May 14, 2014 Version: PotPlayer1.6.47450 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Built in Audio Codec/Transform>Internal Audio Renderrer (Crossfade/WASAPI)>WASAPI Exclusive Mode
player always crashing with new version.no problem with 1.5.44465 x64.

Review by maynak00 on May 4, 2014 Version: 1.6.47358 x64 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 9/10




I confirm the "Same as input" problem happens in the last version too; PotPlayer1.6.46599Upd in WinXP at least.

Review by Fergutor on Apr 15, 2014 Version: 1.6.46599Upd OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




In version PotPlayer1.6.46586Upd, in WinXP, the option in Audio--> "Output Speakers" --> Same as input" doesn't work correctly. Normally in that way, having XP/Creative panel to 5.1 and actual 5.1 speakers and of course with a 5.1 video source(I have test videos), the output was 5.1, in this version mixes the surround speakers, and I have to manually set "Output Speakers" to "3/0/2+LFE - 5.1 channel" for it to work properly. Didn't test the last version (1.6.46599 Update - April 13 2014) yet.

Review by Fergutor on Apr 14, 2014 Version: 1.6.46586Upd OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@ TGB: You might disable internal filters [at least for HD-content], try LAV-Filters instead. Setting your preferred Sub/audio language in LAV-Splitter Settings works properly. I use built in filters for DVD-playback only, LAV Splitter/ decoder works like a charm even with untouched Bluray playback on a middle/lower class engine..

Review by tuco76 on Apr 12, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




v1.5.45955 cannot display the preferred language properly, I've configured to display "es esp Spanish" and it display portuguese subs instead. Previous stable version works fine.

Review by TGB on Mar 22, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




"added localization support"

That is really good news !

Review by -t40- on Mar 13, 2014 Version: 1.6.46243 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




Guys report all bugs with potplayer at the following e mail address.

ahahlive@hanmail.net

Review by gate1975mlm on Mar 9, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




hi
I have download the latest version 1.5.45955, my language is Arabic, the subtitle shows words correctly but ordered from (left to right) for example:
the correct sentence:
يبدو أنك تشعر بالملل
but it appears like this:
بالملل تشعر أنك يبدو
I checked all settings and nothing wrong!
finally I had to replace an old file to fix this bug!!
the file is PotPlayer64.dll from 1.5.40688 version

Review by bils7922 on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 9/10




Hi

first please forgive me ,my english is not good
i'm a "Potplayer" fan
i use new version of PotPlayer.1.5.45955
this version have problem with Persian Subtitle
i want to report this Error

please Fix it

there is very potplayer user in IRAN

Safty and peace my friend, Good luck

Thank you

Review by Majid.G on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




In previous versions I could play stream rtmp without any problem
http://4903.live.streamtheworld.com/CRP_OASAAC
http://2513.live.streamtheworld.com/MAG_AAC

In this latest version, 1.5.45955 load time to play rtmp is too long.
In other occasions PotPlayer crashing

Review by KamiOh on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 10/10




hi.
i have a problem with the newest version :1.5.45955
when i play a file with subtitle .
the subtitle is Vice versa or inverse i guess .
and this problem is with persian subtitles only
how do i fix it . please?
thank you

Review by Doomsday.a on Mar 8, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




In there any place (forum, webpage,...) to post bugs for developers?

Regards

Review by deadly shadow on Mar 6, 2014 Version: 1.5.45955 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Version 1.5.44465 consumes a lot of resources when it play broken or partially extracted MKVs from RAR files. MPC-HC & MPC-BE have no problems in this area.

Review by TGB on Mar 3, 2014 Version: 1.5.44465 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




the developer said installing both 32&64 versions on a pc will cause no problem

Review by yonta on Mar 3, 2014 Version: latest OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




its a great player way better than the km player

just one question...
is it okey if i install both versions 32bit&64bit on my computer?

Review by Doomsday.a on Mar 3, 2014 Version: 1.5.44465 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




awesome player but i dislike the new icons

Review by pdrive on Feb 27, 2014 Version: 1.5.44465 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




since build 45308, Potplayer shows right to left subtitles (e.g Arabic) vise versa (from end of the sentence to beginning)

Review by deadly shadow on Feb 27, 2014 Version: 1.5.45308 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




The subtitle download window doesn't allow us to order it by language, good if could do this and save that option... (and when i'm saving the sub it doesnt give me the movie folder first, this is pretty bad, since i have to find the folder everytime)

Also an ability to se multiple subtitles on the same screen, i actually only can do this by using filter vobsub auto-loading, i still don't understand what current multiple subtitle option does. I like to see another language sub and the original one, makes understanding easier for learning porpuses.

Review by bartslol on Feb 21, 2014 Version: 1.5.45619 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Best! I miss only one thing. Open in another instance option in context menu.

Review by miso00 on Feb 9, 2014 Version: 1.5.40688 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Stills need ability to auto/manual download subtitles directly from a server (OpenSubtitles), like MPC does.

Review by bartslol on Feb 8, 2014 Version: 1.5.44981 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




The last version in linux I can currently get working is 1.5.42994. After that they put in a second audio decoder in the code and it crashes it even if disabled.

I posted part of the instructions to install below. Here are the last steps:

Just an addendum to my previous post. A couple steps I missed:

4. Copy mscoree.dll and streamci.dll from an original Windows installation to /home/*user*/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32.

On crossover it is in a subdirectory in your bottle directory.

Working versions are:

mscoree.dll version 1.1.4322.573
streamci.dll version 5.1.2600.0

5. Download DirectX9 november release from here. Extract it on a new folder.

Go to that folder and execute DXSETUP.EXE

On crossover you can just install it to that directory

(by double click on it or by using the command wine DXSETUP.EXE).

To test DX installation, go to /home/*user*/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and execute dxdiag to test the 2D and 3D).

6. I also installed Adobe Flash Player 11 for Internet Explorer. This is available in Crossover but I imagine you could do this manually just as well.

7. Install Dirac codec in the bottle you have installed Potplayer in.

8. You should install PotPlayer1.5.44465.EXE first and then update it with PotPlayer1.5.42994Upd.EXE. Both are available at:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PotPlayer/old-versions#download

If I missed any steps please post a follow-up

Review by shillshocked on Jan 30, 2014 Version: 1.5.42994 OS: Linux Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Great player, but at the moment its Built-in Video Codec/Transform when turned on (visible in 'Filters' among external codecs/splitters needed to play the video), doubles up CPU usage when playing UltraHD (4K) h.264 (AVC) and h.265 (HEVC). They all are in developmental state, so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

@DanRo - I can play your .ogg stream (Radio Infinit) using internal and external codecs (LAV). I use PotPlayer ver. 1.5.44981 x86 Dev Beta. First update PotPlayer (new one has more codecs to set up manually). Check if your firewall isn't blocking this specific stream address. If you use for example PeerBlock check it as well (It blocked the stream on my computer). The codec used in your .ogg container is Vorbis, so check Vorbis in Audio Codecs (but go via Preferences and scroll down to Vorbis in that section. If you go via right click - Filters - Manage Codecs|Filters you can't scroll and see the whole list). Last try - in LAV Audio Decoder - Formats double check if Vorbis is ticked.

(If Moderator thinks this post doesn't qualify to be here, please delete it)

Review by AllisOne on Jan 28, 2014 Version: 1.5.44981_x86 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




One of the most perfect player around with madvr render and lavfilters.
Just missing the option "now playing" to enable many plugins and external programs.


Chooo

Review by Ninja_Gundam on Jan 27, 2014 Version: 1.5.44655 Beta OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 9/10




PotPlayer ALL VERSION wont play .OGG or .MP3 stream.

Solved problem to play mp3 sream ( Ex http://82.78.193.157:8800/ ) by instaling LAVFilters at https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/downloads/list .

BUT ogg stream stil not play in PotPlayer ( Ex http://82.78.193.140:18000/infinit64.ogg ).

The ONLY and SINGEL player whoo play .OGG stream was Media Player Classic - HC ( MPC-HC ) instaled trugh XP-Codec-Pack-2.6.1 .

Any sugestion to play OGG STREAM in PotPlayer ??

Maybee the OWNER of the player ken resolve this issue....

Also i try Ogg DirectShow Filters v0.9.9.5/LAV Audio Decoder with LAV Splitter Source and NOTHING.

Review by DanRo on Jan 23, 2014 Version: 1.5.29162 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Terrific player (probably the best out there) but the new icons really sucks.

Review by TGB on Jan 22, 2014 Version: 1.5.44465 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This gotta be an joke... just installed update 1.5.44655 in the hopes the dvd subtitles would display properly...

I guess i had high hopes !!! Some DVD subtitles → still are MISSING ← during playback !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review by metagondria on Jan 20, 2014 Version: 1.28 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 4/10 Overall: 7/10




Great tools.
Some bugs still present like import settings (reg file) that didn't work at least for me.
Some missing behavior like increase/decrease luminosity by sliding on the screen while beeing in full screen mode like there is for volume.

A part from that I'm very happy to have discover this tolls that now replace Kmplayer on all my PCs
thx

Review by orlith on Jan 3, 2014 Version: last OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




The 64bit version was not updated since half year!!!!

Review by Stears555 on Dec 25, 2013 Version: Last OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This video player is the true definition of All-In-One operation! It's amazing because this player is only known for those who seek the best rather than advertising.

Although it isn't open source it's full functionality shows that it implements the best and which is why it can't be open source (understandable).

Besides most players in which you have to force/block filters, PotPlayer allows you to specifically choose what filters/splitters you want to use.

The only thing I see an average user not liking this program is it has TOO much to offer while MPC-HC is very minimalistic as possible (straight forward).

I continue to use this because I now stream many of my content and this player shows the loading bar! Only if MPC-HC was able to do that i'll jump right on over but this player does it at best.

My only greatest, absolute concern for this player is the option to "disable all" or "choose all" in selecting filters. Otherwise you have to manually select what you want per codec it's HASSLE-SOME!

Review by fohrums on Dec 18, 2013 Version: 1.5.43041 Beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This is the BEST media player out there right now.

Review by Vario on Dec 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.40688 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




best player ever!!

although one issue
please fix: playing mp4 files muted

Review by u$er on Nov 10, 2013 Version: 1.5.40688 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




every m3u8 file link of streaming i play with the player the player restart itself randomally evey few seconds/minutes
for example this link (which i paste in the url)
http://hscontent.com/ondemand_bs/eu2/11012013/1321787HD.m3u8?token=/vtPDgf562xgmFjBLbabD3GLAo1g5gueVnkBTO+wKUm2ClNiFminarx4686DBVZWd4hJsQPGIcI4JInNfhzpf5zfNyPHXydmXcPx906WJcN0sIQuKXRmRzn0+jgFBX9A

any fix for that?

Review by yossihaz1 on Nov 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.41226 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 8/10




Some guy talked about subs dl support, I still can't see that option there. Would be cool.

Review by bartslol on Nov 2, 2013 Version: 1.5.40688-x64 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Please consider the possibility to select a specific area of the associated window of screen capturing.

Review by spargatorul on Nov 1, 2013 Version: 1.5.41226 Beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I was trying to get KMPlayer working on wine using outdated instructions. While I wasn't successful, I did manage to install Potplayer (the new KMPlayer so to speak) using the same method.

To be more precise, I use Crossover Linux, but imagine Wine, playonlinux, winetricks, etc. could get it going.

So to get it going:

1. Install Wine/Crossover/whatever (I used the latest version of Crossover for this).

2. Type winecfg to create the .wine folder.

The Wine config window appears. Select Windows 2000 OS. Now, configure audio. In Libraries tab, set "d3d8" to builtin, and also override quartz.dll. Close the Wine config by clicking on "OK" button.

3. Go to /home/*user*/.wine/ and open user.reg

Search for [Software\\Wine\\DllOverrides] section and copy below the following list:
"d3d8"="builtin"
"d3d9"="builtin"
"d3dim"="native"
"d3drm"="native"
"d3dx8"="native"
"d3dxof"="native"
"dciman32"="native"
"ddrawex"="native"
"devenum"="native"
"dinput"="builtin"
"dinput8"="builtin"
"dmband"="native"
"dmcompos"="native"
"dmime"="native"
"dmloader"="native"
"dmscript"="native"
"dmstyle"="native"
"dmsynth"="native"
"dmusic"="native"
"dmusic32"="native"
"dnsapi"="native"
"dplay"="native"
"dplayx"="native"
"dpnaddr"="native"
"dpnet"="native"
"dpnhpast"="native"
"dpnlobby"="native"
"dsound"="builtin"
"dswave"="native"
"dxdiagn"="native"
"mscoree"="native"
"msdmo"="native"
"qcap"="native"
"quartz"="native"
"streamci"="native"

If there are other DllOverrides you may want to remove them.

Review by shillshocked on Oct 31, 2013 Version: 1.5.40688 OS: Linux Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Pros: Supports almost all media types out of the box.
Awesome options to tinker with. Supports CUDA, 3d, chapter skipping, etc...

Cons: While resizing to full-screen while the main is minimized via taskbar preview button, the window goes offscreen after coming out of full-screen.
Does not output analog audio to a second sound card (only spdif).
No English support forum.

Requests: 2nd (or 3rd) sound card support for directsound (like in kmp) .
Ability to use madvr for 3d videos.
Manual playlist advance i.e. play just one file out of many in the playlist and stop or close file after that.

Review by reddevil on Oct 17, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




mkv files play late in this version.in previous version it plays fine

regards

asitpapu123

Review by asitpapu123 on Oct 13, 2013 Version: PotPlayer 1.5.40373 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Please, add the posibility to play files backwards (reverse play). If quicktime can do it on the fly, then it's possible.

Review by skan on Oct 10, 2013 Version: 1.537776 x64 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




It stills need an option to download/autodl subtitles, like suggest if no subs are found, a sub-category in Subtitles section. Could use the same Internet Subtitles DataBase (ISDB) from Opensubtitles, like MPC does.

Review by bartslol on Oct 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.40215 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 9/10




Personally I don't use wasapi for video playback but I've seen the option since 2011.

In the audio section of Preferences, change default audio renderer to internal audio renderer for crossfade and click the right-side button. A dialog box will pop up. You'll find wasapi option.

Review by sheppaul on Oct 1, 2013 Version: 1.5 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




still no support for audio output WASAPI. XMBC and j.river already have this option and easy setup

Review by ricklaferla on Sep 30, 2013 Version: 1.5.40342 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 6/10




something wrong, all my history recent files disappear in "album/favorites" . i unchecked "remove noexited files". has PotPlayer a bug or "auto delete a history", "auto limit a history", "auto delete after time a history"?

Review by Finished on Aug 26, 2013 Version: 1.5.39036 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Is there any advantage to using 64 Bit Potplayer over 32 bit Potplayer?

Also happy to report new 32 Bit beta build 1.5.39549 has fixed all my video playback issues!

Again if you have any issues just send a E mail to ahahlive@hanmail.net and he will reply in English.

Review by gate1975mlm on Aug 19, 2013 Version: 1.5.39549 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I tested very large number of player for different file formats but don't find better than PotPlayer.

I my opinion The PotPlayer is the best player in the world with the full options . . .

Thanks for placing the latest version here the VideoHelp . . .

Review by Amir1373 on Aug 17, 2013 Version: 1.5.39433 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Suggestion:

while playing mp3 / m4a files,

I hope PotPlayer can add a function that
if we right click one of the file name of the playlist , it provide that we can choose "sort by track position". Because sort by track position is very useful to listen the songs according to their original track order.

Review by paradoxical on Aug 15, 2013 Version: 1.5.39433 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Good news I have found PotPlayer developers Official e-mail address: ahahlive@hanmail.net

And I contacted them and already got a reply saying they will fix both of my video playback issues,

The e mail address again is ahahlive@hanmail.net and they will reply in English :)

Review by gate1975mlm on Aug 13, 2013 Version: 1.5.39036 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




While playing one video. cannot play second video by pressing double click.

Review by insdev on Aug 11, 2013 Version: PotPlayer1.5.39302Upd OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Potplayer keeps crashing when trying to play the following MKV file.

Does anyone here have a e mail address for potplayer developers?



General
Unique ID : 178091847793975894017926596121672809431 (0x85FB3E0436398CE8B8BFC29B91F3FBD7)
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 514 MiB
Duration : 13mn 16s
Overall bit rate : 5 410 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf52.39.1
Writing library : Lavf52.39.1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 13mn 16s
Bit rate : 4 854 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.176
Stream size : 461 MiB (90%)
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 13mn 16s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 42.5 MiB (8%)
Language : English

Review by gate1975mlm on Aug 9, 2013 Version: 1.5.39036 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




gate1975mim: Your problem is an easy one,,the codec Id isom as well as the video codec Id mp42 are the issues that will give media players alot of problems playing,,they are really non standard codecs.If I had that file and I really wanted to keep it I would either rencode it to a more standard type video file that all players will play like mp4/avc1/aac or mkv/x264/ac3 or xvid/avi/mp3 and if couldnt do that I would just dump it and look for a more compliant file..Honestly I cant remember seeing those codec Ids together in one video file...good luck...;)~

Review by RappinRod on Aug 4, 2013 Version: 39007 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Hello,

I have been trying for like well over a year now to contact in english the Potplayer developers about an issue with a MP4 file that plays with audio but no video. And the same MP4 file plays fine in VLC Player,SMPlayer and even Windows Media Player. However Windows Media Player Classic also plays without video.

Any ideas?

Here is the file info.

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 546 MiB
Duration : 13mn 32s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 635 Kbps

Video
ID : 1
Format : MP42
Codec ID : MP42
Duration : 13mn 32s
Bit rate : 5 499 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.239
Stream size : 532 MiB (98%)

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 13mn 32s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 132 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 13.1 MiB (2%)

Review by gate1975mlm on Aug 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.39007 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




store bookmarks to PBF file no longer working
i think it deleted all my PBF files as well

Review by LJay on Jul 30, 2013 Version: 1.5.38932 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Suggestion: Make the playlist/albums searchable like VLC

as in, when you type characters it narrows the playlist/album down based on what you typed

Review by LJay on Jul 26, 2013 Version: 1.5.38932 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@bartslol

« @Plx start in default aspect ratio isn't bug, do it as you want and export your preset/settings, so you don't have to configure it every time you install »

What I meant is that ‘Keep aspect ratio (recommended)’ should be the default, and if not the ‘(recommended)’ should be removed.


« It do opens simmilar files when exists a similar named file on the same folder, you must try a reinstall »

The function doesn’t work well, it’s very random. It doesn’t consider a list of files with numerically ordered as always similar for instance. Try with these filenames if you are not convinced (tracks of the album The Dark Side of The Moon, Pink Floyd):
01-speak_to_me.flac
02-breathe.flac
03-on_the_run.flac
04-time.flac
05-the_great_gig_in_the_sky.flac
06-money.flac
07-us_and_them.flac
08-any_colour_you_like.flac
09-brain_damage.flac
10-eclipse.flac
Each track is opened independentely, except for track 3 and track 8 which are detected by Potplayer as similar, how consistent!


« detect durations won't work for online streaming, always worked for me in other formats »

I didn’t talk about right-click–Detect durations in the playlist, but about the playlist setting ‘Auto detect file durations’, please read carefully.


« Man are you crazy!
Suggest stuffs for it, instead of reporting errors where there is no one »

I wrote just before my last post:

The only 2 big things that are missing for being used as default audio player are:
— gapless AUDIO playback (I can’t understand why there is gapless video but not audio.);
— display of tags (The main window displays the filename instead.)

So please read carefully.

Review by Plx on Jun 27, 2013 Version: 1.5.38562 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I would like to capture frames from the video. However, when I chose the PNG picture-format, the color space is not the same as I see on the screen. (therefore the quality is much worse) The capture in JPG and BMP formats are in the correct color space.

Can you solve the PNG wrong color space problem?

Thank you!

Review by Stears555 on Jun 27, 2013 Version: latest OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 10/10




@Plx start in default aspect ratio isn't bug, do it as you want and export your preset/settings, so you don't have to configure it every time you install

It do opens simmilar files when exists a similar named file on the same folder, you must try a reinstall

detect durations won't work for online streaming, always worked for me in other formats

Man are you crazy!
Suggest stuffs for it, instead of reporting errors where there is no one

Review by bartslol on Jun 27, 2013 Version: 1.5.38562 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




Also, I’ve noticed 3 bugs:
— the file open method ‘Open similar files together’ doesn’t work;
— the playlist setting ‘Auto detect file durations’ doesn’t work;
— the control ‘Keep aspect ratio (recommended)’ is not set by default (‘Do not keep aspect ratio’ is the default instead).

Review by Plx on Jun 25, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This media player is awesome, it is simply the best media player ever made.

The only 2 big things that are missing for being used as default audio player are:
— gapless AUDIO playback (I can’t understand why there is gapless video but not audio.);
— display of tags (The main window displays the filename instead.)

Review by Plx on Jun 24, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@MagakoS, do you smoke, you can bookmark many places you want, and still can load them for every video you've watched.
Easily save and load using shortcuts P and H for the video you're watching.
(independently)

Review by bartslol on Jun 23, 2013 Version: 1.5.38525 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




To Daum / Potplayer developer - have you considered setting up a forum for Potplayer to be discussed?

There are many free hosted phpBB forum providers such as www.phpbb3now.com - Otherwise perhaps a even a user-run forum could be created if developer would be willing to read it every now and then.

The main problem is the Daum site is all in Korean. There is no english place to discuss or give feedback to developer. But there are many English users! Please set up a forum as it would be good for the software and community as a whole.

Review by robertcollier4 on Jun 20, 2013 Version: 1.5.36421 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Is it possible to save bookmarks for different videos. For example, suppose you are watching a video, save a few bookmarks, load another video, save a few bookmarks, you decide to go to a bookmark for the second video, the video is loaded and resumes at that bookmark ? From my experiences bookmarks are only saved for one video, actually, come to think of it, it may save for multiple bookmarks, but it doesn't allow me to categorize the bookmarks per video.

Review by PowerFalcon on Jun 19, 2013 Version: 1.5.36205 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Guys, would be great if we could reach the developers to give them a few suggestions... Do you know how?

For instance, the default skins included are a complete joke... They make the player look cheap, outdated and ugly. They don't include a single "acceptable" skin! Check two simple I've been using:

http://i2.minus.com/iUS1wSrb1dwge.png
http://i1.minus.com/ibcSmg5uR5QKDR.png

These 2 are both light and simple; acceptable at the very least. Both have Windows Native menu design... I'm using the normal Segoe UI Regular 9px and I've got piece of mind.

Otherwise, great player. Additionally, I can confirm when I close the player, it hangs for 4-5 seconds, but this happens only on x86 version. With the x64 you don't face the same hanging. Just keep it in mind.

Review by MagakoS on Jun 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Pros ¬¬¬
- Really good rendering quality for both a/v, I've never seen like that b4, for EVR(amazing) or even in Automatic option, so fast and responsible, even in my Celeron 1.8
- Changing skin color automatically is so cool.
- Man, you should add support 2 download from OpenSubtitles.org's ISDB, seems like you forgot that coz it has so good subs options. It could suggest to look for srt in db if there is no one. Subs over VMR, I can easily set bellow the movie. Appreciated.

Cons ¬¬¬
- I couldn't export profile setting to live pp, real bad thing since I can do it easily in mpc-hc.
- It doesnt supports MiniLyrics, even if I select Minilyrics opt in Vis, but it does with .lrc files. Lyrics support is biggest miss in most of known audio players. And the one built-in on JeAudio does't work anymore. It would be cool if the lyrics changes by itself when listening from radios stations like 181.fm, 181 should come with the next versions.
- Automatic video rendering, it's causing too much slow, I thought each instance was free and independent of each other (about using built-in plugins at the same time) or is it some kind o bug. I can't open them both with same quality and the subs becomes different.
- No way to see 2 or more subtitles like in JetAudio, currently I can do that only by adding VobSub filter (I do this in other some hard way, opening the Sub Explorer during playing, but I lost many scenes)

Suggestions ¬¬¬
- Doesn't have option to see YouTube videos just copying url address, u have to get the full direct link, it could be like smplayer w/ a panel for searching. Such a miss 4 mpc 2.
- We could save settings, like playlists and everything in new Live PotPlayer, after login.
- It would be great to play the file in current playlist direct to another instance, a right click and then >>Open in another ppm. I have movie and audio/radios playlists aside of each other, cool if if I could open them separately, easy like that.

I hope you consider my add here, because it comes from the heart, for such a great work you've done. I just read the PP history, so much progress since the first version.

Review by bartslol on May 31, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 9/10




is there a reason why PotPlayer brings itself to the top of your screen when you have it minimized and click a file to add it to your playlist? it didnt do this before

Review by LJay on May 28, 2013 Version: 1.5.38072 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




when i close pot and run again pot not working

because this program is runing in task manager.

Review by green soldier on May 19, 2013 Version: 1.5.37776 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




It is much better and more developed than MPC-HC.

Review by Stears555 on May 17, 2013 Version: latest OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The best free player great quality of video and audio for mp4 files

Review by JaiMax on May 17, 2013 Version: 1.53 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




The English 64bit version was not developed since months...

Review by Stears555 on May 4, 2013 Version: latest OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hello!

The PNG type image capture from videos doesn't work. The software freeze when I try to save a photo from the video.

Review by Stears555 on May 2, 2013 Version: latest OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hi everyone,

I've been using PotPlayer for some time now and I love it except for one small flaw that bugs me. When I double click a file it opens in a new playlist which is ok, but the playlist I last opened doesn't start with the last file I played anymore but from the beginning. The other playlists are not affected by this, and they will open with the file that was last played.
Can anyone help me with this?

Review by Kalvera on May 2, 2013 Version: 1.5.3660 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@leecherman - Thank you. I tried it and can confirm that when I went back down to v1.5.36421, the application closes immediately (properly) again. On the same WinXP SP3 x86 machine - the newer versions hang for between 3-10 seconds on the taskbar before closing.

Also, I recently tried KMPlayer (this author's former project) and PotPlayer is much better. KMPlayer was taking 45% CPU whereas PotPlayer takes 15% CPU for the same files playing at same resolution.

If only the author can investigate what happened in the closing script after v1.5.36421. Someone please inform the author of this closing bug in his native language (Korean).

Review by robertcollier4 on Apr 29, 2013 Version: 1.5.36421 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I LOVE PotPlayer, But I've noticed that it can't handle *.FLV files that well lately. It opens them, but if I try to jump ahead in time (while looking at tutorials), it freezes and doesn't respond. I wish this was fixed as I currently have FLV set to open with VLC instead.

Review by Snow73 on Apr 11, 2013 Version: 1.5.36744 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@robertcollier4
Yes it's does in all version above version v1.5.36421
So if you like the new thumbnail previews use this version v1.5.36421

Review by leecherman on Apr 11, 2013 Version: 1.5.36421 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




New versions of this hang on shutdown. When closing the app, it freezes for about 5-10 seconds before closing on Windows XP. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix?

This didn't used to happen with previous versions (but I like the new versions for the feature "Display thumbnail previews on nav bar").

Review by robertcollier4 on Apr 9, 2013 Version: 1.5.36673 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




The PNG image capture from videos doesn't work!!!

Review by Stears555 on Apr 8, 2013 Version: 1.5.36205-x64 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 7/10




Great player. Once you set it up, which is not that easy, you get optimum experience.
I use it with LAV CUVID filters, combined with SVP, with Bahgravi skin.

Review by afrocuban01 on Apr 7, 2013 Version: 1.5.36181 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This app is more than a great app.

But after upgrading from v1.5.36421 it's hang in the background for a few seconds when closing it.

So i will stay with v1.5.36421 :)

Review by leecherman on Apr 5, 2013 Version: 1.5.3643 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




To be better it needs to have multi-subs support, additional VSync Renderers like mpc-hc, and the option to dl subtitle from opensubtitles isdb. And also option to download and show lyrics (LRC), or some way to integrate it with MiniLyrics. I'm using the beta version from videohelp website, because it's in english.

I couldn't configure it to use external "ffdshow dxva", in that way it shows 2 subtitles on the same movie.

I really like it for audio/streaming, its equalizer, the speed,, so I moved all formats into it instead of mpc-hc, that I've used for a long time because of dxva, but the quality and speed here is supreme, much over than VLC or JetAudio, just need some adjusts to make it perfect.

Review by bartslol on Mar 23, 2013 Version: 1.5.36205 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This doesn't have a single developer, rather the author is a company named Daum Communications. Just sayin :)

Review by lawllmaster on Mar 15, 2013 Version: 2.513 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




this beta release (1.5.36073) has audio and subtitles sync problems for me..and some video parts not shown properly..(some scenes turns "black screen"..-the following s01e06)..so i have uninstalled it..and back to stable release.(no problem with previously beta)..

Review by metin67 on Mar 13, 2013 Version: 1.5.36073 OS: Windows 8 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I used to use KMPlayer which was excellent and was my default media player, but that became aged after the dev stopped developing it. Then PotPlayer came along from the same dev as KMPlayer and again its excellent, it took a little while to learn my way around it as it differed slightly to KMPlayer but once i had it then became my new default player.

It has always served me well and plays anything i play at it and also is easily configured to take advantage of DXVA which is a must when playing 1080p vids as the GPU can take on the load instead of the CPU. It comes with all the codecs / filters built in which ive never had the need to use others, the same goes with splitters which are good but i prefer Haali splitter. After installing Haali its a breeze to configure PotPlayer to use it.

I have always recommended PotPlayer to anyone who asks me whats the best app to play media with and will most likely always will as it has frequent updates.

So if ur in the process of finding a new or replacement media player i cant recommend PotPlayer enough. I Highly recommend PotPlayer to anyone looking for a complete standalone media player, whether you are a beginner or advanced PC user PotPlayer will accommodate your needs.

A great media player!

Review by bodgeup on Feb 21, 2013 Version: 1.5.35882 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Subtitles do not appear in Blu-Ray compared to DVD
Examples: Avatar, Field of Dreams

Review by jebirum on Feb 19, 2013 Version: 1.5.35491 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 7/10




Can't disagree that it's probably the 2nd best player for all media.

It will never be the best as it can't display 2nd subtitles.
The old KM Player which is v1439 that I'm currently using with LAV filters is and will be the author's best ever work. Displaying the 2nd subtitles on top/bottom of the video is important as we fancy watching non English videos or English videos with small parts of foreign audio in it.As one of my family is hearing impaired, displaying English subs is almost a necessity.

Are there any other players out there that can do this for MKV?

I doubt it.

Review by The FilmAddict on Feb 7, 2013 Version: 1.5.35431 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




I really miss the 2nd subtitle function. In KM there was an option to display multiple subtitles.

Review by miso00 on Feb 3, 2013 Version: 1.5.35431 x64 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




It is the best video player on the whole WEB!!!

Review by Stears555 on Jan 11, 2013 Version: 1234 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The custom shortcut keys do not work in multiple windows/players.
Any ways to fix this problem ?

Review by worworwor on Jan 2, 2013 Version: 1.5.34860 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 7/10




Update: Having been using 1.5.34665 x64 for a while now, I have found...

- Sped-up plackback (like 1.3x) still adds an annoying reverb to the sound.

- When playing a .wtv file that is a digital-tv recording by Windows Media Center, and there are two audio tracks #0 and #1, it always selects the #1 track (center only) instead of the #0 track (full 5.1).

- It's digital-tv support is still lacking. While it does work, the channel numbers are completely out of whack, and the app crashes itself (no Windows error, it's its own crash dialog) when it is nearly done a channel autoscan. Oh well.

- Oh, and there's no beta updates for the x64!

Review by IntelliMoo on Dec 14, 2012 Version: 1.5.34665 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Having grown increasingly frustrated with MPC-HC (and some "BE" variant of it) when it could not play a seemingly normal .mp4 that Avidemux would load and play; and hating how VLC just doesn't seem to use acceleration properly (making it impossible to watch hd-tv recordings); I decided to give the great PotPlayer a try again (last time was about a little over a year ago).

It definitely works better for me now (some quirks are gone), and it plays the file the other 2 couldn't. It has all the customizable amazing features I like to be able to control, and works very well so far. I don't know if the tv card support works properly yet, may try that eventually.

Review by IntelliMoo on Dec 5, 2012 Version: 1.5.34665 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This is arguably THE BEST player in the known UNIVERSE. The author is the one who created KMPlayer, after PANDORA took KMPlayer, he left the development of KMPlayer (no wonder why KMPlayer SUCKS now) and created PotPlayer. I gave it a 9, only because it takes a little effort to set it right for your needs. Other than that it's PHENOMENAL. Here, just compare this too shots I've taken with KMPlayer and PotPlayer rendering a anamorphic MKV.

KMPlayer: http://www.img4up.com/up2/52533546193347013437.png

As you can see, it failed to recognize the correct aspect ratio and look at the colors and how washed out they are.

Now, on PotPlayer: http://www.img4up.com/up2/54898198210130963540.png

See, it recognized the correct aspect ratio and the colors are gorgeous.

Review by rezabrando on Nov 23, 2012 Version: 1.5.34655 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Not me. Installed without a hitch.

Review by vato76 on Nov 22, 2012 Version: 1.5.34665 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Received virus notification from Avira on this latest version. File name TR/FakeAV.akv. Anyone else get this?

Review by rwmol on Nov 20, 2012 Version: 9.0.0.9 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




*I'd like to re-write my comment, since, the previous had been cut unexpectedly.

This player is using the lowest resources I've ever seen! For instance, for an MKV 720p file it uses less than 3% CPU utilization ( i5 2500 @1.6Ghz - idle mode ) and less than 3% GPU utilization ( AMD7950 @501Mhz - Video Mode )! It's amazingly resources-friendly.

One problem I have; I can't find how to make it stop playing all files in a playlist... I'd like to play one file and then stop. My inefficient "workaround" is to: "Remove -> Remove All Unselected Items". I'd appreciate a little help!

Also, I'd really like a fully Windows native Theme. Currently it has an old glossy style on the main window and an older theme on the options window. It's looks a bit messy.

Anyway; Great player overall.

Review by MagakoS on Nov 18, 2012 Version: 1.5.34321 x64 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




After being a Media Player diehard for years, I finally switched all video playback to PotPlayer. Frankly it plays everything, even the videos that play on VLC but not Gom and MPC-HC but not VLC, etc. I did have to do a litle customizing to keep the screen size constant, the aspect ration the same and several other settings but PotPlayer has so many settings that can be set and is rather easy to set up, no matter what you may wish. Now I can play ALL my test videos with one player and still get subtitles in VOB, sub/idx, SSA/ASS, SRT, external with same name, DVB and Teletext besides. I love it.

Review by budman1 on Nov 15, 2012 Version: 1.5.34321 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Hello

How can I speed-up the video without modifying the pitch?
Or how can change or compensate the pitch?

regards

Review by skan on Nov 15, 2012 Version: 1.5.34115 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 6/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 8/10




Except for its inability to "play next file," (forums are full of people complaining about this) this is an excellent player.

Review by Helen Chevrolet on Nov 9, 2012 Version: 1.5.3.3421 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 4/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 7/10




Works very well - I would like to warn people, though. DL it by clicking on "Download from our site (direct link)" and NOT by going to the maker's home page. If you go there, you'll get a Korean-language installer with no English option that will also install bloatware on your system. Make sure you get the installer that's in English!

Review by ravenswd on Nov 8, 2012 Version: 1.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Only 2 words to describe the player
"BEST PLAYER".
Nothing else needs to be said.

I do have a request for a new feature
In the new updated version of VLC player they included one new feature i.e. "SUBTITLE SPEED" by which we can change the fps speed of the subtitles.
I would like to see same feature (or ADVANCED), if possible, in DAUM POTPLYAER.

thanking you in advance.

Review by trickster on Oct 20, 2012 Version: 1.5.34179 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Plays 1080i perfect on my older Windows XP Pentium PC. VLC and MPC-HC doesn't do that. Constantly updated. Plenty of features. Free. I stopped using KMPlayer because I thought that VLC and MPC-HC had gotten better. Now PotPlayer surpasses them all.

Review by danzeb on Oct 9, 2012 Version: 1.5.34289 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Good player that includes Blu-Ray playback but the drawback for me is the lack of remote functionality. MPC-HC is compatible with the Microsoft remote and it also plays Blu-Ray so that is still the preferred player. Also none of these players can play Microsoft Recorded TV files with audio and subtitles so you still need WMP.

Review by Rogeroo on Oct 6, 2012 Version: 1.5.33573 OS: Vista Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Excellent software, no flaw so far. Runs great on low-end systems!

Review by FulanoBR on Sep 3, 2012 Version: 1.5.34023 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Great piece of software, a lot of functionalities and easily customizable.

Review by 5moufl on Sep 1, 2012 Version: 1.5.33948 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




One of the best player. My cpu usage is almost below 7% whereas others had 15% and more. It can use DXVA in all format. Some functions are from MPC and SMPlayer (so superb!!). However, the resize setting is not working for me. It resizes vids to screen res at fullscreen :(

Review by arnob216 on Jul 5, 2012 Version: 1.5.33573 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Video capture function is Superb.10 out of 10.

Review by ajit255 on Jun 8, 2012 Version: 1.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Unfortunately it's still not possible to set an audio delay that sticks even when the player is closed and started again. MPC-HC supports this and I don't understand why the audio delay can't stick over the sessions in PotPlayer...

Review by Frasier on Apr 29, 2012 Version: 1.5.33227 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 6/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




This is an excellent video player and plays many types of files. Their are some places that are only in Korean but it has not affected the usability at all. The author has done a very good job with this software.

Review by kevinintachikawa on Apr 11, 2012 Version: 1.5.32007 BETA OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




greatest player of all times...

Review by ulisesbretana on Mar 26, 2012 Version: 1.5.32772 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This is the best video player, no doubt about it. I didn't give it a 10 because I have feature request. I would like to have dual window for dual videos and a better bookmark display feature so I can go to a bookmark for one video or the other while both are displayed. Is there a way to contact the author ?

Review by PowerFalcon on Mar 26, 2012 Version: 1.5.299 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




potplayer is really cool and has very high quality.that's perfect.

Review by kurosh on Mar 22, 2012 Version: 1.5.32674Beta OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 4/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




The best player in the world

Review by sbs13 on Feb 27, 2012 Version: 1.5.32007 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




If video playback is pushed to the second screen, could controls, Playlist etc. be kept on the main screen. This is a great, I mean GREAT device that could readily be used to play media in live shows, just no menus or alerts could be allowed.

Review by POPPOP on Feb 26, 2012 Version: 1.5.32007 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




moontrash play dvd right click on screen un check show subtiles this should work for you also lav filters has probs with subs i no longer use lav because of this

Review by dessieclive on Feb 22, 2012 Version: 1531983 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Comment below = ALT+H toggles subs

Review by chowmein on Feb 21, 2012 Version: 1.5.31983 beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I tried using this for dvd's last night and the playback is perfect but I'm afraid I'm having the same issue as another comment posted. I can't get rid of subtitles. They just stay on. If I try closed caption, both sets are on simultaneously. I tried setting the splitter with LAV or Haali and both play fine but the subtitles don't even show they are there. I think maybe it's a setting I'm not getting right but I wish it was a simple as MPC HC where you just load it up and the default subs are off.

MKV and BR playback are perfect. No issues there.

Review by moontrash on Feb 21, 2012 Version: 1.5.31983 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Just gets better with each release even reads chapters for mkv from its taskbar no other player even comes close to it

Review by dessieclive on Feb 20, 2012 Version: 1 5 3 4 9 0 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




lordfrikk is nothing but a fucking troll. Look at his/her profile. No posts. Who does the/she work for? Although if that's supposed to be PR it's retarded.

Actually I was thinking of trying potplayer until I saw it was done by the same person who d8id KMplayer. And that is shite. Just had to drop in and comment.

SMplayer for me.

Review by Hoser Rob on Feb 19, 2012 Version: 1.5.31983 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




@lordfrikk: and you are an asshole for calling me dumb! You are a self-righteous idiot with absolutely no idea of anything!

The procedure you describe did NOT work in the last versions. Just the latest version from Feb 8th seems to handle the subtitles somehow, but still with major drawbacks! It shows the subtitle track even if it is not the "default" track, doesn't recognize and auto-enable forced subtitle tracks, doesn't include a "no subtitle" in the cycling with ALT-L, etc. It's unusable! With Haali Media Splitter it works fine though.

Review by Frasier on Feb 9, 2012 Version: 1.5.31934 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




@Frasier: You are just dumb. Either hit Alt+L to switch between subtitle streams or right-click the video, then in the Subtitles submenu choose Select subtitles. Hard, eh?

Review by lordfrikk on Feb 3, 2012 Version: 1.5.30857 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Unfortunately, the internal source/splitter for Matroska files (mkv) does not seem to support selecting the subtitle track. The player does display the default subtitles, but it's impossible to switch to another subtitle stream. The only work-around seems to be to install another splitter, like Haali Media Splitter. A bit inconvenient though, having to do this. But still a great player!

Review by Frasier on Jan 30, 2012 Version: 1.5.31590 Beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




This program has serious inconsistencies regarding aspect ratios, and the built-in video processor only makes things worse. Notwithstanding, it's good-enough as a "dedicated" DVD-player, also there is a "TMT skin" which dresses PotPlayer with a "very-sexy layout", lol Lol LOL.

Review by El Heggunte on Jan 22, 2012 Version: 1.5.30857 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Only player I've found that supports the stupid Nero AAC codec.
Now if they could just port Potencoder to english too!

Review by cb900crdr on Jan 15, 2012 Version: 1.5.30857 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Really the best.

Review by jandor2009 on Jan 10, 2012 Version: 1.5.31393 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Well I thought I'd come back and report that Blu-Ray playback is flawless...no issues whatsoever. How can you go wrong with playback software that plays all media types without any issues and it's free? Give a big thanks to the author of PotPlayer...they really have created a free universal media player.

Review by moontrash on Jan 10, 2012 Version: 1.5.31393 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hi
First I want to say this is the best player on the net today.& I tested all players around.
I have A Sony Handycam HDR-XR500E Video Camera.
When I play HD m2ts files connecting the camera direct to TV I can watch all my recorded & filmed sections continuously & smoothly with no pouses between the sections and parts.
When I copied my recorded video to my Hard Disk and play them from my Hard Disk,
the player pauses between each sector for 1 second with A black frame, which is very annoying.
I Must say that the PotPlayer does the shortest pouses,compare to any other players around.
I appeal to the PotPlayer Auther,Can You Please Fix It?
I Think you developed the best player around today & you can make it even better.
Eitan

Review by eitan on Jan 3, 2012 Version: PotPlayer1.5.31146 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I have continually tried MPC HC to play HD videos but it consistently always gives me varying results. I mean it plays the videos but most of the time it freezes up. Out of frustration I decided to try this little player and it's just amazing at the HD video it does. It just works. I have some old HD m2ts files from a vacation lyin around on an external drive and MPC HC did the same thing..froze up. Played them in Pot Player and voila!!!! No problems. Played some mkv's and no problems. I haven't tried any Blu Ray's but we'll see what this can do.

Can't beat it...it works and its free

Review by moontrash on Dec 10, 2011 Version: 1.5.30820 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




My goodness, I can capture from my TV card directly to H264 with this player, I just love it!!!

Review by videodan on Nov 28, 2011 Version: 1.5.30579 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I was a fan of Media Player Classic Home Cinema but when HD videos came along I found that it would freeze and I could not play them properly with it without making the MPC-HC window much smaller. My PC is a few years old but I have quite a powerful system.

PotPlayer is the best media player I have ever used! It plays HD video content smoothly without any problems and thats in fullscreen. The GUI is smart and you can choose plenty of different skins for it. It plays nearly every video format you throw at it and works straight out the box. There are lots and lots of advanced options you can tweak if you know what your doing, if not leave them with the "Recommended" default settings.

Even if you are happy with your current media player, give PotPlayer a try out I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Recommended!

Review by laspis59 on Nov 26, 2011 Version: 1.5.29996 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Love this player. Easy to use, excellent functionality, built-in codecs, etc... :)

Review by Alexkp on Nov 3, 2011 Version: 1.5.30095 Beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Through testing over 40 media players I came to love PotPlayer.

This is a cool player with briliant costomizational options.

The video/audio playback smooth and the quality is flawless.

One of the key features include, marking of already played files. This is only supportd in only some skins. I would have preffered it on all of them...

I would also like to request, blu-ray menu support and sterioscopic 3D movie support and convertability.
It would also be really good if all the skins (the ones that come in skin packs) and if all the windows were translated to english.

Review by Detharr on Oct 19, 2011 Version: PotPlayer 1.5 (build 29917) OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I have to amend my previous comment on PotPlayer... Another quirk I've found is for some reason, is plays .wtv files recorded by Windows Media Center from the digital tuner with completely out of sync audio. The other 2 most popular players (VLC and MPC-HC) play them fine.

PotPlayer does play .wtv recorded from my analog tuner fine, though.

Review by IntelliMoo on Oct 17, 2011 Version: 1.5.29795-x64 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




the best overall player at the moment

Review by dessieclive on Oct 12, 2011 Version: 1.5.29843 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I've tried most of the video players at one time or another, but have settled on PotPlayer for it's excellent performance and configurability. It also does a good job with streaming video, which not all players will.

IntelliMoo - I don't dispute that you have experienced problems with the TV tuner, but I just wanted to mention that I am able to tune analog channels with PotPlayer and my Avermedia M780 card. It does a good job, but I prefer DScaler because it 'remembers' my video size and offset settings.

Review by OldGeek on Sep 29, 2011 Version: 1.5b29603 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




PotPlayer is the best player around I have found in a long time, it's like a combination of 'Media Player Classic Home Cinema' and 'VLC media player' but with an actual modern look and feel. All the techy settings are there (like MPC) and more, and it has some special features (like VLC) such as speed-up playback with adjusted audio pitch.

The only problems I have with PotPlayer so far are:
- The speed-up playback with adjusted audio pitch: The audio sounds normal for the most part except it has like a reverb effect added for some reason. VLC's feature for this sounds completely normal.
- PotPlayer's TV card support actually works compared to MPC and VLC (both of which never did for mine), but it won't display a picture at all for the analog tuner (audio works), and it doesn't change channels correctly for the digital tuner (it did fine in one session but can't get it to again).

Review by IntelliMoo on Sep 29, 2011 Version: 1.5.29795 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Videos started continuously stuttering in this version (1.5.29617). The previous version played fine.

Review by skibicki on Sep 14, 2011 Version: 1.5.29617 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I have been comparing potplayer beta to the newest vlc and mpc homecinema players and I must say the new potplayer beta seems to use less recources loads immediately and plays all the different file types flawlessly and in sync all the way up to 1080p resolution,and with the proper audio and subtitle settings automatically set.The default settings are excellent and they are competely customizable if you like to tinker...;)~

Review by Rappinrod on Sep 14, 2011 Version: 1.5.29617 beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




ASS/SSA Subtitle problem fixed after i disabled option 'Apply Default Style for ASS/SSA' it was enabled by default. probably due to last installed ver.

Review by ved_kuro on Aug 26, 2011 Version: 1.5.29490 Beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Really good Player for playing Anime.

but still have problem's with font size & style
PotPlayers settings forces its font size & style
on SSA/ASS subtitles.
I tried every setting change to prevent that.
I want Potplayer to use/adapt
SSA/ASS built-in subtitle fonts, font size, style & settings.
Instead of forcefully using font & its size set in Preferences.

Only SRT & UTF subtitle should use font settings in Preferences.
Its annoying to re-set font size everytime.
If My subtitle is UTF i set font size to 24
but when subtitle is SSA/ASS text becomes too small to read
resulting me to re-set font size to 36.

Vobsub works fine.

Except these problems
overall its a great Player :)
lot better than vlc

Review by ved_kuro on Aug 25, 2011 Version: 1.5.29490 Beta OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 6/10 Overall: 7/10




Best multimedia player!
PotPlayer - AWA skins and logos pack:
http://www.4shared.com/file/1UjGZCdc/PP_Skins_Logos.html

Review by roby008 on Aug 6, 2011 Version: 1.5.29206 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The 1.5.28025 posted is actually a beta version.
Nevertheless is quite a very good player, a system resources friendly, intuitive, easy to use, a viable alternative for the classics players...

Review by muLineZu on May 2, 2011 Version: 1.5.28025 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Excellent Video Player. I was a big fan of KMPlayer before I came across PotPlayer. This player is very stable and plays back almost all formats very easily. The interface is cleaner than KMPlayer and the settings dialog allow the user to customize the player to his/her liking. Has plethora of useful features. Playback Quality is excellent almost as good as MPC with ffdshow ( As one can tweak ffdshow more ). Each update has made it more stable than before, plus it has 64-Bit version too which though not updated as often is excellent too.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...

Review by Vladrial on May 2, 2011 Version: 1.5.28025 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This is like KMplayer but better. It has tons of features and settings just like KMplayer. The one big difference is that this player will allow you to quickly scan through any video format. you can drag the bar at the bottom to seek anywhere in the video and it updates instantly. I haven't found a video this player can not play. The best by far and I have tried just about everything out there.

Review by specter on Mar 22, 2011 Version: 1.5.27313 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




useless media player which has no best features than KMPlayer , VLCPlayer,Zoom Player,Windows Media Player,it is a garbage of bad features

Review by parag19 on Feb 17, 2011 Version: 1.5.26923 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I've been using this program for about 2 weeks now and have had virtually no issues, each revision has become more and more stable. I have stopped using KMPlayer and find this too be nearly identical (which it should be since it's the same author) only laid out a little neater; if not a little different as well.
I was not expecting to be blown away by it, and I'm not but for it's core functionality as an all in one player - that is very configurable - it's quite good and certainly faster on startup than KMPPlayer.

Review by Des on Jan 14, 2011 Version: 1.5.26481 beta OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Disappointing replacement for The KM Player (same author). While it seems to play most formats, it lacks simple things like 100% zoom. It also changes the IE homepage to a Korean search engine, and attempts to alter the base search engine as well, all without asking permission first. To me, that is basically spyware behaviour.

Review by guns1inger on Jan 12, 2011 Version: 1.5 (26392) OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Not as great like KMPlayer & VLCPlayer as it lacks many features of this two players and it`s audio equalizer is of very weak standard as bass & treble effects is very weak compared to KMPlayer & VLCPlayer , so it cannot compete with this two players

Review by parag19 on Jan 9, 2011 Version: 1.5.26392 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 3/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 3/10




Not quite there yet. Did not preserve the aspect ratio. And unlike KMPlayer I could not find any settings to change that. But it handled the avchd mp4 videos on my ancient computer with minimal stutter than the dozen other players I have tried so far.

I will wait for the next release.

Review by vidalien on Jan 1, 2011 Version: 1.5 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




This Player is a typical ALL-In-One-Player.
I always wanted a player like this and this one is definitely one of the best of all (vlc, kmp ["old version" of this player), mpc with ffdshow, smplayer and all other).

But the codecs are not the best and all of them have some problems, e.g. they don't decode H.264 in mov-Container properly (e.g. Clips from EOS 5D Mark II [but vlc can, but has DVD-problems]).

I like it, but don't expect too much from this player and all similar. Also PowerDVD 10 Ultra isn't my 100%-choice.


But as an Audio-Player I like AIMP very much. Try it :)

Review by flashandpan007 on Dec 31, 2010 Version: 1.5.26143 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 5/10


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