PotPlayer 25.3.13 / 25.4.30 beta reviews

-> Poor Internet Video Handling and Bandwidth Usage:


PotPlayer struggles to process internet videos efficiently. Recently, its ability to play YouTube URLs has become unreliable, often resulting in errors or endless refreshing, even after reinstalling or downgrading the software. Compared to dedicated tools like TubeDigger, VideoGet, Allavsoft Downloader, or MediaHuman Downloader, PotPlayer is far less consistent for online video playback.

Moreover, PotPlayer appears to consume significantly more bandwidth when streaming compared to alternatives. This inefficiency is particularly frustrating when other software can deliver the same content with less data usage.



-> Limited Add-ons and Missing Video Features:-


PotPlayer’s ecosystem for add-ons is notably sparse. Unlike media players such as KMPlayer or VLC, which offer a wide range of extensions and plugins, PotPlayer provides very few options for expanding its functionality. This lack of add-ons means fewer ways to customize or enhance the playback experience.

PotPlayer has a lot of missing features, such as:

- Built-in video downloading tools (like KMPlayer’s YouTube streaming and download feature)

- Advanced subtitle search and management

- Integrated media library and management

- Blu-ray playback support (which PotPlayer lacks, but PowerDVD and KMPlayer offer)

- Screencasting or streaming to other devices

od kilku dni z niego korzystam i zaskoczylem sie b. pozytywnie. do tej pory myslalem ze MPV jest moim najlepszym programem, ale ten go przebil.

Nice full-blown media player. The TON of config settings can be overwhelming, but everything needed works well.

Wish check for update included beta versions. Decline the PUP! (a star off for that archaic inclusion)

For new users: PotPlayer is an excellent multimedia player for Windows, DirectShow based.

The player was originally made with the code of the great MPC player by a very good korean developer, but as now (2020) PotPlayer has a stable development while MPC-HC is in maintenance mode, with just some small bug fixes.

Respect to MPC-HC or MPC-BE the korean player has much more settings and functions, faster and more precise seeking, timeline preview like YouTube that works very well, much better than MPC-BE.

The streaming of Internet videos is more reliable than MPC-HC or MPC-BE because PotPlayer by default use its own splitter and audio-video decoders. They're FFMPEG based like LAV Filters. But LAV filters are more optimized for disk content, not streaming.

Attention: as for April 2020 PotPlayer try to install unwanted PUP program during the set-up, but You can (and should) just click on ''Refuse' and everything is fine.

PotPlayer is one of the best media players available today.

Yes, it does suffer a bit from feature overload and settings mess (some are even darn confusing), but it is definitely full-featured and offers many nice perks other players do not.

Just be sure to not install the PUP included in the installer!

Generally good player, but man does it have configuration overload.

Also takes a lot of disk space compared to, say, the fully equivalent MPC-BE.

Bundling a PUP in the installer is a drawback!

i just love pot player, a great solid player i use about 75% of the time.

With video mode when I resize the video not fit to player. Like I crop screen hehehe. How to fix that?

Excelent player: quality, resolution, etc; settings with many options to choose from, but what happened to my audio;

I'm not able to hear any sound nor see the subtitles on my mp4 file. w10 pro

Excellent player for windows. Very fast and user friendly. I suggest you to develop it for android also.

Really awesome video player for windows missing it in android.

Hope android version of it may also be available soon..

An amazing player, less known than VLC or MPC but I've discovered it recently and I find it fantastic.

A lot of possibilities : I play for example DVD's directly from a player (on the PC), I upscale it to 1920x1080, I use the wonderful software DimtriRender to have smooth and beautiful pictures at 60fps.

I use LAV filtes in combination with MadVR. The result is much better than many expensive players you can find. You can adjust and what I want as I want and have access to many many features. Ideal to of course with Blu-ray or film in FullHD.

I do recommend PotPlayer: try it!

PotPlayer is the best one I have ever used. It has simple UI but best for my any complex purpose.

There is no english version of potplayer I can find only Korean version only. What is happening?

Lilymay prefers vlc but gave the AWESOME Potplayer an excellent 5 rating. lol. Really? Your opinion of Potplayer is based solely on our comments? lame.

I mean, vlc is not bad, it opens every kind of video, but Potplayer goes way beyond that.

Its plethora of configuration options lets everyone tweak it and their video watching experience just the way they like it.