That POTPlayer is a media player for seasoned users is now outdated. In an overload of video formats, this player plays everything you throw at it and even the novice will enjoy this adaptable player.
POTPlayer
price
Free
Language
English
OS
Windows and macOS
Website
http://potplayer.daum.net
10 Score 100 
- Pros
- Wide range of video and audio formats
- Insanely many codecs
- Excellent image quality
- Built-in audio equalizer
- Negatives
- Free but not open source
POTPlayer is known as a powerful lightweight that plays and streams just about every format out there under the sun. The free program can even handle incomplete or damaged avi files and skips the damaged parts.
Moreover, this player works very smoothly and you can control almost all functions with hot keys: the volume, the zoom range, the brightness, the contrast and the synchronization of the subtitles.
open sesame
POTPlayer also recognizes different playlist formats. To open a movie or audio file, you don’t have to go to the menu at the top left, but right-click on the window that opens the same menu. There you first select Open so that you get to the different options such as: Open File(s) for a file on the hard drive, Open URL for a movie or song on the internet or Open DVD. If you have inserted a CD or DVD into the computer, you can directly select the optical reader at the bottom of the menu.
Customizable
Press F7 to bring up the control panel. That is a panel that consists of four tabs: audio, Video, subtitle and Playback. The first is interesting if you want optimal sound quality. This brings you to a small equalizer of which you not only adjust the volume, but also the different channels manually. Instead of fiddling with the sliders yourself, it’s better to use one of the presets that are composed according to music genre.
With Video you control the brightness, contrast, saturation and color. subtitle use to correct the synchronization of subtitles. And finally there is the tab Playback that allows you to fast forward and backward and adjust the playback speed.
Conclusion
POTPlayer is a very complete media player that uses system resources sparingly. You can even play 3D and 360° media files. The picture, sound and sound synchronization is highly customizable and it is even possible to set hot keys.
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