The software market is crowded with multimedia
players that can fit the needs of all types of users, depending on what
they require: either out-of-the-box installation, without the user
needing to change anything, or the expert approach, where each function
needs to be configured. PotPlayer is an application that supports both
of these modes.
Upon setup, the beginners can press
Next>Next>Next until the software is installed, while the pros
have the freedom of changing each option as they like, such as the file
associations they want to make, if any, or specify the exact type of
sound system they have.
Just as expected from any player,
PotPlayer supports a wide range of audio (including, but not limited to
WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC, RA, FLAC and MOD, and video (such as AVI,
WMV, ASF, MPEG, M2V, MTS, DPG, WebM, AMV or DivX) formats, but it also
recognizes several playlist formats (like M3U, ASX, PLS, WVX or CUE).
PotPlayer
gives its users great control over its functions, allowing modification
of the video speed, adjusting the audio volume, decrease or increase
contrast and brightness. Also, several skins are available so that users
can match the appearance of their video player to the theme of their
OS.
Expert users have the chance to learn the corresponding
keyboard hotkeys for the most frequent actions they make, to avoid
opening menus and windows whenever they want to change the window size
or the frame width.
Another way to speed things up is to assign
various functions to the mouse – the more buttons it has, the more
actions can be attributed to each of them.
PotPlayer is a
comprehensive multimedia application to that plays movies and displays
subtitles in a seamless way, without asking too much input from users,
unless they specifically want to personalize the tool to their liking
and modify its default settings.
What's new:
+ Added WebDAV/HTTP playback functions
+ Added the ability to navigate between FTP/WebDAV/HTTP server folders within a playlist
+ Added Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder
+ Added the ability to use scrollbar in popup menu
+ Added the ability to load previous/next files in play folder
- Some fixes while capturing 64-Bit games
- Fixed an issue that can not play certain HTTP streams
- Fixed problem of Microsoft's MultiMedia Keyboard
- Fixed a problem where displaying broadcast filename did not work properly
- Added direct support for colorspaces of AVerMedia HD Capture
- Fixed an issue that can not play certain ASF files
- Improved file association handling in Windows8