‘KMPlayer’ has a lot of tabs filled with settings, but in ‘PotPlayer’ they’re better arranged and virtually tab-less. Some entries have been removed, new ones added, and at the end, we have a more cleaner looking ‘Command center’ :D. And as mentioned above, ‘PotPlayer’ also has a very similar look-n-feel to ‘KMPlayer’ but there are visible changes too.įor example, I like the new ‘Preferences’ window. This is where the true power of ‘KMPlayer’ lies (if you know what you’re doing :P). Luckily, ‘PotPlayer’ comes with both versions!. Now you can use the 32-bit version of ‘KMPlayer’ on a 64-bit version of Windows, but a ‘pure’ 64-bit version improves the performance (specially if the codecs and others are also 64-bit). So, while applying video filters such as ‘Denoise’, ‘Sharp’, ‘Motion Blur’ … if you have a CPU with multiple cores, then they’ll all be used (depending on the requirements of course) for gaining the optimal quality. Not only ‘PotPlayer’ comes with all those filters, better yet, it also supports multi-core powered video processing. One of my favorite features of ‘KMPlayer’ is the awesome collection of audio & video filters that come in handy while enhancing the quality of the output. Yet, once enabled, ‘PotPlayer’ was able to show thumbnail previews without any delays or without affecting the current playback. This is a recent trend (a useful one) that’s seen in some media players and ‘Video On Demand’ services (such as in ‘YouTube’), in which you see a thumbnail preview when you move your mouse over the ‘progress-bar’ area. Thumbnailed Progress-bar (disabled by default): Not only the video looks more sharp (including ‘OSD’ messages and subtitles, even under videos with low resolutions), I had no problem whatsoever while switching between fullscreen & windowed mode, unlike with ‘KMPlayer’. ‘PotPlayer’ by default uses ‘EVR’ (‘Enhanced Video Renderer’), and this is required by the ‘DXVA’ as well. I have an Intel HD 3000 GPU, and I easily saw the drop of CPU usage under some of those codecs. Since the GPU is more efficient at handling multimedia tasks, if you have a laptop or something similar, then it’ll output less heat and reduce power consumption. An offloaded CPU during a HD video playback … ‘DXVA’ (developed by Microsoft) lets a chosen number of codecs to be decoded by using your GPU (Intel HD 2000 and newer, AMD 6xxxx series and newer, Nvidia Gefore 500 series and newer) and thus offloading your CPU. I don’t know why they didn’t just improved ‘KMPLayer’ rather than creating another one, nevertheless, it’s really good.īoth ‘KMPlayer’ and ‘PotPlayer’ share so much in common, but ‘PotPlayer’ comes with few additional ones that are pretty awesome. In simple terms, this is the highly improved version of ‘KMPlayer’. So I installed it and gave it a go, and within the first few minutes, I got extremely impressed by it!. It had a look at some of its screenshots and to my surprise, it looked almost like ‘KMPlayer’, later only to realize that it actually is being developed by the ‘KMPlayer’ developers. So, not that I ever thought that I’d find a replacement for it -), but out of my frustration, yesterday I Googled ‘replacement for KMPlayer’ and came up with another one called ‘PotPlayer’. This wasn’t surprising either, because according to my experience, ‘KMPlayer’ is not the most durable/robust one out there. Anyhow, from recently, I’ve been having some playback & video rendering issues with ‘KMPlayer’ under Windows 8. I’ve also used ‘Media Player Classic’ (comes with ‘KLite-Codec pack’), though I have a tremendous respect for it, I just can’t stand its ugly user interface. It can play almost any audio/video codec, has a beautiful UI, comes with a huge number of options, completely free, one couldn’t ask for more :D. For years, ‘KMPlayer’ has been my favorite media player under MS Windows.
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