Windows 10: Pot Player

I have tried various media players..eg VLC,Blaze media players etc but i found most of them don't play all media formats and either convert it or download another player..anyway downloaded Pot Player ,which i never heard of, and found it amazing in what it can do.

Downloaded a music video from Youtube ,which was a WEBM file, and previously i had convert it to mp3 using an online converter and Pot Player has a setting for recording audio only..so i don't need another converter and you can continue using your pc while Pot Player continues with audio recording in the background.

I am still training myself on various settings within Pot Player..I recommend it


My OS is Windows 10 Pro 1909 with latest updates

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strange icon for Pot player




Pot Player's normal Icon is a yellow square. The screen shot shows a little triangle. mp4s do open with Pot Player but I'd like to restore the original icon.

 

strange icon for Pot player

That is the default icon.

If you want too change it to the old one try this in Preferences.
(Try PotIconsNew pack for square icons)




In addition you should configure:



Settings file is stored here:

"C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\PotPlayerMini\PotPlayerMini.ini"

and here:

"C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Daum\PotPlayerMini.ini"

You should back those files up to another location. They can be restored to their original location if they ever get overwritten when installing an update.

 

strange icon for Pot player

By the way I've been using PotPlayer for probably a couple of years. If you don't already have it consider MadVR plugin.

madVR

About: MadVR - madVR configuration and optimization guide, screenshot comparisons and algorithm performance

Basics:

Setup takes a little work. You'll need to download madVR and unzip it somewhere safe (you can't delete the folder later); run Install.bat as an administrator; run madHcCtrl.exe to access your settings.

I use this but leave the other MadVr settings set to defaults:




Then choose madVR as the video renderer in your media player (in PotPlayer, Video > Video Renderer > Madshi Video Renderer).



But once that's out of the way, madVR will be used for all playback, and you can start trying out its various processing, scaling and rendering options.

In addition for thumbnail previews on timeline in PotPlayer: