2012 Blog

PotPlayer

Tuesday 17 jan 2012

Another year, another app that leaves all else in the dust. Today it's a media player called PotPlayer

One upon a rime, Windows Media play was fine and did everything one needed. These days the Microsoft offering is complicated rubbish, and alternatives are necessary. Media Player Classic offered an excellent alternative for a while, but it didn;t keep up with modern container formats like MKV. VLC was was too messy for my tastes, and I founf the KM Player to be a perfect fit. Configurable, full control over audio streams, subtitles and aspect ratio. Unfortunately the KM Player was bought up by Pandora TV, who have completely failed to keep it up to date with emerging tech like 10-bit color and x264.

But, blessing of blessings, the Korean dude who wrote the KM Player has come up with a sort of modern version of it called PotPlayer. It does everything, it's easy to use, and it's all in Korean. 'DOH!

Luckily there is an english version available, just check out this thread at Doom 9 Forums.

Heck, it took me ages to find a media player that did everything I needed. Thought I'd share the joy.

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