Additionally, it has advanced features like video and audio filters, subtitle synchronization, and playback speed control. It can be used not only to play videos but also to stream online content. It is open-source and supports almost every file format available. VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players available. In this article, we will discuss some of the best options. If you are looking for an alternative to Windows Media Player, there are various free programs that can replace it. Due to its minimalistic features and inability to play multiple file formats, users have often opted for third-party media players. Again, just only that one exe is left in my PotPlayer folder.Windows Media Player, though a standard on Windows operatings systems, has failed to compete with other media players available on the market. In fact such filter is already in place many years ago, as I never change the custom installation folder I chose back then. The remaining lone exe is blocked with the Firewall's outbound.

I may even had added such files for auto-deletion with my cleaners, in case I forgot to manually delete them. Then I delete the unneeded extra exe's and other bloat files and dll's. Not sure but 7-Zip or WinRAR might be able to do so as well. So I just extract them using the open-source Universal Extractor. At VideoHelp's pages for PotPlayer and KMPlayer, both are labeled with Freeware and Ads. PotPlayer and KMPlayer typically have embedded adware or spyware in their Setups and they don't have official zipped/archived counterparts I believe. I guess I'll use it as a replacement, as my current one has the 'ads' label from the archive itself. I don't want to download the other Setup if indeed they are just the same, to save internet data of course. It was simply PotPlayerSetup64.exe, just above PotPlayerSetup64-8.exe.

So I picked the highest one without the 'ads' label. In fact I just now downloaded an older version myself.

For PotPlayer: PotPlayer Old Versions Downloads.

After reading a while here, I realized that there are some issues with the latest version of the player, along with ads.Īt VideoHelp, is where I download previous/older versions of media software including PotPlayer.

Potplayer portable