This settings makes your GPU render all video.ģ. Click on ' Built-in Video Codec/DXVA Settings' in the mid bottom of the window and check boxes as in the picture (Under DXVA2 copy-back settings select Your external GPU) Click on the plus icon next to the 'Filter control' on the left side of the window and select ' Video decoder', as the option column expands. On the left side click on ' playback' and under ' process priority' on the right side of the window select ' high' instead of ' Above normal' - if you want to allocate more resources to playback. After menu opens, click on preferences.ġ. Open PotPlayer and click on three horizontal bars in the top left corner. (If you don't know how to do that, click here) After you install it, make sure to set Nvidia as its primary graphics processor if you're running it on laptop, since it defaults to integrated graphics. When you install a 64bit PotPlayer version (which you can do here) make sure to download all addons in the installation process. Disclaimer: Settings I will show you and work best for me will stress your system (particularly GPU) - this is not a battery friendly way to watch videos. GPUs are the most important here, since we'll be focusing on utilising them for video upscaling, as well as running multiple post processing filters with them. Those are my reference points for a high end and low end system. I have a desktop setup with and GTX1070 with my laptop running i7-4710HQ and GTX860M. Second section focuses on settings you can enable if you have a strong system (specially on the GPU side) and the third section focuses on settings for lower tier systems. First one focuses on settings everyone should enable, regardless on the power of their system, since they're not very resource intensive. That is my personal opinion, I've only done a comparison between it and the VLC player so I am biased in this regard. For those who're not yet familiar with PotPlayer, it's similar to MPC-HC or VLC players, but offers a simpler design and UI with powerful post processing tools that make videos look cleaner, sharper and richer in colour.

This guide will focus on optimising PotPlayer for best video quality.

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