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Well after spotting VLC doesn't use hardware accelerated video by default it turns out neither does Pot Player.
If you have a GPU from the last few years such as an AMD / ATI / Nvidia or Intel one then this may help you out - it will offload the video decoding to the GPU and free up your system.
On this little test PC I've built today it's gone from 100% CPU while playing back 1080p video and dropping frames to using less than 20% CPU with no frames dropped and this is using a really old school ATI 6450 card.
To fix this launch Pot Player and right click inside the window and choose the Preferences menu item
Now select the Filter Control menu item on the left and then click Video Decoder:
Now click the Built-in codec / DVXA settings box.
Now select the Use DXVA item so that it's ticked:
Click OK and close all the rest of the windows down including the main Pot Player window so that it's completely closed down.
Now restart Pot Player and try playing a video - if it supports your GPU hardware then the CPU usage will drop dramatically and you should see fewer (hopefully no) frames dropped.
To go back to software rendering just repeat the above and untick Use DXVA.
If you have a GPU from the last few years such as an AMD / ATI / Nvidia or Intel one then this may help you out - it will offload the video decoding to the GPU and free up your system.
On this little test PC I've built today it's gone from 100% CPU while playing back 1080p video and dropping frames to using less than 20% CPU with no frames dropped and this is using a really old school ATI 6450 card.
To fix this launch Pot Player and right click inside the window and choose the Preferences menu item
Now select the Filter Control menu item on the left and then click Video Decoder:
Now click the Built-in codec / DVXA settings box.
Now select the Use DXVA item so that it's ticked:
Click OK and close all the rest of the windows down including the main Pot Player window so that it's completely closed down.
Now restart Pot Player and try playing a video - if it supports your GPU hardware then the CPU usage will drop dramatically and you should see fewer (hopefully no) frames dropped.
To go back to software rendering just repeat the above and untick Use DXVA.
