If you are concerned the PotPlayer author knows what videos you are watching, maybe it's best to use Windows Media Player, oh wait.

Adding entries in the hosts file of course blocks that, and eases your paranoia. Still its quite normal it 'calls home' in my opinion. On the same page you will find almost 700 other skins, so if none of them are to your liking just stick with any old garbage dinosaur player you currently You do realize PotPlayer is the player for a Korean network which includes chat and all kinds of other things? The international version uses PotPlayerMini.exe which doesn't use any of that functionality. Again I will recommend the portable version here which has everything included, both 32 and 64 bits ( launcher by gbrao in this thread ) and with a sexy modern skin. I just wanted to let you know that your version results in an incomplete and severely crippled PotPlayer that doesn't play half the files it's supposed to and is probably more unstable than Miley Cyrus on a very bad day. Those files are oddly enough included in the videohelp version. Furthermore, unfortunately dvbsupport doesn't include the DirectX 9 files in their installers, so PotPlayer will cry about that in case the user doesn't have his DirectX 9 updated. The original and main site for PotPlayer, dvbsupport, have those codecs included in the installer.

Those codecs are a separate download when installing PotPlayer using the videohelp version.

I'd like to point out that the downloads you refer to ( from ) do NOT include FFmpeg, Libav and OpenCodec when extracting the setup files.

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