As of 2022, the software no longer installs adware or shows ads. In addition, PotPlayer started showing popup ads on the lower right-hand corner the screen.
The installer gives the option to opt-out before the bundled 3rd party software is installed. As requested, the log and zipped file are included, thank you. I suspect the installer package changed somehow and this created the FP. VirusTotal suggests it is safe and it is from a program I have used for many years called DAUM PotPlayer. Īs of at least late 2019, PotPlayer began to be bundled with third-party software, causing concerns from PotPlayer's users community. As the title states I am seeing what I am fairly sure is a false positive. "It has many different settings which unfortunately makes wading through the checkbox-laden settings menu kind of a pain." and that the options menu is "confusing". LifeHacker observed that PotPlayer's quantity of options is one of its biggest weaknesses. PotPlayer's reception has been positive with reviewers complimenting its wide range of settings and customizations, as well as its lightweight nature and its support for a large variety of media formats.
It competes with other popular Windows media players such as VLC media player, mpv (media player), GOM Player, KMPlayer, SMPlayer and Media Player Classic. PotPlayer is a multimedia software player developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system by South Korean Internet company Kakao (formerly Daum Communications). Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijan, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hong Kong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik (Cyrillic), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Latin) And I'm kinda baffled by regularly seeing that "Could not resolve enough pins" error from MPC-BE or its siblings. That said, there are videos that even VLC has problems with. Beyond that, I found the Daum Potplayer UI to be chaotic and unappealing. It's why I have done whatever seemed possible to kill Win-10 telemetry, Cortana, etc., before I will make any sustained usage of that OS. I don't know how accurate those reports were, but I have a very LOW tolerance for that type of behavior from an app. Getting back to Potplayer, I have not read back through this thread, and I stopped using the program some time ago (although older versions may still be installed on a couple rigs), because I recall reading some disturbing reports about "phone home" tattletale behavior that could not be thwarted without crippling the program.
That exception above applies less in the case of something like a video player, which is not doing anything like password recovery. Programs that are good and do important or unique things, but which will always get flagged, due to their nature. Sometimes even multiple hits from the longtime major players does not really tell the tale, either: see many years of valid complaints from NirSoft and certain others. Some of those AV scanners are major players, but some others are No Account No Names that I wouldn't put any value on. It is a much better practice to use VirusTotal, which is free, and then read the multi-AV-scanners report with care and some understanding.
As a general principle, single AV scanner results don't really cut it: too many ways it can toss out a false positive, as from the use of certain software tools in the coding development, or certain essential methods by which the program does its thing.