Why on earth is PotPlayer playing mp4/mov/any video file like this?

[HorusOwl]

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please help!

[ChasVideo]

An encrypted file?

[HorusOwl]

No, this is the case with files I make myself, too. Any video file.

[davexnet]

No, this is the case with files I make myself, too. Any video file.

Check to make sure they play ok an alternate player such as VLC, mpc-hc, etc,etc,.

Does it do it with all files? If it's only with some, open the file in mediainfo, put it in text view,
and post the info here

[HorusOwl]

Yep, they play perfectly fine in any other media player.

As for the file format, PotPlayer renders the file the exact same way, whether it's mp4, mov, m4a, etc. This happens with any video I've tried playing. mp3 files and such work perfectly fine, but upon turning on the visualiser I get the exact same result.

[davexnet]

Right click the video, select filters, take a screenshot and post it here. For example,

[HorusOwl]

Here ya go

[davexnet]

close the video. Open preferences/filter control/video decoder
and set the type of video you're using to "system default" (here you can see the typical h264/avc usually used in mp4/mkv)
Hit apply.
Reopen the video and check the filters again, confirm it's using the system filter (as in mine above, it's using lav filters)

[HorusOwl]

no difference, as far as I can tell. This is after changing the Video Decoder settings to look exactly like yours.


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[davexnet]

deselect the "use built in dvxa video decoder"
What version of windows are you using?

Do you have Lav Filters or some other codec pack installed?
If not install LAV filters and retry, it should have appeared as an option.

What is the encoding of the particular video you're using? Open it with mediainfo, put it text view,
and post the info here.

[HorusOwl]

Sorry for the late reply.

Disabling DVXA Video Decoder changed nothing.

I recently upgraded to Windows 11 but this issue was occurring when I was using Windows 10, too.

Using LAV Filters changed nothing.

Putting it through mediainfo returns this:

General
Complete name : C:\Users\ryanl\Favorites\Downloads\When your plan fails.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42)
File size : 23.6 MiB
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 090 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
gsst : 0
gstd : 181974

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings : CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Bit rate : 959 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.042
Stream size : 20.8 MiB (88%)
Title : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 08/18/2021.
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 2.78 MiB (12%)
Title : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 08/18/2021.
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10

[davexnet]

I'm out of idea's sorry. Contact the developer

[october262]

Sorry for the late reply.

Disabling DVXA Video Decoder changed nothing.

I recently upgraded to Windows 11 but this issue was occurring when I was using Windows 10, too.

Using LAV Filters changed nothing.

Putting it through mediainfo returns this:

General
Complete name : C:\Users\ryanl\Favorites\Downloads\When your plan fails.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp42)
File size : 23.6 MiB
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 090 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
gsst : 0
gstd : 181974

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings : CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Bit rate : 959 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.042
Stream size : 20.8 MiB (88%)
Title : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 08/18/2021.
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 3 min 1 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 2.78 MiB (12%)
Title : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 08/18/2021.
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10
Tagged date : UTC 2021-08-19 01:09:10

try right clicking on the interface and select the option "reset to default"

[aedipuss]

a sample???