The laptop stopped working properly while you used PotPlayer because it ran out of memory or processing power.
The laptop stopped working properly while you used PotPlayer because it ran out of memory or processing power.
I began using PotPlayer on my laptop around October 2023. Over the past few months, I watched around 1000 movies without any problems. On June 29, I experienced a freezing issue that made the movie play awkwardly and required a forced shutdown. I looked up information about this problem and found several discussions online. One suggested using external video codecs, but I hadn’t installed any. Another user reported freezing after installing a new PotPlayer version, which was a recent update. Since I hadn’t changed anything else—no Windows updates, no driver changes—I wondered if the bug had become more active after five months with the same old version. It’s possible that the software had been quietly accumulating issues over time.
If you're not using VLC or similar players like K-Lite Codec Pack (MPC-HC in the standard version and later), what are you doing? It seems some people are sticking with WinRAR despite better options like 7zip being available for years. As Eigen mentioned, it really comes down to how the video was encoded and which codec is required. If you obtained the movie elsewhere or from a different source, that might be the reason.
I'm using WinRar to watch 1080p Rarbg x265 films on my computer. I've played many of them with PotPlayer without any issues.
The actual Rarbg shut down last year. What you're seeing now probably isn't from the same crew who used to make those (unless it's older pre-shutdown content). If you're finding them on a site claiming to be rarbg, you're likely on a copycat platform. I'd be very cautious about what you get there. (More talk would cross the line, even in this thread)