Video Viewer may have Trojan

I've been using a freeware video player that I've
found suits my needs well. It's called Potplayer.
It has several features that I like, including
start and stop with the space bar, which is the
standard among most video editors. It has
configurable keyboard commands, which I also think
is necessary in a video player. Another feature
that I really like is that it will play each video
clip in a folder sequentially once you play back
back the first clip.

Potplayer seems to be the IrfanView of video
players.

There is a problem, however. Some people are saying
their anti-virus software is idenfying some
component of the Potplayer installer as a trojan.
Is this something that should be taken seriously?
I've heard that false positives are common with
video players, but I don't know how to judge the
seriousness of these blog comments that pop up from
time to time about Potplayer.

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:58:19 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:
I've been using a freeware video player that I've
found suits my needs well. It's called Potplayer.
It has several features that I like, including
start and stop with the space bar, which is the
standard among most video editors. It has
configurable keyboard commands, which I also think
is necessary in a video player. Another feature
that I really like is that it will play each video
clip in a folder sequentially once you play back
back the first clip.

Potplayer seems to be the IrfanView of video
players.

There is a problem, however. Some people are saying
their anti-virus software is idenfying some
component of the Potplayer installer as a trojan.
Is this something that should be taken seriously?
I've heard that false positives are common with
video players, but I don't know how to judge the
seriousness of these blog comments that pop up from
time to time about Potplayer.


When an antivirus detect something, most people would think that it caught a
virus/malware without even reading what it actually detect.

In message , Gene Malvern
writes:
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Potplayer seems to be the IrfanView of video
players.
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For purely _playing_, I get the impression that VLC is the IrfanView.
(I've never heard of Potplayer, though that isn't meant to denigrate.)
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that
may never be questioned.

In article hlmtbddec7aus5ck06kgdnk61fnfuupton@
4ax.com, says...

Calling home for updates ?

That could be. I don't know how these things work.

In article , G6JPG-255
@255soft.uk says...
For purely _playing_, I get the impression that VLC is the IrfanView.
(I've never heard of Potplayer, though that isn't
meant to denigrate.)

I don't have anything against VLC. But it won't go
into a folder and play the clips in sequence. I
need to be able to page through the clips quickly.
Potplayer will do that. I wish I could put my mind
at ease about this trojan thing though.

In article p0vtbddbhgedbsgl22fqdkh60ris5hk02q@
4ax.com, says...

Upload it to Virus Total and see what a whole bunch of AV products say
about it.

https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload


I'll give that a try.

In article ,
says...
VLC includes playback controls, eg, you can tweak the gamma, contrast,
sharpness, sometimes useful when the transfer from ancient films was
done on the cheap.


I've used VLC for years. But as I mentioned
earlier, what it won't do is go into a folder in
Windows Explorer and play the clips one after
another. With VLC, you double click on a clip and
it plays it. To play the next clip you have to
unload the program and double click on the next
clip.

With Potplayer you double click on the first clip
and it automatically goes on to the next clip in
the folder. Or you can hit the Page Down key and
quickly page through a lot of clips to find the one
you're looking for.

In other words, it works much the same way that
IrfanView does when you need to page through a
folder of still photos.

On 31/03/2018 04:11, wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:58:19 -0700, Gene Malvern

There is a problem, however. Some people are saying
their anti-virus software is idenfying some
component of the Potplayer installer as a trojan.

Upload it to Virus Total and see what a whole bunch of AV products say
about it.

https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload

Yes, this is good advice for x86 & x64 files.

However, when initially I read that advice I was mistakenly thinking I
was reading one of the mobile groups that I subscribe to, and began to
wonder whether VirusTotal would be able to scan for viruses written for
other CPUs - different CPUs have different instruction sets, so the
same virus written in x86 coding would result in a different byte
pattern than if it was written for, say, an arm CPU. I've just had a
look at ...

https://support.virustotal.com/hc/en...9-How-it-works

.... and I can't see anything about support for viruses on other hardware
platforms, so whether this would be equally good advice for, say, mobile
viruses, I have no idea.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:14:38 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:

I've used VLC for years. But as I mentioned
earlier, what it won't do is go into a folder in
Windows Explorer and play the clips one after
another. With VLC, you double click on a clip and
it plays it. To play the next clip you have to
unload the program and double click on the next
clip.

If you select all of the clips when you open a file in VLC they become
a playlist and you can click the next item in the playlist button to go
to the next one. Or right click and select next. You can also select
open multiple files from the media menu.

--
Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2
and built in 5 years;
UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/

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. m
e.uk, says...

If you select all of the clips when you open a file in VLC they become
a playlist and you can click the next item in the playlist button to go
to the next one. Or right click and select next. You can also select
open multiple files from the media menu.

If you're in a hurry, which of course you always
are when you're editing video, you need to be able
to look at a large number of video clips quickly.
In those circumstances, messing with playlists
becomes a major pain in the ass.

That's why I've begun this search to find a video
player that doesn't insist on the use of playlists
to simply look at a bunch of clips, and do it fast.

Potplayer enables you to go to a folder, start the
first playback, and page through a bunch of clips
without the hastle of setting up a playlist.

Now, if I can just find out what this trojan
business is all about.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:54:49 -0700, Gene Malvern
wrote:

In article , G6JPG-255
says...
For purely _playing_, I get the impression that VLC is the IrfanView.
(I've never heard of Potplayer, though that isn't
meant to denigrate.)

I don't have anything against VLC. But it won't go
into a folder and play the clips in sequence. I
need to be able to page through the clips quickly.
Potplayer will do that. I wish I could put my mind
at ease about this trojan thing though.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is another popular player
that can play all of the videos in a folder in sequence.

--

Char Jackson

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:40:04 -0700, Gene Malvern wrote:

If you select all of the clips when you open a file in VLC they become
a playlist and you can click the next item in the playlist button to go
to the next one. Or right click and select next. You can also select
open multiple files from the media menu.

If you're in a hurry, which of course you always
are when you're editing video, you need to be able
to look at a large number of video clips quickly.
In those circumstances, messing with playlists
becomes a major pain in the ass.

That's why I've begun this search to find a video
player that doesn't insist on the use of playlists
to simply look at a bunch of clips, and do it fast.

Potplayer enables you to go to a folder, start the
first playback, and page through a bunch of clips
without the hastle of setting up a playlist.

Well if ctrl-a is too much hassle... I'm just pointing out that you can
play multiple clips in VLC.

--
Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2
and built in 5 years;
UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/

In article tifvbdthjndht6ueo7p6unes24osbm6lok@
4ax.com, lid says...

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is another popular player
that can play all of the videos in a folder in sequence.


Media Player Classic is one slick little video
player. I just downloaded it and tried it out.

I offers VSync, which is great. Verticle line
tearing has been one of my pet peeves about
playback in VLC.

I like the keyboard controls, which are more-or-
less standard, such space-bar play and pause. I
like using Escape to go from full-screen to the
window.

It also offers the option to "play the next file in
the folder." That's exactly what I need. But I
can't get the setting to stick. Once you exit the
player it's been going back to the default setting
which is "Do nothing."

Do you know of a setting that will make that option
stick? Is there a setting somewhere that I missed?

Gene Malvern wrote:
In article tifvbdthjndht6ueo7p6unes24osbm6lok@
4ax.com, lid says...

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is another popular player
that can play all of the videos in a folder in sequence.


Media Player Classic is one slick little video
player. I just downloaded it and tried it out.

I offers VSync, which is great. Verticle line
tearing has been one of my pet peeves about
playback in VLC.

I like the keyboard controls, which are more-or-
less standard, such space-bar play and pause. I
like using Escape to go from full-screen to the
window.

It also offers the option to "play the next file in
the folder." That's exactly what I need. But I
can't get the setting to stick. Once you exit the
player it's been going back to the default setting
which is "Do nothing."

Do you know of a setting that will make that option
stick? Is there a setting somewhere that I missed?

Use command line switch: /playnext
There are a lot more in: Help, Command line switches.

In article p0vtbddbhgedbsgl22fqdkh60ris5hk02q@
4ax.com, says...

Upload it to Virus Total and see what a whole bunch of AV products say
about it.

https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload


Well, you've done a great deal to put my mind at
ease about Potplayer. Only one of the hundred or so
virus checkers at VirusTotal came back with a
negative reading on the Potplayer installer .exe
file. That single virus checker that came back
negative was something called Baidu. Never heard of
it.

The rest all called it clean.

I think I'm going to take a chance on Potplayer and
install it on the rest of my machines. It's a slick
little video player. It does everything I've been
needing in a video playback program for a long
time.