#Potplayer hardware acceleration software

These should certainly help you play anything with power and style. SMPlayer - Consider this a MPC-HC alternative, but powered by MPV and comes with several GUI options! SMPlayer by default uses Mplayer as its backend, but with a single trip to the GUI options menu you can set its backend as MPV. There are 3rd party GUIs that go atop it though so that you can use all the power and config without touching any CLI or editing any conf files. The only downside for most is that by default it is command line and its OSD is very minimal - there are no real options menus or anything GUI related. It basically wraps all of the stuff that can be done with MPC-HC + MadVR + all the other stuff I mentioned above into a single open source program that can be config'ed with a single file. MPV - This is the new hotness, pretty much.

VLC ( Yes, VLC is developing nicely and will play most things no fuss no muss! If you want certain very, very specialized features there are other alternatives but I've found it more lightweight and capable than most other players out there. but now that MPC-HC is deprecated (though still awesome) I suggest the following instead. I used to use MPC-HC + LAV Filters + MadVR + AssFilterMod etc.

I personally do not prefer PotPlayer/ZoomPlayer or any other proprietary player because I've found better, open source alternatives. MPC-HC / MPC-BE are fantastic but have sadly been out of maintainers (ie even BE basically built upon what MPC-HC's base etc). you shouldn't have difficulty playing it in software.

#Potplayer hardware acceleration software

Then again, depending on your proc, software etc.

As others have said, your GPU may not be able to handle hardware x265, but a replacement shouldn't be very troublesome if you wish to go that route. I mostly watch a lot movies, 1080p, 4K HDR 10 bits, anime, and tv series, from several years i always has been use potplayer with a tweak here and there like madvr for video decoder, or d3d11 hardware acceleration and in audio i use auto un renderer with speaker config in 3/0/2+LFE - 5.1 channel, add some photos.