If you own a 4K monitor and want to enjoy good quality while watching a 4K video, you need a dedicated 4K video player. You can check this free 4K HDR video player for Windows 10 called CnX Media Player. It supports many files and you can stream videos online. Let's see the features, the options, etc.
4K CnX Media Player Video Player
CnX Media Player has a lot of features that could impress you. Some of them are mentioned below.
- Open by folder: You can find it in the context menu "Open with". You can only open one video at a time or open several in a folder. In the latter case, you will find all the open videos in a dedicated panel so you can select and read the one you want in one click.
- Check the metadata of the video: Although there are several 4K video players for Windows, most of them do not have this feature. You can check the metadata of a video file without leaving the player. It displays codecs, resolution, frame rate, bit rate, bit depth, and more.
- Change audio track: Some videos come with multiple audio tracks. If you're playing a video with multiple audio tracks and want to switch from one track to another, you can do it using a built-in option.
- Brightness Management: Regardless of the contrast or brightness level of your screen, you can change it. All of these changes will be applied to the video player only.
- Post videos online: In addition to playing local files, you can also stream videos online. For your information, it supports only HLS, MPEG-DASH and progressive HTTP formats.
- Theme: By default, it adopts the theme of your system, but this can be changed using the given options.
- Create a playlist: If you play the same videos frequently, you can create a playlist of your favorite videos and play them automatically.
- Setting the video playback speed: Like VLC Media Player, if you want to change the default playback speed of your video, you can do it in CnX Media Player.
Battery consumption is lower than other 4K video players available for Windows. According to the official statement, this occurs due to the implementation of Intel hardware acceleration (HW +). The second important thing is that it does not produce much heat when playing a 4K video – thanks to the 'algorithms' they use in the software. Therefore, your graphics card will not encounter any problem even after a long period of use of this video player.
Codecs and video formats supported:
Before you install and use this video player on your Windows 10 computer, you must know the supported codecs. For your information, it supports HEVC / H.265, VP9, VP8, AV1 (NEW), H.264, MPEG-4, etc. formats. It can play almost all popular video formats such as MP4, MKV, TS, FLV, MOV. etc.
Install and play 4K videos with CnX Media Player
Download CnX Media Player from the Microsoft Store. After installing and opening it on your computer, you will find a window like this one.
You must click on the Manage the library button to start adding video files. In the next window you can find an option called Add a video folder.
Make sure this option is selected. If yes, click on Add button to select your video folder. After adding them all, you should have a window like this.
As mentioned earlier, you can find all the videos you have open on the dedicated panel visible on the right side. If you click on a video in this list, playback will start automatically.
How to check the metadata of a video
There are two ways to check the video metadata.
- First of all, you can right-click on the thumbnail of the video visible on the right.
- Second, you can play the video, click on the button speed settings button and select properties.
Whichever method you follow, you will end up seeing this-
If you click on the gear settings icon, you will find other options, and they are-
- Loop: You can play a video several times automatically.
- Resize: You can resize the video resolution.
- Reading speed
- Screen: If you want to change the brightness, contrast and saturation, you can do it from here.
- Video decoder
How to change audio track
If your video has multiple audio tracks and you want to go from one track to another, you must start by playing it. After that, click on the button melody visible sign in the top menu bar and select the desired audio track.
CnX Media Player Settings
This 4K video player comes with a few options so that users can manage everything according to their needs. You can open the "Settings" panel by clicking on the three-line icon visible in the upper left corner of your screen and selecting Settings option. Some of the essential options are mentioned below.
- Erase read history: it records everything, and if you want to erase the read journal, you can do it from here.
- Clear the thumbnail cache
- Select the account of the history
- Select a theme: Here you can find some themes you can choose to change the overall look of the CnX media player.
- Select the video decoder
- Resume reading action
- Change text settings
If you wish, you can download CnX Media Player from Microsoft Store.