Turning off media player acceleration

Here's how to turn off hardware acceleration in various media players. Note, media players are always being updated, so treat these instructions as approximate.

Windows Media Player

VideoLAN player: http://pixelmetrics.com/Tips/VidBlank/VideoLanPlayer.php

The VideoLAN player can play just about any format, even DVDs, without hardware acceleration.

Apple QuickTime Player

Winamp Player

RealPlayer

We can't find any reliable way to turn off this player's acceleration.

WinDVD

We can't find any reliable way to turn off this player's acceleration. But note, this player includes a frame capture feature with thumbnail viewer.

PowerDVD

We can't find any reliable way to turn off this player's acceleration.

AOL player

We can't find any reliable way to turn off this player's acceleration.

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