Which media player you choose and how you use it for playing local videos has great impact on the CPU consumption of the host. VLC, GOM Player, KM Player, Potplayer, SMPlayer and Media Player Classic are some of the popular media players that customers are most likely to use. These media player have the most included for supporting a large number of media formats. However, as some of these media players do not support hardware accleration, you may experience heavy CPU consumption when playing local videos with them.

When a single host computer is shared by multiple users runnng vCloudPoint zero clients, how to make the most use of the host resources and support more users is the administrator’s top concern. To help customers optimize the vCloudPoint system with more efficiency host resource utilization, we recommend you use K-lite pack with Media Player Classic for local video playback. Beblow is the download link and configuration steps:

1. download K-lite standard codec pack at http://www.codecguide.com. The Media Player Classic is bundled.

2. install the K-lite pack on the host. The Media Player Classic is integrated so you don’t have to install it separately.

3. Open “Codec Tweak Tool” at “Start” menu–>”K-Lite Codec Pack” or “Tools” at the installation file.

4. Click on “DirectShow (x86)” if you are Windows system is 32 bits, or “DirectShow (x64) if 64 bits.

5. On the next popup window, select “Video: LAV Video Decoder”, and apply.

After it is applied, “LAV Video Decoder” goes to “DISABLED FILTERS” as below:

6. Open the Media Player Classic, go to “View”－”Options”－”Playback”－”Output”, select the “DirectShow Video” option. And all configuartions complete.