If you want the time display at the bottom of the player to always show milliseconds, you need to modify the display settings in the Preferences menu. Right-click anywhere in the PotPlayer window. Select (or press F5 ). On the left sidebar, navigate to General .
What is your for tracking milliseconds? (e.g., video editing, subtitle timing, or analysis?)
Press the on your keyboard to display the file information (OSD).
Method 1: Displaying Milliseconds Using the OSD (On-Screen Display) potplayer show milliseconds
If you are performing frame-accurate work, you can toggle frame numbers instead of time by pressing Ctrl + G to jump to a specific frame or by enabling frame info in the OSD settings.
Look at the top-left corner of the video window. You will see a detailed text overlay.
| | How Milliseconds in PotPlayer Help | | :--- | :--- | | Video Editing & Post-Production | Marking exact cut points, logging scenes, and synchronizing multi-camera footage with frame-perfect precision. | | Quality Assurance & Bug Reporting | Reporting a glitch that occurs for only a few frames is useless with second-level timestamps. Developers need the millisecond accuracy that PotPlayer's status bar and bookmark feature provide. | | Game Capture & Montage Creation | Creating a montage of the best kills or most humorous moments from a multi-hour gameplay session requires tagging not just the second, but the exact frame where the action peaks. | | Language Learning & Transcription | Placing a bookmark on a specific word or phrase allows learners or transcribers to instantly return to a difficult pronunciation or sentence without searching. | | Music Production & Sound Design | Pinpointing a specific transient sound (like a drum hit or a click) for removal, replacement, or analysis in a video's audio track. | If you want the time display at the
When you interact with the seek bar (the progress bar), the pop-up that appears often provides a more detailed view than the main interface.
Matching audio waveforms to text requires frame-accurate timing down to the millisecond.
If you want to optimize your player workflow further, let me know: On the left sidebar, navigate to General
To complement millisecond viewing, use these keys for frame-accurate navigation: : Move forward one frame. : Move backward one frame. : Jump to a specific time (Enter HH:MM:SS.mmm).
Is the audio 50ms early or late? Standard players hide this. With milliseconds active, you can press the F and G keys (default PotPlayer audio shift shortcuts) and visually verify the adjustment in real-time.
You can force PotPlayer to show the current time with milliseconds as an overlay on the video. Press F5 . Navigate to OSD: Go to General > OSD Messages .
Q: Can I customize the time format in PotPlayer? A: Yes, PotPlayer allows you to customize the time format. You can experiment with different formats in the Preferences window.