KMPlayer
| File:Kmpaudioshade.png | |
| File:Kmp.png The KMPlayer 2.9.x | |
| Developer(s) | Kang, YoungHuee |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Media player |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www.kmplayer.com |
The KMPlayer (not to be confused with KMPlayer) is a video and audio player which can play a large amount of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles subtitles and allows you to capture screenshots.
The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Interestingly, it is said that internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.
It is possible to set audio and video effects, slow down or increase playback speed, select parts of a video as favorites, and many more. The KMPlayer is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes, and the configuration options are extensive.
The "K" of KMP simply indicates the initial character of the developer's family name (Kang). The full name of KMPlayer is K-Multimedia Player.
Supported Files or Devices
- Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
- Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing (with realtime index rebuilding under certain condition: AVI downloading in consecutive order)
- HTTP Streaming (ASF/OGG/MP3/AAC/MPEG PS/MPEG TS: Only work with internal splitters)
- DirectShow playback (avi, wmv, mkv, mov, mp4, ogg theora, ogm, rmvb, mpeg1, mpeg2, http:// etc including almost every audio formats)
- Real Engine + Directshow (needs RealPlayer or Alternative or its decoders)
- QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime or Alternative or its decoders)
- Mplayer Engine Support
- Winamp Input Plugin(decoder) Support
- DVD Playback, ratDVD support(needs ratDVD filters)
- WDM device support like TV/HDTV/Camera/Cam etc
- Adobe Flash/FLC/FLI
- Various Image files like png, gif etc
Covered Codec/Filters
The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback as follows. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. Even though the KMP is based upon directshow, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and Quicktime by the internal logic. Thus, it is possible to specify where to connect the media in preferences.
- Video codecs
- DivX, XviD, Theora, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VP3, VP5, VP6, H263(+), H.264(AVC1), CYUY, ASV1/2, SVQ1/3, MSVIDC, Cinepak, MS MPEG4 V1/2/3, FFV1, VCR1, FLV1, MSRLE, QTRLE Huffyuv, Digital Video, Indeo3, MJPEG, SNOW, TSCC, Dirac, VC-1, RealVideo etc
- Audio Codecs
- AC3, DTS, LPCM, MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, WMA, ALAC, AMR, QDM2, FLAC, TTA, IMA ADPCM, QCELP, EVRC, RealAudio etc
- External Codecs
- Media Priority to Connect among Directshow, Real, QT, Winamp and Mplayer
- Custom Filter Manager to force or block external filters
- System Filter Manager to manage(register, unregister) external filters
- Unicode Text Subtitles
- SAMI(smi) : Ruby tag support including every almost attributes
- SubRipText(srt), MicroDVD(sub), SMIL/RealText
- SAA, ASS, USF(Ruby support)
- Bitmap Sub/Idx(Vobsub), Closed Caption
- Sasami 2K(S2k)
- ASF, MKV, OGM, MP4 internal subtitles
- TTS(Text to Speech) for reading subtiltes
The KMPlayer supports input, dsp/effect, visualization and some general plugins of winamp2/5. Before using plugins, you should specify the path of each plugins and corresponding settings.
- Winamp Plugins: Input, DSP(Can Stack), Visual(Can Stack), General Plugins(Media Library etc Support)
- KMP Video Plugins by SDK (Can Stack)
- DScaler Filter Support (Can Stack)
Criticisms
- Circling around, there are rumours that The KMPlayer uses GPL codes in the core part of the program, although The KMPlayer neither is open source, under GPL or has any notice about the included code in any form of EULA or such. This has found to be incorrect.
- The KMPlayer isn't widely spread, although there are many full translations included and a good support forum.
