The KMPlayer

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The KMPlayer
The KMPlayer 2.9.x
Maintainer:	Kang, YoungHuee
Stable release:	2.9.3.1214 (01/25/2007) _[+/-]
Preview release:	2.9.3.1241 (04/01/2007) _[+/-]
OS:	Windows
Use:	Media player
License:	Freeware
Website:	www.kmplayer.com

The KMPlayer (not to be confused with KMPlayer) is a video and audio player for Windows which can play a large number of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and 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.

The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, slow down or increase playback speed, select parts of a video as favorites, do various A-B repeats, remap the keys of remote interface for HTPC including overlay screen controls, change a skin dynamically depending on a media type playing, and many more. The KMPlayer is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes, and the configuration options are very 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.

1 Supported Files or Devices
2 Covered Codec/Filters
3 Subtitles
4 Plugin
5 Criticisms
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Supported Files or Devices

DVD Mode (Ctrl+D, Ctrl+V)

Control Box (Alt+G)

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)

- Async File Source(network) filter for memory caching

- Compressed Audio Album Support (zip, rar)

- Shoutcast (Including NSV), Icecast

- DTS Wave, AC3, AAC, Ogg, Ape, MPC, FLAC, AMR, ALAC, SHN, WV, Module(MOD, S3M, MTM, UMX, XM and IT) etc

- Google Video(GVI), Flash Video(FLV), Nullsoft Streaming Video(NSV), 3GP, PMP, VOB
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)

- Audio CD(2000, XP only)

- Video CD/SVCD/XCD : CDXA Format (2000, XP only)

- VCD Image File (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG) ; NRG needs mplayer.dll
WDM device support like TV/HDTV/Camera/Cam etc
Adobe Flash/FLC/FLI
Various Image files like png, gif etc

[edit] Covered Codec/Filters

Filter Control (F2)

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 or unregister) external filters

[edit] Subtitles

Subtitle Explorer (Alt+Q)

Unicode Text Subtitles
SAMI(smi) : Ruby tag support including almost every attributes
SubRipText(srt), MicroDVD(sub), SMIL/RealText
SAA, ASS, USF(Ruby support)
Bitmap Sub/Idx(Vobsub), Closed Caption
Sasami 2K(S2k)
Embedded subtitles of ASF, MKV, OGM, MP4, MOV, VOB, 3GP
TTS (Text to Speech) for reading subtitles

[edit] Plugin

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)

[edit] Criticisms

There have been rumors that The KMPlayer uses GPL code in the core part of the program. However, there was an answer in the forum that GPL codes had not been included in the program, claiming that The KMPlayer has been written in Borland Delphi from scratch.