The KMPlayer

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Not to be confused with KMPlayer.
The KMPlayer

The KMPlayer 2.9.x
Developed by Kang, YoungHuee
Initial release October 1, 2002[1]
Stable release 2.9.3.1428  (December 16, 2007 (2007-12-16); 178 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release 2.9.3.1431-beta  (May 8, 2008 (2008-05-08); 34 days ago) [+/−]
Written in Delphi
OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Available in English, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean(Default), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Genre Media player
License Proprietary, Freeware
Website www.kmplayer.com

The KMPlayer is a video and audio player for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows one 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[1] and color schemes, and the configuration options are very extensive.[2]

The "K" of KMP simply indicates the initial character of the original developer's family name (Kang). The full name of KMPlayer is K-Multimedia Player. In March 2008 development has been taken over by Pandora TV, a Korean streaming video company.[2]

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[edit] Supported files and devices

[edit] 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.

  • External Codecs
    • Media Priority to Connect among DirectShow, Real, QuickTime, Winamp and MPlayer
    • Custom Filter Manager to force or block external filters
    • System Filter Manager to manage (register or unregister) external filters

[edit] Subtitles

[edit] Plugins

The KMPlayer supports input, dsp/effect, visualization and some general plugins of winamp2/5. Before using plugins, one should specify the path of each plugin 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] Controversy

There has been research that The KMPlayer uses GPL code in the program.[3] The developer maintains that it has been written in Borland Delphi from scratch,[4] although in a later and contradictory response from another developer, they have deleted any visible GPL parts bundled with the product, or including the GPL license on the infringing part.[5]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.delmadang.com/community/bbs_view.asp?bbsNo=21&indx=208397 (Korean)
  2. ^ To all KMPlayer users - The KMPlayer's Forums
  3. ^ KMPlayer's developer steals code from GPLed player. in SourceForge, posted 23 Apr 2005 by Gabest.
  4. ^ Do not believe bad rumors spread in networks. in KMP Forum, posted 19 Nov 2005 by Z.
  5. ^ RadGTSplitter.ax being removed from the player bundle, including the GPL license.

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