The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format 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 in many ways.
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. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.
In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.
In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.
Key Features :
- Supported Files or Devices
- HTTP Streaming(AVI etc including none-streaming media)
- Directshow playback (avi, mkv etc)
- Real Engine + Directshow (needs Real Player or Alternative)
- QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime player or Alternative)
- Mplayer Engine Support
- Winamp Input Plugin(decoder) Support
- Compressed Audio Album Support(zip, rar)
- Audio CD(2000, XP only / Win9x-Support by winamp plugin)
- Video CD/SVCD/XCD : CDXA Format (2000, XP only)
- DVD playback
- DTS Wave and AC3 files
- WDM device support like TV or Camera
- CD Image File (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG) ; NRG needs mplayer.dll
- Shoutcast (Including NSV)
- AAC, OGG parser/decoder
- Shockwave Flash/FLC/FLI
- Ape/MPC/Flac/Module etc
- Various Image files like png, gif etc
- Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
- Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing
Built-in Codec/Filters
- Video Codec
- MPEG4 (Divx/Xvid : FFmpeg/xvid)
- MPEG1/2 (ffmpeg/libmpeg)
- etc (ffmpeg)
- Audio Codec:
- 2Ch to Multi Channel expansion
- External Codec
- Media Priority to Connect among Directshow, Real, QT, Winamp and Mplayer
- Custom Filter Manager
- System Filter Manger
Plugins
- Winamp Input Plugins
- Winamp DSP Plugins (Can Stack)
- Winamp Visual Plugins (Can Stack)
- Winamp General Plugins (Media Library etc Support)
- KMP Video Plugins by SDK (Can Stack)
CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 06, 2008Despite lacking a Help file, KMPlayer is one of the most powerful freeware video players we've seen. It includes a vast array of video- and audio-capturing options, as well as skins, a plethora of playback controls and tweaks, and broad DVD support.
You'll have to learn the ropes yourself, perhaps a hindrance to newcomers. But if you're familiar with where things ought to be in programs, and willing to patiently wait for mouse-over labels to pop up and then click on them for the actual menus, KMPlayer has the potential to be immensely rewarding. It supports all major file formats, and all of the minor and obscure ones we tested. It did have problems with the RealPlayer 11's video capture IVR format, but not much else.
Advanced options include frame capture and a frame-forward feature, which is actually a fractional Play button, but the difference is negligible. The Pause button is a fast responder, too. Combined with streaming TV and HDTV compatibility, playlists, and the ability to select which codec is used on a video-by-video basis, and you get a media player that demands attention.
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