The KMPlayer

Infobox Software
name = The KMPlayer


caption = The KMPlayer v2.9.3.1431 Beta
developer = Kang, YoungHuee
released = October 1, 2002 [http://www.delmadang.com/community/bbs_view.asp?bbsNo=21&indx=208397 ko icon]
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = Delphi
operating system = Windows 2000/XP/Vista
language = 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 = [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php 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, FLV 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 [http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/articles/40395.aspx merit system] . Interestingly, it is said that internal filters are not registered with a 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 [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=2] and color schemes, and the configuration options are very extensive. [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/gallery/browseimages.php?c=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. [ [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8927?c=3 To all KMPlayer users - The KMPlayer's Forums ] ]

Supported files and devices

* Incomplete/damaged AVI file (skip damaged frames)
* Locked media files while downloading or sharing (with real-time index rebuilding under certain condition: AVI downloading in consecutive order)
* incoming stream delivered via HTTP (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, [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2665 PMP] , VOB
* Real Engine + DirectShow (needs RealPlayer or Real Alternative or [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357 its decoders] )
* QuickTime engine + DirectShow (needs QuickTime or Alternative or [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357 its decoders] )
* MPlayer engine support but is not shipped with the package.
* WinAmp input plugin 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)
* WDM device support like TV/HDTV/Camera/Cam etc.
* Adobe Flash/FLC/FLI
* Various image files like png, gif, etc.
* Video containers: AVI, ASF, WMV, AVS, FLV, MKV, MOV, 3GP, MP4, MPG, MPEG, DAT, OGM, VOB, RM, RMVB, TS, TP, IFO, NSV
* Audio containers: MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, CDA, FLAC, M4A, MID, MKA, MP2, MPA, MPC, APE, OFR, OGG, RA, WV, TTA, AC3, DTS
* Pictures: BMP, GIF, JPEG/JPG, PNG
* Playlists: ZIP/RAR (Audio archive only), LNK, ASX, WAX, M3U, M3U8, PLS, KPL, LNK, CUE, WVX, WMX
* Subtitles: RT, SMI, SMIL, SUB, IDX, ASS, SSA, PSB, SRT, S2K, USF, SSF, TXT, LRC
* VCD

* Others: DVR-MS, DIVX, M4V, M2V, PART, VP6, RAM, RMM, SWF, TRP, FLC, FLI

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, H.263(+), H.264(AVC1), CYUY, ASV1/2, SVQ1/3, MSVIDC, Cinepak, [http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Microsoft_MPEG-4 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, QuickTime, WinAmp and MPlayer
** Custom Filter Manager to force or block external filters
** System Filter Manager to manage (register or unregister) external filters

Subtitles

* Unicode text subtitles
* SAMI (.sami, .smi): Ruby tag support including almost every attributes
* SubRipText (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub), SMIL/RealText
* SSA, ASS, USF (Ruby support)
* VobSub, Closed Caption
* Sasami 2K (S2k)
* Embedded subtitles of ASF, MKV, OGM, MP4, MOV, VOB, 3GP
* Text to speech for reading subtitles

Plugins

The KMPlayer supports input, DSP/effect, visualization and some general plugins of WinAmp 2/5. 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)

Controversy

There has been research that The KMPlayer uses GPL code in the program. [ [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=462894 KMPlayer's developer steals code from GPLed player.] in SourceForge, posted 23 Apr 2005 by Gabest.] The developer maintains that it has been written in Borland Delphi from scratch, [ [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141 Do not believe bad rumors spread in networks.] in KMP Forum, posted 19 Nov 2005 by Z.] 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. [ [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=481#post481 RadGTSplitter.ax being removed from the player bundle, including the GPL license.] ]

See also

* List of media players
* Comparison of media players

References

External links

* [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php Official Website]
* [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63 Full Feature lists]
* [http://www.delmadang.com/community/bbs_view.asp?bbsNo=21&indx=208397 Initial Release of The KMPlayer] : The first release was in Korean only and standalone application.
* [http://www.delmadang.com/community/bbs_view.asp?bbsNo=21&indx=208162 The former version of The KMPlayer] : It was called as WaSaVi and released at 03/04/2002 in the Delphi forum of Korea.