Korean Media Player (KMPlayer)

Korean Media Player (KMPlayer)

Dan Sippy, Jul 01, 2007 2220 hrs IST

Here's an all-in-one player to resolve clutter on your computer. It has loads of features pooled in. Does that make it the ultimate player? You decide.

Simple and Beautiful Interface, Wide Range of Format Support, Great Capture Feature, Many other features to fiddle with.

Slightly Heavy on Resources.

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Interface and Resource Usage

The interface is quite smooth to play your music and videos on. Its design gives you a very fresh feeling making it quite appealing. There are loads of features too. I recommend you trying the player out for a whole week to check out all that you know of it and discover more. It even has a feature that changes the inlay color every time you play a new file; this doesn't affect the CPU usage much. To top that, the player also packs visualizations to enhance your music listening. Naturally, the visualizations hike the usage up quite a bit.


The KMPlayer uses about 11.8 MB of CPU memory during music playback and increases to 12.1 MB during video playback. Although this is a bit higher than others, I don't think it is a drawback given the amount of features it stores.

Features

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. Furthermore, the external ones can be specified, so that KMP works optimally as per the user's own customization.

The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified so that KMP works optimally by the user's own customization. Even though KMP is based on the directshow structure, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and QuickTime. Thus, it is possible to specify where to try to connect first.

The player provides a strong hybrid structure efficient for interconnecting various directshow filters, Winamp input & DSP plugin, and internal filters as well. The player has full control of filter connections to prevent a media playback from getting messed up.

It also adopts features from other players, like the tab Playlist feature of Foobar2000, Winamp media library, window fade feature used by quite a few players, the CTRL+F search feature from Foobar2000, as well as minimize to tray feature which is quite popular among the players. Hence, this player is one that Kratos (he is a God after all) himself forged from various other players to make it the most feature-filled player available for free.

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good

by VIV, DELHI, on Sep 09, 2008 03:15 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Out of the 5 free media players I have, this is by far the best.

by Flux Liner, Ilsenburg, on Jul 23, 2008 09:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

not

by Viswanathan, madurai, on Mar 08, 2008 11:59 PM, Report abuse   Reply

happy

by thyagaraj, banglore, on Feb 09, 2008 03:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

thats veeeeeerrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gooooooooooooodva ]

by mohit, jalandhar, on Nov 18, 2007 08:37 PM, Report abuse   Reply

nice looking features and nice name as KM media player

by satya797, Cochin, on Oct 27, 2007 02:58 PM, Report abuse   Reply

b.kj.kl.ll

by Chan King Nam, Hong Kong, on Oct 22, 2007 05:49 PM, Report abuse   Reply

The Subtitle adjustment feature in KM player is great!!!

by Anonymous, B, on Sep 24, 2007 03:16 PM, Report abuse   Reply

KMPlayer

by R S RMANUJAM, Chennai, on Jul 30, 2007 11:41 AM, Report abuse   Reply

Its nice to see

by dwipendra nayak, Aksr, on Jul 17, 2007 06:45 PM, Report abuse   Reply

www.acasystems.com/en/screencapturepro/

by DanielSmith, Tokyo, on Jul 08, 2007 01:40 PM, Report abuse   Reply

as for screen capture, i suggest using aca capture pro.

by DanielSmith, Tokyo, on Jul 08, 2007 01:38 PM, Report abuse   Reply

great software

by DanielSmith, Tokyo, on Jul 08, 2007 01:34 PM, Report abuse   Reply

hi its good

by nimish, mumbai, on Jul 07, 2007 03:58 AM, Report abuse   Reply

hi

by hanif, bhuj, on Jul 05, 2007 02:19 PM, Report abuse   Reply

this is a very good player

by niketu, mumbai, on Jul 03, 2007 03:52 PM, Report abuse   Reply

what about other lossless formats playback such as .ape & .flac etc. ? nice player but I would still suggest stick to k-lite codec pack + windows media player 11 Or if you're a professional user and need more features go with K-lite codec pack + media player classic (already bundled with the pack) Only it matters how you install the codec pack. Fewer is better no need to install the whole package if you don't need the other codecs.

by Nitendra, Ghaziabad, on Jul 03, 2007 08:04 AM, Report abuse   Reply

i think gom player is better than this it also offer the same playing feature as well as take low system recourse.

by amit kumar shar, B.H.E.L. TOWNSHIP, on Jul 02, 2007 05:55 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Its excellemt

by Santosh Marathe, Pune, on Jul 02, 2007 03:00 PM, Report abuse   Reply

http://www.fooblog2000.com/2007-06/fofr-version-09 -- foobar users might want to chk this out Its AMAZING !

by Chetan Thaker, Mumbai, on Jul 02, 2007 02:57 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Is it better than Winamp.. for audio (I dont use winamp for video anyway)

by WilderNess, Pune, on Jul 02, 2007 02:03 PM, Report abuse   Reply

If you use winamp stick with it for audio. Use DSP Enhancer Plugin if you are not using. By far the best sound you can get is with this deadly combination. Dont forget to enable this plugin incase it doesnt..google 'wiki Enhancer' see download link posted there.

by Asim Prabhu, Mumbai, on Jul 02, 2007 02:54 PM, Report abuse

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