Pros: I'd like to try KMPlayer again but, the last time I tried it. It seems it had adware or something similar in it. I hope someone with more savvy in protecting against those types of apps installing along with the software can try out this new version and report back for the rest of us who have fond memories of using it in the past.Cons: Until I know otherwise. Worries about it's installer adding AdWare or similar PUPs during installing.Bottom Line:.I'm waiting until someone can report back who knows how to catch this type of thing during an installation since they're not really malware or virus type of hidden unwanted bits.I really used to like this software, a ton. But, that was a number of years back now.
Please let me/us know if this is clean, etc. Someone who's set up to catch anything Potentially Unwanted installing with it. Used to be my favorite player, it still had some limitations but now it's just buggy and outdated, I don't mean the build I mean the code, after I tried this new version it crashed after changing skins and trying to load a new file, I especially hate the new 'webpage like' user interface. KMPlayer has been succeeded by PotPlayer written by the same Korean developer that created KMPlayer and is much faster and more customizable. One tip I can give you is when switching from KMPlayer to PotPlayer the transition can be difficult so you might need to tweak it so that it feels like home to you. I understand why netean complains about this latest release.
I've been surprised to see the new splash page too and I wondered why they added it. But all in all it doesn't bug me that much. At least the look is pretty neat, the Album Art quite good.
But I don't use it for these new features. So I can simply skip those and use it as usual. I thought Pot Player was gonna replace KM. KM still rocks and even though I've been a convinced VLC user for years now, I'm probably gonna switch to KM!@CyberDoc999: I know what you mean.
I got the same feeling comparing KM side by side with VLC. Well, it's pretty simple: change the default Video Render to Enhanced Video Render. At least, it worked like a charm on my computer. Oh dear oh dear, where do I start.i've been a user of KMplayer for years, it's always installed side by side with VLC, with KMPlayer being, in my opinion nicer looking and offer better playback options, sounding and looking better.
(VLC does have it strengths too though)Sadly, very sadly this is a disaster of a railcrash of a program.Firstly - It tries to install poxy crapware, Ask toolbar for example, despite saying no to the installer it went ahead and installed it anyway. I too switched to Daum Potplayer several months ago, which is from the original author of KMPlayer, though you have to do a search to find the translated version.I'll have to give 3.0.0.1442 a try since I've found all players sometimes have problems with certain files that other players don't.
It's good to have an arsenal just in case.KMPlayer has always been a really good player, but it hasn't been as actively developed since it was sold. I just hope that Real Networks being one of KMPmedia's partners doesn't turn it to crap. Whether chahoolee's right about IP issues or not, The KMPlayer is a class act.It's a media player that's been designed by someone who actually understands user ergonomics and knows that a user has, for example, to be able to easily adjust the brightness of a movie without being distracted by contrarily arranged or fiddly menus.
Here, The KMPlayer is a sheer delight when compared to say VLC or MPC H/C, it's smooth, easy to use and its windowing has an unobtrusive small footprint with a styling and color that doesn't intrude into the content (a la ugly, clunky VLC's bright yellowish window features).As well as being easy to use, The KMPlayer has many tweakables and setting adjustments to keep even the most avid multimedia junkie happy.I've tried and use many different players and whenever I test The KMPlayer I'm impressed. More10s' right, this version seems to be comparatively free of bugs (the reasons why in the past I've not used it as my default player). Previous versions 3.0.01441 and 3.0.0.1433 were just too buggy.The KMPlayer vindicates my scathing comments about VLC when reviewing version 1.1.10 (Jun 6, 2011)). Any reasonable comparison would have KMPlayer miles in front of VLC-and also MPC Home Cinema just on useability alone.
And unlike MPC H/C, KMPlayer doesn't lock up my nVidia card whenever I fast-forward into a movie.A final point, KMPlayer passes my main compatibility test AOK. I test players with three different mpeg encodings of an old B&W doco that's on the Internet Archive (one is MPEG2 and two are MP4s). Some players fail to render one of the MP4s-including ALL versions of VLC (there's no sound accompanying the video). The KMPlayer effortlessly sailed through all three, The link to that doco is in my VLC review.All up, The KMPlayer is excellent software; rather than just being a wrapping around a bunch of CODECs as VLC is, The KMPlayer has been carefully designed with its useability in mind. Other designers please take note.
It's good to see that KMPlayer got taken back from that silly company that has had it in the freezer for a year or so and is now revived. It will be interesting to see if this and PotPlayer which is basically the same player that someone else released when it seemed like KMPlayer was dead and buried for good. It's still a great along with PotPlayer and Splayer and the TONS of other very good players out there now. The only one you really wanna avoid is VLC which seems to be trapped in the middle ages. Excellent media player, with many A features, but far too buggy to be useful. I was using the version 1434 on my HP G60 laptop, with Win7HPx64 3GB RAM and switched to this just today.
Large vob files of more than 1 GB just stutter and the duration of the video is not shown correctly. The same vid runs alright on VLC.Why don't these guys test it thoroughly themselves, before they decide to ruin their reputation with such buggy stuff. The least they could do is to label it a beta, so people would be more careful before they replace a working version. The earlier version also had a problem with large vob files, and would freeze if the position slider was moved too far. Uncheck the adware toolbar during install and you have the best player out there right now. I tried the same author's DAUM Pot Player as suggested below.
I'll eventually migrate to it when it becomes more mature - it's still a work in progress (playback and other features are still behind KMP).Edit: I just installed this on another machine and see only Korean menus. Go to their site, look for the translations thread. Download the latest stickied English.ini for the Languages program folder - look for instructions in the thread. This player with new programmer is A BIG SHAME to KMP name.Ask toolbar ppl you can disable like in uTorrent.but nvm this, bit s. is:-very slow developing. Not properly updated ffdshow components is pain in the a. for waiting two years for this.-many of existing bugs like vertical lines in VMR/EVR renderer still exist.-when dev want to update internal codecs and splitters within KMP, not only external Gabest or ffdshow.-many files are not needed like all files in Plugins folder, causing only crashing and errors.
Same like some outdated and not update components.etc.use better MPC-HC.or simply PotPlayer the new 'child' of the same dev of old good KMP. Still, the best media player.It is true that they slowed development and that Pandora is (at least) a very dangerous company (used to install spyware with their products), but at least they (still) did not destroy this one.About instability mentioned by other users, the player major strength is the flexible configuration. I learn that with several Nvidia and some ATI graphics drivers, the Enhanced Video Renderer have stability issues (drivers problems). But as everything is configurable, you can use an alternative (VMR9 renderless work best in such cases).That is what make this player the best, not for starters, though. I am in complete agreement with the last two posts.
In fact, they provide an very truthful picture of what one has to deal with when installing and using KMPLayer. I, too, have been using the KMPlayer for a long period of time: its persistent error messages, perennial instability manifesting itself as freezes or regularly occurring total system lock-ups were slowly eroding my patience with this program. Basically, I ended up using it as the last resort - and always prepared for some trouble.I installed today the most recent version in hope that the system lockups - which for me is a critically important isuue - have been corrected in th enewest version. Instead, as has been witnessed by so many others, I was stung with this Ask.com swindle.and new, irrelevant error message right after the fresh install.Like antigin, my predecessor in this thread, I am always very careful with installers, unchecking anything that smells like spyware/crapware, and exactly like in his case, the Ask,com bar, search engine, home page all were surreptitiously installed/changed, both in Explorer and Firefox.
And I agree: this is what we call a swindle.I give 2 stars SOLELY for the fact that the KMPlayer can play most video formats and has an extensive subtitles support.I thank the gentleman who mentioned that he had switched to MPC-HC. It has been a long time since I used Media Player Classic. I downloaded and installed MPC-HC after reading his post here, and having tested it extensively I can say that MPC-HC seems to be perfectly capable with all the video formats I checked, doesn't seem to suffer when the media file path has Unicode characters, and handles several subtitle formats as well.
I'll be using now MPC-HC. Holy crap!Have used this app for years and now it disappointed me too much with his politics. I always uncheck various toolbars while installing programs, but one day I found ask.com toolbar, search engine, homepage on my browsers and can't understand how the hell it had been installed. Today I tried to reinstall the player and found again ask.com toolbars. It surprised me.
I can't believe that I have passed this agreement and do not uncheck the boxes. I tried to reinstall again and again and the setup process is different every time.After installation process I press 'Next' and sometimes there is an ask.com agreement window before the finish, sometimes it isn't, but toolbars still being installed. Sometimes after installation process after pressing 'Next' you see drop through window for a miliseconds and then finish window. Then if you click 'Back', you will see an agreement window that you have passed supposedly twice clicking 'Next' before (it's a PandoraTV trick). But other times there is no an agreement windows after installation process and after clicking back at finish window, but TOOLBAR STILL ARE INSTALLING.
That's the SWINDLE! It' a shame.EPIC FAIL. TOTAL UNRESPECT. Buy buy, cheaters. It was a solid player until 2.9.3.14.28, then that.@ing company Pandora TV gradually ruined this app. It became more an more unstable, it have problems to associate/dissociate file types, it crash often playing HD files, it have focus problems when starts.The only good thing in v2.9.4 is the update of some codecs but nothing more.It was such a great program and had so many features pending like internal full support for ssa subs, ability to change font size in subs, improve support for TV and HDTV, improve the file navigator. But now is constantly worsening, with each version you get new bugs, and although is optional the installer comes with a crappy toolbar.From wikipedia:In March 2008 development has been taken over by Pandora TV, a Korean streaming video company.
Since then, development has been slow – the team appears to consist of just one individual.This program as we know it is dead. I use a mix of this nd VLC. @ all the 'Ask Toolbar' comments.is it really that difficult to uncheck 1 tick box?@ been.without your consent? I wonder how I've managed to dodge the Ask Toolbar installation each time I've updated (could it possibly be that I actually read before clicking & you didn't?).To the aforementioned;If unchecking 1 tick box is too much for you to handle then this player is definitely WAY too advanced for you!
Kindly step away from the keyboard and no one gets hurt. You may also want to consider improving your reading comprehension skills while you're at it.Rating an excellent program 1 star because it has OPTIONAL Ask Toolbar included? A bit harsh just because you don't know how to uncheck a tick box don't you think. Do you also rate all other programs (no matter how good the are) with totally optional toolbars, etc.
It's a free program, the authors may just want a chance at some compensation for their work, but they make it an option. I'm just wondering how you'd handle the situation.you'd probably just make it payware, am I right? I bet you'd also whine if they dumped the optional toolbar and made KMPlayer payware (or any other free program that did so).This has been my default player for 2 years or so & it has played just about anything I've thrown at it.
I haven't found anything that does as much and as well as KMPlayer. GOM Player never quite measured up & was always more buggy in my experience. KMPlayer plays some videos fine that VLC renders poorly. Yes I've found some files that KMPlayer has had problems with that another player did ok with, but it's a rarity.It has a lot of advanced features & settings that can be overwhelming when you dig in (I've had to figure out how to undo a few things I'd accidently done by accidently keying in shortcuts), but that also maked it highly customizable. It does more than any other media player I know of.Perfect?
No, but consistantly better than any of the other media players I've tried in the past or recently. Just did a fresh install of Windows 7 so I've been installing all my software & was quite surprised when I opened a browser window yesterday evening and saw the Ask Toolbar staring me in the face when I thought I had been diligent in saying 'NO' to all 'Install this crappy toolbar?' Prompts when installing all my apps.So now I know where it came from. Sigh.I don't fault the developer for including it. I do fault the developer for not only not making its install optional, but not even giving an indication that it would be installing it!One hundred stars for the functionality. Negative bajillion stars for the crapware.
Shame BetaNews won't let you rate a program below a 1.EDIT: I had installed 2.9.4.1435 over my 2.9.4.1434 installation and the Ask Toolbar was installed without my consent. I was NOT asked. I have now installed 2.9.4.1436 over my 2.9.4.1435 installation (with Ask Toolbar removed) and the Ask Toolbar was not reinstalled and I wasn't asked if I wanted to install it or not, either. I'll be re-rating this a 5 now. Awesome player! One problem, if you close the album art window you cannot find it again. Album art is the default window with all the pictures of your videos and is what makes this unique.
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Good news is they fixed it and you can download the the new album art file at the forum. Skins for this make bsplayer look like it was written in crayon. All video player developers should look at these skins. Codecs are very configurable and I chose to use sharks codecs and CoreAVC h264 instead of internal and used external audio as well. I can't say enough good things about this player.
I have used Mplayer, MPHC, Bsplayer, VLC, WMP, and this is the one for all my HD video needs. Windows 7 never looked better!! This player with new programmer is A BIG SHAME to KMP name.Ask toolbar ppl you can disable like in uTorrent.but nvm this, bit s. is:-very slow developing. Man new version only with partial madVR support and not properly updated ffdshow components is pain in the a. for waiting half year for this.-many of existing bugs like vertical lines in VMR renderer still exist.-when dev want to update internal codecs and splitters within KMP, not external Gabest or ffdshow.-many files are not needed like all files in Plugins folder, causing only crashing and errors. Same like some outdated and not update components.etc.I finnaly switch to newest MPC-HC because of this.
This player came on to the scene and really impressed but with the infrequent updates it has really fallen off the pace. Had allways GOMPlayer, tryed BS PLayer, switched back to GOMPlayer and:-Gomplayer has less features and cannot controll high bitrate video's-BS Player is too slow and allways give me problems and every seperate videofile has a the same blue iconNow I'm a huge fan of KMPlayer, there are too much features that I simply cannot resist, I'm in controll of everything with KMP, lots of filters for video/audio, fastloading, tons of nice skins ( PotPlayeren.ksf I'm using ).KMPlayer.Simply The Best Rated 10 STARS. I have to say that this player shows lots of promise. It is very quick at what it does, very light and supports almost every major format right out of the box.That said, I do have two issues right now with it. One is that the default skin does not have a titlebar or 'minimalist' mode which allows you to dock it at the top of the screen with the video window detached (ALA Winamp). The second issue is that when loading any video, it takes 5-6 seconds to load the video and begin playback.Those issues aside, this appears to be a very solid player. I'm very impressed with this new build.was using 1227 for a while decided to give 1432 a shot.
I like the multiple config option which allows me to quickly switch from KMPLAYER's faster, internal codecs to Windows' system codecs for higher quality. I like also that you can make KMPLAYER portable by selecting 'Store settings to KMPCFg.ini' then just copy the KMPLAYER directory to a USB drive or CD. You can capture audio, video or individual frames and now has the ability to create a storyboard similar to MPC's 'save thumbnails' feature. This easily blows away GOMPLAYER and VLC but with all the configuration options novices may be overwhelmed.@digitalking:Zoomplayer is a front-end for Directshow much like WMP or MPC (I was using Zoomplayer for 2 years before I found GOMPlayer them KMPLAYER) - it utilizes whichever codecs/filters are installed on your system. KMPLAYER can be configured to use your system codecs or it's internal codecs which are faster albeit lower quality.
The choice is yours. I've noticed something recently in the picture quality. At the begining of There Will Be Blood the clouds get so bright that you can't make them out. VLC,MPC Home Cinema and BS player handle the image much better. Thats dissapointing because this has been my go to player.
Still plays every format including nsv files which no other player outside of winamp can play BUT picture quality is a big thing imo. It also seems to use a little more memory than I remember. Also I have a video file that only plays audio but BS Player plays it(the other don't either)Still its a very good player for video but I only use foobar for audio so not sure how this is with those files. Yes, there was a GPL violation in 2005 but I have looked into the details and I believe the author made an honest mistake due and has adequately addressed the problem. You must remember that Linux is based on Unix except that the code has been rewritten.
That's no different than the situation with KMPlayer. Although inspired by MPC and other C projects, all KMPlayer code was newly written in Delphi, leaving visible 'similarities' in the same sense that Linux is clearly and obviously 'similar' to Unix. Apart from those similarities, the author had erroneously distributed the binaries of some GPL libs without the required credits, license text, and links to their source. When Gabest emailed him, he seemed to ignore Gabest for weeks, but it is evident from his forum history and KMPlayer's documentation that he relies upon others to help him with English. Once he understood Gabest's points, he promptly fixed his distribution and he openly posted the parts of his Delphi source which were being questioned so anyone could compare it to Gabest's for themselves. This isn't the behavior we have typically seen from willful violators like CherryOS. It's fine to continue wishing that KMPlayer were open source (and I do) but it's simply wrong to continue accusing it of being in violation of GPL.On the other hand, KMPlayer isn't particularly special.
A substantial portion of KMPlayer's extensive feature list is enabled only by the inclusion of the many GPL libs. In essence, the result of installing KMPlayer is comparable to installing a comprehensive codec pack, especially one which bundles a player like MPC. K-Lite Codec Pack is one example, and I think it is telling that the footprint of the current K-Lite Full is basically the same as the footprint of KMPlayer. The KMPlayer approach gives you a few extra features from a playback perspective like A-B repeat, but going with K-Lite Full would leave you with encoding capability, so it comes down to individual needs. I am sick to death of the hype about other players being so good but when its time to do the job you have to keep a second player when they can't handle a format well.After running KMPlayer for a month I have found I have had NO need to fall back on MPC OR VLC.Do your own research, take a look here,The wikipedia comparison is so thorough you will seriously start to wonder why the hell people boast how good other players are when in fact they are s. It's simply because they don't know better.
Echohead is on crack. You do need codecs to play different formats. But KMPlayer loads only the codec required to play each file. Two problems with this program: 1) it takes longer to start up (a few seconds, no biggie) than MediaPlayerClassic, and 2) the options dialog is ridiculous. Way too much crap in there, and I spent something like 20 mins looking for an option to turn 'easymove' mode OFF - in other words, I don't want the window to allow me to click anywhere inside it and then be able to drag it around on the screen, I only want draggability from the titlebar where it should be. This mode prevents me from fully enjoying the 'Border Patrol' shockwave flash game, amongst others. 5 stars anyway.Note to the moron above: I stated that you DO STILL NEED CODECS, I never stated that you still had to download a codec pack.
KMPlayer uses codecs to play video and whether they're bundled with KMPlayer or not is completely irrelevant. It uses directx filters and winamp plugins so essentially you can consider the entire KMPlayer archive to be yet another codec pack. Look at the root directory of the package. Libmpeg2, theora, realmediasplitter, it's full of the same crap you get from standard codec installer packages. You're telling me it's a big mac, not a whopper.
Listen carefully. I'm stating it's still a hamburger regardless. I ran this once upon a time. It had issues and trying to uninstall it was great until I saw the hundreds of reg entries it left.It all boils down to how fast your pc is (for the most part) and what you yourself are comfortable with.I mainly use gom (installed). If gom can't play something it will automatically direct you to a proper link for the missing codec.Gom is also portable.KM does have some great features but I really don't need a hundred features and/or options in a pc video player. I just want it to work and be as simple as possible.Photonboy; see the modix 3520 hd enclosure-portable too, no pc or os required.
I have a massive collection of AVI, MKV, OGM (primarily) as well as DVD-Video's, and increasingly AVC (H.264) format, also increasingly is high-def which some players are no good at.I love my Zoomplayer Pro but I've found myself using KMPlayer more and more. I watch a lot of video and prefer to stick with one player. I bought MCE 2005 but it's really only optimized for DVD-Video. Anyway, KMPlayer is very configurable and the best free solution (possibly the best solution period) for people that know what they are doing.While it's quite possible to use it without chaning any settings, people with basic needs may find other players simpler and easier to use, which brings me to a small complaint:I think the Options could be organized much better. Zoomplayer starts in a Basic Mode and you can toggle to Advanced Mode; even within Advanced Mode things are quite well laid out.Also, what's the deal with the updates? The homepage program installation file is an EXE, but if you didn't know how to find the Beta updates you wouldn't know they existed.
Come on, is Auto updating (with a choice of Beta) that difficult nowadays?Just for fun, I thought I'd see if I could drop NVidia Pure Video. I don't even know if it's possible but since it's unlikely the video or audio could be noticeably improved I decided it wasn't worth my times. I use my computer with my Sony Bravia HDTV and the Microsoft Media Center combined with remote control is ideal for playing DVD-Video movies from my hard drive; don't get me wrong it does a good job but I'm looking for something my friends and family can easily use too (and some of them are actually afraid of the mouse). (plans for the future involve a smaller, quieter box optimized for High-Def movies with integrated VC-1 and H264 via either on-board AMD or NVidia. I wonder if KMPlayer will go the Media Center route?Anyway, I've rambled too much, but if you have loads of (of course legally copied) video in many different formats this is perfect for you. Having said that, I still have: VLC, Zoomplayer, WMP11, Media Center and the codec package installed by Zoomplayer (used for everything but VLC and KMPlayer) which has Haali, Ffdshow etc.Try a bunch of differnt video players and learn about how codecs work, play with your settings and you'll probably find KMPlayer is an integral part of your system. (Now if I can just find a perfect conversion solution for my video to Divx and BD/HD compatible AVC-HD.).
'so far the best player i ever used' ²I totally agree. Kmplayer is simply loaded with a LOT of EXCELLENT features:-'integrated' codecs: put kmplayer on your pendrive and watch episodes of THE OFFICE on your job I recommend this experience!-Filters: there are plenty of filtes out of box. Among them rare filters for audio.-Jump by keyframe: I like this one. Every jump on time on video is very smooth.
Although ZoomPlayer is better on Jump Time, i like that on KMPlayer.Well. These are the very basic ones. You have to try it before saying some thing. But please just do not simply say it is 'yet another video player on market' it is not. Haha, it's no wonder some people without having proper knowledge to use any tools are acting like a baby crying peevishly. If you know what directshow means, you'll know the truth that the complaint with relation to quality is of no utility. Blame for your inexperience and ingorance.
Maybe you can't make a same filtergraph with the player even it provides the way of selecting external decoders.There are many alternatives. Just stick to your favorite codec pack. Why have you been hanging around here grumbling incessantly? I don't know well a thing about KLMPC but it probably includes commercial codecs.
I don't care about the crap codec pack filled with illegal codecs. WOW!, first sure it uses up resources BUT i am using it on an 'ol cumpu'r that in past runs as if win98 blended with winXP do not ask howThat stated for ALL IT OFFERS.get it, using the stable version as wanted to test it first and whatever the next beta version has might be better but the stable, for now 20070920 version 2.9.3.1214 is doing well. @ReverbNot that much without KMP A/V transform filters. Try Alt+F.:) e.g. 700M avi movie only consumes around 10M memory.
It depends how the player is configured. With complicated filters and advanced function enabled, it's natural that the resource required to process increases.Considering all the extensive functions including the vast subtitle support, its way of managing resource is really excellent.e.g. Initial loading memory of 86.5 MiB AVI (H264) with subtitleKMP 13 MiB (Alt+F)MPC 34 MiBZoom Player 34 MiB (with vsfilter)GOM 31 MiB734 MiB AVI (DivX 5) without subtitleKMP 10 MiBMPC 36 MiBZoom Player 34 MiBGOM 36 MiBMplayer 15MiB.
I have used recently, MPC, VLC, GOM and KMPlayer.MPC - very good image quality but the bugs and need for codec packs I can do without. The need for useless codec packs to have this work properly makes it a 50mb+ install!!!VLC - average image quality, still wont play some formatsGOM - good image quality and plays almost everythingKMPlayer - good image quality plays everthing I've tried INCLUDING nsv files which no other player outside of winamp has played for me. Its lighter on resources than GOM and it comes in a zip(basicly portable) versionLike someone else said. KMPlayer for videos, Foobar for audio and your set. 2 small yet very powerful tools for enjoying media files. There is nothing wrong with how I compared a player with codecs built-in (i.e. KMP) to one without (i.e.
KMP, on certain video types, doesn't look as good to me. KMP is using its internal codecs to decode those files. MPC looks better, and it's using external codecs.
Why is it not valid to compare these two-to say that I get better results by not using KMP's internal codec solution? Answer: It is valid to compare them.And regarding the interfaces, obviously, the codecs make no difference. My personal preference against KMP has nothing to do with it, obviously, so that criticism is valid too.Regarding K-Lite. I don't care what some people say about it. It works great for me.
I'd rather use it than CCCP, which is a simple pack of nonsense designed entirely around ffdshow, for viewing hentai. Echohead's response to me was a non sequitur.First of all, K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is not '100 MB'. I selected the default installation plus a couple extra options, and the total size (installation directory, 38 MB, plus contents added to Windows folder, 7 MB) is 45 MB.The version of MPC included in KLMCP is currently being developed by someone other than the original author of MPC.
Even if it had been totally abandoned, what do I care? It works well for me.To think that ffdshow is a 'placebo' is to have no idea what it does.
Before I used KLMCP, I used just MPC and ffdshow (plus RA and QTA), and it worked very well.My problem with skins isn't resource usage-I never said such a thing. I find KMP harder to work with than MPC, period. I don't care how nice anyone thinks it looks, I don't like it.Nothing I do makes videos played in KMP look as good on my system as they do in MPC, particularly with WMV files. I have no idea why this is, but it's a fact.My system is not your system. I am not you.
Therefore, absolute statements about what media setup is 'best' are no more meaningful than claiming that yellow is the 'best color'. The windows classic 'skin' in media player classic functions in the same way that any kmplayer skin works.there is no extra resource usage.
And the screenshot above isnt the default skin; the default looks much nicer:)development on MPC stopped a looooong time ago, and this is evident by the fact that so many people install a 100+ MB codec pack just to use it. Once installed, kmplayer takes up only 38MB of space and uses only about 1MB more RAM than MPC.and if you consider 4.5MB of RAM to be resource hogging, i suggest you download mplayer (no GUI at all!).ive been using kmplayer for months, after repeated problems with k-lite. All you have to do is turn off video interlacing and it works perfectly. Along with kmplayer i use the small (6MB) MSFN codec pack, real alternative, QT lite, and foobar2000. Takes up less space than k-lite and doesnt give me problems.oh, and ffdshow is the biggest damn placebo ive ever seen. Completely useless.kmplayer is simply the best video player. It's well featured, but there are several things I really dislike about it.
You shall deal with the heresy that is my opinion.First, the skins. I looked for a 'Windows Classic' type of skin, but there is none. I can't stand skins, and yes, this is a real issue, because it hampers my usability.Second, for some reason, KMPlayer causes occasional huge spikes in CPU usage.
It's so bad that every so often, my system totally freezes for 5 or 6 seconds at a time because of KMPlayer.exe. It's hard to explain how maddening this is when you're trying to work.Third, some videos don't look nearly as good as I had become used to while using K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (which includes Media Player Classic).The only reason I might keep KMPlayer installed is because it has A-B repeat, while MPC does not. Same here, the best player. What is interesting, I see a huge improvement in playing H.264/AVC files.
In the past CoreAVC was the fastest H.264/AVC codec implementation, but at the expense of some blockiness and artifacts. I tested the current version of the KMPlayer and in superspeed mode it is able to play 1080 H.264 movies, with subtitles and multichannel sound, on Athlon x2 4400 (no oc) without any hardware help from graphic card (PureVideo, Avivo, etc.).Kudos to the creators of this wonderful player! I had problem playing back a specific AVI file with VLC, Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic with the latest K-lite Codec Pack installed, this is the reason I decided to try out this player, that was the right choice since it could play the file correctly, I was also please that it was provided as a simple archive without installer that could eventually messed up my registry or installed codecs, on another side I have been looking for a program to generate storyboard and I was please to discover you can do this with this player, so far so good.
This has become my go-to player for media files that do not render properly or refuse to play. Try this on AVI files that stutter in VLC or even GOMPlayer.
Everything is self-contained, no need to install external codec packs. Hopefully they will be working on a portable version so it can run of USB flash drives without installation.SharpRulez: Read Second Shadow's comment. KMPLayer is not the same as KDE mplayer front end for Linux:Maybe we'll see a name change in future release to avoid confusion. No longer need the K-lite Codec pack for playback, only for encoding tasks.All the features I'll ever need, all the codecs I need, and trust me, I use lots of formats.Videolan, blah, it's cheapily slopped together and very amateur looking for how massive an open-source project it is. If you need a good player for unix platforms, just use Mplayer, as for Windows, this is as good as stand-alone players get.
This plays incomplete files BETTER than videolan, and is more stable than Videolan in many areas such as rapid-codec switching and quick resolution switching.As for the name, if it is made by Koreans, awesome job.Here's a better compressed copy for lowbandwidth and dial-up users, compressed in 7z, English only.Contains latest version as of this review @ only9.13megs. I've been recommending this player to everyone I know ever since I tried it. Its way better than VLC and Gomplayer(which I like) because as everyone has stated it plays everything I've thrown at it INCLUDING.nsv files which no other player outside of winamp can. MPC was always buggy for me and it needs codec packs installed.It comes in a zip version which means no intrusion at all so that argument is wrong.This player has some really slick looking skins too one being the real default which is not the one pictured here so the lame excuse that this doesn't look good is really a moot point.The complaint about the name is an even lamer complaint, whats really in a name? It plays everything, its light-weight, very customizable and its never crashed on meThe best video player to date IMO. Best media player. Not bloated, but with MANY advanced features, some of them:+ High quality video filters to improve video render(for low quality videos)+ High quality video and audio codecs (divx, mpeg2, etc etc etc).
You will not need to install almost any codec, just this player.+ Intuitive and highly customizable (WMP sucks all the way).+ Great subtitles management+ Work pretty good on low and high end (best quality on high end and fast render on low end)+ Complete. Yes, it does everything you may need, without doing things you wont (it can check for updates but it does not phone home unless you want to)+ FreeIt is my default player for video (I still use foobar for audio).6 stars if posible, best quality freeware!! To V.A.: try at least to install it before rating it. You'll notice at least that the default skin is not the one on the screen capture.Besides of that, it is a pretty good player, if not the best there is (including other commercial alternatives).+ It does not need installer (you can get rid of it at any time if you dont like it).+ It have all the needed codecs out of the box.+ Is able to visualize anything that's media (audio + video). (Well, not entirely true, as some very exotic codecs are not included, but you have the choice of using them in case you have other codecs installed in your system).+ Options to customize almost everything, although it comes with good sense default settings.+ Supports winamp plugins.+ Is able to change aspect ratio of the movies - useful with the new wide screen that's fashion today.Should I mention also that's free, clean and small.?5 stars. This is probably the best video player forXP I have tried (VLC, GOM, MPC, etc). Allthe necessary codecs are built-in which meansno bloated codec packs to install.
I donot have quicktime installed and am able toplay MOV and QT files - none of the above mentioned players can do so without external codecs. Also supports 3GP and MP4 (so do GOM and VLC).If you are looking for a media player that playspractically all video files your search is over.It does seem to consume more resources than otherplayers but that's the tradeoff. A lot of people have related this to a front end for Mplayer for Linux. Mplayer for those who have not heard of it is the extremely popular player with the greatest range of formats and is very stable.
Just make sure your good with your command prompt. Anyway back to KMPlayer i first looked into this because i was fed up with players always not supporting a certain codec i had never heard of but holy crap can this thing do everything Way way better that vlc. Been using it since ever since the massive amount of betas. Best video player for windows. No need for ridiculous codec packs. Highly customizable, tons of playback options, and stability and maturity in development that gives it a superb edge over Videolan, which is still practically an alpha for all I care, look how cheaply slopped together it is!Here's a better compressed copy of the current beta(8.59 megs,English only)or if you hate waiting and having forced pop-upsAlso, it's a much faster download in general because the KMPlayer servers are pretty loaded.Direct your pity to dial-up users:D.
Best video player for windows. No need for ridiculous codec packs. Highly customizable, tons of playback options, and stability and maturity in development that gives it a superb edge over Videolan, which is still practically an alpha for all I care, look how cheaply slopped together it is!Here's a better compressed copy of the current beta(8.58 megs,English only)or if you hate waiting and having forced pop-upsAlso, it's a much faster download in general because the KMPlayer servers are pretty loaded.Direct your pity to dial-up users:D. It really depends on your needs - if you plan to do any video processing you need to have several codecs installed. I had the K-lite Mega-codec pack, QT alternative and RA alternative installed and noticed that opening ANY media file took almost 30 seconds with WMP and MPC.With a fresh XP install I only have Directshow andNero codecs and media files load instantly (or not at all) with WMP.
I then revert to GOM or KMPlayer which plays them fine. If all you want to do is play videos KMPlayer is all you need. Hopefully they will fix the high-def/dual monitor bug but this stand-alone player deserves a 5 nonetheless.KMPlayer adds several registry entries as do anycodec pack install so that argument is irrelevant.
I much prefer this to VLC (at least VLC for Windows), and it's an absolutely fantastic backup player for me.But I still prefer a good DirectShow-compatible player like Zoom Player. Yeah, you have to install codecs, but the end result just performs better and gives me fewer problems. This wasn't always the case; codec packs and even many codecs by themselves in the past just SUCKED and were poorly-written. But the good ones have really, really matured in the last two years or so.Basically, there are two main reasons I don't use KMPlayer as my main player:1. It has problems with proper scaling between two displays. For instance: if I have my Radeon set to display video at full screen on my second monitor while displaying it windowed on the primary (theater mode), it doesn't scale the video on the primary display AT ALL; it's stuck at the original res.2.
It cannot play back some high-def (especially 1080p stuff) x/h264 content on 'slow' computers less than 2.8-3ghz, whereas, for example, the CoreAVC decoder can do so handily. This keeps me from using it on my HTPC, which just isn't fast enough. But to be fair, almost every decoder has this problem, including ffdshow and VLC.These relative drawbacks aside, it's still the best stand-alone player out there, and it really doesn't get any simpler or easier than this does.If the scaling problem were to be fixed, I'd give it a 5. KMPlayer.ChangeLogs (2007-03-11):Added an option to remove the bracket display of title.Added an extra option to remember the played position for audio files.Added an extra function to start playback in 1.5x, 2.0x, and maximized window.Added a function to auto load an external audio in preferences filter control.Added a function to load next subtitle file.Added a mouse wheel function to go back and forward 1 frame at a time.Added an additional mouse wheel control. Reminds me a lot of Zoomplayer Pro which I had to buy.I wish people would take the effort to really review. I see a score of '1' with no explanation and a score of '3' from someone who did NOT even try it!Having said that, I think GOM Player is pretty darn impressive too in fact though I've only used it for 15 minutes I can see it possible as my main player (replacing Zoomplayer Pro which I paid for).
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It will come down to personal preferences and whether one program does something the other does not.Of course there are other programs and they can all be installed without conflict. Here's a good link:www.free-codecs.com. @molumen: sorry to argue with your about this, but ALMOST all (skinable) players have skins wich resembles winamp one, both classical and enhanced. For your information also Firefox, Opera, Maxthon etc have skins based on winamp - and they are web browsers. So your observation is purely out-of-line.Moreover, this version comes with a different default skin, niced I think (maybe is not original - I don't know - but is nicer)If you have the time, give it a try, you'll not find a better player, with so many options. To cut the story really short: definitely the best player currently available. The complexity of the program can be overwhelming for some users (but you can run it out of the box - Video (Advanced) - Preset: High Quality - it will use some extra cycles of your CPU but not demand any knowledge), but on the other hand you can regulate every (literally every!!) detail.
I am not a fan of skins but CandyGlass is both very aesthetic and functional.PS Contrary to the name it supports the following languages: Korean, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, English, French and Spanish. So far I've gotta give this app a 5/5. It's a combination of zoom player, mpc and mplayer, and can even use the mplayer engine. You can tell it which filetypes the mplayer engine should handle. It also has directshow support with great filter control and support for winamp plugins. It's actually amazing how this program integrates with winamp as you can even use a winamp media library with it.
There are also advanced controls for postprocessing, sharpen, blur, denoise, dscaler, etc., etc., etc.so far, the app seems very stable, and there are no language issues either. It is a Korean program, but the English is right on.on the downside, there may be some GPL issues that this app has violated.
But, it's free so at least they're not making money off other people's code.
. File Size: 12.49 MB. Date Released: Oct 15, 2008. Works on:Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows Vista x64 / Windows XP x64 / Windows ME / Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 7 / Windows 7 x64 / Windows 8 / Windows Server 2003 x64 / Windows Server 2003 / Windows Server 2008 / Windows 8 x64 / Windows NT / Windows 2000 x64 / Windows NT 3.5 / Windows 3.1. Doesn't Work on:. License:.
Official Website: Company: Pandora TV. Total Downloads: 123,817. Contributed by:. Rating:5 of 5 ( 1 votes).