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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 04, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,328,735
- Downloads last week: 13,247
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 433 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Despite 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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Publisher's description
From Pandora TV :The KMPlayer is all in one media player covering various formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, QuickTime etc. It has an extra feature to play Incomplete/Damaged AVI file, Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing, Compressed Audio Album (zip, rar) and so on. 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 without grappling with DirectShow merit system. The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, control playback speed and octave, select parts of a video as favorites, do a powerful A-B repeat, 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. It is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes, and configuration options are extensive.
Version 2.9.3.1430 features: improvement of file opening speed; ULR list tap delete feature in the URL open menu; automatic Online Codec search feature.
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Version 2.9.3.1430 features: improvement of file opening speed; ULR list tap delete feature in the URL open menu; automatic Online Codec search feature.
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User reviews of The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 433 votes
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
Pros: so far everything: there's a slew of options, controls, menus for practically any and all kinds of changes for this player...image stills looked great, plays all of my formats, change the skins/colors schemes and styles...and unlike reviewer "MiniKL": i do use a Dell Laptop Inspiron 6000 and everything works on it!
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
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Version: The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
Pros: I originally got The KMPlayer to view DVD movies on my computer, download size was fair, installation was quite easy.
Cons: Once The KMPlayer was installed on my computer, I tried viewing a DVD on it, I selected the "Full screen" option (there are something like 4 different full screen options) and it went to full screen, but it also really messed with my desktop. Not only that, once in full screen, the player totally closed! However, the DVD movie kept playing on my system... I could hear it going on, but I could not see anything other than my blank desktop (wallpaper was gone, even the desktop icons were missing). I managed to stop the movie playing by opening a new window of The KMPlayer and selecting the DVD movie playing in my system, I then stopped the movie and it shut down the audio that was playing. I found the preferences window to be very small in text size making it very difficult (at least for me) to read. The multiple full screen options were very confusing as well. I gave this program 3 stars, only because of the ease of installation and size of the download. Some people may find this program fairly good, I could not find much good about this program.
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Version: The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
"Great Software with lots of skins"
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: The KMPlayer 2.9.3.1430 beta
"Nice player, but with adware and spyware"
Pros: It could be the best player.
Cons: Spyware Terminator finds possible adware or spyware in it.
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