KMPlayer is a universal player that plays virtually all media file formats: DVD, VCD, AVI, OggTheora, MKV, OGM, MPEG-1/2/4, 3GP, WMV, Quick Time, Real Media, and others.
The program reads subtitles from DVD discs and records sound, video, or images in any part of the played fragments. The player works with external and internal plugins and filters, allowing you to adjust video and audio parameters of the played files. KMPlayer has almost all major codecs for audio and video playback. The main features are flexibility of settings and a huge number of built-in codecs.
The player features a modern, clean, and intuitive interface that is not cluttered with many buttons useless for the average user. It allows processing not only video files but also audio tracks. The number of formats supported by KMPlayer is extremely large. Even if a user encounters an unfamiliar extension, the application will offer to download the appropriate codecs online.
During video playback, the player provides the ability to speed up/slow down, brighten/darken, mark favorite sections of a track or clip, add shadow effects, and much more. Control is done through a menu around the playback screen, ensuring quick and easy access to all functions.
The application's website has a skin store with a wide selection of various themes and colors. Some options come directly with the application.
Additional Features
Among the auxiliary functions of the program are: deinterlacing – a procedure for forming one frame from two half-frames, considered a progressive scan system; the post-processing function allows improving image quality, but this creates a certain load on the CPU and GPU. Additionally, it allows creating sharpness and blur zones.
WarpSharp is a technology that produces better image quality but creates a significant load on the computer. The load is higher than when using post-processing.
The built-in noise reduction functionality of volumetric and sequential types eliminates interference in sections and makes music more natural and clean. Sound and video levels can be controlled separately. Notably, when slowing down the picture, audio playback can be left at the original speed.
Advantages
If the filters in the application are insufficient, external ones can be connected – DScaler. This auxiliary utility expands the range of capabilities but is used for high-performance PCs. The extended version KMP Plus provides the ability to convert 2D images to 3D.
To improve sound quality, there is an automatic sound normalization system, so the volume level is brought to a common denominator. It is actively used for playing audio tracks where there are sharp fluctuations from barely audible to very loud.
Sometimes a drawback is noticed where noise increases in places with poor audibility, and the dynamic range in music is distorted. In addition to built-in codecs for audio and video, there is the possibility of adding external packages – MPlayer, DirectShow, QuickTime, Real, WinAmp.
They are used only in specific cases when standard handlers are insufficient. Additionally, KMPlayer supports plugins from SD, Winamp, DScaler, which can be downloaded from the official websites of the applications.
Main Features and Key Functionality of KMPlayer:
- Fully customizable player, many skins.
- Codecs do not clutter the system with "extra" registry entries.
- Reading of "corrupted" and incomplete files.
- Plays streaming video and audio.
- Support for compressed albums (zip, rar).
- Can play segments of material (by start and end points).
- Can use plugins for Winamp.
- Support for DScaler, external filters.
- Support for file types and devices
- Used codecs
- Support for subtitle formats
- Plugins
