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KMPlayer 2.9.3.1389 Beta A korean media and DVD Front-End Player

"A super video and audio player for Windows"

by Jane Lambert on Jan 22, 2009

(5/5)
The KMPlayer is developed by Kang YoungHuee from Korea. It's a super media player that includes almost all the codecs on the Internet. You can play almost all of the video / audio files with just this player. And with various plug-ins, KMPlay has the ability to suppport various new formats.

Supported files and devices
  • Incomplete/damaged AVI files (the player can skip damaged frames)
  • the player can handle Locked media files while downloading or sharing (with real-time index rebuilding under certain conditions: AVI downloading in consecutive order)
  • the player supports incoming streams delivered via HTTP (ASF/OGG/MP3/AAC/MPEG PS/MPEG TS: only work with internal splitters)
  • the player supports DirectShow playback (AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, MP4, Ogg theora, ogm, rmvb, mpeg1, mpeg2, http:// etc including almost every audio format playable via other supported decoders)
    - the player features an 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, PMP, VOB
  • Real Engine + DirectShow (needs RealPlayer or Real Alternative or its decoders)
  • QuickTime engine + DirectShow (needs QuickTime or Alternative or its decoders)
  • the MPlayer engine is supported, 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 Images: BIN, IMG, ISO
  • Others: DVR-MS, DIVX, M4V, M2V, PART, VP6, RAM, RMM, SWF, TRP, FLC, FLI
Covered Codec/Filters
  • 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, 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.
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

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