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jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

I had this player recommended to me for viewing HD material. I have only used this a few times so far but I am really impressed. it has a heap of features and codecs/filters and is free Very Happy

from the Wiki:

The KMPlayer is a video and audio player for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows one to capture audio, video, and screenshots.

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. Interestingly, it is said that internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, slow down or increase : playback speed, select parts of a video as favorites, do various A-B repeats, 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. The KMPlayer is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins[1] and color schemes, and the configuration options are very extensive.[2]

The "K" of KMP simply indicates the initial character of the developer's family name (Kang). The full name of KMPlayer is K-Multimedia Player.

anyone have any experience or comments? seems like a great piece of software at 10 times the price Razz

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:49 am Post subject:

Thanks for the heads up! I'm actually working on the HTPC this weekend. I'm going to download this and try it right now. Wonder if it will play HD-DVD or BR?

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

no, but it will play EVO or TS from the HDD from what I have read.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:21 am Post subject:

Just downloading it now....looks like another interesting product.

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Downloading it now-

It looks very promising

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Looks good so far,

I'll set it up on the HTPC tonight and see how it compare to Zoomplayer. I'm really liking all of the screen controls and the pan and scan menu. Hopefully this will allow me to playback DVD's with the correct AR and zooming on my 2.40:1 screen.

Thanks for finding it Jask.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:29 am Post subject:

Interesting. It played Ice Age II Bluray. Video only though Sad

benareeno · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1614 Location: ottawa, canada

This thing appears to be quite sweet! Almost like a normal person had some input into the HTPC world Smile

I installed Vista and still saw some stuttering etc...but this player had an "enable enhanced renderer (Vista Only)" option...this has made the video as smooth as ever...brilliant!

Now...what are people watching these days? Still .ts files, or is everyone converting them to wmv's?

And finally a player where I can simply select the dscaler filter and enable deinterlacing...who would have thunk it!

I now have a small glimmer of hope that HTPC could work for me....step 2 will be a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drive, maybe that will get me back to the position of throwing the pc out the window!

Ben