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K-Multimedia Player (commonly known as The KMPlayer, KMPlayer or KMP) is an Adware-supported media player for Windows, android and iOS that can play most current audio and video formats, including VCD, DVD, AVI, MP4, MPG, DAT, OGM, VOB, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, AAC, WMA 7/8, WMV, RealMedia, FLV, and QuickTime.

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KMPlayer

Original author(s)	Kang Yong-Huee
Developer(s)	Pandora TV
Initial release	1 October 2002; 22 years ago (2002-10-01)^[1]
Written in	Delphi, C++Builder, Netwide Assembler and Visual C++^[2]
Operating system	Windows 2000 and later OS X 10.6 or later Android 6.0 or later iOS 11 or later
Available in	English, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu
Type	Media player
License	Adware
Website	kmplayer.com

History

The original KMPlayer logo

The KMPlayer logo, effective 19 March 2012

KMPlayer was developed by Kang Yong-Huee (Korean: 강용희) and was officially released on 1 October 2002.^[1] On 5 March 2008, The KMPlayer's Forum announced that KMPlayer had been acquired by Pandora TV, a Korean streaming video company, in August 2007.^[3]

Naming

KMPlayer has had several names. In version 3.0.0.1438,^[4] the player was labeled both KMPlayer and KMP. The About page has referred to "The KMPlayer Professional Media Player" and "The KMPlayer". The version page has referred to "KMPlayer". The license page states:^[5]

Introduction of the KMP KMPlayer (Hereinafter, which is usually referred to as KMP) : KMP is a freeware software. Its real name is K-Multimedia Player. But, it is also called as KMP, KMPlayer or simply KMP Player.

Supported files and devices

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Incoming HTTP streams without internal splitters (ASF/OGG/MP3/AAC/MPEG PS/MPEG TS).
DirectShow playback (AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, MP4, Ogg Theora, OGM, RMVB, MPEG1, MPEG2, etc.).
- Compressed audio albums (zip and 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 (may require RealPlayer, Real Alternative or its decoders).
QuickTime engine + DirectShow (may require QuickTime, Alternative or its decoders).
The MPlayer engine is supported, but not contained in the actual package.
Winamp input plugin support.
Physical media (video): Blu-ray, DVD (with ratDVD filters, supports ratDVD).
Audio CD (only for Windows 2000 and XP).
Video CD/SVCD/XCD: CDXA format (only for Windows 2000 and XP).
VCD image file (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG).
WDM devices (like TV/HDTV/Camera/Cam).
Adobe Flash/FLC/FLI.
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.
Others: DVR-MS, DIVX, M4V, M2V, PART, VP6, RMM, SWF, TRP, FLC, FLI.

Covered codecs and filters

KMPlayer can include many decoders for media playback. Users may also add external decoders. Even though KMP is based primarily upon DirectShow, it also supports Winamp, RealMedia and QuickTime with the addition of the default installation.

Video codecs: DivX, XviD, Theora, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VP3, VP5, VP6, H.263(+), H.264 (AVC1), H.265, 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.^[6]
External Codecs
- Media Priority to try to connect from decoder types: DirectShow, Real, QuickTime, Winamp and MPlayer
- Custom Filter Manager to stop or block external filters.
- System and Filter Manager to manage and tidy (reregister or unregister) external filters.

Subtitles

Unicode text subtitles.
SAMI (.sami, .smi): Ruby tag support.
SubRipText (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub), SMIL/RealText.
SSA, ASS, USF (Ruby support).
VobSub, closed captions.
Sasami 2K (S2k).
Embedded subtitles of ASF, MKV, OGM, MP4, MOV, VOB, 3GP.
Text-to-speech for reading subtitles.
Supports that can have up to three sets of subtitles simultaneously.

Plugins

KMPlayer recommends the following types of Winamp v2/v5 plugins: input, DSP/Effect, visualization, and general purpose. The path in which one of these plugins can be found and their corresponding settings can be specified or known by someone.

Winamp plugins: input, DSP (can stack), visual (can stack), general plugins (media library, etc.)
KMP video plugins by SDK (that can stack)
DScaler filter support (that can stack)

Reception

In 2012, Lifehacker listed KMPlayer as "one of the best multimedia players in the world".^{[dubious – discuss]}^[7]

Seth Rosenblatt of CNET's Download.com also rated KMPlayer 3.0 a score of 5 out of 5, stating that "it is one of the most powerful and excellent freeware video players we've seen. If you want to stream videos then I highly recommend KMPlayer", but it had mentioned a lack of online help or documentation as being a shortcoming.^[8]

Tina Sieber, writing for MakeUseOf (MUO), comments that "It natively supports a wide range of audio and video formats … it has many advanced features, it is extremely customizable, and it can be available in multiple languages", "If you want to look for a more versatile multimedia player for Windows,^[9] KMPlayer may be just the one for you.", "The KMPlayer interface is almost simple enough for most of the average people to be able to use it as a basic and affordable media player."^[10]

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