KMPlayer, with its slick interface and multimedia librarian functionality, is a nifty free program for playing back video files, but it's hard to navigate and its media decoder capability isn't universal. See all software downloads.
KMPlayer, now in version 3.2, has morphed over the years into much more than a player. It's deep into the Internet age and has links to many social sites, though perhaps not those the average UK web user is used to: Billboard Korea, VIkki, EveryonTV, and the K-Pop (Korean Pop) Hot 100 are included along with Facebook and Twitter.
KMPlayer now also functions as a multimedia librarian in the fashion of iTunes and Windows Media Player and supports 3D video. KMPlayer handled nearly every file in my video test suite, with the odd exception of an AVCHD file, which most players handle.
While the KMPlayer interface is slick, nicely rendered and attractive, it's not intuitive. There's a steep learning curve involving difficult-to-see icons, icons whose purpose can't be divined from their appearance (at least by the author), and icons whose location changes. When I clicked to play a file, it compacted the player and I could find no way back to the library. I like my controls in plain view.
The initial KMPlayer download is only 300KB, but it utilizes Softonic's install routine to install the rest of the files. Softonic will install Twitube if you don't deselect it during the installation process. You also can't proceed until telling the installation whether you want to download RegClean Pro.
Until I discovered VLC, KMPlayer was almost always installed on my system for playing back video files. But since it didn't support every codec, I switched to VLC, which plays everything.
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mustdisquss said: I think the addition of viki etcwith moviesk-popnews is great the only downside a low percentage of videos have any english subtitles Furthermore viki isnt integrated very well either in the player For example if you are in full screen mode either by double clicking on any playing video or on the square on the top right you have vikis options at the bottom of the screen resolution forwarding but unfortunately they are impossible to click on without exiting from full screen as kplayers own bottom bar appears just before you can get to it its the same problem with video browsing and the more videos option at the bottom Kplayers bar pops up yet again Its easier at the moment to use viki straight from its own official website and with just about any other service in kplayer you cannot as far as I can tell remove the advertisement bar stating the service you are watching from the top of the screenI also had some problems being able to view some of these internet services in full screen fully via double clicking to full screen but ignoring that and arguably overdoing it with the inclusion of adware and multiple services the average user may not be interested in overall its still a great player with great compatibility and plenty of options for the video fanatic - but it needs some vigorous updating to be as good as it once was