A Great Media Player - KMPlayer

[Lunchbox]

I read about this media player from a Hong Kong magazine years ago. I downloaded it and it works great. It's called KMPlayer.

http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4094

It plays everything including wmv, real, quicktime, mp4, vob. It also play the .ifo file from the TS_Video folder of DVD. It will play the DVD with menu nagivation, even the ts_video folder is in your harddrive.

The best feature I like about this player is the mouse-wheel act as zoom in and zoom out. I can easily fit a 4:3 video to widescreen by cropping the top and bottom. Unlike WinDVD or PowerDVD that scretch certain part of the screen.

I recommended this player to many people. Some don't bother to try because it's a Korean made program. But for those who tried love it so much. To me, I found it even better then VLC.

Give it a try and you'll like it. It's FREE afterall.

Taky

[Critters]

Looked nice, crashed with everything I tried to play with it :(

[Lunchbox]

OH sorry to hear that. It's very stable for me. I have been using it for a couple of years now. I don't even have WinDVD, PowerDVD or other DVD playback program installed.

[mrob7]

nothing I have ever used compares to vlc

[Lunchbox]

I tried VLC and don't like it. KMPlayer is great in playing DVD content (by dragging the video_ts folder). I also like it the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the video. It's good to zoom in 4:3 content to a wide screen monitor.

[Worley]

I tried KMPlayer, but found it to be unstable and fussy compared with VLC.

[jmalmsten]

Only time I have problem with VLC is when playing 1080p WMV's... but for that I have MPC... so I'll doubt that I'll adopt the KMP (why are all of these players shortened to exactly 3 letters? :P)

[V10TDI]

I tried VLC (again) and found that i couldn't play some files that I could play with Media Player Classic. I'll give KM Player a try...

[kafeero]

KM player is the best player I have seen so far.
VLC is pretty amazing also but it is very buggy.
I found the button to change the aspect ratio very helpful. I know aspect ratio can be changed in other players but not as easily as in KM player.

[kafeero]

Looked nice, crashed with everything I tried to play with it :(

Did it crash with everything as you said? Are your sure everything is properly installed? Which file types did you try to play?

[Lunchbox]

I like it the best as I can just doubleclick the .ifo file in the video_ts folder stored in HARDDRIVE to play the DVD. Also, the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Nice too. In the Video Rendering page, there're lots of options.