KMPlayer, best video player ever!
Posted on June 12, 2010 18 Comments
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[update] KMPlayer doesn’t work as well as it used to in the past. Right now the backward step framing tends to make the footage jump by several seconds when going back and forth…… grrrrrr….
It's like Magic!
If you don’t know about KMPlayer, you probably think that VLC IS the best player ever. Very wrong! VLC is alright, but KMPlayer is much better, especially if you happen to be an animator.
KMP is a Korean Windows Media player on Steroids. It has thousands of features but for animators, the ones that makes it standout are the following:
- Opens and play XVID/Divx footage frame by frame, forward and backward …. with sound feedback. Except Premiere, do you know any player that does that? This function alone makes it perfectly suited for troubleshooting lipsync.
- Plays H264 quicktimes
- Setup In and out points and loop between the two (A-B function)
- Takes automatic screenshots (great for generating colorscripts)
- Hotkeys that make sense! Space bar to toggle the playback, 1 to play in half size, 2 original and 3 double size.
- You can autohide the interface so only the video is visible
- You can loads as many videos as you want and have them all playing. Great to pretend you are the master of the univers.
I made a walkthrough as a PDF file. Check it out:
Direct download link
http://download.cnet.com/KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html
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KMPlayer can easliy grab sound and video clips as well.
Great for getting dialogue from an dvd/divx
Richie
Thank you!Seems quite well.
looks great! is there a mac equivalent? :)
no idea Jonathan
How do you frame by frame ONE frame at a time? When I press F key to go forward it jumps 2 frames not. It also does this when selecting the Frame Step in the right-click menu.
Mohinder, you need to read my Pdf. There is a section where I explain how to change/setup the hotkeys/shortcuts
Thanks a ton Oliver. Last time I tried to open the pdf it would not work but is ok now.
great news
Hey Oliver, have you figured out a way to display frame numbers or a frame counter in the display?
I have searched google but with no luck so far.
well I do things a bit differently Mohinder ;-) Instead I use a Maya mel script from my friend Alfonso Sicilia so the frame counter is always in my viewport.
Check it out, it is free
http://alfsici.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
I should have been a little clearer but I meant for displaying frame numbers in videos played in KM Player. For example when framing through and studying animations/cartoons such as bugs bunny etc If you see what I mean!
ah okay. To be honest I have never felt the need for frame numbers when going through classic cartoons, I usually go through them frame by frame just to study the poses and spacing. Sorry I have no idea Mohinder
well there could be a contender for KMPlayer. Some people complained about KMPlayer buggy updates when sold to Pandora and the original KMPlayer creator made a new player called PotPlayer.
Check out the thread on Doom9
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=148745
I just downloaded it and will be testing it from today.
nope PotPlayer is nowhere near KMPlayer, at least not for now, a lot of features dear to animators have been left out like the full audio playback when frame stepping
Thanks for your tuto Olivier.
You should integrate your own Url in it. It would easier to come back to the site!
good idea. Strange I didn’t think about it.
I haven’t re-installed KMPlayer for a long time, I hope it is still relevant
Yes, it is.
BTW, what is your current multimedia player henceforth? (if not KMP). I’m me too, not a PotPlayer fan.
still KMPlayer, no other player does audio feedback when step framing so I stick with it.