The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. 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. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters. In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.
KMPlayer is a great alternative to other multimedia players for many reasons, but especially because it is easy to use, nice to look at it, and offers a wide range of possibilities and additional features beyond just playing audio and video. This player works with the most popular video formats and forms, including Ultra HD with 4k resolution and even movies in 3D, with a special configuration system that allows clear subtitle overlays for the latter. What's more, it can even play physical disks from other sources, like playing online via streaming from a url or allowing the use of all kinds of external digital television systems. But the best part is the number of options you have to control and manipulate video playback, ranging from classic menus for resizing to any standard format to almost a hundred different post-processing effects, or independent configuration for those codecs that have separate control panels. Besides all this, you have a useful tool to capture video in real time with a high degree of customization in terms of output format and compression.