MPlayer

[BrollyLSSJ]

Maybe another player can be added to the Media Player section:

MPlayer. It is available for free for Windows (SMPlayer) and Linux. It is a Media Player like The KMPlayer and MPC - HC. I would also like to see a comparison for MPlayer, The KMPlayer and MPC - HC. There is also a portable Version available (mentioned in PortableEdition.txt in Installation directory).

[Anupam]

MPlayer is mainly a command line application, which is open source. KM Player, SM Player, MPUI... and many others, are frontend to MPlayer. They all use MPlayer in the background. Long ago, I had seen a big list of players which were being developed based on MPlayer.

If you wish to suggest something for the review, or you wish to see comparison, as you wrote in your post... please do so in the comments section of the appropriate review. That would be the best place to suggest anything related to the review .

[MidnightCowboy]

Hi BrollyLSSJ - thanks for making this suggestion - I've passed this on to Joe Bennett who is our editor for the Best Free Media Player category.

[BrollyLSSJ]

Originally Posted by Anupam

MPlayer is mainly a command line application, which is open source. KM Player, SM Player, MPUI... and many others, are frontend to MPlayer. They all use MPlayer in the background. Long ago, I had seen a big list of players which were being developed based on MPlayer.

The "The KMPlayer" (Kang Multimedia Player) mentioned on your freeware site is not a front-end for MPlayer:

The KMPlayer is based upon MPlayer or KMPlayer (KDE) or VLC (x); KMP is basically a directshow application though it has an extended hybrid structure to use shipped decoders as a plugin (by wrapping it for the connection to directshow).

The KMPlayer uses the codec of MPlayer or VLC (x); Not exactly. Both MPlayer or VLC use a libavcodec library from FFmpeg project. The library is also used in ffdshow. What KMP uses is exactly a libavcodec library from FFmpeg, not the codec of anything. And KMP borrowed some GUI interfaces to configure the supported features of the library from ffdshow etc (very well organized form). The binary of the library can be replaced (libcodec.dll). The library name was changed due to the confliction with a directshow wrapper of libavcodec (ffdshow) which is registered to system. Originally, the player had used a libavcodec binary from Unified Codec Package of dTomoyo (famous codec package provider in Korea) before the confliction report.

Source: The KMPlayer Forum

[Anupam]

The very first line of the quoted material says... KMPlayer is based on MPlayer . This is the real and official KMPlayer... and this is what listed on the Best Free Media Player .

[BrollyLSSJ]

I suggest you take a look at the whole post and again to my quoted points and you will notice the (x), like:

KMplayer (x)
KM Player (x)
KM player (x)
KMPlayer (x) ---> KDE frontend for mplayer which has nothing to do with KMP
Korean Media Player (x)

The KMPlayer (o) - Complete and official form
KMP (o) - Abbreviation of K-Multimedia Player

K-Multimedia Player (o)
Kang Multimedia Player (o)

The (x) means, it is a lie / it is false, while the (o) means, it is true.

[Anupam]

If you are trying to point out the difference in the way I had written KMPlayer as KM Player in my earlier post... then I want to make it clear that I meant KMPlayer only... the one that is available for free from www.kmplayer.com. I did not know KMPlayer had to be written the same way otherwise it would be interpreted as another player. I was not being that technical.

KMPlayer is what I meant, and KMPlayer is the one listed on our Best Free Media Player list.

I do not want to get into unnecessary argument or debate here. I think I have made myself quite clear.

[BrollyLSSJ]

With KMPlayer i meant "The KMPlayer" mentioned here on your (gizmo's freeware) is from kmplayer.com and (S)MPlayer is another Player. Both are different and "The KMPlayer" isn't a GUI for MPlayer, but there is also a KMPlayer, which is a GUI for MPlayer, but I didn't meant that in my original post. But yeah, I thought you meant "The KM Player" when you said KMPlayer in your original post here. And they are different (that's why i quoted their website).

Originally Posted by BrollyLSSJ

The "The KMPlayer" (Kang Multimedia Player) mentioned on your freeware site is not a front-end for MPlayer:

With your freeware site i meant gizmo's freeware. I hope now it is clear, what I meant. Though it could still be, that I misunderstood you.

[BrollyLSSJ]

I tried both The KMPlayer and SMPlayer. On my old machine (P4 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, HD3850, Vista Business x86) MPC-HC and The KMPlayer were able to play 720p movies without a problem. With SMPlayer they stuck when opening the context menu. 1080p wasn't possible at all with SMPlayer (stuttered sound and fixed image) and both MPC-HC and The KMPlayer worked, but the sound was some time faster than the movie. I didn't try SMPlayer any further. Another thing I noticed is, that MPC-HC needed to have AC3 and DirectVOBSub (vsfilter.dll) installed, while The KMPlayer got them integrated. The same should probably be with Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative, but I haven't tested that.