KMPlayer is a video player plugin for Konqueror using MPlayer, Xine or GStreamer. Like MPlayer, the Xine and GStreamer backend are out-of-process players. So it will not crash konqueror when Xine or GStreamer crashes.

Also a simple tool for video playing and recording. Supports many playlist formats, including podcast RSS/Atom, plays all links directly from the internet. Other specialties are DVD, VCD and VDR support.

The stand-alone player (libkdeinit_kmplayer.so) shares its core (libkmplayercommon.so) with the plugin's (libkmplayerpart.so) one, keeping both plugin and stand-alone player as lean (and secure) as possible.

Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if the majority of KMPlayer users only use the plugin and use one of the other great movie players for KDE for other means.

The stand-alone application can additionally:

- play DVD (DVDNav only with the Xine player)
- play VCD
- let the backend players play from a pipe (read from stdin)
- play from a TV device (experimental)
- show backend player's console output
- launch ffserver (only 0.4.8 works) when viewing from a v4l device
- DCOP KMediaPlayer interface support
- VDR viewer frontend (with *kxvplayer), configure VDR keys with standard KDE shortcut configure window
- Lots of configurable shortcuts. Highly recommended for the VDR keys (if you have VDR) and volume increase/decrease.

Here are some key features of "KMPlayer":

· play movies from file/url using MPlayer, Xine (with *kxineplayer) or GStreamer (with *kgstplayer), making the plugin support as many as possible and, because all three are embedded external programs, keeping konqueror from crashing,
· keep movie sizes ratio
· volume slider using backend players' volume control and a volume slider using kmix or sound mixer applet (kicker) in the pop-down menu,
· position slider
· Javascript support for controlling the plugin from web page's javascript, and of course preventing script errors on pages calling these functions,
· 'Click to Play' support for QuickTime's HREF attribute,
· lots of attributes supported, AUTOSTART, FULLSCREENMODE, CONSOLE, CONTROLS etc. Also, the CONSOLE/CONTROLS for RealPlayer plugin, allows KMPlayer to 'split-up' over multible objects,
· bookmark menu in the popup menu, so you can easily bookmark a stream for later w/o having to visit the web site all the time,
· support for typical used playlist formats as ASX, RAM, m3u, pls and partially SMIL and a dockable viewer for it. This allows you to easy navigate or bookmark certain streams.
· recording using mencoder, mplayer -dumpstream or ffmpeg
· resize/fullscreen support
· proxy settings from konqueror are used to set http_proxy environment variable for backend processes,
· configurable pattern matching for MPlayer and easy Xine configuration editor

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Hopefully fix crash reported in bugs.kde.org:195464
· Implement animateColor
· Don't set plugins background color (bugs.kde.org:161282)
· Fix animation timer not killed
· Update hardcoded flash version to 10.0r22
· Fix audio previews with flash on www.7digital.de (bugs.kde.org:193843)
· Fix slider for scaling the video