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The KMPlayer The KMPlayer is a full-featured, attractive, and high-quality free media player with support for all the most popular video and audio codecs and a plethora of useful and novel extra features and functions.
To name just a few of them, you can use this player to watch HD and 3D video, capture video and audio, to play back your PC files on your TV screen, or to watch online videos without a Web browser.
KMPlayer is far, very far from being the average free video player. Actually, it is way beyond any free media player I have ever come across, and that includes VLC. This media player comes with its own set of codecs, so that you will not need to download and install unsupported codecs every time you try a new file. The playback quality is outstanding, and you are provided with all the settings you need (and probably more!) to customize your viewing and listening experience to the last detail, including some interesting video and audio effects.
It plays audio and video files, audio CDs, VCDs, and DVDs. Regrettably, you cannot use this player to watch content from your Blu-ray discs, but as a compensation for this lack you are presented with the possibility of connecting your PC and your favorite portable device to enjoy your media on your favorite platform via KMPlayer Connect. Besides, KMPlayer can browse YouTube for you and play back the online videos of your choice without having to move to your Web browser to do so. Finally, those with a visual impairment can benefit from Microsoft’s Win-Eyes in their KMPlayer, and have the subtitles and some navigation features read out loud.
Together with all these novel functions, KMPlayer comes with a wide array of functions that make it stand out from the large choice of free media players in the market. You can capture and save audio and video streams coming into your PC via the sound card; capture your favorite video frames and save them as high-quality image files; add, merge, and edit subtitle streams; resynchronize the audio soundtrack; create, edit, and sort your playlists, etc.
There are many reasons why you should have this media player installed on your system – if only for its high level of flexibility and customization, its high-quality video playback, its text-to-speech support, and the wide range of built-in codecs it offers, KMPlayer is called to become one of the most widely used free media players.
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VLC media player VLC media player has always been one of the things that gives you foothold in life: version by version were released and only the most sophisticated users could distinguish between them.
All changes were discernible only after a very nice magnifying glass. VLC media player 2.0 is quite the contrary: echoing the developer, you can say that this release is 'a major upgrade for VLC'.
The major new feature that the latest version of VLC media player has to boast is the re-written output core and modules. The internal program machinery was slightly honed down, now supporting subpicture blending in GPU. Put in layman's terms, it means that the subtitles or extra camera angles coming alongside a video can now be blended right into the picture within the player, presumably spicing it up with the hardware acceleration.
If you're wondering what you could need it for, just imagine you're trying to post a video of a hilarious moment in your favorite French TV series to YouTube or whatever, and there are only English subtitles available with no voice-over in sight. For that end, you'll most likely be using the player's own recording capabilities, cutting the needed fragment right out of the video on your computer. In that case, the only way to get the subtitles displayed in the posted video is to 'blend the subpicture'. So, I'd say that's a nice one.
The .mkv format fans have also something to rejoice at: the new VLC media player version now correctly supports the lossless format audion for the .mkv videos. What it boils down to, is that now you can pack an HD video into a Matroska file and enjoy the high-quality sound along with the nice picture. At last!
Among other Windows version features that a non-professional user can comprehend without delving deep into Wikipedia or Google are the experimental Blu-Ray disk support ('experimental' presumably meaning that it tends to fail here and there) and a bunch of new video outputs and quality-improving video filters for Windows 7. All in all, VLC media player 2.0 for Windows has seen a number of great quality improves and support fixes, making the use of the player more comfortable.
However, it is not gold that glitters. Even though the new VLC media player features contribute to the overall player's usability, they are actually nothing to write home about. In fact, there is a whole lot of other media players that have been featuring something like this for ages. The only excuse for VideoLAN presenting these changes as the highlights of the new versions is that the VLC media Player is actually an open-source project, focusing largely on portability. And for a program of its kind, it plays its part perfectly: it can be by far not so sophisticated as its commercial counterparts, but it is still one of the best media players you can get for free.
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GOM Player GOM Player is a free multimedia player that allows you to playback the most common video and audio file formats. One important advantage is that it includes many customizable options.
During the installation, you can set the program as the default media player or just customize it to play the major media formats (AVI, OGM, MKV, etc.).
Also after launching the program for the first time, it shows a configuration wizard that allows you to easily configure the display mode as a normal player, high-quality mode (recommended for high-performance computers), or a TV output mode for TV displays. You also have the options to include internal video and audio codecs; set the type of audio channels (2 channels, 4 channels, 5.1 Channels, and S/PDIF); set the subtitles format, CPU priority, and again you are asked about the type of files that will be associated to this program.
There is a real difference in the display modes. With the high-quality mode you can set the video mixing renderer and launch multiple GOM players. With the TV output mode, you can set the video output, TV format, full screen mode, and other parameters. It is important to mention that the configuration wizard cannot be launched again, but all these settings can be manually modified from the preferences window.
Its GUI, which only runs in desktop mode on Windows 8, is clean and smooth; with a transparency level, the usual playback controls, time bar, volume, backward and forward buttons; there is a play list panel, and a control panel where you can use the screen capture function, change the playback speed, set the equalizer, and set the subtitle format.
With its many customizable options, its ability to support many media formats and codecs, GOM Players is a good option to try.
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