KMplayer on Ubuntu

BlackSheep024 · 08-19-2009, 07:48 AM

I've heard you can't use KMPlayer on Ubuntu (this kmplayer http://www.kmplayer.com), so I was wondering if there was a multimedia player similar to it in terms of functionality. Thanks

PS - I've heard of VLC, and I'm not a big fan of it for one reason:
The guys that subtitle (fansubs, not official subs) anime usually set flags in the subtitle files that prevent them from correctly being displayed in vlc.

camorri · 08-19-2009, 08:09 AM

kmplayer is integrated into the KDE desktop, so if you do not have KDE installed, I wouldn't think it would work. Of course you could install KDE, and then kmplayer. Here is a review that may answer some of your questions.

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/lin...ew-37638.shtml

Since kmplayer is a front end for xine, and gstreamer, installing them should give you the functions you want.

BlackSheep024 · 08-19-2009, 10:47 AM

See, that's my point, you're thinking of a different KMPlayer. I'm talking about "TheKMPlayer". Look, I'll show you the difference.

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-c...screenshot.jpg -- The one you're talking about, the front end for xine and gstreamer.

http://ziogeek.com/wp-content/upload...screenshot.jpg -- The multiformat media player for Windows that I'm talking about. It's easy to use, and actually shows you the codecs that are being used to display what you're watching. So if you used something like CoreAVC, you could configure CoreAVC to handle H264.

XavierP · 08-19-2009, 10:49 AM

KMplayer is also used for MPlayer (hence the name). Is there any reason you need this rather than MPlayer & GMPLayer (the gui frontend)?

BlackSheep024 · 08-19-2009, 10:53 AM

Please read my edited post, thanks

XavierP · 08-19-2009, 11:20 AM

You can use KDE apps under Gnome, but you do need to install at least the kde-base packages to apply a library that KDE can use. Depending on the size of your hard disk, this may or may not be feasible. Under KDE I prefer to use Kaffeine rather than KMPlayer, this is simply because it gives me fewer problems.

However, MPlayer is a nice "swiss army knife" in terms of videos:

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPlayer website

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

<snip>

MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

It's not tied to anyone one desktop environment and, as I said, GMPlayer is the gui frontend for the program. It is available through your repos.

BlackSheep024 · 08-19-2009, 01:00 PM

Thanks a bunch Xavier. I'm going to give mplayer a shot.

pcpostar · 09-22-2010, 05:08 PM

@BlackSheep024:

Have you found a solution for running "TheKMPlayer" on Ubuntu? I'm very interested in it.

tommcd · 09-22-2010, 11:44 PM

There is also smplayer as a GUI front end to MPlayer. This requires qt; but it does not require the boatload of KDE dependencies that KMplayer would require. Smplayer is quite a nice front end for MPlayer imo.
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

BlackSheep024 · 09-28-2010, 12:56 AM

I gave up. No one here seems to understand the difference between KMPlayer and TheKMPlayer. I'd imagine if you need to use TheKMPlayer on Ubuntu, you'd need WINE and a boat load of plugins. I'd honestly dual boot just to have access to TheKMPlayer.

ajayyadavmca · 11-30-2010, 09:57 PM

Linux doesn't uses directshow to render, So The KM Player is just for windows. The KM Player doesn't support Linux.