Similar players like The KMPlayer or better...

[chalava]

Can anyone please tell me about players similar in functionality to the KMPlayer? Its got everything and plays every kind of video/audio i have. plus I like its capture function alot. But I am curious whether I am not missing something much better than this. I dont just wanna download and install every player in my PC thats why I am asking to people who have used many players and can recommend me too. :wink:

see this KMP has got many nice options for capture

[guns1inger]

I find that KMP, VLC and MPC cover my playback needs. Zoom Player seems to get recommended by a few people here, so it might be worth a look-see.

[chalava]

I have heard of many players names as well like BSPlayer and Gom Player. I just wanna know whether they have more options and better functions than KMPlayer?

[redwudz]

I would probably put KM Player above BS player and GOM player. At present I use VLC and Zoom Player Pro. I like VLC because it will play about anything and very seldom fails. I use full screen mode with my players. VLC also seem to have one of the best methods for handling subtitles and alternate audio tracks.

Some problems that VLC has for me is I can't access the timeline for playback unless I take it out of full screen mode. And I find the volume control awkward. I have it set to my up/down arrow keys and that helps. The other odd problem is when I change from full screen then back, I get a second blank white screen covering up the screen with the video. I assume that's VLCs way of doing overlay, but I have to minimize it each time and I haven't found a way around that. And to access the color controls, you have to exit full screen mode, activate the GUI page, then shrink down the screen a bit before you can use them.

In Zoom, I can use the mouse wheel to control volume, zoom, step backwards and forwards by single frames and several other programmable functions. I also like that the timeline can appear when the mouse is brought to the bottom of the screen. I dislike that it crashes when it tries to play odd formats. Just about all functions can be controlled with the mouse. It is also very programable and you can adjust just about every function in it. Zoom is awkward for changing to full screen and the subtitles and alternate audio is a bit harder to access. I do like it's on screen color controls.

I like GOM, but I had stability problems with it. Same with KM player. BS player I have only used a couple of times.

I did download just about every one of them in our 'Tools' section a couple of months ago and went through them one by one. I finally settled with Zoom Pro and VLC and haven't used any of the others recently.

[Placio74]

... Its got everything and plays every kind of video/audio i have. plus I like its capture function alot. But I am curious whether I am not missing something much better than this. ...

Well...
- "plays every kind of video/audio" - The KMPlayer, SMPlayer, VLC, GOM Player and Media Player Classic Homecinema;
- "plus I like its capture function" - The KMPlayer, VLC.

GOM Player is simpler and less flexible than KMP.

BSPlayer it's typical 'advanced' DirectShow player (similar as Zoom Player) - very good, but actual not freeware ('free' version it's adware) - last freeware version it's 1.37.

The KMPlayer is not perfect, but actual most flexible.
Other better? Only with some aspects above-mentioned players.

[chalava]

KMPlayer also has the ability to record video capture using the same of original video, which i think is pretty cool. now I dont have to use any video cutter.

does Zoom Player has got this same function?

I think KMPlayer is the best player seeing above posts. but I'd still try Zoom Player.

[Seeker47]

I would probably put KM Player above BS player and GOM player. At present I use VLC and Zoom Player Pro. I like VLC because it will play about anything and very seldom fails. I use full screen mode with my players. VLC also seem to have one of the best methods for handling subtitles and alternate audio tracks.

I like GOM, but I had stability problems with it. Same with KM player. BS player I have only used a couple of times.

I did download just about every one of them in our 'Tools' section a couple of months ago and went through them one by one. I finally settled with Zoom Pro and VLC and haven't used any of the others recently.

VLC and Gom have been a very effective one-two punch for me. If one can't play a file, most often the other one will, although maybe not with the best-looking results. Not too many things they don't handle, features and UI are quite good though maybe not great. But you can still run into video files that can crash them -- even some .AVIs or .MPGs, or especially some formats like .TS. I had a couple of those and could only finally view them after they were processed by ConvertX2DVD. Gom has been pretty stable here, but it has a tendency to say it needs to go out and find additional codecs, but then can't come up with any. Both Gom and VLC seem to improve with their subsequent releases.

I think you probably need to have a couple players available, besides WMP. The comments here make me want to take a good look at KMP, though.