KPlayer - a TDE multimedia player.

With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface compliant with TDE standards.

Features include

• video, audio and subtitle playback from file, URL, DVD, VCD, audio CD, TV, DVB, etc., as well as TDE I/O Slaves;
• volume, contrast, brightness, hue and saturation controls;
• zooming, full screen and fixed aspect options;
• status and progress display and seeking;
• multimedia library to organize your media files and streams;
• configuration dialog and file specific options;
• KPart for integration with Konqueror, KMLDonkey, etc.

Requirements

You need to have MPlayer version 1.0rc1 or later. X11 is required. X.org is the best choice here. XVideo extension is recommended.

Playing video DVDs and CDs, audio CDs, data CDs and DVDs, TV, and DVB

KPlayer 0.6 and later has much improved support for disk and tuner devices. It will detect any CD, DVD, TV and DVB devices present on your system and list them as submenus on the File menu. For disk devices it will also detect when a disk is inserted or removed and update the submenu accordingly.

When a disk is in the drive, the submenu will list options to play the entire disk or each individual track or title. There is also a Load Disk command that you will only need if the disk is already in the drive when KPlayer starts up or if your system does not tell KPlayer when a disk is inserted or removed.

Submenus for TV and DVB devices list options for playing each channel. The list of channels can be chosen in the device properties. Go to the Multimedia Library, expand the Devices subtree, right click a device and choose Properties. The Channel List option is on the General page. There are many more options for both disk and tuner devices.

Multimedia Library

KPlayer 0.6 and later has a multimedia library that you can use to organize your multimedia files and streams.

The Now Playing tree lists the files, URLs and folders on your current playlist. This playlist is temporary and will be wiped out the next time you play anything else.

Permanent playlists live on the Playlists tree. Copy your current playlist from Now Playing here if you want to keep it. Items on playlists can be arranged in any order you like by dragging them around or using Move Down and Move Up commands.

Collection tree can contain folders with items sorted by any available field. By default only the most useful fields are displayed in both the playlists and the collection, but other fields can be shown using the Columns submenu on the Library menu. Some fields can be changed, those are listed on the Edit submenu of the Library menu.

Devices tree lists the disk and tuner devices KPlayer found on your system, and under those you will find the available tracks, titles or channels. Devices, disks, tracks, titles and channels all have their own properties that you can access using the Properties option on the Library menu or on the right click context menu.

Root Directory and Home Directory list multimedia files found in those directories and their subdirectories. Find the directories that contain your multimedia files and put them into your collection. Then create and organize your playlists from the collection. Both the collection and the playlists can have as many levels as you need.

Remote files and streams can be put on the collection and playlists by using the Add URL command on the Library menu or the right click context menu.

Multitrack files and streams

Some media files and streams have more than one video, audio or subtitle tracks in them. Those will be listed on the Video, Audio and Subtitles submenus of the Player menu. Audio and subtitle tracks will be labelled with their language if it is known. You can also choose the tracks in the File Properties.

Configuration

KPlayer's initial settings have been tuned to the optimal values so that the program should be fully usable out of the box. In fact, version 0.2 did not have a configuration dialog and was quite useful nevertheless.

For advanced users the configuration dialog offers a lot of different settings affecting both the KPlayer user interface and MPlayer options. If you mess KPlayer up by playing with them, the Defaults button is there to help you out.

However, if KPlayer does not work for you in the first place, please first test MPlayer itself from the command line to see if it needs any command line options to work on your system. Then you can set those options in the KPlayer configuration dialog.

Before you put anything into the Additional Command Line Arguments box, please first look around the dialog to make sure the option you need is not yet supported directly. For example, the only time you'll ever need to put -ao, -ac, -vo or -vc in there is when you want to list more than one output or codec separated by a comma. In that case please first set the respective option on the Audio or Video page to 'auto'.

Warning about -vo sdl and -vo svga: if you set these anywhere other than the Video page in the KPlayer config dialog, you will likely have to either wait for your file to finish playing or kill your X session. If you really have to, you can edit or remove the input.conf file in share/apps/kplayer, but that is not recommended, nor are -vo sdl and -vo svga for that matter.

File properties

Starting from KPlayer 0.5 each file and URL has its own set of properties. They include information that KPlayer found out about the file, like time length, video size, frame rate, bitrates, and so on, as well as various options you can set, like name, video aspect, subtitles, and many more.

Most properties can be set through the File Properties dialog. The Properties dialog for the currently loaded file or URL can be opened from the File menu, or using a button on the main toolbar, or from the right click popup menu. You can also open Properties dialog for any entry in the multimedia library by right clicking on it, or by using the Properties command on the Library menu.

An easier way to set file properties is by holding the Shift key when changing a setting. For example, if you hold Shift and select Soft Frame Drop from the Player menu, KPlayer will remember that setting for the current URL, and use it the next time you play it. After it is done playing the current URL, it will revert the Frame Drop setting to the default, the one that was in effect before you changed it with Shift. On the other hand, if you change Frame Drop without holding Shift, the new setting will become the default, and will be used for all URLs that do not have it set explicitly.

Full screen mode

To return from the full screen mode to the normal mode just hit Ctrl+F or right click anywhere in the video area and choose Full Screen from the menu. Double clicking the video area also switches between full screen and normal mode. You can also hit the Esc key, which will stop playback and end the full screen mode.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to kplayer, you might do so:

• TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool. https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea

• TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool. https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate

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