Reviews of The KMPlayer

1. 
   assoluta

   Reviewing 2.9.4.1436 (Dec 27, 2009)

   I am in complete agreement with the last two posts. In fact, they provide an very truthful picture of what one has to deal with when installing and using KMPLayer. I, too, have been using the KMPlayer for a long period of time: its persistent error messages, perennial instability manifesting itself as freezes or regularly occurring total system lock-ups were slowly eroding my patience with this program. Basically, I ended up using it as the last resort -- and always prepared for some trouble.
   
   I installed today the most recent version in hope that the system lockups -- which for me is a critically important isuue -- have been corrected in th enewest version. Instead, as has been witnessed by so many others, I was stung with this Ask.com swindle, ...and new, irrelevant error message right after the fresh install.
   
   Like antigin, my predecessor in this thread, I am always very careful with installers, unchecking anything that smells like spyware/crapware, and exactly like in his case, the Ask,com bar, search engine, home page all were surreptitiously installed/changed, both in Explorer and Firefox. Disgusting... And I agree: this is what we call a swindle.
   
   I give 2 stars SOLELY for the fact that the KMPlayer can play most video formats and has an extensive subtitles support.
   
   I thank the gentleman who mentioned that he had switched to MPC-HC. It has been a long time since I used Media Player Classic. I downloaded and installed MPC-HC after reading his post here, and having tested it extensively I can say that MPC-HC seems to be perfectly capable with all the video formats I checked, doesn't seem to suffer when the media file path has Unicode characters, and handles several subtitle formats as well. I'll be using now MPC-HC.
2. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 2.9.4.1436 (Dec 9, 2009)

   I spent a long time using KMPlayer. I grew to appreciate its many features and even its interface. But I constantly suffered from its stability problems; which sometimes meant weird error messages, other times a simple crash, still other times a crash that turned out into a system freeze when the program was terminated, and occasionally, an immediate and total system freeze when a file KMPlayer didn't like was opened.
   
   I've finally had a bellyful and I give up.
3. 
   antigin

   Reviewing 2.9.4.1436 (Nov 7, 2009)

   Holy crap!
   Have used this app for years and now it disappointed me too much with his politics. I always uncheck various toolbars while installing programs, but one day I found ask.com toolbar, search engine, homepage on my browsers and can't understand how the hell it had been installed. Today I tried to reinstall the player and found again ask.com toolbars. It surprised me. I can't believe that I have passed this agreement and do not uncheck the boxes. I tried to reinstall again and again and the setup process is different every time.
   After installation process I press 'Next' and sometimes there is an ask.com agreement window before the finish, sometimes it isn't, but toolbars still being installed. Sometimes after installation process after pressing 'Next' you see drop through window for a miliseconds and then finish window. Then if you click 'Back', you will see an agreement window that you have passed supposedly twice clicking 'Next' before (it's a PandoraTV trick). But other times there is no an agreement windows after installation process and after clicking back at finish window, but TOOLBAR STILL ARE INSTALLING. That's the SWINDLE! It' a shame.
   EPIC FAIL. TOTAL UNRESPECT. Buy buy, cheaters.
4. 
   TGB72

   Reviewing 2.9.4.1436 (Oct 30, 2009)

   It was a solid player until 2.9.3.14.28, then that **@ing company Pandora TV gradually ruined this app. it became more an more unstable, it have problems to associate/dissociate file types, it crash often playing HD files, it have focus problems when starts...
   The only good thing in v2.9.4 is the update of some codecs but nothing more.
   It was such a great program and had so many features pending like internal full support for ssa subs, ability to change font size in subs, improve support for TV and HDTV, improve the file navigator... but now is constantly worsening, with each version you get new bugs, and although is optional the installer comes with a crappy toolbar.
   
   From wikipedia:
   In March 2008 development has been taken over by Pandora TV, a Korean streaming video company. Since then, development has been slow – the team appears to consist of just one individual.
   
   This program as we know it is dead. A shame.
5. 
   CyberDoc999

   Reviewing 2.9.4.1436 (Oct 20, 2009)

   Not stable

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