KPlayer is the video playback app. If H.264/HEVC Hardware Acceleration is supported, it can play 1080p, 4K video files better smoothly.¹ Also it can enjoy a movie in the concise interface with the high-quality subtitles that are displayed quickly.
• H.264/HEVC Hardware Acceleration support¹
• Aspect Ratio Settings support
• Playback Speed Settings support
• Skip support
• Playlist support²
• Continued Play support
• Move to Trash’ support
• Plan B support
• Subtitles (Sandbox²)
- It supports SMI, SRT type.
- Ruby tag is also available.
- Subtitles are displayed in real time even if it searches the playback position through the time slider.
- If it opens the video (file_name), it searches and opens the subtitles (named like these).
▹ (file_name/file_name*) at the same folder, or manually open (file_name/file_name*) from the same folder.
▹ Only if it opens the BDMVs folder, (folder_name/folder_name*) and then (file_name/file_name*) at the current ‘P Folder’, or manually open (folder_name/folder_name*) or (file_name/file_name*) from anywhere. (folder_name/folder_name*) is only for file with maximum duration in the playlist.
• Commentary (Sandbox²)
- It supports TXT (plain text) type.
- It shows a plain text commentary file in a separate window.
- If it opens the video (file_name), it searches and opens the commentary (named like these).
▹ (file_name) at the same folder, or manually open (file_name) from the same folder.
▹ Only if it opens the BDMVs folder, (folder_name) and then (file_name) at the current ‘P Folder’, or manually open (folder_name) or (file_name) from anywhere. (folder_name) is only for file with maximum duration in the playlist.
• Playable Types³
- Native mode: M4V, MP4, MOV.
- FFmpeg mode: M4V, MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, RMVB, M2TS, TP, TS, TRP.
It can get more detail informations about these features at "App Support". (https://bohoonkim.blogspot.com/2014/11/kplayer.html)
1. H.264/HEVC Hardware Acceleration
- H.264 Hardware Acceleration may not be supported according to CPU/GPU or file format.
- HEVC(H.265) Hardware Acceleration requires macOS 10.13 or later and recent CPU.
▹ 6th(8-bit)/7th(10-bit) Generation Intel CPU or later.
- On Native mode, it requires M4V, MP4 or MOV types encoded in H.264(8-bit)/HEVC(8-bit) and AAC/ALAC
On FFmpeg mode, it requires the video encoded in H.264(8-bit)/HEVC(8 or 10-bit).
- If the video track was encoded in settings that macOS doesnt support, it may not be supported.
If it is not supported, playback and navigating may not be smooth according to CPU. (especially when plays 1080p, 4K)
2. Sandbox
- If it opens not folders but ‘video files and these ‘files’ are not in the following folder or its subfolders; ‘P Folder folders in Preferences’,
▹ it should open the same-named subtitle/commentary files manually,
▹ and it doesnt support the feature that playlist is automatically made up of the similar-named video files.
- P Folder option remembers folders once opened by this option. So, even if changes the current P Folder value, it can access old P Folder folders.
3. Playable Types
- It doesnt support the playback of a protected video file.
- When it opens the BDMV’s folder, ‘m2ts files that are contained in BDMV will be automatically added to the playlist.
▹ For example, if DSK/BDMV, please open the ‘DSK’ folder.
- The video file encoded in YUV420P pixel format can be played normally on Native/FFmpeg mode.
‘YUV420P 10-bit’, YUV444P 8/10-bit pixel formats can be played only on FFmpeg mode.
※ KPlayer uses some dynamic libraries of FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv2.1. It can get more informations at https://ffmpeg.org.
※ The ThecircleM font provided by The Circle Foundation is applied to the screenshots. The ThecircleM font can be downloaded from The Circle Foundation. (http://www.thecircle.or.kr/kor/data-room/circle-font.html)
