KMPlayer has fixed all my playback issues. Let's discuss it here!

Allow me to explain how I went from player to player: First, I started with Zoomplayer. Not enough features, needed all sorts of addons. Second, I went to Mplayer with MPUI. It worked extremely well with the majority of my videos, but was missing a lot of advanced features and would be too slow in playing back high definition video like apple trailers and the like. Third, I tried MPC-HC up until today. All my previous issues were gone and playback was speedy on most of the video I play. However, DVD playback was sloooowww, the Haali Renderer would not work with it too well and went out of sync frequently, along with residual desktop showing up most of the time, and switching to VMR9 or Overlay would lead me to a washed out picture. Finally, a reader here PMed me and told me that KMPlayer had a major codec update today and that he'd never had such good playback before with any other player. I tried it out and put it through all the tests: Haali Renderer works great with none of the weaknesses that MPC-HC had, VMR9 has a "force RGB32" option so I can use that if I wanted true blacks and VMR playback, all my high definition material plays back perfectly, and DVD playback is as smooth as can be! This is now my full time player! Anybody else find this to be their best option?

I don't think it's the best option to have. It depends on your needs and playback environments. Though it has a well designed layout, it still lacks some features I need. And it looks like a little bloated.

Impressive work but the startup time is insane and what's worse is it violates the GPL using Gabest's work.

Gabest's libraries are just bundled with the package. That could be the problem? I've heard the core part of the player was written by delphi from scratch. ps. I think they should drop every gpl library if they want to aviod the violation. @neoufo, if the filters are properly installed and tweaked, everything you've said should be possible with other combinations. Haali's renderer is not shipped with the package.

Translating things into another language doesn't avoid copyright violations, in this case the GPL.

Even if there is or would be no GPL violation it is still very bad displaying the filter as KMP Filter instead of using the original filter name.

Sorry, didn't notice it uses mostly libavcodec, I thought for instance it used MPV Decoder from Gabest.

I did see a lot of similarities when I tried KMP long ago. Some very specific bugs that used to be present in MPC were also present in KMP. I don't remember the exact details and I can't be bothered to look them up.

I think you should be more specfic.

See this: Also note that even if they did not take the entire MPC code, it's still quite possible that they took portions out of it and merged them with their own code...