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Chapter 2. Basics

Table of Contents

Starting KPlayer
Playing multimedia
Local files
Remote URLs
Disk and tuner devices
KDE I/O slaves: fish, sftp, webdav, tar, zip, audiocd, etc.
Parts of KPlayer
Title bar
Menu bar
Main toolbar
Playlist toolbar
Video area
Slider toolbars
Status bar
Multimedia library
Message log

Important

Like all KDE applications, KPlayer is highly configurable. The default settings have been chosen for optimal performance and maximum compatibility. This chapter describes how KPlayer behaves with these default settings.

Starting KPlayer

There are several ways to start KPlayer. Which one you use is your personal preference, and may depend on what type of media you are going to play.

  • From the K menu, select Multimedia → KPlayer

  • Or you can put KPlayer icon on the desktop or on the panel. Then you can left click it to start KPlayer.

  • Alt+F2 will open KRunner, type kplayer (lower case) and press Enter .

  • In a terminal program like Konsole type kplayer and press Enter.

  • Depending on the type of content you are going to play, there may be other ways to start KPlayer. They are described in the sections about playing local files and remote addresses.