KPlayer user manual

KPlayer user manual

Kirill Bulygin

Revision 0.6.2 (2007-05-13)

Copyright © 2004-2007 kiriuja

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player that uses the MPlayer engine.

If you are having problems with KPlayer, please have a look at the Troubleshooting micro-HOWTO.

Table of Contents

1. Overview

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

3. Command reference

File menu
View menu
Player menu
Library menu
Settings menu
Help menu

Main toolbar
Playlist toolbar
Progress and seeking toolbar
Volume toolbar
Contrast toolbar
Brightness toolbar
Hue toolbar
Saturation toolbar

Popup menus

General popup menu
Playlist popup menu
Library popup menu
Message log popup menu
Toolbar popup menu
Title bar popup menu

Player menu
Main toolbar
Progress toolbar
Volume toolbar
Popup menu

Mouse wheel

4. Configuring KPlayer

User interface

Multimedia library

Now Playing
Recent
Playlists
Devices
List view

User defined menus

Toolbar style and position
Toolbar configuration dialog

Other settings

File properties

5. Configuration dialog

Overview
General section
Controls section
Progress subsection
Volume subsection
Contrast subsection
Brightness subsection
Hue subsection
Saturation subsection
Sliders subsection
Video section
Audio section
Subtitles section
Advanced section

6. File properties

Overview
General section
Size section
Video section
Audio section
Subtitles section
Advanced section

7. Micro-HOWTOs

Installation

Dependencies
Installation

Compiling from source

Getting sources
Compile, install, run
Notes

Basic configuration

Video setup
Audio setup
MPlayer setup
Smooth playback
Previews in the Open File dialog
Previewing files in KMLDonkey

Advanced configuration

General settings
Control settings
Progress and seeking control settings
Volume and video control settings
Audio and video settings
Video settings
Audio settings
Subtitle settings
Advanced settings

File properties

General properties
Size properties
Video properties
Audio properties
Subtitle properties
Advanced properties

Full screen and maximized window

Full screen mode
Maximized window
Mouse wheel

Current playlist
Stored playlists
Playlist files

Multimedia library

Overview
Playlist folders
Ordering and sorting
Managing multimedia
Linked folders
Now Playing section
Recent section
Playlists section
Collection section
Devices section
Directory sections

Embedded subtitles
External subtitles
Autoloading
Subtitle settings
Finding subtitles

Disk and tuner devices

Setting up devices
Playing from devices
Inverse telecine and deinterlacing
Deblocking, deringing, denoising

Online radio and TV

Major stream types
Playlist files
Cache size
Embedded streams
Playing through HTTP I/O Slave
Where to find stations
Recording streams

Playing from KDE I/O Slaves

What are KDE I/O Slaves
How KPlayer uses them
HTTP, FTP and Samba
Cache size
Playlist files

Troubleshooting

Getting support
Common problems

Reporting bugs

Checking for duplicate bugs
Submitting a bug

Translation

Translating the user interface
Translating the user manual
Translating the .desktop files

8. Credits and License

Overview