
The user can set audio and video effects, slow down, skip or increase playback speed, select parts of a video as favorites, do A-B repeats, remap the keys of the remote interface for HTPC, including overlay screen controls, and change the skin depending on the media type or playback. Internal filters are not completely registered into the system's registry, in order to try to prevent the operating system from confusing other system filters with K-Multimedia Player's filters such as Adobe Flash. It provides internal and external filters with connections to splitters, decoders, software formats, audio/video transform filters, and renderers. The player handles many audio, recording, video and subtitle formats, and allows users to capture audio, recording, video and screenshots. But, it is also called as KMP, KMPlayer, KMP Player or simply KMP Player. Introduction of the KMP KMPlayer (Hereinafter, which is usually referred to as KMP) : KMP is a freeware software. The version page has referred to "KMPlayer". The About page has referred to "The KMPlayer Professional Media Player" and "The KMPlayer". In version 3., the player was labeled both KMPlayer and KMP.

On 5 March 2008, The KMPlayer's Forum announced that KMPlayer had been taken over by Pandora TV, a Korean streaming video company, in August 2007.

KMPlayer was developed by Kang Yong-Huee ( Korean: 강용희) and was officially released on 1 October 2002.

The KMPlayer logo, effective 19 March 2012
