---
name: "kmplayer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kmplayer"
version: "1:0.10.0c-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kmplayer"
---

# kmplayer(1)

a media player for KDE

## NAME

kmplayer - a media player for KDE

## SYNOPSIS

**kmplayer**  \[ *Qt-options* \] \[ *KDE-options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

KMPlayer is a basic audio/video viewer application for KDE.

KMPlayer can:

\* play DVD (DVDNav only with the Xine player).

\* play VCD.

\* let the backend players play from a pipe (read from stdin).

\* play from a TV device (experimental).

\* show backend player's console output.

\* launch ffserver (only 0.4.8 works) when viewing from a V4L device.

\* DCOP KMediaPlayer interface support.

\* VDR viewer frontend (with \*kxvplayer), configure VDR keys with standard KDE shortcut configure window.

\* Lots of configurable shortcuts. Highly recommended for the VDR keys (if you have VDR) and volume increase/decrease.

## OPTIONS

All KDE and Qt programs accept a some common command-line options. KMPlayer has no application-specific options.

- FC**--help**F\[0\]

  Show help about options

- FC**--help-qt**F\[0\]

  Show Qt specific options

- FC**--help-kde**F\[0\]

  Show KDE specific options

- FC**--help-all**F\[0\]

  Show all options

- FC**--author**F\[0\]

  Show author information

- FC**-v**F\[0\], FC**--version**F\[0\]

  Show version information

- FC**--license**F\[0\]

  Show license information

- FC**--**F\[0\]

  Indicates end of options

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies \<FCjpatrick@kubuntu.orgF\[0\]\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in FC*/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL*F\[0\].