KMPlayer News

KMPlayer, modestly playing
A view on the internal
playlist and volume
in controlpanel
Screenshot from 0.9.0, less black

Xine backend with goom
audio visualization

[17 jun 2009] Second maintenance release for 0.11.1
Allowing Javascript objects to be passed as plugin method arguments and bump hardcoded flash version to 10, makes knpplayer work on more sites. Fix of the video scale slider, translations updates, correction of the installation directory from kmplayer's handbook, are also reasons to upgrade.

[17 may 2009] First maintenance release for 0.11.1
Updated translations and information pages of youtube and blip.tv generators fixes.

[10 may 2009] Released for 0.11.1 for KDE4.
Ported the clear history option and merged the generators from the Maemo port (needs build with cairo and npp support, which are default enabled).

[25 jan 2009] First maintenance release for 0.11.0
Fixes for the npplayer, read flash. when a plugin uses the NPNPostUrl to get data from the server. Also the completed signal is now delayed until the first stream is loaded. The latter should fixes cases where javascript calls plugin functions from the HTML document onLoad event.
Lots of smaller fixes all over the place.

[23 nov 2008] First stable release for 0.11 for KDE4.
Not that all features from the KDE3 version are ported, but there are no known crashes anymore. The most annoying crash was when starting a drag and drop operation in the playlist.
Atom feeds are extended for Youtube queries, e.g. try opening http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq=kde4 (the query here is kde4). You need to enable the Netscape plugin support to actually see the flash video.

[5 jun 2008] Hopefully final release candidate for 0.11 for KDE4.
XPixmap's leak plugged and crash fix for npplayer on YouTube. Also an large bookmarks update.

[22 mar 2008] Third pre release for KDE4. Mostly just an incremental update with some memory leak fixes and cairo painting performance improvements. A visible change is using the default KDE video icon with load-on-demand. And begin of javascript support from HTML to a plugin loaded by npp.

[27 jan 2008] Second pre release for KDE4. Plugin changes are for some audio only smils, OnDemand loading only if there is space to click, grouped kparts work now, always hide the controlpanel by default and a fix for flash" that uses the 'evaluate' browser function.
For the application, the forward/backward buttons work again.

[13 jan 2008] Pre release for KDE4. Working backend players are MPlayer, Phonon and the Mozilla plugin loader. An addition feature is load on demand for the plugins.
Despite being a pre release, this version should be rather stable for both standalone application as for the browser plugin.
Note In some rare occasions, only seen with the adobe flash plugin, the desktop looks blocked. You can tab arround in the flash movie, but clicking outside does not set focus to other fields or windows. If this happens to you, activate a shortcut for eg. a menu (like <ALT>f) and everything should be working again.

[21 dec 2007] Maintenance release 0.10c, fixed more flash issues. Initializing glib threading makes the npp plugin more robust. And a Url resolving issue is fixed.

[6 dec 2007] Maintenance release 0.10b, fixed some flash movies didn't get beyond the initial stream, added flash mimetypes to the browser navigator.plugins list, a build fix with visibility turned on and fix for plugin ignoring the global kmplayerrc settings.

[19 oct 2007] Maintenance release 0.10a, removed dependency on nspr, fixed a memory leak, problem with npp javascript urls and some code cleanup.

[29 sep 2007] Version 0.10 final which one rather annoying issue with the npp loader that could make the desktop blocking mouse events

[25 sep 2007] Third pre-release of next 0.10 version. Pushed because of compiling failure with gcc-4.2 of previous releases.

[28 jul 2007] Second pre-release of next 0.10 version, (first one was only announced on the kfm developers list).
KMPlayer can now be configured to always use a given backend for a particular mime type (if detected of course). Now this must still be done by editing the .kde/share/config/kmplayerrc. Eg. let xine play all ogg files

[audio/ogg]
player=xine

Also, KMPlayer support the xembed style browser plugins, like the beta flash plugin from Adobe. To enable this, the above example needs an extra entry plugin, eg

[application/x-shockwave-flash]
player=npp
plugin=/home/koos/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Note, this complements the nsplugin viewer, that is not able to use these plugins. And KMPlayer is not able to use the old style browser plugins.

[3 apr 2007] First maintenance release for version 0.9.4 which fixes a silly crash (shame on the author), and a few painting regressions with SMIL. Got some larger internal updates than normally with maintainance releases but these are already in the latest releases for the Internet tablet, so they already got some testing (see changelog).

[2 mar 2007] Release of KMPlayer 0.9.4. Main focus in this release is to replace the painting code for SMIL movies to cairo mainly to get a nice cross desktop painting for the Internet tablet and the KDE version, replacing the quick hacks that was used before.
The plugin got some fixes regarding the auto hiding of the controlpanel.
ICY stream info output from MPlayer is now recognized and shown like with the Xine backend.

[22 dec 2006] First maintenance release for version 0.9.3 with a few small fixes at various places, see changelog.

[19 sep 2006] Release of KMPlayer 0.9.3. Some more playlist quarks are fixed, see changelog, that were still in the last pre release. And new support for XSPF playlist format.
Since previous stable release 0.9.2a, this release has toolbox-like grouping of optical disk and television sources, playlists and recent items. Audio compact disks are now supported. One can select now more output drivers. And all the other changes that happend but aren't listed here.

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