How do you play at greater or less than normal speed in KMP?
Hold the Shift key and press the number key + or -. Experiment with other hot keys. There are lots. For example + or - will zoom in and out respectively. Use the arrow keys to move forwards or backwards 5 seconds at a time. Space bar pauses (like most NLEs). Pressing modifier keys like Shift and Alt will allow you to do even more very quickly. Check it out. The more I play with this the more I love it. At this point I have no reason to use anything else. :-)

Now that's more like it! I'll give it another go later...

Every time I've installed it, VLC becomes a cpu hog and takes over everything. But it would play everything I threw at it.

I installed KMPlayer and tinkered with it last night. Amazing! I loaded in an MPEG-2 file that I had captured from over-the-air broadcast from my local PBS station, and transcoded with a DIVX codec in real time as it played. The resulting file was about 4 gb instead of the original 12 gb, with no visible loss. The current version of VLC will play the MPEG-2s, but gives me an error message when I try to convert, claiming it can't read the file (even though it plays OK). Now I can save hard disk space when I want to archive these broadcasts.

Sony Vegas gives me the error message "none of the files dropped on Vegas could be opened"; Sherlock.exe shows the presence of MPEG-2 codecs, but they apparently are not registered, for they do now show up as codecs in the Codecs list of the Hardware tab of Sounds and Audio Devices Properties.

For more flexibility in editing, I'd like to work in Vegas. Is anyone able to import MPEG-2 files into Vegas (the Vegas Import DVD Camcorder Disk doesn't work on these files). Where did you get the codec?

Anyway, KMP even sees my U6000 USB ATSC tuner, but I haven't figured out how to get it to recognize the signals (documentation may be on the web for this). As I was trying to get the tuner to work, it crashed; but no crashes at all playing files from my hard disk. Thanks so much for telling us about this great player.

TROJAN: whoops? PC Tools ThreatFire just alerted me that KMPlayer.exe attempted to infect my system with a trojan known as TROJAN.HELP.EP. "A seemingly harmless program that in reality performs or allows an external agent to perform malicious and dnagerous actions on your computer."

I've been using ThreatFire for about a year and this is the very first alert that it has given me. Threatfire closed the program in order to prevent the infection - which happened when I attempted to change the encoding codec from DIVX to something more friendly to Vegas.