Users benefit from various options, such as setting audio and video effects, selecting as favorites certain parts of a video, changing the skin, slowing down or increasing playback speed and a diversity of configuration options. The player has its own internal codecs it runs on low CPU computers it is equipped with both internal and external filters it prioritizes and selects codecs across the operating system due to the DirectShow merit system. KMPlayer has several advantages compared to other players, which make it one of the most reliable software tools for playing video and audio files. Cloud KMP and KMPlayer for Mac are currently under development.
It also supports 3D format videos and in March 2014, the KMPlayer Mobile App was launched for Android and iOS phones.
First released in October 2002, it has undergone many improvements the formats it can play include AVI, DVD, VCD, MKV, Ogg, OGM, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, 3GP, RealMedia, Quick Time and FLV.