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+  KMPlayer - a simple media player for TDE.
+
+
+KMPlayer is a GUI for several backends, namely:
+
+- Mplayer
+- Xine
+- Gstreamer
+- ffmpeg
+
+It can play DVD/VCD movies, from file or url and from a video device.
+
+
+Features:
+---------
+
+* can act as a browser plugin for Konqueror
+* can embed into a KOffice document.
+* 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 when viewing from a v4l device
+* DCOP KMediaPlayer interface support
+* VDR viewer frontend (with *kxvplayer), configure VDR keys with standard TDE
+  shortcut configure window
+* Lots of configurable shortcuts. Highly recommended for the VDR keys
+  and volume increase/decrease
+* Broadcaste http streaming by using ffserver/ffmpeg
+
+.
+
+Contributing
+--------------
+
+If you wish to contribute to kmplayer, you might do so:
+
+- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
+
+- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate
+
+
+Translations status
+---------------------
+
+### messages
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/kmplayer/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/kmplayer/)
+
+### desktop files
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/kmplayer-desktop-files/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/kmplayer-desktop-files/)