Missing Feature in new version

[romulous]

Hi,

I've just installed the new v2.9.3.1200, only to find that the 'play next/previous file in folder without having to add it to the playlist first' feature that was in the earlier versions no longer works. Can anyone tell me why this feature has seemingly been removed (I'm unsure if it has been removed or has simply stopped working for some reason)? For me, this is the one feature that puts KMPlayer above every other media player (except for Zoom Player which also has this feature). I prefer how Zoom Player handles this feature, but I was still happy it was put into KMPlayer. The difference between how KMPlayer and Zoom Player handle this is that KMPlayer was using a little trick of putting the whole folder in the playlist the moment you played a single file in it, which I dislike because of the performance issues with folders with a large amount of video files in it. Zoom Player doesn't do this trick, and that's how I wished KMPlayer would do it.

Regards,

CM

[z]

The function was replaced as you mentioned.

[romulous]

Hi z,

Replaced? Ok, that's unexpected. What has replaced it? Do you mean that an option has been added to not add the entire folder to the playlist, and thus the feature will no longer work unless you enable this new option?

Regards,

CM

[z]

It was not my decision. There were many users who had reported it as a bug and unexpected action complaining its inconvenience. The substituted option is to open all files in folder. I hope the loading speed of many files can be improved in the near future.

[Gene Benson]

I am really sorry to hear this has been removed. I use this option all the time and really miss it. Would it be possible to add it again without assigning any keys to the function? That way you could chose to assign keys if you wanted to use this.

[romulous]

I agree, I'm sad to see it go too. You don't realise just how good a feature is until you try it. The only two problems I had with it were:

1. You play the first video file in a folder, and then when you move to the next file, every file in the folder is added to the playlist in the background. For me, who keeps hundreds of video files in each folder, this was a big problem, as the performance hit from KMPlayer trying to add all those files to the playlist at once was enormous. There was no need for KMPlayer to do this - I've mentioned more than once on this forum that Zoom Player (which has the same feature) does not do this (it just scrolls to the next file in the folder and it works fine on any sized folders because of this). Because of this design flaw in KMPlayer's implementation of it, I only used this feature on folders that had a small amount of files in them. Still, I didn't want it removed - I just wanted it fixed so it didn't require the playlist. As well as the performance hit, there was the thought that if KMPlayer was adding files to the playlist, I could see no point in having the feature - if I wanted to use the playlist, I could go in and manually add files to the playlist myself, without needing KMPlayer to do it for me. The whole point I had in mind when I originally requested the feature was that the playlist would not be involved in any way, shape or form. I hate playlists, and I never use them.

2. You had to manually edit the language.ini file to add the extensions of your video file names - otherwise, if a particular extension (eg .avi) was not in that list, KMPlayer would skip all those files until you added them. And, upgrading to a new version would of course update the language .ini file which would wipe out any extra extensions you had added. By default, KMPlayer should have supported all the filetypes it supports in the GUI (Options-Association/Capture). There should have been no hand editing of any files required.

Anyway, the crowd has spoken I suppose. Apparently some users must have requested its removal, so I don't think z is going to put it back in now.