1. Introduction

Kmpg is an MPEG audio player for the KDE project. The player uses mpg123 by Michael Hipp as a decoding engine (note: do not contact him about bugs/features in kmpg, rather contact Martin Müller).

Kmpg has the following advanced features:

• Supports MPEG 1.0/2.0, layers 1,2 and 3.
• Simple to use interface.
• Drag and drop support using the KDE dnd standard.
• Support for multiple platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x (tested 4.1.4), HP/UX 7xx, SGI IRIX, DEC Unix (tested 3.2 and 4.0), OSF/1, DEC Ultrix (tested 4.4) and IBM AIX (tested 4.1).
• Playlist editor.
• Advanced configuration dialog allowing the user to tune the behaviour of the decoder.
• All configuration changes can be applied while playing a stream.