Kantaris Media Player

Windows 7, Playlist.com and China

Kantaris for Windows 7

Windows 7 has finally been released which you probably already know unless you have been sleeping under a rock. Since previous versions of Kantaris had some video quality issues on Windows 7 I needed to get a new version out fast. Hopefully the issues are fixed now, I haven’t tested it myself because I’m still running Vista but users have told me it’s now working fine. Another thing that has changed is that I’ve removed the Last.FM radio feature and the replaced it with music from Playlist.com (yes, I know the tab still says Last.FM). The reason is that Last.FM has decided that only paying subscribers will be allowed to listen to the radio from anything other than the embedded player at the official website. I don’t agree with this decision as I think that Last.fm’s open access to the API was one of it’s best feature and it made the service unique but I guess they not making enough money. Anyway I decided to replace it with searchable playlists from Playlist.com. The Playlist.com service is more legally questionable than last.fm but they do have contracts with record labels so I think it’s alright.

On a personal note, I’ve moved to Guiyang, China. It’s not permanent, I’m just here to write some industrial management software for my fathers company. It’s actually very cool here, much better then you get the impression of from western media and things are developing really fast. Just now in this “small” city (population of 4 million) there are 50 skyscrapers being built and I’m not exaggerating.

Kantaris 0.5.8 released.

• Last.FM feature fixed.
• Fixed problem with Kantaris crashing if start up directory is write protected.
• Fixed various problems with the video library feature.
• Mouse cursor problems fixed
• Updated German, Arabic, Russian and Chinese translations. Thanks everyone that have helped out.

If your native language isn’t available or if the translation is outdated please help out. Here is how:

Translate instructions:
I’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to make a translation of Kantaris.The translation files are located inside the language folder in the kantaris folder. For example: “C:\Program Files\Kantaris\Languages”. They are regular .txt files and can be opened with notepad. Filename should be [country code]-[native country name].txt for example sv-Svenska.txt, or en-English.txt. You can get the country codes by looking at the flags in the Kantaris\flags directory. Check the sv-Svenska.txt for what is needed to be translated.  The text inside the ‘[' and ']‘ is the text that should be translated. A example:
[Open file to play]=Öppna fil för uppspelning
[original text]=translated text

Ones done, send the file to me in an e-mail

Blame it on Vista User Account Control (UAC)

I hate UAC and you probably do too if you have tried to install Kantaris 0.5.5 or 0.5.6 in the “program files” directory on a Vista system with UAC activated. I still don’t know why UAC wouldn’t let Kantaris run from that directory but I’ve changed a few thing I could think of and now Kantaris 0.5.7 runs fine.

Kantaris 0.5.6 released.

• Fixes bug that caused Kantaris not to run if the installation path contained non ASCII characters.
• Added Czech translation by Luboš
• Updated the Portuguese translation by Sérgio Marques

Kantaris 0.5.5 released.

• Fixes some bugs and compatibility issues.
• Splash-screen added.
• Remembers window position and size.
• Translated to Hebrew by Peter G

Another update.

Version 0.5.3 fixes the following problems:

• Critical bug appears when the operating system’s default language isn’t among the languages that Kantaris has been translated to.
• Minor bug when playing DVD or web stream.
• Minor bug when trying to select all in playlist.
• Mix up in English language file so some parts where written in Swedish.

Hopefully most bugs are fixed now

A Quick Update

Sorry everyone, I messed up when I packed the files yesterday. This made the movie trailers and video library crash. Thanks to all that sent me a notice about the problem.

Did I say February? I meant June :p

Pretty much everything is improved upon.

• Updated to vlc 0.9.9 source code.
• Support for Real Video files.
• New faster GUI and other performance improvements.
• New Skin by Jonathan Blois.
• Improved RAR archives support.
• And more…