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Kantaris Media Player

Free and open-source media player

Kantaris Media Player

Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it -- AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, quicktime, matroska, divx, xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, OGG files and more. Kantaris can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays some of the most beautiful music visualizations ever seen. All this is completely free.

Kantaris 0.3.7 bugfix release

This release fixes a bug causing the “video output module” setting not be saved. If you don’t need to change this setting you also don’t need to update to version 0.3.7.

. 16 May 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.6 released

This version only contains one major new feature; support for non-western characters in subtitles. So now you should be able to use your Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese,  … subtitles with Kantaris.
Other improvements:

  • Added subtitles size setting
  • Speed up file loading
  • Saving downloaded subtitles in the “kantaris\cache” directory instead of in the “temporary internet files” folder
  • Double-clicking for full screen works again
  • Hopefully fixed a bug caused by bass_fx.dll in Vista 64-bit ( I can’t test it)
  • Fixed a bug with the listing of embedded subtitles
  • Uninstaller now removes file associations
  • Probably some more which I can’t remember right now.
. 14 May 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.5 released

It’s been almost exactly two months since version 0.3.4 and this is what I’ve been working on.

  • Playback of all audio-CDs should now finally work.
  • Seeking in MPEG-2 files fixed.
  • Much better RAR support. Can now play most rar-archives containing video instantly without any unpacking and being able to seek in the file like it’s unpacked. I think this is a unique feature that no other player for windows has. I know that XBMC for Xbox can do the same.
  • Automatically identifying a movie and listing subtitles for it available at opensubtitles.com also automatically downloads the subtitle of choice. This might also be a unique feature.
  • A few other bug-fixes.

Getting support for subtitles with character encoding which are different from western standards and not Unicode proved to be more difficult than expected so I wasn’t able to finish it in this release. Hopefully a new version with this feature added will be out already this week.

Also I like to mention that Kantaris was featured on TechTV on a show named “The Lab with Leo Laporte” and they said some very nice things about the player. The show airs in Canada and Australia

You can see the video here: (the part about Kantaris is around 2:30 into the video)

 

. 29 Apr 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.4 released

This release is mostly just a bug fix release.

  • Added support for dragging and dropping a folder with audio files into the player window.
  • Fixed RAR support - Opening Rars in 0.3.3 didn’t work
  • Fixed bug where some mp3 files wouldn’t be recognized as audio files.
  • Fixed bug that threw an unhandled exception message if you tried to skip to the next track while at the end of the playlist.
  • Fixed support for dragging and dropping RAR files into the player window.
. 01 Mar 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.3 released - now with hotkey support


New in this release:

  • Lots of bug fixes
  • Added support for keyboard commands
  • Added support for opening multiple files in the same instance of Kantaris
. 24 Feb 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

A new forum is up.

After a long time without a working forum we finally set up a new one and there is already a few that have started posting. If you registered in the old forum you will unfortunately have to register again.

. 02 Feb 08 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

New version of Kantaris Media Player

Version 0.3.2 contains the following improvements:

  • New “play folder” feature.
  • Fixed bug in loading of DVD’s.
  • A few other minor changes.

Also I like to thank everyone that has sent in bug reports and feature suggestions. In the next version I’m going to add hotkey support.

. 28 Jan 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.1 released

This release contains no new features just fixes of problems in 0.3.0.

  • Fixed problems maximizing and minimizing of the windows.
  • Fixed problem decoding filenames with foreign characters.
  • Fixed the look of the playlist.

Thanks everone that has sent me e-mails about these errors.

. 23 Jan 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris 0.3.0 released

After over two months of development I’m finally ready to release a new version of Kantaris . New in the 0.3.0 release:

  • New and better looking user interface.
  • .rar file support. ( Play rar files without having to extract the content)
  • Better subtitle support.
  • Lots of changes that will make the player more stable.
  • Updated to the latest stable vlc code. (0.8.6d)

. 21 Jan 08 | Player updates | Comments Off

Kantaris is awarded 5 stars out of 5 in reviews.

I have received mails from two different sites telling me that in they have reviewed Kantaris and that they feel it deserves the highest possible score. This makes me happy and I will of course continue to make the player even better.

. 16 Nov 07 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
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