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Kantaris Media Player

Free and open-source media player

Kantaris Media Player

  • Free and open source media player
  • Plays almost all multimedia formats without the need for installing any separate codecs
  • Connects to an online subtitle database, finds subtitles that are a perfect fit to the played media
  • Plays RAR-archives without first extracting the media
  • Beautiful music visualizations
  • Plays DVDs and audio CDs

    • A look into the future

    This is how the next version is going to look like which I hope will be released in early February. Skin design made by Jonathan Blois.

    Kantaris' new skin

    Nice huh?

    . 31 Jan 09 | Uncategorized
    « Another bugfix release
    Did I say February? I meant June :p »

    Reader's Comments

    1. PJ | February 1st, 2009 at 9:38 am

      Looks great, thanks Christofer and Jonathan. I hope to find some video brightness controls on the player eventually so i can dump VLC. Great job so far, thank you all so much for this treasure.

    2. Herberth | February 3rd, 2009 at 6:12 am

      In the next version see if you can improve opening FLV vedio files since I tried fast forwading on it and it just reseted the vedio.

    3. _DjN_ | February 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm

      Very Very Nice, i hope it’s a lightweight gui

    4. teknologist | February 4th, 2009 at 3:41 am

      BTW…what do you think about having a login for last.fm and scrobbling enabled? They have a nice API for doing just that and I think having this ability to scrobble would allow me to NOT have any other media player open or running but Knataris.

    5. NightSider | February 4th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

      I like the current skin…are you considering adding a skin switch or the change will be permanent?

    6. PJ | February 6th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

      Me again.. If you need some inspiration for other skin designs, the best I’ve seen is KMPlayer with the WMP11 Classic skin by phamtieugiao, as the layout is just right. From what you have now and with a little help, it won’t be long before Kantaris is the best player in the world, bravo!

    7. antony | February 7th, 2009 at 2:12 am

      It looks really nice. Good job guys. Since it is developed with mono, it would be great to port the Kantaris Media Player to linux and unix operating systems. Thanks for your work.

    8. ron | February 17th, 2009 at 1:11 am

      any more word on when the new version will be released as it sure looks great

    9. ehabfg | March 9th, 2009 at 8:35 am

      great skin but i hope to use vlc 0.9… source code not 0.8…

    10. ehabfg | March 10th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

      full support realplayer media is now possible in vlc 1.00 rc2
      please upgrade from old 0.8 to 1.00

    11. james | March 12th, 2009 at 2:57 am

      well i download every one you realease and i really love the new skin and stuff so when you get around to realeasing it i will be there to get thanks for the great video player

    12. abhay | March 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

      i am a fan of kantaris its great i eagerly wait for its launch

    13. James H. | March 28th, 2009 at 4:00 am

      Nice, I can’t wait! You guys are awesome.

    14. DEVO CLAN | April 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm

      nice hope to get the download soon!

    15. Jipito | April 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am

      Hello i have a simple question, i like the feature trailer in kantaris but i just want to know if it is possible to have this in HD (720p) ?

    16. Glen Edwards | April 15th, 2009 at 3:13 am

      Dear Christofer Persson the developer of Kantaris Media Player,
      Release the next version of Kantaris Media Player with added support of 350 more video codecs including Indeo 2 (IR21, RT21), Indeo 3 (IV31, IV32), Indeo 4 (IV41, IV42), Indeo 5 (IV50), Intel I.263, True Motion 1 (TM10), True Motion 2 (TM20, TM2a, TM2x), T263, L263, L264, Nuppel Video (NUV), Real Video (RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40), TSCC, Ultimotion (ULTI), Flash Video 1 (FLV1), Flash Video 4 (FLV4), Flash Video 5 (FLV5), Flash Video 8(FLV8), 3ivx (3iv0, 3iv1, 3iv2), Divx 1, Divx, 2 Divx 3, Divx 4, Divx5, Divx 6, Divx 7, Dirac, AMV Video, SNOW, Fraps, HuffYUY, Lagarith, MSU Loseless, MSV (CRAM), Creative Labs (CYUY), ASUS Video (ASV1 avd ASV2), VP3 (VP30, VP31), VP4, VP5, VP6 (VP60, VP61, VP62, VP6F), VP7, VP8, DVC Pro (dv25), DVC Pro 50 (dv50), DVC Pro HD (dv100), MJPEG, MJPEG 2000, Theora (stable), and more, added support of 200 more audio codecs including MP3 Pro, WMA9 Loseless, Real Audio 1, Real Audio 2, Real Audio 3, Real Audio 4, Real Audio 5, Real Audio 6, Real Audio 7, Real Audio 8, Real Audio 9, Real Audio 10, OptimFrog, Shorten, Nelly Moser, HE-AAC, Musepack, Monkeys’ Audio, True Audio, AMV Audio, Intel Music Codec (IMC), Indeo Audio Codec (IAC), WavPack, Meridian Loseless Packing (MLP), Raw, TWOS, Dialogic ADPCM, DV Audio, Vorbis, EAC3, Dolby True HD, DTS-ES, WMA9 Pro, AMR Narrowband (samr), AMR Wideband, AMR Wideband Plus, and More, added support for new file types including IVF, MOV, OGG, OGV, OGA, Annodex (AXV and AXA), h261, h263, h264, 261, 263, 264, XSPF, HD MOV, SHN, OFR, MPC, NSV, NSA, RAM, RM, RA, RMVB, SPX, AC3, DRC, and 100 more, added support for streaming Live RTSP/RTP darwin streams, Live RTSP real media streams, Live HTTP darwin streams end in an MOV file, Flash Video streaming Playback from You Tube, Daily Motion, Veoh, and other online video websites, Smooth video playback, Smooth audio playback, Extreme smooth flash video playback, Very smooth theora video playback, File Associations setup, Streaming Protocol Association setup to check and uncheck (RTSP, RTP, MMS), Added shoutcast TV and Radio Listings in Kantaris Media Player, Extreme smooth H.264 Video Playback, Extreme smooth playback of VP3, VP4, VP5, VP6, VP7, and VP8 videos, added support for playing broken AVI files and that’s it.

    17. Mikey | April 24th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

      Hopefully the next version won’t be hogging much of the computer processes; I know it’s not too much but making those visualizations take up less of the computer’s effort to run smoothly would be gr8. Otherwise keep on adding more file types and improving any video syncing and such :p

      PS. The new look is pretty cool, and necessary.

    18. alekh bhoi | April 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

      bass player ever

    19. lorenzo | May 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am

      Sooooo, when is this new version of your awesome player being released? I eagerly await.

    20. jason | May 4th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

      Dont forget to put the Name on the title bar .Then others looking at the screen can see the name of this great player.

      This is great media player .Thankyou.

    21. TDpro | May 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

      Nice media player. There are only 2 things. The visualisation is sometimes for a short time black (the buttons are then too black). I think its refreshing or someting but it’s really anoying… The other thing is that the buttons are responding a bit slow. It’s a nice media player, but I think it needs some more improvement for a world wide use like wmp or vlc.
      Thats my comment, I hope you will lurn from it.
      Much updating pleasure ^^

    22. sean_duncan | May 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pm

      I really think the UI of the current player is fantastic, I love it, and the it would be a shame to move away from it to the above pictured interface (it looks too close to a win-amp knock off) . the Current design is really slick and much better IMHO. Fantastic player regardless, great job, thanks!

    23. G L Narasimhan | May 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

      Thanks indeed for the Kantaris. I have tried various players but then Kantaris is more than satisfactory. The music visuals are terrific. Looking forward to updates.

      Best wishes.

      G L Narasimhan.

    24. Z | May 30th, 2009 at 8:25 am

      Is there any way to make the player window always on top? VLC has this option and I really miss it in Kantaris.

    25. Evert | June 3rd, 2009 at 9:47 am

      Also looking forward to this release which you hope to release in February… 2010? ;-)

      (Keep up the good work!)

    26. kantaris_fan | November 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am

      think it is fantastic! Great display for the player, can play just about anything….which leads me to my next question. Is there a way to watch a flash player streaming from a website. Was thinking if you could simply right click on the flashplayer screen from the url and it would ask to open with kantaris. This feature would be great for all video formats instead of typing in the url every time to watch the streaming. Overall, a great job!!! Just add this feature and we can all be lazy and we wouldn’t have to type the url!!

    27. Christofer | December 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

      We will see on your request.
      But its quite a task from browser’s plugin/AddONs to write that.I don’t think we can support it soon.

      Thanks for you feedback

      Best Wishes,
      Sonam Singh,
      Marketing and Growth Initiatives Manager,
      Kantaris Team

    28. BA | March 8th, 2010 at 8:16 am

      Is there a slow motion button in Kantaris 0.6.4?

    29. Sonam | March 8th, 2010 at 1:36 pm

      Sorry,
      There is nothing such as slow motion right now.

      Sonam Singh,
      Kantaris Team

    30. BA | March 8th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

      Just thought since it is based on VLC it might, but thanks anyways.

    31. Paul Harrington | March 12th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

      Hey everyone, love the software, especially the apple trailer function. It’s not working so great at the moment, most of the thumbnails for the trailers are all the same. Is there a way to clear the thumbnail cache, or has apple gone and changed something on you?

      Also, can you add an option to stop the borders sliding in and out on full screen, the video resizing is a bit distracting

      Thanks!
      Paul

    32. Sonam | March 13th, 2010 at 6:06 pm

      That thumbnail issue is a bug.We will correct it.
      We will add that option in next releases if not the immediate one.

      Thanks,
      Sonam Singh,
      Kantaris Team

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