Kantaris Media Player a free player

Kantaris is a software that based on VLC Media Player, it can play any file type you can imagine pretty much. The best thing about Kantaris is that it is suave for playing both videos and audio files. The inbuilt last.fm plug in will appeal to all the music lovers who already obsessed with this great website. Kantaris has almost all the features that you find in VLC Media Player while it tries to give a hard battle to iTunes in audio department.

Kantaris Media Player 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. It can also play DVD's and audio cd's. The player also displays some of the most beautiful music visualizations ever seen. All this is completely free.

Features:

Subtitles: The media player connects to OpenSubtitles.org and finds the subtitle that is perfectly synced with the video being played. No more searching subtitles manually! Subtitles can also be synced with the playing audio.

Visualizations: This is one area of Kantaris that demands a special mention. It offers 4 super cool and extremely colourful visualizations (Acidspunk, Cosmic Belt, Rabitt Hole, Xoo) that adds a touch of exquisiteness to your music.

Skins: It has a cool and modern default skin that stands out. The development team is planning to implement a new feature to design skins rather easily so that users don't have to code anything at all and skins can be made using just Photoshop.

Add-On's: Users with programming skills can easily add new features to Kantaris in the upcoming version.

Pros

Good looking interface
Many formats supported
Nice visualization effects
Plays video files inside RAR archives
Sutitle matching from OpenSubtitles.org
Organise local movies with 3D effects
Watch videos of latest movies from Apple Move Trailers
Search and play music directly from web from user created playlists

Cons
No short seeking button available
Only few configuration options available
Assigning tags and creating intelligent playlists.

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