Kantera is an audio/video player that can handle all of the same media formats as VLC and then some. It features an attractive skin, some trippy audio visualizations, and integration with Last.fm and Apple movies trailers. While the Kantera homepage touts the program's ability to handle audio codecs that VLC won't normally play, we've never had any problem opening WMA or other closed source file formats with VLC.
Kantaris doesn't appear to have support for hotkeys yet, which is a bit of a drawback. But version 0.3.0 which was released this week adds support for playing archived RAR files without extracting them first which is a pretty awesome feature. Kantaris is only available for Windows, but the source code is available so we wouldn't be surprised to see a Mac or Linux port sometime down the road.
[via Sourceforge]
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1-23-2008 @ 2:05PM
kevjohn said...
Uhh, the sparsity and simplicity is one of the things I really like about VLC! It's never captured the championship title of being my Favorite Media Player (that usually goes to Zplayer), but it does indeed play darn near everything I've ever thrown at it. So I will usually use it after my chosen program fails to successfully play a file, and VLC doesn't strain the meager resources my budget pc's (which is all I usually need) tend to have.
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1-23-2008 @ 2:06PM
Geoff Oliver said...
It's VLC with a pretty face and absolutely NO options. Not so impressed.
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1-23-2008 @ 8:59PM
msfeldstein said...
"Pretty" is a pretty subjective statement
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1-24-2008 @ 8:12PM
Timon said...
In my opinion I don't consider this pretty. It's the Windows Media Player kind of interface, which we all know isn't pretty. It's decent but needs a little more work on the interface.
I'd like it to work on Linux and if not, work on older versions of Windows.
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