Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows, Freeware, Open Source
Kantaris media player makes VLC pretty
by Brad Linder Jan 23rd 2008 at 1:00PM
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.
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kevjohn said 2:05PM on 1-23-2008
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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Geoff Oliver said 2:06PM on 1-23-2008
It's VLC with a pretty face and absolutely NO options. Not so impressed.
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msfeldstein said 8:59PM on 1-23-2008
"Pretty" is a pretty subjective statement
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Timon said 8:12PM on 1-24-2008
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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