Wish to have VLC’s Powerful Playback Features with WMP like User Interface? Get Kantaris Media Player for Windows

Posted by dkszone on November 2, 2009

When it comes to choosing a Media player, the most important feature you should be looking for is it’s ability to play all kinds of media formats. A good multimedia player supports a wide array of codecs and does not need you to install any separately. This is why VLC is one of the most popular media players.

On the other hand, when it comes to GUI and usability many users prefer to use Windows Media Player due to it’s easy to use tabbed interface and media library. What if you could get the best of both worlds?
Kantaris Media Player is an open source software based on the VideoLan project (VLC) and Bass audio library. It’s intuitive, easy to use and sleek user interface design is similar to WMP, thus giving all the advanced playback functionality of VLC for basic users.

Apart from VLC’s extensive playback functionality and Windows Media Player’s easy to browse library interface, Kantaris brings it’s own set of unique features to media lovers. Some of it’s interesting features include automatic subtitle discovery by connecting to an online database, playing of media from RAR archives without extraction, some stunning audio visualizations, integrated radio (Last.fm) and movie trailers (Apple). Kantaris can play DVDs as well as audio CDs.

Kantaris Media Player supports all available audio and video formats including AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, QuickTime, matroska, DivX, xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, OGG etc. All in all, a good media player for basic users. Advanced users however will find it short of both VLC or WMP, given it’s lack of capability such as ripping/burning audio CDs (WMP) or converting between different media formats (VLC).