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Kantaris Media Player

Reply #25 –
Jesus, why are all people here in such a bad mood? It's just a 'new' player and they want some feedback. I don't see anyting bad here...

@skamp: hydrogenaudio also has a 'Digital Audio/Video'-forum, so...

@DGMurdockIII: I'd go to http://forum.doom9.org . They are more specialized on video so I think it's a better place to get some feedback.

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #26 –
Quote from: skamp on
A good plain-text configuration file with informative comments is better
Does this always apply? Surprisingly foobar2000 folks defeat the binary style of the config file. Because of the lose of trust in their users.

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #28 –
viktor, you need to relax. Go take a walk in the park and admire the trees and the flowers and the bees.

As for the skins: that wasn't the main issues. What bothers me about VLC is stuff like limited support for keyboard and mouse (and the commands than can be assigned). For example Left And Right key don't work at all on their own. I need to use alt or ctrl with them. Also, the Subtitles options are...let's say: esoteric. Pan & Scan options are also rather minimal, just some zoom options. And nothing beats the annoying bug of the maximize/restore button on playback stop which always pissed me off.

I'll give one credit to VLC: the excelent image quality when playing DVDs, even tho it can't IVTC hard-telecine discs.


And it often shows me two windows instead of one when playing DVDs.

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #29 –
viktor: the ability to skin something does not change 'some player name here' horrible logistic.
PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

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Reply #30 –
well i dont know what bad logistic a media player could have (maybe the play button is in wrong place?  ) , i usually use it for playing my files, not for gaming

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Reply #31 –
Haha, there's lots of negative vibes swingin in this thread, not to mention "interesting" syntaxing... . In any case, kudos to KANTARIS for being an open source project - something I wish FOOBAR would be... .

If you want to win over the audio crowd, you need to offer CUE support, transcoding support as well as media library options. That's just my two cents after not having actually used the tool but followed the thread a bit... .

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #32 –
Quote from: Big_Berny on
Jesus, why are all people here in such a bad mood? It's just a 'new' player and they want some feedback. I don't see anyting bad here...

@skamp: hydrogenaudio also has a 'Digital Audio/Video'-forum, so...

@DGMurdockIII: I'd go to http://forum.doom9.org . They are more specialized on video so I think it's a better place to get some feedback.


we will get feedback there

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #33 –
Kantaris 0.3.8a finally released - http://www.kantaris.org/

Development of this version took much longer time than he originally expected. The reason for this is that he started working on several new features at ones. Not all of these features are in version 0.3.8a because then he would have needed another month before he could do a release. The main new features in 0.3.8a are a multi-language GUI and a video library browser. Kantaris 0.3.8a has support for English, Swedish and Russian and I’m hoping that you will help to translate it to other languages as well. The video library feature is made using DirectX and looks like a 3d wall made up of movie posters (see picture). Lastly, 0.3.8a also of course contains some other smaller improvements and bug-fixes compared to 0.3.7. If you wonder why the version is named 0.3.8a instead of 0.3.8 it’s because he forgot to fix one thing before uploading 0.3.8.

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Reply #34 –
changelog?
PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

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Reply #35 –
Also note that VLC has got a new Qt based GUI coming up in VLC 0.9. You can have a look at it by testing the VLC Nightlies.

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #36 –
I'm a VLC user. I currently only use vlc for playing video, but would very much appreciate an alternative that could also manage a music library and had a better UI.

Quote from: DGMurdockIII on
we did not say music play we said media player
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Kantaris Media Player aims to be an all-in-one media player that provides a great audio and video experience. Kantaris is an open-source alternative to Windows Media Player

Your claim seems to totally contradict the website's. As far as I know, WMP puts as much focus on audio as on video.


A "features" page on the web site would be nice. I'm not persuaded enough by the little info I could find to actually install and try it out. From the screenshots I can guess that it might have better usability. Hard to tell though if I have more to gain than just eye candy. (...not being interested in visualizations, last.fm, or Apple movies trailers)


Also, my interest fades a bit when a PR person can not communicate clearly. The broken english and "IM chat" style of speaking is a major turn-off. I would not want you as my product representative. I understand that english might not be your first language, and that you're trying to be helpful. But I really think more effort should be given...

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #37 –
Um.. I personally would really like a consistent look with the rest of the windows. Generally the media player looks unpolished and rough. The main playback interface, for example: i really hate the "3d" buttons. Reminds me of an old cassette player . And the playback controls bar is too big.
I know the UI might not be the most important thing for you guys but I just can't help but notice it. I'd prefer a clean, simple and smooth design over the current one.

I do like the location and the look of the playlist, but since everything else looks too big, the general appearance looks kind of rough and bloated .
Stick with a consistent design and don't make too much new bars for new buttons. I would even like the design if everything looks similar to the playlist (buttons and frames etc.)

Also, a media library would be a good thing to have: If I really would want to use it as a primary media player, I couldn't live without the library management system. Make it simple, yet functional enough for most users.

When i start up the player, the title bar shows: 23:59:59 - 23:59:59
It takes a while to open a video file, more than on most players.
There's a minor UI glitch when hovering the "save playlist" button in the playlist window.
When last.fm track changes (I haven't tried local files yet), the visualization stops and resets and the album art and title window looks laggy for a while. I'd like it to fade in/out smoothly.
Filetype icons are ugly but that can be ćhanged in the future

Last.fm playback is nice. especially the fact that you can see tracks in the playlist. Plus seeking (wtf). You could do the last.fm search bar a little smaller and stick it to a corner. And display album art and artist description in the center, like in the default last.fm player.

I really like the visualizations but I don't really use them usually.
But i might cause they are AWESOME. all that lines and stuff... You could take some ideas for the UI from there, although I'm not sure that everybody would like it. But it would give your player some character

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #38 –
new version is out if you want to check it out

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Reply #39 –
I use GOM, Foobar and MPC. Also have PowerDVD 8, but very rare used it, I bought it for his H.264 decoder that support hardware acceleration, and use it in MPC :-)
As for Kantaris, I don't see any unique features...

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Reply #40 –
kantaris was recently updated it was just a bug fix build to fix some bug that wiere still in the player http://www.kantaris.org/

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Reply #41 –
The player has been update alot since i last posted in here some of the changes are

  * New faster GUI
  * Support for Real Video files
  * New Skin
  * Improved RAR archives support
  * Added option to set default aspect and crop ratio

http://www.kantaris.org/

Kantaris Media Player

Reply #42 –
Great  I worked with that guy (Christofer) when i was a student in Sweden for a year. Nice to see he developped such a good player. I'm glad to give it a try !

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Reply #43 –
im one him main beta testes

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Reply #44 –
The player has been update alot since i last posted in here some of the changes are

* Updated to vlc 0.9.9 source code
* New faster GUI
* Support for Real Video files
* New Skin by Jonathan Blois
* Improved RAR archives support
* Added option to set default aspect and crop ratio
* Remembers window position and size

http://www.kantaris.org/

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Reply #45 –
check out the new verson

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Reply #46 –
it has been updated if you want to try ti again

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Reply #47 –
VLC is still much better