Kantaris is versatile player that can play almost anything.
It’s been almost exactly two months since version 0.3.4 and this is what I’ve been working on.
•Playback of all audio-CDs should now finally work.
•Seeking in MPEG-2 files fixed.
•Much better RAR support. Can now play most rar-archives containing video instantly without any unpacking and being able to seek in the file like it’s unpacked. I think this is a unique feature that no other player for windows has. I know that XBMC for Xbox can do the same.
•Automatically identifying a movie and listing subtitles for it available at opensubtitles.com also automatically downloads the subtitle of choice. This might also be a unique feature. :D
•A few other bug-fixes.
Getting support for subtitles with character encoding which are different from western standards and not Unicode proved to be more difficult than expected so I wasn't able to finish it in this release. Hopefully a new version with this feature added will be out already this week.
Also I like to mention that Kantaris was featured on TechTV on a show named "The Lab with Leo Laporte" and they said some very nice things about the player. :D The show airs in Canada and Australia
You can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86P_lowL8aE