Daikhan is billed as a media player for the modern desktop. It offers keyboard shortcuts, session restore capabilities, and much more.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Play/pause, next/prev, volume control, seeking, etc.
- Audio/video/subtitle track selection.
- Repeat (single file / whole queue).
- Remember last playback position for each file.
- Remember audio/video/subtitle track selection for each file.
- Remember player state (restore session).
- Move window by dragging from the video area.
- Drop files into the video area to play them.
- Replay previous queue simply by hitting play.
Website: gitlab.com/daikhan/daikhan
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Developer: Mazhar Hussain
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Daikhan is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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