Kawaii-Player is a multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature.
The software has some unique attributes such as the ability to directly watch video within thumbnails.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Combine Audio-Video Player and Manager.
- Bookmark and categorize series in the library (like Watching, Incomplete, Interesting etc.).
- Audio-Video management functionalities using sqlite3.
- Custom Addons Support for viewing content of various sites directly on the player.
- Support for downloading fanart/posters and other information such as summary or biography from internet sites such as TVDB and last.fm.
- Thumbnail Grid Mode Support.
- Internal web browser with custom right click menu for manually downloading desired fanart and poster for library collection.
- System Tray Support.
- MPRIS2 support and integration with sound menu applet.
- Custom Playlist and queueing support.
- Remembers most of the last settings, and can opens up directly last watched series in the library.
- Special Minimal Mode Music Player for listening only music (Available in System Tray context menu).
- History Manager for both addons and local content.
- mplayer/mpv internal player.
- Better buffer management for mplayer on low bandwidth network.
- Support for opening video in external players like vlc, smplayer or kodi.
- Torrent streaming player/server.
- Media Server Capability.
- Headless Media Server mode using Xvfb.
- YouTube wrapper using qtwebengine/qtwebkit.
- Detached Video (Picture in Picture) Mode.
- Universal Playlist Generation.
- Web Interface for accessing media server content.
- PC-To-PC Casting.
- Browser-To-PC Casting.
- Remote Control using web interface.
- Peer to Peer Mode.
- Available in three themes including dark and system theme.
- Gapless Playback of Network Streams.
- Live Seekbar Preview.
Website: github.com/kanishka-linux/kawaii-player
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Developer: AAK
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Kawaii-Player is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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