Phantom Player offers a range of practical features, making it easy to play, organize, and manage videos from your hard drive. Whether you’re watching individual videos or managing playlists, it provides a seamless experience.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Playlists: Play videos in order or randomly, with no repetitions.
- Last Played Memory: Remembers the last played playlist and video progress.
- Custom Play Order: Organize the play order to your preference.
- Video Hiding: Hide specific videos or files from a playlist.
- Automatic Video Discovery: Automatically detect new, renamed, or moved videos.
- Skip Intro/Credits: Set start and end times to skip intros or credits.
- Audio/Subtitle Defaults: Set default audio and subtitle tracks for all videos.
- Screen Saver Control: Disable screen savers while watching.
- Loop Mode: Play videos in a continuous loop.
- Rename Videos: Rename videos for a better organization & display.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: phantom-player.rsm92.fr
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Developer: Rafael Senties Martinelli
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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Hi Steve. This is cross-platform. 🙂
Hi Torin. Thanks, article updated. That might help the 26% of visitors who use Windows to visit the site.