Kawaii-Player – media player based on mpv and MPlayer

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.

Features include:

• 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
Support:
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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