kawaii-player is an audio/video player and manager with builtin media server. Media server of this application can be turned on and off with just one click anywhere and anytime without any complicated setup. Most of the media servers are normally designed to have their own dedicated server machine which are normally switched on 24x7. But this application allows user to start and create media server instance on the fly on any working computer, so that they can share media with their own other computers and devices, without involving any third party in between. And once it's done, they can switch it off.
The application has also developed the concept of universal playlist generation with mixed content (i.e local audio, local video, youtube url, addons url or even torrent stream), which once generated by media server can be played on any device, on any platform with popular clients which allows playing http streams. It doesn't perform any transcoding, since players like mpv/mplayer/vlc can play any format. Moreover vlc and kodi are available on mobile platforms also, which are able to play media without transcoding. It also features a dry and boring web interface for accessing your collection and generating universal playlist.
The application originally started as simple combined audio/video player/manager with support for custom addons. But I thought that, once our media collection is organised, there are instances when we want to access it from other devices. There are many solutions to it in the market, but I wanted a lightweight, portable and no-heavy setup kind of solution; hence I built media server within the player itself.
User can fire up media server anywhere, and can share content with other devices using wi-fi. If wi-fi is not available in particular area, then user can create their own wi-fi network, by converting any android device or computer as wi-fi hotspot.
Apart from above mentioned unique features, the application has many more features such as torrent streaming, detached video mode, youtube wrapper using qtwebengine etc.. which are not normally found in other media player applications, which users can explore by following README of the project page.
PS: When I started writing the application, I knew nothing about python and ecosystem surrounding it. I just wanted to create a simple gui based native application quickly for my personal use only. I had no intention of writing some 30k lines of code with so many features. But once I started, I could not resist adding more and more features, since I was really having fun with python!!. Due to some bad design choices and my lack of knowledge about python and it's ecosystem in the beginning, the code has become unmageable and messy, which will make it difficult to add new features unless I refactor the code properly. But the programme is currently working as expected on my system. And theoretically the application can be installed on any system which supports installation of python-3.5+ and pyqt5-5.5+.
The application has also developed the concept of universal playlist generation with mixed content (i.e local audio, local video, youtube url, addons url or even torrent stream), which once generated by media server can be played on any device, on any platform with popular clients which allows playing http streams. It doesn't perform any transcoding, since players like mpv/mplayer/vlc can play any format. Moreover vlc and kodi are available on mobile platforms also, which are able to play media without transcoding. It also features a dry and boring web interface for accessing your collection and generating universal playlist.
The application originally started as simple combined audio/video player/manager with support for custom addons. But I thought that, once our media collection is organised, there are instances when we want to access it from other devices. There are many solutions to it in the market, but I wanted a lightweight, portable and no-heavy setup kind of solution; hence I built media server within the player itself.
User can fire up media server anywhere, and can share content with other devices using wi-fi. If wi-fi is not available in particular area, then user can create their own wi-fi network, by converting any android device or computer as wi-fi hotspot.
Apart from above mentioned unique features, the application has many more features such as torrent streaming, detached video mode, youtube wrapper using qtwebengine etc.. which are not normally found in other media player applications, which users can explore by following README of the project page.
PS: When I started writing the application, I knew nothing about python and ecosystem surrounding it. I just wanted to create a simple gui based native application quickly for my personal use only. I had no intention of writing some 30k lines of code with so many features. But once I started, I could not resist adding more and more features, since I was really having fun with python!!. Due to some bad design choices and my lack of knowledge about python and it's ecosystem in the beginning, the code has become unmageable and messy, which will make it difficult to add new features unless I refactor the code properly. But the programme is currently working as expected on my system. And theoretically the application can be installed on any system which supports installation of python-3.5+ and pyqt5-5.5+.