Kylin Video

Kylin Video: Open-Source Video Player & Media Library Organizer

Discover the intuitive Kylin Video player, ideal for organizing and playing videos, music, and photos across multiple platforms.

What is Kylin Video?

Kylin Video is an open-source, cross-platform media player application designed to organize and play your local video, music, and photo libraries. Developed by the Kylin Video team and first released in 2008, Kylin Video aims to provide an intuitive yet powerful media management experience.

At its core, Kylin Video allows you to easily browse and search your media libraries, building automated collections based on metadata like genres, release year, actors etc. The player supports most common video, audio and image formats out of the box. There is also extension support for additional codecs or functionality.

Playback features include playlists, repeat/shuffle, audio equalizers, chapter points, subtitles and multiple audio streams. The user interface is focused on simplicity but can be extensively customized via different skins and layout options. Advanced users can tweak more complex preferences around scraping providers, transcoding tools and library automation.

In terms of organizing media, Kylin Video has robust metadata scraping capabilities to automatically pull descriptions, posters, backgrounds and other data for your library items. The information is presented through detailed catalogs with filters and virtual groupings. Sorting and tagging make it easy to handle large collections.

With its flexible yet intuitive media management capabilities, Kylin Video is a good option for those seeking an alternative to commercial products like Plex or Kodi. The open source nature provides transparency and community-driven development catering to user needs. Platform support spans Windows, macOS and Linux.

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