Phantom Player is a simple but smart video player. It can play single videos or reproduce and organize lists of videos from a hard-drive.

Some of its major features are:

Play lists of videos in order or randomly (without repeating videos).
Remember the last played playlist, and the videos progress.
Organize the play order.
Hide videos or files.
Automatically discover new/renamed/moved videos.
Set a start/end time to skip the introduction/credits.
Set the default audio/subtitle track.
Turn off the screensaver while playing.
Keep playing mode.
Rename videos.
and more...

*The desktop theme defines the look and icons of the interface.

Playing single videos

It is not mandatory to create playlists, it can also play single videos.

With the desktop interface: right-click > open with > Phantom-Player (or if already configured, just with a double click).
With a command: --open-file='/path/to/file'

*If the video is in a playlist, the playlist will be selected.

Creating playlists from torrents

When it comes to torrents, the most important is to not modify the data to continue seeding. With Phantom Player, you can:

Add a parent directory and create a recursive playlist.
Add multiple directories to a playlist.
Filter the fully downloaded videos*.
Rename the videos to have a nicer look.
Automatically ignore all the non-videos files.
Automatically discover new videos.

*To exclude the partially downloaded files, they must have the *.part extension.

Organizing videos on a hard-drive

Phantom Player is great for organizing data from a hard-drive. For example, you can add the root directory of the hard-drive as a playlist path and set it as recursive. It will then scan the whole hard-drive and create a playlist with all the videos.

This will allow you to:

Identify all the videos (and their paths).
Identify the duplicated videos.
Rename videos.
Delete videos.