Elisa Media Center - Linux

admin edit - Linux to thread title

EDIT: Added feature list from website.

I just found this Media Center, it looks pretty slick but still an early version. Anyone tried it yet? It's also available for Windows, so i posted this in that forum as well. Still waiting for my AAO unfortunately.

Elisa Media Center: http://elisa.fluendo.com/home

Current Features - release 0.3.5

• Watch pictures with previews and animated slideshows[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Watch movies and video clips[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Browse music collection by artists or albums covers[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Browse internet radio and picture websites [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Audio visualization during playback [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including H.264, MPEG 2, [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska. Commercially licensed [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo. [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Autodetection of media on your network that includes:
  - Network Drives
  - Rhythmbox
  - iTunes
  - Windows Mediaplayer
  - iPods, cameras
  - USB hard drives [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Flickr integration and basic browsing[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• YouTube integration and basic browsing[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Shoutcast integration and basic browsing [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Remote control support[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• TouchScreen Support [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Samba & UPnP and DAAP shares[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Automatic updates of plugins and core[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Themes
  [/*:m:3p53ts4f]

Future Features - planned for the 0.5 release (0.5.11 now available, not sure why they say 'future features')

• Search[/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Photos
  - Previews
  - Slideshow
  - Album handling
  - Flickr
  - Share photos with friends
  - Pikeo [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Video & TV
  - Play all your videos & dvds
  - Thumbnailing
  - Subtitle support
  - Audio language selection
  - YouTube
  - DailyMotion
  - WebTV [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• Music
  - Play all your music
  - CoverArt retrieval
  - Playlist
  - Watch musicvideos for your audio tracks
  - Shoutcast: Listen to thousands of radio stations on
  - Audio visualization during playback
  [/*:m:3p53ts4f]
• And more:
  - Remote control support
  - RSS capabilities
  - Automatic media detection using gstreamer
  - Autodetection of media on your network, from network drives, Rhythmbox, iTunes, Windows Mediaplayer, etc.
  - Play media over Samba & UPnP and DAAP shares
  - Automatically detected iPods, cameras, USB hard drives, etc.
  - Automatic updates of plugins and core
  - Themes and personalization capabilities
  - TouchScreen support [/*:m:3p53ts4f]

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

I notice the current version is "Corporal Nobbs".

*must have now*

Edit: hmm, the one in the standard repository is the older 0.3x. Which complains about invalid python commands and does not start...
Let us see if compilation is the key to succes.

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

Why you do the mess?? You already add the same thread to Software-Windows!!

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

I 'do the mess' because I want to let both Linux users AND Windows user know that this software is available, as I stated in my third sentence of the post. Users who only watch the windows forum or vice-versa would otherwise not see this if I only posted on one side. If you have another means of announcing a cross-platform product in a forum that lacks a cross-platform group, by all means let me know.

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

What about general discussion?? I believe that place is for non technical subjects and your news fits there perfectly...

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

I didn't post there because that forum is for discussion about the AAO machine, in fact the mods plainly state "Discuss Aspire One laptop in general - please use this forum as a last resort if your topic isn't listed...". Elisa Media Center is software for Linux, and software for windows. Hence my reason for posting in the related forums. In no way is it a general discussion about the AAO.

I'm done arguing this point, it's fruitless and deviates from the topic. If you don't care for my posts, don't read them.

 

Re: Elisa Media Center

Any success? I can't seem to make it start either. It gets stuck after complaining about missing lirc libs. It looks really cool, if it would work.