Moovida, a polished media centre application for the Windows or Linux desktop. Formally known as Elisa, Moovida is a powerful and user friendly Media Centre, which includes many useful features such as internet streaming videos, music and movie libraries and automatic media tagging, thus keeping your collection sorted and correctly labelled. Further more Moovida has been optimized for HDTV formats enabling the playback of movies and other media in HD quality.A media centre: A computer connected to a TV or any other display that allows for the storage, playback and archiving of various media formats. Moovida runs effortlessly on most Windows and Linux systems.

The Moovida Media Browser

The user interface was designed with ease of operation in mind as media centres are generally intended to be operated via a remote control. The main screen or dashboard of Moovida is a series of columns detailing the various media types and possible playback and viewing options.

Library

Moovida catalogues your media in a library format, be it music, movies or TV shows, it sorts into Albums, seasons or titles. This is especially useful for those who hoard TV series as Moovida makes it exceptionally easy to access all seasons of your favourite TV show with a few clicks.

Playback

Moovida, as mentioned above, is designed for easy navigation with a variety of devices, it therefore includes an informative control bar interface while in playback, allowing for full control of the media while being played, or the ability to browse the system without interrupting the media that is being played.

Extensions and Internet Media

Supposedly a media centre isn’t quite complete without networking capabilities. Moovida includes several plugins by default that enables you to access Flickr, YouTube and many other content straight off the internet. Moovida is an extensible media centre, meaning that new services and features can easily be added by third party developers.

See here for details on how to install Moovida on your Ubuntu Linux PC

Currently at version 1.0.9, Moovida is an open source application, licensed under the general public license, allowing you to enjoy this fantastic application freely.

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