Moov, the new name and design of Elisa Media Center (Screencast)
June 30, 2009
Moov is the new name of the old Elisa Media Center. The change is not only in name, but it also comes with a total redesign of the application and a new user interface for managing libraries of multimedia computer.
The design in the program is based on a horizontal carousel from which to access all multimedia collections stored on your computer, making click to extremes in order to “give back” by all . Has been taken into account the end use of such applications, creating a user interface with and very large blocks spaced , using many images for anything but refresh the navigation in the application. Now the mouse pointer leaves a bright halo around the button that goes beyond creating a very original.
The features have not been away much of the previous version, while the yield in general media center has improved a lot and have incorporated some New Features with the plugins. The application code has been created keeping in mind the possibility of to expand the services on the media center through ins , but for now not much truth is they all work really well. Install and maintain a new official plugin is easy and completely transparent to the user only need to access the appropriate section and click on “download / install” or “update.”
Managing the music Moov is really comfortable with, he just crawls the entire collection for audio files and organizes them as albums, downloading their covers and some information about the author. The user has available, through a nice interface, all the important controls and may need to listen to your music, access to albums, artists, genres, creating playlists …
One detail that I loved is that Moov detects when a video is a movie or when it is a series Organizing perfectly each in its corresponding section. But do not stop there, but if a chapter in a series, it will automatically create a new entry for that series and another for the season to which this episode. In this way, it’s really easy to navigate through the collection of series, seasons and chapters .
It uses the internet constantly for download data movies, series and music. In fact, to not only download videos but also covers its other images that appear on the bottom of the screen to decorate your application. By accessing information from a film or chapter of a series, a box appears with the overview, the list of actors and other information that may be of interest to the user.
The photos are also very well managed, can visualize the different albums of photos as thumbnails or as a list in chronological order. For slideshows, while sounds can play any song of substance, and there are four different effects for transitions between images, as well as one additional tool to rotate an image in any direction.
As for the plugins Moov comes with many of them activated by default. View videos of Youtube is very simple and can access the functions typical of the portal (lists most popular, newest, most commented, etc) and even searching by keyword and then choose one of the videos and upload it automatically en Streaming . For music and photos the same portals as Jamendo or Flickr are fully integrated with media center to access all its contents. Other sites such as DeviantArt also have their own complement, which can be activated quickly from the “plugins available.”
As a formats and codecs it is more likely to have no problem because Moov emphasizes that virtually all of them are supported. Allows playback of DVD and high-definition videos, as well as automatic loading of subtitles and language selection in the case of individual videos.
In the section Network Peripherals and is where you can configured directories with media that the application should check to be executed, the networked computers who have some shared directory or including the exploration of external connected to the computer, such as pendrives or external hard drives.
In short, Moov is not just a name change but also a brilliant novel interface redesign with a very clear and easy to use, with a very high volume of automatic actions and details that make it easy to multimedia collections management by the user, a media center that is recognized as one of the best in its class for environments GNU / Linux and Windows .
Video | Youtube
Link | Moov
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