Moovida – Feature rich Media Centre for Windows

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Moovida, previously known as Elisa is a free open source media player for Windows and Linux. Moovida brings together all your movies, music, TV shows, tunes and photos , internet videos/music/images etc in one simple innovative interface making it more a feature rich Media Center than a simple Media player. You can play all your media on your PC, Laptop or even your HDTV.

Features include,

General
Share your media from your computer on your TV with Interface is optimized for television viewing
Remote control support, Optimized navigation for simple remotes with 5 buttons
Automatic media detection like iPods, cameras, USB hard drives, and other peripheral devices
Automatic updates of plugins and core software
Search your favorite artists, songs, movies, TV shows or your own pictures.

Pictures
Thumbnail Previews, Animated slideshows with extensible effects, Album handling, Organizes pictures by date/viewing, Image controles
Full-screen display of all supported picture and image formats via a TV
Play music while watching your pictures
Recognize digital cameras and other plug-and-play devices

Movies & TV Shows
Full HD support with HD backgrounds (fan art) for all of your movies & TV shows
Play all your videos & dvds (all formats)
Organizes your video files into movies and TV shows and TV shows into seasons and episodes, favorite videos, automatic playlists based on viewing, Actor list, Plot synopsis and additional info for all movies & TV shows,
Streaming over network
Subtitle support, Audio language selection for DVDs
Access online video content like YouTube, Balzac, Onion News Network, TED, Game Trailers, Powell Skateboard Video podcast, Discovery Channel News, Apple Movie Trailers, Qik Mobile Videos, RTBF, Flemish TV with plugins
Supported video codecs: mpeg1, mpeg2, vp6, svq3, mpeg4, h264, h263, theora, wmv
Supported video containers: avi, asf, mov, ogg(ogg,ogv,ogm), matroska(mkv), flv(flash video), mpeg
Supported subtitle formats: srt, ssa, subtitles included in supported containers

Music
Organizes your music according to artists, albums, genres, time periods and alphabetical order
Album art downloads automatically
Stream music and add audio from networked systems
Manage your favorites by Artist, Albums, Tracks and Radios
Automatic playlists of recently played, most played and recently added tracks
Integrate your library with online content services like Shoutcast, Grooveshark, Yes.fm, RTBF radio, flemish radio
Supported audio codecs: mp3, ac3, aac, dts, vorbis, flac, wma

Download & Install

Click here to download the Moovida Media centre and install on your Windows PC. Once, installed, Moovida with start scanning the default directories for media and pictures on the system. You can also add stores from the local or remote systems on the network to be scanned.

Once done, the videos, audios, images etc should be available under the libraries which you can then use in your own playlists.

Internet vidoes, audios, pictures can be viewed using the respective plugins installed.

Moovida has to be rated to be one of the best Media Centres available out there.  Click here to visit the project home.