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- Laterix, on 01/09/2008, -1/+41Heh, I'm the author of the Entertainer project. My website host contacted me and told me that my site is under ddos attack. It turned out that it was just Digg. :D Anyway, thanks for your interest in my project. It's still under heavy development, but I feel that it has some potential. Anyway, the site will be up after my host solves this small issue.
PS. Someone was talking about display drivers. Yes, Entertainer requires drivers just like Elisa does, because it uses OpenGL to render the UI. - n8r0n, on 01/09/2008, -0/+23That UI is pretty slick...
- conley, on 01/09/2008, -1/+23Looks like XBMC, which is currently my ultimate media center.
- FatherG, on 01/09/2008, -0/+20Page is down, found this preview on youtube though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0QlWOddnQ
Anyone have an alt download link? Sourceforge maybe? - ArthurSucks, on 01/09/2008, -1/+17Hopefully it don't require 3D drivers like elisa does. (BTW elisa is also a great app)
- Philluminati, on 01/09/2008, -0/+15It's really nice to see a UML diagram in a piece of open source software.
- NTolerance, on 01/09/2008, -0/+151. Gnome update manager notifies you of updates to mythtv.
2. Gnome update manager downloads the update after you click "install" and enter your root password
3. Computer doesn't restart, fin. - bsddork, on 01/09/2008, -1/+14Step 1: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Step 2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186 ...
Step 3: No more dumb audio ads!!! - simmonsdd, on 01/09/2008, -5/+16New completely annoying *Audio* on ads for digg.com. It's just ***** rude. not to mention that only retards actually think they are getting two free ipod nanos.
Sorry dudes, you need to cut that ***** out, or you'll be cut out of my rss feeds. regular ads OK, audio NOT.
First warning. - bsddork, on 01/09/2008, -0/+10Found some screenshots on Flickr...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9111235@N06/ - littlebear, on 01/09/2008, -0/+9You can install XBMC on a Linux machine, http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/forumdisplay. ...
- rediculous, on 01/09/2008, -5/+12kinda reminds me of GB-PVR
problem with just about ANY Linux media center solution is the back breaking hours and hours of configuration and tweaking. Basically, media center in Linux is a hobby, not means to an end. - yetAnotherCroc, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7Well the goal for Entertainer is that it should basically be a matter of:
1) Install
2)Run
3)Set media folders
4)Enjoy your media - Laterix, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7There is no release yet, so there are no packages. I won't make release before I feel that it's usable for real use. At the moment it's not ready for every day use. I will create a deb packages when it's ready for that. Well, I can't promise that it gets ready before 8.04 is out. Unfortunately I'm very busy at work and I have to do long days. That's not good for development speed. Luckily few people have contacted me and they are willing to help me with this!
- balazsbela, on 01/09/2008, -3/+10What about LinuxMCE?
- Orion682, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7Thank the gods, I hope they have a good development pace. I've resorted to using Windows MCE on my set-top boxes after trying MythTV, My Media System, MediaPortal, and an assortment of other MC applications. None of them were effective for my purposes, and so I've just setup WMCE and have been waiting for something like this to come along. Here's to hoping I can switch soon :)
- burrgrinder, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5Don't know why you're dugg down. People shouldn't have to block ads because they're noisy.
Sound producing ads are just rude and invasive, and probably cause the loss of more ad revenue than they gain, as they're the main thing that drives people to blocking ALL ads. - temsi, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5love xbmc, but the hardware limitations are a drag... can't really play any of my HD content.
if someone makes an equivalent for the xbox360 or the ps3, I'm all over it.
until then, I have to use a PC powerful enough to play 1080p .h264. - manicallday, on 01/09/2008, -1/+6Google Cache:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:ZGkRMTjfbX8J: ... - Theli, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5It's nice to see some new Linux based media centers be made available.
Thank you. - bsddork, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4Taken from Ubuntu Forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610860 ).. ...
Entertainer is a GTK-based media center application which uses Clutter library for beautiful OpenGL GUI. Multimedia is handeled with a great gstreamer backend. This combination provides support for large variety of codecs and eye-pleasing UI. Entertainer has seperated backend and frontend processes. Backend is responsible of indexing media, recording TV, updateing RSS feeds and stuff like that. Frontend is mainly just a GUI to media cache. - cawpin, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Shouldn't have to do it!
- Laterix, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4Yes. It uses gstreamer as multimedia backed. This means that it playes all video that gstreamer supports.
- onionizer, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Me likes it!
- CCB0x45, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4What idiots are digging him down? Looks like a cool interface, ill keep using mythtv until something has the PVR features of that, but I really want a better music solution than mythtvs, mythtv's is absolutely terrible.
- rh387, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3thats the first thing that came to my mind too
- KineticShampoo, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3That looks incredibly sexy. I can't wait for it to come out. It looks somethign straight out of a movie.
Anyone know if there will eb a color selection available? - asaturn, on 01/09/2008, -2/+5it doesn't play live TV from a tuner card yet.
- moghua, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Weird, when I do an upgrade of MythTV, I type "svn update" then "make" and finally "make install". Then I restart the frontend and backend and the upgrade is done. Out of curiosity, what is the process to upgrade from one version of WMC to another?
- cawpin, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Why would you have to re-tweak after an upgrade? It saves your settings automatically and you can back them up and manually restore them too.
- codelogic, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3XBMC is not based on Python, it is written in C++. XBMC however supports Python scripts that can run from inside it.
- codelogic, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3MediaPortal is Windows only.
- simmonsdd, on 01/09/2008, -2/+4Thanks!
- yetAnotherCroc, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2It is skinable. So you can pretty much change all the UI elements to pixmaps of your choosing
- yetAnotherCroc, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Its Linux! Anything is possible. Don't know the internal workings of Linux that well myself, but I imagine one could take something like Puppy Linux and strip it down to the bare essentials. As long as it has clutterUI and GTK
- steki, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Sorry but you are wrong :) (explanation follows...)
PS3 has one PowerPC core and 8 SPE "engines" SPE="Synergistic Processing Elements" so basically you can use only this powerPC core for any purpose and this is exactly what Linux can run on.
In the end we can say you are partially right :)
P.S. Read about it here http://en.opensuse.org/PS3 - inactive, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2wow that looks extremely slick
wish the site was up i really want to check that out - lynx44, on 01/09/2008, -1/+3I don't get why we keep getting these new media center applications for Linux. Its good to have some competetion I suppose, but MythTV is already pretty mature, why wouldn't these developers put their effort toward that application? I totally agree that it needs some updates, but updating Myth would certainly take less time than rewriting an entirely new application. Just doesn't make sense to me.
- mossblaser, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Its python, so long as all the libraries it uses will compile on PPC then it should work as expected!
- EnderTheThird, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2While I agree that the MythTV UI for handling Music is awful, when I thought about it there really isn't a great way to handle larger collections when you just have a d-pad and an OK button (main buttons on your remote), which is what most people will be using if they have an HTPC running. I'm definitely hoping someone can prove me wrong though. The Music UI in MythTV has always been a pain. :-/
- Ashex, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Screenshots of Entertainer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9111235@N06/tags/ente ...
- noisymime, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2There's a similar piece of work going on to create an alternative Mythtv frontend using the same Clutter framework: http://code.google.com/p/gloss-mc/
- yetAnotherCroc, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Don't expect full functionality yet. It does play videos and stuff. But is is still really buggy in some ways and is lacking a lot of functionality. On the other hand it doesn't even have a version number yet:P Its only on its 6th code revision.
- maximm, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2yeah hopefully it doesn't just arbitrarily wipe your hard drive like LinuxMCE. You would figure clicking to the install wouldn't just immediately wipe your drives and repartition them. I had expected disk druid or something.
- geoken, on 02/09/2008, -0/+1Wierd, when I threw Vista on my brothers XP MCE box (he was extending to a 360 and wanted the nice, new UI) the proccess of upgrading from XP MCE to Vista MCE was a lot more complicated than what you just explained.
- craigyjack, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1PS3 isnt PPC, its uses the Cell processor. So yeah, if the libraries compile for the Cell processor.
- catch-22, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2I'd recommend giving MediaPortal a shot. It's made by the creator of XBMC. I've been using it on my HTPC for a few months, and love it.
- MikeCerm, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1It looks exactly like Vista Media Center, except black. That's fine, because Vista's Media Center interface is great.
- amoore260, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Makes some debs the source files using brz don't work for me. Any chance this will be in the repos for 8.04?
- pandorazboxx, on 01/09/2008, -2/+3I want that to happen! Are there plans for it to do that?
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