Presenting Moovida dev contest’s 1st place winner

My name is Guillaume; I’m a 25-year-old Belgian Free software hacker currently living in Cambridge UK.

This TV is perfectly timed, as my old TV just stopped working 2 weeks ago.

My name is Guillaume; I’m a 25-year-old Belgian Free software hacker currently living in Cambridge UK. I’ve been involved in the Free Software community for more than 5 years now. Most of my contributions have been related to the GNOME desktop; for example, I wrote the Jamendo Rhythmbox plugin.

I’m working for a Free Software company called Collabora. Most of my job is to maintain Empathy, GNOME’s official chat and audio/video client.

As a GNOME enthusiast I’ve been very interested in Moovida since the beginning of the project (when it was still called Elisa). A year ago I moved from Brussels to Cambridge and wanted to continue to watch news from my country. So I started my first Elisa plugin, RTBF, to be able to watch news and listen to Belgian radio stations directly from Elisa. I continue to maintain it and try to support as much content as possible.

I was quite happy with my plugin and have been thinking for a while that it would be cool to be able to access ARTE’s video content as well.

ARTE is a a Franco-German TV network well known for its high-quality documentaries. A few weeks ago, I learned about the plugin contest and decided that it was a good time to get it done. Thanks to my previous experience and the help of the Moovida community, it only took me a few evenings of hacking to get something working.

I’d like to thank all the people who voted for me during the contest and the Moovida community for having created such a great Free media center.

I’m very happy to have won, and hope you enjoy my plugins.

If you experience any issues with them or would like to see more new features, feel free to report bugs, I’m always happy to get feedback from users.

I’m sure I’ll enjoy Moovida even more with my prize, and already have some nice ideas for future plugins.

Stay tuned!

4 Comments »

1. 

   This contest has poisoned the search engines of the internet. I have tried elisa and moovida once a year ever since project inception. As a CEDIA certified installer I am curious to see development. In each case of trying your media center it never once picked up the right file types or the terrabytes of videos on my NAS. If someone wants to improve the software allow users an ability to add locations and media for sources and then allow us the ability to correct how moovida categorized since it has never once even gotten close on the limited files it does see. This would be a contest winner. Currently anytime someone searches how to get moovida to see video on a NAS storage all they get for search results is this contest. Nice. Uninstalling moovida now since none of my mkv or m2ts files on the DLNA compliant NAS server show up anywhere. Its pretty guys but until we can get our media to show up in this thing its useless. Since this has been a problem since the first release is it possible to borrow ideas from other media center programs? All of the linux platformed media centers have always done significantly better in the task of organizing media. PS the form needs a captca. I am not signing up for yet another forum just to let developers know its not working.

   Comment by daryl — January 9, 2010 @ 17:05

2. 

   Hey Daryl,

   Thanks for the commentary. We LOVE getting feedback, even the less complimentary ones, really we do, but in order to be able to help we really need more info.

   If you cannot add your NAS storage manually from Moovida, the next best thing is to ask in our Forum: http://www.moovida.com/forums, or report the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/moovida/+filebug.

   Btw, we’re currently working on improving the media scanner significantly, which should hopefully resolve your categorization issue. Please bare with us for upgrades, as we’re a free open source software company, we cannot guarantee instant fixes for everything, but we do attend bugs. Maybe with our next version will you find it worthwhile participating in our Forums… We hope to see you there one day .

   Comment by Vober — January 12, 2010 @ 17:07

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4. 

   Dear Guillaume,
   Tout d’abord j’aimerais vous remercier énormément pour tout vos efforts !
   Actually the reason that I installed Moovida was your plugin that allows to watch ARTE 7+ as I’m leaving in Japan and I’m really missing arte, but unfortunetally after downlowding and updatings the plugins I still couldnt watch arte 7+ and still getting the geolocalization message
   I’m wondering what would be the reason?

   Voila tout, et encore Merci
   Aymen

   Comment by aymen — January 26, 2010 @ 19:31

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