Arte, the award winning plugin (as in Moovida’s developer contest award), has been recently upgraded to support videos from the site in German. The plugin reserved for French and Germans will automatically detect in which region users are located to play the corresponding language. If you’re in bizarro world and wish to view videos in the other language, for example a French person living in Germany (crazy!), you can simply change the option in the plugin’s configuration file.

Big thanks to community developer Guillaume Desmottes for this latest plugin release.

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!

My name is Michał Sawicz, you can find me on Moovida’s IRC, Forums, etc., where I come by the nickname of Saviq. I live in Wroclaw, Poland and I’ve been a Linux admin / user for about ten years now (almost half of my life ). I have since become an eager FOSS enthusiast and evangelist. I’ve done my share in translations at first and then started to properly contribute as much I can to many different open projects I’m fond of. Moovida is the first big project I get my hands on. Coming from translation, my initial focus was to get Moovida properly internationalized. The project is also my training background in Python, as most of my knowledge of it came from working with Elisa and Moovida. I really like the project and will try and keep ‘em  [plugins] coming

Michal is Moovida’s most active and prolific Forum member and moderator, and is responsible for the Vimeo, CNN and We Are Hunted plugins on Moovida.

Moovida’s first dev contest was a great success. Four new plugins were developed, giving Moovida users access to some great new content. Here are the winners:

• 1st place prize goes to Guillaume Desmottes from Belgium for developing Arte
• 2nd and 3rd place prizes go to Michal Sawicz from Poland, Moovida’s steadfast community member and most active Forum moderator, for his Vimeo and CNN plugins

Although We Are Hunted trailed behind, that plugin got my vote…

I will let the guys introduce themselves in an upcoming post. On behalf of the whole Moovida community, let me just say a big thank you to both for all your great contributions, and keep the great plugins coming!

As you may have already noticed in an earlier post, Moovida’s dev contest brought some goodies to its user community, namely with the Vimeo plugin.

You’re most likely already familiar with Vimeo, YouTube’s younger, more attractive and less trashy sibling.  Why less trashy? Maybe because Vimeo has strict upload guidelines, and was created by a community of artists.

So yesterday while I was perusing through the Vimeo plugin on Moovida, I came across some good recommended content, like NIN in concert. Cool beans. Image quality is great, and when searching for videos, both Vimeo and YouTube results appear, just in case you wouldn’t find anything in Vimeo (which would be my first choice for the reasons mentioned above). If you’re feeling uninspired, I’d suggested checking out the videos from the always entertaining Montreal based electrofunk duo Chromeo:

Chromeo “Night By Night” Video

Chromeo “Fancy Footwork” Video

Congratulations are in order for Michał Sawicz, Moovida’s tireless community member responsible  for the Vimeo, CNN and We Are Hunted plugins. To show your appreciation for his work and for bettering the lives of Moovidamankind, vote for Michal’s Vimeo plugin.

Remember that development contest we announced a while back? It was decided the Moovida community would determine the winners [1], and now has come the time to act.

Here are the contenders:

• Arte [2]
• CNN
• Vimeo
• We Are Hunted

The criteria to help guide your decision should be:

• Functionality: Does it work the way you want it to? If not, make sure to recommend improvements on our Forum, or report the bug
• Value: Do you dig the content and are you likely to use this plugin?

These plugins are now available, so if it’s not already done, install Moovida now and start enjoying the new content!

Vote for your favourite plugin until December 15th, 11:59 pm CET in the poll below.

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Good luck to our participants!

[1] 1st place plugin developer takes home the 1st prize, 2nd place plugin developer gets the 2nd place prize… you get the point

[2] Arte.tv only makes news content available to all, the rest of the content is restricted to France and Germany