Despite the fact that we are well into summer and the temperature here in Barcelona has been routinely exceeding 35ºC, the Moovida team has been far from siesta mode (siestas are only a Spanish myth). The latest release of Moovida (2.0.0.15.) is now available for download and includes important new features and performance tweaks, which might just help ease your World Cup comedown.

New Features

• DVD Disc Support
• Partial support for Audio CD playback and ripping

User Interface

• Drag & drop to add files to playlist
• Error messages appear in case GStreamer fails
• New widget for audio stream switching in the main UI: select from various audio tracks imbedded in your video file (as seen in top right of screenshot below)

Tweaks

• Optimized run time (quicker start)
• Resolved issues for video playback on Windows XP
• Support for .NET 2.0

Beat the heat and cure your World Cup hangover with Moovida and these football documentary DVDs.

So this feature has been requested quite a bit, and now it’s possible with Moovida Core: Bookmarking.

So what’s the use of Bookmarking you say? It allows you to save a specific moment in your film or track, so you can pick up from where you left off when reopening Moovida. The feature is specially useful for saving the end of your movie for another day.

As for me, I love bookmarking my favourite movie scenes for whenever I’m in the mood to revisit them, instead of rummaging through a YouTube search. You’ll probably recognize a few of these scenes which I love having just a click (or two) away.

• Office Space – 53:20 – Print machine payback
• The Hangover – 24:30 – Wolf pack speech
• Trainspotting – 8:30 – Travis goes swimming (viewer discretion advised)
• Taxi Driver – 1:03:00 – “You talkin’ to me?”
• Napoleon Dynamite – 7:00 – “Can you bring me my chapstick?”

Do you have any bookmarks worth sharing?

One of the limitations with currently available players is that they can only reproduce a few file formats, a real source of frustration when you want to play all your mpeg, mp4, mov, avi, ogg, divx movie files from a simple app that neatly organizes your media library.

Moovida Core does all this and more. It will play most file formats, with the exception of DRM protected files that are impossible for us to support. If you’re annoyed that you can’t play DRM files with Moovida, check out this site which promotes a DRM-free lifestyle. You’ll get all the tips to avoid DRM media, giving you more power over your music downloads. It’s a bit tricky to find as many resources for free and legal video, however the Entertainment Magazine has a good selection of classics that are now part of the public domain.

Here are some other noteworthy sources you should check out to load Moovida up with free and legal downloads:

• Mashable lists a bunch of different free and legal download sites
• Sitepoint goes over a long list of creative common sources for media, including Jamendo
• Creative Commons is also a great place to find the latest CC-licensed films

Playing all your DRM-free formats has never been easier with Moovida.