Elisa : All in One Media Center

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Elisa is an open source media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

On the DVD : 3D OS Standard + Warnet Edition
Menu : Start > Multimedia > Elisa Media Center

Features:

• Movies - Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online.
• Music - Manage your music collection by artists or album covers.
• Peripheral Devices - Automatically detects iPods, cameras, hard drives, etc…
• Pictures - Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.
• Fully Networked - Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.
• Internet - Everything from Flickr to Youtube and other popular internet services.

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PyTube - All in One Video Tool

PyTube - Search, Download and Convert Videos

Looking for an easy to use tool for downloading videos from YouTube ? You can use PyTube for this tasks. With PyTube, you can directly convert the downloaded video to various video formats.

PyTube allows you to search, download, and encode Online Videos. It also provides some unique features like inserting your own audio tracks into downloaded videos and creating custom ringtones for your cell phone.

On the DVD : 3D OS Standard + Warnet Edition
Menu : Start > Multimedia > Video > PyTube

Follow these step to search and download YouTube videos using PyTube :

1. Open your PyTube application from 3D OS.
2. Copy the YouTube video link to PyTube and start tthe download process.
   

Search for Videos

Download Videos

Convert video and audio

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"We're Linux" Video Contest Winners!

The wait is over! After receiving nearly 100 entries from all over the world, The Linux Foundation is exceptionally please to announce the winners and runners-up for the "We're Linux" Video Contest. These videos reflect the best of what was truly a global community effort with videos being submitted from Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

The winning video and the runners up were announced on April 8, 2009 at the annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco. The winner of the "We're Linux" contest will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium, which will co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit, in October, 2009.

And now, the winners of the 2009 "We're Linux" Video Contest are :

Winner

What Does It Mean to be Free?

Amitay Tweeto lives in Bet Shemesh, Israel. The 25-year old freelance graphic designer and UI consultant entered this contest because he thinks Linux is suffering from bad PR. When people think of Linux they think "technical," gray stuff for programmers only. Amitay wants to let people get to know the other side of Linux, the flexibility they can get with no technical background. "That's the reason why I love Linux, it can be everything I want it to be."

Runner-Up #1

The Origin

Agustin Eguia is a 28-year-old Uruguayan native living in Brussels. He discovered Linux at the age of 14, thanks to people like his father Hugo Eguia, family friend Hugo Godoy, and the UYLug (Uruguayan Linux group). Agustin works in two fields quite different from each other. In the IT field, he handles server implementation (domain controllers, storage, render farms, dispatching computations, optimization), and networking, mostly for the stable income. The second field is the one that defines what he really loves to do and himself: art. Concept, design, animation, 3D, and VFX. He specializes in design, motion graphics, and 3d animation with a strong influence of dynamics, particles, and fluids.

Runner-Up #2

Linux Pub (with subtitles)

Sébastien Massé lives in Paris, France and is a graduate of the EICAR, The International Film School of Paris. He is an Audio-Visual Technician with a passion for film and television cinematography. Sébastien also devotes a lot of his time to the development of Table Ronde Films, a group that he created along with five other graduates of EICAR. The goal of Table Ronde Films is to encourage and help young artists implement their cinematic and artistic projects.

View all of the "We're Linux" Video Contest entries here.
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"We're Linux" - Linux Foundation video contest

The Linux Foundation has formally announced the kick off for its "We're Linux" video contest, which will be comprised of user-generated video entries to promote and "elevate the strengths of Linux." The Linux Foundation is hoping that this campaign will help to demonstrate what Linux means to its users and that it will inspire others to try it.


Submissions will be open until the 15th of March, 2009 for users to submit videos. The winner will be announced at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit on the 8th of April, 2009 in San Francisco. The winner will be determined by a combination of online rankings and a panel of judges and will be awarded a trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the 1st annual Linux Foundation's Japanese Linux Symposium.

The campaign was renamed from the original "I'm Linux" to "We're Linux" after community input. "This name embodies the essence of community and better expresses how Linux is represented by more than any one person or company," according to the company blog post.

It seems obvious the competition is inspired by the Microsoft "I'm a PC" campaign, lets hope the result is not quite so annoying. If you would like to view the videos or submit a video, you will need to join the Linux Foundation's Video forum.
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