After nearly 4 months of active development, the first alpha
release of Elisa_ pops up in the intraweb. This is a MediaCenter
application developed in Python using technologies like Twisted
for networking and loop, OpenGL for rendering and GStreamer_ for
multimedia playback. The project is funded by Fluendo_.

If you want to see how it looks like, checkout the screencast_ i
made using the amazing Istanbul_ tool and rendered using the
Cortado_ applet. A big thank you to Istanbul' author, Zaheer, for his great work, especially for OpenGL apps capture support! 

If you're not a Java fan, go checkout videos on GoogleVideo_ and YouTube_! 

.. raw:: html

  <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXpw8hpJodo"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXpw8hpJodo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="350" bgcolor="#000000"></embed></object>

Basically the version we are releasing is the one that was showed
during Guadec_ 3 weeks ago. It has basic working features (see
details on website), but the code is still quite unstable and
tends to crash sometimes ;) Don't hesitate to try it out anyway, we
already had some interesting feedback and few developers start to
show up on our IRC channel.

.. _Fluendo: http://www.fluendo.com/
.. _Elisa: http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/
.. _GStreamer: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
.. _screencast: http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/screencast.php
.. _Istanbul: http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
.. _Cortado: http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
.. _GoogleVideo: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3318494455519177805
.. _YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpw8hpJodo
.. _Guadec: http://guadec.org/