Entertainer Media Center

  I’ve just joined the Entertainer Project  over on Launchpad. From the website: “Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using ... [More] object-oriented programming paradigm. It uses GStreamer multimedia framework for multimedia playback. User Interface is implemented with Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek [...] [Less]

Yeah, this seems to be the case since someone put the link to thedigg.com website. My webserver was completely owned by digg and the site was unavailable for many hours. Luckily, I have a very nice webhosting service and they took care of this and ... [More] added bandwidth for my site. Now, it's up again although there might be some slow down s time to time. read more [Less]

New year old project. Still working on Entertainer. I bought a new computer and it took some time to get everything back up and running. Now all works and I can continue working on my project. I have done some code cleaning and fixed the windows resizing bug. Too bad, that bazaar crashes everytime I try to push my code to lauchpad.

I earlier wrote that I got own domain for Entertainer project. Now I finally had some time to create a webpage for it. I used my old website layout and just changed some colors and graphics. I didn't want to use too much time on this, because that time is away from developing Entertainer. See the new pages at www.entertainer-project.com.

By following these instructions you can test the latest development version of the Entertainer media center. Be aware that it's still on alpha stage, so don't expect everything to work. At the moment there is no installer or distribution packages available. Prerequirements read more

I registered a new domain for my project. Entertainer homepage will be located at www.entertainer-project.com

Hi all, I thought that I could share my latest efforts here. I've recently worked on music and video library UI. Nothing spectacular, but it's always fun to show some screenshots! So, here you are. read more

I created a Launchpad project for Entertainer today. There is not much information yet, but the code is now published under GPLv2 licence. I hope that few developers would join me to work on Entertainer. At the moment code can be downloaded with ... [More] Bazaar and it should run under Linux. It doesn't do much yet, so if you're not a developer don't bother to test it. There is also some documentation available in the trunk. If you want to join me and develpe Entertainer, please contact me by e-mail or msn. [Less]

As you may have noticed, there hasn't been any blog entries in the past weeks. There is a simple reason, I finally got a job as a system specialist and now I spend my days at work place. While this is a great thing to me, it's not great news for ... [More] those who wait for Entertainer to be released. It's not a surprise that I can't use so much time on this project as I could before. read more [Less]

Entertainer is still under heavy development, but I thought that I could show some preview screenshots. I also did the very first screencast, which displays the current state of the Entertainer frontend client. Recently I've been working on RSS-feeds ... [More] and video playback. Please, notice that Clutter text rendering is not very good with scaling yet. That's why text rendering in screenshots is not very good looking. read more [Less]