Fluendo announces Elisa Media Center

Fluendo, leader in GNU/Linux and Unix multimedia solutions, is expanding its offerings with the Elisa Media Center solution. Elisa will be a full-featured Media Center solution targeted at both desktop and embedded systems.

As home multimedia grows in popularity, many people are looking for solutions that tie their home entertainment systems together. The Elisa Media Center is such a solution, incorporating functionality such as music and video playback, support for playing DVDs, Internet radio stations, and DVB (Digital Video Broadcast), viewing photos, video recording, and home networking using protocols such as UPnP and DAAP.

Targeted to be used on Home Theater PC machines and set-top boxes, Elisa provides a visually appealing and user-friendly solution. Elisa's extensive support for theming means that it can be easily adjusted to provide branding for embedded system vendors and network operators. Due to its portable design, Elisa runs both on Unix systems and Windows and can easily be ported to run on other operating systems.

“Looking at the marketplace we found that the solutions available for set-top boxes were either too limited in functionality or too hardware specific. With Elisa we aim to provide hardware integrators the tools they need to excel with their products. The media center will be at the center of tomorrow's living room and Elisa will be the engine that drives it all.”, Fluendo co-founder Pascal Pegaz.

“With Elisa we are trying both to give consumers the power and flexibility they crave, and at the same time ensure that hardware vendors get the branding and component based structure they need to build their products. We want to make sure that when consumers power on their set-top boxes and media center solutions they get an instant feeling of quality, power and ease of use.”, Elisa Project Manager Lionel Martin.

Set-top box makers and system integrators interested in setting their products apart should contact Fluendo to discuss collaboration and partnering opportunities.