# About Media explorer is a media centre application for Linux. It originally targeted MeeGo but will also run on other distributions (e.g. confirmed working on Fedora 13/14 and Debian sid). # Features Media explorer's features include: * Browse, search and play media on local (inc. USB) and UPnP filesystems. * Smooth, fast, animated user interface (based on Clutter + Mx). * User experience designed to be usable with standard TV remote controls. * Media player (using GStreamer for playback) controllable over DBus. * Plugin system for adding new types of content and user interface extensions. * Uses standard metadata (Tracker) and media (Grilo) libraries for Linux. * Library of reusable classes plus Model-View-Controller framework for media playback and presentation (written in C/GObject). # History Media explorer started as an internal project inside Intel's Open Source Technology Center. It was released on 2011-04-21 as an open source project. See the AUTHORS file for the list of contributors. # License See COPYING. # Where to get it The source code is available at: https://github.com/media-explorer/media-explorer Packages are available for MeeGo 1.2 in that distributions repositories. # Dependencies The core of Media Explorer depends on: ⢠glib-2.0 ⥠2.26 ⢠gdk-pixbuf-2.0 ⢠soup-2.4 ⢠mx-1.0 ⥠1.3.2 ⢠clutter-1.0 ⥠1.8.0 ⢠clutter-gst-1.0 ⥠1.4.0 ⢠rest-0.7 ⢠grilo-0.1 ⥠0.1.16 ⢠gstreamer-0.10 ⥠0.10.26 ⢠LIRC (optional but recommended) The webremote applet (used by the android application) is enabled by default and requires: ⢠tracker-0.10 or tracker 0.12 ⢠avahi-glib and avahi-client The telepathy plugin (--enable-telepathy, experimental) requires: ⢠telepathy-glib ⥠0.15.5 ⢠telepathy-farstream ⢠telepathy-yell ⢠farsight2-0.10 Alternatively, you can let jhbuild manage dependencies for you (see the INSTALL file). # Installation See the INSTALL file. # Contributions Patches, feature requests, bugs and any other questions can be reported via github using the Issues tool at: https://github.com/media-explorer/media-explorer/issues. We also maintain a list of ideas for things we'd like to add to media explorer at: https://github.com/media-explorer/media-explorer/wiki/Ideas.