Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.

Quick Feature List

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.

Movies

Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online.

Pictures

Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.

Music

Manage your music collection by artists or album covers.

Fully Networked

Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.

Peripheral Devices

Automatically detects iPods, cameras, hard drives, etc...

Internet

Everything from Flickr to Youtube and other popular internet services.

As far as open source multimedia entertainment centers go, Elisa is a very impressive effort although it requires a lot of processing power and RAM.Elisa has an intuitive interface that gives a professional feel and can be used to view both TV streams and most major video formats. You can even access it remotely from another computer if need be. Elisa also makes a pretty good audio player and displays album covers and other band related images as it plays your music in the same way as iTunes does.Indeed, some of the inspiration for it appears to have come from iTunes although unlike iTunes, it extends itself to photo viewing and even browsing the Internet. The latter two functions are not the strongest areas of the package, although the browser is mainly designed for watching videos.