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Linux has no dearth of media centers. XBMC and Boxee are the 2 very popular ones. Enna is another media player solution for Linux and is surprisingly light weight and fast with wonderful features.

Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.

Some of it’s features include:

  • Activity / BookStore: read your favorite books from over the Internet. We currently support GoComics andOneManga content providers.
  • Activity / Configuration: get information from your system and configure it (as well as Enna) quite easily.
  • Activity / Music: listen to your favorite songs. It currently can display your music cover, the usual metadata information (song title, artist, album) and lyrics as well.
  • Activity / Photo: provide a pictures wall representation of your photo collection. Also supports customizable slideshow effects.
  • Activity / Video: watch your favorite movies and TV Shows. Enna automatically fetches information from your media to display cover, fanart pictures, synopsis, categories, users rating, actors, directors and such a like.
  • Activity / Weather: displays the current weather at your location and the 4-days forecast. Weather information are provided by Google Web services.
  • Browser / DVD Video: let you play your personnal Video DVDs.
  • Browser / Local Files: let you browse your local file system (HDDs, USB keys, SAMBA/NFS mounted network shares …)
  • Browser / Media Database: All accessible media files are automatically parsed by Enna and stored in an SQLite database. You can then browse your favorite media collection by type, categories, artist and so on.
  • Input / Keyboard and Mouse: multiple inputs are available, keyboard and mouse obviously are. Interface has been designed to be controllable with minimalistic controls. A 2-buttons mouse should do the job. Through keyboard, the 4 arrows, Enter and Backspace keys also should match.
  • Input / LIRC: let you control Enna through any LIRC-compatible remote control. All you need is a well-configured lircrc file.
  • Volumes / HAL: through Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer, Enna can auto-detect any hot-(un)plugged device.
  • Volumes / mtab: reading the /etc/mtab file, Enna allows you to access to all relevant mounted locations

Let’s see how to install it in Ubuntu 10.04

1. Go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center and search for Enna

2. Click install to install Enna on your Lucid Lynx

This should install Enna on your machine. You can run Enna by going to Applications > Sound & Video > Enna.

You can play around to check various features. Following are a few screenshots of Enna running on my machine.

Hope you will enjoy the goodness of this lovely media center.

Home page

http://enna.geexbox.org/