Hey, I've been running Elisa off and on for a couple months now watching its progress, and first I'd just like to say I love where it's going. I'd been looking for a good media center option that had a nicer interface than some of the other linux options, and this is it. I can't wait to see how it progresses!
I'm a recently graduated computer science student (a masters student now), and I'd like to help out some if I can. I don't have time to code really due to my studies. I have some issues or questions I'd like to at least mention, if theres some way to get more info for you guys you'll have to tell me how. I run an Ubuntu desktop and some LAMP servers, but I'm definitely not a pro linux user (getting there though). One issue I have had is when playing video, it occasionally just wont. After hitting play, it loads up the first frame, and it might show the next frame 10 seconds later, but it seems to be playing.... slowly. This doesn't always happen, and I can't reproduce it at will (the worst kind of bug, I know!). Is there some way I could get more information on this to you? Also, my music collection is extremely large (60+ gigs), and every time I start Elisa is rescans my collection. I can still play music while this is happening, but it takes awhile to finish scanning, and I'm not sure if it may be related to my other problem. I'm nto even sure what exactly it's scanning for since my music all works. New files? Finally, the only thing that is missing for me is the ability to watch television if my graphics card has a tuner. It seems like it would be a popular request. Is there any plan to add this? Would it be possible to make a plugin that connects to a MythTV back end? Again, if theres a way I can contribute that requires little time comittment, let me know. I definitely can code, but I don't really have time with my studies. I've not contributed to an open source project yet actually, and this is the first one that really seemed like something I might like. Curt
