---
name: "moovida"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "moovida"
version: "1.0.9+bzr1614-1.1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/moovida"
---

# moovida(1)

open source cross-platform media center

## NAME

moovida - open source cross-platform media center

## SYNOPSIS

**moovida** \[ *OPTION*\]... \[ *CONFIG FILE*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Moovida is an open source cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers.  With Moovida you can enjoy:

- \* Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.

  - \* Watch your movies and video clips as well as online ones.

  - \* Manage your music collection by artists or albums covers.

  - \* Moovida finds automatically medias on your network, from network

  drives, Windows Mediaplayer, etc.

- \* Detects automatically iPods, cameras, USB hard drives, etc.

  Moovida runs on the top of the GStreamer multimedia framework and uses the Pigment library for graphical user interaction.  You can use it with your mouse, lirc-input device or simply with the keyboard.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  Print the version of Moovida.

- **--twisted-version**

  Print the version of twisted.

- **-t, --tracebacks**

  Output tracebacks on the console output. Disabled by default.

- **-l, --log**

  Log the output to the given file.

- **--shell**

  Open an interactive shell of the Moovida environment in the terminal.

- **--headless**

  Start Moovida in headless mode.

- **--force-startup**

  Start even when another instance is running.

- **-f, --fullscreen**

  Start fullscreen (default).

- **-u, --unfullscreen**

  Do not start fullscreen.

- **-n, --nosplash**

  Do not show the splash schreen on startup.

- **-i, --import=*FILE***

  Import the given Python file and run it in the Moovida environment (used by Windows only).

- **-c, --config-file=*FILE***

  Use the specified configuration file instead of the default one.

- **--rss=URL**

  Start Moovida with a specific URL of an RSS feed.

- **--help**

  Show usage information and exit.

## KEYBOARD CONTROL

To navigate through the menus, Moovida reacts on key presses:

- **Basic keys**

  **Left/Right/Up/Down**\
    Move left/right/up/down\
   **f or Escape**\
    Toggle fullscreen mode\
   **Enter**\
    Activate/open selected item\
   **Backspace**\
    Go back\

- **Menu hidden and player active**

  **Left or v**\
    Seek backward\
   **Right or b**\
    Seek forward\
   **Up/Down**\
    Volume up/down\
   **Enter**\
    Toggle play/pause\
   **x**\
    Previous track of playlist\
   **c**\
    Next track of playlist

- **List menu mode**

  **Up/Down**\
    Navigate in the current menu level\
   **Right**\
    Go in the "More Options" menu if there's one. If there's no such menu\
    you in fact go to the top context bar.\
   **Enter**\
    Call the default action on the selected item (ex: play the movie if you are in a movie list)\
   **Backspace**\
    Go to previous menu

- **Grid menu mode**

  The user can navigate in the 4 directions (up, down, left, right) using the direction keys (**Left/Right/Up/Down**).  When the first row of the grid is reached, the user can enter the top context bar by hitting **Up** key once more.  When the last row of the grid is reached, the user can enter the grid context bar by hitting **Down** key once more.

  Navigation inside the grid context bar is horizontal, use **Left/Right** keys to navigate in the 3 buttons. To activate a button, press **Enter**. To leave the context bar, press **Up** key.

- **Top context bar**

  When navigating inside menus, there should always be a context bar available on the top of the window. Navigation inside this bar is horizontal, use **Left/Right** keys to navigate in the bar buttons.  To activate a button, press **Enter**.  To leave the context bar, press **Down** key.

## FILES

*~/.moovida/moovida.conf*

## REPORTING BUGS

Report Moovida bugs on Launchpad: \<http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/\>.

## AUTHORS

**Moovida** was written by the Moovida team \<contact@fluendo.com\>. This manual page was previously written Philippe Normand, got reworked by Benjamin Kampmann and updated by Paul van Tilburg.

## DISTRIBUTION

The latest version of Moovida may be downloaded from \<http://www.moovida.com/\>.