I have been early beta testing beta 2 of Canola, which was released to a few people for early testing. I have not seen the Canola team confirm it's general availability yet? (any moment perhaps ?)

So I believe we all need to wait patiently for announcement of the official new release?

Canola provides for local, network and internet media playback in a great interface. The latest release is more stable and works well on Nokia 770 and/or N800. It now supports many native language's such as French, Spanish. (when the device is set to a local lang and the required lang files have been installed for Canola)

Canola will only play formats that Nokia Audio/Video supports, but it does not support the closed source formats i.e. RealMedia (I think I am correct here?)

Once Nokia improve the video playback on the Nokia N800, Canola will take advantage.

I use TVersity as my network UPnP media server and for photos and audio it's working very well. With local playback, I think the videos playback better in Canola than the new media player on N800?

As I said until the Canola team announce beta 2's release and general availability? (the page unofficially posted in this thread for downloading beta 2 of Canola was for the testers only and required a username and password? I do not think it was ever intended for everyone.)

To have an idea of what's coming in Canola beta 2, read this post in Gustavo's blog if you have not already done so http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2...-almost-there/