What software/OS for media player laptop

[SimpleSi]

Got a nice LCD TV with VGA input for Valentines and I fancy setting up an old 256MB laptop with a wireless card and running it on top of the DVD player as a media player.

Is there a nice free windows XP prog to do the job or do I install some Linux flavour.

Suggestions from those who've done this please

regards

Simon

[p858snake]

Maybe MythTV

[demon-knight]

Try XBMC Live it runs from usb or cd by far the best media player, they do other versions too mac, windows,xbox.

XBMC

[SimpleSi]

Tried just using Windows Media Player on XP but machine just has 256MB RAM and is too slow for rest of family to use

I tried GeeXbox but that didn't enable/use the wireless card.

Will give XMBC a go.

regards

Simon