Open source media centre

[Dos_Box]

From the latest PCW Magazine. They ran an open source artical and listed the best 55 downloads. This was one of them. Very nice it is too

 

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/

[Sirbendy]

Got it at home....like it lots. I'm not using it though...not the fault of Mediaportal itself. I have a Pinnacle PCTV Rave! TV card, and it doesn't work with it. I'm more inclined to blame the awful driver support to be honest.

 

That said, I have a nice copy of XP MCE sat in my bedside table..and no, that also doesn't work with it!

[Geoff]

Yep, got one in the car boot hooked up to my GPS LCD. Works great. Its got wireless too so I can access it from home when the car is in the drive. Don't recommend watching TV while your driving though.

[Sirbendy]

Nice..Thought about an in-car PC, but Winters dark nights have sapped my energy.. I could alway sellotape my Inspiron to the dash..

[E1uSiV3]

Yep, got one in the car boot hooked up to my GPS LCD. Works great. Its got wireless too so I can access it from home when the car is in the drive. Don't recommend watching TV while your driving though.

 

EPIA Mini-ITX?

[Geoff]

No a Shuttle.

[goodhead]

i've just replaced my crt tv with a lcd and want to connect a media centre.

I'm inclined to go with mediaportal.

 

My pc struggles with it. i think it needs bigger cpu.

 

It would be nice if there was an IE plugin for it.

 

I cant get the firefox plugin to work.