Open Source Multimedia Center For Windows

[alm4rr]

A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal boasts the ability to turn your PC into an advanced HTPC (Home-Theatre PC) and PVR/DVR (Personal/Digital Video Recorder). It allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch all your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run.


Anyone want to be daring enough to give it a try?

Edit Link updated

 

[Czar]

someone killed their server

 

[alm4rr]

haha it took <5 mins cuz I had it open after I posted this

 

[alm4rr]

Ok try the new link

(slow, but up)

 

[Cawchy87]

VLC is better than anything I have tried. You should give it a go.

 

[alm4rr]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87
VLC is better than anything I have tried. You should give it a go.

http://www.videolan.net/vlc/

 

[tfinch2]

does VLC have PVR capabilities?

 

[drag]

It can if you get creative. You setup VLS on a Linux box and use that to serve streaming content to your Windows box.

Then you know why it's called VLC, Video Lan Client. It originally was a Linux-only application. VLS (video lan server) still sort of is. It is good for serving up content from DVD's, movies off of your harddrive, tv tuner cards, DVB(digital TV standards in Europe), C/k-band sattalite TV cards, etc etc etc.

But it would be something of a hack and you'd have to figure out the programming yourself, but it's possible. Linux geeks are always rolling their own stuff like this to suit themselves. But every once of a while a project like Mythtv or Freevo gets community support.

if you want full PVR capabilities you can do something creative like install a Mythtv backend on a Linux computer and use that to serve that up to your Windows box. For your frontend you can use WinMyth, which is a Mythtv frontend for Windows written in .Net. I never used it so I don't know how well it works and it doesn't seem as feature-full as the standard linux Mythtv, but it looks interesting if you have to use a Windows computer.