Projects

XBMC Media Center

XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. XBMC is open source (GPL) software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, and the Xbox game-console. XBMC can play a very complete spectrum of of multimedia formats, and featuring ... [More] playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, together with a multitude of third-party plugins. [Less]

sickbeard

Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us ... [More] , Womble's Index, any newznab provider, and EZTV.it and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com. [Less]

TV-Browser - A free EPG

TV-Browser is a TV guide (EPG) that is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based European TV guide. Included are more than 160 German language TV channels and more than 60 German radio channels. Several non-German channels are available from SweDB (Sweden, Danmark) ... [More] , BBC Radiotimes (English channels) and Zap2it (American channels). It is possible to offer new channels using tools provided on the homepage. [Less]

MediaPortal

MediaPortal turns your HTPC into a very advanced media center, or Home Theater PC (HTPC): - Listen to music and radio - Play videos, movies and DVDs - View pictures or create a slideshow - Watch, schedule and record live TV - like a TiVo, but more, and for free! - Stream media, radio and ... [More] TV to any HTPC / PC connected to your network - Use a remote to control your HTPC from your couch - Check weather, news, or information on the web, even play games! All in the comfort of your living room, on your big screen LCD or Plasma TV or projector. [Less]

Linux Infrared Remote Control

LIRC is a package that supports receiving and sending IR signals of the most common IR remote controls. It contains a daemon that decodes and sends IR signals, a mouse daemon that translates IR signals to mouse movements, and a couple of user programs that allow to control your computer with a remote control.

Moovida

Moovida is a cross platform media center solution using the GStreamer multimedia framework.

GeeXboX

GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. It targets multiple devices, from regular x86 or PowerPC based computers to ARM and MIPS embedded devices. Despite his tiny size, the distribution comes with ... [More] a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, Blu-ray HDD, LAN or Internet. [Less]

MythBuntu

Mythbuntu is a community supported add-on for Ubuntu focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system. It can be used to prepare a standalone system or for integration with an existing MythTV network. Unlike similar projects, Mythbuntu keeps close ties with Ubuntu and all development is ... [More] given back to Ubuntu. This architecture allows simple conversions from a standard desktop to a Mythbuntu machine and vice versa. The development cycle of Mythbuntu closely follows that of Ubuntu, releasing every six months along side Ubuntu releases. [Less]

OpenELEC - Media Center Operating System

OpenELEC is a GNU/Linux distro combined with XBMC to give you the best possible experience for watching you media. Including but not limited to tv-shows, movies, music, web-media, etc. It's built upon a less-is-more philosophy and aim to provide an all-in-one solution. Making you as the user ... [More] , more focused on the media you consume, rather than spending hour after hour to setup your environment. [Less]

MediaPortal TvServer

The TV-Server (also mentioned TvEngine v0.3 sometimes) is an application which allows you to setup one or more central servers with multiple TV cards. Clients like MediaPortal can use the TV-Server to watch Live-TV/recordings/EPG over the network. All TV related tasks are handled by the server(s) ... [More] and Live-TV is streamed over the network to one or more clients. With the TV-Server you can setup a central server PC which will do all TV related tasks and use multiple clients on the network to view Live-TV and/or recordings. [Less]