Mediaportal

[iceni60]

has anyone tried this?

-{ Quote: "Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.

It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/noppes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!" }-

Main Features:
- Record, watch, and timeshift Live TV
- Support for multiple tuners
- Timeshifting, Watch, Pause, Rewind,FF,RW Live TV
- Video Recording
- Advanced TV Guide based on XMLTV
- Scheduler to manage all your recording schedules
- Listen to your favorite radio stations (local radio stations using the FM tuner of your capture card)
- All music gets stored in Media Portals music database
- View your music by artists, albums, genres, top100 or plain songs
- Watch your pictures/photos
- Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska,...)
- All your movies will be stored in Media Portals video database
- Show the latest weather information (Tempeture and 3-day forcast)
- And a LOT more....

here are some screenshots:
http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/

System Requirements (http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/aurora13/requirements.html)

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/gallery/MCETV.JPG

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/gallery/Project%20X/Basic%20Home.jpg

[AvianFlux]

Nope. Not dialup connection friendly. ;D

[iceni60]

-{ Quote: "Nope. Not dialup connection friendly. ;D" }-
i just had alook in some other forums and afew people were saying that older versions weren't stable, but the latest version seems OK. i'd like to try it, but i'm put off installing large installs where alot can go wrong. i hope someone tries it out ;D

[starfish_001]

I have used it for about 6 months it is very very good - I use Meedio and MCE 2005 most of the time but MP is worth a try:)