media centers for Linux?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:58 pm
I need some recomendations for a good program that will let me plug in a usb drive or have movies in the system itself (dvd player, etc) then show me a nice picture representation that I can use a remote or the mouse to scroll through and pick what I want to watch. Doesnt seem to hard, but I have tried mythbuntu installed from the website on top of ubuntu 64bit and it is a PAIN IN THE ASS! frontends, backends, I dont want any stupid ends!
Would be nice if it could find shared folders on a vista computer and stream movies also
not asking for much, am I :p
Mike
I would have thought mthtv would have been REALLY simple with all the people that supposedly use the thing, but setting up some database that I have no use for is worthless. I do not want to have to keep redoing a database to coincide with what movies are in the dvd players or on the usb hard drive!
Oh and LinuxMCE looks REALLY promising, but it only works on Kubuntu *sigh* I just dont get it - though you could have KDE and Gnome installed on the same system and switch with a command line arguement..?? Switch to KDE, to use the linuxmce, then back if you dont like KDE..??
LINUX IS TOO CONFUSING!! I am REALLY starting to think about putting Vista on that system also since I can get MediaPortal which looks like it would do what I want.
Would be nice if it could find shared folders on a vista computer and stream movies also
not asking for much, am I :pMike
I would have thought mthtv would have been REALLY simple with all the people that supposedly use the thing, but setting up some database that I have no use for is worthless. I do not want to have to keep redoing a database to coincide with what movies are in the dvd players or on the usb hard drive!
Oh and LinuxMCE looks REALLY promising, but it only works on Kubuntu *sigh* I just dont get it - though you could have KDE and Gnome installed on the same system and switch with a command line arguement..?? Switch to KDE, to use the linuxmce, then back if you dont like KDE..??
LINUX IS TOO CONFUSING!! I am REALLY starting to think about putting Vista on that system also since I can get MediaPortal which looks like it would do what I want.
