media centers for Linux?

[KnightRid]

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.

[Alathald]

You should be able to install KDE alongside Gnome and use LinuxMCE just fine...good luck!

[kenc51]

You could try MythTV
http://www.mythtv.org/

[KnightRid]

You could try MythTV
http://www.mythtv.org/

*clearing throat*

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!

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!

been there, done that.

I might give it a shot Alathald, but I do not know linux at all so it will be like fumbling in the dark to find the light switch, just to find out the bulb is blown.

Mike

At least it is folding