Free opensource alternative to Windows Media Center Edition

[BoxDude]

For people who don't know about it already:

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

And it runs as an application rather than an entire operating system. Worth checking out..

 

[Perrupa]

looks pretty slick, there's also always MythTV but I must say it's a darned sight harder to set up and iruns off linux, which can be a positive or negative depending how you look at it

peace

 

[br0adband]

Media Center isn't an OS, it's just an application that runs on top of XP just like MythTV/BeyondTV/Snapstream/SageTV/etc might. Nothing special, really. It works just like the program you just linked to.

bb

 

[PWMK2]

Media Center isn't an OS, it's just an application that runs on top of XP just like MythTV/BeyondTV/Snapstream/SageTV/etc might. Nothing special, really. It works just like the program you just linked to.

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Actually, Media Center is its own OS - that's why it's called Windows XP Media Center Edition.

As far as mediaportal is concerned, I'm still an MCE fan.

 

[Terpfen]

Actually, Media Center is its own OS - that's why it's called Windows XP Media Center Edition.

It's actually just XP Pro with media center software.

 

[dualblade]

Media Center isn't an OS, it's just an application that runs on top of XP just like MythTV/BeyondTV/Snapstream/SageTV/etc might. Nothing special, really. It works just like the program you just linked to.

bb

media center itself is just a program, but the os does include support and services for recording even if the media center application is not running. i guess any program can include services, but the integration is very good and i've never had a recording fail

 

[SJConsultant]

Actually, Media Center is its own OS - that's why it's called Windows XP Media Center Edition.

As far as mediaportal is concerned, I'm still an MCE fan.

No MCE is not its own OS. The installation process installs Windows XP Pro first and then the MCE installer installs the applications as well as reducing certain functionality of XP Pro.

XP Home, XP Pro, XP MCE, XP Tablet edition are all the same base OS with different features, configurations, and limitations.

 

[Met-AL]

Technically yaa, but it is sold as an OS.

 

[djnes]

Actually, Media Center is its own OS - that's why it's called Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Spoken from someone who hasn't used MCE2005 yet, I'll bet.

 

[santaliqueur]

from this link

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You don't have permission to access /gallery/ on this server.

directly from their main page. i hope the time they saved on making a shitty website, they put into making their product better.

looks like pretty cool software.

dualdrop[H]enia

 

[TheJackal]

Actually, Media Center is its own OS - that's why it's called Windows XP Media Center Edition.

As far as mediaportal is concerned, I'm still an MCE fan.

like others have said it's just xp pro with the software.

you can click an icon on the desktop to launch it so i don't see how it is it's own OS. WMCE 2005 is pretty good and stable IMO.

 

[BoxDude]

*shrug* Worked last night....maybe its just maintainance or something

 

[IceDigger]

Very interesting. I will have to try this out.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

thx for the link, im gonna check it out

 

[Tiny]

So is this along the lines of the program that Nero Ultra 7 comes with, I think they call it NeroHome?

Anyway, the gallery wasn't working for me, but I found these shots of thier MCE skin:
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/gallery/catid,2/PageNo,1/

pretty cool.