Free Windows Media Portal

[kenan921]

bump for a great find, and to let others in on an excellent piece of free software

 

[ezraa]

sweet....maybe I'll put a PC in place of my xbox and start watching TV again

 

[JackBurton]

VERY nice man! Thanks!

 

[Heifetz]

another alternative is MythTV.

 

[madalien]

MythTV site says that as of today, he will be puting out a new version 0.17, so may want to wait on it for a week?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Cool

 

[jwardl]

Originally posted by: Heifetz
another alternative is MythTV.

I've heard MythTv is Linnux only -- true?

 

[Granorense]

I will try it out right now on my Windows XP Pro machine!!!

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Wow, what a great response! I am glad to see that so many folks are excited about this free software. Lately I've been exploring a lot more free stuff in an attempt to see about having everything legit and yet all functions met using primarily free software. Obviously you can't really get away from Windows effectively, but still, if you Newegg you can get XP Pro for around $140. Adding this goody along with many others can really put you in business for a damn cheap amount of cash.

I wonder, do we have an official Free Software thread floating around somewhere? I've got some great suggestions of late

Jason

 

[desk]

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
Wow, what a great response! I am glad to see that so many folks are excited about this free software. Lately I've been exploring a lot more free stuff in an attempt to see about having everything legit and yet all functions met using primarily free software. Obviously you can't really get away from Windows effectively, but still, if you Newegg you can get XP Pro for around $140. Adding this goody along with many others can really put you in business for a damn cheap amount of cash.

I wonder, do we have an official Free Software thread floating around somewhere? I've got some great suggestions of late

Jason

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=997283&enterthread=y

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=689586&enterthread=y

 

[hytek369]

very nice find

 

[pxc]

I set it up with XMLTV last night. This is a very nice free program. It has bugs, especially with dialog windows, but it works.

This isn't to simple to set up, but it's about the easiest and most complete out of all the MCE clones out there.

 

[Peetoeng]

Hmm, I could not find tuner/capture device list. Would it work with ATI Wonder USB 2.0?

 

[BaNzaiDags]

I use ati aiw 9600xt and this programmed works (they just added my card to the support line up) but run into problems with timeshifting and recordings (my card will only allow 1 format) Im going back to the ati media center software for now.

but will definatly give this another go...

 

[mjreddy]

will this program play Video_TS files? I have backed up my DVDs to HDD and want to be able to categorize and play the movie from the GUI, will this prog do this?

 

[Dragonbate]

Originally posted by: desk

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
Wow, what a great response! I am glad to see that so many folks are excited about this free software. Lately I've been exploring a lot more free stuff in an attempt to see about having everything legit and yet all functions met using primarily free software. Obviously you can't really get away from Windows effectively, but still, if you Newegg you can get XP Pro for around $140. Adding this goody along with many others can really put you in business for a damn cheap amount of cash.

I wonder, do we have an official Free Software thread floating around somewhere? I've got some great suggestions of late

Jason

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=997283&enterthread=y

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=689586&enterthread=y

It would be nice to have an open source category.

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: Dragonbate


http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=997283&enterthread=y

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=689586&enterthread=y

It would be nice to have an open source category.[/quote]

True. Although I wonder, does it *have* to be open *source* ? I'm torn because I recently discovered CD BurnerXP Pro 3.0, which is free, but not open source. It's a surprisingly good burning software ( I just dumped Nero for it today) that's robust and small.

Oh well. Free software is all good. I'm working on an unattended Windows XP installation CD that has a bunch of free or open source apps installed automatically. If I can get the authors' permission I might just release the pack all bundled together so folks can download and use it in their own WinXP unattended installs.

Jason

 

[Diz2K2]

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex

Originally posted by: Dragonbate


http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=997283&enterthread=y

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=689586&enterthread=y

It would be nice to have an open source category.

True. Although I wonder, does it *have* to be open *source* ? I'm torn because I recently discovered CD BurnerXP Pro 3.0, which is free, but not open source. It's a surprisingly good burning software ( I just dumped Nero for it today) that's robust and small.

Oh well. Free software is all good. I'm working on an unattended Windows XP installation CD that has a bunch of free or open source apps installed automatically. If I can get the authors' permission I might just release the pack all bundled together so folks can download and use it in their own WinXP unattended installs.

Jason[/quote]


Sounds cool, I would be interested.

 

[NightCrawler]

Hardware + Linux + MythTV or Hardware + Windows XP + MediaPortal

I'm thinking MythTV setup will be a little cheaper since the end users doesn't require the purchase of Windows XP which is about an extra $100.


Something to think about.

 

[Rauthoen]

Looks cool, Thanks OP

 

[WT]

Tried this, but had a helluva time getting the TV Guide portion to work. I've even used the autoupdater that some in the MP forums created. It pulls in the channels for my area, dumps it to a file I named TVGuide.xml, but when I point MP to the xmltv folder for the data, it will not show any data from within the MediaPortal My TV section. I'm comparing this to the (not free) Beyond TV and its elegant setup, which was a totally brainless setup. I'm disappointed in that so far, but I haven''t given up on it just because it requires a good deal of user effort.

 

[psxjunky]

This looks cool ! Does this support dvr-ms files that are recordings of over-the-air HD ?

 

[sswingle]

Thanks! Tagged for later.

 

[Fritzo]

I've tried this software. The recording quality was absolutely terrible, and it kept giving me bluescreens on recordings over 1/2 hour.

I'm stupid and pay $12.95/month for Tivo, but yet I'm somehow happy

 

[drewski]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I've tried this software. The recording quality was absolutely terrible, and it kept giving me bluescreens on recordings over 1/2 hour.

I'm stupid and pay $12.95/month for Tivo, but yet I'm somehow happy

ignorance is bliss! i don't own a TV, but yet i'm somehow happy!! :shocked: