Open Source Multimedia Center For Windows

An anonymous reader writes "A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal boasts the ability to turn your PC into an advanced HTPC (Home-Theatre PC) and PVR/DVR (Personal/Digital Video Recorder). It allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch all your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a Modded Xbox to run."

Comments

Open Source for Windows ?

[mirko]

Does it still require the MFC to be compiled ?
If this is the case I then fail to see the interest of this especially when it requires an Xbox and then Micorsoft to gain alittle money from the operation.
Geek factor > Open Source interest.

Re:Hardware

[jarich]

Why do you say that about Myth?

I am running a 1.2 ghz Thunderbird (AMD) w/256 megs of a memory and a ~really~ cheap ($10) capture card and it's working fine.

A lot of the people in the Myth forums go on about how you need a P4 3 ghz chip, but it just isn't so.

Re:HAHA

[plover]

No, the OSS community does not need to "get rid of him." But they do need to understand that not everyone is going 100% open source. I'm running Windows at home because the games and apps I want are Win32 platform based. I'm a developer whose day job is programming on a Win32 app, and so I need to use Windows all day long. Does that mean I'm opposed to open source? Of course not, I run several open source apps, and have contributed to a few.

I usually ignore both sides of the OSS / Microsoft debate, but in this case the attitude of "trow da bums out" is just too divisive. If you're OK with paying Microsoft dues, then fine. If Robyanetta is avoiding it, that's fine too. Just both of you should recognize the other point of view isn't going away, and you should learn to cooperate on the common ground that exists between you.

Re:DO NOT CLICK CACHE OF GOAT.CX

[sploo22]

Except that the destination part of the URL can be trivially spoofed. The base64 hash is what really determines the page you get.

Demonstration: http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.microsoft.com/+&hl=en This takes you to google's cache of its own home page, not to Microsoft.

Re:MythTV clone?

[skadus]

Well, for one thing it installs a hell of a lot easier.

I gave up on MythTV after having to fight with it and Fedora (and dependencies, and X, and Y...) at the same time. Why do I need MySQL when I just want a media player with a NES and SNES emulator built-in (no need or space on my media box for PVR)?

Yeah, PEBKAC, and I'll never profess to be anything but sub-adequate at Linux, but MediaPortal installed and ran fine in about 5 minutes from download to setup.

Re:Hardware

[sepluv]

Or get one of the guys on the "X-Box Chocolate Project" to do it for you.

You find a local X-box modder on that list and (s)he mods your X-box (hardware or software) or just your memory card and you give them chocolate or their suggsted gift for the service.

Re:Media Portal is nowhere near prime-time

[SnprBoB86]

"probably due to it being in .Net"

On what basis do you ground that hypothosis?

All versions of VC#.NET require the .NET framework be loaded, but 2002 takes nearly a minute to load where as the 2005 beta loads in less than 3 seconds on my machine. .NET does incur some startup cost (the CLR needs to be initalized) and code needs to be JITed, but this should hardly take 20 seconds!

There are full featured high performance 3D engines written with .NET, let's have no more FUD about .NET's performance!

The startup sequence is probably just poorly optimized.

Duh it plays Oggs!

[Anonymous Coward]

This is just the mplayer/xine/ffmpeg code ported to Xbox, and now Windows. It plays everything the Linux version does, including Oggs.