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

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: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.