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MythTV Compared with Windows Media Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the apples-and-kumquats dept.

legoburner writes "Tom's Hardware has a nice comparison of MythTV and Windows Media Center Edition, and it seems that they preferred MythTV by quite a margin: 'Enter MythTV, a grand unification of personal digital video recording and home theatre technology, and a magnum opus of modular design, freedom of expression and personal entertainment.'"

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  1. Article in a nutshell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Features in MythTV that are not in Windows MCE 2004:
    - Open Source; free to obtain, use, and modify
    - Software and hardware decoding support
    - Output to DivX and MPEG2
    - Runs on Linux and MacOS, feeds to Windows (Windows MCE runs on -- guess what -- Windows only!)
    - Ultra-low system requirements
    - Support for companion and third-party plug-ins
    - Scalable network architecture (master/slaves) (MCE has only basic TCP/IP support)
    - Record once, transcode and play anywhere (in MCE you can only record and play using the same device)

    Features in Windows MCE not in MythTV:
    - Simple setup and configuration

    Guess which one will have the biggest market share?